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Improving the quality of life of parents of patients with congenital abnormalities using psychoeducational interventions: a systematic review
Authors: Rodrigues Marisa Garcia , Rodrigues José Daniel , Soares Matilde Monteiro , Azevedo Luís Filipe , Rodrigues Pedro Pereira , Areias José Carlos , Areias Maria Emília 
Published: June 2023

AbstractPurposeTo identify psychoeducational interventions that target parents of children with congenital abnormalities (CA) and evaluate their impact on quality of life (QoL).MethodsThe search was conducted in six electronic databases,complemented by references of the studies found, studies of evidence synthesis, a manual search of relevant scientific meetings’ abstracts and contact with experts. We included primary studies on parents of children with CA that studied psychoeducational interventionsversusstandard care. We assessed the risk of bias usingCochrane Collaboration’s tool.ResultsWe included six studies focusing on congenital heart defects (CHD). They described four different psychoeducational strategies. In four studies, statistically significant differences were found. For clinical practice, we considered three interventions as more feasible: theEducational program for mothers, with a group format of four sessions weekly;CHIP-Family intervention,which includes a parental group workshop followed by an individual follow-up booster session; andWeChat educational health programwith an online format.ConclusionsThis review is the first that assesses the impact of psychoeducational interventions targeted at parents of children with CA on their QoL. The best approach to intervention is multiple group sessions. Two essential strategies were to give support material, enabling parents to review, and the possibility of an online program application, increasing accessibility. However, because all included studies focus on CHD, generalizations should be made carefully. These findings are crucial to guide future research to promote and improve comprehensive and structured support for families and integrate them into daily practice.
The anthropometric profile and body composition of youth soccer goalkeepers after the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the maturity offset
Authors: Serafini Sofia , Di Credico Andrea , Gaggi Giulia , Pippi Roberto , Mascherini Gabriele , Izzicupo Pascal 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Purpose
To investigate the anthropometric profile of youth soccer goalkeepers in relation to the maturity offset after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods
Forty-two young male goalkeepers took part in the study. The anthropometric profile and body composition were assessed through the anthropometric method and the peak height velocity (PHV) was estimated. Participants were classified as pre-PHV (n = 16, age = 11.31 ± 0.94), circa-PHV (n = 7, age = 13.27 ± 1.02) and post-PHV (n = 19, age = 16.86 ± 2.00).

Results
The adiposity was significantly higher in pre-PHV goalkeepers than circa- and post-PHV and in circa-PHV than in post-PHV, according to BMI (p = 0.017), the percentage of fat mass (p < 0.001) and the fat mass index (p = 0.023). Compared with similar sample in literature assessed before the COVID-19 pandemic, the pre-PHV subgroup showed a higher prevalence of children at abdominal obesity risk (62.5 vs. 33.3%).

