Understanding older adults' perceptions of hospital falls: Confidence, fear, consequences, and help-seeking intentions.

Aim: Aim of the paper is to determine the relationship between patients' perceived risk of falling and their fall-risk assessment ranking.

Design: A cross-sectional correlational design.

Methods: Four questionnaires: confidence, fear, consequence and intention related to falls were administered to 54 hospitalized older adults.

The persian version of the fear-avoidance beliefs questionnaire among iranian post-surgery patients: a translation and psychometrics.

Introduction: Fear-avoidance beliefs (FAB) play a crucial role in the treatment outcomes of post-surgery patients. These beliefs can lead to activity avoidance, increased pain, and decreased quality of life. Therefore, accurately measuring these beliefs in Iranian patients is of significant importance.

Parental hesitancy toward children vaccination: a multi-country psychometric and predictive study.

Aim: Understanding vaccine hesitancy, as a critical concern for public health, cannot occur without the use of validated measures applicable and relevant to the samples they are assessing. The current study aimed to validate the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (VHS) and to investigate the predictors of children's vaccine hesitancy among parents from Australia, China, Iran, and Turkey. To ensure the high quality of the present observational study the STROBE checklist was utilized.

Increases in loneliness among Older Americans Act participants during COVID-19.

Loneliness is increasingly understood as a public health crisis, and older adults are experiencing particularly severe impacts. Social distancing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic may have increased loneliness among older adults. Guided by the Social Ecological Model, this study uses two cross-sectional waves of the National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants (NSOAAP) from 2019 and 2021 to expand understanding and identify possible points of intervention to increase social support for vulnerable older adults.

The relationship among positive body image, body esteem, and eating attitude in Iranian population.

Background And Aim: The correlation between eating attitudes, positive body image, and body esteem is a pivotal area of research that has garnered substantial attention in recent years, given its implications for both mental and physical well-being. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between positive body image, body esteem, and eating attitudes within an Iranian population.

Materials And Methods: This study employed a cross-sectional study design and was conducted in the year 2022.

and from Houseflies in Commercial Turkey Farms Are Frequently Resistant to Multiple Antimicrobials and Exhibit Pronounced Genotypic Diversity.

is a leading foodborne pathogen, and poultry are a major vehicle for infection. Houseflies play important roles in colonization of broiler flocks with but comparable information for turkey farms is limited. Here, we investigated houseflies as potential vectors for in 28 commercial turkey flocks.

Colonization and Diversity in Young Turkeys in the Context of Gastrointestinal Distress and Antimicrobial Treatment.

Young turkeys are vulnerable to undifferentiated gastrointestinal distress, including "irritable and crabby syndrome" (ICS), which compromises flock performance and is typically treated with a combination of penicillin and gentamicin (P/G). However, the effects of ICS and P/G treatment on remain poorly understood. We investigated the impact of ICS and P/G treatment on levels and diversity in four flocks from three turkey farms.

Differences in the Propensity of Different Antimicrobial Resistance Determinants to Be Disseminated via Transformation in and .

and are leading zoonotic foodborne pathogens, and the drugs of choice for human campylobacteriosis are macrolides (e.g., erythromycin) and fluoroquinolones.

Impact of Ceftiofur Administration in Steers on the Prevalence and Antimicrobial Resistance of spp.

Bacterial resistance to ceftiofur raises health concerns due to ceftiofur's extensive veterinary usage and structural similarity with the human antibiotic ceftriaxone. Ceftiofur crystalline-free acid (CCFA) and ceftiofur hydrochloride (CHCL) are ceftiofur types used therapeutically in cattle, but their potential impacts on prevalence and antimicrobial resistance remain unclear. In this study two groups of steers were each treated with CCFA or CHCL.

Increasing browse and social complexity can improve zoo elephant welfare.

While recent work has assessed how environmental and managerial changes influence elephant welfare across multiple zoos, few studies have addressed the effects of management changes within a single institution. In this paper, we examine how management changes related to social structure and diet affect the behavior of a group of zoo elephants over a 23-month period while also considering underlying factors, such as time of day, hormonal cycle, and individual differences. We recorded individual behaviors using 2-min scan samples during 60-min sessions.

Gastric artery embolization: studying the effects of catheter type and injection method on microsphere distributions within a benchtop arterial model.

Aims: The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of catheter type and injection method on microsphere distributions, specifically vessel targeting accuracy.

Materials And Methods: The study utilized three catheter types (a standard end-hole micro-catheter, a Surefire anti-reflux catheter, and an Endobar occlusion balloon catheter) and both manual and computer-controlled injection schemes. A closed-loop, dynamically pressurized surrogate arterial system was assembled to replicate arterial flow for bariatric embolization procedures.

Modeling buffer capacity and pH in acid and acidified foods.

Standard ionic equilibria equations may be used for calculating pH of weak acid and base solutions. These calculations are difficult or impossible to solve analytically for foods that include many unknown buffering components, making pH prediction in these systems impractical. We combined buffer capacity (BC) models with a pH prediction algorithm to allow pH prediction in complex food matrices from BC data.

