Local residents' attitudes toward and contact with international students: a perspective from Montreal, Quebec.

As migrants holding temporary, foreign-resident status in their host communities, international students often experience prejudice and have little meaningful contact with locals. To date, a comprehensive account of international students' experience is lacking, and existing conceptualizations exclude linguistic threat as a potential source of increased prejudice and diminished contact. Therefore, our goal in this study (set in Quebec, Canada) was to explore local residents' attitudes toward and contact with international students in relation to five potential threats experienced by local residents, including cultural differences, competition over resources, intergroup anxiety, stereotypes, with linguistic threat added as a new, previously unexplored variable.

Prognostic effect of Nesfatin-1 on the diagnosis and staging of acute cholecystitis.

Background: Gallbladder diseases are an important health concern affecting approximately 20% of the population in developed countries. Acute cholecystitis is the most common complication of gallstones. The aim of our study is to determine the use of Nesfatin-1, which is an easily applicable and fast resulting and is thought to have an association with inflammatory events, in the diagnosis and grading of acute cholecystitis.

Flowcytometric Ratios of Immune Cells in the Prognosis and Staging of Acute Biliary Pancreatitis.

Objective: To evaluate several lymphocyte subtypes with various parameters that can be applied easily and give fast results for their roles in evaluating the stage and prognosis of acute biliary pancreatitis.

Study Design: Case-control study.

Place And Duration Of Study: The Emergency Department of Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, and Gaziosmanpasa Research and Training Hospital, Turkey, between June 2020 and April 2021.