Building a Grammatical Network: Form and Function in the Development of Hebrew Prepositions.

This study investigates the emergence of prepositions in Hebrew-speaking children aged 2;6-6;0 years, analyzing a peer talk corpus of 75 children across five age groups. Across 45-minute triadic conversations, we examined the distributions, semantic functions, and form-function relations of prepositions. Two results sections are presented.

Insulin Detemir Versus Glibenclamide in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Background: Treatment of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) has been shown to improve both maternal and neonatal outcomes. For women with GDM who require glucose-lowering medication, insulin is regarded as the drug of choice by most medical societies. Oral therapy, with metformin or glibenclamide, is a reasonable alternative in certain medical circumstances.

The Impact of Total Deceleration Area and Fetal Growth on Neonatal Acidemia in Vacuum Extraction Deliveries.

We aimed to investigate the correlation between total deceleration area (TDA), neonatal birthweight and neonatal acidemia in vacuum extractions (VEs). This is a retrospective study in a tertiary hospital, including VE performed due to non-reassuring fetal heart rate (NRFHR). Electronic fetal monitoring during the 120 min preceding delivery was interpreted by two obstetricians who were blinded to neonatal outcomes.

Changes in maternal heart rate in delayed post-partum preeclampsia.

Aim: Delayed-onset postpartum preeclampsia (PET) is defined as a new diagnosis of preeclampsia presenting 48 h to 6 weeks postpartum. This disorder is infrequent and associated with a higher incidence of complications as compared to antepartum PET. There seems to be a need to further characterize this disorder.

The development of Hebrew zero and pronominal subject realization in the context of first and second person.

The study investigates the acquisition of Hebrew zero and pronominal subjects in the context of first and second person. We provide distributional evidence relative to verb tense, number, person, and conversational utterance type, in a peer-talk corpus (2;0-8;0 years). Findings show that acquisition starts early on, that verb inflectional morphology is crucial for the development of pronominal subjects, and that communicative contexts affect subject realization.

Are There Similarities in Pregnancy Complications and Delivery Outcomes among Sisters?

This retrospective cohort study evaluated pregnancy outcomes and similarities between pairs of nulliparous sisters with a singleton fetus who delivered between 2013 and 2020. The “Sister-1 group” was defined as the sibling who delivered first, while the “Sister-2 group” included the siblings who gave birth after Sister-1. Obstetrical complications and delivery outcomes were compared.

Social learning dynamics influence performance and career self-efficacy in career-oriented educational virtual environments.

Educational virtual environments (EVEs) are defined by their features of immersion (degree of sensory engagement) and fidelity (degree of realism). Increasingly, EVEs are being used for career development and training purposes, which we refer to as career-oriented EVEs. However, little research has examined the effects of immersion and fidelity on career-related outcomes, like self-efficacy and interests, and the learning dynamics that may influence these outcomes.

Physiological and psychological stress responses to labor and delivery during COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study.

Objective: To evaluate objective (saliva cortisol) and subjective (questionnaire) stress levels during the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic compared to before the pandemic and their effects on obstetric and neonatal outcomes.

Methods: This cohort study included 36 women with low-risk, singleton, term deliveries at a tertiary academic center during the COVID-19 pandemic and 49 who delivered before. Physiological stress was evaluated with salivary cortisol measurements, and emotional stress with stress scale questionnaires (0-10) during active and full dilation stages of labor, and 2-min postpartum.

Patterns of Adaptation in Child-Directed and Child Speech in the Emergence of Hebrew Verbs.

Children approach verb learning in ways that are specific to their native language, given the differential typological organization of verb morphology and lexical semantics. Parent-child interaction is the arena where children's socio-cognitive abilities enable them to track predictive relationships between tokens and extract linguistic generalizations from patterns and regularities in the ambient language. The current study examines how the system of Hebrew verbs develops as a network over time in early childhood, and the dynamic role of input-output adaptation in the network's increasing complexity.

Bad Temptation.

We study a static self-control model in which an agent's preference, temptation ranking, and cost of self-control drive her choices among a finite set of options. We show that it is without loss to assume that the agent's temptation ranking is the opposite of her preference. We characterize the model by relaxing the Weak Axiom of Revealed Preference (WARP), and exploit WARP violations to identify the model's parameters.

Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy: machine-learning algorithm to predict elevated bile acid based on clinical and laboratory data.

Purpose: Applying machine-learning models to clinical and laboratory features of women with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) and creating algorithm to identify these patients without bile acid measurements.

Methods: This retrospective study included 336 pregnant women with a chief complaint of pruritis without rash during the second/third trimesters. Data extracted included: demographics, obstetric, clinical and laboratory features.

Unknown Subclinical Hypothyroidism and In-Hospital Outcomes and Short- and Long-Term All-Cause Mortality among ST Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

Subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) is defined as an elevated serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level with a normal serum-free thyroxine (FT4) level. SCH has been associated with an increased risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes. We investigated possible associations of unknown SCH with in-hospital outcomes and short- and long-term all-cause mortality in a large cohort of patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) who underwent primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).

Morpho-Orthographic Complexity in Affix Spelling in Hebrew: A Novel Psycholinguistic Outlook Across the School Years.

