There is much to say on what the COVID-19 crisis tells us about our current human condition, the efficacy of governance by nation-states, the effectiveness and inevitability of global institutions, and significantly the implication of all this for anthropology. In previous publications, I stressed the need for taking a “whole system” or integrated approach of balance and harmony, whether though worldviews or actual governance, situated in cultural context to meet today’s needs, and moving away from...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 22:30
COVID-19 poses a great challenge to the dominant American narrative. You could be prime minister of the United Kingdom, a member of a royal family, a country music star, a CNN newscaster, a worker, or a college student and come down with this most democratic of diseases. Or someone long-forgotten in a nursing home, suddenly relevant because you show up in the death count. It doesn’t matter what country, state, or county you live in. Did they make some bad choices? Our dominant narrative is one of...
Fri Apr 24, 2020 21:30
Abstract Introduction Many environmental factors are related to the development of asthma. However, the key factors of childhood asthma onset have not been sufficiently elucidated. Further, low-weight births have increased in Japan. The aim of this study was to examine the risk factors for the incidence of childhood asthma and to evaluate whether these risk factors differ according to birth weight in Japan. ...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 03:00
Abstract Objectives Very little research has explored the complex relation between ACEs, poverty, and obesity in young children with neurodevelopmental delays. The purpose of this study was to examine whether ACEs predicted overweight/obesity in young children with neurodevelopmental delays after income was taken into account, and to examine the extent to which poverty moderated the relation between ACEs and overweight/obesity. ...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 03:00
Abstract Objective To compare patterns of routine postpartum health care utilization for women in Wisconsin with continuous Medicaid eligibility versus pregnancy-only Medicaid Methods This analysis used Medicaid records and linked infant birth certificates for Medicaid paid births in Wisconsin during 2011–2015 (n = 105,718). We determined if women...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Abstract Objective Breastfeeding has multiple benefits for women and babies. Understanding factors contributing to intention to exclusively breastfeed may allow for improving the rates in first-time mothers. The study objective was to examine factors associated with a woman’s intention to breastfeed her first child. Methods A secondary analysis of...
Sat Apr 25, 2020 03:00
Current Anthropology, Ahead of Print.
Mon Apr 27, 2020 09:54
Researchers report that, for a bacterial pathogen already resistant to an antibiotic, prolonged exposure to that antibiotic not only boosted its ability to retain its resistance gene, but also made the pathogen more readily pick up and maintain resistance to a second antibiotic and become a dangerous, multidrug-resistant strain.
Mon Apr 27, 2020 19:52
Researchers have identified the genetic basis of rapid adaptation using a native fish species. They compared threespine stickleback fish from different habitats in the Lake Constance region. Their study reveals that changes in the genome can be observed within a single generation.
Mon Apr 27, 2020 19:51
Publication date: Available online 27 April 2020Source: British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryAuthor(s): B. Ida, C. Raffaella, K. Elvis, F. Francesco, C.M. Giulia
Mon Apr 27, 2020 22:24
Publication date: Available online 27 April 2020Source: British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial SurgeryAuthor(s): Luigi Angelo Vaira, Giovanni Salzano, Giacomo De Riu
Mon Apr 27, 2020 22:24
Publication date: April 2020Source: British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Volume 58, Issue 3Author(s):
Fri Apr 24, 2020 15:11
Publication date: April 2020Source: British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Volume 58, Issue 3Author(s):
Fri Apr 24, 2020 15:11
Publication date: April 2020Source: British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Volume 58, Issue 3Author(s): Zhiguo Zhao, Dan Gao
Fri Apr 24, 2020 15:11
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is one of the severe health issues and is one of the most common types of heart diseases. It is the most frequent cause of mortality across the globe due to the lack of a healthy lifestyle. Owing to the fact that a heart attack occurs without any apparent symptoms, an intelligent detection method is inescapable. In this article, a new CHD detection method based on a machine learning technique, e.g., classifier ensembles, is dealt with. A two-tier ensemble is built, where...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 18:50
Emerging evidence indicates that resistin and fascin-1 may possess a causal role in the development of several types of cancers. However, the clinical significance of resistin expression in colorectal cancer (CRC) tissues is unclear, and there are no reports of any correlation between resistin and fascin-1. Our analyses explored the expression of resistin in CRC tissue and analyzed the clinical and prognostic significance of the observed positive correlation between resistin and fascin-1. The rate...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 17:35
Tobacco exposure is one of the major risks for the initiation and progress of lung cancer. The exact corresponding mechanisms, however, are mainly unknown. Recently, a growing body of evidence has been collected supporting the involvement of DNA methylation in the regulation of gene expression in cancer cells. The identification of tobacco-related signature methylation probes and the analysis of their regulatory networks at different molecular levels may be of a great help for understanding tobacco-related...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 17:05
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the hallmark complications of diabetes and a leading cause of vision loss in adults. Retinal pericyte death seems to be a prominent feature in the onset of DR. Pyroptosis is an inflammatory form of programmed cell death, defined as being caspase-gasdermin-D (GSDMD)-dependent. The NOD-like receptor pyrin 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome plays an important role in mediating GSDMD activation. However, the role and mechanism of pyroptosis in the loss of retinal pericytes during...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 15:35
