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35 ± 1.65 and from the emotional symptom sub-dimension were 11.97 ± 2.19. The total scores obtained from the scale were 20.32 ± 3.14. A statistically significant difference was found between students’ age, gender, nursing or midwifery section, being subjected to violence, receiving violence awareness training and reporting violence in the sub-dimensions and total scores of the scale (p less then 0.05).Impact Statement Having knowledge and self-confidence increased students’ awareness in identifying the symptoms of violence.Conclusion The participant’s limited ability to identify symptoms of violence is thought to result from inadequate emphasis on violence issues in the curricula. Greater emphasis should be placed on violence issues in curricula to guide students as future health care professionals.This study evaluated the growth and metabolic activity of consortium and pure cultures Fusarium lateritium LP7 and Trichoderma viride LP5 in response to the presence of 0.5% ethoxylated oleyl-cetyl alcohol (EOCA) in the liquid Czapek-Dox medium. The effectiveness of mentioned cultures was monitored according to the following parameters biomass dry weight (BDW), pH, quantity of free and total organic acids, proteolytic activity and the qualitative composition of carbohydrates, during 19 days. The biodegrading efficiency was determined spectrophotometrically. The BDW of consortium was significantly stimulated by EOCA (16.59%) whereas biomass of LP7 was significantly inhibited (30.61%). The EOCA had influence on decrease in pH value of the media of LP5 and consortium, and pH changes were correlated with the amount of excreted organic acids. The alkaline protease activities of consortium, LP7 and LP5 retained 73%, 62.2% and 49.5% activity respectively in the presence of EOCA. Consortium has shown the best biodegradation capacity up to 82% of EOCA. The pure cultures were less effective in biodegradation and removed approximately 65% (LP7) and 60% (LP5) of EOCA after 19 days. In brief, the synergistic interaction between pure cultures enhances capacity to reduce EOCA in environment and influences production of some biotechnological useful metabolites.Cancer-related cognitive impairment (CRCI) has not been objectively assessed in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). It is currently unclear how much of CRCI is attributable to disease, treatment, or both. We used CLL as a novel model to study the differential roles of disease and treatment in CRCI. One hundred and fifty CLL patients (100 treatment-naïve and 50 chemotherapy-treated) including 84 patients with higher-risk of CLL progression completed objective neuropsychological tests. TAK-779 purchase Sociodemographic-adjusted linear regression models examined cognitive outcomes in relation to risk and treatment. Higher-risk patients recalled two fewer words on a memory task (β = -1.8, 95%CI -3.3,-0.3) and took 15 s longer on an executive function task (β = 15.4, 95%CI 3.1, 27.6) than lower-risk patients, independent of treatment. Treated patients reported greater cognitive difficulties than treatment-naive patients (β = -6.1, 95%CI -10.1, -2.2) but did not perform worse on objective measures. Higher-risk patients experienced impairments in executive function and memory suggesting that disease biology contributes to CRCI independent of treatment.This study explores the joint effect of visibility and warning devices on driver injury severity at the highway-rail grade crossings (HRGCs), while also considering other contributing factors. For this purpose, four mixed logit models are developed to estimate the determinants of driver injury severity considering the combinations of visibility conditions (daylight vs. no daylight) and type of warning devices (active vs. passive warning). The models were calibrated using the data obtained from the USDOT Federal Railroad Administration for HRGC crashes that occurred over a ten-year period 2008-2017 across the United States. A temporal transferability test was conducted and confirmed the stability of model specifications considering a ten-year span of collected data. The pseudo-elasticity analysis was conducted to ascertain marginal impact of the contributing factors on driver injury severity in each model. While the vehicle speed, train speed, time of day and driver age are found to be common significant factors among the four models, there are marked differences between parameters associated with various crash factors. The study provides new insight into the driver injury severity in train-vehicle collisions considering visibility and type of warning devices, which can help in setting up proper policies to improve safety at HRGCs.Exhausted central venous access is a potentially life-threatening situation for patients dependent on haemodialysis. If standard guidewire recanalisation fails, unconventional venous access or central venous needle recanalisation can be considered but are often associated with higher rates of complications and/or dysfunction. Here, we report about two patients treated successfully with the Surfacer® Inside-Out® Access Catheter System (Bluegrass Vascular Technologies, San Antonio, TX, USA) to achieve transmediastinal central venous access.The road traffic accident is an important public health issue affecting social development and public safety. The purpose of this study is to describe the situation of traffic accidents, and to explore the relationship between fatal traffic accidents and risk factors in Suzhou city of Anhui province in China. The accident data was obtained from the Traffic Police Detachment of the Suzhou Public Security Bureau. Other vehicle, population and road information are derived from Suzhou Statistical Yearbook. Descriptive analysis was used to summarize road traffic accident participants’ characteristics. The binary logistic regression model was used to analyze the factors that affected fatal traffic accident. There are 7,795 cases involved 18,774 road traffic participants. By logistic regression, we found that in Suzhou, overloading makes traffic accidents more likely to be the most fatal traffic accidents (adjusted OR = 5.33, 95%CI 2.60-10.93). Speeding, drive after drinking, fatigue driving and pedestrian reasons might also increase the probability of fatal traffic accidents.