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Assessing practice-based learning and improvement. | Assessment of practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) is a core concept identified in several competency frameworks. This paper summarizes the current state of PBLI assessment as presented at the 2012 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on education research in emergency medicine. Based on these fin... | To describe the use of the journal club as a tool to teach and assess competency in practice-based learning (PBL) and improvement among residents in ophthalmology. |
Assessing practice-based learning and improvement. | Assessment of practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) is a core concept identified in several competency frameworks. This paper summarizes the current state of PBLI assessment as presented at the 2012 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on education research in emergency medicine. Based on these fin... | In a 14-week medical-surgical nursing review course, two teaching strategies are used to promote active learning and assess the transfer of knowledge to nursing practice. Practice tests and clinical examples provide opportunities for participants to engage in self-assessment and reflective learning and enhance their nu... |
Assessing practice-based learning and improvement. | Assessment of practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) is a core concept identified in several competency frameworks. This paper summarizes the current state of PBLI assessment as presented at the 2012 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on education research in emergency medicine. Based on these fin... | To develop, implement and evaluate an innovative curriculum in biostatistics in response to the need to foster critical thinking in graduate healthcare education for evidence-based practice and lifelong learning education. |
Assessing practice-based learning and improvement. | Assessment of practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) is a core concept identified in several competency frameworks. This paper summarizes the current state of PBLI assessment as presented at the 2012 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on education research in emergency medicine. Based on these fin... | Continuing Professional Development is important for maintaining and developing knowledge and skills. Evidence regarding direct impact on practice is limited. Existing literature often lacks sufficient detail regarding the initiative or its evaluation, making transferability problematic. |
Assessing practice-based learning and improvement. | Assessment of practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) is a core concept identified in several competency frameworks. This paper summarizes the current state of PBLI assessment as presented at the 2012 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference on education research in emergency medicine. Based on these fin... | Supporting medical students' and junior doctors' development in busy clinical settings is challenging. As opportunities for developing trainees, for example, traditional bedside teaching, are decreasing, teaching outside of clinical practice is increasing. However, evidence suggests that effective learning through prac... |
Modeling of an ionic liquid electrospray using molecular dynamics with constraints. | Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to investigate the behavior of the EMIM-BF(4) ionic liquid for conditions similar to those of electrospray thrusters. To study the physics of ion extrusion a large system composed of approximately 2160 ion pairs was placed inside a platinum capillary and equilibrated. ... | Molecular dynamics simulations of ionic solutions depend sensitively on the force fields employed for the ions. To resolve the fine differences between ions of the same valence and roughly similar size and in particular to correctly describe ion-specific effects, it is clear that accurate force fields are necessary. In... |
Modeling of an ionic liquid electrospray using molecular dynamics with constraints. | Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to investigate the behavior of the EMIM-BF(4) ionic liquid for conditions similar to those of electrospray thrusters. To study the physics of ion extrusion a large system composed of approximately 2160 ion pairs was placed inside a platinum capillary and equilibrated. ... | In this Perspective, I review the current state of computational simulations on ionic liquids with an emphasis on the recent biocompatible variants. These materials are used here as an example of relatively complex systems that highlights the limits of some of the approaches commonly used to study their structure and d... |
Modeling of an ionic liquid electrospray using molecular dynamics with constraints. | Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to investigate the behavior of the EMIM-BF(4) ionic liquid for conditions similar to those of electrospray thrusters. To study the physics of ion extrusion a large system composed of approximately 2160 ion pairs was placed inside a platinum capillary and equilibrated. ... | An accurate depiction of electrostatic interactions in molecular dynamics requires the correct number of ions in the simulation box to capture screening effects. However, the number of ions that should be added to the box is seldom given by the bulk salt concentration because a charged biomolecule solute will perturb t... |
Modeling of an ionic liquid electrospray using molecular dynamics with constraints. | Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to investigate the behavior of the EMIM-BF(4) ionic liquid for conditions similar to those of electrospray thrusters. To study the physics of ion extrusion a large system composed of approximately 2160 ion pairs was placed inside a platinum capillary and equilibrated. ... | Torsion and Lennard-Jones parameters of the optimized potentials for liquid simulations (OPLS) all-atom force field have been refined for describing thermodynamics and dynamics of a wide range of liquid alkanes. Monte Carlo statistical mechanics (MC) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were carried out. For thermod... |
Modeling of an ionic liquid electrospray using molecular dynamics with constraints. | Molecular dynamics simulations have been performed to investigate the behavior of the EMIM-BF(4) ionic liquid for conditions similar to those of electrospray thrusters. To study the physics of ion extrusion a large system composed of approximately 2160 ion pairs was placed inside a platinum capillary and equilibrated. ... | Many studies have suggested that the processing of lignocellulosic biomass could provide a renewable feedstock to supplant much of the current demand on petroleum sources. Currently, alkyl imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) have shown considerable promise in the pretreatment, solvation, and hydrolysis of lignocellul... |
A Robust and Real-Time Framework of Cross-Subject Myoelectric Control Model Calibration via Multi-Source Domain Adaptation. | Surface electromyogram (sEMG) has been widely used in hand gesture recognition. However, most previous studies focused on user-personalized models, which require a great amount of data from each new target user to learn the user-specific EMG patterns. In this work, we present a novel real-time gesture recognition frame... | We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a wearable multichannel haptic system. The device is a wireless closed-loop armband driven by surface electromyography (EMG) and provides sensory feedback encoding proprioception. The study is motivated by restoring proprioception information in upper limb prosth... |
A Robust and Real-Time Framework of Cross-Subject Myoelectric Control Model Calibration via Multi-Source Domain Adaptation. | Surface electromyogram (sEMG) has been widely used in hand gesture recognition. However, most previous studies focused on user-personalized models, which require a great amount of data from each new target user to learn the user-specific EMG patterns. In this work, we present a novel real-time gesture recognition frame... | There are several efforts to use the electrical signals generated by the human muscles to control virtual or even physical devices. It is expected that, the development of this method will provide a natural way to control these devices, requiring little user training, depending on the task complexity. With respect to t... |
