Modelling of constant and realistic chronic intake scenarios and their implications.

Chronic inhalation intake of radionuclides is possible for radiation workers in the nuclear industry. The International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) provides organ retention fractions as well as daily urinary and fecal excretion for chronic intake of various radionuclides. In this study, organ retention fractions and daily urinary excretion for chronic intake were estimated for constant chronic intake (CCI) and realistic chronic intake (RCI) scenarios.

Estimating Uncertainty in Actinide Intake Due to Unknown Time of Exposure.

Bioassay of radiation workers handling actinides in powder form is carried out annually under routine monitoring program. In case of routine monitoring, as the day of intake is unknown, it is assumed that intake has occurred at the midpoint of monitoring interval. However, an uncertainty is introduced in intake estimation due to this assumption.

Efficacy of splinting the wrist and metacarpophalangeal joints for the treatment of Carpal tunnel syndrome: an assessor-blinded randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: To compare the efficacy of a traditional cock-up splint, which supports the wrist only, with a modified splint that supports the wrist and the metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints of the medial four digits in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).

Design: An assessor-blind randomised controlled trial.

Setting: Hospital-based hand therapy clinics.

Orthosis vs. exercise for the treatment of adult idiopathic trigger fingers: A randomized clinical trial.

Objective: Trigger finger is a common clinical disorder that often results in pain and functional limitations. This study aimed to determine whether joint-blocking orthosis was effective in treating adult idiopathic trigger fingers.

Methods: Fifty-five participants were randomly assigned to either a hand therapy group or an orthosis group that immobilized the proximal interphalangeal joint for 6 weeks.

Health-related factors and dysregulation of epigenetic related genes in metabolic syndrome trigger finger patients and smoker trigger finger patients: preliminary analysis of patient-derived sample.

Purpose: To investigate the health-related factors and analyze the expression of epigenetic related genes and inflammatory genes in metabolic syndrome Trigger Finger (TF) and smoker TF.

Methods: Samples from patients' fingers with symptomatic TF were collected. There were seven groups: healthy control group, carpal tunnel syndrome (as a control for gene expression analysis), TF, diabetic TF, hypertensive TF, dyslipidemic TF and smoker TF.

Impact of Nomophobia on Musculoskeletal Problems in the Upper Extremity among Adults: Implications for Occupational Therapy.

Nomophobia (NO MObile PHone Phobia) is a psychological condition in which people are anxious of being cut off from their mobile phones and been associated with adverse consequences to physical and psychosocial health. The objective of this study was to measure the impact of nomophobia on musculoskeletal problems in the upper extremity among adults. The Nomophobia scale (NMP-Q) was used to measure addiction to smartphone use among 5,087 Middle Eastern adults.

Deep learning-assisted model-based off-resonance correction for non-Cartesian SWI.

Purpose: Patient-induced inhomogeneities in the static magnetic field cause distortions and blurring (off-resonance artifacts) during acquisitions with long readouts such as in SWI. Conventional versatile correction methods based on extended Fourier models are too slow for clinical practice in computationally demanding cases such as 3D high-resolution non-Cartesian multi-coil acquisitions.

Theory: Most reconstruction methods can be accelerated when performing off-resonance correction by reducing the number of iterations, compressed coils, and correction components.

Quality of life and its health and occupational determinants among hospital-based nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Background: Nurses worldwide were exposed to increased levels of occupational stress during the COVID-19 pandemic which could have hindered their level of health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

Objectives: This project investigated HRQoL level in nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and its health and occupational predictors.

Methods: A cross-sectional design was adopted and targeted full-time nurses in Jordan.

Effect of Physical Activity and Exercise on the Level of COVID-19 Antibodies and Lifestyle-Related Factors among Vaccinated Health Science Center (HSC) Students: A Pilot Randomized Trial.

A vaccine is a type of medicine that increases immunity and the number of antibodies (IgM and IgG) when injected into the body, preparing it in case of an actual viral infection. It has been shown in several studies that there is a significant relationship between physical activity and vaccination. Furthermore, it has been documented that physical activity can play a major role in reducing stress.

Deep Learning Reconstruction for Accelerated Spine MRI: Prospective Analysis of Interchangeability.

Background Deep learning (DL)-based MRI reconstructions can reduce examination times for turbo spin-echo (TSE) acquisitions. Studies that prospectively employ DL-based reconstructions of rapidly acquired, undersampled spine MRI are needed. Purpose To investigate the diagnostic interchangeability of an unrolled DL-reconstructed TSE (hereafter, TSE) T1- and T2-weighted acquisition method with standard TSE and to test their impact on acquisition time, image quality, and diagnostic confidence.

Epicatechin analogues may hinder human parainfluenza virus infection by inhibition of hemagglutinin neuraminidase protein and prevention of cellular entry.

Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIVs) are ( -)ssRNA viruses belonging to Paramyoviridaie family. They are one of the leading causes of mortality in infants and young children and can cause ailments like croup, bronchitis, and pneumonia. Currently, no antiviral medications or vaccines are available to effectively treat parainfluenza.

