Decreased Circulating Red Cell Mass Induced by Intravenous Acepromazine Administration Alters Viscoelastic and Traditional Plasma Coagulation Testing Results in Healthy Horses.

Coagulopathy is common in equine critical illness, with its early recognition being crucial for patient management and prognosis. In vitro viscoelastic (VE) hypercoagulability with decreased RCM/PCV has been demonstrated in dogs but not horses. Our objective was to evaluate the effects of acepromazine-induced (0.

How Likely Is it that I Would Act the Same Way: Modeling Moral Judgment During Uncertainty.

Moral rules come with exceptions, and moral judgments come with uncertainty. For instance, stealing is wrong and generally punished. Yet, it could be the case that the thief is stealing food for their family.

Mother-infant interactive processes and infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery: Associations at 3, 6, and 9 months of age.

Mother-infant interactive processes, including matching social behaviors and repairing interactive ruptures, are proposed to foster infant stress functioning. However, little is known about the extent to which the concurrent relations between these dyadic processes and infant behavioral and vagal stress recovery change over the first year of life. In this study, 116 mother-infant dyads (55 girls) from a midwestern city in the United States completed the still-face paradigm at 3, 6, and 9 months.

Validation of the CRAVE-C scale in Chinese adults: a four-study examination of competing motivations for physical activity versus rest.

Background: The study aimed to validate the Cravings for Rest and Volitional Energy Expenditure (CRAVE) scale among Chinese adults with different health conditions (healthy control, chronic illnesses, and psychiatric disorders) and skill levels (athletes vs. non-athletes).

Methods: In Study 1, a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using the Maximum Likelihood Method (MLM) was performed on a Chinese sample of emerging adults ( = 481) to evaluate the structural validity of the Cravings for Rest and Volitional Energy Expenditure-Chinese version (CRAVE-C).

Bioelastic state recovery for haptic sensory substitution.

The rich set of mechanoreceptors found in human skin offers a versatile engineering interface for transmitting information and eliciting perceptions, potentially serving a broad range of applications in patient care and other important industries. Targeted multisensory engagement of these afferent units, however, faces persistent challenges, especially for wearable, programmable systems that need to operate adaptively across the body. Here we present a miniaturized electromechanical structure that, when combined with skin as an elastic, energy-storing element, supports bistable, self-sensing modes of deformation.

Childhood maltreatment associated with adolescent peer networks: Withdrawal, avoidance, and fragmentation.

Background: Childhood maltreatment can affect subsequent social relationships, including different facets of peer relationships. Yet, how prior maltreatment shapes adolescents' connections within school peer networks is unclear, despite the rich literature showing the importance of this structural aspect of social integration in adolescence.

Objectives: This study examines how childhood physical abuse, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, and physical neglect predict adolescent social network structure as withdrawal, avoidance, and fragmentation among peers.

Using Zoom Annotate to Facilitate Online Focus Groups in Veterinary Medicine Education Research.

Focus groups allow researchers to collect data from multiple participants on a set of questions while simultaneously observing participant interactions during sessions. Traditionally, researchers conduct focus groups in person, though online focus groups have been increasingly used as technologies have improved. The pandemic increased the need for researchers to innovate online focus group practices.

The Restoring Force Triangle: A Mnemonic Device for Polymer Mechanochemistry.

In polymer mechanochemistry, mechanophores are specific molecular units within the macromolecular backbone that are particularly sensitive to tension. To facilitate understanding of this selective responsiveness, we introduce the restoring force triangle (RFT). The RFT is a mnemonic device intended to provide intuitive insight into how external tensile forces (i.

Utilization of egg white powders to mitigate the astringency of Aronia berry juice and produce protein-Proanthocyanidin aggregates with enhanced stability during digestion.

Aronia berry has a strong unpleasant astringency, however, few approaches have been developed to modify it. This study aims to screen out the suitable proteins to mitigate astringency in aronia juice, elucidate the interaction mechanism, and evaluate the digestive stability of formed complexes. Among proteins tested, two egg white powders (original P-110 and modified M-200) were the optimal ones with 0.

NezhNPV, a new biocontrol agent for Nesodiprion zhejiangensis Zhou & Xiao (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae), an emerging forest pest.

