Predatory publishing and cybercrime targeting academics.

The purpose of this report is to inform and warn academics about practices used by cybercriminals who seek to profit from unwary scholars and undermine the industry of science. This report describes the signs, symptoms, characteristics, and consequences of predatory publishing and related forms of consumer fraud. Methods to curb these cybercrimes include educating scholars and students about tactics used by predatory publishers; institutional changes in how faculty are evaluated using publications; soliciting cooperation from the industries that support academic publishing and indexing to curb incorporation of illegitimate journals; and taking an offensive position by reporting these consumer fraud crimes to the authorities.

The effects of age, gender, hopelessness, and exposure to violence on sleep disorder symptoms and daytime sleepiness among adolescents in impoverished neighborhoods.

Although sleep problems are associated with negative outcomes among adolescents, studies have not focused on sleep disorder symptoms among adolescents living in impoverished neighborhoods and how sleep problems may be related to two factors common in those environments: hopelessness and exposure to violence. This study used data from the longitudinal Mobile Youth Survey (MYS; N = 11,838, 49% female, 93% African-American) to examine trajectories of sleep problems by age (10-18 years) among impoverished adolescents as a function of gender, feelings of hopelessness, and exposure to violence. The results indicate that sleep problems associated with traumatic stress decline with age, with four notable distinctions.

Knowledge, attitudes, and behavior in avoiding secondhand smoke exposure among non-smoking employed women with higher education in Jordan.

Unlabelled: Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is a serious public health threat worldwide; in the developing world there are less serious efforts towards controlling women's and children's exposure to SHS. Knowledge, attitudes and avoidance practices among Jordanian women have never been thoroughly studied. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and avoidance behavior towards SHS exposure among employed Jordanian women with higher education.

Sleep disturbance and risk behaviors among inner-city African-American adolescents.

Adolescents tend to experience more problems with sleep loss as a natural consequence of puberty, whereas teens from impoverished urban areas are likely to witness neighborhood violence and/or engage in risk behaviors that may affect sleep. Data from the Mobile Youth Survey, a longitudinal study of impoverished inner-city African-American adolescents (1998-2005; N = 20,716; age range = 9.75-19.

Microtubule stabilization reduces scarring and causes axon regeneration after spinal cord injury.

Hypertrophic scarring and poor intrinsic axon growth capacity constitute major obstacles for spinal cord repair. These processes are tightly regulated by microtubule dynamics. Here, moderate microtubule stabilization decreased scar formation after spinal cord injury in rodents through various cellular mechanisms, including dampening of transforming growth factor-β signaling.

The future of cognitive remediation training in older adults.

With the growing population of older adults, nurses will need to address age-related cognitive declines. Evidence demonstrates that cognitive remediation training is effective in improving neuropsychological abilities in older adults, which can translate into improved functioning in instrumental activities of daily living. The future of cognitive remediation training will incorporate health promoting factors (e.

Sleepiness and health in midlife women: results of the National Sleep Foundation's 2007 Sleep in America poll.

The 2007 Sleep in America poll, a random-sample telephone survey, provided data for this study of sleep in community-dwelling women aged 40 to 60 years. The majority of the respondents were post- or perimenopausal, overweight, married or living with someone, and reported good health. A subsample (20%) reported sleepiness that consistently interfered with daily life; the sleepy subsample reported more symptoms of insomnia, restless legs syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea, depression and anxiety, as well as more problems with health-promoting behaviors, drowsy driving, job performance, household duties, and personal relationships.

Knowledge of substance abuse among high school students in Jordan.

Objectives: The purpose a descriptive design was employed using a self-administrated questionnaire to collect the data from 400 high school students.

Methods: A multistage, random sample was generated in selecting schools from the educational directorate located in a large urban city located in the north of Jordan. This city district contains 23 public secondary schools and serves 56.

Sleepiness, physical activity, and functional outcomes in veterans with type 2 diabetes.

The purpose of this study was to explore the association between daytime sleepiness on physical activity and functional outcomes in veterans with type 2 diabetes. Physical activity was based on mean self-reported minutes walked per week; the American Diabetes Association's recommendation of 150 minutes activity per week was used to dichotomize participants as sedentary or active. The Epworth Sleepiness Scale measured sleepiness.

22q11 deletion syndrome: is that what they used to call . . . ?

