Fusarium oxysporum and Colletotrichum musae Associated with Wilt Disease of Coffea arabica in Coffee Gardens in Saudi Arabia by Zarraq AL-Faifi, Wail Alsolami, Emad Abada, Habib Khemira, Ghaliah Almalki, Yosra Modafer

“…Samples of roots and leaves tissues were plated on Dox’ Agar medium and incubated for one week at 24oC. Two morphologically different fungus colonies grew on the medium. …”
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Developing Global Leaders through International Partnership: A Collaborative Model for Graduate Nursing Programs by Stephanie Gingerich, Gudrun Jonsdóttir, Jennifer Wentzel, Carol Flaten, Judy Pechacek, Helga Bragadóttir

“…The model, which relies on an innovative week-long immersion course, addresses the growing need for globally-minded nurse leaders capable of responding to the unique challenges of today's interconnected world. …”
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Budapest nephrology school – 30 years of history – from modest start to an international success: systematic summary of the 27th BNS held between 28th August and 2nd of September 2... by Orsolya Cseprekál, Laszlo Rosivall

“…With such a long history and representing the top international professors of nephrology, BNS has proved to be a successful one-week, in-person refreshing course which has attracted over 1600 medical doctors from more than 60 countries. …”
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Analysis of Work-Zone Crashes Using the Ordered Probit Model with Factor Analysis in Egypt by Kairan Zhang, Mohamed Hassan, Mahama Yahaya, Shupeng Yang

“…The most influential factors that have contributed to work-zone crashes are weather condition, number of lane closures, type of surface construction, road character, day of week, and so forth. In addition, the results indicated that four common factors are significantly affecting the severity of work-zone crashes in Egypt.…”
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Artifactual Hypoglycaemia in Systemic Sclerosis and Raynaud’s Phenomenon: A Clinical Case Report and Short Review by RH Bishay, A. Suryawanshi

“…We report a 76-year-old woman with systemic sclerosis and Raynaud’s phenomenon, who presented with upper gastrointestinal bleeding and found to have concomitant persistent hypoglycaemia (1.0–2.7mmol/L) on a point-of-care glucometer in the absence hypoglycaemic symptoms. She underwent a 2-week hospital admission, repeated glucose monitoring, hydrocortisone replacement and dextrose infusions, with consequent hyperglycaemia on plasma measurements. …”
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The effect of self-determination skills training on Academic Vitality and Academic Hope by zahra tabatabaee, Ahmad Abedi, Ghasem Norouzi

“…The experimental group participated in a self-determination skills training program that was conducted in 8 sessions of 50 minutes (one session per week), while the control group did not participate in this program. …”
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A mouse model of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome has impaired fear memory, which is rescued by lithium treatment. by Thomas K Pak, Calvin S Carter, Qihong Zhang, Sunny C Huang, Charles Searby, Ying Hsu, Rebecca J Taugher, Tim Vogel, Christopher C Cychosz, Rachel Genova, Nina N Moreira, Hanna Stevens, John A Wemmie, Andrew A Pieper, Kai Wang, Kai Wang, Val C Sheffield

“…However, our results indicate that these behavioral impairments are the result of impaired hippocampal neurogenesis. Two-week treatment with lithium chloride partially restores the proliferation of hippocampal neurons which leads to a rescue of context fear conditioning. …”
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Behavioral and Psychological Factors Associated with 12-Month Weight Change in a Physical Activity Trial by Melissa A. Napolitano, Sharon Hayes

“…By Month 12, participants achieved 140.4±14.82 min of PA/week, with no group differences. Weight status change from baseline to Month 12 was categorized: no change (N=154; 62.4%); increase (N=34; 13.8%); decrease (N=59; 23.9%). …”
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The first recorded case of herbicide resistance in Estonia: common chickweed (Stellaria media) resistant to sulfonylureas by Silvia Pihu, Andres Mäe, Hannah Joy Vivian Kennedy, Katerina Hamouzova

“…Chickweed (Stellaria media), an adaptive and competitive annual weed, poses a significant agricultural threat due to its low and dense canopy. …”
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Eosinophilic Gastritis in a Patient Previously Treated with Dupilumab by Masaya Iwamuro, Toshi Murakami, Takehiro Tanaka, Shohei Oka, Seiji Kawano, Yoshiro Kawahara, Hiroyuki Okada

