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Self‐acceptance and associated factors among Chinese women with breast cancer
Authors: Chen Shuang‐Qin , Liu Jun‐E , Zhang Zhi‐Xia , Li Zhi 
Published: June 2016

Aims and objectivesTo identify self‐acceptance and associated socio‐demographic and disease factors among Chinese women with breast cancer.BackgroundAlthough it is recognised that breast cancer can affect a woman's feelings of self‐acceptance, there are few studies concerning the level of self‐acceptance among women with breast cancer and factors associated with self‐acceptance in this population.DesignCross‐sectional research design.MethodsData were collected using the convenience sampling method. A total of 308 women with breast cancer were investigated using the Self‐Acceptance Questionnaire.ResultsThe mean score on the Self‐Acceptance Questionnaire was 39·79 ± 5·14, indicating that the women in this study had low levels of self‐acceptance. Multiple regression analysis indicated that self‐acceptance was positively associated with the time since diagnosis, household income and the presence of medical insurance/government‐funded medical treatment, while Tumour, Lymph Node, Metastasis stage was negatively associated with self‐acceptance. With respect to work status, retired patients had the highest levels of self‐acceptance, those who had returned to work had moderate levels of self‐acceptance and those who had not yet returned to work had the lowest levels of self‐acceptance.ConclusionsThis study demonstrates that the level of self‐acceptance among women with breast cancer in China is low, and suggests that there is room to improve. Several factors are significantly associated with the self‐acceptance of women with breast cancer.Relevance to clinical practiceMedical staff should realise that the level of self‐acceptance among women with breast cancer in China is low and has room to improve. It is important to conduct appropriate interventions to improve self‐acceptance among these women, based on an understanding of the factors associated with self‐acceptance.
Supplementing the Braden scale for pressure ulcer risk among medical inpatients: the contribution of self‐reported symptoms and standard laboratory tests
Authors: Skogestad Ingrid Johansen , Martinsen Liv , Børsting Tove Elisabet , Granheim Tove Irene , Ludvigsen Eirin Sigurdssøn , Gay Caryl L , Lerdal Anners 
Published: June 2016

Aims and objectivesTo evaluate medical inpatients’ symptom experience and selected laboratory blood results as indicators of their pressure ulcer risk as measured by the Braden scale.BackgroundPressure ulcers reduce quality of life and increase treatment costs. The prevalence of pressure ulcers is 6–23% in hospital populations, but literature suggests that most pressure ulcers are avoidable.DesignProspective, cross‐sectional survey.MethodsThree hundred and twenty‐eight patients admitted to medical wards in an acute hospital in Oslo, Norway consented to participate. Data were collected on 10 days between 2012–2014 by registered nurses and nursing students. Pressure ulcer risk was assessed using the Braden scale, and scores <19 indicated pressure ulcer risk. Skin examinations were categorised as normal or stages I–IV using established definitions. Comorbidities were collected by self‐report. Self‐reported symptom occurrence and distress were measured with 15 items from the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale, and pain was assessed using two numeric rating scales. Admission laboratory data were collected from medical records.ResultsPrevalence of pressure ulcers was 11·9, and 20·4% of patients were identified as being at risk for developing pressure ulcers. Multivariable analysis showed that pressure ulcer risk was positively associated with age ≥80 years, vomiting, severe pain at rest, urination problems, shortness of breath and low albumin and was negatively associated with nervousness.ConclusionOur study indicates that using patient‐reported symptoms and standard laboratory results as supplemental indicators of pressure ulcer risk may improve identification of vulnerable patients, but replication of these findings in other study samples is needed.Relevance to clinical practice

Nurses play a key role in preventing pressure ulcers during hospitalisation. A better understanding of the underlying mechanisms may improve the quality of care.