Purpose: 22q11 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) is a very common, but commonly overlooked, disorder that has many variable features, such as serious heart defects, speech and articulation problems, immune compromise, learning problems, pervasive developmental disorders, and a late appearing phenotype of this condition--mental illness.

Conclusion: Persons with 22q11DS are likely to be medically complex patients with pervasive developmental disorders and late appearing mental problems.

Practice Implications: Establishing this diagnosis is useful to families and healthcare providers to anticipate and address immediate and future issues surrounding health promotion, disease prevention, and health maintenance.

Preconception health status of Iraqi women after trade embargo.

Objectives: To describe the preconception health status of Iraqi women in 2001 following the trade embargo imposed on Iraq beginning in 1991 and only partially removed in 1996.

Design: A descriptive cross-sectional prevalence study.

Sample: 500 Iraqi women at a premarital clinic in Baghdad in 2001.

Daytime sleepiness, exercise, and physical function in older adults.

The purpose of this study was to describe the association between sleepiness, exercise, and physical function in older adults, testing the hypothesis that sleepiness predicts decreased exercise and impaired physical function in this population. We performed a secondary analysis of data from the National Sleep Foundation's Sleep in America Poll, comparing frequency of exercise and ability to perform functional tasks between sleepy and non-sleepy subjects. Trained interviewers administered a scripted telephone survey.

Preoperative biofeedback assisted behavioral training to decrease post-prostatectomy incontinence: a randomized, controlled trial.

Purpose: We tested the effectiveness of preoperative biofeedback assisted behavioral training for decreasing the duration and severity of incontinence, and improving quality of life in the 6 months following radical prostatectomy.

Materials And Methods: We performed a prospective, randomized, controlled trial comparing preoperative behavioral training to usual care. The volunteer sample included 125 men 53 to 68 years old who elected radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer.

The ecology of bipolar disorder: the importance of sleep.

Although much of the emphasis in treating Bipolar Disorder patients is on pharmacotherapy, sleep loss is an important trigger for mania and plays an important role in the condition. The purpose of this paper is to fully explore the chronobiological, environmental, social, and genetic factors that contribute to the sleep disruption that is characteristic of mania and bipolar disorder. This review is important because sleep, chronobiology, and genetics are under-emphasized content areas in nursing education.

Obstructive sleep apnea, nocturia and polyuria in older adults.

Study Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between nocturia and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in community dwelling older men and women.

Design: A repeated measures design was employed over a 24-hour period.

Setting: The study was conducted in a clinical research center.

Sleep disordered breathing and nocturnal polyuria: nocturia and enuresis.

Although nocturnal voiding is frequently attributed to urologic disorders, nocturia and enuresis are also important symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing. However, polyuria can be elicited by obstructive sleep apnea as well as bedrest, microgravity and other experimental conditions where the blood volume is shifted centrally to the upper body. The nocturnal polyuria of sleep apnea is an evoked response to conditions of negative intrathoracic pressure due to inspiratory effort posed against a closed airway.

Insulin resistance and obstructive sleep apnea: is increased sympathetic stimulation the link?

The science of sleep is in early stages of development, and the biochemical consequences of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are slowly being identified. Only recently have investigators begun to identify the commonalities and interaction between OSA and insulin resistance, the underlying pathology of type 2 diabetes. Obesity and increasing age play important parts in the natural history of both conditions, which frequently coexist.

Effect of behavioral training with or without pelvic floor electrical stimulation on stress incontinence in women: a randomized controlled trial.

Context: Pelvic floor electrical stimulation (PFES) has been shown to be effective for stress incontinence. However, its role in a multicomponent behavioral training program has not been defined.

Objective: To determine if PFES increases efficacy of behavioral training for community-dwelling women with stress incontinence.

Bedwetting--not always what it seems: a sign of sleep-disordered breathing in children.

Issues And Purpose: Nocturnal enuresis (bedwetting) can linger long into childhood. Sleep research has documented that nocturia and bedwetting are symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in adults and that bedwetting is predictive of OSA in children.

Conclusions: Nocturnal polyuria is a cardiovascular response to negative pressure breathing (inspiration against a closed glottis), which is characteristic of OSA.

Nocturia: a problem that disrupts sleep and predicts obstructive sleep apnea.

Nocturia frequently is considered a benign problem that results from aging. Nocturia can result from poorly controlled diabetes, congestive heart failure, or urinary dysfunction. Also a symptom of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), nocturia is a significant source of sleep disruption that may result in excessive daytime sleepiness.