Must one take the bitter with the sweet? Sensory processing sensitivity and factors associated with resilience among artistically inclined individuals.

Sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), linked with a penchant for the arts and creativity, exerts its bivalent influences, contingent on context, on individuals' health-related outcomes. But little is known about how it interacts with creative self-concept (CSC). Focusing on the role of SPS, this study identified risk and protective factors of resilience among artistically inclined individuals from middle to later life during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) restriction period and examined the interaction effect between SPS and CSC on depression.

Optimal surgeon and hospital volume thresholds to reduce mortality and length of stay for CABG.

Objective: We used nationwide population-based data to identify optimal hospital and surgeon volume thresholds and to discover the effects of these volume thresholds on operative mortality and length of stay (LOS) for coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG).

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: General acute care hospitals throughout Taiwan.

Association of intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors with physician burnout and job satisfaction: a nationwide cross-sectional survey in Taiwan.

Objective: The aim of this study was to systematically and simultaneously examine the association of intrinsic and extrinsic motivating factors with physician burnout and job dissatisfaction.

Design: A nationally representative survey was fielded from September to November 2017.

Setting: Hospitals and clinics throughout Taiwan.

Inquiline predator increases nutrient-cycling efficiency of pitchers.

The modified-leaf pitchers of pitcher plants are aquatic, allochthonous ecosystems that are inhabited by specialist inquilines and sustained by the input of invertebrate prey. Detritivorous inquilines are known to increase the nutrient-cycling efficiency (NCE) of pitchers but it is unclear whether predatory inquilines that prey on these detritivores decrease the NCE of pitchers by reducing detritivore populations or increase the NCE of pitchers by processing nutrients that may otherwise be locked up in detritivore biomass. is a small and poorly studied genus of hoverflies and the larvae of one such species is a facultatively detritivorous predator that inhabits the pitchers of .

Optimal Hospital and Surgeon Volume Thresholds to Improve 30-Day Readmission Rates, Costs, and Length of Stay for Total Hip Replacement.

Background: Little is known about whether there are optimal hospital and surgeon volume thresholds to reduce readmission, costs, and length of stay (LOS) for total hip replacement (THR). Nationwide population-based data were applied to identify the optimal hospital and surgeon volume thresholds and to discover the effects of these volume thresholds on 30-day unplanned readmission, costs and LOS for THR.

Methods: A total of 6367 patients identified through Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database received THR in 2012.

Should we pay attention to surgeon or hospital volume in total knee arthroplasty? Evidence from a nationwide population-based study.

Background: Although prior research into the relationship between volume and outcome indicates that this relationship is not linear and that an optimal volume should be specified, consensus is lacking regarding the ideal value of this optimal volume. The purposes of this study were to use a visual method to identify surgeon- and hospital-volume thresholds and to examine the relationships of surgeon and hospital volume thresholds to 30-day readmission.

Methods: A retrospective nationwide population-based study design was adopted.

Do Hospital and Physician Volume Thresholds for the Volume-Outcome Relationship in Heart Failure Exist?

Background: Although volume-outcome relationships have been explored for various procedures and interventions, limited information is available concerning the effect of hospital and physician volume on heart failure mortality. Most importantly, little is known about whether there are optimal hospital and physician volume thresholds to reduce heart failure mortality.

Objectives: We used nationwide population-based data to identify the optimal hospital and physician volume thresholds to achieve optimum mortality and to examine the relative and combined effects of the volume thresholds on heart failure mortality.

Are PCI Service Volumes Associated with 30-Day Mortality? A Population-Based Study from Taiwan.

The volume-outcome relationship has been discussed for over 30 years; however, the findings are inconsistent. This might be due to the heterogeneity of service volume definitions and categorization methods. This study takes percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) as an example to examine whether the service volume was associated with PCI 30-day mortality, given different service volume definitions and categorization methods.

Do you see what I see?: An exploration of inter-ethnic ideal body size comparisons among college women.

The present study explored African American (n=16) and European American (n=19) college women's ideal body size perceptions for their own and the other ethnic group along with reasons behind their selections. Respondents completed an ethnically-neutral figure rating scale and then participated in ethnically-homogenous focus groups. European Americans mostly preferred a curvy-thin or athletic ideal body while most African American students resisted notions of a singular ideal body.

Comparative nephrotoxicity of aristolochic acid and tetrandrine in vitro and in vivo.

Aristolochic acid (AA) and tetrandrine (TET) are the major bioactive components in Chinese herbs used for weight loss. The nephropathy caused by the 2 Chinese herbs has not been simultaneously investigated. The aim of this study was to examine the potential nephrotoxicity of AA and TET using Madin-Darby canine kidney (MDCK) cells and mice.

CyclinD1 protein expressed in pterygia is associated with β-catenin protein localization.

Background: The Wnt (Wg/Wnt) signaling cascade plays an important role in tumorigenesis. Our previous report indicated that aberrant localization of β-catenin proteins was a feature of pterygia. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze the association of β-catenin protein and expression of a downstream gene, cyclin D1, in pterygial tissues.

The effects of cognitive defusion and thought distraction on emotional discomfort and believability of negative self-referential thoughts.

Previous research has shown that rapid vocal repetition of a one-word version of negative self-referential thought reduces the stimulus functions (e.g., emotional discomfort and believability) associated with that thought.