Knowledge about symptoms associated with pressure ulcer risk may contribute to a faster clinical judgment of patients at risk.
When children with profound multiple disabilities are hospitalized: A cross‐sectional survey of parental burden of care, quality of life of parents and their hospitalized children, and satisfaction with family‐centered care
Authors: Seliner Brigitte , Latal Bea , Spirig Rebecca 
Published: June 2016

AbstractPurposeWe aimed to assess parental burden of care, satisfaction with family‐centered care, and quality of life (HRQoL) of parents and their hospitalized children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD), and determine the relationship among these factors.DesignA cross‐sectional study using printed questionnaires and qualitative questions was undertaken at a Swiss University Children's Hospital.ResultsThe 117 parents (98 mothers, 19 fathers) studied indicated a substantial impact on burden of care and parental health‐related quality of life. Significant correlations with the hospitalized children's well‐being were rs = .408 for burden of care and rs –.368 for quality of life. Qualitative results showed parents struggling to safeguard their children and worrying most about the children's well‐being.Practice ImplicationsHealth professionals need to be aware of parental burden and that the perception of the children's well‐being and the parents' efforts determine their support needs. Easing parents’ burden and fostering confidence in the hospitalized children's well‐being requires coordination of care provided by advanced nurse specialists, with an institutional framework that clarifies parental collaboration.
Functional traits of seeds dispersed through endozoochory by native forest ungulates
Authors: Picard Mélanie , Chevalier Richard , Barrier Rachel , Boscardin Yves , Baltzinger Christophe 
Published: June 2016

AbstractAimsZoochory is a prominent dispersal process in a wide range of plant species. However, the extent to which the trait composition of dispersed seed assemblages differs from the regional assemblage remains untested, as does the extent to which sympatric native herbivores disperse traits non‐randomly.LocationLorris and Montargis forests, central France.MethodsWe compared the taxonomic and functional composition of seed assemblages dispersed by three wild ungulates to the characteristics of the regional flora in an agro‐forested landscape. We collected roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), red deer (Cervus elaphus) and wild boar (Sus scrofa) faeces in two forests, and subjected the samples to germination under controlled conditions. We first examined how different vectors influence the composition of the dispersed plant assemblages by comparing abundance and species richness of the seedlings emerging from the faeces of the three ungulates. We then compared the functional characteristics of the dispersed pool with those of the regional flora in a multivariate functional space built from 20 relevant plant traits.ResultsA total of 754 seedlings and 46 plant species germinated from 300 faeces samples, with higher plant species richness and abundance for red deer faeces. All three ungulates widely use forest habitat, but the proportion of non‐forest plants was higher in red deer and wild boar faeces than in the regional species pool. Traits such as seed shape, seed size or seed bank longevity affected dispersal probability, but their effects were overshadowed by habitat effects.ConclusionsEndozoochory acts as an indirect functional filter, filtering species according to the vectors' feeding habitat. This could affect the composition of forest plant communities by allowing plants from open habitats to colonize forested areas.
Cellular basis of anti‐predator adaptation in a lizard with autotomizable blue tail against specific predators with different colour vision
Authors: Kuriyama T. , Morimoto G. , Miyaji K. , Hasegawa M. 
Published: June 2016

AbstractJuveniles of numerous lizard species have a vividly blue‐coloured tail that likely serves to deflect predator attacks toward the autotomizable tail rather than the lizard's body. The shades of blue colour in the tails of juvenile Plestiodon latiscutatus lizards vary across populations, most notably among those island populations with different predator assemblages. Here, we determine if this intraspecific variation is associated with the differences in colour vision capabilities of lizard predator species. If associated, it would be evidence for local adaptation of tail colour phenotype – natural selection is maximizing the conspicuousness of the tail to the dominant predator species to increase the chance of successfully deflecting attacks. We also use transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to determine the proximate cellular mechanisms that produce the shades of blue in different populations. We revealed that lizard tails with vivid blue reflectance evolved in communities with either weasel or snake predators, two groups of animals with the ability to detect blue wavelengths. However, lizard tail UV reflectance was much higher in populations with only snake predators; that snakes can detect UV, yet weasels cannot, suggests that high UV reflectance is an adaptation to increase tail conspicuousness specifically to snake predators. Finally, a cryptic brown tail evolved independently on the islands where birds are the primary lizard predator. We suggest that because birds have keen visual acuity; a brown, camouflaged phenotype is more advantageous. We also determined through TEM that the thickness of light reflecting platelets in iridophores, and densities of iridophores and xanthophores, predicted the wavelengths and intensity of light reflected by the lizard tail. For example, blue coloration was produced by selective reflection of short wavelengths of light by the thin light reflecting platelets of the iridophore. Greater iridophore density increased light reflectance, while greater xanthophore density decreased light reflectance.
A Perceptual Learning Approach to the Whorfian Hypothesis: Supervised Classification of Motion
Authors: Athanasopoulos Panos , Albright Daniel 
Published: June 2016

