Applying the Social Cognitive Theory to Design a Health Education Program on Weight-Loss Behaviors Among Police Officers: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: Being overweight/having obesity is a prevalent condition not only among the general population but also among individuals with special occupations such as police officers, where fitness is often a necessity. The present study's aim was to assess how much a psychoeducational intervention based on social cognitive theory (SCT) would be helpful for encouraging weight loss behaviors among police officers.

Methods: In a randomized control trial, 102 police officers who were overweight or had obesity voluntarily registered for a weight loss program and were assigned to either an intervention or control group.

Association between latent toxoplasmosis and bipolar disorder: a case-control seroprevalence study.

Background: Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is the most successful obligate protozoan that can infect warm-blooded vertebrate hosts. Some researchers suggest that the presence of Toxoplasma cysts in the brain can lead to mental disorders.

Virtual reality simulations in robotic surgery training: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Objective: To compare VR simulations with other training methods regarding improvements in objective assessment scores and task completion times.

Method: A database search was conducted on 20 May 2024 across Central, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, and Scopus. Included were randomised controlled trials comparing VR simulations to other training methods, assessing objective scores and task times.

Analyzing AZ-non-Maxwellian distributions in Earth's magnetosphere: MMS observations.

A study of velocity distribution function in Earth's magnetosphere is conducted using high-resolution measurements from the Magnetospheric Multiscale Spacecraft (MMS). The analysis focuses on the AZ-non-Maxwellian distribution that is a complex velocity-space structure, exhibiting a power-law distribution of moments. By imposing constraints on the spectral indices of the AZ-velocity distribution, the most suitable distribution for modeling Earth's magnetosphere is determined.