Background. There are few large sample studies evaluating the safety and efficacy of lamivudine (LAM) or telbivudine (LdT) in preventing hepatitis B mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) in highly viremic mothers in the third trimester of pregnancy in real-world settings. The purpose of this study was to analyze a large sample size of HBV-infected mothers to better understand the safety and efficacy of LAM and LdT under the aforementioned criteria. Methods. During the period of November 2008 to November...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:50
Objective. This study is aimed at studying the effect of quercetin on the Alzheimer disease cell model induced by Aβ25-35 in PC12 cells and its mechanism of action. Methods. The AD cell model was established by Aβ25-35. Quercetin was used at different concentrations (0, 10, 20, 40, and 80 μmol/L). The morphology of cells was observed, and the effect on cell survival rate was detected by the MTT method. Cell proliferation was detected by the SRB method. The contents of LDH, SOD, MDA, GSH-Px, AChE,...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 12:50
Objective. Evaluate the effects of carboxy-methyl-beta-glucan on cervical epithelialization and on the vaginal microbiota in patients with HPV infection or low-grade cervical preneoplastic lesion (CIN 1). Materials and Methods. Seven-hundred eighty-four women with positive HPV tests or diagnosed with CIN 1 were enrolled in a retrospective case-control study. All the recruited women performed, at baseline and after 6 months, Pap test, HPV test, evaluation of vaginal health according to the Amsel criteria,...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 11:35
Introduction. Coronary artery angiography using radial artery is one of the methods used for diagnosis of coronary artery disease, which causes physical and psychological problems in patients despite its precise and definite diagnosis. The present study is aimed at investigating the effect of peer group-based education on physical and psychological outcomes of patients undergoing coronary artery angiography through the radial artery. Methodology. The present clinical study was conducted on 60 patients...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 11:35
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis of childhood with prolonged fever, and the diagnosis of KD is mainly based on clinical criteria, which is prone to misdiagnosis with other febrile infectious (FI) diseases. Currently, there remain no effective molecular markers for KD diagnosis. In this study, we aimed to use a relative-expression-based method k-TSP and resampling framework to identify robust gene pair signatures to distinguish KD from bacterial and virus febrile infectious diseases....
Mon Apr 27, 2020 11:05
Mutations in NDP and FZD4 have been closely related to a series of retinal diseases including familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR). Our study was designed to identify novel NDP and FZD4 mutations by whole exome sequencing (WES) in a cohort of patients with a definitive diagnosis of FEVR and explore the underlying molecular mechanism. During 2016, we investigated fifty nonconsanguineous families with affected individuals exhibiting FEVR phenotype and WES identified one recently reported mutation:...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:35
Background. Occupational injuries pose a major public health and socioeconomic developmental problems. Globally, 160 million people encounter occupational injuries; the International Labour Organization estimates that the cost is 4% of the global gross domestic product (GDP) or 1.25 trillion United States Dollar (USD). The second-largest number of occupational injuries was reported from the construction industries. There are limited studies about the prevalence and factors associated with occupational...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:35
Selenium is an essential trace element, which has certain antioxidant properties. Na2SeO3 is toxic, and its use is limited. SeMet, as an organic selenium, is less toxic than Na2SeO3. In this experiment, different concentrations of Na2SeO3 and SeMet were added to MEA and PDA media to observe the effect of selenium on the sclerotium differentiation of Q1 strain, and the contents of carotenoids, ascorbic acid, and total phenol and their reducing power, DPPH free radical scavenging ability, ferrous ion...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:20
Background. Bariatric surgery patients have a higher prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver (NAFL) than the general population; however, its assessment and the accurate staging of fibrosis are often complicated because noninvasive tests are not very accurate in patients with morbid obesity, and liver biopsy cannot be performed as a routine exam. The aim of this study was to evaluate (A) the histological prevalence of NAFL, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and fibrosis in patients undergoing bariatric...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:05
Objective. To identify factors associated with increased proportion of early gastric cancer to total detected gastric cancer among patients undergoing diagnostic esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Methods. A nationwide survey was conducted across 6 central-type and 6 municipal-type Vietnamese hospitals. A questionnaire regarding annual esophagogastroduodenoscopy volume, esophagogastroduodenoscopy preparation, the use of image-enhanced endoscopy, and number of gastric cancer diagnosed in 2018 was sent to...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 08:05
Background. We aim at investigating the correlation between skip N2 metastases (SN2) and SUVmax, long diameter of tumor mass after 18F-FDG PET/CT, and pathological Ki67 expression in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods and Results. We retrospectively analyzed the factors that might affect the pathogenesis of SN2 in these patients. The clinical SN2 symptoms in patients with squamous carcinoma or adenocarcinoma were investigated. The work curve was utilized to analyze the optimal...
Mon Apr 27, 2020 06:35
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