Prognostic factors in severe dengue patients: A multi-center retrospective cohort study. by Cheng-Hsun Yang, Ing-Kit Lee, Yi-Chun Chen, Wen-Chi Huang, Jui-Chi Hsu, Chien-Hsiang Tai, Chung-Hao Huang, Chun-Yu Lin, Yen-Hsu Chen

“…Multivariable regression analysis revealed increasing odds of death associated with older age (odds ratio [OR], 1.037; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.009-1.066), altered consciousness (OR, 8.591; 95% CI, 2.914-25.330), gastrointestinal bleeding (OR, 1.939; 95% CI, 1.037-3.626), and leukocytosis (OR, 2.504; 95% CI, 1.124-5.578) upon arrival, as well as organ impairment during hospitalization, including acute kidney injury (OR, 2.627; 95% CI, 1.373-5.028), severe hepatitis (OR, 5.324; 95% CI, 2.199-12.889), and pneumonia (OR, 2.250; 95% CI, 1.054-4.802).…”
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The Role of Rituals and Ceremonies in the Identity Struggle of a Society that Has Lost Its Language: the Example of Lithuanian Tatars by Mehmet Aça

“…Rituals contribute to the raising of group consciousness in the participants; they determine social status and roles; they offer ready patterns of behaviour by showing how the individual will behave in society; they connect individuals to the past with an emotional bond. …”
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GENOME POLITICS: STRATEGY AND TACTICS by Jonas Rubikas

“…Genome controls directly or indirectly all human functions: body structure, physiology. Human mental and consciousness activity, brain functions obtained by learning mask the dependence of these activities on the genome. …”
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Elimination Kinetics of Ethanol in a 5-Week-Old Infant and a Literature Review of Infant Ethanol Pharmacokinetics by Jonathan B. Ford, Mac T. Wayment, Timothy E. Albertson, Kelly P. Owen, Joshua B. Radke, Mark E. Sutter

“…A previously healthy 5-week-old African-American male was brought to the ED with a decreased level of consciousness. His initial blood ethanol level was 270 mg/dL. …”
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION: MODERNIZING THE CURRENT MODEL OF STATE MANAGEMENT by E. V. Ohotskii

“…The author draws attention to major comprehensive characteristics of modern state public administration: making it impossible to absolutize principles of traditional hierarchy system of forced administration; globalization - gradual destruction of boundaries between national and international levels of administration, the growing role of supranational subjects of administration relations; informatization - increasing importance of information and communication technologies and of political networks: development of civil society, especially political parties and non-governmental organizations, growing public involvement in discussion and adoption of the most important administrative decisions; making the state policy more pluralistic and which will result in the formation of nonlinear - humanistic social consciousness as the intellectual basis of modern social governance. …”
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Malignant Glioma in the Cerebellum Presenting as Multiple Small Lesions by Takashi Mamiya, Shinji Shimato, Toshihisa Nishizawa, Takashi Yamanouchi, Kojiro Ishikawa, Makoto Ito, Masato Abe, Kyozo Kato

“…Although the patient was discharged in an independent state with the shrinkage of the tumors, she unexpectedly died following sudden loss of consciousness from an unknown cause one month after discharge. …”
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IoC2 monitoring versus standard practice in reducing opioid consumption in elderly patients undergoing laparoscopic colorectal surgery: a study protocol for a randomised controlled... by Zhe Li, Jing Zhao, Xiaowen Liu, Huamei Cai, Yun Yan

“…Several nociception monitors, including the Surgical Pleth Index, the Index of Consciousness (IoC) and the Nociception Level, have been introduced for managing intraoperative analgesia. …”
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MOG associated autoimmune encephalomyelitis with active disease dynamic in imaging examinations and minimal clinical manifestation by E. Tilindytė, I. Muliuolis, R. Samaitienė

“…Progressive encephalopathy and multiple focal neurological symptoms are characteristic to this disease: irritability, disturbed consciousness, weakness, sensory disorders, bowel, bladder dysfunction, spasticity, hyperreflexia, positive Babinsky reflex, paresis, cerebral ataxia, cerebral neuropathy, and spinal cord dysfunction (transverse myelitis). …”
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A fulminant case of JC virus encephalopathy supporting a novel syndrome associated with JC virus infection of cortical neurons by Matteo Ciocca, Marta Pirovano, Monica Lodi, Antonino Romeo, Vincenza Fetoni

