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This research tested hypotheses concerning attachment, social support, and grief responses to the loss of animal companionship. Participants whose companion cat or dog had recently died (N = 429) completed the Attachment Style Questionnaire, the Inventory of Complicated Grief, and the Multidimensional Health Profile-Ps…

INTRODUCTION: The optimal technique for component fixation in revision total knee arthroplasty (rTKA) remains controversial: full cementation (FC) versus hybrid fixation (HF), which involves press-fit stem with cement fixation in the metaphyseal and epiphyseal zones. Previous series have either demonstrated the superio…

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…

This letter addresses important considerations for enhancing the research on the gender gap in deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson's disease. While acknowledging the commendable efforts of the study's authors, we highlight several areas that warrant further attention to maximize the research's yield and applicab…

This study investigated the crossover of job demands and emotional exhaustion among team members and the moderating effect of cohesiveness and social support on this process. Participants were 310 employees of an employment agency in the Netherlands, working in one of 100 teams. Multilevel analysis using a longitudinal…

This study identifies health problems, instrumental activities of daily living, employment status, and number of previous admissions as significant factors of recidivism to a mental health residential facility. The study, conducted over a 5-year period, includes measures on 32 predictor variables collected either on ad…

Many studies, using information integration theory, have been devoted to the prediction of performance on the basis of ability and motivation information. However, it appears that only two societies. American and East Indian, have been examined with regard to their prevalent performance prediction model. Participants i…

The global shortage of human donor livers poses a formidable barrier to treating end-stage liver diseases and unresectable hepatic malignancies, leaving millions of patients without life-saving options each year. While genetically engineered pig-to-human xenotransplantation has achieved significant breakthroughs in car…

The present study explored the adultification of young Black girls, specifically through the mythos of the fast-tailed girl, by examining the commentary on Twitter associated with the #SurvivingRKelly hashtag. Applying critical discourse analysis, three discursive themes emerged: (1) calling out the culture of acceptin…

The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) is a multicenter, longitudinal cohort study designed to evaluate environmental, lifestyle, and genetic risk factors as they relate to cardiometabolic and other chronic diseases among Hispanic/Latino populations in the United States. Since the study's incep…

This paper introduces several proof-of-concept (PoC) computational methods intended to offer biochemical researchers straightforward, time- and cost-effective strategies to accelerate their work. While Machine Learning (ML) models were developed, the study's central purpose was to explore approaches for the identificat…

The Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus is a human pathogen increasingly causing severe infections, especially in hospital environments. Moreover, strains which are resistant against various types of antibiotics are developing and spreading widely as in the case of the community-acquired MRSA (methicillin res…

There are 2 ways to think about emerging technology and adolescent health research. First, one can try to understand the relationship between technology and adolescent health. This line examines whether time spent using emerging technologies or being exposed to messages and applications are associated with poorer or be…

This article describes a cross-sectional study that examined the effect of students' pre-enrollment perceptions of nursing education on attrition. It was hypothesized that more students who leave (leavers) than students who continue would report a discrepancy between these perceptions and their nursing academic experie…

Little is known about the factors responsible for the institutionalization of the elderly. This study's objective was to discover markers associated with nursing home placement. Fifty-six white ambulatory women over 63 yrs of age were selected from 3 settings encompassing a range of dependency: 20 women from nursing ho…

This current study analyzes the content of popular pornographic videos, with the objectives of updating depictions of aggression, degradation, and sexual practices and comparing the study's results to previous content analysis studies. Findings indicate high levels of aggression in pornography in both verbal and physic…

The legislative pressures now dominating the realm of program accountability are moving the mental health system from process to outcome evaluations. While the need for this type of assessment is generally acknowledged, its methodological validity and policy-setting utility are the subject of considerable controversy.…

This commentary discusses the study by Bicaj et al., which examines baseline predictors of cognitive and behavioral disturbances (C/BI) in motor neuron diseases (MNDs) with pure motor onset. The study's longitudinal design and use of the Edinburgh Cognitive and Behavioral ALS Screen (ECAS) provide valuable insights int…

: MG53 is a myokine/cardiokine involved in membrane repair. Some preclinical studies suggest that it is associated with insulin resistance. Metabolic syndrome (MS) is manifested by dyslipidemia, hypertension (HT), visceral obesity, hyperinsulinism, and glucose intolerance. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between…

Studies on the effectiveness of pain management have uniformly concluded that health care providers underestimate or undertreat pain. In the emergency department (ED) in which this study was conducted, physicians receive formal didactic and bedside teaching on pain recognition and management in order to heighten the aw…