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Based on the spatially correlated effects of air pollution on regional innovation, theoretical hypotheses are proposed, and this paper employs a spatial Durbin model to conduct empirical tests using panel data from 267 Chinese cities from 2003 to 2019, and investigates the mediating effect of human capital. Research ha…

Recognized as the gold standard, human milk (HM) is an extremely complex yet fascinating biofluid tailored to meet an infant's nutritional requirements throughout development. Endocannabinoids and endocannabinoid-like compounds (endocannabinoid metabolome, ECM) are endogenous lipid mediators derived from long-chain pol…

BACKGROUND: The study sets out to either confirm or refute a recent study's findings that chicken meat is an unlikely source of Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Infantis (Salmonella Infantis) in humans in the Kyushu-Okinawa region, Japan. METHODS: A total of 74 Salmonella Infantis isolates (30 from huma…

Pre-clinical studies have demonstrated that bone marrow ablation has a profound effect in decreasing erythropoietin (EPO) elimination. The study's objective was to determine in humans if EPO pharmacokinetics (PKs) are perturbed following bone marrow ablation. EPO PK studies were performed in eight subjects, aged 4 to 6…

Data are presented from a recent longitudinal study of dietary habits of English children aged 11-13 y, in relation to various factors which may have influenced the estimations of intake. A knowledge of such relationships may aid the design and interpretation of this and other dietary surveys. The factors studied inclu…

Boyer and Glassick's broad definition of and standards for assessing scholarship apply to all aspects of education. Research on the quality of published medical education studies also reveals fundamentally important elements to address. In this article a three-step approach to developing medical education projects is p…

Modifying knowledge and attitudes through persuasive communication in health via radio has produced encouraging results for public health planners. This study's objective was to measure the effect of an educational strategy on knowledge and attitudes towards nutrition in two marginalized communities in Guadalajara, Mex…

While clinical licensure examinations claim to protect the public from incompetent practitioners, serious problems related to issues of validity, reliability, and ethics have been reported. The ethical lapses are difficult to document, and reports of problems have been strictly anecdotal. This study's primary purpose w…

For decades, nursing graduates have exhibited a gap between theory and practice. Healthcare organizations have implemented transition programs to support successful entry into practice. Nurse educators can restructure residency programs to help graduates develop the confidence and competence needed for practice by iden…

A research participant's right to withdraw from all research procedures is widely accepted, but there can be justifiable limits to a participant's exercise of autonomy to withdraw from some procedures. Clinical outcomes trials depend on complete subject follow-up for accurate assessment of the safety and efficacy of in…

Three studies considered the consequences of writing, talking, and thinking about significant events. In Studies 1 and 2, students wrote, talked into a tape recorder, or thought privately about their worst (N = 96) or happiest experience (N = 111) for 15 min each during 3 consecutive days. In Study 3 (N = 112), student…

Approximately 150 U.S. Army reservists from Indiana reported symptoms consistent with chronic fatigue syndrome after returning stateside from the tour of duty in Saudi Arabia. A psychiatric team confirmed the diagnosis, evaluated possible etiology, and treated the service members when appropriate. Those available servi…

BACKGROUND: This paper explores how demarketing strategies impact women's breastfeeding attitudes, intentions, and behaviors under the moderation of time pressure and breastfeeding knowledge. METHODS: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey among 369 respondents is used to test the proposed hypotheses. The study'…

PURPOSE: To evaluate our management of postoperative endophthalmitis and compare our protocol to the Endophthalmitis Vitrectomy Study's (EVS) recommended protocol. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This study comprises 52 patients with postoperative endophthalmitis treated with the same protocol in 1996 and 1997. Patients were gi…

An overview of a study which applied the synthetic estimates technique to derive rates, numbers, types and characteristics of potential clientele for substance abuse related programs in the State and counties of Oregon is presented. A brief description is given of the methods utilized to obtain estimates as well as the…

The large United States county-based study () in which an inverse relationship has been suggested between residential low-dose radon levels and lung cancer mortality has been reviewed. While this study has been used to evaluate the validity of the linear nonthreshold theory, the grouped nature of its data limits the us…

Cannabidiol, a non-psychoactive constituent of cannabis, has garnered much attention after United States Food and Drug Administration approved Epidiolex® for oral use. Although therapeutic effect of cannabidiol after systemic absorption has been investigated extensively, its therapeutic potential in treating skin…