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The aim of this integrative review is to explore how formative online multiple-choice tests used in nurse education promote self-regulated learning and report on pedagogies that support their design.

Online multiple-choice tests are widely used as learning and formative assessment tools in a range of educational contexts. However, little is known about how these tools are used to promote patterns of learner self-regulation. It is important that nurses and nursing students develop the capability to self-regulate learning to be effective lifelong learners and navigate complex and unfamiliar practice environments.

A five-stage approach guided this integrative review problem identification, literature search, data evaluation, data analysis and presentation.

A systematic search of ERIC, Web of Science, Ovid Medline, Scopus, PubMed, Embase and CINAHL was conducted in February 2021. ETC-159 in vivo Seventeen peer-reviewed papers were identified that discussed formative online multiple-choice tests in nurse education. Purpostory behaviours is warranted.The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has highlighted how an emergent disease can spread globally and how vaccines are once again the most important public health policy to combat infectious disease. Despite promising initial protection, the rise of new viral variants calls into question how effective current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will be moving forward. Improving on vaccine platforms represents an opportunity to stay ahead of SARS-CoV-2 and keep the human population protected. Many researchers focus on modifying delivery platforms or altering the antigen(s) presented to improve the efficacy of the vaccines. Identifying mechanisms of natural immunity that result in the control of infection and prevent poor clinical outcomes provides an alternative approach to the development of efficacious vaccines. Early and current evidence shows that SARS-CoV-2 infection is marked by potent lung inflammation and relatively diminished antiviral signaling which leads to impaired immune recognition and viral clearance, essentially making SARS-CoV-2 'too hot to handle'.
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive irreversible neurodegeneration disease and thus timely identification is critical to delay its progression.

In this work, we focus on the traditional branch to design discriminative feature extraction and selection strategies to achieve explainable AD identification. Specifically, a spatial pyramid based three-dimensional histogram of oriented gradient (3D-HOG) feature learning method is proposed. Both global and local texture changes are included in spatial pyramid 3D-HOG (SPHOG) features for comprehensive analysis. Then a modified wrapper-based feature selection algorithm is introduced to select the discriminative features for AD identification while reduce feature dimensions.

Discriminative SPHOG histograms with various resolutions are selected, which can represent the atrophy characteristics of cerebral cortex with promising performance. As subareas corresponding to selected histograms are consistent with clinical experience, explanatory is emphasized and illustrated with Hippocampus.

Experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method on feature learning based on samples obtained from common dataset and a clinical dataset. The proposed method will be useful for further medical analysis as its explanatory on other region-of-interests (ROIs) of the brain for early diagnosis of AD.
Experimental results illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method on feature learning based on samples obtained from common dataset and a clinical dataset. The proposed method will be useful for further medical analysis as its explanatory on other region-of-interests (ROIs) of the brain for early diagnosis of AD.
The proclivity to construe ambiguous information in a negative way is known as interpretation bias, which has been implicated in the onset and/or maintenance of social anxiety. The purpose of this study was to examine group and individual differences in interpretation bias among young people who stutter and their typically fluent peers during the adolescent years when social fears and worries tend to escalate.

A total of 99 adolescents (13 to 19 years old) participated, including 48 adolescents who stutter (67% male) and 51 typically fluent controls (68% male). They completed a computerized vignette-based interpretation bias task in which they first read 14 short ambiguous social scenarios (half including a verbal interaction, half including a non-verbal interaction). They were then presented with four possible interpretations of each scenario including two negative interpretations (one target, one foil) and two positive interpretations (one target, one foil). Participants used a 4-point Likert scale to rct how adolescents interpret ambiguous social cues in verbal and non-verbal scenarios more than stuttering, although more research into how people who stutter process social information is warranted.
To investigate the variation of poorly ventilated lung units (i.e., silent spaces) in children undergoing procedural sedation in a day-hospital setting, until discharge home from the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU).

Prospective, single-center, observational cohort trial.

This study was conducted at the radiology department and in PACU at Bern University Hospital (Switzerland), a tertiary care hospital.

We included 25 children (1-6years, ASA I-III) scheduled for cerebral magnetic resonance imaging scan, spontaneously breathing under deep sedation. Children planned for tracheal intubation, supraglottic airway insertion, or with contraindication for propofol were excluded.

After intravenous or inhaled induction, deep sedation was performed with 10mg/kg/h Propofol. All children received nasal oxygen 0.3ml/kg/min.