A Robust and Real-Time Framework of Cross-Subject Myoelectric Control Model Calibration via Multi-Source Domain Adaptation. | Surface electromyogram (sEMG) has been widely used in hand gesture recognition. However, most previous studies focused on user-personalized models, which require a great amount of data from each new target user to learn the user-specific EMG patterns. In this work, we present a novel real-time gesture recognition frame... | This study investigates the applicability of Electromyography (EMG) signal classification algorithms with relatively low training time to control prosthetic devices. The perceived quality of control depends on many factors, such as the 1) accuracy of the algorithm, 2) the complexity of the control, and 3) the ability t... |
A Robust and Real-Time Framework of Cross-Subject Myoelectric Control Model Calibration via Multi-Source Domain Adaptation. | Surface electromyogram (sEMG) has been widely used in hand gesture recognition. However, most previous studies focused on user-personalized models, which require a great amount of data from each new target user to learn the user-specific EMG patterns. In this work, we present a novel real-time gesture recognition frame... | The objective of this study is to develop a method of discriminating real-time motion from electromyogram (EMG) signals. We previously proposed a motion discrimination method. This method could discriminate five motions (hand opening, hand closing, hand chucking, wrist extension, and wrist flexion) at a rate of above 9... |
A Robust and Real-Time Framework of Cross-Subject Myoelectric Control Model Calibration via Multi-Source Domain Adaptation. | Surface electromyogram (sEMG) has been widely used in hand gesture recognition. However, most previous studies focused on user-personalized models, which require a great amount of data from each new target user to learn the user-specific EMG patterns. In this work, we present a novel real-time gesture recognition frame... | In recent years, researchers have successfully recognised human activities using commercially available WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) devices. The channel state information (CSI) can be gathered at the access point with the help of a network interface controller (NIC card). These CSI streams are sensitive to human body moti... |
Xanthoma combining osteonecrosis in knee joint: a case report. | Xanthoma typically occurs in the subcutaneous tissues, with rare cases of xanthoma in the joints. However, the case of knee joint osteonecrosis combined with xanthoma is even more uncommon. In this article, we described a 50-year-old female patient who suffered xanthoma in the knee joint on the basis of osteonecrosis o... | Osteonecrosis of the jaws is defined as exposed jawbone that persists for more than eight weeks. Treatment may be challenging and can adversely affect the patient's quality of life. We present a male patient who was referred to our department with areas of extensive osteonecrosis in the maxilla and mandible. He had no ... |
Xanthoma combining osteonecrosis in knee joint: a case report. | Xanthoma typically occurs in the subcutaneous tissues, with rare cases of xanthoma in the joints. However, the case of knee joint osteonecrosis combined with xanthoma is even more uncommon. In this article, we described a 50-year-old female patient who suffered xanthoma in the knee joint on the basis of osteonecrosis o... | Osteochondroma is a benign bone tumor usually affecting areas around the knee, pelvis, neck and tibia. This disease rarely affects the talus. A case of a 19-years-old female with anteromedial ankle impingement with 8 years follow-up is reported. Surgery removal was the treatment of choice and histopathology examination... |
Xanthoma combining osteonecrosis in knee joint: a case report. | Xanthoma typically occurs in the subcutaneous tissues, with rare cases of xanthoma in the joints. However, the case of knee joint osteonecrosis combined with xanthoma is even more uncommon. In this article, we described a 50-year-old female patient who suffered xanthoma in the knee joint on the basis of osteonecrosis o... | <b>Background:</b> The etiology of multifocal osteonecrosis is not definitively known; however, hypercoagulable state is a very plausible cause. <b>Methods:</b> We present an unusual case of a 12-year-old boy with a history of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease presenting with right wrist pain who was subsequently diagnosed w... |
Xanthoma combining osteonecrosis in knee joint: a case report. | Xanthoma typically occurs in the subcutaneous tissues, with rare cases of xanthoma in the joints. However, the case of knee joint osteonecrosis combined with xanthoma is even more uncommon. In this article, we described a 50-year-old female patient who suffered xanthoma in the knee joint on the basis of osteonecrosis o... | A 43-year-old woman presented with localized pain of the right hip 2 months after a trivial trauma. Physical examination revealed a positive Patrick (FABER [Flexion, Abduction, and External Rotation]) test. Radiographs showed a radiopaque lesion at the acetabular fossa, and magnetic resonance imaging revealed a mass wi... |
Xanthoma combining osteonecrosis in knee joint: a case report. | Xanthoma typically occurs in the subcutaneous tissues, with rare cases of xanthoma in the joints. However, the case of knee joint osteonecrosis combined with xanthoma is even more uncommon. In this article, we described a 50-year-old female patient who suffered xanthoma in the knee joint on the basis of osteonecrosis o... | A 22-year-old male patient admitted to our clinic with mild pain in left knee. Pain had started 10 years ago and there was no history of trauma. Pain was increased with kneeling. No abnormality was detected on physical examination. Imaging results revealed proximal tibiofibular synostosis in left knee. |
Primary medication non-adherence after discharge from a general internal medicine service. | Medication non-adherence frequently leads to suboptimal patient outcomes. Primary non-adherence, which occurs when a patient does not fill an initial prescription, is particularly important at the time of hospital discharge because new medications are often being prescribed to treat an illness rather than for preventio... | <b>Background:</b> Understanding risk factors for nonadherence can help specialty pharmacies optimize resources to prevent nonadherence and inform risk-stratification processes. <b>Objective:</b> To determine which individual and community-level characteristics are associated with nonadherence to specialty medications... |
Primary medication non-adherence after discharge from a general internal medicine service. | Medication non-adherence frequently leads to suboptimal patient outcomes. Primary non-adherence, which occurs when a patient does not fill an initial prescription, is particularly important at the time of hospital discharge because new medications are often being prescribed to treat an illness rather than for preventio... | Understand real-world prescription patterns for patients presenting with a first diagnosis of ARS and evaluate adherence to published medical guidelines. |
Primary medication non-adherence after discharge from a general internal medicine service. | Medication non-adherence frequently leads to suboptimal patient outcomes. Primary non-adherence, which occurs when a patient does not fill an initial prescription, is particularly important at the time of hospital discharge because new medications are often being prescribed to treat an illness rather than for preventio... | Over a third of electronically prescribed glaucoma medications were not picked up within 1 month of patient request. Feedback-driven protocols may help minimize treatment interruptions attributed to electronic prescribing. |
Primary medication non-adherence after discharge from a general internal medicine service. | Medication non-adherence frequently leads to suboptimal patient outcomes. Primary non-adherence, which occurs when a patient does not fill an initial prescription, is particularly important at the time of hospital discharge because new medications are often being prescribed to treat an illness rather than for preventio... | This article analyses the evidence relating to patients' beliefs and adherence to prescribed medication regimens. Between 30% and 50% of patients question the appropriateness and effectiveness of their prescribed medication and often do not comply with their regimens, which means significant amounts of NHS cash is wast... |
