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MIXED‐METHODS EVALUATION OF PARTICIPANT RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION IN THE MOM POWER PARENTING INTERVENTION PROGRAM
Authors: Mucka Lilia E. , Dayton Carolyn J. , Lawler Jamie , Kirk Rosalind , Alfafara Emily , Schuster Melisa m. , Miller Nicole , Ribaudo Julie , Rosenblum Katherine Lisa , Muzik Maria 
Published: June 2017

ABSTRACTParenting group success begins with attendance. Using archival pilot data from 99 mothers who enrolled in the Mom Power (MP) parenting intervention, this study sought to understand the factors that influenced participant engagement and retention. MP is a group‐based, early intervention program grounded in attachment theory that utilizes motivational interviewing as a core component to enhance program engagement. Study aims were to qualitatively describe the reasons why mothers were interested in participating in the program, including what they hoped to gain from the experience, and to quantitatively examine the extent to which attendance was associated with demographic, experiential, and psychosocial factors. The qualitative analysis of intake interviews revealed that mothers expected the MP intervention to provide a warm environment for themselves and their children as well as to support and enhance their parenting, and 95% revealed their hopes that the intervention would help them grow and develop as women. Attendance rates were relatively high, with 62% of mothers missing less than one group session. Quantitative analyses using multiple regression to test associations of demographic, experiential, and psychosocial factors with attendance rates were not significant. Results suggest that motivational interviewing may be an important component in promoting participant engagement efforts in parenting interventions.
Validity of medical history taken by pharmacists using a medical history taking tool
Authors: Matsushita Aya , Haruta Junji , Tsutumi Madoka , Sato Takuya , Maeno Tetsuhiro 
Published: June 2017

AbstractBackgroundThe progress in aging and the shortage of physicians is a significant problem in Japan. Hence, healthcare professionals including pharmacists should cooperate to provide medical services with limited resources. However, pharmacists might have inadequate skills in taking medical histories. Therefore, we developed an interview tool to collect accurate medical history. In this study, we aimed to validate the contents of medical histories taken by a pharmacist using the interview tool and investigate physician consultation length.MethodsSetting intervention days alternately, adult outpatients of the Kitaibaraki Center for Family Medicine who had new symptoms had their medical histories taken by one of two pharmacists before their physician visit during the study period. The contents of the medical history taken by a pharmacist using text analysis were validated on other four days. All sentences collected by a pharmacist or five physicians were divided into segments, and six other physicians assessed each segment. Differences in length of the physician consultation between those with and without (intervention and control groups, respectively) medical history taken by a pharmacist were investigated.ResultsOf 23 patients’ medical histories taken by a pharmacist using the interview tool, 84.4% of segments were related to the clinical diagnosis. The mean consultation length was 10.1±8.4 minutes in the intervention group (n=104) and 13.0±10.4 minutes in the control group (n=96) (p=0.048).ConclusionsMedical histories taken by a pharmacist using the interview tool had high content validity and might reduce physician consultation length.
Gibberellic acid promoting phytic acid degradation in germinating soybean under calcium lactate treatment
Authors: Hui Qianru , Wang Mian , Wang Pei , Ma Ya , Gu Zhenxin , Yang Runqiang 
Published: June 2017

AbstractBACKGROUNDPhytic acid as a phosphorus storage vault provides phosphorus for plant development. It is an anti‐nutritional factor for humans and some animals. However, its degradation products lower inositol phosphates have positive effects on human health. In this study, the effect of gibberellic acid (GA) on phytic acid degradation under calcium lactate (Ca) existence was investigated.RESULTSThe results showed that Ca + GA treatment promoted the growth status, hormone metabolism and phytic acid degradation in germinating soybean. At the same time, the availability of phosphorus, the activity of phytic acid degradation‐associated enzyme and phosphoinositide‐specific phospholipase C (PI‐PLC) increased. However, the relative genes expression of phytic acid degradation‐associated enzymes did not vary in accordance with their enzymes activity.CONCLUSIONThe results revealed that GA could mediate the transport and function of calcium and a series of physiological and biochemical changes to regulate phytic acid degradation of soybean sprouts. © 2017 Society of Chemical Industry
Ultralight and Flexible MWNTs/Polyimide Hybrid Aerogels for Elastic Conductors
Authors: Wang Yanan , Ge Qiyan , Chen Xueli , Qi Shengli , Tian Guofeng , Wu Dezhen 
Published: June 2017

