Incorporating Family Function into Chronic Pain Disability: The Role of Catastrophizing by Fatemeh Akbari, Mohsen Dehghani, Ali Khatibi, Tine Vervoort

“…Three different models were examined. Methods. A total sample of 142 patients with musculoskeletal chronic pain was recruited to examine the role of fear of movement, pain intensity, pain catastrophizing, and depression in relationship to family functioning as predictors of disability. …”
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Corrosion measurement of thermally sprayed carbide coatings on stainless steel pipes by Roshan Kuruvila, Jayakrishnan R, Thirumalai Kumaran S

“…Traditional corrosion monitoring methods frequently fail to provide accurate and reliable results. …”
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Bacteriological profile in patients having chronic dacryocystitis presenting for cataract surgery in a tertiary care centre by Mrunal Dhiran, Hina Rahangdale, Rajesh Joshi, Sunanda Shrikhande Zodpey

“… Background: the clinical research specifies that patients with clogged Nasolacrimal Ducts (NLDs) are more likely to cause infectious endophthalmitis secondary to cataract surgery. …”
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Is cardiac autonomic control affected in major depressive disorder? A systematic review of heart rate variability studies by Federica Goffi, Eleonora Maggioni, Anna Maria Bianchi, Paolo Brambilla, Giuseppe Delvecchio

“…Aim The objective of this review was to provide any reproducible insights on autonomic regulation characteristics of MDD through the selection, revision, and joint interpretation of a restricted sample of studies based on systematic criteria. Methods The literature research resulted in thirty eligible articles that reported the comparison of short-term resting-state HRV measures between drug-free MDD patients and healthy controls, excluding subjects affected by cardiovascular diseases. …”
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Physiological Status of Some Selected Salivary Antioxidants in Dental Caries by Sulafa Khair Al-Deen Banoosh Alayoubi, Intesar Jasim Al-Kaysi, Hadeel Ayad, Esraa Azawi

“…Dental caries was divided into three categories based on scores: mild (0–10), moderate (11–20), and severe (21–and more). Salivary uric acid and salivary total protein concentration were assessed via chemical analysis of unstimulated saliva sample collection. …”
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Is Ventilator-associated Event Algorithm Ideal for Surveillance? – Experience from a Neurosurgery Intensive Care Unit in Kerala by Lisha Pallivalappil, Daksh Sharma, P. S. Nishanth

“…This study intends to find the correlation of these surveillance criteria with the clinical VAP rates in a neurosurgery intensive care unit (ICU). Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective analysis of records of patients undergoing invasive mechanical ventilation in a neurosurgery ICU during a 3-month period. …”
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Nutrition services by health providers during antenatal consultations in Senegal: a comparison of observed versus self-reported practices by Elhadji Alioune Badara Ningue, Isabelle Galibois, Sonia Blaney

“…This paper aimed to compare health providers’ self-reported practices to their actual provision of nutrition services during antenatal care (ANC) consultations. # Methods A comparative study was conducted in a random sample of 27 health providers in the Kolda region. …”
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The association between waist-to-height index and prostate cancer risk: evidence from the NHANES study by Qinghe Gao, Zongqi Lin, Yihua Zhang, Jiantong Cai, Shaopeng Li

“…WWI may reflect the distribution of body fat more accurately. However, it is unclear whether WWI is associated with the risk of developing PCa.MethodsSeventy thousand one hundred and ninety participants took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). …”
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Active nudging towards digital well-being: reducing excessive screen time on mobile phones and potential improvement for sleep quality by Thao Hanh Vu, Marco Tagliabue

“…Increasingly, digital users are becoming more aware of how smartphone use impacts their productivity and well-being. …”
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Furosemide’s Preventative Role in Contrast-Induced Nephropathy among ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Patients undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention by Mostafa Ariafar, Parvin Ghorbani, Seyed Masoud Seyedian, Farzaneh Ahamdi, Leila Sabetnia, Elham Farhadi

“…We investigated whether post-treatment with furosemide decreases CIN risk. Materials and Methods: We designed a clinical trial and included 234 patients with STEMI undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). …”
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Utilizing transformative learning theory to enhance professional identity formation by Christine Pan, Jennie B. Jarrett, Kathryn Sawyer

“…Three PSIQ-9 questions, communication, using patient records, and teaching others, were significant at baseline and midpoint.ConclusionThe TLT-based toolkit had a minimal impact on students’ self-evaluation of PIF based on the PSIQ-9 and MCPIS-9 questionnaires over a 15-week course. Studies with larger sample sizes and longer durations are needed to provide more conclusive results.…”
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Flexibility in Pragmatic Nuance: The Cognitive Edge of Bilingualism in Language Comprehension and Production by Nurasia Natsir, Nuraziza Aliah

“…This study uniquely explores the disparities in pragmatic marker comprehension and production between bilingual and monolingual groups, aiming to elucidate the cognitive advantages associated with bilingualism. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach, the research incorporated standardized linguistic assessments and observational analyses to evaluate 200 participants, equally divided between bilinguals and monolinguals, ensuring demographic balance. …”
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Examining the Causes of Poor Performance in Primary Schools in Rubanda District by Arineitwe, Obadia.

