Bengtson

At the level of the instrument’s total scores, the lowest ICC was .9 (95% confidence interval .8-.9); and the highest SEM and RC were 4.8 and 13.3, respectively.

The PEOL Care Index is a comprehensive, comprehensible, content valid, and reliable instrument to assess the PEOL care education-practice-competence triad among ICU nurses.…[Read more]

Mineral accumulation in membrane vesicles is widely suggested, but does not correlate with a definitive stage of mineralization. Conversely mineral deposition at non-physiologic sites where calcium and phosphate are adequate has been shown to be regulated in large part by pyrophosphate. All of these elements are present in vertebrate bone…[Read more]

Recently, Zhong and Langrish (2020a) presented an excellent review on typical in vitro physical stomach models reported in literature with an emphasis on their structures, materials, peristalsis, shear stress, pros and cons. We read it with great interest and provided further information (Wu & Chen, 2020) on our home-made rat and human stomach…[Read more]

Detection levels were then determined for PVC and PS and were found to be below less then 50 μg/L, with repeatable data showing good precision (%RSD less then 20%). Further verification of this new method was achieved by the analysis of a complex sample, sourced from a river. The results were positive for the presence of PS with a…[Read more]

patients whose prognosis remains dismal.The present study tries analyzing the psychological effects of such an indicator as form (dome’s pattern) in architectural designing of the religious environments like mosques so as to investigate the creation/enhancement of spiritual sense and come up with the best pattern for the construction of such…[Read more]

We present a review on the natural infection by trypanosomatids of nonhuman vertebrates in Chile, aiming to synthesize and update the knowledge on the diversity of trypanosomatids infecting native and alien vertebrate species. To this end, we conducted a systematic review of literature records published from 1900 to April 2020 on four databases,…[Read more]

RESULTS Youth pain acceptance, pain self-efficacy, and parent psychological flexibility were highly positively correlated with each other, and with overall youth quality of life. Evidence for a buffering effect of pain acceptance and pain self-efficacy on the association between pain intensity and quality of life was not found. Protectiveness was…[Read more]

The network is trained and tested on a globally sampled dataset comprising real cloudy and cloud-free images. The proposed setup allows to remove even optically thick clouds by reconstructing an optical representation of the underlying land surface structure.Parameter retrieval and model inversion are key problems in remote sensing and Earth…[Read more]

We introduced a humanoid robot for the use of techno-psychological distraction techniques in children aged 4-10 to reduce their anxiety and improve their behaviour during dental treatment.

Two hundred children (98 boys, 102 girls; mean age 6.5 ± 1.66 years) appointed for first time for dental caries were included and randomly divide…[Read more]

Endoscopic resection is feasible for superficial tumors in patients with ulcerative colitis; however, endoscopic resection options have not been evaluated comprehensively. We evaluated the efficacy and safety of endoscopic submucosal dissection and endoscopic mucosal resection, and decision making regarding endoscopic resection options for…[Read more]

To systematically review the clinical manifestations and treatment outcomes of patients with subaxial cervical spinal tuberculosis (SCS-TB) and evaluate the current evidence for surgical or nonsurgical treatment.

A systematic review was performed using the PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus and Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials…[Read more]