Respiratory Viruses at Time of Lung Transplant and the Relationship to Primary Graft Dysfunction.

Background: Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) is a form of immediate post-transplant acute lung injury associated with increased risk of mortality, and it is possible that respiratory viruses (RVs) at the time of transplant may augment this.

Methods: We retrospectively studied all adult lung transplant recipients transplanted in our program from 2017 to 2020, with a primary outcome of grade 3 PGD (PGD3), defined as edema on chest X-ray and arterial oxygen/fraction of inspired oxygen ratio <200 at 48- or 72-h post-transplant. RV status was assessed by nucleic acid amplification test on routine bronchoscopic specimens performed on day 1 post-transplant.

Cross-jurisdictional factors linked to gambling frequency in adolescents from 28 European countries: a machine learning approach.

Adolescents are vulnerable to experiencing problematic gambling, although its prevalence and potential risk factors vary across countries. This study aims to identify cross-jurisdictional factors associated with higher gambling frequency among adolescents in different European countries, using machine learning. Data were obtained from the European school Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (ESPAD).

Prefrontal Oxygenation in a Subjective Decision on a Situational Danger Assessment Task: Personality Traits and Decision-Making Styles Involvement.

This study investigated prefrontal cortex activity during the viewing and evaluation of pictures depicting scenarios with varying levels of danger, with a focus on the modulatory effects of personality traits and decision-making styles. The study sample included 120 male participants (44.4 ± 12.

Alcohol Misuse: Integrating Personality Traits and Decision-Making Styles for Profiling.

The literature has described how different and independent personality profiles (pathways or motives) lead to the same outcome: alcohol misuse. In addition, decision-making styles could also play a role in understanding alcohol misuse better, although the evidence is much more scarce compared to personality traits. The present paper aims to test how personality traits and decision-making styles could be integrated to better understand different pathways/profiles of alcohol misuse.

Raising Generation Z Children in China: Parenting Styles and Psychosocial Adjustment.

This study aims to analyze the relationship between parenting styles, i.e., authoritative, indulgent, authoritarian, and neglectful, and psychosocial adjustment, i.

Raising to conformity without strictness: is it achievable?

Background: The prevailing belief that parental strictness is optimal for children is not uniformly supported by recent research. Contrary to the traditional notion that strictness is necessary to ensure children's conformity to social norms, contemporary studies question its necessity. This study aims to analyze how two main parenting dimensions, warmth and strictness, are related to the psychosocial adjustment of children.

Synovial glucose and serum-to-synovial-glucose ratio perform better than other biomarkers for the diagnosis of acute postoperative prosthetic knee infection.

: In native septic arthritis, synovial glucose is a well-established diagnostic marker. However, its diagnostic utility in periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) remains unexplored. Given the diagnostic challenges of acute postoperative PJI, we hypothesized that synovial glucose could serve as a valuable biomarker and aimed to evaluate its diagnostic accuracy.

New Self-Care Scale for Adults (SCS-A): Development and validation in Spanish parents and its relationship with psychological and family adjustment.

Purpose: Although there are different instruments that evaluate self-care, most of them have not been validated for use in the Spanish population or in the general adult population. Moreover, there is little evidence on its relationship with psychological and family adjustment. Therefore, the aims of this study were to: (1) validate the self-care scale for adults and (2) analyse its external validity, verifying its relationship with general psychological and family adjustment variables.

The Dark Side of the Self: When Family is Highly Related to Mental Health Deterioration.

This study aims to empirically test whether family has a unique significance for the self that cannot be captured by the social self alone. Specifically, it examines whether family self-concept, compared to social self-concept, is more closely related to family-specific indicators (i.e.

An Unexpected Outcome of an Ischemic Stroke on the Reward Pathways in the Human Brain.

Background: Addiction affects millions of people, often resulting from a complex interplay between genetic and environmental factors, and is frequently linked to mental health disorders. Many experts agree there is no cure for addiction, but there are effective treatments available. Many patients continue to succumb to addiction despite treatment.

Internet gaming disorder and the alternative five factor personality model: a study in a Spanish community sample.

Background: This study was designed to examine the prevalence and relationships between the Internet gaming disorder (IGD) behaviors, suggested by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), and personality traits.

Participants And Procedure: A sample community of 1,548 subjects, 707 men and 841 women, with a mean age of 40.90 and 38.

A highly-configurable session designer for VR nursing training.

Virtual Reality (VR) has proven to be a valuable tool for medical and nursing education. VR simulators are available at any time and from anywhere, and can be used with or without faculty supervision, which results in a significant optimization of time, space, and resources. In this paper we present a highly-configurable session designer for VR-based nursing education following the Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence: SQUIRE 2.

Gender Differences in Prefrontal Cortex Response to Negative Emotional Stimuli in Drivers.

Background: Road safety improvement is a governmental priority due to driver-caused accidents. Driving style variation affects safety, with emotional regulation being pivotal. However, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) studies show inconsistent prefrontal cortex activity during emotion processing.

The Androgen Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate Shows a Greater Relationship with Impulsivity than Testosterone in a Healthy Male Sample.

This study was designed to examine the relationships among the impulsivity construct as a personality trait, the dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S), and testosterone in a sample of 120 healthy middle-aged males (M = 44.39; = 12.88).

Prefrontal activity during IOWA Gambling Task in young adult women.

This study aims to investigate the relationships between personality traits of impulsivity, using the UPPS-P Impulsive Behaviour Scales shortened version, and prefrontal cortex (PFC) activity during the IOWA Gambling Task (IGT) in young adult women. The study included a sample of 83 young, healthy females (19.8 ± 1.

Digital Twin Platform for Water Treatment Plants Using Microservices Architecture.

The effects of climate change and the rapid growth of societies often lead to water scarcity and inadequate water quality, resulting in a significant number of diseases. The digitalization of infrastructure and the use of Digital Twins are presented as alternatives for optimizing resources and the necessary infrastructure in the water cycle. This paper presents a framework for the development of a Digital Twin platform for a wastewater treatment plant, based on a microservices architecture which optimized its design for edge computing implementation.

The CAPE (Compassion, Assertive Action, Pragmatism, and Evidence) vulnerability index - Second Edition: Putting mental health into foreign policy to address globalization, conflict, climate change, and natural disasters.

Background: The CAPE Vulnerability Index serves as a worldwide foreign policy indicator that implies which countries should get assistance first. It provides an evidence-based, well-structured, and well-reasoned strategy for employing aid in bilateral arrangements with mental health as a basis.

Objective: The second edition of the CAPE VI has been developed to identify which nations should get priority foreign aid.

Early Family Experiences, Drug Use, and Psychosocial Adjustment across the Life Span: Is Parental Strictness Always a Protective Factor?

This study analyzes whether parental strictness, which is shared by authoritative parenting (strictness and warmth) and authoritarian parenting (strictness without warmth) styles, always acts as a main protective factor against drug use and psychosocial maladjustment in children. This conclusion has already been stated in numerous classic studies, though emergent research suggests that there are benefits to parental warmth regardless of whether strictness is present or not. Sample were 2,095 Spanish participants (1,227 females, 58.

The Alternative Model of Personality Disorders: Assessment, Convergent and Discriminant Validity, and a Look to the Future.

The Alternative Model of Personality Disorders (AMPD) is a dimensional, empirically based diagnostic system developed to overcome the serious limitations of traditional categories. We review the mounting evidence on its convergent and discriminant validity, with an incursion into the less-studied ICD-11 system. In the literature, the AMPD's Pathological Trait Model (Criterion B) shows excellent convergence with normal personality traits, and it could be useful as an organizing framework for mental disorders.