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Background: To implement developmental care accurately, neonatal intensive care unit nurses should have a proper understanding and sufficient knowledge in this field. Applying new approaches in education such as offline and online education help nurses improve their skills and knowledge. This study aimed to investigate the effect of virtual education on the perception and knowledge of neonatal developmental care in nurses working in neonatal intensive care units.

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Phallometric assessment is used to assess men's sexual interest in children and to assist in risk assessment and treatment planning. A common response pattern, especially when the assessment is conducted in a forensic context, is an indiscriminate pattern of penile responses: No sexual stimulus seems to produce a substantially higher response than another. This indiscriminate response profile could be the result of (1) (in particular, reducing the responses to child stimuli); (2) floor or ceiling effects caused by low or high , or (3) (the individual is similarly sexually interested in both children and adults).

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Background: In a sudden cardiac arrest, starting CPR and applying an AED immediately are the two highest resuscitation priorities. Many existing mobile applications have been developed to assist users in locating a nearby AED. However, these applications do not provide indoor navigation to the AED location.

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Introduction: Since nurses and nursing students interact with culturally diverse clients in health care settings, training programs are required to improve cultural competence and self-efficacy among them. This study aimed to investigate the effect of an online cultural care training program on cultural competence and self-efficacy among postgraduate nursing students.

Methods: The present interventional study used random sampling to allocate 80 postgraduate nursing students into the intervention and control groups.

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With limited availability of auto- and allografts, there is increasing demand for alternative bone repair and regeneration materials. Inspired by a mimetic approach, the utility of producing engineered native protein scaffolds is being increasingly realized, demonstrating the need for continued research in this field. In previous work, we detailed a process for producing mineralized collagen scaffolds using tendon to create collagen templates of highly aligned, natively crosslinked collagen fibrils.

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The COVID-19 restrictions have impacted people's lifestyles in all spheres (social, psychological, political, economic, and others). This study explored which factors affected the level of anxiety during the time of the first wave of COVID-19 and subsequent quarantine in a substantial proportion of 23 countries, included in this study. The data was collected from May to August 2020 (5 June 2020).

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Previous studies have advocated that collagen peptide supplementation (CPS) can positively affect cardiovascular health. However, the widespread impact of CPS on CVD-related markers is not fully resolved. Consequently, the current systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess the efficacy of CPS on CVD-related markers.

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The Arizona Biomedical Research Centre (ABRC) has funded a series of workshops and conferences since 2016 to build the capacity of local, tribal, and state agencies, healthcare delivery organizations, and non-governmental organizations to engage in meaningful research related to health disparities. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of telehealth has dramatically increased, particularly in nursing, occupational therapy (OT), physical therapy (PT), and speech-language pathology (SLP). The purpose of this paper is to summarize the presentations and discussion from the conference titled "Telerehabilitation and Telepractice: An Interprofessional Conference to Build Connections and Best Practices," held remotely on March 4-5, 2021.

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To provide guidance and resources on how to practice culturally safe and humble neuropsychology with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals and communities. We gathered a multidisciplinary team of clinicians with relevant professional and/or lived experience to review pertinent literature, discuss important concepts, and identify key resources. From this process, we outline practical steps to advance gender affirmative neuropsychological practice.

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More methylation changes occur in late interval than in early interval of wheat seed development with protein and the starch synthesis-related pathway enriched in the later stages. Wheat seed development is a critical process to determining wheat yield and quality, which is controlled by genetics, epigenetics and environments. The N6-methyladenosine (mA) modification is a reversible and dynamic process and plays regulatory role in plant development and stress responses.

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Identification of Epitopes on Rhinovirus 89 Capsid Proteins Capable of Inducing Neutralizing Antibodies.

Int J Mol Sci

May 2022

Division of Immunopathology, Department of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Center for Patho-Physiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.

Rhinoviruses (RVs) are major causes of the common cold, but they can also trigger exacerbations of asthma. More than 160 different RV strains exist and can be classified into three genetic species (RV-A, RV-B and RV-C) which bind to different receptors on human cells including intracellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM-1), the low-density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) or the cadherin-related family member 3 (CDHR3). Epitopes located in the RV capsid have mainly been determined for RV2, a minor-group RV-A strain binding to LDLR, and for RV14, a major-group RV-B strain binding to ICAM-1.

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  • Osteoporosis is a widespread disease marked by low bone mass and deterioration that leads to an increased risk of fragility fractures, particularly in the vertebrae.
  • Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) has been the standard method for diagnosing osteoporosis but comes with limitations, prompting interest in newer imaging techniques like CT and MRI.
  • Advanced analysis methods such as texture analysis and finite element analysis can enhance fracture prediction when combined with CT and MRI, but standardized diagnostic criteria for these methods are still lacking, preventing easier adoption in clinical settings.
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Traffic noise is one of the leading causes of reductions in animal abundances near roads. Acoustic masking of conspecific signals and adventitious cues is one mechanism that likely causes animals to abandon loud areas. However, masking effects can be difficult to document in situ and the effects of infrequent noise events may be impractical to study.

