Self-Confidence and Paranoia: An Experimental Study Using an Immersive Virtual Reality Social Situation.

Background: Paranoia may build directly upon negative thoughts about the self. There have been few direct experimental tests of this hypothesis.

Aims: The aim of the study was to test the immediate effects of manipulating self-esteem in individuals vulnerable to paranoia.

A healed femoral fracture of Threskiornis aethiopicus (Sacred Ibis) from the Animal Cemetery at Abydos, Egypt.

The Bolton Museum and Archive Service collection holds an ibis mummy from Abydos, which was partially unwrapped at one time, extracting two femora. The left is anatomically complete, yet the right exhibits an oblique fracture that had healed at an angle of 90°. The radiographic examination shows that the fracture had completely united.