AbstractRecent research on the relationship between grammatical aspect and motion event cognition has shown that speakers of nonaspect languages (e.g., German, Swedish) attend to event endpoints more than speakers of aspect languages (e.g., English, Spanish). In this study, we took a perceptual learning approach to the Whorfian hypothesis, training native English speakers to categorize events either in an English‐like way (same‐language bias) or in a Swedish‐like way (other‐language bias), with and without verbal interference in English. Results showed that successful learning occurred in both language conditions. However, verbal interference disrupted learning only in the condition where the perceptual dimension to be learned was also salient in the participant's native language. This revealed selective language influence depending on the associative or dissociative relationship between the linguistic features occurring in the observer's native language and the perceptual features of the stimuli presented to them.Open PracticesThis article has been awarded an Open Materials badge. All materials are publicly accessible in the IRIS digital repository athttp://www.iris‐database.org. Learn more about the Open Practices badges from the Center for Open Science:https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki.
The evolution of reading in the age of digitisation: an integrative framework for reading research
Authors: Mangen Anne , van der Weel Adriaan 
Published: June 2016

AbstractIn the course of digitisation, the range of substrates for textual reading is being expanded to include a number of screen‐based technologies and reading devices, such as e‐readers (e.g. Kindle) and tablets (e.g. iPad). These technologies have distinctly different affordances than paper has. Given that textual reading is at the same time likely to remain important as a cultural practice, and is undergoing massive change as digital screens are supplementing paper – with the potential to replace it as the dominant substrate – there is an urgent need to investigate what effects such change might have on the reading of different kinds of texts, for different purposes. This article proposes the need for an integrative, transdisciplinary model of embodied, textual reading accounting for its psychological, ergonomic, technological, social, cultural and evolutionary aspects. The envisaged model aims to be partly explanatory, in the sense that it aligns and integrates existing knowledge, and partly exploratory, in the sense that it points to blank spots in our knowledge where further research is needed. The model will thus serve to guide the planning of such further research, and to make research more compatible and research outcomes more widely useable.
Magnetic alignment in warthogs Phacochoerus africanus and wild boars Sus scrofa
Authors: Červený Jaroslav , Burda Hynek , Ježek Miloš , Kušta Tomáš , Husinec Václav , Nováková Petra , Hart Vlastimil , Hartová Veronika , Begall Sabine , Malkemper E. Pascal 
Published: June 2016

AbstractMagnetic alignment (MA) results from the preference of animals to align themselves along the field lines of the geomagnetic field, a behavioural expression of a magnetic sense. MA is well documented for ruminants and might demonstrate a general magnetic sensory ability among artiodactyls. We measured body‐axis alignment in 1614 foraging or resting wild boars Sus scrofa, 1849 wild boar beds, and 1347 warthogs Phacochoerus africanus, and found a highly significant north–south preference. The magnetic field was the only common denominator of all observations. Thus, we provide the first data suggesting a magnetic sense in the Suidae.
Phenotyping of subjects for large scale studies on patients with IBS
Authors: Boeckxstaens G. E. , Drug V. , Dumitrascu D. , Farmer A. D. , Hammer J. , Hausken T. , Niesler B. , Pohl D. , Pojskic L. , Polster A. , Simren M. , Goebel‐Stengel M. , Van Oudenhove L. , Vassallo M. , Wensaas K.‐A. , Aziz Q. , Houghton L. A. ,   COST Action BM1106 GENIEUR members
Published: June 2016

AbstractBackgroundIrritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a complex condition with multiple factors contributing to its aetiology and pathophysiology. Aetiologically these include genetics, life‐time events and environment, and physiologically, changes in motility, central processing, visceral sensitivity, immunity, epithelial permeability and gastrointestinal microflora. Such complexity means there is currently no specific reliable biomarker for IBS, and thus IBS continues to be diagnosed and classified according to symptom based criteria, the Rome Criteria. Carefully phenotyping and characterisation of a ‘large’ pool of IBS patients across Europe and even the world however, might help identify sub‐populations with accuracy and consistency. This will not only aid future research but improve tailoring of treatment and health care of IBS patients.PurposeThe aim of this position paper is to discuss the requirements necessary to standardize the process of selecting and phenotyping IBS patients and how to organise the collection and storage of patient information/samples in such a large multi‐centre pan European/global study. We include information on general demographics, gastrointestinal symptom assessment, psychological factors, quality of life, physiological evaluation, genetic/epigenetic and microbiota analysis, biopsy/blood sampling, together with discussion on the organisational, ethical and language issues associated with implementing such a study. The proposed approach and documents selected to be used in such a study was the result of a thoughtful and thorough four‐year dialogue amongst experts associated with the European COST action BM1106 GENIEUR (www.GENIEUR.eu).
Judith Butler's theories: reflections for nursing research and practice
Authors: Nagington Maurice G. 
Published: June 2016

AbstractJudith Butler is one of the most influential late 20th and early 21st century philosophers in regard to left wing politics, as well as an active campaigner for social justice within the United States and worldwide. Her academic work has been foundational to the academic discipline of queer theory and has been extensively critiqued and applied across a hugely wide range of disciplines. In addition, Butler's work itself is extensive covering topics such as gender, sexuality, race, literary theory, and warfare. This article can only serve as a taster for the potential application of her work in relation to nursing, which is in its infancy. This introduction covers three of the potentially most productive themes in Butler's work, namely power, performativity, and ethics. Each of these themes are critically explored in turn, sometimes in relation to their actual application in nursing literature, but also in relation to their potential for producing novel critiques of nursing practice. Suggestions are made about how Butler's work can develop nursing research and practice. The article concludes with a short summary of Butler's key works as well as suggested reading for people interested in examining how her theories have been applied across different academic settings.
Successful living donor liver transplantation for classical maple syrup urine disease
Authors: Yasui Toshihiro , Suzuki Tatsuya , Hara Fujio , Watanabe Shunsuke , Uga Naoko , Naoe Atsuki , Yoshikawa Tetsushi , Ito Tetsuya , Nakajima Yoko , Miura Hiroki , Sugioka Atsushi , Kato Yutaro , Tokoro Takamasa , Tanahashi Yoshinao , Kasahara Mureo , Fukuda Akinari , Kurahashi Hiroki 
Published: June 2016

AbstractMSUD is an autosomal recessive condition characterized by a deficiency in the enzyme, BCKDH, which catalyzes the breakdown of BCAAs. If left untreated, MSUD can result in mental retardation, central nervous system disorders, and even death. Most patients with MSUD are treated with a restricted protein diet and milk from which BCAAs have been removed. LT has been shown effective in patients with MSUD. This report describes the case of a 15‐month‐old boy who received a liver graft from his mother. Transplantation was successful, and the patient was then able to ingest a normal diet. Despite episodes of acute rejection, chylous ascites, and high fever (40 °C), he has shown no evidence of MSUD recurrence. These findings indicate that patients with MSUD can be successfully treated by LDLT, even when the donor is a heterozygous carrier of a mutated BCKDH gene.
Novel function of histamine signaling via histamine receptors in cholesterol and bile acid metabolism: Histamine H2 receptor protects against nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Authors: Yamada Sohsuke , Guo Xin , Wang Ke‐Yong , Tanimoto Akihide , Sasaguri Yasuyuki 
Published: June 2016

