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Study subjects were 230 patients referred for therapeutic recreation sessions. A pre- and posttreatment crossover study design was used to compare the effects of a single animal-assisted therapy session with those of a single regularly scheduled therapeutic recreation session. Before and after participating in the two ... |
RESULTS |
Statistically significant reductions in anxiety scores were found after the animal-assisted therapy session for patients with psychotic disorders, mood disorders, and other disorders, and after the therapeutic recreation session for patients with mood disorders. No statistically significant differences in reduction of ... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Animal-assisted therapy was associated with reduced state anxiety levels for hospitalized patients with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, while a routine therapeutic recreation session was associated with reduced levels only for patients with mood disorders.Effects of Sorbinil, Dietary myo-Inositol Supplementation, a... |
Previous studies indicate that experimental diabetic autonomic neuropathy can be largely prevented by initiating therapy at the onset of diabetes. More clinically relevant, however, is the ability of therapy to reverse established neuropathy produced by long-standing diabetes. We have examined the effect of selected th... |
The effects of intravenous infusions of prostaglandins (PGs) F2 alpha(0-4 or 0-8 mug kg-1 min-1) or E2 (0-08 or 0-1 mug kg-1 min equals1) on net colonic movement of water and electrolytes and on ileal flow were measured in eight healthy males by simultaneous ileal and colonic perfusion. Ileal flow was increased by PGF2... |
In the microscopic image detection, the image quality is the key factors for accuracy of measurement. Owing to the different material and uneven surface of work pieces, different regions of the work piece have a different response to light intensity in imaging. In order to obtain complete information of detection of ob... |
As a real-time representation of physical entities in the digital world, digital twin (DT) has been widely used in several industrial fields, bringing significant efficiency gains and cost reductions. Network planning is a very important stage in network life cycle management. At this stage, comprehensive and effective... |
A set of data pattern that have the characteristic of a function can be approached using Newton series simulation. When using the Newton series, the simulation result of the summation of extrapolation data can be gradually done in step by step. However, if using the IN series, the simulation result of the summation of ... |
Energy metabolism therapy has gradually shown its potential in the treatment of tumor patients, but it has significant selectivity, thus distinguishing energy subtypes of lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is necessary to identify patients who may benefit from energy metabolism interference therapy. Gene expression data downlo... |
A double fixation method of preparing platelet suspensions for both scanning and transmission electron microscopy is outlined. Prefixation in 0.1% glutaraldehyde allows for immediate preservation of morphologic characteristics induced by experimental procedures, but does not completely destroy platelet surface stickine... |
Objective: Describe the epidemiological profile of patients seen in an outpatient clinic in a region of the Amazon. Methodology: A cross-sectional, exploratory, descriptive survey with a quantitative approach, conducted in an outpatient clinic of health specialties of a Private Higher Education Institution (HEI) Origin... |
A re-examination of data from eastern Great Basin sites (in particular Hogup Cave) indicates that subsistence patterns did not, as suggested by Jennings (1957) and Aikens (1970), remain essentially unchanged throughout the period of Archaic occupation. The evidence points to a major adaptive shift from semi-permanent s... |
An analysis of the spectrophotometric errors in obtained energy distributions is presented. It is shown that in the case of photoelectric spectrophotometry made without wavelength identification, guiding errors may produce a shift of the zero point of the wavelength scale. This shift produces accidental and systematic ... |
Deep Learning based device free localization (DFL) technique is gaining momentum due to the contribution of deep model in target location scenario. The performance of the model is not only depending on parameters used but also on the dataset used. If the dataset is an incomplete one the performance of the model is affe... |
In this study, coffee pulp was examined as a starting material to make alcoholic beverages (coffee pulp wine) and yeast fermentation ability. We have evaluated five yeasts, three of which were previously isolated from the coffee cherry, and the other two were commercial yeasts. The pH, °Brix, viable yeast cells, and co... |
Most theories of decision making are consequentialist. They presume that people evaluate prospects on the basis of potential outcomes. However, people may often conceptualize prospects in part nonconsequentially. Consider someone evaluating a new, “focal” prospect given an unresolved “background” position to which that... |
Many organizations go through the motions of a management review so that they have documentation to pass a third party audit, however the review is often not effective. The reason they are not effective is managers do not take the time to prepare, collect and analysis available data, not enough time is scheduled with T... |
Background: SonoVue® is a new microbubble contrast agent containing sulfur hexafluoride. We assessed the efficacy of SonoVue® myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) to detect resting perfusion abnormalities. Methods: Nineteen adult patients with a wall motion abnormality in a screening echocardiogram were studied. ... |
Shipbuilding companies are upgrading their inner workings in order to create Shipyards 4.0, where the principles of Industry 4.0 are paving the way to further digitalized and optimized processes in an integrated network. Among the different Industry 4.0 technologies, this paper focuses on augmented reality, whose appli... |
C ending with an open frozen abdomen combined with an enteroatmospheric fistula (EF) remain a significant challenge. When the abdomen has to be left open and the EF must be drained through the abdominal defect rather than via a stoma, the treatment becomes complex. Securing adequate drainage of intestinal fluid leakage... |
The influence of the thymus on the in vitro phytohemagglutinin (PHA) response of spleen, lymph node and bone marrow cells was investigated in lethally irradiated, bone marrow-protected (800 R:BM) mice. Reactivity of the cells was measured by studying their incorporation of 3H-thymidine in vitro. Nucleated cell content... |
