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Global extension reserve values were not significantly different between the 4 Roussouly subtypes (P = .094), nor between patients with a sacral slope (SS) <35° (types 1/2) and ≥ 35° (type 3/4) (P = .837). Statistically significant differences were seen between IER in each subtype (P = .015), and EER (P = .006). No dif... |
CONCLUSION |
An inverse relationship was found between IER and EER among Roussouly subtypes. The range of motion of the pelvis and the hip joint was higher in patients with a greater sacral slope.A Literature Review of Frameworks for Evaluating Potentially Disruptive Innovation |
This article examines the support from the disruptive innovation literature in recognizing potentially disruptive innovations. A literature review was carried out resulting in ten articles containing frameworks for evaluating disruptive innovation. Potentially disruptive innovations are by their nature hard to deal wit... |
Polylysine promoted extensive membrane mixing of liposomes only if the buffer pH was below the pKa of the lysyl residues. This observation suggested that fusion could be regulated in a physiological pH range if the homopolymer of L-histidine was substituted as fusogen. Microgram quantities of polyhistidine were added t... |
The core premise of the bystander approach to campus violence prevention emphasizes the prosocial role that community members can play in thwarting sexual violence and focuses on encouraging and training students to act in ways that interrupt potentially violent situations (Dovidio, Piliavin, Schroeder, & Penner, 2006)... |
BACKGROUND |
Evidence of inadequate pain treatment as a result of patient race has been extensively documented, yet remains poorly understood. Previous research has indicated that nonwhite patients are significantly more likely to be undertreated for pain. |
OBJECTIVE |
To determine whether previous findings of racial biases in pain treatment recommendations and empathy are generalizable to a sample of Canadian observers and, if so, to determine whether empathy biases mediate the pain treatment disparity. |
METHODS |
Fifty Canadian undergraduate students (24 men and 26 women) watched videos of black and white patients exhibiting facial expressions of pain. Participants provided pain treatment decisions and reported their feelings of empathy for each patient. |
RESULTS |
Participants demonstrated both a prowhite treatment bias and a prowhite empathy bias, reporting more empathy for white patients than black patients and prescribing more pain treatment for white patients than black patients. Empathy was found to mediate the effect of race on pain treatment. |
CONCLUSIONS |
The results of the present study closely replicate those from a previous study of American observers, providing evidence that a prowhite bias is not a peculiar feature of the American population. These results also add support to the claim that empathy plays a crucial role in racial pain treatment disparity.Social disr... |
Purpose |
The purpose of this study is to examine how societal disruptions in the wake of disasters and crises also disrupt the tourism and hospitality industries. |
Design/methodology/approach |
This paper takes a case-study approach. First, the literature on disasters/crises is reviewed; then three cases in which disasters impacted local, regional and global tourism and hospitality industries are examined: Hurricane Katrina, Arab Spring and the COVID-19 pandemic. |
Findings |
Three principles are proposed to assist in mitigating the impacts of disaster on the tourist industry. These principles also serve as a means of potentially re-orienting and guiding the tourism and hospitality industries toward a sustainable and equitable future. |
Originality/value |
In addition to the three guiding principles offered in this paper; the examination of COVID-19 offers a novel case in which tourism is impacted globally by a singular disaster. Findings and implications from this case will guide recovery and, potentially, allow for a reconceptualization of the tourism and hospitality i... |
Positive fantasies predict low academic achievement in disadvantaged students |
Unlike other forms of positive thinking (e.g., expectations), research finds that positive fantasies (experiencing one’ st houghts and mentalimagesaboutthefuturepositively)predictlow effortandlittlesuccessinseveraldomains.However,forvocationaleducation students of low socioeconomic status and minority ethnicity, for wh... |
OBJECTIVE |
To determine whether homocysteine (Hcy) and monosodium glutamate (MSG) could lead to animal model of hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy and its mechanism. |
METHODS |
Female adult Wistar rats were randomly divided into 4 groups: pregnant control group (PN), pregnant Hcy group (PH), pregnant glutamic acid group (PG) and pregnant Hcy and glutamic acid group (PHG). The rats of each group were injected with Hcy 200 mg/kg or physiological saline every day intraperitoneally and with MSG o... |
RESULTS |
(1) The blood pressure in PH [(107 +/- 8) mm Hg, 1 mm Hg = 0.133 kPa], and PHG group [(109 +/- 10) mm Hg] after the treatment increased significantly compared with those in other groups from the 12 th day after pregnancy (P < 0.01). (2) The level of urine protein [(1.42 +/- 0.53) g/L, (1.53 +/- 0.24) g/L] in PH and PHG... |
CONCLUSION |
Hcy and MSG could induce the symptoms of hypertensive disorder complicating pregnancy in pregnant rats, especially pre-eclampsia, possibly through injuring vascular endothelial cell and nerve cell of the cerebral cortex.Graded and lamina-specific distributions of ligands of EphB receptor tyrosine kinases in the develop... |