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Diarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a highly relapsing gastrointestinal disorder decreasing the quality of life. Existing studies indicated that the therapeutic effects maintained for a period of time after the treatments were discontinued (post-treatment therapeutic effects or PTTE). In this study, we aim to assess the PTTE of tongxie.

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MMN and P3a elicited by a novelty paradigm in healthy controls: An investigation of sex differences.

Neurosci Lett

June 2022

Department of Psychology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada; Department of Psychology, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS, Canada. Electronic address:

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  • The study focuses on two brain waveforms, MMN and P3a, which are indicators of how we detect changes in sounds.
  • MMN reflects difficulties in auditory change detection, while P3a relates to the conscious evaluation of those sounds.
  • The researchers found no significant sex differences in these waveforms among healthy individuals, contributing valuable information to the existing research on how biological sex might influence auditory processing.
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While social withdrawal in childhood is typically associated with lower academic functioning, little is known about how motivations for social withdrawal may be connected to academic adjustment in emerging adulthood. The purpose of the present study was to examine associations between social withdrawal motivations (i.e.

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Synaptic plasticity depends on rapid experience-dependent changes in the number of neurotransmitter receptors. Previously, we demonstrated that motor-mediated transport of AMPA receptors (AMPARs) to and from synapses is a critical determinant of synaptic strength. Here, we describe two convergent signaling pathways that coordinate the loading of synaptic AMPARs onto scaffolds, and scaffolds onto motors, thus providing a mechanism for experience-dependent changes in synaptic strength.

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  • Bletilla striata is an important medicinal plant from the Orchidaceae family, but counterfeit species like Bletilla ochracea and Oreorchis foliosa pose challenges for identification.
  • The study analyzed samples of these plants for polysaccharide yields, monosaccharide composition, and secondary metabolites using HPLC-MS, revealing significant differences in polysaccharide yields between B. striata and B. ochracea.
  • Although B. striata and O. foliosa had similar polysaccharide yields and monosaccharide composition, they exhibited differences in their secondary metabolites, helping distinguish these species more clearly.
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We present new precision measurements of the elastic electron-proton scattering cross section for momentum transfer (Q^{2}) up to 15.75  (GeV/c)^{2}. Combined with existing data, these provide an improved extraction of the proton magnetic form factor at high Q^{2} and double the range over which a longitudinal or transverse separation of the cross section can be performed.

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Ocean-based photosynthesis accounts for half of global primary production. Productivity rates, driven by phytoplanktonic responses to nutrient availability, are however highly variable both spatially and temporally throughout the oceans. Intense primary production in the ocean's most productive areas, the Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems (EBUS), cannot be fully explained by nutrient upwelling alone, with the role of local dust sources and complimentary aeolian nutrient delivery largely overlooked.

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Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally. Plants were assayed for a Mendelian antiherbivore defense that also affects tolerance to abiotic stressors.

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Thermal Stability and Decomposition Pathways in Volatile Molybdenum(VI) Bis-imides.

Inorg Chem

March 2022

Department of Chemistry, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.

The vapor deposition of many molybdenum-containing films relies on the delivery of volatile compounds with the general bis(butylimido)molybdenum(VI) framework, both in atomic layer deposition and chemical vapor deposition. We have prepared a series of (BuN)MoCl adducts using neutral ,'-chelates and investigated their volatility, thermal stability, and decomposition pathways. Volatility has been determined by thermogravimetric analysis, with the 1,4-di--butyl-1,3-diazabutadiene adduct () found to be the most volatile (1 Torr of vapor pressure at 135 °C).

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This is the first plant functional trait database for Nova Scotia, Canada. The data contained here were collected between 2016 and 2019 from locations around Halifax, Nova Scotia. The species selected for trait collection were chosen based on species inventories taken across Nova Scotian coastal barrens and from green roofs at Saint Mary's University.

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Glutamate and N-Acetylaspartate Alterations Observed in Early Phase Psychosis: A Systematic Review of Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Studies.

Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging

April 2022

Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Department of Psychology, Saint Mary's University, Halifax, NS; Department of Psychology, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, NS. Electronic address:

Glutamate and N-acetylaspartate have been investigated in the neuropathology of chronic schizophrenia, with fewer studies focusing on early phase psychosis. Additionally, there has been little review and synthesis of the literature focused on multiple brain regions. This systematic review aims to provide a clear report of the current state of research on glutamate and n-acetylaspartate concentrations in early phase psychosis (defined as the first five years following psychosis onset) in multiple brain regions.

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