The community, and especially the family, affects children’s academic learning. Parents influence children’s current and future learning behaviors. Numerous studies have demonstrated a relationship between parenting style and children’s behavioral problems such as antisocial behaviors and delinquency, so the modificati... |
The best management of basilar artery occlusion (BAO) remains uncertain. The BASICS (Basilar Artery International Cooperation Study) and the BEST (Basilar Artery Occlusion Endovascular Intervention Versus Standard Medical Treatment) trials reported neutral results. We sought to understand physicians’ approaches to BAO... |
We conducted an online international survey from January to March 2022 to stroke neurologists and neurointerventionalists. Survey questions were designed to examine clinical and imaging parameters under which clinicians would offer (or rescind) a patient with BAO to endovascular therapy (EVT) or best medical managemen... |
Of >3002 invited participants, 1245 responded (41.4% response rate) from 73 countries, including 54.7% stroke neurologists and 43.6% neurointerventionalists. More than 95% of respondents would offer EVT to patients with BAO, albeit in various clinical circumstances. There were 70.0% of respondents who indicated that t... |
Most stroke physicians continue to believe in the efficacy of EVT in selected patients with BAO in spite of BEST and BASICS. There is no consensus on which selection criteria to use, and few clinicians would use anterior circulation occlusion criteria for BAOs. Further randomized clinical trials for BAO are warranted. |
Significance of Syntactic Type Identification in Embedding Vector based Schema Matching |
Data Interoperability provides a bridge between information systems to store, exchange and consume heterogeneous data. In order to achieve this goal, schema maps provide the necessary foundations. Traditional solutions rely on expert generated rules, ontologies, and syntactic matching to identify the similarity between... |
Because there are too many types of errors occurred in a multi-software integrated platform, such as Integrated Decision Information System (IDIS). It is urgent to design an error searching system to solve all different problems. However, those errors belong to different stages like setup, configuration, and operation,... |
The latest World Health Organization (WHO) study in 2018 shows that about 1.5 million people died and around 10 million people are infected with tuberculosis (TBC) each year. Moreover, more than 4,000 people die every day from TBC. Important work can be found in automating the diagnosis by applying techniques of deep l... |
: Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning system is leading a trend of optimization for occupant-relevant built environment energy performance. In this study, we present a new indicator, comfort equity and optimization technique to improve this occupant-related system energy performance comprehensively with the utili... |
In this paper we take up Tania Li’s question ‘what is land’. While her interest is in how land becomes inscribed so as to make it investable, ours is in reversing the sequence so as to make long-inscribed land de-investable. We focus on a family farm in Eastern South Dakota which was bequeathed to the US Fish and Wildl... |
Dragonfly network is widely used in modern high-performance computing systems. On this network, however, interference caused by network sharing can lead to significant network congestion and degraded performance. In this work, we present a comparative analysis of intra-application interference on applications with near... |
Parameters of chemiluminescence (CL) from nondiluted human blood were studied. Kinetics and intensity of CL depended upon donor's state of health, time after blood extravasion, conditions of its storage, conditions of its counting. Peculiar dependence of Luminol-enhanced CL on sample volume changes during respiratory b... |
Hamartomas are the most common benign tumors of the lung. It is most common peripherally in the parenchyma as solitary nodule or endobronchial lesion. Endobronchial form may cause obstruction of airway, atelectasis and recurrent pneumonia. Endobronchial hamartomas may be treated by surgical intervention or bronchoscopi... |
Anyone concerned about food risks related, for example, to acrylamide, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or food supplements is confronted with vast and complex landscapes of political debates, with various uncertainties, contested responsibilities, competing knowledge and ambivalent value‐making. In risk assessme... |
The results of treatment of 6 patients with duodenostasis, caused by cancer of the duodenum (2) and pancreas (3), metastasis of the sigmoid colon cancer (1) are analysed. Creation of duodenojejunoanastomosis with Brown's interintestinal stoma should be the obligatory condition of palliative operation. For diversion of ... |
The success of franchise systems lies in balancing the global brand consistency and continuous innovation and local customization. The aim of the paper is to analyze the importance of innovation as one of the key factors for the success of franchise systems, pointing out the need for continuous implementation of innova... |
The first source of Islamic law, the Koran, does not mention contraception. On the contrary, most of the 'sayings' (hadith) of the Prophet Mohammed (the second source of Islamic law) on the subject, tolerate coitus interruptus (azl). The position commonly and historically shared by Islamic jurists coincides with Al-Gha... |
This article analyses the core sources of evidence that were claimed to underpin the wide-ranging reforms of the criminal justice system under the Criminal Justice Act 2003. Drawing from Foucault’s governmentality thesis, it argues that the processes of evidence collection and deployment did not comply with the governm... |
Nasal solutions of almotriptan malate were prepared in phosphate buffer containing different proportions of HPMC E15. In vitro permeation studies were performed using Franz diffusion cell with dialysis membrane and ex vivo permeation studies were carried out using sheep nasal mucosal layer. The formulations were radiol... |
Articular cartilage injuries and degeneration present a challenge for orthopedic surgeons. Chondrocytes have limited regenerative and reparative abilities. Healing of a defect results in a fibrocartilaginous repair tissue that lacks the structural and biomechanical properties of hyaline cartilage and that degrades over... |
In the state of Odisha, 139 species of orchids have been reported, of these 94 species are from Similipal Biosphere Reserve, Odisha, India. The population of the orchid Eria meghasaniensis (S. Misra) S. Misra, was located and thoroughly studied from the hills of Meghasani and Kahairiburu of Similipal Biosphere Reserve.... |
Among the group of nitroimidazole radiosensitizers, predominantly misonidazole and metronidazole have so far been submitted to an extensive clinical testing. However, neurotoxic side effects have limited the dose of the substance necessary to obtain a maximal effect of sensibilization. Therefore, extensive efforts are ... |
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