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Injuries to the upper gastrointestinal tract occurring over a 30-year period in a geographically well defined region were analyzed. The incidence was low in comparison with other abdominal injuries, but duodenal and pancreatic injuries were increasingly common in the study's last decade. The stomach injuries were mainl…

BACKGROUND: There have been no studies to date on the frequency and reactivity of aanti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (anti-MDA-5) in samples from the Brazilian population with dermatomyositis. OBJECTIVES: To analyze this autoantibody in the Brazilian population. METHODS: This was a single-center cross-s…

The Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT), the charity devoted to improving the lives of teenager cancer sufferers, has released the initial results of an independent study which it says prove that a high quality built environment, of the calibre seen in its 13 existing U.K. teenage cancer units, not only boosts patient morale by…

The present study aims to investigate whether a sense of relatedness to a city helps to broaden understanding of the restorative potential of urban public spaces. Findings based on a sample of German adults (= 249) confirm that people experience relatedness to a city. The study's 3 × 3 (built, mixed, natural envir…

Natural hazards affect different parts of living organisms. One of these hazards is aerosols. Addressing this issue in areas that suffer from this hazard is of critical importance. Scientific research over the past two decades has shown that aerosol particles are one of the main pollutants from the perspective of publi…

We investigated the relationships between leaders' and their followers' psychological capital and organizational identification in a Chinese community. Participants included 423 followers on 34 work teams, each with its respective team leader. Hierarchical linear models (HLM) were used in the analyses to delineate the…

Putri et al. (2025) presented a rigorous study on fecal contamination of shallow groundwater from on-site sanitation systems (OSS) in urban Indonesia, examining how lateral and vertical distances and rainfall influence contamination risk. We commend their work and suggest five practical additions to further strengthen…

BACKGROUND: The global prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus is steadily increasing, leading to a larger diabetic population undergoing root canal treatment (RCT). However, clinical studies assessing anesthetic success in diabetic patients are lacking. In diabetic patients, local anesthetic success may be affected owing to n…

This study's objective was to explore the association between various factors and the increased caregiver burden of informal caregivers during the COVID-19 pandemic. On February, 2021, 700 informal caregivers completed an online survey. We assessed the change in caregiver burden during the COVID-19 pandemic. Among all…

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Student perceptions of day-to-day physician work life, and relationships between these perceptions and specialty choices, have not been quantitatively explored. The study's purposes were to measure student perceptions of primary care and specialist physician work life, including administrativ…

BACKGROUND: Inherited retinal dystrophies are hereditary diseases which have in common the progressive degeneration of photoreceptors. They are a group of diseases with clinical, genetic, and allelic heterogeneity. There is limited information regarding the genetic landscape of inherited retinal diseases in Mexico, the…

The depth of invasion of colorectal cancer through the bowel wall provided the basis for pathological staging. The establishment of prognostic markers for CRC is important in the search for potential targets for therapeutic intervention. The cell surface nucleotidase (CD73) is an enzyme involved in tumor progression an…

The study's purpose was to explore whether frequency of cyberbullying victimization, cognitive appraisals, and coping strategies were associated with psychological adjustments among college student cyberbullying victims. A convenience sample of 121 students completed questionnaires. Linear regression analyses found fre…

This paper studies how household social capital affects adolescents' demand for alcoholic drinks. To that end, we focus on a theoretical framework that combines elements from the Model of Rational Addiction and the Model of Social Economics. For the empirical framework, we use a simultaneous Type II Tobit model, with d…

An association between stress at work and impaired sleep is theoretically plausible and supported by empirical evidence. The current study's main aim was to investigate how the influence of stressors is carried over into the evening and the night. We assume that this relationship is mediated by perseverative cognitions…

To explore possible reasons for low self-identification rates among undergraduates with learning disabilities (LD), we asked students (38 with LD, 100 without LD) attending two large, public, research-intensive universities to respond to a questionnaire designed to assess stereotypes about individuals with LD and conce…

PURPOSE: To better understand why adolescents initiate sexual activity at early ages, we conducted a systematic literature review guided by eight key elements outlined in an integrative theoretical framework. METHODS: Using the matrix method for literature reviews, we extracted-from 69 published studies-statistically…

The study's aims were to empirically derive classes of disorders and dimensional syndromes within psychotic disorders on the basis of the three time frames of symptom assessment and to comparatively examine their external validity. The level of concordance among classes and among dimensions across the time frames was g…

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of smoking and the attitudes towards the restriction of smoking at work among female nurses in the national hospitals in Japan. DESIGN: Questionnaires mailed to 14 randomly selected national hospitals and sanitariums in Japan in 1993. SUBJECTS: 2207 female nurses. MAIN OUTCOME M…

A local prostatectomy audit is being undertaken to gain some insight into the pre- and peri-operative factors that influence post-operative outcome and length of post-operative stay. The aims of the first phase of the audit, involving 150 prostatectomy patients, have been to attempt to define the minimum data set requi…