Primary medication non-adherence after discharge from a general internal medicine service. | Medication non-adherence frequently leads to suboptimal patient outcomes. Primary non-adherence, which occurs when a patient does not fill an initial prescription, is particularly important at the time of hospital discharge because new medications are often being prescribed to treat an illness rather than for preventio... | Community pharmacists are best placed to improve medication adherence because they frequently interact with patients and have been trained to manage medication-related problems. Therefore, it is essential to equip pharmacists adequately to detect non-adherent patients quickly and intervene to improve medication adheren... |
<i>Ixodes ricinus</i> tick bacteriome alterations based on a climatically representative survey in Hungary. | Label="IMPORTANCE" NlmCategory="OBJECTIVE">Climate-sensitive disease vectors, such as ticks, respond to the environment with changes in their microbiome. These changes can affect the emergence or re-emergence of various vector-borne pathogens, such as the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis (LB) or tick-borne encephali... | The aim of this study was to biometrically analyze the behavioral activity of Ixodes ricinus ticks as influenced by season and trend in numbers, based on material collected during three years in the Sleza Landscape Park within the Sleza Massif (Lower Silesia, Poland) using a time series decomposition method. The effect... |
<i>Ixodes ricinus</i> tick bacteriome alterations based on a climatically representative survey in Hungary. | Label="IMPORTANCE" NlmCategory="OBJECTIVE">Climate-sensitive disease vectors, such as ticks, respond to the environment with changes in their microbiome. These changes can affect the emergence or re-emergence of various vector-borne pathogens, such as the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis (LB) or tick-borne encephali... | There is mounting evidence of increases in tick (Acari: Ixodidae) contacts in Finland during the past few decades, highlighted by increases in the incidence of Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). While nationwide field studies to map distributions of ticks are not feasible, crowdsourcing provides a comp... |
<i>Ixodes ricinus</i> tick bacteriome alterations based on a climatically representative survey in Hungary. | Label="IMPORTANCE" NlmCategory="OBJECTIVE">Climate-sensitive disease vectors, such as ticks, respond to the environment with changes in their microbiome. These changes can affect the emergence or re-emergence of various vector-borne pathogens, such as the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis (LB) or tick-borne encephali... | In the northeastern United States, risk of human exposure to tick transmitted disease is primarily a function of the abundance of the blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis Say. We assessed seasonal variability in the abundance of nymphal stage I. scapularis over 13 yr, collected from several forested areas throughout Rho... |
<i>Ixodes ricinus</i> tick bacteriome alterations based on a climatically representative survey in Hungary. | Label="IMPORTANCE" NlmCategory="OBJECTIVE">Climate-sensitive disease vectors, such as ticks, respond to the environment with changes in their microbiome. These changes can affect the emergence or re-emergence of various vector-borne pathogens, such as the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis (LB) or tick-borne encephali... | Ixodes festai Rondelli, 1926 is a poorly known bird parasite tick. Its immature forms have not been described yet, while the adult forms only insufficiently, especially the male. In this note the presence of the male of Ixodes festai for the first time in Sardinia (Italy) is reported and a detailed redescription is pro... |
<i>Ixodes ricinus</i> tick bacteriome alterations based on a climatically representative survey in Hungary. | Label="IMPORTANCE" NlmCategory="OBJECTIVE">Climate-sensitive disease vectors, such as ticks, respond to the environment with changes in their microbiome. These changes can affect the emergence or re-emergence of various vector-borne pathogens, such as the causative agent of Lyme borreliosis (LB) or tick-borne encephali... | The three most common Ixodes spp. ticks found on songbirds in Western Europe are Ixodes frontalis, I. arboricola and I. ricinus. As the latter species is a generalist, it shares several avian hosts with the two strictly ornithophilic species. Infestations of the three species can overlap in time and space, implying tha... |
The effects of internal representations on performance and fluidity in a motor task. | Individuals can differ in the mode in which they experience conscious thought. These differences in visualisation and verbalisation can also be evident during motor control. The Internal Representation Questionnaire (IRQ) was developed to measure propensity to engage certain types of representations, but its ability to... | Spatial memory and reasoning rely heavily on allocentric (often map-like) representations of spatial knowledge. While research has documented many ways in which spatial information can be represented in allocentric form, less is known about how such representations are constructed. For example: Are the very early, pre-... |
The effects of internal representations on performance and fluidity in a motor task. | Individuals can differ in the mode in which they experience conscious thought. These differences in visualisation and verbalisation can also be evident during motor control. The Internal Representation Questionnaire (IRQ) was developed to measure propensity to engage certain types of representations, but its ability to... | Variability in behavior can be a manifestation of unwanted noise. However, variability can also reflect exploration and benefit learning. For example, it has been shown that interindividual differences in motor learning can be partly explained by differences in movement variability at baseline. Here, we examined whethe... |
The effects of internal representations on performance and fluidity in a motor task. | Individuals can differ in the mode in which they experience conscious thought. These differences in visualisation and verbalisation can also be evident during motor control. The Internal Representation Questionnaire (IRQ) was developed to measure propensity to engage certain types of representations, but its ability to... | Before looking at or reaching for an object, the focus of attention is first allocated to the movement object. Here we investigated whether the strength of these pre-motor shifts of attention cumulates if an object is targeted by multiple effectors (eyes and hands). A total of 29 participants were tested on a visuomoto... |
The effects of internal representations on performance and fluidity in a motor task. | Individuals can differ in the mode in which they experience conscious thought. These differences in visualisation and verbalisation can also be evident during motor control. The Internal Representation Questionnaire (IRQ) was developed to measure propensity to engage certain types of representations, but its ability to... | Reading an action verb activates its corresponding motor representation in the reader's motor cortex, but whether this activation is relevant for comprehension remains unclear. To quantify the contribution of motor representations to the conceptual processing of action verbs, we measured the efficiency of two participa... |
The effects of internal representations on performance and fluidity in a motor task. | Individuals can differ in the mode in which they experience conscious thought. These differences in visualisation and verbalisation can also be evident during motor control. The Internal Representation Questionnaire (IRQ) was developed to measure propensity to engage certain types of representations, but its ability to... | Previous behavioral investigation from our laboratory (Pozzo et al. in Behav Brain Res 169:75-82, 2006) suggests that the kinematic features influence the subject's capacity to estimate the final position of simple arm movement in which the last part of the trajectory is hidden. The authors argue the participation of i... |