Conclusion
The current study shows a relationship between the maturity offset and goalkeepers’ anthropometric profile. The COVID-19 pandemic seemed to affect the abdominal obesity risk of pre-PHV children.
The Concept of the Police
Authors: Miller Eric J. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe organization of the modern police is a contingent social choice about how to engage in the process of governance when regulating public order on the street. The police are the agency authorized to act upon the state’s duty to govern in response to public emergencies. The duty to govern exists when there is some urgent social need that could be resolved by acting, and some person or institution has the resources and ability to do that act. The duty is impersonal: anybody with the relevant skill set is obligated to act to address the relevant need. Problems can arise, however, when too few individuals respond or too many compete to resolve the need. A core feature of governance, then, is to create publicly recognized institutions with special authority, resources, and abilities to address the demand for public services when someone needs to step in and do something to the exclusion of ordinary members of the public. Police agencies are further characterized by various powers and duties. These powers are normative powers to change the legal status of the people with whom the police interact, rather than physical powers to use some amount of violence to coerce individuals to comply with police demands. The core powers of the police include the powers to make authoritative determinations about how to respond to an emergency, to detain individuals, and to trespass upon their person or property, along with conjoined duties to govern, to protect, and to intervene at risk to themselves. The dominant approach attempts to distinguish the police from other institutions using the police ability to use violent to respond to public emergencies. On the governance based model of the police, however, the ability to use force is simply one of the resources available to the police, and does not mark them off as different from other public governance agencies.
Delirium and IL-6 added to clinical scores improves their performance: a prospective analysis of CALL, PREDI-CO, MRS score applied to a population of patients admitted to internal medicine ward
Authors: Vannucchi Vieri , Pelagatti Lorenzo , Barone Fabio , Bertini Laura , Celli Tommaso , Boccia Nunzia , Veneziani Francesca , Cimolato Barbara , Landini Giancarlo 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThis study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of various scoring systems in predicting in-hospital mortality for COVID-19 patients admitted to the internal medicine ward. We conducted a prospective collection of clinical data from patients admitted to the Internal Medicine Unit at Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence, Italy, with confirmed pneumonia caused by SARS-CoV-2. We calculated three scoring systems: the CALL score, the PREDI-CO score, and the COVID-19 in-hospital Mortality Risk Score (COVID-19 MRS). The primary endpoint was in-hospital mortality. : A total of 681 patients were enrolled in the study, with a mean age of 68.8 ± 16.1 years, and 54.8% of them were male. Non-survivors had significantly higher scores in all prognostic systems compared to survivors (MRS: 13 [12- 15] vs. 10 [8-12]; CALL: 12 [10-12] vs. 9 [7-11]; PREDI-CO: 4 [3-6] vs. 2 [1-4]; all p<0.001). The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis yielded the following area under the curve (AUC) values: MRS 0.85, CALL 0.78, PREDI-CO 0.77. The addition of Delirium and IL6 to the scoring systems improved their discriminative ability, resulting in AUC values of 0.92 for MRS, 0.87 for CALL, and 0.84 for PREDI-CO. The mortality rate increased significantly across increasing quartiles (p<0.001). In conclusion the COVID-19 in-hospital Mortality Risk Score (MRS) demonstrated reasonable prognostic stratification for patients admitted to the internal medicine ward with SARS-CoV-2-induced pneumonia. The inclusion of Delirium and IL6 as additional prognostic indicators in the scoring systems enhanced their predictive performance, specifically in determining in-hospital mortality among COVID-19 patients.
Higher serum uric acid is associated with poorer cognitive performance in healthy middle-aged people: a cross-sectional study
Authors: Khaled Yousef , Abdelhamid Aya A. , Al-Mazroey Hissa , Almannai Abdulrahman K. , Fetais Sara , Al-Srami Aisha S. , Ahmed Shaima , Al-Hajri Noora , Mustafa Ayman , Chivese Tawanda , Djouhri Laiche 
Published: June 2023

AbstractAge-related cognitive impairment can occur many years before the onset of the clinical symptoms of dementia. Uric acid (UA), a metabolite of purine-rich foods, has been shown to be positively associated with improved cognitive function, but such association remains controversial. Moreover, most of the previous studies investigating the association included elderly participants with memory-related diseases. Therefore, the present study aimed at investigating whether serum UA (sUA) is associated with cognitive performance in healthy middle-aged individuals. We conducted a cross-sectional study on a cohort of middle-aged individuals (40–60 years old) who participated in the Qatar Biobank. The participants had no memory-related diseases, schizophrenia, stroke, or brain damage. They were divided according to sUA level into a normal group (< 360 μmol/L) and a high group (≥ 360 μmol/L), and underwent an assessment of cognitive function using the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery. Two cognitive function domains were assessed: (a) speed of reaction/reaction time and (b) short-term visual memory. The median age of the 931 participants included in the study was 48.0 years (IQR: 44.0, 53.0), of which 47.6% were male. Adjusted multivariable linear regression analyses showed that higher sUA is associated with poorer performance on the visual memory domain of cognitive function (β = − 6.87, 95% CI − 11.65 to − 2.10, P = 0.005), but not on the speed of reaction domain (β = − 55.16, 95% CI − 190.63 to 80.30, P = 0.424). Our findings support previous studies suggesting an inverse association between high sUA levels and cognitive function in elderly and extend the evidence for such a role to middle-aged participants. Further prospective studies are warranted to investigate the relationship between UA and cognition.
One-step thoracotomy approach for atrial-esophageal fistula repair without cardiopulmonary bypass
Authors: Lee June , Yoon Jeashin , Hong Seok Beom , Kim Yong Han , Kim Hwan Wook , Kim Do Yeon 
Published: June 2023

