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The study's objective was to evaluate in-depth and follow comprehensively a group of patients receiving liver transplantation. The group consisted of patients with Laennec's cirrhosis and alcohol abuse or dependency. The subjects included 68 of 556 transplant patients, studied over a 7-year period. The results revealed…

BACKGROUND: A family based association study in a British sample found the NOTCH4 gene to be associated with schizophrenia; however, all six replication studies failed to confirm the finding. METHODS: We performed a family based association study of NOTCH4 and schizophrenia in 123 trios (16 Japanese and 107 Chinese).…

The purpose of this study is to explore the impact of GDP per capita income (GDPPCI), unemployment, higher education (HE), and economic growth (EG) on migration in Sri Lanka. Numerous global and local studies have explored the influence of macroeconomic and socioeconomic factors on migration. In the Sri Lankan context,…

OBJECTIVE: The Alcohol Expectancy Questionnaire (AEQ) is a widely used instrument in the field of alcohol research, and several different versions and scoring systems for the AEQ are in current use. Two previous confirmatory factor analytic studies failed to provide support for two of the present scoring systems for th…

BACKGROUND: Patients may seek health care services from various providers during treatment. These providers could serve in a network (affiliated) or practice separately (unaffiliated). Thus, using secure and reliable health information exchange (HIE) mechanisms would be critical to transfer sensitive personal health in…

This article presents partial findings from a study that examined the process experienced by parents (mainly mothers) of an adolescent child with terminal cancer. It focuses on two processes that characterize the parents' social world: a crisis in the parental role and a departure from the normative life cycle. These p…

The pro and anti-saccade task (PAT) is a widely used tool in the study of overt and covert attention with promising potential role in neurocognitive and psychiatric assessment. However, specific PAT protocols can vary significantly between labs, potentially resulting in large variations in findings across studies. In l…

Stanley Milgram's groundbreaking research on obedience to authority remains a foundational study in social psychology. His work revealed that a significant majority of individuals when instructed by an authoritative figure, were willing to administer what they believed were severe electric shocks to another person, all…

The article "ChatGPT Efficacy for Answering Musculoskeletal Anatomy Questions: A Study Evaluating Quality and Consistency between Raters and Timepoints" assesses the performance of ChatGPT 3.5 in answering musculoskeletal anatomy questions, highlighting variability in response quality and reproducibility. We raise seve…

PURPOSE: The intrarectal suture is considered a high technically complex procedure. The study's objectives were to assess the feasibility of making an intrarectal knot, through an in vitro study and assessing whether the video tutorial facilitates learning. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A detailed description of the techniqu…

OBJECTIVES: To describe the percentage of pediatric outpatient pharmacy prescriptions with inappropriate prescribing identified by a pharmacist that resulted in a change to the prescription. Secondary objectives include describing types of inappropriate prescribing errors, prevalence of Institute of Safe Medication Pra…

Multiple efficacy endpoints are investigated in clinical trials, and selecting the appropriate primary endpoints is key to the study's success. The global test is an analysis approach that can handle multiple endpoints without multiplicity adjustment. This test, which aggregates the statistics from multiple primary end…

OBJECTIVE: Quantitative ultrasound (QUS) analysis of the human cervix is valuable for predicting spontaneous preterm birth risk. However, this approach currently requires an offline processing step wherein a medically trained analyst manually draws a free-hand field of interest (Manual FOI) for QUS computation. This of…

BACKGROUND: There has been concern that the use of alcohol-containing mouthwash may increase the risk of developing oropharyngeal cancer, or OPC. The authors examine the epidemiologic literature relating to this issue. TYPES OF STUDIES REVIEWED: The authors identified all nine English-language epidemiologic studies of…

Time-restricted eating (TRE) has gained popularity in recent years as a weight loss option. Although many studies have explored the effectiveness of fasting, few have investigated the successful implementation of this method. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the successful and failed experiences of ov…

BACKGROUND: Analysis can be problematic in research when data are missing or erroneous. Various methods are available for managing missing and erroneous data, but little is known about which are the best to use when conducting cross-sectional surveys of nurse staffing. AIM: To explore how missing and erroneous data we…

This research methods Essay details the usefulness of critical theoretical frameworks and critical mixed-methodological approaches for life sciences education research on broadening participation in the life sciences. First, I draw on multidisciplinary research to discuss critical theory and methodologies. Then, I demo…

Understanding pandemic-related psychopathology development is limited due to numerous individual and contextual factors. It is widely accepted that individual differences to endure or cope with distress predict psychopathology development. The present study investigated the influence of individual differences in neurot…

BACKGROUND: We have previously demonstrated that a decreased recombination frequency between human X and Y chromosomes is associated with the production of aneuploid 24,XY sperm. This study's aim was to determine the relationship between recombination frequency in human pachytene spermatocytes and aneuploidy frequencie…

BACKGROUND: Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element that is involved in several pathophysiological functions. The relationship of Se with cardiovascular disease remains inconclusive, especially regarding the role of different selenospecies. OBJECTIVE: The present study assessed the levels of Se distribution in pla…