Fluid-Solid Interaction Analysis for Developing In-Situ Strain and Flow Sensors for Prosthetic Valve Monitoring. | Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was initially developed for adult patients, but there is a growing interest to expand this procedure to younger individuals with longer life expectancies. However, the gradual degradation of biological valve leaflets in transcatheter heart valves (THV) presents significant... | We describe the development of a cardiac flow model and imaging chamber to permit Doppler assessment of complex and dynamic flow events. The model development included the creation of a circulatory loop with variable compliance and resistance; the creation of a secondary regurgitant circuit; and incorporation of an ult... |
Fluid-Solid Interaction Analysis for Developing In-Situ Strain and Flow Sensors for Prosthetic Valve Monitoring. | Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was initially developed for adult patients, but there is a growing interest to expand this procedure to younger individuals with longer life expectancies. However, the gradual degradation of biological valve leaflets in transcatheter heart valves (THV) presents significant... | Aortic valve dysfunction and stroke have recently been reported in transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) patients. Thrombus in the aortic sinus and neo-sinus due to hemodynamic changes has been suspected. In vitro experiments help investigate the hemodynamic characteristics in the cases where an in vivo assess... |
Fluid-Solid Interaction Analysis for Developing In-Situ Strain and Flow Sensors for Prosthetic Valve Monitoring. | Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was initially developed for adult patients, but there is a growing interest to expand this procedure to younger individuals with longer life expectancies. However, the gradual degradation of biological valve leaflets in transcatheter heart valves (THV) presents significant... | The hinge regions of the bileaflet mechanical heart valve (BMHV) can cause blood element damage due to nonphysiological shear stress levels and regions of flow stasis. Recently, a micro particle image velocimetry (μPIV) system was developed to study whole flow fields within BMHV hinge regions with enhanced spatial reso... |
Fluid-Solid Interaction Analysis for Developing In-Situ Strain and Flow Sensors for Prosthetic Valve Monitoring. | Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was initially developed for adult patients, but there is a growing interest to expand this procedure to younger individuals with longer life expectancies. However, the gradual degradation of biological valve leaflets in transcatheter heart valves (THV) presents significant... | Developing highly sensitive strain sensors requires conduction pathways capable of rapidly switching between disconnection and reconnection in response to strain. Ion channels in living organisms exactly control the channel switch through protein-composed gates, achieving changeable ion currents. Herein, inspired by th... |
Fluid-Solid Interaction Analysis for Developing In-Situ Strain and Flow Sensors for Prosthetic Valve Monitoring. | Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) was initially developed for adult patients, but there is a growing interest to expand this procedure to younger individuals with longer life expectancies. However, the gradual degradation of biological valve leaflets in transcatheter heart valves (THV) presents significant... | The goal of this study was to develop an image-based model to computational investigate blood flow and pressure gradients resulting from left ventricular (LV) wall motion after the implantation of a mitral valve (MV) prosthesis. Two image-based 3D models were reconstructed from multi-slice computed tomography images ob... |
Effects of Coal Fly Ash Particulate Matter on the Antimicrobial Activity of Airway Surface Liquid. | Sustained exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) is a global cause of mortality. Coal fly ash (CFA) is a byproduct of coal combustion and is a source of anthropogenic PM with worldwide health relevance. The airway epithelia are lined with fluid called airway surface liquid (ASL), which contains antimicrobial prote... | In order to remove efficiently haled-particles emissions from coal combustions, a new way was used to put forward the process of agglomeration and the atomization was produced by the nozzle and then sprayed into the flue before precipitation devices of power station boiler in order to make inhaled-particles agglomerate... |
Effects of Coal Fly Ash Particulate Matter on the Antimicrobial Activity of Airway Surface Liquid. | Sustained exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) is a global cause of mortality. Coal fly ash (CFA) is a byproduct of coal combustion and is a source of anthropogenic PM with worldwide health relevance. The airway epithelia are lined with fluid called airway surface liquid (ASL), which contains antimicrobial prote... | Sludge drying gases (SDG), evolving from drying and mild thermal decomposition (<300°C) of raw sewage sludge contain NH3 and SO2 as well as other N- and S-compounds. All of these are potential PCDD/Fs suppressants. It is indeed observed that these SDG suppress 2,3,7,8-substitued PCDD/Fs formation on Model Fly Ash (MFA)... |
Effects of Coal Fly Ash Particulate Matter on the Antimicrobial Activity of Airway Surface Liquid. | Sustained exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) is a global cause of mortality. Coal fly ash (CFA) is a byproduct of coal combustion and is a source of anthropogenic PM with worldwide health relevance. The airway epithelia are lined with fluid called airway surface liquid (ASL), which contains antimicrobial prote... | Fly ash samples from two South African coal-fired power stations were subjected to different leaching tests under alkaline and acidic conditions in an attempt to assess the effect of pH on the leachability of species from the fly ashes and also assess the potential impact of the fly ashes disposal on groundwater and th... |
Effects of Coal Fly Ash Particulate Matter on the Antimicrobial Activity of Airway Surface Liquid. | Sustained exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) is a global cause of mortality. Coal fly ash (CFA) is a byproduct of coal combustion and is a source of anthropogenic PM with worldwide health relevance. The airway epithelia are lined with fluid called airway surface liquid (ASL), which contains antimicrobial prote... | Airborne particulate matter may induce health risk with inhalation. Special concerns exist for deployed military personnel with inhaled particulate matter in desert environments. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) used in obstructive sleep apnea may facilitate inhalation of particulate matter. We evaluated the ... |
Effects of Coal Fly Ash Particulate Matter on the Antimicrobial Activity of Airway Surface Liquid. | Sustained exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) is a global cause of mortality. Coal fly ash (CFA) is a byproduct of coal combustion and is a source of anthropogenic PM with worldwide health relevance. The airway epithelia are lined with fluid called airway surface liquid (ASL), which contains antimicrobial prote... | This work aims to utilize fly ash from a thermal power station for melanoidin reduction from distillery effluent by adsorption. To accomplish this, coal fly ash was modified through chemical treatment and was then tested for melanoidin adsorption as a function of various melanoidin concentrations, contact time, and pH.... |
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in cyanotic piglets is associated with increased neuronal necrosis. | The contribution of neonatal cyanosis, inherent to cyanotic congenital heart disease, to the magnitude of neurologic injury during deep hypothermic circulatory arrest has not been fully delineated. This study investigates the impact of cyanosis and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest on brain injury. | Hypothermia significantly affects mortality and morbidity of newborns. Literature about severe accidental hypothermia in neonates is limited. We report a case of a neonate suffering from severe accidental hypothermia. An understanding of the physiology of neonatal thermoregulation and hypothermia is important to decide... |