AbstractAtrial-esophageal fistula is an extremely rare disease and a life-threatening complication after catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. There is no consensus on the management or repair for atrial-esophageal fistula which has a high mortality rate. Here, we describe a lateral thoracotomy approach focused on simplifying the repair procedure for atrial-esophageal fistula in two patients.
Pseudodifferential operators with completely periodic symbols
Authors: Garello Gianluca , Morando Alessandro 
Published: June 2023

AbstractMotivated by the recent paper of Boggiatto–Garello (J Pseudo-Differ Oper Appl 11:93–117, 2020) where a Gabor operator is regarded as pseudodifferential operator with symbol $$p(x,\omega )$$

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periodic on both the variables, we study the continuity and invertibility, on general time frequency invariant spaces, of pseudodifferential operators with completely periodic symbol and general $$\tau $$
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quantization.
Hypothyroidism, lipids, and lipidomics
Authors: Jonklaas Jacqueline 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Purpose
Hypothyroidism is a relatively common endocrine disorder and is well documented to be associated with lipid abnormalities.

Methods
A narrative review was conducted of studies describing the alterations in the lipid profile accompanying both subclinical and overt hypothyroidism.

Results
Lipid abnormalities are seen with TSH values in the upper end of the accepted reference range, as well as with subclinical and overt hypothyroidism. The degree of lipid derangement is generally proportional to the degree of TSH elevation. Other factors such as age, sex, and body mass index can also influence the pattern of the lipid abnormalities seen. The most robust finding with TSH elevation is increases in the low density lipoprotein cholesterol. Thyroid hormone treatment is efficacious in reversing the lipid abnormalities in both subclinical and overt hypothyroidism.

Conclusion
Given the association of lipid abnormalities with metabolic and cardiovascular disease, consideration of hypothyroidism as an important non-communicable disease may facilitate studies that test the hypothesis that thyroid hormone treatment to reverse hypothyroidism-associated lipid abnormalities may improve metabolic and cardiovascular outcomes.
Mann–Dotson’s algorithm for a countable family of non-self strict pseudo-contractive mappings
Authors: Patel Prashant , Shukla Rahul 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe aim of this paper to present some weak and strong convergence results for countable family of non-self mappings. More precisely, we employ the Mann–Dotson’s algorithm to approximate common fixed points of a countable family of non-self k-strict Pseudocontractive mappings in q-uniformly smooth Banach spaces.
Tephrosia kindiana (Leguminosae: Papilionoideae), a new species from Guinea
Authors: Haba Pepe M. , Holt Beverley J. , van der Burgt Xander M. 
Published: June 2023

SummaryTephrosia kindiana, a new plant species from Guinea, is described and illustrated. It is a shrub 90 – 120 cm tall, multi-stemmed from the base. The leaves have 5 – 13 oblanceolate leaflets; the inflorescence consists of solitary flowers in the leaf axils, or 2 – 3-flowered fascicles; the flowers are orange and 24 – 26 mm long. The species occurs in wooded grassland on sandstone plateaus at 300 – 420 m elevation. Three localities are known, at up to 13 km apart. Tephrosia kindiana is provisionally assessed as Endangered.
Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Authors: Zhang Xiaojie , Yeung Kay T. 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Purpose of Review
Triple-negative breast cancer
(TNBC) is a heterogeneous disease group with a known aggressive phenotype and poor prognosis. To date, it remains a challenging disease given its lack of oncogenic targets as seen in hormone receptor + or HER2 + breast cancers, and limited efficacy with traditional chemotherapy. This article is a review of the latest key literature in the management of metastatic TNBC and offers a glimpse of ongoing drug development.