Strain-Specific Differences in Survival of spp. in Naturally Contaminated Turkey Feces and Water.

and are leading causes of human foodborne illness, with poultry as a major vehicle. Turkeys are frequently colonized with , but little is known about survival in turkey feces, even though fecal droppings are major vehicles for within-flock transmission as well as for environmental dissemination. Our objective was to examine survival of , including different strains, in freshly excreted feces from naturally colonized commercial turkey flocks and in suspensions of turkey feces in water from the turkey house.

Effects of acellular equine amniotic allografts on the healing of experimentally induced full-thickness distal limb wounds in horses.

Objective: To characterize the growth factors contained in equine amniotic membrane allograft (eAM; StemWrap scaffold and StemWrap+ injection) and to evaluate the effect of eAM on equine distal limb wound healing.

Study Design: Prospective experimental controlled study.

Sample Population: Eight adult horses.

Cultures of Gossypium barbadense cotton ovules offer insights into the microtubule-mediated control of fiber cell expansion.

A novel method for culturing ovules of Gossypium barbadense allowed in vitro comparisons with Gossypium hirsutum and revealed variable roles of microtubules in controlling cotton fiber cell expansion. Cotton fibers undergo extensive elongation and secondary wall thickening as they develop into our most important renewable textile material. These single cells elongate at the apex as well as elongating and expanding in diameter behind the apex.

Advanced measurement and diagnosis of the effect on the underlayer roughness for industrial standard metrology.

In current nanoscale semiconductor fabrications, high dielectric materials and ultrathin multilayers have been selected to improve the performance of the devices. Thus, interface effects between films and the quantification of surface information are becoming key issues for determining the performance of the semiconductor devices. In this paper, we developed an easy, accurate, and nondestructive diagnosis to investigate the interface effect of hafnium oxide ultrathin films.

Assessment of a novel nanoparticle hyperthermia therapy in a murine model of osteosarcoma.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of nanoparticle hyperthermia therapy on monocyte function and tumor-derived factors associated with macrophage polarization in a murine osteosarcoma model.

Study Design: Experimental study.

Animals: Female C3H mice.

Does the performance of five back-associated exercises relate to the presence of low back pain? A cross-sectional observational investigation in regional Australian council workers.

Objectives: Investigate the relationships between the ability/inability to perform five physical test exercises and the presence or absence of low back pain (LBP).

Setting: Regional Australian council training facility.

Participants: Consecutive participants recruited during 39 back education classes (8-26 participants per class) for workers in general office/administration, parks/gardens maintenance, roads maintenance, library, child care and management.

Proximity to Other Commercial Turkey Farms Affects Colonization Onset, Genotypes, and Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of Campylobacter spp. in Turkeys: Suggestive Evidence from a Paired-Farm Model.

is a leading foodborne pathogen, and poultry products are major vehicles for human disease. However, determinants impacting colonization in poultry remain poorly understood, especially with turkeys. Here, we used a paired-farm design to concurrently investigate colonization and strain types in two turkey breeds (Hybrid and Nicholas) at two farms in eastern North Carolina.

Listeria monocytogenes Source Distribution Analysis Indicates Regional Heterogeneity and Ecological Niche Preference among Serotype 4b Clones.

Biodiversity analysis of the foodborne pathogen recently revealed four serotype 4b major hypervirulent clonal complexes (CCs), i.e., CC1, CC2, CC4, and CC6.

Storage of Unfed and Leftover Mothers' Own Milk.

Objective: The objective was to examine the bacteriological and immunological properties of freshly expressed, previously frozen, and leftover mothers' own milk during storage.

Materials And Methods: In the first of two pilot studies, 12 mother-infant dyads participated. The milk studied included freshly expressed unfed and freshly expressed leftover milk.

Effects of Cyclic Feeding and Starvation, Mating, and Sperm Condition on Egg Production and Fertility in the Common Bed Bug (Hemiptera: Cimicidae).

Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius L.) are now endemic in most major cities, but information regarding their basic biology is still largely based on research done over four decades ago. We investigated the effects of starvation, mating, sperm storage, and female and male age on egg production and hatch.

Quantitative assessment of a data-limited recreational bonefish fishery using a time-series of fishing guides reports.

Recreational fisheries can be prone to severe declines, yet these fisheries, particularly catch-and-release, are often data-limited, constraining our ability to conduct stock assessments. A combination of catch and effort indices derived from fisheries-dependent data (FDD) gathered from fishing logbooks could be a powerful approach to inform these data gaps. This study demonstrates the utility of using different catch metrics such as indices of abundance, species richness associated with reported catch, and the success rate of targeted trips, to assess historical shifts in the trajectory of the data-limited bonefish (Albula vulpes) fishery in Florida Bay, an economically-important recreational fishery within the Caribbean Basin.

Susceptibility of insecticide-resistant bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) to infection by fungal biopesticide.

Background: Bed bugs are a public health concern, and their incidence is increasing worldwide. Bed bug infestations are notoriously difficult to eradicate, further exacerbated by widespread resistance to pyrethroid and neonicotinoid insecticides. This study evaluated the efficacy of the newly developed fungal biopesticide Aprehend™, containing Beauveria bassiana, against insecticide-resistant bed bugs.