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in cyanotic piglets is associated with increased neuronal necrosis. | The contribution of neonatal cyanosis, inherent to cyanotic congenital heart disease, to the magnitude of neurologic injury during deep hypothermic circulatory arrest has not been fully delineated. This study investigates the impact of cyanosis and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest on brain injury. | Early onset cerebral hypoperfusion after birth is highly correlated with neurological injury in premature infants, but the relationship with the evolution of injury remains unclear. We studied changes in cerebral oxygenation, and cytochrome oxidase (CytOx) using near-infrared spectroscopy in preterm fetal sheep (103-10... |
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in cyanotic piglets is associated with increased neuronal necrosis. | The contribution of neonatal cyanosis, inherent to cyanotic congenital heart disease, to the magnitude of neurologic injury during deep hypothermic circulatory arrest has not been fully delineated. This study investigates the impact of cyanosis and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest on brain injury. | Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is part of the treatment strategy for comatose survivors of cardiac arrest (CA). The aim of our study was to evaluate the efficiency and the safety of a noninvasive and affordable cooling procedure applied to all types of CA in an ICU. |
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in cyanotic piglets is associated with increased neuronal necrosis. | The contribution of neonatal cyanosis, inherent to cyanotic congenital heart disease, to the magnitude of neurologic injury during deep hypothermic circulatory arrest has not been fully delineated. This study investigates the impact of cyanosis and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest on brain injury. | Therapeutic hypothermia (HT) is the standard treatment for newborns after perinatal asphyxia. Preclinical studies report that HT is more effective when started early. |
Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest in cyanotic piglets is associated with increased neuronal necrosis. | The contribution of neonatal cyanosis, inherent to cyanotic congenital heart disease, to the magnitude of neurologic injury during deep hypothermic circulatory arrest has not been fully delineated. This study investigates the impact of cyanosis and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest on brain injury. | Sudden postnatal collapse of a full-term newborn is uncommon but may result in severe consequences: these include death; epilepsy; and motor, cognitive, or sensory impairment. Most authors suggest applying a therapeutic hypothermia approach when a previously healthy newborn develops moderate or severe encephalopathy af... |
Efficient sparse reconstruction algorithm for bioluminescence tomography based on duality and variable splitting. | Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) can three-dimensionally and quantitatively resolve the molecular processes in small animals in vivo. In this paper, we propose a BLT reconstruction algorithm based on duality and variable splitting. By using duality and variable splitting to obtain a new equivalent constrained optimizat... | No convergent ordered subsets (OS) type image reconstruction algorithms for transmission tomography have been proposed to date. In contrast, in emission tomography, there are two known families of convergent OS algorithms: methods that use relaxation parameters, and methods based on the incremental expectation-maximiza... |
Efficient sparse reconstruction algorithm for bioluminescence tomography based on duality and variable splitting. | Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) can three-dimensionally and quantitatively resolve the molecular processes in small animals in vivo. In this paper, we propose a BLT reconstruction algorithm based on duality and variable splitting. By using duality and variable splitting to obtain a new equivalent constrained optimizat... | Iterative image reconstruction (IIR) with sparsity-exploiting methods, such as total variation (TV) minimization, used for investigations in compressive sensing (CS) claim potentially large reductions in sampling requirements. Quantifying this claim for computed tomography (CT) is non-trivial, as both the singularity o... |
Efficient sparse reconstruction algorithm for bioluminescence tomography based on duality and variable splitting. | Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) can three-dimensionally and quantitatively resolve the molecular processes in small animals in vivo. In this paper, we propose a BLT reconstruction algorithm based on duality and variable splitting. By using duality and variable splitting to obtain a new equivalent constrained optimizat... | Low-dose computed tomography (CT) imaging has been widely explored because it can reduce the radiation risk to human bodies. This presents challenges in improving the image quality because low radiation dose with reduced tube current and pulse duration introduces severe noise. In this study, we investigate block-matchi... |
Efficient sparse reconstruction algorithm for bioluminescence tomography based on duality and variable splitting. | Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) can three-dimensionally and quantitatively resolve the molecular processes in small animals in vivo. In this paper, we propose a BLT reconstruction algorithm based on duality and variable splitting. By using duality and variable splitting to obtain a new equivalent constrained optimizat... | In this paper, we present a novel technique, based on compressive sensing principles, for reconstruction and enhancement of multi-dimensional image data. Our method is a major improvement and generalization of the multi-scale sparsity based tomographic denoising (MSBTD) algorithm we recently introduced for reducing spe... |
Efficient sparse reconstruction algorithm for bioluminescence tomography based on duality and variable splitting. | Bioluminescence tomography (BLT) can three-dimensionally and quantitatively resolve the molecular processes in small animals in vivo. In this paper, we propose a BLT reconstruction algorithm based on duality and variable splitting. By using duality and variable splitting to obtain a new equivalent constrained optimizat... | Excessive radiation exposure in computed tomography (CT) scans increases the chance of developing cancer and has become a major clinical concern. Recently, statistical iterative reconstruction (SIR) with l0-norm dictionary learning regularization has been developed to reconstruct CT images from the low dose and few-vie... |
Sleep spindle alterations in patients with malformations of cortical development. | Malformations of cortical development are disorders of altered brain anatomy and architecture that arise from abnormalities in the usual processes of cerebral cortical development. Although they often lead to epilepsy, cognitive delay, and motor impairment, little is known about their effect on sleep. Since malformatio... | The purpose of this review was to examine the possible pathophysiological links between epilepsy, cognition, sleep macro- and microstructure, and sleep disorders to highlight the contributions and interactions of sleep and epilepsy on cognitive functioning in children with epilepsy. |
Sleep spindle alterations in patients with malformations of cortical development. | Malformations of cortical development are disorders of altered brain anatomy and architecture that arise from abnormalities in the usual processes of cerebral cortical development. Although they often lead to epilepsy, cognitive delay, and motor impairment, little is known about their effect on sleep. Since malformatio... | The method of independent components within the range of 3-13 Hz was used for the analysis of EEG of the children with psychic abnormalities of perinatal origin. The research was undertaken while children were keeping awake with open eyes. In cases of harder developmental delay it was revealed a significant rise of θ-r... |
