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The OTs consistently experienced low job strain as compared to the PTs and RNs. Developing good practices in OT's work may be beneficial for improving employee health and well-being and high-quality client care.
The OTs consistently experienced low job strain as compared to the PTs and RNs. Developing good practices in OT's work may be beneficial for improving employee health and well-being and high-quality client care.
The Student Curriculum Review Team (SCRT) was founded at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) in 2012 to refine pre-clinical courses. Since then, SCRT has provided a voice for student feedback - offering forums for discussion through 'Town Hall meetings' and confidential avenues for peer-to-peer comments. Here, we assess the perceived efficacy and utility of SCRT among the student body and faculty course directors.

A cross-sectional analysis was conducted in 2019 using an anonymous survey distributed to second- (MS2) and third-year (MS3) medical students as well as faculty course directors at JHUSOM.

A total of 113 student surveys and 13 faculty surveys were returned. The majority of students (97%) endorsed SCRT as effective in enabling them to express their concerns. Most faculty (69%) reported SCRT's impact on their respective course as positive and found SCRT suggestions to be 'realistic and actionable.' Students (84%) and faculty (62%) alike considered SCRT to meet needs not met by other curricular organizations at JHUSOM.

Students and faculty find that SCRT satisfies an unfilled position in the landscape of curricular feedback at JHUSOM. This study may be beneficial for other academic institutions considering ways to better engage students in curricular reform.
Students and faculty find that SCRT satisfies an unfilled position in the landscape of curricular feedback at JHUSOM. This study may be beneficial for other academic institutions considering ways to better engage students in curricular reform.Recent studies indicate that thiamethoxam (TMX), a neonicotinoid insecticide, can affect plant responses to environmental stressors, such as neighboring weeds. The molecular mechanisms behind both stable and environmentally specific responses to TMX likely involve genes related to defense and stress responses. We investigated the effect of a TMX seed treatment on global gene expression in maize coleoptiles both under normal conditions and under low ratio red to far-red (RFR) light stress induced by the presence of neighboring plants. The neighboring plant treatment upregulated genes involved in biotic and abiotic stress responses and affected specific photosynthesis and cell-growth related genes. Low RFR light may enhance maize resistance to herbivores and pathogens. TMX appears to compromise resistance. The TMX treatment stably repressed many genes that encode proteins involved in biotic stress responses, as well as cell-growth genes. Notably, TMX effects on many genes' expression were conditional on the environment. In response to low RFR, plants treated with TMX engage genes in the JA pathway, as well as other stress-related response pathways. Neighboring weeds may condition TMX-treated plants to become more stress tolerant.
To examine whether nurse-led stroke aftercare is beneficial for long-term psychosocial outcome of community-dwelling persons with stroke.

Comparative effectiveness research design in which a prospective stroke aftercare cohort (
 = 87) was compared to care-as-usual (
 = 363) at six- and 12-months post stroke. Changes over time in cognitive and emotional problems experienced in daily life, fatigue and stroke impact on daily life were examined for stroke aftercare only. Multilevel modelling was used to compare stroke aftercare to care-as-usual concerning anxiety and depression symptoms, social participation and quality of life, over time.

