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The study results show that Black students experience significant psychological distress due to prominent racially traumatic events. Black students may withdraw from non-Black persons due to hypersensitivity and anxiety or they may be willing to engage in candid conversations.Conclusion. This racial trauma has implications for student wellness and…[Read more]

Objectives While empagliflozin (25 mg) is used to treat type-2 diabetes mellitus patients with optimum renal functioning, its efficacy and safety in type-1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is not yet established. Therefore, this study aimed to compare insulin-treated T1DM patients’ (with adequate renal functioning) glycemic and blood pressure control…[Read more]

BACKGROUND Many patients with difficult asthma also have co-existing vocal cord dysfunction (VCD), evident by paradoxical vocal fold motion (PVFM) on laryngoscopy. OBJECTIVE Among patients with difficult asthma, we sought to identify clinical features associated with laryngoscopy-diagnosed PVFM. SP-2577 METHODS Consecutive patients with “difficult…[Read more]

Social inhibition may be associated with individual differences in emotion regulation. Mechanisms relating emotion regulation to social inhibition are largely unknown. We therefore examined how social inhibition is associated with emotional, sympathetic, and parasympathetic responses during sadness induction, and while employing emotion regulation…[Read more]

The reported case is a 61-year-old woman, admitted for gradual onset of gait disturbances and dysphonia. The serum immunological panel revealed anti-Yo autoantibodies, suggestive of a paraneoplastic syndrome (PNS). A PET-CT revealed a suspicious left ovarian mass with retroperitoneal nodal involvement, and the histological assessment of surgical…[Read more]

Due to the large mismatch in the timescale investigated by the atomistically detailed simulations and experiments, the glass transition temperature predicted in simulations shifts to higher values. When this timescale mismatch is accounted for by using appropriate shift factors, the master curves of the dynamic moduli obtained in simulations…[Read more]