Sleep spindle alterations in patients with malformations of cortical development. | Malformations of cortical development are disorders of altered brain anatomy and architecture that arise from abnormalities in the usual processes of cerebral cortical development. Although they often lead to epilepsy, cognitive delay, and motor impairment, little is known about their effect on sleep. Since malformatio... | Pachygyria/agyria are congenital brain malformations characterized by presence of a few broad, flat gyri with thickened cortex, resulting from arrest of neuronal migration in early gestation. We are hereby describing diffusion tensor imaging findings in different histological layers of lissencephaly cortex in two child... |
Sleep spindle alterations in patients with malformations of cortical development. | Malformations of cortical development are disorders of altered brain anatomy and architecture that arise from abnormalities in the usual processes of cerebral cortical development. Although they often lead to epilepsy, cognitive delay, and motor impairment, little is known about their effect on sleep. Since malformatio... | Limited information is available about the development of focal cortical gyration anomalies in the human brain. Using prenatal MRI, we characterized focal cortical gyration anomalies at an early formative stage and sought clues about the mechanisms of their development. |
Sleep spindle alterations in patients with malformations of cortical development. | Malformations of cortical development are disorders of altered brain anatomy and architecture that arise from abnormalities in the usual processes of cerebral cortical development. Although they often lead to epilepsy, cognitive delay, and motor impairment, little is known about their effect on sleep. Since malformatio... | To evaluate corpus callosum (CC) size in fetuses with malformations of cortical development (MCD) and to explore the diagnostic value of three CC length (CCL) ratios in identifying cortical abnormalities. |
Reliability and Failure Modes of a Hybrid Ceramic Abutment Prototype. | A ceramic and metal abutment prototype was fatigue tested to determine the probability of survival at various loads. | Materials have been developed to reduce the chipping of ceramic veneer and improve the esthetics of anterior ceramic veneered restorations. However, studies of the effects of material and substructure design on fracture resistance are sparse. |
Reliability and Failure Modes of a Hybrid Ceramic Abutment Prototype. | A ceramic and metal abutment prototype was fatigue tested to determine the probability of survival at various loads. | To compare the stability of a screw-retained connection in a novel two-piece zirconia implant to a conventional titanium-based connection in an in vitro chewing simulation including artificial ageing. |
Reliability and Failure Modes of a Hybrid Ceramic Abutment Prototype. | A ceramic and metal abutment prototype was fatigue tested to determine the probability of survival at various loads. | This study aimed to evaluate the fracture load and pattern of customized and non-customized zirconia abutments with Morse-taper connection. |
Reliability and Failure Modes of a Hybrid Ceramic Abutment Prototype. | A ceramic and metal abutment prototype was fatigue tested to determine the probability of survival at various loads. | This in vitro study investigated whether a resin-bonded dental prosthesis (RBDP) with a hyperstatic, rigid joint was preferable to an isostatic, nonrigid construction in terms of debonding and fracture strength. RBDPs replacing a missing molar with a rigid (design I) or a resilient model (design II) were compared to a ... |
Reliability and Failure Modes of a Hybrid Ceramic Abutment Prototype. | A ceramic and metal abutment prototype was fatigue tested to determine the probability of survival at various loads. | The screw access channels of 15 degrees angled Esthetic Abutments (Brånemark System) were either (a) completely filled with a vinyl polysiloxane impression material (Memosil), (b) partially filled with Memosil or (c) had lower portion filled with Memosil and the remainder with composite resin. The force required to rem... |
The role of intraoperative hemodialysis in liver transplant patients. | Orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) is a major surgical procedure that can be both challenging and lengthy. One of the common findings in end-stage liver disease is renal failure, whether acute or chronic, which may complicate the intraoperative course. | Kidney transplantation is a standard surgical procedure. Improvements of immunosuppressive therapy, donor management and surgical technique reduced perioperative complications and improved graft survival. In this review the authors discuss the anaesthetic management of kidney transplantation and nephroprotective strate... |
The role of intraoperative hemodialysis in liver transplant patients. | Orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) is a major surgical procedure that can be both challenging and lengthy. One of the common findings in end-stage liver disease is renal failure, whether acute or chronic, which may complicate the intraoperative course. | Liver transplant rates are at an all-time high, with nearly 8000 liver transplants in 2015. Despite the increasing number of liver transplants performed per year, there is a widening gap of supply and demand on limited donor resources. Patient selection is a complex but necessary process to evaluate patients who will b... |
The role of intraoperative hemodialysis in liver transplant patients. | Orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) is a major surgical procedure that can be both challenging and lengthy. One of the common findings in end-stage liver disease is renal failure, whether acute or chronic, which may complicate the intraoperative course. | To investigate the surgical techniques and appropriate perioperative management for ensuring successful orthotopic liver transplantation (ROLT) in rats. |
The role of intraoperative hemodialysis in liver transplant patients. | Orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) is a major surgical procedure that can be both challenging and lengthy. One of the common findings in end-stage liver disease is renal failure, whether acute or chronic, which may complicate the intraoperative course. | To evaluate the association of postoperative hemoglobin values and mortality in patients undergoing double- lung transplantation with intraoperative transfusion. |
The role of intraoperative hemodialysis in liver transplant patients. | Orthotopic liver transplant (OLT) is a major surgical procedure that can be both challenging and lengthy. One of the common findings in end-stage liver disease is renal failure, whether acute or chronic, which may complicate the intraoperative course. | The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of preoperative anemia on early postoperative outcomes in a population of patients undergoing lung transplantation. |
Progress Falters in Reducing Global Maternal Mortality. | Low-income countries have the highest death rates from pregnancy complications. | Ending preventable maternal and newborn deaths remains a global health imperative under United Nations Sustainable Development Goal targets 3.1 and 3.2. Saving Mothers, Giving Life (SMGL) was designed in 2011 within the Global Health Initiative as a public-private partnership between the U.S. government, Merck for Moth... |
Progress Falters in Reducing Global Maternal Mortality. | Low-income countries have the highest death rates from pregnancy complications. | Globally, the rate of reduction in delivery-associated maternal and perinatal mortality has been slow compared to improvements in post-delivery mortality in children under five. Improving clinical readiness for basic obstetric emergencies is crucial for reducing facility-based maternal deaths. Emergency readiness is co... |
Progress Falters in Reducing Global Maternal Mortality. | Low-income countries have the highest death rates from pregnancy complications. | The objective of this study was to predict when Bangladesh would achieve Sustainable Development Goal Target 3.1, which is to reduce the maternal mortality ratio (MMR) to less than 70 per 100 000 live births. |
