Weekend effect in emergency laparotomy: a propensity score-matched analysis.

Background: The 'weekend effect' is the term given to the observed discrepancy regarding patient care and outcomes on weekends compared to weekdays. This study aimed to determine whether the weekend effect exists within Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ) for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy (EL), given recent advances in management of EL patients.

Methods: A cohort study was conducted across five hospitals, comparing the outcomes of weekend and weekday acute EL.

VI -a New Layered Ferromagnetic Semiconductor.

2D materials are promising candidates for next-generation electronic devices. In this regime, insulating 2D ferromagnets, which remain rare, are of special importance due to their potential for enabling new device architectures. Here the discovery of ferromagnetism is reported in a layered van der Waals semiconductor, VI , which is based on honeycomb vanadium layers separated by an iodine-iodine van der Waals gap.

Effects of singular and dual task constraints on motor skill variability in childhood.

We examined the effects of singular versus dual task constraints involving upper and lower extremities in typically developing children in young (4-6 years old), middle (7-9 years old), and old (10-13 years old) age groups. The purposes of this study were: 1) to investigate the effects of singular upper and lower extremity and dual upper and lower extremity conditions on motor variability and 2) to examine if variability in children's motor actions would differ according to age (i.e.

Diurnal variation of anterior scleral and conjunctival thickness.

Purpose: To examine whether anterior scleral and conjunctival thickness undergoes significant diurnal variation over a 24-h period.

Methods: Nineteen healthy young adults (mean age 22 ± 2 years) with minimal refractive error (mean spherical equivalent refraction -0.08 ± 0.

Joint neuronal tuning for object form and position in the human lateral occipital complex.

A long-standing heuristic in visual neuroscience holds that extrastriate visual cortex is parceled into a dorsal "where" pathway concerned with stimulus position and motion and a ventral "what" pathway concerned with stimulus form. Several recent studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), however, have shown that small changes in the position of a single object can produce reliable changes in activity patterns in object-selective lateral occipital complex (LOC). Although these data demonstrate that information about both object form and position is present at the region level in LOC, the extent to which they reflect joint neuronal tuning to these dimensions is unclear.