The effect of humanising nature.

Humans may have an innate need to affiliate with nature; this need has been termed biophilia. Humanising nature may connect to biophilia. An experimental design with 167 participants tested the hypothesis that a humanised description of the functioning of trees that focused on similarities between tree and human functioning would have a greater impact than a description of purely biological functions of trees.

Prospective observational study of peripheral intravenous cannula utilisation and frequency of intravenous fluid delivery in the emergency department-Convenience or necessity?

Background: Peripheral Intravenous Cannulas (PIVCs) are frequently utilised in the Emergency Department (ED) for delivery of medication and phlebotomy. They are associated with complications and have an associated cost to departmental resources. A growing body of international research suggests many of the PIVCs inserted in the ED are unnecessary.

Exploring jump experience, risk perception, anxiety and self-confidence in skydiving: A mixed methods approach.

Skydivers are required to interpret person-context characteristics to overcome inherent internal challenges (i.e., fear and anxiety) and external challenges (i.

GALAD score and a proposal for GALADUS model for detecting hepatocellular carcinoma in Vietnamese patients with chronic liver disease.

Objective: The GALAD score, a serum biomarker-based model, predicts the likelihood of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with chronic liver disease. We evaluated the performance of the GALAD score compared to that of liver ultrasound in detecting HCC.

Patients And Methods: This study recruited a group of 136 patients with HCC and a control group of 436 patients with cirrhosis or chronic hepatitis B or hepatitis C.

Sensorimotor integration in cranial muscles tested by short- and long-latency afferent inhibition.

Objective: To compressively investigate sensorimotor integration in the cranial-cervical muscles in healthy adults.

Methods: Short- (SAI) and long-latency afferent (LAI) inhibition were probed in the anterior digastric (AD), the depressor anguli oris (DAO) and upper trapezius (UT) muscles. A transcranial magnetic stimulation pulse over primary motor cortex was preceded by peripheral stimulation delivered to the trigeminal, facial and accessory nerves using interstimulus intervals of 15-25 ms and 100-200 ms for SAI and LAI respectively.