Validation of the Korean Version of the Assessment of Strategies in Families-Effectiveness Scale.

Background: Family health significantly affects society and the country. Health problems have been identified as the most important cause of family anxiety and conflict in South Korea. Because valid instruments to measure this concept are limited, using the Assessment of Strategies in Families-Effectiveness scale may provide precious insight into family health and nursing practice.

Smartphone Authentication System Using Personal Gaits and a Deep Learning Model.

In a society centered on hyper-connectivity, information sharing is crucial, but it must be ensured that each piece of information is viewed only by legitimate users; for this purpose, the medium that connects information and users must be able to identify illegal users. In this paper, we propose a smartphone authentication system based on human gait, breaking away from the traditional authentication method of using the smartphone as the medium. After learning human gait features with a convolutional neural network deep learning model, it is mounted on a smartphone to determine whether the user is a legitimate user by walking for 1.

Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load, and FAS rs6586161 Polymorphism in Relation to Gastric Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Study in Korea.

Many dietary and genetic factors have been confirmed to be associated with gastric cancer risk. This research investigated gastric cancer risk with regard to the glycemic index, glycemic load, and FAS rs6586161 polymorphism. A total of 232 matched pairs were included in this case-control study.

Identification of biological components for sialolith formation organized in circular multi-layers.

According to the previous studies of sialolithiasis reported so far, this study is aimed to identify the biological components of sialolith, which show different ultrastructures and chemical compositions from other stones, cholelith and urolith. Twenty-two specimens obtained from 20 patients were examined histologically, and analyzed with micro-CT, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). All sialoliths (n = 22) observed in this study showed a central nidus, which was filled with organoid matrix admixed with exosome vesicles, loose calcium apatite crystals, and many bacteria.

Prioritizing Career Preparation: Learning Achievements and Extracurricular Activities of Undergraduate Students for Future Success.

Preparing for a job can be difficult for undergraduates as this would be one of their first experiences of responsibility; obtaining a job will make them economically independent beings taking responsibility for their lives. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, this task has become even more challenging for Generation Z students, born in the mid-1990s, as they navigate a turbulent job market. This study aims to analyze undergraduates' priority decisions regarding the criteria and activities of their career preparation.

Open Book Exams and Flexible Grading Systems: Post-COVID University Policies from a Student Perspective.

Due to COVID-19, many universities have started offering real time video or recorded courses. This situation raises concerns about a decline in students' learning outcomes and issues of unfairness regarding students' exams and grade evaluations. Korean universities have introduced online open book testing in courses and a flexible pass grading system that allows students to select their final grades to improve fairness.

Effects of Handover Education Using the Outcome-Present State Test (OPT) Model and SBAR in Nursing Students: A Quasi-Experimental Design.

Background: Since most of nursing students lack clinical reasoning competency, for effective handover education, it is necessary to include a strategy to improve the clinical reasoning competency in the practical training course of the nursing department.

Methods: This study used a quasi-experimental research design using a non-equivalent control group pretestposttest design to verify the effectiveness of the practice education program using the OPT model and SBAR. The subjects were 73 third-year students participating in clinical practice or clinical alternative practice in Korea.

Multi-class semantic segmentation of breast tissues from MRI images using U-Net based on Haar wavelet pooling.

MRI images used in breast cancer diagnosis are taken in a lying position and therefore are inappropriate for reconstructing the natural breast shape in a standing position. Some studies have proposed methods to present the breast shape in a standing position using an ordinary differential equation of the finite element method. However, it is difficult to obtain meaningful results because breast tissues have different elastic moduli.

Tat-CIAPIN1 Prevents Pancreatic β-Cell Death in hIAPP-Induced RINm5F Cells and T2DM Animal Model.

It is well known that the cytokine-induced apoptosis inhibitor 1 (CIAPIN1) protein plays an important role in biological progresses as an anti-apoptotic protein. Human islet amyloid peptide (hIAPP), known as amylin, is caused to pancreatic β-cell death in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the function of CIAPIN1 protein on T2DM is not yet well studied.

Metabolic profiling and expression analysis of key genetic factors in the biosynthetic pathways of antioxidant metabolites in mungbean sprouts.

Mungbeans ( L.), a major legume crop in Asia, contain higher amounts of functional substances than other legumes, such as catechin, chlorogenic acid, and vitexin. Germination can improve the nutritional value of legume seeds.

Synthesis and Biological Properties of Pyranocoumarin Derivatives as Potent Anti-Inflammatory Agents.