The current study examined the factors underlying native Hebrew speakers' ability to learn homophonous affix spelling. It takes a novel view in investigating the effect of morpho-orthographic complexity of affix representation on the development of affix spelling across the school years. The role of five morpho-orthographic principles in homophonous affix letter spelling was studied: (i) morpho-orthographic transparency; (ii) affix letter prevalence; (iii) morpho-phonological competition; (iv) overtness of the phonological-orthographic link; and (v) phono-morpho-orthographic consistency.

Correction to: Relation of lowering door-to-balloon time and mortality in ST segment elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The name of the author Keren-Lee Rozenfeld was rendered wrongly. The correct name is shown above.

Relation of Subclinical Hypothyroidism to Acute Kidney Injury Among ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.

Background: Data suggest that subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) is associated with progression of chronic renal disease; however, no study to date has assessed the possible relation between SCH and acute deterioration of renal function.

Objectives: To investigate the possible relation between SCH and acute kidney injury (AKI) in a large cohort of patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) treated with primary coronary intervention (PCI).

Methods: We evaluated thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) and free T4 levels of 1591 STEMI patients with no known history of hypothyroidism or thyroid replacement treatment who were admitted to the coronary care unit (October 2007-August 2017).

Input-output relations in Hebrew verb acquisition at the morpho-lexical interface.

This study examined early Hebrew verb acquisition, highlighting CDS-CS relations across inflectional and derivational verb learning. It was carried out on a corpus of longitudinal dense dyadic interactions of two Hebrew-speaking toddlers aged 1;8-2;2 and their parents. Findings revealed correlated patterns within and between CDS and CS corpora in terms of verbs, structural root categories, and their components (roots, binyan conjugations, and derivational verb families), and clear relations between lexical-derivational development and inflectional growth in input-output relations, measured by MSP.

Can we predict the need for antihypertensive treatment during the early postpartum period for women with preeclampsia or gestational hypertension?

Objectives: To determine factors that predict the need for antihypertensive treatment during early postpartum period among women with preeclampsia or gestational hypertension.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort of 358 women.

Main Outcome Measures: Demographic, clinical and laboratory data of 63 women diagnosed with preeclampsia or gestational hypertension during a singleton pregnancy and who needed antihypertensive agents during early postpartum period were compared to 295 who did not.

Moderating effects of person and job characteristics on digital monitoring outcomes.

Many individuals perceive digital monitoring to be an inherently negative practice that invades privacy, but recent research suggests that it has positive effects for workers under certain circumstances. This review expands upon existing digital monitoring frameworks by adopting a psychological perspective to explain individual and contextual variation in monitoring reactions. To do so, we identify person characteristics (e.

Relation of lowering door-to-balloon time and mortality in ST segment elevation myocardial infarction patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

Background: Current guidelines for the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) recommend a door-to-balloon time (DBT) of ≤ 90 min for patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We aimed to investigate the possible impact of further reduction in DBT intervals beyond the 90 min cutoff on short and long-term outcomes among STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI.

Methods: We retrospectively studied 889 STEMI patients (median age 61 years, 83% men) who underwent successful primary PCI and had a DBT of ≤ 90 min.

Twin pregnancies and perinatal outcomes: a comparison between fresh and frozen embryo transfer: a two-centre study.

Research Question: To assess the perinatal and obstetric outcomes of twin pregnancies resulting from IVF frozen embryo transfer (FET) in comparison with fresh embryo transfer.

Design: A retrospective cohort study of 773 twin pregnancies conceived via IVF treatment. Data were collected from the records of two outpatient fertility IVF clinics of cycles conducted between 2006 and 2016.

Outcomes of early and reversible renal impairment in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.

Objective: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent complication in patients with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). While AKI occurring post-PCI has been well studied, the incidence and clinical significance of early renal impairment evident on hospital admission prior to PCI and which resolves towards discharge has not been investigated.

Methods: We retrospectively studied 2339 STEMI patients treated with primary PCI.

Usefulness of Global Longitudinal Strain for Early Identification of Subclinical Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Patients With Active Cancer.

Cardiotoxicity from cancer therapy has become a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer survivors. The most commonly used definition is cancer therapeutic related cardiac dysfunction defined as a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) reduction of >10%, to a value below 50%. However, according to the recent American and European Society of Echocardiography, global longitudinal strain (GLS) is the optimal parameter for early detection of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction.

Acute kidney injury after transcatheter aortic valve implantation and mortality risk-long-term follow-up.

Background: Acute kidney injury (AKI) complicating transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is relatively frequent and associated with significant morbidity. Previous studies have shown a higher 30-day and 1-year mortality risk in patients with periprocedural AKI. Our aim was to identify the prognostic impact of periprocedural AKI on long-term follow-up.

Association of pre-admission statin therapy and the inflammatory response in ST elevation myocardial infarction patients.

Purpose: To demonstrate the possible association of statin therapy with C reactive protein (CRP) serial measurements in ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients.

Materials And Methods: STEMI patients between 2008 and 2016 with available CRP data from admission were divided into two groups according to pre-admission statin therapy. A second CRP measurement was noted following primary coronary intervention (within 24 h from admission).