TAG-1 Regulates NRP1 in Schwann Cells and Participates in Regulating Nerve Regeneration in Rats with Sciatic Nerve Crush Injury.

Schwann cells (SCs) are necessary for peripheral nerve regeneration due to their plasticity and trophic supply after sciatic nerve injury (SNI). However, the multiple adaptations of SCs are still poorly understood. This study explored the effects of transient axonal glycoprotein type-1 (TAG-1) on cell migration and neuropilin1 (NRP1) expression in SCs and examined the impact of TAG-1 on nerve regeneration in rats with SNI.

Exogenous NT-3 Promotes Phenotype Switch of Resident Macrophages and Improves Sciatic Nerve Injury through AMPK/NF-κB Signaling Pathway.

Neurotrophin-3 (NT-3) is an important family of neurotrophic factors with extensive neurotrophic activity, which can maintain the survival and regeneration of nerve cells. However, the mechanism of NT-3 on macrophage phenotype transformation after sciatic nerve injury is not clear. In this study, we constructed a scientific nerve compression injury animal model and administered different doses of NT-3 treatment through osmotic minipump.

Urgent Need of Integrated Health and Social Care to Alleviate High Psychological Distress in People with Disabilities: A Cross-Sectional National Representative Survey in Australia.

Objective: To investigate factors in association with high psychological distress in people with disabilities.

Methods: We used the 2015 national survey on disability in Australia to derive the representative study population of 7936 people with disabilities aged 18+ years. The Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10) was used to define high psychological distress (scores ≥22).

Quaternary stratigraphy and paleoenvironmental evolution of the Ningbo Coastal Plain revealed by core Z02.

The Quaternary sediment in the Ningbo Coastal Plain was the deposit due to sea-land interaction, which recorded information of past climate changes. The region is therefore an ideal area to study paleoclimate changes and sedimentary characteristics. We determined the stratigraphic division and paleoenvironmental evolution based on C and paleomagnetic dating, along with detailed analyses of lithology, pollen assemblage, foraminifera and ostracodes assemblage, and grain size of sediment in core Z02 located in the southeastern Ningbo Coastal Plain.

Nitrogen flow characteristics of solid waste in China.

The surge in solid waste (SW) has become major issues in the fields of public health and ecological environment fuelled by the rapid development of social economy. The fate of nitrogen contained in SW (SWN) varies with different treatment methods, which will affect the environment to varying degrees. It is of great practical and guiding significance to comprehensively evaluate the sources, fate and its cascading effects of SWN.

Disability-Related Questions for Administrative Datasets.

High rates of unemployment among people with disability are long-standing and persistent problems worldwide. For public policy, estimates of prevalence and population profiles are required for designing support schemes such as Australia's National Disability Insurance Scheme; for monitoring implementation of the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and for monitoring service access, participation, and equity for people with disability in mainstream systems including employment. In the public sector, creating a succinct identifier for disability in administrative systems is a key challenge for public policy design and monitoring.

The Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework: data, data gaps, and policy implications.

Objective: To develop a framework and indicators to monitor inequalities in health and the social determinants of health for Australians with disability.

Methods: The development drew on existing frameworks and input from people with lived experience of disability.

Results: The Disability and Wellbeing Monitoring Framework has 19 domains.

A new clinical complexity model for the Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups.

Background: The Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG) underwent a major review in 2014 with changes implemented in Version 8.0 of the classification. The core to the changes was the development of a new methodology to estimate the Diagnosis Complexity Level (DCL) and to aggregate the complexity level of individual diagnoses to the complexity of an entire episode, resulting in an Episode Clinical Complexity Score (ECCS).

Accessing disability services by people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in Australia.

Purpose: To examine whether differences in access to specialist disability services by people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds when compared with those born in Australia represent a service gap or the healthy migrant effect.

Method: To use the latest disability statistics to measure the different rates of people with disability, and the rates of people with profound and severe disability, of people born in Australia and those born abroad; to compare the difference between those who mainly speak English with those who primarily speak a language other than English at home (LOTE); and examine the age-specific and standardised disability rates of these subgroups.

Results: The rate of access of specialist disability services by people with disability who were from CALD backgrounds is highly disproportionate to their presence in the community.

Pain reduction following vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical efficacy, especially the pain reduction, of vertebroplasty and balloon kyphoplasty in the treatment of osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures (OVCFs).

Methods: Eighty-six patients with OVCFs were treated with vertebroplasty or balloon kyphoplasty. All patients were followed up for seven-36 months.

Population behaviors and language maintenance--a case of the Korean-speaking community in China.

With the regard to language maintenance, one of the most successful in over fifty of ethno-linguistic communities in China is the Korean community with more than two millions of Korean-speakers, in which there have been Regulations Regarding the Ethnic Language Use, and a maintenance-orientated and bilingual education system. However, language attrition comes to be occurring in the Korean community because more than two hundred thousands of Korean-speaking migrants have streamed from the Korean-rural community to the Chinese-urban community for the last twenty years. This paper, in urban-anthropological and sociolinguistic perspectives, is aiming at an analysis of the cause of population moves and the urbanization process of the Korean community as well as their impact on the language maintenance and bilingual education in the Korean community.