The role of dog therapy in clinical recovery and improving quality of life: a randomized, controlled trial.

Background: Any illness places a significant burden on patients, including deterioration in quality of life. Animal assisted therapy may be helpful in the rehabilitation process and in the treatment of patients to alleviate this phenomenon.

Methods: A randomized, controlled research was conducted in 2019 and 2020 in a rehabilitation center in Budapest.

Improved Metal-Free Approach for the Synthesis of Protected Thiol Containing Thymidine Nucleoside Phosphoramidite and Its Application for the Synthesis of Ligatable Oligonucleotide Conjugates.

Oligonucleotide conjugates are versatile scaffolds that can be applied in DNA-based screening platforms and ligand display or as therapeutics. Several different chemical approaches are available for functionalizing oligonucleotides, which are often carried out on the 5' or 3' end. Modifying oligonucleotides in the middle of the sequence opens the possibility to ligate the conjugates and create DNA strands bearing multiple different ligands.

Standard values of the upper body posture in healthy adults with special regard to age, sex and BMI.

In order to classify and analyze the parameters of upper body posture in clinical or physiotherapeutic settings, a baseline in the form of standard values with special regard to age, sex and BMI is required. Thus, subjectively healthy men and women aged 21-60 years were measured in this project. The postural parameters of 800 symptom-free male (n = 397) and female (n = 407) volunteers aged 21-60 years (Ø♀: 39.

Lock-in Raman difference spectroscopy.

Shifted Excitation Raman Difference Spectroscopy (SERDS) is a non-destructive chemical analysis method capable of removing the fluorescence background and other disturbances from the Raman spectrum, thanks to the independence of the fluorescence with respect to the small difference in excitation wavelength. The spectrum difference is computed in a post-processing step. Here, we demonstrate the use of a lock-in camera to obtain an on-line analog SERDS spectra allowing longer exposure times and no saturation, leading to an improved Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and reduced data storage.

Pressure Injury Link to Entropy of Abdominal Temperature.

This study examined the association between pressure injuries and complexity of abdominal temperature measured in residents of a nursing facility. The temperature served as a proxy measure for skin thermoregulation. Refined multiscale sample entropy and bubble entropy were used to measure the irregularity of the temperature time series measured over two days at 1-min intervals.