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Prevailing psychoanalytic attitudes toward male homosexuality are predisposed to the treatment of it as a psychopathological disorder. This study proposes that the appearance of disorder follows from the distortions imposed on the personality during development. Superego conflicts ensue that are relieved rather than re…

Numerous studies have suggested that the perceived built environment is shaped by the objective built environment and influences human physical activity. However, the empirical examination of this pathway remains scant. Addressing this gap, our study investigates whether the built environment affects leisure-time physi…

The purpose of this study was to examine the association of the serotonin transporter gene to family history of suicidality. Forty-seven volunteers responded to questionnaires about family history of suicide, and provided buccal swabs for analysis of the polymorphism. Allelic homozygocity (the short variant) was associ…

A recent study comparing physicians and large language models on clinical reasoning tasks has received widespread attention. In this News and Perspectives article, JMIR Correspondent Shalini Kathuria Narang speaks to one of the study's researchers and reports on the real-world implications that can and cannot be drawn…

A controversial study has claimed that most cancer is due to random processes unrelated to external causes, i.e., bad luck. The controversy has obscured the study's importance toward spurring scientific understanding of how best to prevent cancer.

In 1998 Piper-Terry and Downey found that women accepted friends' bogus test interpretations more readily than did men and the researchers attributed this to women's helpfulness. Layne countered that women are more open and thus rationally expected their friends' interpretations to be more accurate. Later Downey asked…

One of the most important goals of a scientific study is to demonstrate a difference between comparison groups if one exists. Central to this goal is determination of sample size: too few subjects may result in erroneous conclusions or inability to reasonably exclude chance as an explanation, and too many subjects wast…

This is a quantitative and qualitative research aimed at building a Welcome Protocol for users and their companions referred to the Endoscopic Centre at the University Hospital Dr. Polydoro Ernani São Thiago, at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), and submitted to Upper Digestive Endoscopy. The resear…

Trust is a critical element in establishing a therapeutic nurse-client relationship that can help to change people's health experiences and quality of life. This study's purpose was to examine the relationship between trust and power using Rogers' science of unitary human beings and Barrett's theory of power. A nationa…

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and neurodegenerative disorder affecting white and gray matter. This study aimed to investigate the association between clinical outcomes in MS patients and the levels of certain molecules in their serum, including ACTH, IL-17, and specific miRNAs: miR-26a, miR-34a, miR-155-5p…

The concentration of extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the peripheral blood of COVID-19 patients is increased. Nevertheless, their potential role in the transmission of infection remains unclear. This study was performed to determine whether EVs produced by the sub-genomic replicon system developed in Baby Hamster Kidney…

In order to finding of potent natural medication/agent which can kill giardial cysts in the interval between lysing of outer membrane of cysts due to exposure by acidic condition of stomach and their encystation in proximal small intestine, In-vitro antigiardial activity and GC-MS analysis of Eucalyptus globulus and Zi…

In the manufacturing environments of today, human-machine systems are constituted with complex and advanced technology, which demands workers' considerable mental workload. This work aims to design and evaluate a Graphical User Interface developed to induce mental workload based on Dual N-Back tasks for further analysi…

The National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect was a major, government sponsored effort to collect data on reported and unreported child abuse. It used a systematic representative sample methodology and very precisely developed definitions of child abuse. This paper review some of the main limitations of the s…

Non-invasive diagnostics play a crucial role in medicine, and they ensure both contamination safety and patient comfort. The proposed study integrates hyperspectral imaging with advanced image fusion, enabling non-invasive, diagnostic procedure within tissue. It utilizes near-infrared (NIR) wavelength vision that is su…

The typical radiology reporting workflow involves the radiologist first looking at one or more relevant prior studies before interpreting the current study. To improve workflow efficiency, PACS systems can display relevant prior imaging studies, typically based on a study's anatomy as indicated in the Body Part Examine…

AIM: This article examines whether the proportion of recanters increases (or decreases) as a function of time o test length of time theory. SAMPLE: 2,221 US respondents in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth child data. Bivariate and logistic regression analyses were used. RESULTS: Among recanters, 50% of cigar…

PURPOSE: In aphasia treatment literature, scarce attention is paid to factors that may reduce a study's validity, including adherence to assessment and treatment procedures (i.e., fidelity). Although guidelines have been established for evaluating and reporting treatment fidelity, none exist for assessment fidelity. M…

AIM: To report on the development of an observation tool that can help a single researcher to collect field data about clinician and client interactions. BACKGROUND: Qualitative studies from a range of disciplines investigate the dynamics of interactions between clinicians and clients. These studies share and report f…

is an important cause of human infections globally and ranks among the top causes of death by bacteria. In addition, the microbe is notorious for developing resistance to antibiotics. Methicillin-resistantis endemic in healthcare facilities and the community in many regions of the world. Although our understanding ofas…