Background: Early intervention in psychosis (EIP) services improve outcomes for young people, but approximately 30% disengage.
Aims: To test whether a new motivational engagement intervention would prolong engagement and whether it was cost-effective.
Method: We conducted a multicentre, single-blind, parallel-group, cluster randomised controlled trial involving 20 EIP teams at five UK National Health Service (NHS) sites.
Purpose: Patients with urinary calculi undergo resource-intensive follow-up. Application of a PROM, Urinary Stones and Intervention Quality of Life (USIQoL), can potentially optimise current practices if it matches the outcomes of traditional follow-up. Our objective was to develop, and conduct, a preliminary validation of the USIQoL based prediction model to aid triage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe translocon at the outer chloroplast membrane (TOC) is the gateway for chloroplast protein import and so is vital for photosynthetic establishment and plant growth. Chloroplast-associated protein degradation (CHLORAD) is a ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic system that regulates TOC. In CHLORAD, cytosolic Cdc48 provides motive force for the retrotranslocation of ubiquitinated TOC proteins to the cytosol but how Cdc48 is recruited is unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeural action potentials (APs) are difficult to interpret as signal encoders and/or computational primitives. Their relationships with stimuli and behaviors are obscured by the staggering complexity of nervous systems themselves. We can reduce this complexity by observing that "simpler" neuron-less organisms also transduce stimuli into transient electrical pulses that affect their behaviors.
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