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The purpose of this study was to clarify the causes of low back pain among workers in care facilities for the elderly after the introduction of welfare equipment. |
METHODS |
We conducted anonymous questionnaire surveys among administrators and care workers in eight elderly care facilities. The questionnaires were designed to investigate the status of both the care workers and facility. In reference to the care facility, the questionnaires were comprised items for investigating basic inform... |
RESULTS |
Completed questionnaires were returned by eight care facility administrators (response rate: 100%) and 373 care workers (response rate: 92.3%), among which 367 were used for analyses. Many care workers participated in a variety of occupational safety and health activities that were conducted in the facilities. Various ... |
CONCLUSION |
Although care workers received instructions on the health and safety activities extracted from the surveys, an association was still found between these activities and low back pain. This was thought to result from some care workers not establishing the appropriate method of care for each resident, not discussing metho... |
WhatsApp has been extensively used by many English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers in Indonesia as a near synchronous online learning platform. This program enables users to make announcements, exchange ideas and learning materials, and participate in online debates. Some recent publications inform its utilization... |
OBJECTIVES |
Monitoring is essential to safe anticoagulation prescribing and requires close collaboration among pathologists, clinicians, and pharmacists. |
METHODS |
We describe our experience in the evolving strategy for laboratory testing of unfractionated heparin (UFH). |
RESULTS |
An intrainstitutional investigation revealed significant discordance between activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and antifactor Xa (anti-Xa) assays, prompting a transition from the former to the latter in 2013. With the increasing use of oral factor Xa inhibitors (eg, apixaban, rivaroxaban, edoxaban, betrixaba... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Our experience demonstrates key challenges in anticoagulation and highlights the importance of clinical pathologists in helping health systems adapt to the changing anticoagulation landscape.Monolithic Integration of CMOS Temperature Control Circuit and Si3N4 Microring Filters for Wavelength Stabilization Within Ultra ... |
Microring resonators are widely used for both active and passive devices for their small footprint and low- power consumption. However, it is very challenging to achieve precise control of stability of the resonant wavelength, as the microring is very sensitive to fabrication imperfections and temperature variations. I... |
The paper was effects of the 4 week plyometric training program on explosive strength and agility for basketball players. Totally 20 basketball players were volunteered for the study (age = 15 years +/- 6 months). They were divided to 2 groups: the control group (CG, n = 10; height = 171.930 cm, weight = 70.840 kg, BMI... |
The interaction of low intensity laser pulses with metal nano-structures is at the basis of plasmonics and the excitation of surface plasmon polaritons (SP) is one of its building blocks. Some of the configurations adopted in classical plasmonics can be explored considering high intensity lasers interacting with proper... |
The usefulness of hybrid delivery in education has long been realized, and with the advancement of computer and communication technologies and the introduction of Web-based authoring tools, its effectiveness has been further extended. In this regard, it has affected traditional distance learning by transforming the lea... |
BACKGROUND |
The taking of performance enhancing drugs is an issue in many sports. To counteract this health endangering problem most sports have adopted the International Olympic Committee Medical Commission's classes of banned drugs. |
OBJECTIVE |
Practitioners may inadvertently prescribe banned drugs, resulting in a positive drug test and a penalty for the athlete. This paper reviews the current recommendations when prescribing for an athlete. |
DISCUSSION |
Medical practitioners will avert potentially disastrous situations for athletes by being aware of the drugs that are prohibited for sportspersons or by knowing how to rapidly access such information when prescribing for athletes.Role of immunity in the clearance of bacteremia due to Haemophilus influenzae. |
The role of antibodies to capsular and somatic antigens in the clearance of Haemophilus influenzae was investigated by active and passive immunization. The clearance index (k) and the proportion of strain b organisms cleared 30 min after intravenous administration (deltaY30) were greater in eight-week-old actively immu... |
People with disabilities too often are denied the opportunity to exercise control over the most basic aspects of daily life. Consumer direction (CD) is a philosophy and an orientation whereby informed consumers have control over the policies and practices that directly affect their lives. It is a mechanism by which ind... |
Literature published on the problem of ship slamming in waves is reviewed from the point of view of someone working at a ship research institute. Such an institute is confronted with rather practical questions regarding the acceptability of certain design parameters such as the acceptable amount of bow flare angle for ... |
Subject. January 1, 2020, there came into effect a new edition of Russian Accounting Standard (PBU) 18/02, Accounting for Deferred Taxes on Corporate Income, which introduced the balance sheet approach to assessing deferred taxes. Therefore, the Russian accountants have to revise the way they have been applying PBU 18/... |