Recent Findings
Recent paradigm-shifting trials led to the incorporation of immune checkpoint inhibitors with chemotherapy in the frontline setting for TNBC with positive PDL1-expression. Novel antibody–drug conjugates with new targets (Trop2, HER2) now offer additional treatment options for metastatic TNBC.

Summary
There have been significant strides in understanding the tumor-immune microenvironment and molecular vulnerabilities in TNBC. As the treatment of metastatic TNBC evolves rapidly, novel combination therapies and therapeutic strategies will continue to improve patient outcomes.
Picturing the coast: unravelling community perceptions of seascapes, Blue Growth and coastal change
Authors: Pafi Maria , Flannery Wesley , Murtagh Brendan 
Published: June 2023

AbstractBlue Growth is gaining momentum, opening up new frontiers for economic development, with potentially negative impacts on coastal communities and seascapes. The impact of Blue Growth projects on communities and seascapes is generally understood through narrow technical or economic approaches that focus on the potential loss of coastal views or the depreciating impacts on property values, ignoring the complex relationships communities have with seascapes. These approaches often dislodge non-quantifiable community-seascape relationships from Blue Growth strategies, leading to community frustration and contestation. Understanding community-seascape relationships is key to developing more locally attuned Blue Growth strategies. We conceptualise seascapes as a triadic space incorporating perceived, conceived and lived dimensions. These dimensions have an impact on how communities experience and respond to contestation. We use a participatory photo-elicitation methodology with two community groups on the west coast of Ireland to understand how contestation occurs in places faced with multiple Blue Growth pressures and the mechanisms communities deploy in response. We find that although communities care deeply about changes taking place at the coast and sea and frame their ‘common’ landscapes as cultural assets that are worthy of defence, community practices remain impotently emotional or focused on ephemeral oppositions to specific Blue Growth developments. Such responses, however, are not strong enough for sufficiently mobilising a sustainable solution to dominant growth models. We suggest that if communities are properly supported to invest in knowledge, skills, networks and assets, they can mobilise more sustainable solutions to dominant growth models that threaten their coastal seascapes and cultural heritage. Finally, we highlight the transformative potential of the lived space of communities, not as a descriptor of a different typology of coastal landscape, but rather as a resource to understand how communities affected by multiple pressures can understand their options, capacity to resist and what their goal might be for the future of the coast.
Women Surgeons in the Military: Perspectives on Deployed Surgical Leadership
Authors: Choi Pamela M. , Streit Stephanie , Wrenn-Maresh Katherine , Stuever Mary , Holt Danielle B. , Tadlock Matthew D. , Gurney Jennifer M. 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Purpose of Review
To review the history of women surgeons in the US military and juxtapose this history with five invited commentaries on deployed surgical leadership from women of various experiences, services, and ranks, to help prepare future trainees and those surgeons who have not yet deployed.

Recent Findings
Throughout American history, women have played a significant role in serving the Armed Forces in both informal and formal roles including the Civil War and World War I, and World War II. The 1943 Sparkman-Johnson Act formally granted female physicians full appointments as reservists in the Army and Navy Medical Corps. It was not until 1972 that women physicians could receive a direct commission in the medical corps of the Armed Forces when Congress established the Health Professional Scholarship Program and authorized the creation of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Currently, women comprise approximately17% of the Armed Forces.