This study aimed to synthesize 23 coumarin derivatives and analyze their anti-inflammatory effects on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced inflammation in RAW264.7 macrophages. A cytotoxicity test performed on LPS-induced RAW264.

Trophic response of fishes to rainfall variability in a temperate estuarine system of Korea: A stable isotope approach.

To assess the basal resources supporting food webs impacted by rainfalls, we compared stable isotope ratios (δC and δN) of fish consumers and organic matter sources between up- and down-sites in an estuary between seasons (June and September) and years (2018 and 2019) that showed different patterns of summer monsoon. Our study showed seasonal differences in the δC and δN values of basal resources and fish consumers in both years. At the up-site, significant differences of δC values of fish consumers were found between years, resulting from changing rainfall period, thereby causing a shift in food availability from terrigenous organic matter to periphyton.

Mitigating invalid and mischievous survey responses: A registered report examining risk disparities between heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning youth.

In a Registered Report, the authors propose a new survey-bias-mitigation method-incorporating inverse probability weighting via boosted regression-to better understand lesbian, gay, bisexual, or questioning (LGBQ)-heterosexual youth risk disparities. This method is tested using the 2019 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-collected Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) national data, which contain 12,847 observations (ages 12-18 [M = 16, SD = 1.25]; 49.

Multicolor emission-based nitrogen, sulfur and boron co-doped photoluminescent carbon dots for sequential sensing of Fe and cysteine: RGB color sensor and live cell imaging.

Herein, a simple hydrothermal synthesis is used to prepare multiple heteroatom-doped photoluminescent carbon dots (CDs) from thiourea (N and S source) and boric acid (B source) as precursors. The optical and physicochemical properties of the as-synthesized NSB-CDs were studied using UV-Vis, photoluminescence, TEM, FT-IR, XRD, Raman, and XPS analyses. The NSB-CDs exhibited excellent stability, high photostability, pH, and ionic strength tolerance; they retained their excellent stability independent of excitation.

The effects of Kinesio tapes on facial swelling following bimaxillary orthognathic surgery in the supraclavicular region.

Background: Several osteotomies are required for orthognathic surgery to reposition the jaws correctly. This study aimed to evaluate whether Kinesiotaping can reduce swelling, pain, and trismus following orthognathic surgery of the facial skull.

Materials And Methods: The present study consists of two phases.

Health-related quality of life in older women with injuries: a nationwide study.

Objectives: This study aims to describe the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and influencing factors of older women who experienced injuries.

Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of data from 4,217 women aged 65 years or older sampled from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) (2016-2020) database. Two-way analysis of variance was used to analyze the data.

Effectiveness of Combinational Treatments for Alzheimer's Disease with Human Neural Stem Cells and Microglial Cells Over-Expressing Functional Genes.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative diseases. In AD patients, amyloid-β (Aβ) peptide-mediated degeneration of the cholinergic system utilizing acetylcholine (ACh) for memory acquisition is observed. Since AD therapy using acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors are only palliative for memory deficits without reversing disease progress, there is a need for effective therapies, and cell-based therapeutic approaches should fulfil this requirement.

Development of a Nurse Turnover Prediction Model in Korea Using Machine Learning.

Nurse turnover is a critical issue in Korea, as it affects the quality of patient care and increases the financial burden on healthcare systems. To address this problem, this study aimed to develop and evaluate a machine learning-based prediction model for nurse turnover in Korea and analyze factors influencing nurse turnover. The study was conducted in two phases: building the prediction model and evaluating its performance.

A review of Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides: Health benefit, structure-activity relationship, modification, and nanoparticle encapsulation.

Ganoderma lucidum polysaccharides possess unique functional properties. Various processing technologies have been used to produce and modify G. lucidum polysaccharides to improve their yield and utilization.

Lipase-catalyzed preparation of deacidified Buah Merah (Pandanus conoideus) oil.

Buah Merah oil (BMO) is unrefined edible oil containing a high level of free fatty acids (FFA; ∼30% w/w). This study was aimed at preparing deacidified BMO from BMO via lipase-catalyzed esterification of FFA in BMO with added glycerol, using Duolite A568-immobilized Eversa Transform 2.0 (Thermomyces lanuginosus lipase) as biocatalyst.

Purpurin ameliorates D-galactose-induced aging phenotypes in mouse hippocampus by reducing inflammatory responses.

Purpurin, an anthraquinone, has potent anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory effects in various types of brain damage. In a previous study, we showed that purpurin exerts neuroprotective effects against oxidative and ischemic damage by reducing pro-inflammatory cytokines. In the present study, we investigated the effects of purpurin against D-galactose-induced aging phenotypes in mice.