“…The objectives were to assess current academic performance trends, explore methods for controlling poor performance, and propose recommendations to enhance educational outcomes. …”
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Vision Restoration through transorbital electrical stimulation in Optic Neuropathy in patients with significant optic atrophy due to primary open-angle glaucoma—a randomised, contr... by Katrin Lorenz, Alexander Radbruch, Hans Hoerauf, Philip Enders, Karl Mercieca, Christian van Oterendorp, Marc Brockmann, Anna Beck, Thomas Asendorf, Bettina Wabbels, Michael Schittkowski, Verena Prokosch, Johanna Pohlner, Carsten Grohmann, Lena Kröger, Jens Haueisen, Alexander Hunold, Maria Bernhard, Peter Dechent, Mathias Bähr, Andrea Antal

“…However, the level of evidence for this method is still fairly rather poor, and further trials are needed. …”
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Quantitative and qualitative investigation of shunt failure in an in vitro hemorrhagic hydrocephalus model by Shaheer Ajaz, Ahmad Faryami, Ayman Suhrawardy, Carolyn A. Harris

“…Using the Automated, In Vitro Model for Hydrocephalus Research (AIMS), we investigated the impact of CSF-like diluted blood solution on ventricular catheters and external ventricular drains (EVD) using quantitative (flow and pressure measurements) and qualitative (real-time brightfield video capture) methods.MethodsThe shunt failure criteria were set at greater than or equal to 30 cmH2O such that the experiment was manually terminated if pressure surpassed 30 cmH2O differential pressure at any point within 24 h. …”
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Comparative analysis of reagent kits for DNA extraction from dry blood stains by A. V. Sedykh, M. A. Saitgalina, Yu. V. Ostankova, A. A. Totolian

“…According to the applied Kraskell-Wallis criterion and Dunn’s test, significant differences in both TREC and KREC parameters are present between the group of DNA samples extracted using the “MagnoPrime UNI” reagent kit for manual extraction and the groups of samples extracted by other methods (“MagnoPrime UNI” for automatic extraction) or “Extra-DNA-Bio” and “EXTRA-Prep PS” kits.In the course of the present study, four comparable reagent sets demonstrated a high level of convergence of the obtained data, satisfying all the necessary parameters for further molecular genetic analysis, can be used for neonatal screening and in other areas of research requiring DNA extraction from a dried blood spots.…”
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The Impact of the “Green Transition” in the Field of Food Packaging on the Behavior of Romanian Consumers by Alexandru Jurconi, Ioana Maria Popescu (Iacobescu), Daniela-Ioana Manea, Mihaela Mihai, Rodica Pamfilie

“…The validation of the research hypotheses was done with methods of non-parametric analysis of the interdependencies between the identified variables, the results obtained highlighting the need to study this issue on a representative sample, using a more complex questionnaire. 81% of the study respondents identified as the main benefit for the use of sustainable packaging the possibility of living in a less polluted environment, an essential component of the development of ecological and sustainable food systems, being identified in the ability of producers and traders to communicate the placement on the market of sustainable packaging for marketed products…”
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Realistic in silico generation and augmentation of single-cell RNA-seq data using generative adversarial networks by Matteo Marouf, Pierre Machart, Vikas Bansal, Christoph Kilian, Daniel S. Magruder, Christian F. Krebs, Stefan Bonn

“…Augmenting few real observations with generated in silico samples could lead to more robust analysis results and a higher reproducibility rate. …”
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In silico discovering relationship between bacteriophages and antimicrobial resistance by Maya Zhelyazkova, Roumyana Yordanova, Iliyan Mihaylov, Stefan Tsonev, Dimitar Vassilev

“…The approach used in our analyses consists of several different methods which assess the differential abundance of phages, their diversity across samples, the impact on AMR categories and associations with AMR genes. …”
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Genetic mutations associated with rifampicin and isoniazid resistance in tuberculosis patients in Bhubaneswar, India by Dr Sidhartha Giri, Mr Sunil Swick Rout, Mr Satyanarayan Singh, Mr Prakasha Kumar Nayak, Mr Sudarshan Biswal, Mrs Kumari Shweta, Dr Sanghamitra Pati

“…Discussion: Our study involving more than 400 M.tb positive samples found HrTB in 5.3% samples and MDR TB in 1.7% samples using LPA. …”
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