Sample characteristics did not differ between cohorts except for stroke type and on average, more severe stroke in the stroke aftercare cohort (
0.05). Following stroke aftercare, anxiety and emotional problems decreased significantly (
0.05), whereas care-as-usual remained stable over time in terms of anxiety. No significant changes over time were observed on the s but adding other therapeutic elements such as self-management strategies might increase the effectiveness of nurse-led stroke aftercare. Implications for rehabilitation Routine stroke follow-up care should pay attention to psychosocial and emotional outcome in a systematic manner, in addition to secondary prevention. Healthcare professionals such as (specialized) nurses are needed to appropriately address the hidden cognitive and emotional consequences of stroke. Providing psychoeducation and emotional support in stroke aftercare diminish insecurities and worries in community-dwelling persons with stroke, leading to better outcomes.Colibacillosis caused by avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is the most common bacterial disease in poultry, resulting in significant economic losses. Resistance to fluoroquinolones has been found to be high in APEC worldwide, which has increased concerns about risks to human health as well as poultry production. In the present study, we determined the prevalence, genetic traits, and fitness traits of fluoroquinolone-resistant APEC isolated from chickens in Korea using a total of 286 APEC isolates collected between 2014 and 2017. The APEC isolates were highly resistant to nalidixic acid (86.0%), ampicillin (71.7%), tetracycline (69.6%), and sulfisoxazole (61.2%), and 132 (46.2%) of the isolates were resistant to both enrofloxacin and ciprofloxacin. These fluoroquinolone-resistant isolates showed eight mutation combinations including single- or double-point mutations in the gyrA, parC, or parE genes. The isolates with double mutations (codons 83 and 87) in gyrA and additional mutations in parC and parE showed high-level fluoroquinolone resistance (minimum inhibitory concentrations, 16-128 µg/ml). The isolates fell into four phylogenetic groups, and groups A (47/132, 35.6%) and B1 (47/132, 36.4%) were the most predominant. Nine isolates (6.8%) belonged to group B2 and included major lineages of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli, sequence type (ST) 95 (n = 3) and ST69 (n = 2). The isolates varied in their virulence-associated gene content, biofilm formation, and intramacrophage survival. Overall, fluoroquinolone-resistant APEC in poultry poses a potential risk to public health and represents a highly diverse group of the resistant bacteria that varied in their genetic and fitness traits.This study was conducted to determine the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance to the extended-spectrum cephalosporins (ESC) in Escherichia coli isolates recovered from retail meat products collected in the Maritime Provinces of Canada using both selective and traditional culture methods, and genotypically using multiplex polymerase chain reactions. ESC-R E. coli was detected in 33/559 (5.9%) samples using the traditional culture compared to 151/557 (27.1%) samples using the selective culture method. The recovery of ESC-R E. BAY 2416964 in vitro coli isolates was more common in poultry compared to beef and pork (P less then 0.001). Multi-drug resistance, ESBL, and AmpC phenotypes were more common in chicken-derived isolates than other retail meat products (P less then 0.001). From the 98 isolates selected, 76 (77.6%) isolates were positive for either ESBL and AmpC β-lactamases or both. Among the 76 isolates, blaCMY-2 (78.9%), blaCTXM (46.1%), blaTEM (21.1%), and blaSHV (1.3%) were detected. Among the blaCTXM-producing isolates; blaCTXM-1, blaCTXM-2, and blaCTXM-9 phylogenetic groups were detected. β-lactamase genes were detected more in chicken-derived isolates compared to other meat types (P less then 0.01). This study demonstrated the occurrence of ESBL and AmpC resistance genes in retail meat products in Maritime Provinces of Canada. Also, selective culture significantly improved the recovery of ESC-R E. coli isolates from retail meat samples.Aim Circular RNAs (circRNAs) are dysregulated in complex diseases, so we investigated their global expression profile in stroke. Material & methods Public RNA-Seq data of human ischemic stroke lesion tissues and controls were used to perform the global expression analysis. Target RNA binding proteins and microRNAs were predicted in silico. Functional enrichment analysis was performed to infer the circRNAs' potential roles. Results We found that circRNAs are potentially involved in synaptic components and transmission, inflammation and ataxia. An integrative analysis revealed that hsa_circ_0078299 and FXN may be major players in the molecular stroke-context. Conclusion Our results suggest a broad involvement of circRNAs in some stroke-related processes, indicating their potential as therapeutic targets to allow neuroprotection and brain recovery.While randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are the gold standard for evidence-based medicine, they do not always reflect real-world patient populations, limiting their generalizability and external validity. Real-world evidence (RWE), generated during routine clinical practice, is increasingly important in determining effectiveness outside of the tightly controlled conditions of RCTs, and is now recognized by regulatory bodies as a valuable complement to RCTs. Consequently, it is increasingly important for physicians to understand how RWE data can be used alongside clinical trial data. Here, we discuss the different types of real-world observational studies, outline the benefits and limitations of RWE, and, using examples from EGFR mutation-positive non-small-cell lung cancer, outline how RWE can be used to help inform treatment decisions.
To investigate the feasibility of using deep learning image reconstruction (DLIR) to significantly reduce radiation dose and improve image quality in contrast-enhanced abdominal CT.

This was a prospective study. 40 patients with hepatic lesions underwent abdominal CT using routine dose (120kV, noise index (NI) setting of 11 with automatic tube current modulation) in the arterial-phase (AP) and portal-phase (PP), and low dose (NI = 24) in the delayed-phase (DP). All images were reconstructed at 1.25 mm thickness using ASIR-V at 50% strength. In addition, images in DP were reconstructed using DLIR in high setting (DLIR-H). The CT value and standard deviation (SD) of hepatic parenchyma, spleen, paraspinal muscle and lesion were measured. The overall image quality includes subjective noise, sharpness, artifacts and diagnostic confidence were assessed by two radiologists blindly using a 5-point scale (1, unacceptable and 5, excellent). Dose between AP and DP was compared, and image quality among different recoIR-V50% under low signal conditions. (2) Our study demonstrated that at 76% lower radiation dose, the DLIR-H DP images had similar overall image quality to the routine-dose ASIR-V50% AP images.
(1) DLIR-H yielded a significantly lower image noise, higher CNR and higher overall image quality score and diagnostic confidence than the ASIR-V50% under low signal conditions. (2) Our study demonstrated that at 76% lower radiation dose, the DLIR-H DP images had similar overall image quality to the routine-dose ASIR-V50% AP images.
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