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A. Diop, E. Seck, G. Dubourg, N. Armstrong, C. Blanc-Tailleur, D. Raoult, and P.-E. Fournier, "Genome Sequence and Description of Gracilibacillus timonensis sp. nov. Strain Marseille-P2481, A Moderate Halophilic Bacterium Isolated from the Human Gut Microflora," MicrobiologyOpen 8, no. 2 (2019): e00638, https://doi.org…

Studies have shown that local (e.g., midseries) items' specific properties, including being isolated from rest of the items, can generate a local distinctiveness effect, enhancing the memory performance for the local items in serial recall or absolute judgments. However, this has not been the case in relative (comparat…

Healthy and sustainable territories correlate with health promotion and human development, the reduction of existing vulnerabilities in the territory, and sustainable development. The study's objective is to develop a Healthy and Sustainable Territory Index, with indicators from 2010 secondary data, for territorial cla…

BACKGROUND: Researchers often use pilot work (PW) to address potential problems that may affect the progress of their main study. However, the methodology of PW is not well documented for novice nurse researchers. This can be challenging for those who need to make decisions based on a range of opinions. AIM: To provid…

BACKGROUND: Post dural puncture headache (PDPH) is a major challenging complication and may be a cause of morbidity after spinal anesthesia. Currently there is no definitive management for PDPH, so the search for effective treatment continues. OBJECTIVES: Our aim was to investigate the analgesic effectiveness of oral…

The present study examined the relationship between different forms of childhood trauma and eating psychopathology using a multiple mediation model that included emotion dysregulation and dissociation as hypothesised mediators. 142 female undergraduate psychology students studying at two British Universities participat…

PURPOSE: This study's purpose was to determine the attitudes of students studying in various fields related to health services towards gender roles and intimate partner violence. DESIGN AND METHODS: The descriptive study sample was composed of 441 volunteer students. The data were collected by the Intimate P…

This paper contributes to the empirical knowledge of determinants of smoking initiation in adolescents. The instrument we used was a structural equation model, which is a powerful tool to analyze causal relationships in nonexperimental studies. We used a school-based sample of 1198 teenagers from Spain. We measured the…

INTRODUCTION: Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a disabling condition that can affect adolescents during a vulnerable period of development. The underlying biological mechanisms for ME/CFS remain unclear and have rarely been investigated in the adolescent population, despite this period rep…

In recent years, a wide range of generic and domain-specific maturity models have been developed in order to improve organizational design and learning of healthcare organizations. While many of these studies describe methods on how to measure dedicated aspects of a healthcare organization's "maturity," little evidence…

The ability to manage money has been identified as a vital talent. In this context, financial literacy has a role to play. There are significant gaps, though, such as the financial connection to human behavior. The purpose of this study is to look at the overall effects of financial literacy (FL) on the behavioural asp…

PURPOSE: To determine whether industry affiliation influences the results of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) studying the use of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) for the treatment of patellar or Achilles tendinopathy. METHODS: The PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, and MEDLINE databases were searched in July 2023 for RCTs invest…

Though much effort is often put into designing psychological studies, the measurement model and scoring approach employed are often an afterthought, especially when short survey scales are used (Flake & Fried, 2020). One possible reason that measurement gets downplayed is that there is generally little understanding of…

Gestures have a central role in speaking and thinking about spatial information. The goal of the present study is to examine the function of gestures in Williams Syndrome (WS), a genetic disorder characterized by spatial impairments and a preservation of communication. The study's subjects were 11 WS individuals and 22…

This study assesses the psychological consequences of participation in a mental health study among people recently exposed to the September 11 attacks. Using cross-sectional telephone surveys, we interviewed random samples of English-speaking or Spanish-speaking adults living in New York City during the attacks 1 year…

We report a case of hypervagotonia manifested by idioventricular rhythm in a healthy, athletic man who participated in a Phase I study of an investigational calcium-channel blocker. Upon breaking the study's double-blind study code, it was discovered that the subject had received placebo. We discuss this unusual findin…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to investigate whether there was any relationship between some DNA N-methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) polymorphisms and susceptibility to idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSHL) in ISSHL patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We investigated 90 patients diagnosed with ISSHL…

OBJECTIVE: To study the effects of repeated exposure to MRI-related acoustic noise during image acquisition procedures (scans) on hearing. METHODS: A retrospective occupational cohort study was performed among workers of an MRI manufacturing facility (n=474). Longitudinal audiometry data from the facility's medical su…

Educational interventions typically center on youth displaying early academic risk, potentially overlooking those falling off track academically later in their educational careers. The current study investigated the extent to which life course transitions experienced during adolescence were linked to falling off-track…

The automated-respondent tracking system (ARTS) is an event-driven management system developed to monitor data collection during large epidemiological case-control studies. ARTS facilitates the conduct and management of these studies by eliminating the problems and limitations of manually monitoring subjects. This syst…