“…We present the case of a 62-year-old male, with no identifiable immunosuppression, who developed aphasia and progressive reduction in consciousness. He had a six months insidious history of psychiatric symptoms. …”
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Media image of the Russian Orthodox Church and the challenge of the pandemic by N. S. Zimova, E. V. Fomin

“…The rating did not include Orthodox media, which indicates the low influence of the Church on the consciousness of users. The basis of the information space is formed by non-religious and opposition media with high ratings. …”
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Improving the Quality of History Teaching in Non-Historical Specialties and Training Programmes through Systematic Implementation of the Historicism Principle by Elena N. Dyatlova

“…The scientific search is due to the demand of the state and society to improve the quality of historical education, which acts as a resource for solving the problems of forming patriotic and civic consciousness among the younger generation. Objective. …”
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SPIRITUALITY AS PHILOSOPHICAL, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DE-VELOPMENT PROBLEM by V. E. Gromov

“…In historical circumstances when the conscious influence of society on itself is growing, the realization of this process depends on spiritual trend of human beings cultural activity and mental quality of social leaders. …”
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Transcending the painful boundaries...: a few additions to Vanda Zaborskaitėʼs biography by Žydronė Kolevinskienė

“…However, her firm position, exceptional competence, high criteria for literary education, uncompromising opinion, encouragement of critical thinking and confidence allowed the people of the Department of Lithuanian and Foreign Literature of the Pedagogical Institute to unite for the future of the school, for the survival of the studies of the Lithuanian language because, for her, the studies of the Lithuanian language represent the consciousness of ‘Lithuanianness’. The issue raised in the article is reflected in the quote by Vanda Zaborskaitė in the title: “to go beyond the boundaries of what is painful.” …”
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The role of self-rumination and self-reflection in depressive symptoms among individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder traits by Takehiro Tamura, Shunsuke Takagi, Hidehiko Takahashi, Genichi Sugihara

“…Additionally, self-reflection—a similar form of private self-consciousness which may have protective effects—has been even less examined. …”
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The Life Mission Theory V. Theory of the Anti-Self (the Shadow) or the Evil Side of Man by Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jorgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…Integrating the shadow often leads to dramatic, subjective experiences of ubiquitous light in an �unpersonal� form, of enlightenment, or of meeting light and consciousness in a personal, universal form, known as G-d.…”
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To Assess Caregiver Burden of Patients with Dementia: Its Sociodemographic and Clinical Correlates by Vijay Raghuwanshi, Pali Rastogi, Vijay Niranjan, Prashant Maravi, Virendra S. Pal

“…Dementia is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that refers to a disease process marked by progressive cognitive impairment in clear consciousness. The morbidities associated with dementia accounts for the poor quality of life. …”
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Ten-Year Follow-Up of Collision Tumors Composed of Craniopharyngioma and Pituitary Adenoma: A Case Report and Literature Review by Takeshi Miyazaki, Kentaro Kowari, Hirotake Eda, Mizuki Kambara, Riruke Maruyama, Yasuhiko Akiyama

“…A 48-year-old male visited our hospital because of consciousness disturbance. The neuroimaging revealed a sellar tumor contact with a massive suprasellar cyst including calcification. …”
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Legal standpoint: general legal characteristics by V. V. Lazariev

“…An integrated analysis of the approaches to understanding the essence of this category has been conducted, and it has been established that modern scientific doctrine considers legal standpoint from different approaches: as part of legal culture and legal consciousness; as certain concepts, ideas; as part of an act or its conclusions. …”
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Single-center experience and evaluation of rare ıntracranial abscesses in childhood by Nihal Yildiz, Zeynep Gökçe Gayretli Aydin

“…The most common complaints were headache (39.1%), fever (91.3%), focal neurological deficits (60.9%), seizures, loss of consciousness (26.1%), and meningitis findings (60.9%). …”
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The narrative of the «Northern Territories» in the socio-political discourse of contemporary Japan by D. V. Streltsov

“…Of particular importance from the point of view of the emotional effect on public consciousness are the theses that the Southern Kurils are the “ancestral territory of Japan,” that the USSR committed aggressive and unfair actions against Japan during World War II, and modern Russia did not correct them, and that the Japanese natives of the Southern Kurils experience enormous moral suffering, not having the opportunity to freely visit the graves of their ancestors. …”
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