“…Dupilumab treatment was discontinued at the patient’s request after two injections separated by a 2-week interval. The blood eosinophil count was elevated, and an esophagogastroduodenoscopy performed 3 months after dupilumab treatment revealed gastric ulcers; subsequently, eosinophilic gastritis was diagnosed from biopsy examinations. …”
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Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome due to a Vertebral Hemangioma and Postpartum Osteoporosis following Treatment by Mehmet Elmadag, Yunus Güzel, Gokcer Uzer, İbrahim Tuncay

“…The case reported here is of a 35-year-old female in the 32nd week of pregnancy who was admitted to the orthopaedics clinic with a history of backache and difficulty walking. …”
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The Anaesthesiologist and Palliative Care in a Newborn with the Adam “Sequence” by Alberto Vieira Pantoja, Maria Emília Gonçalves Estevez, Bruno Lima Pessoa, Fernando de Paiva Araújo, Bruno Mendonça Barcellos, Ciro Augusto Floriani, Marco Antonio Cardoso de Resende

“…Urgent surgery was performed, after which the newborn was transported to the ICU and intubated under controlled mechanical ventilation. The patient died a week later. The principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and respect for autonomy are simultaneously an inspiratory and regulatory framework for clinical practice. …”
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The effect of organizational coaching on employee voice, work motivation and innovative work behaviour: A quasi-experimental study by Azin Taghipour, Babak Kabiri, Mohsen Khalili

“…Thirty participants from an Iranian online job agency took part in this semi-experimental study, with fifteen employees joining a ten-week face-to-face coaching program. Our findings show that organizational coaching had a significant and positive impact on employee innovative work behaviour, employee voice, and work motivation (P<0.05). consequently, organizational coaching helps employees identify their potential talents and motivates them to develop these talents with high enthusiasm and creativity.…”
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Disruption of the Serotonergic System after Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischemia in a Rodent Model by Kathryn M. Buller, Julie A. Wixey, Hanna E. Reinebrant

“…Here we describe our current work investigating how the serotonergic network in the brain is disrupted in a rodent model of preterm hypoxia-ischemia. One week after postnatal day 3 hypoxia-ischemia, losses of serotonergic raphé neurons, reductions in serotonin levels in the brain, and reduced serotonin transporter expression are evident. …”
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Case of Cardiac Arrest Treated with Extra-Corporeal Life Support after MDMA Intoxication by Pierre Voizeux, Romain Lewandowski, Theresa Daily, Omar Ellouze, Olivier Bouchot, Belaïd Bouhemad, Pierre-Grégoire Guinot

“…We were able to rapidly regulate our patient’s temperature and we weaned all hemodynamic support in the first week of hospitalisation. Conclusion. Extracorporeal life support has several advantages as part of the management of hemodynamic instability induced by serotonin syndrome.…”
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Herpes Simplex Virus Type II Infection of Ileum Mesothelium: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by SAC Medlicott, VG Falck, KB Laupland, M Akbari, PL Beck

“…A case of a 53-year-old type I diabetic patient with bowel obstruction one week subsequent to bronchitis is reported. At laparotomy, a perforated segment of ileum was associated with an adhesive peritoneal band. …”
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Three-Year Follow-Up of Participants from a Self-Weighing Randomized Controlled Trial by Lua Wilkinson, Carly R. Pacanowski, David Levitsky

“…Over 75% of these participants continued to weigh themselves at least once a week. Frequent self-weighing may be an effective, low-cost strategy for weight loss maintenance. …”
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Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinomas with Pulsed Dye Laser: A Case Series by Norman Minars, Marianna Blyumin-Karasik

“…Sixteen men and thirteen women (29 total) with 39 biopsy-proven BCCs were treated with 1–4 PDL (595 nm) therapies at 2–4-week intervals. The treatment parameters included pulse energy of 15 J/cm 2, pulse length of 3 millisecond, with no dynamic cooling, and 7 mm spot size. …”
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The relationship self-efficacy and some of demographic characteristics with leisure time physical activities of Iranian workers by Mahdieh Irom, Ali Zareı, Farshad Tojarı

“…In this research what we aim to study as LTPA , means activities such as exercise, sport, leisure activities or hobbies which are not related to regular activities job duties, housework and daily commuting , were examined within a week. This study is a survey with sample population of 384 workers from 15 provinces, including 102 females and 282 males who were classified in five age categories, assessing their health status, 30.4 percent of them in fair health, respectively. …”
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Examinations of effects of socio-demographic features and disease-related data of patients with hemodialysis on the quality of life by Elif Togay, Hatice Öntürk Akyüz

“…Most participants (67%) had ≥ 3 children, 35.1% received dialysis treatment for 3–10 years, 90.7% had dialysis three times a week, and 64.9% had an arterio-venous fistula vascular access line. …”
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