Progress Falters in Reducing Global Maternal Mortality. | Low-income countries have the highest death rates from pregnancy complications. | Neonatal deaths account for 40% of global under-five mortality and are ever more important if we are to achieve the Millennium Development Goal 4 (MDG 4) on child survival. We applied a results framework to evaluate global and national changes for neonatal mortality rates (NMR), healthy behaviours, intervention coverag... |
Progress Falters in Reducing Global Maternal Mortality. | Low-income countries have the highest death rates from pregnancy complications. | There have been significant gains in improving maternal mortality over the last two decades. Researchers have suggested a variety of interventions and mechanisms to explain these improvements. While it is likely that much of what has been done in research and programs has contributed to this decline, the evidence regar... |
Value of three dimensional-speckle tracking imaging for predicting left ventricular function after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with percutaneous coronary intervention. | Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the recommended treatment for high risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). | Assessment of left ventricular filling pressure (LVFP) is crucial in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Since current guideline recommended echocardiographic parameters have limited value, more comprehensive assessment methods are required in this patient subset.In this study, we aimed to... |
Value of three dimensional-speckle tracking imaging for predicting left ventricular function after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with percutaneous coronary intervention. | Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the recommended treatment for high risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). | In addition to diagnosing acute myocardial infarction (MI), the electrocardiogram (ECG) may also predict the culprit coronary artery. We aimed to assess the diagnostic accuracy of ECG algorithms predicting the occluded vessel in inferior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). |
Value of three dimensional-speckle tracking imaging for predicting left ventricular function after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with percutaneous coronary intervention. | Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the recommended treatment for high risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). | To investigate the value of pulsed tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in order to predict significant coronary artery stenosis supplying the noninfarct region in patients after acute anterior myocardial infarction. |
Value of three dimensional-speckle tracking imaging for predicting left ventricular function after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with percutaneous coronary intervention. | Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the recommended treatment for high risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). | Data on effects of thrombus aspiration on left ventricular diastolic function in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) population are scarce. |
Value of three dimensional-speckle tracking imaging for predicting left ventricular function after non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction with percutaneous coronary intervention. | Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the recommended treatment for high risk patients with non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI). | Computed tomography (CT)-derived three-dimensional maximum principal strain (MP-strain) can provide incremental value to coronary CT angiography for cardiac dysfunction assessment with high diagnostic performance in patients with myocardial infarction. Global longitudinal strain (GLS) measured using two-dimensional spe... |
[Effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells]. | To study the effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells in vitro and in vivo. | To study the effects of dl-3n-butylphthalide (NBP) on the protein and mRNA expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in rats brain with permanent middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO). |
[Effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells]. | To study the effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells in vitro and in vivo. | To explore the effect of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), epidermal growth factor (EGF), and the combination of bFGF and EGF in the neural differentiation of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (hBMSCs), and the role of Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in this process. |
[Effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells]. | To study the effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells in vitro and in vivo. | To clarify the correlation of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) expression and fibronectin (FN) synthesis after transforming growth factor-beta-1 (TGF-beta1) stimulation in human prostate stromal cells. |
[Effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells]. | To study the effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells in vitro and in vivo. | Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is an autocrine growth factor for some lung cancer cells. The activated PACAP receptor (PAC1) causes phosphatidylinositol turnover, elevates cAMP, and increases the proliferation of lung cancer cells. PAC1 and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) are present... |
[Effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells]. | To study the effect of platelet derived growth factor-B and its receptor expression on the proliferation of renal cell carcinoma ACHN cells in vitro and in vivo. | To investigate the effect of protein kinase C (PKC)/transforming growth factor beta 1 (TGF beta1) pathway on activation of hepatic stellate cells (HSC). |
Locus of the intensity effect in simple reaction time tasks. | Evidence is still inconclusive regarding the locus of the stimulus intensity effect on information processing in reaction tasks. Miller, Ulrich, and Rinkenauer (1999) addressed this question by assessing the intensity effect on stimulus- and response-locked lateralized readiness potentials (LRPs) as indices of the sens... | In the study of nonspecific preparation, the response time (RT) to an imperative stimulus is analyzed as a function of the foreperiod (FP), the interval between a warning stimulus and the imperative stimulus. When FP is varied within blocks of trials, a downward sloping FP-RT function is usually observed. The slope of ... |
Locus of the intensity effect in simple reaction time tasks. | Evidence is still inconclusive regarding the locus of the stimulus intensity effect on information processing in reaction tasks. Miller, Ulrich, and Rinkenauer (1999) addressed this question by assessing the intensity effect on stimulus- and response-locked lateralized readiness potentials (LRPs) as indices of the sens... | The aim of this study was to examine the cognitive processes involved in time contraction caused by a non-temporal distractor during the presentation of a temporal stimulus. To this aim 95 children aged 5 to 8 years old as well as 25 adults were first trained to discriminate, on two visual temporal bisection tasks, a s... |
Locus of the intensity effect in simple reaction time tasks. | Evidence is still inconclusive regarding the locus of the stimulus intensity effect on information processing in reaction tasks. Miller, Ulrich, and Rinkenauer (1999) addressed this question by assessing the intensity effect on stimulus- and response-locked lateralized readiness potentials (LRPs) as indices of the sens... | <b /> Many studies have documented that multitasking reduces Response Time (RT) indicators of implicit sequence learning as well as the expression of acquired sequence knowledge in RT benefits. In these tasks it is only relevant that the correct key is hit quickly, not where it is hit. We explored how variability in r... |