Objectives. We analyze methodological issues of accruing deferred taxes in relation to accounting for fixed assets when recognizing, measuring, remeasuring and constructing contingent liabilities for repair and others, which were introduced by PBU 18/02 as transactions resulting in timing differences. |
Methods. The study employs the systems analysis and logic generalization of legislative and regulatory documents and special literature on the issues under study. |
Results. Illustrating fixed asset transactions, we find that it is necessary to master the balance sheet method of accruing deferred taxes, including the coming changes in some provisions of PBU 6/01, Accounting for Fixed Assets. |
Conclusions and Relevance. Poor knowledge of the balance sheet complicates, inter alia, the use of the balance sheet method to accrue deferred taxes. Thus, it is reasonable to make methodological recommendations on the use of the balance sheet method to assess deferred taxes in line with the coming amendments to the ex... |
OBJECTIVE |
To investigate the role of Convalescent Plasma (CP) in reducing mortality of COVID-19 patients. |
MATERIALS AND METHODS |
A systematic literature search was conducted from PubMed, Embase, Medrxiv, and Google Scholar from April and finalized in December 2020 using the following terms: covid-19, convalescent plasma, cp, ccp, copla. The studies were screened, extracted, and evaluated by two authors independently. Comparative retrospective or... |
RESULTS |
Eighteen studies were included in this meta-analysis. There were 5658 patients with 2092 patients treated with CP and 3536 patients as a control group. Forest plot showed CP use was associated with decreased mortality with OR = 0.64 (95% CI 0.49 to 0.84, p<0.001) and heterogeneity (I2)= 27.62%. Few patients experienced... |
CONCLUSIONS |
Convalescent plasma is effective in reducing mortality of severe and critical COVID-19 with tolerable adverse effects.Immunoactive trypsins in duodenal juice from children with gastrointestinal disorders. |
Duodenal juice contains two trypsins, one anionic and one cationic at pH 8.6. To investigate their distribution, we studied fasting specimens of duodenal juice from 89 children with different gastrointestinal problems. The two trypsins were separately determined with electroimmunoassay parallel with determinations of t... |
Multi-source remote sensing data were used to generate 500-m resolution cloud-free daily snow cover images for the Northern Hemisphere. Simultaneously, the spatial and temporal dynamic variations of snow in the Northern Hemisphere were evaluated from 2000 to 2015. The results indicated that (1) the maximum, minimum, an... |
In this paper, a quantitative characterization for the evolutionary sequence of stellar self-gravitating system is investigated, focusing on the pre-collapse stage of the long-term dynamical evolution. In particular, we consider the quasi-equilibrium behaviors of the N-body systems in the setup of the so-called Antonov... |
Abstract The impact of a three‐drug regimen including mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) vs. a two‐drug (no MMF) regimen on progressive renal dysfunction (PRD) in liver transplant recipients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has not been well described. Adults with HCV who received a primary liver transplant between Jan... |
Abstract Illegal wildlife trade is one of the most profitable criminal activities. Illegal wildlife usually comes from African and Asian countries, with destination countries including China, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore. However, the role of the European Union (EU) should not be underestimated. The EU is a major t... |
The invasion of Iraq was justified to the American people by a sophisticated propaganda campaign that reflected a think tank's vision for a new foreign policy. One objective of this article is to set forth a theoretical argument for analyzing modern propaganda campaigns as a feature of mass-mediated discourse crafted b... |
MacCallum, Browne, and Cai (2006) proposed a new framework for evaluation and power analysis of small differences between nested structural equation models (SEMs). In their framework, the null and alternative hypotheses for testing a small difference in fit and its related power analyses were defined by some chosen roo... |
Industrialization in China over the course of the twentieth century has been spectacular. Yet, the spread of industrial development has been very uneven. In this paper, we will construct a dataset on regional manufacturing for 1933, just before the industrial take-off in the twentieth century. Given the sheer size of C... |
Alcoholism in humans is a chronic and progressive disease, characterized by loss of ethanol consumption control. Previous studies have reported that prolonged exposure to ethanol was responsible for alterations in glandular tissues of human and rodents. However, the interrelationship between ethanol and the glandular s... |
PurposeCancer is a stressful life event that can lead to specific posttraumatic reactions. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Posttraumatic growth (PTG) are two main posttraumatic reactions that are related to each other, and both have different correlates.MethodsThe linearity of the relationship between PTG and ... |
We study bulk recombination in a medium with energetic disorder by using the multiple trapping (MT) model under continuous irradiation with excitation light. Charge densities are shown to obey power law as a function of the intensity of excitation light and the exponent is related to the dispersion parameter $\alpha$ o... |
The purpose of the current study was to examine the determinants of R&D expenditure and health expenditure of ASEAN countries. The research objectives were developed to analyze the short-term as well as the long-term impact of economic growth, environmental pollution, and energy consumption on health and R&D expenditur... |
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