Summary
Despite numerous challenges, military service, particularly during times of war, has provided opportunities for women in medicine and surgery to demonstrate various leadership qualities while caring for those who go into harm’s way. For those surgeons (women and men) who have not yet deployed, these five invited commentaries from women surgeons representing 75 years of collective active duty service provide several modern points of view on deployed surgical leadership.
Effect of Mold Casting Parameters in Interface Properties of Iron/Copper Bimetallic Composites Based upon an Ancient Quranic Metal Matrix Composite (QMMC)
Authors: Bahgat A. , El-Meniawi M. A. H. , Khafagy S. M. , Sallam Hossam El-Din M. , Atta Mahmoud 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe relation between iron/copper bimetallic composites has many challenges; one of the most important characteristics is their diffusion and its effect on the properties of the interface region. This paper studies the influence of casting parameters on the interface region of these bimetallic composites and compares it to observations on those of the Quranic metal matrix composites based on the Dhul-Qarnayn dam (Gog and Magog Wall). A different number of steel rods (one, two, and three) were placed in an alloy steel mold, then heated at different temperatures of 350, 450, 550, and 650 °C. After that, molten copper was poured over them into the mold, followed by different cooling rates (fast, medium, and slow). The properties of the interface region (microstructure, microhardness, and bonding strength) were investigated. The finite element model was carried out to obtain the temperature distribution through the specimen. The microhardness test results revealed that the high preheating temperature and high cooling rate give a high interface microhardness due to the formation of iron oxides and fine grains. The present experimental results show the highest bond strength between steel and copper, which was achieved when the temperature of the interface region reached the austenitic phase (γ-phase) and held it sufficiently to reach a successful substitutional diffusion mechanism. The bond strength between copper and steel in each casting parameter obtained experimentally was used to predict the tensile strength of the obtained bimetal composites numerically.
Geometric characterization of the persistence of 1D maps
Authors: Biswas Ranita , Cultrera di Montesano Sebastiano , Edelsbrunner Herbert , Saghafian Morteza 
Published: June 2023

AbstractWe characterize critical points of 1-dimensional maps paired in persistent homology geometrically and this way get elementary proofs of theorems about the symmetry of persistence diagrams and the variation of such maps. In particular, we identify branching points and endpoints of networks as the sole source of asymmetry and relate the cycle basis in persistent homology with a version of the stable marriage problem. Our analysis provides the foundations of fast algorithms for maintaining a collection of sorted lists together with its persistence diagram.
The role of depression in the association between physiotherapy frequency and duration and outcomes after hip fracture surgery: secondary analysis of the physiotherapy hip fracture sprint audit
Authors: Milton-Cole Rhian , O’Connell Matthew D. L. , Sheehan Katie Jane , Ayis Salma 
Published: June 2023

Abstract
Purpose
It is not known whether the association between the frequency and duration of physiotherapy and patient outcomes varies for those with and without depression. This study aims to evaluate whether the associations between the frequency and duration of physiotherapy after hip fracture surgery and discharge home, surviving at 30 days post-admission, and being readmitted 30 days post discharge vary by depression diagnosis.

Methods
Data were from 5005 adults aged 60 and over included in the UK Physiotherapy Hip Fracture Sprint Audit who had undergone surgery for a nonpathological first hip fracture. Logistic regression models were used to estimate the unadjusted and adjusted odds ratios and their 95% confidence intervals for the associations between physiotherapy frequency and duration and outcomes.

Results
Physiotherapy frequency and duration were comparable between patients with and without depression (42.1% and 44.6%). The average adjusted odds for a 30-min increase in physiotherapy duration for those with and without depression for discharge home were 1.05 (95% CI 0.85–1.29) vs 1.16 (95% CI 1.05–1.28, interaction p = 0.36), for 30-day survival were 1.26 (95% CI 1.06–1.50) vs 1.11 (95% CI 1.05–1.17, interaction p = 0.45) and for readmission were 0.89 (95% CI 0.81–0.98) vs 0.97 (95% CI 0.93–1.00, interaction p = 0.09). None of the interaction tests reached formal significance, but the readmission models were close (p = 0.09).

Conclusion
Results suggest physiotherapy duration may be negatively associated with readmission in those with depression but not those without depression, while no clear difference in the other outcomes was noted.