As for informal social support, higher number of offspring had a significant association with lower scores, while more contact with children and financial support from family were shown to be statistically significantly associated with higher scores after controlling for sociodemographic characteristics. The quality of social support is more…[Read more]

However, our analytical method, accurate to fourth order in the orbital rotation angles (Tóth and Pulay J. Chem. Phys. 2016, 145, 164102.), has solved this problem. Two further advantages of the UNO criterion are that, unlike most other methods, it measures not only the energetic proximity to the Fermi level but also the magnitude of the exchange…[Read more]

A method of predicting cellular drug inhibition due to heat stress is presented. Black phosphorus nanosheets are used as photothermal agents to induce stress granule formation in tumor cells. The addition of different drugs induces different thermal stress responses. The features of single-photon images are automatically extracted and analyzed by…[Read more]

Polyphenolic molecules have become attractive building blocks for bioinspired materials due to their adhesive characteristics, capacity to complex ions, redox chemistry, and biocompatibility. For the formation of tannic acid (TA) surface modifications based on silicate-phenolic networks, a high ionic strength is required. In this study, we…[Read more]

Polyphenolic molecules have become attractive building blocks for bioinspired materials due to their adhesive characteristics, capacity to complex ions, redox chemistry, and biocompatibility. For the formation of tannic acid (TA) surface modifications based on silicate-phenolic networks, a high ionic strength is required. In this study, we…[Read more]

This study reports the accelerometer-based physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in hypertensive older adults.

Thirty-five hypertensive older adults were included in this observational study. Accelerometer-based PA and SB measures were assessed before (January to March 2020) and during…[Read more]

058%; P = 0.538) was not significant (P = 0.376).

Supplementing intracameral antibiotic with topical antibiotic postoperatively did not impact the occurrence of acute post cataract surgery endophthalmitis in rural India.

Supplementing intracameral antibiotic with topical antibiotic postoperatively did not impact the occurrence of acute…[Read more]

Results Neither the recovery of HRQoL as measured by the EQ-5D-3L and the SF-36 nor the duration of sick leave (mean 26.8-28.1 days) differed significantly between the four intervention groups. Irrespective of mode of follow-up contact used, the women had recovered to their baseline EQ-5D-3L health index 4 weeks after surgery. The occurrence of…[Read more]

This work aims to prepare multifunctional edible coating based on alginate and Aloe vera (AV) optimized to minimum water vapor permeability (WVP) using Box-Behnken design. GSK-3 beta phosphorylation Titanium oxide nanoparticles (nTiO2) were incorporated into the optimized film at different contents. FTIR confirmed the structures, while XRD…[Read more]

Sex determination in tephritid fruit flies involves a signaling cascade of alternatively spliced genes. The Transformer (TRA) and Transformer-2 (TRA-2) complex establishes an autoregulatory loop switching sex-specific splicing of tra pre-mRNA in females. The TRA/TRA-2 complex also regulates the sex-specific splicing of downstream effector genes,…[Read more]

Serum human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) is associated with immune and inflammatory responses. This study aimed to assess the performance of serum HE4 in the early detection of cardiovascular (CV) events in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

Serum HE4 levels were measured in 199 patients with COPD, all of whom were…[Read more]

d continue to monitor health care access and the potential benefits of recent health insurance expansions by sexual orientation and sexual minority status when possible.Selenium, as an essential trace element, interferes through selenoproteins in many physiological processes of plants and mammals. Its antiviral activity has recently attracted much…[Read more]

Future clinical studies should be designed in a way that will take that fact into consideration.As a consequence of COVID-19, millions of households have suffered mobility restrictions and changes in their lifestyle over several months. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of COVID-19 home confinement on the food habits, lifestyle and…[Read more]

A previous study suggested that human Coffin-Siris syndrome is related to the mutation of SOX11. Since the homozygous SOX11 mutant mice died soon after birth, no suitable model was available for the study of the pathogenic mechanism of Coffin-Siris syndrome. To solve this problem, we generated two viable homozygous zebrafish mutants, sox11a m/m…[Read more]

The way results of cystic fibrosis (CF) newborn screening are communicated to parents is critical yet is done differently across the globe. We surveyed parents of 101 children in our tertiary London paediatric centre with a 48% response rate. Parental responses were as follows 40/42 (95%) said the information could not have been given over the…[Read more]

Purpose Dysphonia can be evaluated by both patient-reported quality of life instruments and objective acoustic and aerodynamic analyses. However, less is known about the association between the two metrics. The goal of this study was to perform a meta-analysis of the correlation of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI-30) with the following objective…[Read more]