Effects of Social Media on Consumer Information Seeking and Purchase Intention of Oral Health Care Products Among Adults.

Social media has created an environment providing readily available information that impacts how individuals seek information and make product decisions. The purpose of this study was to examine adult consumer use of social media for information seeking and the effect on intention to purchase oral health care products. A cross-sectional study design with a non-probability sample of adult consumers recruited through crowdsourcing with Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) was used to examine the effect of social media on purchasing of oral health products.

Integrating open science education into an undergraduate health professional research program.

Objective: Open science (OS) is a global movement focused on improving research equity, reproducibility, and transparency of research outputs in publicly funded research. While OS education in academia is becoming more common, examples of health sciences librarians providing OS training are not. This paper describes how a librarian collaborated with teaching faculty and a research program coordinator to integrate an OS curriculum into an undergraduate professional practice course and assess students' perceptions of OS after participating.

Teacher Creativity: When Professional Coherence Supports Beautiful Risks.

Environmental, cultural, and social issues are becoming increasingly complex, and the educational context is no exception to this trend. The relevance of teachers' creativity in examining situations from different angles, in imagining new approaches, in adapting to the varied needs of students, and in training them so that they too can grasp the teeming complexity seems obvious. However, creativity sometimes seems to be taken for granted among teachers and educational programs leave a gap around this theme.

Role of Alveolar-Arterial Gradient in Partial Pressure of Oxygen and PaO/Fraction of Inspired Oxygen Ratio Measurements in Assessment of Pulmonary Dysfunction.

Assessment of pulmonary dysfunction is vital to anesthetists. Measurements including the gradient between the alveolar partial pressure of oxygen (PAo) and the arterial partial pressure of oxygen (Pao), called the PAo - Pao , and the ratio of the Pao to the fraction of inspired oxygen (FIo) (Pao/FIo ratio) are useful in determining the extent of acute lung injury. A literature review via MEDLINE using the terms PAo - Pao , Pao/FIo ratio, and pulmonary dysfunction was performed to identify articles on the use of these measures in the perioperative period.

Catalase overexpression modulates metabolic parameters in a new 'stress-less' leptin-deficient mouse model.

Oxidative stress plays a key role in obesity by modifying the function of important biological molecules, thus altering obesogenic pathways such as glucose and lipid signaling. Catalase, is an important endogenous antioxidant enzyme that catabolizes hydrogen peroxide produced by the dismutation of superoxide. Recent studies have shown knockdown of catalase exacerbates insulin resistance and leads to obesity.