Where did pre-service teachers, teachers, and the general public learn neuromyths? Insights to support teacher training.

Background: Neuromyths may negatively influence teacher practice. Knowing where people learned misinformation can prevent its propagation and improve teacher training.

Objective: To investigate the prevalence of neuromyths, their sources, and whether they influence teacher practice.

A systematic review of the concept of self-regulation in infants between 0 and 36 months in Latin America.

This paper aims to identify how cognitive and emotional self-regulation (SR) processes in infants from 0 to 36 months are defined within the Latin American academic context. A systematic review based on the PRISMA methodology was implemented to review the conceptual and operational definition of SR, the type of study, the country of origin of the authors, and the reference to the adequacy of the research to the specific cultural context of Latin America. Twenty-two papers that met the selection criteria were selected.

An integral approach to address Chagas disease.

Chagas is a zoonotic disease conditioned by the need to eliminate or control the vector in human settlements before targeting infected individuals. Simultaneously it is necessary to raise awareness of health problems generated by chronic Chagas disease (ChD), for people to participate actively in vector control programs that will then enable the implementation of screening, treatment and follow-up strategies. Therefore, it is essential to engage the participation of the community in holistically designed integral programs to address ChD in all its complexity.

Learning-by-Teaching Approach Improves Dengue Knowledge in Children and Parents.

There is narrow evidence on which strategies are most effective for disseminating information on dengue prevention. This is particularly relevant because social habits have a great prevention capacity for dengue. We investigated how effective are children as health educators, and how much they learn as they teach.

Corrigendum: Risks for Child Cognitive Development in Rural Contexts.

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Risks for Child Cognitive Development in Rural Contexts.

While poverty all over the world is more typical and extreme in rural contexts, interventions to improve cognition in low socioeconomic status (SES) children are for the most part based on studies conducted in urban populations. This paper investigate how poverty and rural or urban settings affect child cognitive performance. Executive functions and non-verbal intelligence performance, as well as individual and environmental information was obtained from 131 5-year-old children.

Children's Preferences for Pediatric Dentist Attire: A Multicenter Study.

Background: Data are conflicting regarding the effect of professional staff attire on children at pediatric dental clinics.

Aim: To compare the preferences of children and their parents in three countries, regarding the gender and attire of pediatric dentists.

Study Design: A multi-centered study was conducted in pediatric dental clinics in Israel (N=100), Uruguay (N=270) and Spain (N=200).

Tattoos: Very Popular, Not So Innocent.

Tattooing is a popular practice worldwide. Its origin dates back to the year 5000 BCE with a frozen mummy and travels across time through diverse cultures and places until it reaches the modern occidental world. Inks and materials used for tattooing are poorly controlled and carry potential risks of skin reactions.

Far transfer to language and math of a short software-based gaming intervention.

Executive functions (EF) in children can be trained, but it remains unknown whether training-related benefits elicit far transfer to real-life situations. Here, we investigate whether a set of computerized games might yield near and far transfer on an experimental and an active control group of low-SES otherwise typically developing 6-y-olds in a 3-mo pretest-training-posttest design that was ecologically deployed (at school). The intervention elicits transfer to some (but not all) facets of executive function.

Multiple cystic disease: K17 dysfunction?

Our patient is a 29-year-old woman without any previous disease who presented with different kinds of lesions on her face, neck, and chest. She first noticed the lesions 10 years ago and, since that time, they have become more numerous. She has no affected relatives.

Evaluation of four risk-scoring methods to predict long-term outcomes in patients undergoing aorto-bifemoral bypass for aorto-iliac occlusive disease.

This study was done to determine the usefulness of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification, the comorbidity Charlson index unadjusted (CCIu),the comorbidity Charlson index adjusted by age (CCIa), and the Glasgow aneurysm score (GAS) for postoperative morbimortality and survival in patients treated with aorto-bifemoral bypass (AFB) for aorto-iliac occlusive disease (AIOD). A series of 278 patients who underwent AFB were restrospectively studied. For the CCIu, CCIa, ASA, and GAS, receiver operating characteristics curve analysis for prediction of morbidity showed area under the curves of 0.

Combined modulated electron and photon beams planned by a Monte-Carlo-based optimization procedure for accelerated partial breast irradiation.

The purpose of this study was to present a Monte-Carlo (MC)-based optimization procedure to improve conventional treatment plans for accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) using modulated electron beams alone or combined with modulated photon beams, to be delivered by a single collimation device, i.e. a photon multi-leaf collimator (xMLC) already installed in a standard hospital.

Syndromic nevoid hypermelanosis: description of seven cases with a 10-year follow up.

Skin lesions can often be the only sign of an underlying systemic abnormality which will require further investigation. Several syndromic conditions are diagnosed after their cutaneous marker, which is in most cases a nevus. We report a neurocutaneous condition which we named "syndromic nevoid hypermelanosis" (SNH).

Actinomyces meyeri cutaneous actinomycosis.

Actinomyces meyeri cutaneous actinomycosis is a very rare disease. It often results from contiguous dissemination of an underlying focus. We report a case of pulmonary actinomicosis with secondary cutaneous involvement which led to the diagnosis.

Long-term follow-up of Symphony nitinol stents in iliac arteriosclerosis obliterans.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the long-term results of iliac artery stent placement with use of the symphony stent for the treatment of patients with intermittent claudication. In a prospective study, 31 cases of iliac occlusive arterial disease were treated in 26 patients. Stenoses (n = 27) were treated after failed angioplasty, and occlusions (n = 4) were treated with primary stent placement.

Pharmacokinetic aspects of naloxone-precipitated morphine withdrawal in male and female prepubertal mice.

It has been shown that the expression of the morphine (MOR) withdrawal syndrome precipitated by naloxone (NAL) is more intense in male mice than in females, but the reasons for this phenomenon remain uncertain. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate whether this sexual dimorphism might be due to differences in MOR and/or NAL plasma levels after a chronic treatment with MOR. Prepubertal Swiss male and female mice were rendered dependent by intraperitoneal (i.

Determination of moisture, starch, protein, and fat in common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by near infrared spectroscopy.

The presence of moisture, starch, protein, and fat was determined in common beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) by near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy without any previous sample pretreatment except grinding. A set of 96 samples was used to calibrate the instrument by modified partial least-squares regression.

Analysis of nitrogen fractions in silage by near-infrared spectroscopy.

Total nitrogen, soluble nitrogen (SN), nonprotein nitrogen (NPN), and acid-detergent insoluble nitrogen (ADIN) were analyzed in grass silage by near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy. A set of 144 samples was used to calibrate the instrument by modified partial least-squares regression, and the following statistical results were achieved: standard error of calibration (SEC) = 0.449 and square correlation coefficient (R (2)) = 0.

Long-term follow-up of iliac wallstents.

We evaluated the long-term results of the iliac artery stent placement for the treatment of patients with intermittent claudication. From November 1988 to December 1998, 303 legs were treated with metal stents in 259 patients with iliac occlusive arterial disease in a follow-up study approved by the institutional review board. Stenoses (n = 162) were treated after failed angioplasty and occlusions (n = 141) were treated with primary stent placement.