Wolfestone, a leading language translation company offering translation and voiceover services across all languages, has launched a new and improved version of their company website.
Wolfestone has incorporated a host of new features into their new website’s design in a bid to offer more convenience, support and resources to returning and potential clients. The Wolfestone website now describes the company’s quality processes, linguist vetting and accreditations in detail, and offers visitors the opportunity to communicate with members of the company via Live Chat, request a call back at a time convenient to them, and receive Quick Quotes on the company’s range of services.
Clients also now have access to free resources through the language translation specialists’ website, including language identification and translation tools, world time displays, and lists of common phrases in different languages. This is in addition to regular postings of relevant articles on an integrated blog, along with the option to subscribe to the company’s monthly newsletter which features recipes, ‘fun facts’ and other information about different countries.
Wolfestone Director, Anna Bastek commented: “The fresh look and feel of our website design has given our online presence a new lease of life, and I am delighted with the outcome. We are always looking for new ways to make contacting us and enquiring about our services easier for clients, and the incorporation of Live Chat and more in-depth descriptions of the services we offer are sure to make these processes much simpler. I look forward to receiving feedback from site users on what they think of the redesign, and am open to any other suggestions visitors may have on how we can improve further.”
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From powerpoint presentations to educational films, teachers go to great lengths to help students learn. But, according to experts, what may help their students retain more information may have nothing at all to do with the lesson plan.
In a University of Nevada experiment published in the Journal of General Psychology, 131 students listened to a 20-minute physics audio lecture while looking at a photo of the lecturer on a computer screen. The instructor, who was selected at random, was either attractive or not-so-attractive. The students, who weren't allowed to take notes, then had to take an exam after the audio lesson.
The results were quite telling. According to Fox News, students with the "attractive" instructor had an average test score of 18.27; those with the "unattractive" teacher had an average score of16.68. Research also showed that the more attractive teachers scored better evaluations.
It's important to note that study's outcome wasn't based on the student's sexual interest towards the teacher. The exam scores were still higher whether or not the student-teacher pairings were of the same sex. This led researchers to conclude that "the lack of significant gender effects in this study indicates that the effects of physical attractiveness are not driven by human attraction and mating behavior but is more global in origin," wrote lead author, Dr. Richard Westfall.
While several studies have proven that attractive people are more likely to be associated with positive characteristics, this study shines a revealing light on how that plays out in the classroom.
“Gallbladder” probably wasn’t on that list at all—even though, you know, the word “gall” is in that headline up there. This organ in the upper-right part of your abdomen generally flies pretty under-the-radar…until you’ve got some serious stomach pain and start Googling symptoms.
Cue the discovery of gallstones, which are surprisingly common, according to the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).
But uh, other than sounding like actual hell on earth (stones? in my gallbladder?) what exactly are gallstones, how are they treated, and, probably most importantly, how can you avoid them at all costs?
To understand what gallstones are, you have to know a little bit about the gallbladder first—like what it does.
The gallbladder stores bile, which is a mix of water, cholesterol, bile acids or salts, and bilirubin (a product of broken-down red blood cells), as well as body salts (potassium and sodium) and metals like copper.
That bile is used to help with digestion—specifically breaking down fats into fatty acids, per the U.S. National Library of Medicine, so the body can use it for energy and other bodily functions.
Gallstones (a.k.a. cholelithiasis), however, are hardened pieces of compounds in that bile—mostly cholesterol or bilirubin. And while doctors aren’t totally sure what causes gallstones, they likely occur when there’s an imbalance of salt or cholesterol in the gallbladder, says Dr. Douglas Smink, an associate professor of surgery at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Some good looking gallstones! These stones are hardened deposits of a digestive fluid that can form in the gallbladder, which can eventually block the exiting bile ducts and cause sudden, severe abdominal pain, known as biliary colic. They range in size from as small as a grain of sand to as large as a golf ball. Gallstones are very frequently found during a cholecystectomy (surgical resection of the gallbladder) and there can be HUNDREDS of them in some instances. 🎥:@justageneralsurgeon Caption written by student doctor @mike.dicaro
But gallstones aren’t all the same. There are two types, according to the NIDDK: cholesterol stones and pigment stones. Cholesterol stones are typically yellow-green in colour and made up of, well, cholesterol; while pigment stones are darker and made up of bilirubin.
Here’s the thing about gallstones—many times they’re known as “silent stones”—and they don’t have any symptoms at all. Those silent stones also don’t need treatment, since they don’t stop any of your organs (like your gallbladder, liver, or pancreas) from working.
But when gallstones block your bile ducts, bile can build up in your gallbladder and cause a gallbladder attack (a.k.a. biliary colic), characterized by pain in your upper-right abdomen after a particularly fatty meal.
Sometimes, those gallbladder attacks resolve once the gallstone moves out of the duct’s way—but other times, gallstones can stay lodged, causing complications, per the NIDDK. Symptoms of gallstone complications include:
First and foremost, if you’re suffering from any of those gallstone complication symptoms, get thee to an emergency room, STAT.
There, doctors will likely ID your gallstones through an ultrasound of your abdomen, though blood tests are sometimes used too, to find signs of infection or inflammation in your bile ducts, gallbladder, pancreas, or liver, per the NIDDK.
Gallstones are a little more difficult to get rid of, unlike kidney stones, which can be passed (a.k.a peed out) or broken up so that your body can get rid of them more easily, explains Smink.
“With gallstones, if you broke them up, they could irritate the liver or the pancreas on the way out and that can be serious and potentially life-threatening,” he says.
That’s why treatment involves removing the entire gallbladder, a surgery called cholecystectomy. P.S.: You can absolutely live without a gallbladder; it’s not an essential organ, says Smink.
There are two different types of gallbladder removal surgeries, per the NIDDK: a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, which is essentially an out-patient procedures that you can go home from the following day, and an open cholecystectomy, which is invasive surgery that needs to happen when the gallbladder is very inflamed and irritated.
But once your gallbladder has been removed, and you’re all healed up, life will likely go back to normal—other than a small chance of softer, more frequent poops, from a change in bile flow, per the NIDDK.
There’s no clear-cut way to prevent gallstone complications—or gallstones, to begin with—as experts aren’t sure as to why the stones form in the first place. You can, however, reduce your chances of gallbladder attacks by cutting back on fatty foods (think: anything fried or covered in butter), says Smink.
Gallstone are also often associated with being overweight, per the NIDDK, so losing weight safely or maintaining a healthy weight can also reduce your gallstone chances.
“The first attack lasted 10 hours with peak intensity lasting about three hours. During that time I blacked out, vomited frequently, had intestinal distress, and couldn’t stand, speak, or breath normally.”—Reddit user mmacaluso915
“I had [my gallbladder] out when I was 15 years old. It didn’t suck at all, I had it removed via laparoscopy on a Wednesday, went home that day, and returned to school on Monday. Really, it was kind of no big deal. I felt perfectly fine by Monday and my diet is basically the same now as it ever was. Maybe a bit healthier now that I’m an adult, but I don’t really take into consideration that I don’t have a gallbladder when deciding what to eat.” —Reddit user kinkakinka
“I have had gallstones…and they were definitely the most painful thing that ever happened to me. Even morphine didn’t touch the pain.” —Reddit user ConnieC60
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