Facilitating positive emotions in people with challenges by combining conventional occupational training and a novel farming program: a feasibility study.

Objective: Japan has a system of occupational therapy programs known as self-reliance training (training for daily living), which helps people with various disabilities lead more meaningful lives. Recently, it has been shown that green care farms are beneficial for dementia care and that agricultural and horticultural work has a positive impact on people with intellectual disabilities and mental disorders. This study examined the health-improving effects of farm activities and developed an attractive program for adolescents with developmental and intellectual disabilities who use independent training facilities.

Effects of mild psychological stress on facial impressions.

Introduction: Appearance plays an important role in maintaining a positive impression in social interactions. Psychological stress is known to have an adverse effect on facial skin, as indicated in previous studies. However, no study has investigated the negative effect of stress on facial impressions.

Presence of intra-aneurysmal thrombi with delayed coil migration after embolization of an aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: illustrative case.

Background: Coil migration is a rare, but notable complication of endovascular treatment. Risk factors include communicating segment aneurysms, aneurysmal shape, and technical factors. Although cerebral blood flow obstruction caused by early coil migration requires urgent coil removal, delayed coil migration is often asymptomatic, making it difficult to determine a treatment strategy.

X-ray focusing to 62 keV by compound refractive lenses for high-pressure x-ray diffraction.

This study describes high-energy x-ray focusing optics using compound refractive lenses (CRLs) for high-pressure x-ray diffraction (XRD) with a monochromatic x-ray beam. A CRL-based x-ray transfocator was upgraded and installed in the optics hutch at the BL10XU beamline of SPring-8. The instrument can be equipped with two types of CRLs in parallel: a newly designed aluminum (Al) CRL for x-ray energies of 40-62 keV and an existing glassy carbon CRL for those up to 40 keV.

Suppression of Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in a Monoclinically Distorted LiNbO-Type CuNbO by Preference for a CuO Triangular Coordination Environment.

Pressure-induced phase transitions in a monoclinically distorted LiNbO-type CuNbO with triangularly coordinated Cu and octahedrally coordinated Nb were experimentally and computationally investigated. Phase transitions into GdFeO-type or NaIO-type structures generally observed in LiNbO-type compounds below 30 GPa were not detected in CuNbO even at the maximum experimental pressure, 32.4 GPa.