Aerogels have showed tremendous potential applications because of its unique and outstanding properties. Herein, a novel two‐step approach to form self‐assembly nanocomposite aerogels driven by the strong interactions between water‐soluble polyimide (PI) precursor polyamic acid salt (PAAs) and hydroxyl multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs‐OH) is reported. The PI therein constitutes the framework of the nanocomposite and raises the strength of the cell walls, which endows aerogels with superelasticity and robustness. The MWNTs‐OH is distributed uniformly into water via physical ultrasonic method followed by blending with PAA molecular. During the imidization process, electrically insulating polyamic acid (PAA)/MWNTs‐OH aerogels are converted to conductive PI/MWNTs‐OH nanocomposite aerogels owning to the removal of their oxygenic functional groups of OH functionalized MWNTs. Moreover, adding multi‐walled carbon nanotube (MWNTs) contributes to the reduction of shrinkage notably, which can be evidenced by scanning electron microscopy measurement and density data. The nanocomposite aerogels display a high elastic modulus, high compressive stress, superior robustness, and high stress‐sensitive electrical conductivity. Interestingly, the variation trend of the electric resistance with compressive strain (R/R0–ε) plots is consistent with the compressive stress–strain (σ–ε) curves, which can be explained by the “interface contact spots” theory. And this finding could facilitate the development of polymer‐based nanocomposite aerogels as elastic conductors for various applications.
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A novel and fast method for proton range verification using a step wedge and 2D scintillator
Authors: Shen Jiajian , Allred Bryce C. , Robertson Daniel G. , Liu Wei , Sio Terence T. , Remmes Nicholas B. , Keole Sameer R. , Bues Martin 
Published: June 2017

PurposeTo implement and evaluate a novel and fast method for proton range verification by using a planar scintillator and step wedge.MethodsA homogenous proton pencil beam plan with 35 energies was designed and delivered to a 2D flat scintillator with a step wedge. The measurement was repeated 15 times (3 different days, 5 times per day). The scintillator image was smoothed, the Bragg peak and distal fall off regions were fitted by an analytical equation, and the proton range was calculated using simple trigonometry. The accuracy of this method was verified by comparing the measured ranges to those obtained using an ionization chamber and a scanning water tank, the gold standard. The reproducibility was evaluated by comparing the ranges over 15 repeated measurements. The sensitivity was evaluated by delivering to same beam to the system with a film inserted under the wedge.ResultsThe range accuracy of all 35 proton energies measured over 3 days was within 0.2 mm. The reproducibility in 15 repeated measurements for all 35 proton ranges was ±0.045 mm. The sensitivity to range variation is 0.1 mm for the worst case. This efficient procedure permits measurement of 35 proton ranges in less than 3 min. The automated data processing produces results immediately. The setup of this system took less than 5 min. The time saving by this new method is about two orders of magnitude when compared with the time for water tank range measurements.ConclusionsA novel method using a scintillator with a step wedge to measure the proton range was implemented and evaluated. This novel method is fast and sensitive, and the proton range measured by this method was accurate and highly reproducible.
Autotransporter Adhesins in Escherichia coli Pathogenesis
Authors: Vo Julieanne L. , Martínez Ortiz Gabriela Constanza , Subedi Pramod , Keerthikumar Shivakumar , Mathivanan Suresh , Paxman Jason J. , Heras Begoña 
Published: June 2017

AbstractMost bacteria produce adhesion molecules to facilitate the interaction with host cells and establish successful infections. An important group of bacterial adhesins belong to the autotransporter (AT) superfamily, the largest group of secreted and outer membrane proteins in Gram‐negative bacteria. AT adhesins possess diverse functions that facilitate bacterial colonisation, survival and persistence, and as such are often associated with increased bacterial fitness and pathogenic potential. In this review, we will describe AIDA‐I type AT adhesins, which comprise the biggest and most diverse group in the AT family. We will focus on Escherichia coli proteins and define general aspects of their biogenesis, distribution, structural properties and key roles in infection.
SSRIs associated with decreased risk of hepatocellular carcinoma: A population‐based case‐control study
Authors: Chan Hsiang‐Lin , Chiu Wei‐Che , Chen Vincent Chin‐Hung , Huang Kuo‐You , Wang Tsu‐Nai , Lee Yena , McIntyre Roger S. , Hsu Tsai‐Ching , Lee Charles Tzu‐Chi , Tzang Bor‐Show 
Published: June 2017

AbstractBackgroundHepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cancer‐related cause of mortality worldwide. Antidepressants, especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), are commonly used worldwide. Available evidence investigating the association between SSRIs use and HCC risk is limited.ObjectiveThe present study aimed to investigate if the effect of all kinds of SSRIs on HCC was the same or not using population‐based study.MethodsThe nationwide population‐based study herein using Taiwan's National Health Insurance Research Database included a total of 59 859 cases with HCC and 285 124 matched controls. Conditional logistic regression analyses were adjusted for confounding variables.ResultsAll common kinds of SSRIs including fluoxetine, sertraline, paroxetine, citalopram, escitalopram, and fluvoxamine were associated with lower HCC risk, and the findings were dose‐dependent (eg, fluoxetine: 1‐28 DDD [defined daily dose]: adjusted odds ratio [aOR]: 0.81, 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.73‐0.89; 29‐365 DDD: aOR: 0.71, 95% CI, 0.64‐0.79; and ≥366 DDD: aOR: 0.55, 95% CI, 0.45‐0.67) (P for trend < .001).ConclusionsAll kinds of SSRIs were associated with decreased risk of HCC.
Multivariable finite‐time output feedback trajectory tracking control of quadrotor helicopters
Authors: Tian Bailing , Lu Hanchen , Zuo Zongyu , Zong Qun , Zhang Yunpeng 
Published: June 2017

SummaryA continuous multivariable output feedback control scheme is developed for trajectory tracking and attitude stabilization of quadrotor helicopters. The whole closed‐loop system is composed by position loop and attitude loop. The homogeneous technique is used to design finite‐time stabilizing controller and observer in each loop. The virtual control is introduced in position loop to ensure that the real control is smooth enough such that it can be tracked by attitude loop. The finite‐time stability of the closed‐loop system is guaranteed through homogeneity and Lyapunov analysis. Finally, the efficiency of the proposed algorithm is illustrated by numerical simulations.
The effect of the shortage of gravel sediment in midstream river channels on riparian vegetation cover
Authors: Asaeda T. , Sanjaya K. 
Published: June 2017

AbstractThe vegetation cover in the steep, gravelly reaches of rivers was originally low. However, significant vegetation colonization can currently be observed in these riparian areas, and understanding the cause of this colonization is important for management. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of sediment deposition and erosion on vegetation colonization in gravel bed rivers. The delay in colonization by herbs and trees after sediment deposition or erosion was investigated using aerial photos of 6 Japanese rivers. A field study was conducted before and after a large flood at depositional and erosional locations. The colonization of vegetation after flushing was substantially delayed at sites where gravels were deposited compared with that at erosional sites, and it was faster in sandy reaches compared with gravelly reaches. Little tree colonization was observed at the depositional sites of gravelly sediments, whereas at erosional sites, new shoots sprouted from the collapsed live trees in the following spring, achieving a rapid increase in tree density. The nutrient and moisture contents of the sediment were significantly higher at the erosional sites. Gravels are deposited after washing and being segregated from fine sediment during floods. This coarse‐sediment layer is low in moisture and nutrients compared with the erosional sites, at which the underlying sediments are exposed by flooding. However, moisture and nutrients are the primary requirements for vegetation colonization. Therefore, the reduction in gravelly sediments due to gravel mining, river regulation, and modification of river basins can have a substantial effect on vegetation colonization.
Psychosocial Screening of Alcohol Liver Disease Patients Before Liver Transplantation
Authors: Telles-correia D. 
Published: June 2017

In Europe, 30% to 50% of liver transplantations are currently due to alcoholic liver disease (ALD). In the United States, this percentage is 17.2%. Post-transplant survival and other predictors of clinical course do not differ significantly from those in other types of transplanted patients, as long as there is no relapse of drinking. However, 20%–25% of these patients lapse or relapse to heavy drinking post-operatively, which has been associated with an increased risk of liver damage and mortality. It is therefore crucial to design specific selection and follow-up strategies aimed at this particular type of patient. Several good and poor prognosis factors that could help to predict a relapse have been suggested, among them the duration of abstinence, social support, a family history of alcoholism, abuse diagnosis versus alcohol dependence, non-acceptance of diagnosis related to alcohol use, presence of severe mental illness, non-adherence in a broad sense, number of years of alcoholism, and daily quantity of alcohol consumption. In this article, we discuss these and other, more controversial factors in selecting ALD patients for liver transplantation. Abstinence should be the main goal after transplantation in an ALD patient. In this article, we review the several definitions of post-transplant relapse, its monitoring and the psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic treatment.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.
Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Romanian and International Medical Students: Relationship with Big-five Personality Dimensions and Social Support
Authors: Popescu C.A. , Buzoianu A.D. 
Published: June 2017