The proportion of silent spaces and the global inhomogeneity index were determined at each of five procedural points, using electrical impedance tomography before induction (T1); before (T2)1.
clinicaltrials.gov, identifier NCT04507581.Posterior strokes are frequently misdiagnosed as they present with non-specific complaints such as dizziness/vertigo. Emergency department (ED) practice often relies on CT/CTA to "exclude" infarct in such patients, providing false reassurance due to lower sensitivity of CT (42%) for stroke in the posterior circulation. We describe a pilot at our institution using a specialized MRI protocol with 95% sensitivity for posterior stroke, which may be used in place of CT/CTA or conventional MRI for stroke evaluation. Further development of this approach may help reduce the high rate of missed posterior stroke in patients presenting with dizziness.
This prospective study compares the diagnostic performance of strain elastography (SE) based on the elastogram to B-mode (E/B) size ratio to shear-wave elastography (SWE) incorporating assessment of boundary tissue stiffness.

In this prospective study, 81 women consented to undergo ultrasound (US) elastographic assessment prior to biopsy of their mass(es). A total of 101 masses were evaluated with SE and SWE using a single machine (Siemens Acuson S2000). The histopathologic diagnosis was used as the reference standard. The sensitivity, specificity and area under curve (AUC) were obtained for SE and SWE.

The sensitivity and specificity of SE using the E/B ratio was 94.7% (95% CI 87.6 100) and 81.0% (95% CI 71.3 90.1) respectively. For SWE the sensitivity and specificity was 73.7% (95% CI 59.7 87.7) and 82.5% (95% CI 73.2 91.9) respectively. The AUC for SE was higher (0.878) compared to SWE (0.697).

SE elastography using the E/B ratio yields diagnostic performance which is superior to SWE incorporating assessment of peripheral stiffness.
SE elastography using the E/B ratio yields diagnostic performance which is superior to SWE incorporating assessment of peripheral stiffness.
Pythiosis in sheep is an important disease in Brazil, which could cause rhinitis, dermatitis and alimentary tract inflammation. It is caused by the aquatic oomycete, Pythium insidiosum. The rhinofacial pythiosis causes facial deformity and upper respiratory tract clinical signs associated with necroproliferative masses occupying the rostral nasal cavity and hard palate. Little is known regarding the therapy, prophylaxis and pathogenesis of this disease.

During the 6-year study, we examined 13 sheep presenting rhinofacial pythiosis. The diagnosis was performed through biopsy of the rhinofacial lesions followed by histopathology and immunohistochemistry using specific antibodies against P insidiosum, polymerase chain reaction and an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

This study presents the clinical findings of a potassium iodide treatment of rhinofacial pythiosis in sheep. All sheep were treated with 10ml of 10% potassium iodide solution, administered orally every day during 63-120 (mean 85) days. Among treated sheep, 84.6% demonstrated complete recovery.

Potassium iodide therapy may treat rhinofacial pythiosis in sheep.
Potassium iodide therapy may treat rhinofacial pythiosis in sheep.In this paper, a novel data-driven method for weight initialization of Multilayer Perceptrons and Convolutional Neural Networks based on discriminant learning is proposed. The approach relaxes some of the limitations of competing data-driven methods, including unimodality assumptions, limitations on the architectures related to limited maximal dimensionalities of the corresponding projection spaces, as well as limitations related to high computational requirements due to the need of eigendecomposition on high-dimensional data. We also consider assumptions of the method on the data and propose a way to account for them in a form of a new normalization layer. The experiments on three large-scale image datasets show improved accuracy of the trained models compared to competing random-based and data-driven weight initialization methods, as well as better convergence properties in certain cases.Microtextures of quartz sand grains can be used to establish sedimentary provenance of sedimentary deposits. V-shaped percussion cracks (Vs), which are randomly produced by grain-to-grain mechanical collision in high-energy subaqueous environments, are significant microtextures used for investigation of fluvial and marine sediment. In previous studies, others have used the percentage of microtextures obtained by scanning electron microscope to compare sediment samples. We developed a new method of measurement and evaluation of the surface of quartz grains using a confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) and applied the method to coastal sands containing quartz grains with abundant Vs. The method using international-standard surface-roughness parameters (ISO 25178) is useful for evaluating surface textures of quartz grains and for quantifying the structures of Vs (such as aperture area, density, and depth). The results of applying the method to coastal sands suggest that the density of Vs related to the coastal geological setting, that the depth of Vs related to wave height and offshore gradient, and that the size of Vs was not influenced by grain size or mineral composition of the coastal sands. This new method can corroborate preceding methods in provenance study of quartz grains in subaqueous environments. In principle, it also could apply to other types of microtextures and other minerals, such as degrees of weathering on surfaces of heavy minerals. This method, using a CLSM, has the potential to be applied to various provenance studies using grain-surface texture.
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