The prevalence and risk factors of screen-based disordered eating among university students: a global systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression.

Purpose: The purpose of this review was to estimate the prevalence of screen-based disordered eating (SBDE) and several potential risk factors in university undergraduate students around the world.

Methods: An electronic search of nine data bases was conducted from the inception of the databases until 1st October 2021. Disordered eating was defined as the percentage of students scoring at or above established cut-offs on validated screening measures.

Iterative static field map estimation for off-resonance correction in non-Cartesian susceptibility weighted imaging.

Purpose: Patient-induced inhomogeneities in the magnetic field cause distortions and blurring during acquisitions with long readouts such as in susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI). Most correction methods require collecting an additional field map to remove these artifacts.

Theory: The static field map can be approximated with an acceptable error directly from a single echo acquisition in SWI.

Manifestation of Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Its Association With Somatic Symptoms Among Occupational and Physical Therapists During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine the level of generalized anxiety disorder among occupational and physical therapists during treatment sessions and its association with somatic symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional design was used in this study. Data were collected during the month of April 2021, and the study included occupational and physical therapists who practiced during COVID-19 from March 2020 to March 2021.

In vivo evidence of lumbricals incursion into the carpal tunnel in healthy hands: An ultrasonographic cross sectional study.

Introduction: During finger flexion, the tendons of flexor digitorum profundus migrate proximally, along with their attached lumbrical muscles. This incursion was suggested to extend into the Carpal Tunnel. Ultrasonographic imaging can be used to assess in vivo soft tissue behavior and incursion.

Investigation of Health Science Students' Knowledge Regarding Healthy Lifestyle Promotion During the Spread of COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Health sciences students as future health care providers, can play a valuable role in protecting societies against the spread of COVID-19 through health promotion and lifestyle modification education. Therefore, proper education of these students is essential. This study sought to assess and measure the change of knowledge of health sciences students regarding healthy lifestyle promotion strategies during the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, after participation in different types of online and social media educational programs.

Feasibility and Implementation of a Deep Learning MR Reconstruction for TSE Sequences in Musculoskeletal Imaging.

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the musculoskeletal system is one of the most common examinations in clinical routine. The application of Deep Learning (DL) reconstruction for MRI is increasingly gaining attention due to its potential to improve the image quality and reduce the acquisition time simultaneously. However, the technology has not yet been implemented in clinical routine for turbo spin echo (TSE) sequences in musculoskeletal imaging.

The negative impact of chronic tobacco smoking on adult neuropsychological function: a cross-sectional study.

Background: The evidence on the effects of chronic tobacco smoking on neuropsychological functions is conflicting. The literature remains limited by inconsistent accounting for potentially confounding biomedical and psychiatric conditions. This study aimed to assess the neuropsychological functions of adult chronic tobacco smokers in comparison to group-matched non-smokers.

A parallel spatial and Bloch manifold regularized iterative reconstruction method for MR Fingerprinting.

Magnetic Resonance Fingerprinting (MRF) reconstructs tissue maps based on a sequence of very highly undersampled images. In order to be able to perform MRF reconstruction, state-of-the-art MRF methods rely on priors such as the MR physics (Bloch equations) and might also use some additional low-rank or spatial regularization. However to our knowledge these three regularizations are not applied together in a joint reconstruction.

Monte Carlo simulation of enriched uranium in the lungs of thorax voxel phantom for assessment of enrichment and its effect on dose.

In-vivo lung monitoring is an important technique for the assessment of internal dose of radiation workers handling actinides. At BARC, counting efficiencies (CEs) of detection systems used for estimation of natural uranium in the lungs are evaluated using realistic thorax physical phantoms or computational voxel phantoms. The quantification of U and U in lungs is done using CEs determined at 63.

Automated detection of critical findings in multi-parametric brain MRI using a system of 3D neural networks.

With the rapid growth and increasing use of brain MRI, there is an interest in automated image classification to aid human interpretation and improve workflow. We aimed to train a deep convolutional neural network and assess its performance in identifying abnormal brain MRIs and critical intracranial findings including acute infarction, acute hemorrhage and mass effect. A total of 13,215 clinical brain MRI studies were categorized to training (74%), validation (9%), internal testing (8%) and external testing (8%) datasets.

Chronic Treatment With Hydrogen Sulfide Donor GYY4137 Mitigates Microglial and Astrocyte Activation in the Spinal Cord of Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rats.

Long-term diabetic patients suffer immensely from diabetic neuropathy. This study was designed to investigate the effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on peripheral neuropathy, activation of microglia, astrocytes, and the cascade secretion of proinflammatory cytokines in the streptozotocin (STZ)-induced peripheral diabetic neuropathy rat model. STZ-induced diabetic rats were treated with the water-soluble, slow-releasing H2S donor GYY4137 (50 mg/kg; i.