Caregiver Burden In Caregivers Of Hospitalized Older Adults And Its Associated Factors by Jocabed Rocha-Balcázar, Carmen García-Peña, Lourdes Figueroa-Solano, Nicolas Castellanos-Perilla, Daniel Santiago Cortes-Sarmiento, Mario Pérez-Zepeda

“…Other variables were tested in order to assess their association with caregiver burden: sociodemographic, health-related, depression, functionality, social support and hospital length of stay, caregiver expenses, quality of life and satisfaction with received care. …”
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Physical, social, and emotional impact on patients with congenital heart disease undergoing cardiac catheterization by Maricel Licht-Ardila, Alexandra Hurtado-Ortiz, Edgar Fabián Manrique-Hernández, Justo José Santiago Peña

“…The results were more favourable for emotional functioning and social functioning, with median scores of 62 (IQR, 32–74) and 68 (IQR, 44–100), respectively. …”
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Small‐world network and neuroscience by Yan‐Kun Han, Hai‐Jun Zhang, Yu‐Jing Chen, Chang Liu, Yu‐He Zhang, Zhan‐Jun Zhang, Run‐Ting Jing, Li Guo, Da Li, Wen‐Yue Chu, Wen‐Jun Wu, Kan Zhang, Long‐Biao Cui

“…As the universal nature of the human brain network, their heterogeneous pattern of change in patients with different diseases may satisfy the need for auxiliary objective diagnostic tests. In recent years, combining non‐invasive neuroimaging techniques (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography, and magnetoencephalography) with graph‐theory‐based brain network topology analysis has provided a new direction for exploring neuroscience. …”
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Environmental Threats to Child Health by Melda Çelik, Kadriye Yurdakök

“…Environmental risks have major effects on child health and development from pre-conception to childhood and adolescence, sometimes persisting into adulthood. In the last 50 years, we have witnessed the spread of tens of thousands of newly discovered chemicals into the environment, leading to the detection of residual human-made chemicals in all animal and human tissues tested. …”
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North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Intensification: Regional Drivers and Trends by Sharanya J. Majumdar, Samantha Nebylitsa, Philip J. Klotzbach, Cameron Masiello, Zachary R. Michael

“…Abstract Using 42 years of reanalysis data, we investigate regional, storm‐relative characteristics of three groups of Atlantic tropical cyclone intensification: slightly, moderately, and rapidly intensifying. …”
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Analyzing the spatial variability of precipitation extremes along longitude and latitude, northwest Iran by Mohammad Arab Amiri, Mohammad Saadi Mesgari

“…Geo-referenced time series from 22 synoptic stations between the years 1991 and 2010 were used. Polynomial fit functions were used for analyzing the spatial variability of extreme precipitation. …”
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The Healthy Brain 9 (HB9): A new instrument to characterize subjective cognitive decline, and detect anosognosia in mild cognitive impairment. by James E Galvin, Katherine C Almonte, Andrea Buehler, Yolene M Caicedo, Conor B Galvin, Willman Jimenez, Mahesh S Joshi, Nicole Mendez, Mary Lou A Riccio, Marcia I Walker, Michael J Kleiman

“…Some individuals with MCI have anosognosia, the denial or lack of awareness of their cognitive deficits. We developed and tested the Healthy Brain 9 (HB9), a self-reported assessment of cognitive performance and everyday functioning, in a diverse community-based cohort of older adults in South Florida.…”
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Internet-based digital intervention to support the self-management of hypertension compared to usual care: results of the HALCYON randomized controlled trial by Björn Meyer, Antje Riepenhausen, Linda T. Betz, Kamila Jauch-Chara, Alexander Reshetnik

“…Moreover, liebria had effects on social and work-related functioning. No effects emerged for diastolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, quality of life, or medication adherence. …”
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Budesonide in treatment of alcohol-induced severe hepatitis: results of randomized trial by I. I. Komkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…To determine efficacy and safety of budesonide and prednisolone at alcoholinduced hepatitis (AH) of severe course on development of inflammation and results of the functional hepatic tests, to estimate treatment response and short-term survival rate of patients.Material and methods. …”
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The Effect of Combination Therapy with Melatonin on the Enzymes of Glutathione System and the Level of Transforming Growth Factor- β1 in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus a... by S. S. Popov, E. I. Anufrieva, E. D. Kryl’skii, A. N. Verevkin, K. K. Shulgin