Molecular gradients have been postulated to control the topographic mapping of retinal axons in their central targets. Based initially on their expression patterns, and more recently on functional studies, members of the EphA subfamily of receptor tyrosine kinases and their ephrin-A ligands have been implicated in the ... |
The task of persuasive writing is usually very demanding as the human target is a complex thinker. Editorials are presumably composed for the consumption of the elite with the aim of achieving a change in society. Consequently, issues of national relevance constitute the targets on which editorial opinions are written.... |
Reflection of magnetostatic surface wave (MSSW) from a metal half-plane on the surface of an yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film grown on a gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) substrate is investigated using the full Maxwell's equations. The GGG substrate is backed with a ground plane. The problem is analyzed by a numerical tec... |
In order to solve the challenges in processor design for the next generation wireless communication systems, this paper first proposes a system level design flow for communication domain specific processor, and then proposes a novel processor architecture for the next generation wireless communication named GAEA using ... |
The diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding secondary to malignancy can be challenging. Endoscopy is the gold standard to diagnose and treat gastrointestinal bleeding but clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with malignancy‐related bleeding are not well understood. This study aims to look... |
Four new di-substituted phenanthroline-based compounds a-d have been designed and prepared, and they have been shown to induce the formation of anti-parallel structure of human telomeric G-quadruplex DNA by CD spectra. FRET assay indicates that the melting temperature increases (ΔT(m) values) of G-quadruplex in buffer ... |
The separation efficiency of a capillary column coated with (2,3,6-tri-O-methyl)-beta-cyclodextrin was determined at the temperature and flow rate ranges of 80-120 degrees C and 0.3-1.5 mL/min respectively using (+) and (-) cis-permethrinic acid methylesters as test compounds. The dependence of the retention difference... |
A possible association between the HLA antigens and immune responsiveness to SK/SD was studied in 90 healthy Japanese volunteers. No association was found between the HLA antigens, including B5, and SK/SD stimulated blastoid transformation. There was a week indication of an association between Bw22 and responses to SK/... |
Today, there are many stresses which could exert many damages to an individual. In the present study, the objective is to compare the coping styles among athletic and non-athletic adolescents. The statistical population of present study includes all male and female high-school students studying during 2015-2016 in Mian... |
Surgical vestibular deepening procedures are well established and are being routinely performed. In spite of being an old technique, postoperative results in most of the instances are disappointing. Usually eventual loss of the clinically gained vestibular depth obtained through the surgical procedures occurs. This hap... |
Katharine Miller, formerly a Research Associate with Child and Family Services of Hartford, Connecticut, is at present an Associate Consultant, Corporate Responsi!Iity, for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company in Hartford. Nancy Moore is a Social Worker with Child and Family Services, Hartford, and Charles Lexius ... |
In this paper, we propose to improve the performance of impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) systems by means of cooperative relaying. With regard to a simple practical realization, we focus on a non-coherent system setup in conjunction with amplify-and-forward (A&F) relaying. In particular, considering a two-hop scen... |
We look at the computational power of symport/antiport system (SA) acceptors and generators with small numbers of membranes and objects. We show that even with a single object and only three membranes, a SA acceptor can accept the nonsemilinear set L = {2/sup n/|n /spl ges/ 0}. L can also be accepted with two objects a... |
This volume is the last, in a series of four, of the first uniform diplomatic edition of the Ancrene Wisse group of texts, all published by Peter Lang; the three previous volumes being The Ancrene Wisse: A Four-Manuscript Parallel Text, Preface and Parts 1–4, eds Tadao Kubouchi and Keiko Ikegami (2003); The Ancrene Wis... |
The emission centers and excited state characteristics of silica glasses implanted with Gd ions were studied by time-resolved pulsed cathodoluminescence. It was found that in the process of ion implantation, two types of new emission centers associated with Gd ions as well as Si quantum dots are formed in glassy silica... |
Objective The aim was to study the possible effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) as a treatment option in patients with Parkinson disease (PD) whose conditions become complicated owing to either progression of the disease or adverse effects of the drugs. Background PD is the second most common ... |
Oil fence especially adapted for the defining of impurities on a water surface and made of a web of cloth shaped material. The web exhibits alternating connected portions and multiple layer portions made in such a manner that between the layers of the multiple layer portions pockets and/or channels are formed, which ar... |
Based on particle filter, a new training algorithm combining the extended Kalman filter (EKF) for neural network is presented. The new algorithm is firstly applied to train diagonal recurrent neural network (DRNN). A method to evaluate the dynamical performance of DRNN is introduced. Network weights of particles are op... |
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