AbstractWe have reported that the function of histamine and its receptors (HRs) has a close relationship with the development of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). However, much less is known regarding its pathogenic and molecular mechanism(s), including the early stage of hepatic and intestinal function for lipid and bile acid (BA) metabolism. We used H1R and H2R knockout mice (H1/2R‐KO) to clarify those pivotal roles in cholesterol/BA metabolism, in which H1/2R‐KO mice were separately fed a short‐term 1% cholesterol or cholic acid (CA) diet. [3H]Cholesterol absorption study revealed that significantly enhanced accumulation occurred in the jejunum, blood and liver, but not in the feces, of H2R‐KO mice, compared to wild‐type and H1R‐KO mice. Furthermore, four weeks after the high‐cholesterol diet, the H2R‐KO jejunum but not liver exhibited increased expressions of cholesterol transporters, consistent with higher plasma lipoprotein levels. Five days after CA diet, the H2R‐KO mice showed significantly higher expressions of ileal BA‐reabsorption and hepatic BA‐efflux factors, corresponding to higher serum but lower fecal BA levels. The following long‐term CA diets resulted in severe injury to the H2R‐KO liver. Histamine/H2R signaling might have a protective role in the initial phase during NAFLD progression, correlated with cholesterol and BA metabolism in the liver/intestine.
Strategies to modulate the intestinal microbiota of Tilapia (Oreochromis sp.) in aquaculture: a review
Authors: Haygood Alyssa M. , Jha Rajesh 
Published: June 2016

AbstractTilapia (Oreochromis sp.) are the most widespread aquaculture species grown and are expected to continue increasing in production to meet the growing demand for fish by an ever‐increasing human population. Fish health management is one of the major concerns in the production of aquaculture species. A number of studies have been conducted to identify new procedures for reducing disease of commonly farmed species, such as tilapia. To prevent disease, the use of antibiotics is common practice in most aquaculture facilities. However, consumer demand and increasing incidence of antibiotic resistance have caused the reduction in the use of antibiotics being administered regularly. A recent strategy is the incorporation of antibiotic alternatives, such as probiotics, prebiotics, and alternative carbohydrate ingredients to promote the growth and health of the fish through the modulation of gastrointestinal microbiota. Intestinal autochthonous microbiota fulfils a number of important roles in host digestion, immunity and intestinal integrity. In the past, the majority of studies on the intestinal microbiota of tilapia used culture‐based methods that are not representative of the entire community. With the advancement of molecular techniques, current studies are utilizing culture‐independent methods to monitor the microbial modulation in the tilapia gastrointestinal tract. This review discusses the effects of antibiotics, probiotics, prebiotics and alternative feed ingredients on the intestinal microbiota of tilapia using culture‐independent techniques. Although advances have been made in the understanding of tilapia intestinal microbiota, more research is needed into the microbial ecology, alternative feedstuff effects and economic impacts of modulating intestinal microbiota of tilapia.
Design and implementation of a collaborative epidemiological surveillance system for aquaculture (VECA)
Authors: Muniesa Ana , Ruiz‐Zarzuela Imanol , de Blas Ignacio 
Published: June 2016

AbstractSyndromic surveillance and participatory epidemiology are nowadays taking part in the public health system because they can be very interesting tools to complement the classical ones. Although syndromic surveillance could be nonspecific, it is usually based on real‐time data analysis to provide early warnings. Participatory Epidemiology can bring us different and interesting approaches that we can use to better understand the problem. VECA implements an epidemiological surveillance system, validated by experts and users, which allows collecting real‐time information of each facility on production data, origin of animals, environmental parameters, disease status and therapeutic and prophylactic measures. Based on the data collected, the results of preliminary epidemiological analyses have been selected to design the most relevant indexes, which will set different levels of health warning, to help those responsible for aquatic animal health and producers to make the right decisions. The platform can be used by owners or those responsible of farms who wish to collaborate in the development of this system of epidemiological alert and to prevent future diseases that cause incalculable losses in the sector.