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Acta Psychol (Amst)
November 2024
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, United States.
The sunk-cost effect (SCE) refers to the tendency to continue pouring resources into a venture due to unrecoverable prior investments, despite a potentially unfavorable outcome ahead. In the two studies reported here, we aimed to explore the issue of whether the SCE is susceptible to the involvement of others by differentiating the individual who would incur the cost (i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHereditas
August 2024
Department of Oncology, The Second Clinical Medical College, Affiliated Fifth People's Hospital of Chengdu, Cancer Prevention and Treatment Institute of Chengdu, Chengdu Fifth People's Hospital, University of Traditional Chinese Medicine), No.33, Mashi Street, Wenjiang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, 611130, China.
Objective: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients undergoing chemotherapy and immunotherapy experience disturbances in the gut microbiota. This study intends to find out the correlation between gut microbiota and clinical indices before and after radiotherapy for NSCLC.
Methods: Ten patients with primary NSCLC were screened, and plasma and fecal samples were collected before and after radiotherapy, respectively.
Breathing for singing is a highly contested issue in singing pedagogy with a wide variety of strategies recommended by teachers and the tendency for individuals to find more success with some strategies than others. The concept of body type as a determining factor has been suggested and supported by Hixon and Hoit, but little research has been conducted on this topic since and especially little research has been conducted using biologically female subjects. The investigators recruited eight female, classically trained singers and evaluated their body composition based on several anthropometric measurements (height, body mass, body fat percentage, and ectomorphy as determined by the Heath-Carter Somatotype system).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Transl Oncol
July 2021
Institute of Pathology of the University of Hamburg, UKE, Martinistraße 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany.
Purpose: The subclassification of adrenal cancers according to the WHO classification in ordinary, myxoid, oncocytic, and sarcomatoid as well as pediatric types is well established, but the criteria for each subtype are not sufficiently determined and the relative frequency of the different types of adrenal cancers has not been studied in large cohorts. Therefore, our large collection of surgically removed adrenal cancers should be reviewed o establish the criteria for the subtypes and to find out the frequency of the various types.
Methods: In our series of 521 adrenal cancers the scoring systems of Weiss et al.
Exp Aging Res
August 2021
Centre for Human Psychopharmacology, Swinburne University of Technology, Advanced Technologies Centre, Hawthorn, Australia.
F-Isoprostanes are putative markers of oxidative stress, one of the processes associated with biological senescence. Evidence exists for elevated F-Isoprostanes in chronic conditions including psychiatric disorders. Few studies have examined the relationship between oxidative stress and mood in older healthy samples, to establish the influence on mental health.
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