Legal Weakness, Investment Risks, and Distressed Acquisitions: Evidence from Russian Regions.

This paper traces the survival status of 93,260 Russian business firms in the period of 2007-2019 and empirically examines the determinants of the acquisition of financially distressed companies (i.e., distressed acquisitions).

Clinical Characteristics Associated with the Development of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.

Objective This study analyzed the clinical and laboratory parameters that might influence the clinical outcomes of patients with type 2 diabetes who develop diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), which has not been well investigated. Methods We reviewed the clinical and laboratory data of 158 patients who were hospitalized due to DKA between January 2006 and June 2019 and compared the data of patients stratified by the type of diabetes. In addition, the patients with type 2 diabetes were subdivided according to age, and their clinical and laboratory findings were evaluated.

Analysis of NMR Adsorption Isotherms of Zeolite ZSM-5: Adsorption Profiles Derived from the Pressure and Temperature Dependences of Xe NMR Chemical Shift and Signal Intensity.

Xe NMR spectroscopy of nanomaterials, such as zeolites, can provide valuable information on the nanostructure and physicochemical properties of adsorption. In the present study the pressure and temperature dependences of the Xe NMR chemical shift and the signal intensity were investigated in detail with a zeolite ZSM-5. The pressure dependence of the signal intensity at constant temperature was analyzed based on the Langmuir and Dubinin-Radushkevich (D-R) models, from which the thermodynamic parameters and energetic profiles of adsorption were obtained together with information concerning the nanospace size.

Lower insulin secretion is associated with hippocampal and parahippocampal gyrus atrophy in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Aims/introduction: We aimed to examine the association between diabetes-related parameters and hippocampal and parahippocampal gyrus atrophy (HPGA) in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus to elucidate the risk factors for HPGA, which is often accompanied by Alzheimer's disease.

Materials And Methods: A total of 137 patients aged ≥50 years with type 2 diabetes mellitus (mean age 67.8 ± 9.

Nurses' and students' perception of risk from medical practices.

Objectives: To determine the risk perceptions of a series of medical practices in non-expert (undergraduates) and expert (nurses) samples.

Methods: Four hundred and forty-seven nurses and 246 undergraduate students participated in this study. They all answered questionnaires about the risk dimensions and acceptance for medical practices.

Measuring Attitudes Toward Nursing Safety Violations.

This study measured implicit and explicit attitudes toward major nursing safety violations using the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and self-reported questionnaires, respectively. Experiment 1 sampled nursing students (n = 71), and Experiment 2 sampled patient safety nurses (n = 38). Although reaction time to IAT stimuli of major nursing safety violations was quicker than of general nursing behaviors, error trials did not reveal a significant difference between IAT stimuli of major nursing safety violations and of general nursing behaviors in Experiment 1.

Eosinophilic fasciitis associated with myositis.

Eosinophilic fasciitis is clinically characterized by symmetrical scleroderma-like indurations of the skin with pain. The histological features are fascial inflammation with lymphocytes and eosinophils as well as thickened and fibrotic fascia. Lymphocytic infiltration and degeneration of the underlying muscle are rarely observed.

Usefulness of SWI for the Detection of Iron in the Motor Cortex in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.

Purpose: The purpose of the present retrospective study was to evaluate the sensitivity of susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) compared to conventional spin-echo T2-weighted and T2*-weighted images in detecting iron deposition in the motor cortex of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients in comparison with age-matched normal controls. We also investigated the etiology of the low signal referring to the pathology of one autopsy case.

Methods: This retrospective magnetic resonance (MR) study included 23 ALS patients and 28 age-matched normal controls.

Posterior fossa in primary microcephaly: relationships between forebrain and mid-hindbrain size in 110 patients.

Microcephalies vary widely in clinical severity and in morphology. The purpose of this study is to determine the frequency of disproportion between the size of the cerebrum and the size of midbrain and hindbrain structures in infants and children with microcephaly, as analysis of such disproportions might aid understanding of these disorders and facilitate testing for specific genetic causes. The relative sizes of the forebrain, each component of the brain stem, and vermis and hemispheres of the cerebellum were analyzed visually on magnetic resonance (MR) images of 110 microcephalic patients.

Brachial and lumbar plexuses in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy: MRI assessment including apparent diffusion coefficient.

Introduction: Our purpose was to clarify the magnetic resonance (MR) imaging characteristics of the brachial and lumbar plexuses in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) using various kinds of sequences, including diffusion-weighted images (DWI).

Methods: We evaluated the MR imaging findings for lumbar and/or brachial nerve plexuses in 13 CIDP patients and 11 normal volunteers. The nerve swelling was evaluated in comparison with normal controls by coronal short tau inversion recovery (STIR), and signal abnormalities were evaluated by coronal STIR, T1-weighted images, and DWIs.

Subjective global assessment is not sufficient to screen patients with defective hepatic metabolism.

Background And Aims: Subjective global assessment (SGA) is useful for screening malnourished patients with several diseases, although it has been indicated to underestimate nutritional status for patients with liver disease. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the usefulness of SGA as a nutritional screening tool for patients with liver disease, compared to patients with gastroenterological disease, without bias of personal ability and experience.

Methods: SGA was performed on 129 of hospitalized patients (86 with liver disease and 43 with gastroenterological disease).

Branched-chain amino acid supplements reduced ascites and increased the quality of life in a patient with liver cirrhosis: A case report.

Liver cirrhosis is frequently accompanied by malnutrition and hypoalbuminemia, which in turn commonly induces ascites in patients with liver cirrhosis. Ascites leads to abdominal distention and appetite loss, resulting in a deteriorated quality of life (QOL). Administration of branched-chain amino acid (BCAA)-rich supplements reduces hepatic encephalopathy and malnutrition.

Postnatal evolution of cortical malformation in the "non-affected" hemisphere of hemimegalencephaly.

A boy with epilepsy of neonatal onset was diagnosed with hemimegalencephaly (HME) based on the finding of an enlarged left cerebral hemisphere with dysplastic cortex over the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed an essentially unremarkable gyration pattern in the contralateral hemisphere. Ictal electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography revealed epileptic foci in the left hemisphere.

Analysis of the temperature and pressure dependence of the 129Xe NMR chemical shift and signal intensity for the derivation of basic parameters of adsorption as applied to zeolite ZSM-5.

Temperature and pressure dependences of the 129Xe NMR chemical shift and the signal intensity have been investigated using ZSM-5 as an adsorbent under routine conditions without using any high-pressure or especially high-temperature facilities. The use of a rigorously shielded system and a calibration sample for the signal intensity was found to be valuable to obtain reliable data about the chemical shift and the signal intensity. The 129Xe NMR data obtained between 0.