Locus of the intensity effect in simple reaction time tasks. | Evidence is still inconclusive regarding the locus of the stimulus intensity effect on information processing in reaction tasks. Miller, Ulrich, and Rinkenauer (1999) addressed this question by assessing the intensity effect on stimulus- and response-locked lateralized readiness potentials (LRPs) as indices of the sens... | The time it takes for a stimulus to reach awareness is often assessed by measuring reaction times (RTs) or by a temporal order judgement (TOJ) task in which perceived timing is compared against a reference stimulus. Dissociations of RT and TOJ have been reported earlier in which increases in stimulus intensity such as ... |
Locus of the intensity effect in simple reaction time tasks. | Evidence is still inconclusive regarding the locus of the stimulus intensity effect on information processing in reaction tasks. Miller, Ulrich, and Rinkenauer (1999) addressed this question by assessing the intensity effect on stimulus- and response-locked lateralized readiness potentials (LRPs) as indices of the sens... | Participants indicated whether a small dot was located near the top or bottom pole of a rotated object. Response times increased as a function of object orientation more for top trials than for bottom trials. The interaction between orientation and response was shown to be due to a relationship between response times a... |
Considering Retention and Curricula in Reframing Pharmacy Enrollment Challenges. | Enrollment in pharmacy education has been a topic of extensive discussions as the number of applications has declined. Some pharmacy programs have either not met enrollment goals or decreased incoming class sizes. This Commentary poses two questions that we must ask ourselves as an Academy. First, is it possible to rea... | The geriatric population is growing faster than ever. Pharmacy educators must ensure students are prepared to care for this population through the use of both required and elective courses. In order to bridge the gap between education and real-world practice, colleges of pharmacy have incorporated innovative teaching m... |
Considering Retention and Curricula in Reframing Pharmacy Enrollment Challenges. | Enrollment in pharmacy education has been a topic of extensive discussions as the number of applications has declined. Some pharmacy programs have either not met enrollment goals or decreased incoming class sizes. This Commentary poses two questions that we must ask ourselves as an Academy. First, is it possible to rea... | <b>EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.</b> The work of the 2021-2022 AACP Research and Graduate Affairs Committee (RGAC) focused on barriers to graduate education and research-related careers in pharmacy education. AACP President Stuart Haines charged the RGAC with identifying the critical barriers that hinder current PharmD students/... |
Considering Retention and Curricula in Reframing Pharmacy Enrollment Challenges. | Enrollment in pharmacy education has been a topic of extensive discussions as the number of applications has declined. Some pharmacy programs have either not met enrollment goals or decreased incoming class sizes. This Commentary poses two questions that we must ask ourselves as an Academy. First, is it possible to rea... | Pharmacy has recognized the importance of education in health disparities and cultural competency (HDCC) for two decades. More recently, there has been emphasis on incorporating equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in pharmacy programs. While many institutions identify a need to incorporate a programmatic approach to... |
Considering Retention and Curricula in Reframing Pharmacy Enrollment Challenges. | Enrollment in pharmacy education has been a topic of extensive discussions as the number of applications has declined. Some pharmacy programs have either not met enrollment goals or decreased incoming class sizes. This Commentary poses two questions that we must ask ourselves as an Academy. First, is it possible to rea... | Pharmacy schools must encourage a culture of inquiry so future pharmacists approach practice in a scholarly fashion. |
Considering Retention and Curricula in Reframing Pharmacy Enrollment Challenges. | Enrollment in pharmacy education has been a topic of extensive discussions as the number of applications has declined. Some pharmacy programs have either not met enrollment goals or decreased incoming class sizes. This Commentary poses two questions that we must ask ourselves as an Academy. First, is it possible to rea... | Despite growing efforts to increase diversity in recruitment and to teach principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), representation of individuals underrepresented in medicine continues to fall short. This demonstrates a need for efforts that target the work environment and culture to increase retention alon... |
'Poverty can break a home': Exploring mechanisms linking cash plus programming and intimate partner violence in Ghana. | A growing body of research in West Africa and globally shows that cash transfers can decrease intimate partner violence (IPV). The purpose of this study was to explore how the government of Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) 1000 program, an unconditional cash transfer plus health insurance premium w... | Papua New Guinea (PNG) has introduced laws and policies aimed at protecting women from intimate partner violence. This article examines how men who live in Lae, PNG, have made sense of and reacted to these laws and policies. Two evocative metaphors -'popcorn' and 'blanket' - emerge from our research. For 'popcorn', we ... |
'Poverty can break a home': Exploring mechanisms linking cash plus programming and intimate partner violence in Ghana. | A growing body of research in West Africa and globally shows that cash transfers can decrease intimate partner violence (IPV). The purpose of this study was to explore how the government of Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) 1000 program, an unconditional cash transfer plus health insurance premium w... | It is essential to understand how desistance from intimate abuse occurs so it can be facilitated for those experiencing it. Recognizing the category of churning relationships-in which partners separate and reunite-gives us analytic leverage in identifying the relationship dynamics that predict abuse desistance. Using d... |
'Poverty can break a home': Exploring mechanisms linking cash plus programming and intimate partner violence in Ghana. | A growing body of research in West Africa and globally shows that cash transfers can decrease intimate partner violence (IPV). The purpose of this study was to explore how the government of Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) 1000 program, an unconditional cash transfer plus health insurance premium w... | Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects one in three women around the world and is the tenth leading cause of death for women in Africa aged 15 to 29 years. Partner alcohol use, access to social support, and poverty all affect women's likelihood of experiencing violence. We sought to understand how partner alcoho... |
'Poverty can break a home': Exploring mechanisms linking cash plus programming and intimate partner violence in Ghana. | A growing body of research in West Africa and globally shows that cash transfers can decrease intimate partner violence (IPV). The purpose of this study was to explore how the government of Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) 1000 program, an unconditional cash transfer plus health insurance premium w... | Intimate partner violence continues to be a confounding national health problem, especially for women and children. Certified batterers' intervention programs are one means currently being used to combat intimate partner violence. |
'Poverty can break a home': Exploring mechanisms linking cash plus programming and intimate partner violence in Ghana. | A growing body of research in West Africa and globally shows that cash transfers can decrease intimate partner violence (IPV). The purpose of this study was to explore how the government of Ghana's Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) 1000 program, an unconditional cash transfer plus health insurance premium w... | Thirty per cent of all women experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in their lifetime. The aim of this study was to examine the association between the WHO's novel R.E.S.P.E.C.T framework and IPV among women in Kenya. |
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