BackgroundA wide variety of countries are seeking to attract international medical students. International students are quite distinct from local students with respect to ethnicity, race, social and cultural norms, customs, nationality and physical appearance. Medical students are more predisposed to mental disorders, including depression due to several factors, such as: individual personality characteristics, chronic exposure to stressors from an occupation that deals with pain and death and trouble with the teaching-learning process. In the host country, international medical students meet a lot of stressful situations as: language barriers, academic demands, homesickness and lack of social support.AimsTo evaluate the prevalence of anxiety and depression in Romanian and international medical students studying medicine in Romania. To assess the relationship between symptoms of anxiety, symptoms of depression and big-five personality dimensions in medical students.MethodsOverall, 230 first year medical students (90 from English section, 70 from French section and 70 from Romanian sections studying at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Iuliu Hatieganu”, Romania, were evaluated for symptoms of anxiety and depression using the STAI and BDI and for personality using the NEO FFI.ResultsSymptoms of anxiety and symptoms of depression were prevalent in medical students (43% and 14%, respectively).ConclusionsSymptoms of anxiety and depression are prevalent in medical students. Severity of symptoms of anxiety and symptoms of depression in medical students are negatively related to emotional stability. Special attention should be paid to those students who have high levels of depression and low levels of emotional stability.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
The Biology of Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Authors: Ramy H. 
Published: June 2017

Cognitive behavior therapy outcomes and the mechanism of change that are related to its effects have traditionally been investigated on the psychological abilities, personalities or social functioning. Many psychiatrists have also held the unfortunate dichotomized position that psychotherapy is a treatment for “psychologically based” disorders, while medication is for “biologically based” disorders. During the past several decades, it has become clear that all mental processes drive from mechanisms of the brain. This means that any change in our psychologically processes is reflected by changes in the functions or structures of the brain. Straightforward reductionist stances, however, are unfounded because there is clear evidence that our subjective experiences affect the brain. Plastic changes in the brain have been difficult to study in humans, but there has been more than one successful trial. Changes in the brain in relation to experience have been detected at the cellular and molecular level using different experimental approaches. The advent of functional neuro-imaging, including photon emission CT (SPECT), positron emission topography, and functional MRI, has made it possible to study changes at the brain systems level (by measuring changes in the brain blood flow or metabolism) associated with cognitive behavior changes. The presentation will shed light on the biological basis of CBT reviewing the evidence from a historical perspective. In addition the imaging studies will be reviewed with emphasis on future perspectives in the use of CBT in the treatment of various psychiatric disorders and the importance of clarifying the biological changes associated with improvement.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
Unresolved Grief and Diogenes Syndrome and Misery Senile
Authors: Färber S. , Färber M. 
Published: June 2017

IntroductionMourning the death of a loved one, the loss of social aggregation or familiar, or any trauma may not follow the normal process when has any kind of complication In these cases of the complicated mourning, a person may develop or manifest dissociative behaviors, like diogenes syndrome or the misery senile syndrome.ObjectiveTo investigate the presence of unauthorized mourning, complicated or not elaborate as triggers of diogenes syndrome and misery senile.MethodsTo develop this research we use the systematic literature review, following the process of research, cataloging, careful evaluation and synthesis of the documentation associated with the method of thanatological hermeneutics.ConclusionThanatology is useful tool in scientific and clinical research and care for patients with diogenes syndrome. The need for safety against the distress of fear of the future and loneliness is at the origin of compulsive hoarding. If the mythical diogenes lived in Athens a Spartan life, living in a barrel, as the character Chespirito of Roberto Bolaños (Fig. 1), the carriers of this syndrome follow the opposite path accumulating objects to achieve a sense of stability.ResultsThere is a significant presence of unresolved grief in the history of the psychiatric patient with diogenes syndrome.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Added to Pharmacotherapy in Patients Suffering from Pharmacoresistant Obsessive-compulsive Disorder
Authors: Vyskocilova J. , Prasko J. , Sipek J. , Slepecky M. 
Published: June 2017

BackgroundThe objective of investigation was to determine whether patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) resistant to drug therapy may improve their condition using intensive, systematic cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) lasting six weeks and whether it is possible to predict treatment outcome using clinical and selected psychological characteristics.MethodFrom 66 OCD patients fifty-seven completed program. The diagnosis was confirmed using the structured mini international neuropsychiatric Interview. Patients were rated using the objective and subjective forms of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), objective and subjective forms of the Clinical Global Impression (CGI), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), dissociative experiences scale, 20-item Somatoform dissociation questionnaire and sheehan disability scale before treatment, and with subjective Y-BOCS, objective and subjective CGI, BAI and BDI at the end of treatment. Patients were treated with antidepressants and daily intensive group CBT for six weeks.ResultsDuring 6-week intensive CBT program in combination with pharmacotherapy, there was significant improvement in patients suffering from OCD resistant to drug treatment. There were statistically significantly decreased scores of scales assessing severity of OCD symptoms, anxiety, and depressive feelings. A lower treatment effect was achieved specifically in patients who (a) showed fewer OCD themes in symptomatology, (b) showed higher level of somatoform dissociation, (c) had poor insight and (d) had a higher initial level of overall severity of the disorder. Remission of the disorder was more likely in patients who (a) had good insight, (b) had a lower initial level of anxiety and (c) had no comorbid depressive disorder.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.