Background: Nesodiprion zhejiangensis, a multivoltine sawfly, is widely distributed in south China and has caused serious damage to forests. Historically, N. zhejiangensis management has relied heavily on synthetic chemicals.

Varicella zoster vasculopathy causing recurrent ischaemic strokes in an immunocompetent patient.

A 66-year-old woman reported 10 days of generalised weakness, falls and memory 'glitches'. She had developed left-sided ophthalmic herpes zoster 3 months before but was otherwise well. MR scan of brain showed acute left-sided ischaemic strokes and CT cerebral angiogram identified marked stenoses of the left anterior and middle cerebral arteries.

Gender and speech material effects on the long-term average speech spectrum, including at extended high frequencies.

Gender and language effects on the long-term average speech spectrum (LTASS) have been reported, but typically using recordings that were bandlimited and/or failed to accurately capture extended high frequencies (EHFs). Accurate characterization of the full-band LTASS is warranted given recent data on the contribution of EHFs to speech perception. The present study characterized the LTASS for high-fidelity, anechoic recordings of males and females producing Bamford-Kowal-Bench sentences, digits, and unscripted narratives.

Altered Auditory Feedback in Teachers: A Preliminary Investigation.

Purpose: Due to the elevated vocal risks of university professors and the possible relationship between auditory-motor integration and voice disorders, the current study was designed to explore the effects of altered auditory feedback via bone conduction on voice production measures in university professors.

Methods: A total of 43 hours of voice recordings across 32 university classes were collected from two vocally healthy college professors through voice dosimetry. During their classes, the professors experienced either the real-time altered auditory feedback or a condition without altered auditory feedback.

Not Like Everybody Else but We're the Same: Psychosocial Variables Compared Across Diverse Sexual and Gender Identities.

Objective: Sexual and gender minority (SGM) people are underrepresented in psychological research. Part of the underrepresentation of SGM people likely stems from potential participants' unwillingness to join a study, but more concerningly, researchers exclude data from SGM participants. Furthermore, much of SGM research focuses on existing health disparities and risk factors rather than wellness-framed and personality research.

Developing personas to inform the design of digital interventions for perinatal mental health.

Objectives: Digital interventions are increasingly in demand to address mental health concerns, with significant potential to reach populations that disproportionately face barriers to accessing mental health care. Challenges with user engagement, however, persist. The goal of this study was to develop user personas to inform the development of a digital mental health intervention (DMHI) for a perinatal population.

An Updated Framework for Modeling White-Tailed Deer () Habitat Quality in Illinois, USA.

White-tailed deer () are a cervid species found mostly in the Americas. Managing white-tailed deer requires understanding their relationship with the environment, which was characterized by Roseberry and Woolf (Wildlife Society Bulletin , 1998, 252) for all counties in Illinois, USA, who incorporated habitat quantity and quality in a deer habitat suitability index. However, this index was based on satellite imagery from 1996 and did not explore the smaller spatial scales used by deer.

Beta-Band Cortico-Muscular Phase Coherence in Hemiparetic Stroke.

Following a stroke, compensation for the loss of ipsilesional corticospinal and corticobulbar projections, results in increased reliance on contralesional motor pathways during paretic arm movement. Better understanding outcomes of post-stroke contralesional cortical adaptation outcomes may benefit more targeted post-stroke motor rehabilitation interventions. This proof-of-concept study involves eight healthy controls and ten post-stroke participants.

Reconstructing the invention of the wheel using computational structural analysis and design.

The invention of the wheel is widely credited as a pivotal moment in human history, yet the details surrounding its discovery are shrouded in mystery. There remains no scholarly consensus on key questions such as where, how and by whom this technology was originally invented. In this study, we employ state-of-the-art techniques from computational structural mechanics to shed light on this long-standing puzzle.

Integrated proteomics and transcriptomics analysis reveals insights into differences in premature mortality associated with disparate pathogenic RBM20 variants.

Variants in RNA binding motif protein 20 (RBM20) are causative in a severe form of dilated cardiomyopathy referred to as RBM20 cardiomyopathy, yet the mechanisms are unclear. Moreover, the reason(s) for phenotypic heterogeneity in carriers with different pathogenic variants are similarly opaque. To gain insight, we carried out multi-omics analysis, including the first analysis of gene expression changes at the protein level, of mice carrying two different pathogenic variants in the RBM20 nuclear localization signal (NLS).