“…The control group consisted of 65 apparently healthy individuals (30 men and 35 women, average age 42.3±17.7 years) with normal indicators of general and biochemical blood tests. …”
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Current and Emerging Pharmacotherapy for Fibromyalgia by Roie Tzadok, Jacob N. Ablin

“…Only three drugs, pregabalin, duloxetine, and milnacipran are currently FDA-approved for FM treatment, but many other agents have been tested over the years, with varying efficacy. Areas Covered. …”
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Differences in sensitivity of reproduction to water quality in parthenogenetic European invasive lineages of the New Zealand mud snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Gray, 1843) (Caenog... by Carmen M. Sierra Lemus, Angela Schmitz Ornés, Martin Haase

“…We tested the sensitivity of reproduction to three types of artificial fresh water in three parthenogenetic lineages invasive to Europe. …”
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Prevalence and treatment tactics of nonspecific urinary tract infection in tuberculosis patients by Z. R. Rashidov, S. I. Azimov

“…When choosing a therapeutic tactic, it is necessary to take into account the presence of structural and functional changes in the urinary tract which reduce treatment efficacy.…”
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Clinical and Laboratory Features of Enteroviral Meningitis in Children in Modern Conditions (According to the Data of Yaroslavl Region) by S. N. Eshmolov, I. G. Sitnikov, I. M. Melnikova

“…152 cases of enteroviral meningitis in children aged 3 to 17 years were analyzed. All the patients were treated in the Municipal Health Care Institution «Clinical Hospital for Infectious Diseases No1» in Yaroslavl. …”
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Intelligent Object Manipulation for a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm by R. A. M. Abayasiri, A. G. B. P. Jayasekara, R. A. R. C. Gopura, Kazuo Kiguchi

“…Over the years, intelligent wheelchairs have been developed to fulfill the needs of wheelchair users by gathering information from the environment to make autonomous decisions. …”
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OpenJUMP HoRAE—A free GIS and toolbox for home‐range analysis by Stefan Steiniger, Andrew J. S. Hunter

“…Abstract Over the past 20 years a set of methods for home‐range estimation and analysis of animal observation data have been developed. …”
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Actual Issues of the Cardiac Complications Risk Assessment and Correction in Non-Cardiac Surgery by A. N. Sumin

“…The review discusses new data on risk assessment scales, functional state assessment, the use of non-invasive tests, biomarkers, the role of preventive myocardial revascularization in the preoperative period, and drug therapy. …”
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AVPR1A RS3 and relationship maintenance processes in newlywed couples by Anastasia Makhanova, James K. McNulty, Lisa A. Eckel, Larissa Nikonova, Jennifer A. Bartz, Arial S. Bloshinsky, Elizabeth A. D. Hammock

“…IntroductionMaintaining relationship quality during the first few years can be difficult for many couples. We examined whether variability in the repeat-length polymorphism RS3 on the vasopressin receptor gene AVPR1A is associated with relationship maintenance processes and trajectories of marital satisfaction over the first three years of marriage.MethodsNewlywed couples (N=70; 128 individuals) reported on various aspects of their marriage within three months of their wedding and on their marital satisfaction every four months for three years, and provided saliva samples that we genotyped for RS3 alleles. …”
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Distance visual acuity in air force pilots and student pilots when exposed to +Gz acceleration in human centrifuge by Ranđelović Danijela, Srećković Sunčica, Šarenac-Vulović Tatjana, Petrović Nenad

“…Substantial changes in visual functions may occur during high acceleration onset rates. …”
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Humans may not have a uniquely enhanced sequence memory: sequence discrimination is facilitated by causal–logical framing in humans and chimpanzees by Eva Reindl, Amanda M. Seed, Robert A. Barton, Topaz Francis-Costa, Rachel L. Kendal

“…We tested whether stimuli causally connected to outcomes facilitate SDL. …”
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