Three-dimensional wideband absorbance immittance findings in young adults with large vestibular aqueduct syndrome.

Objective: To investigate the effect of large vestibular aqueduct syndrome (LVAS) on middle ear sound transmission using wideband absorbance immittance (WAI).

Methods: WAI results from young adult LVAS patients and normal adults were compared.

Results: Averaged energy absorbance (EA) at ambient and peak pressure in the LVAS group showed differences to the normal group.

Antifungal Activity of Perillaldehyde on and Its Control Effect on Postharvest Decay of Sweet Potatoes.

Root rot caused by is one of the major postharvest diseases limiting sweet potato production. Here, antifungal activity and the action mode of perillaldehyde (PAE) against were investigated. A PAE concentration of 0.

Parental Burnout and Adolescents' Development: Family Environment, Academic Performance, and Social Adaptation.

The present study aimed to examine the effect and underlying mechanism of parental burnout on adolescents' development as well as the mediating role of parental psychological control. Adolescents' academic performance, and social distress were selected as developmental indicators. Data were collected on three different occasions using a time-lagged design.

G-quadruplex-hemin DNAzyme functionalized nanopipettes: Fabrication and sensing application.

Solid-nanopores/nanopipettes have the exquisite ability to reveal the changes in molecular volume due to the advantages of adjustable size, good rigidity and low noise. Herein, a new platform for sensing application was established based on G-quadruplex-hemin DNAzyme (GQH) functionalized gold-coated nanopipettes. In this method, GQH was immobilized on gold-coated nanopipette, which could be used as a catalyst for the reaction of HO with 2,2'-azino-bis (3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) diammonium salt (ABTS) to promote the conversion of ABTS to ABTS ions inside gold-coated nanopipette, and the change of transmembrane ion current could be monitored in real time.

Radix Isatidis polysaccharide (RIP) resists the infection of QX-type infectious bronchitis virus via the MDA5/TLR3/IRF7 signaling pathway.

Although vaccines play a major role in the prevention of infectious bronchitis (IB), Anti-IB drugs still have great potential in poultry production. Radix Isatidis polysaccharide (RIP) is a crude extract of Banlangen with antioxidant, antibacterial, antiviral, and multiple immunomodulatory functions. The aim of this study was to explore the innate immune mechanisms responsible for RIP-mediated alleviation of infectious bronchitis virus (IBV)-induced kidney lesions in chickens.

Effect of cognitive style on time-based prospective memory.

Field-independent and field-dependent individuals have different reference patterns and cognitive processing preferences. Field-independent individuals tend to rely on internal capabilities and use internal references to process information, while field-dependent individuals mainly rely on external references and focus on external information. Individuals with two cognitive styles have different attention patterns to perform time-based prospective memory (TBPM) tasks, with different effects on their TBPM performance.

The predictive value of nontraditional lipid parameters for intracranial and extracranial atherosclerotic stenosis: a hospital-based observational study in China.

Background: Ischemic strokes are primarily caused by intracranial and extracranial atherosclerotic stenosis. Nontraditional lipid parameters broaden traditional lipid profiles, better reflect the metabolism and interaction between different lipid components, and optimize the predictive ability of lipid profiles for atherosclerotic diseases. This research was carried out to investigate the predictive value of nontraditional lipid parameters for intracranial or extracranial atherosclerotic stenosis.

The nonlinear effect of time pressure on innovation performance: New insights from a meta-analysis and an empirical study.

As competition grows, when employees are required to accelerate innovation, they also face increasing time pressure. In order to shed light on how time pressure affects employees' innovation performance, two studies were conducted to examine the effect of time pressure on innovation performance. In Study 1, based on 50 effect sizes from 50 independent samples ( = 15,751) in 40 articles, a meta-analysis was conducted to examine the J-shaped effect of time pressure on innovation performance.

Exploration and Practice of Medicine Pathway for Perioperative VTE Prophylactic Anticoagulant Treatment.

Objective: Using perioperative VTE prophylactic anticoagulant pathway delicacy management, we aimed to explore the role of clinical pharmacists in perioperative VTE prophylactic anticoagulant treatment and the effect of the clinical medicine pathway implementation.

Methods: In compliance with evidence-based medicine, combined with clinical practice, clinical pharmacists participated in the formulation of the perioperative anticoagulant clinical medicine pathway. The PDCA cycle was strictly implemented.

T-Shaped Aptamer-Based LSPR Biosensor Using Ω-Shaped Fiber Optic for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2.

SARS-CoV-2, especially the variant strains, is rapidly spreading around the world. Rapid detection methods for the virus are crucial for controlling the COVID-19 epidemic. Herein, a localized surface plasmonic resonance (LSPR) biosensor based on Ω-shaped fiber optic (Ω-FO) was developed for dual assays of SARS-CoV-2 monitoring.

A novel anthocyanin electrospun film by caffeic acid co-pigmentation for real-time fish freshness monitoring.

In recent years, the use of intelligent and efficient food freshness indicators (FFIs) for monitoring food freshness has been studied widely. In this work, we employed polyacrylonitrile as polymer, blueberry anthocyanins as an indicator, and caffeic acid as a co-pigment and fabricated a novel colorimetric sensing film for real-time monitoring the freshness of fish. The total volatile basic nitrogen (TVB-N) level is one of the potential indicators to evaluate meat freshness.

Inhibitory effect of cinnamaldehyde on Fusarium solani and its application in postharvest preservation of sweet potato.

Root rot caused by Fusarium solani is one of major postharvest diseases limiting sweet potato production. Antifungal effect and possible mode of action of cinnamaldehyde (CA) against F. solani were investigated.

Prosocial motivation can promote the time-based prospective memory of school-age children.

In real life, we are often motivated to plan things to be performed at specific times in the future. Some of these intended actions help other individuals, and thus involve time-based prospective memory (TBPM) under prosocial motivational conditions. Children's social development is very rapid, and they have relatively stable prosocial motivation during school age.

Cerebral Small Vessel Diseases and Outcomes for Acute Ischemic Stroke Patients after Endovascular Therapy.

The correlation between cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) and the outcomes of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients after endovascular therapy (EVT) remains elusive. We aimed to investigate the effect of combined white matter hyperintensities (WMH) and enlarged perivascular spaces (EPVS) as detected in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) at baseline on clinical outcomes in patients with AIS who underwent EVT. AIS patients that experienced EVT were retrospectively analyzed in this single-center study.

The left side of the face may be fixated on more often than the right side: visual lateralization in recognizing own- and other-race faces.

Studies have found that Westerners recognize own-race faces with left visual lateralization (from the viewer's perspective), but whether subjects recognize own- and other-race faces with similar degrees of left visual lateralization is unclear. In the present study, two experiments were conducted to clarify this issue. In Experiment 1, faces were divided into left and right sides to ascertain whether Chinese subjects scanned the left side of Chinese and Western faces more often than the right side.

Single-Molecule Investigation of the Protein-Aptamer Interactions and Sensing Application Inside the Single Glass Nanopore.

Solid-state nanopores offer a nanoconfined space for a single-molecule sensing strategy. Evaluating the behavior of proteins and protein-related interactions at the single-molecule level is becoming more and more important for a better understanding of biological processes and diseases. In this work, the aptamer-functionalized nanopore was prepared as the sensing platform for kinetic analysis of the carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) with its aptamers, which is an important cancer biomarker.

Authoritarian leadership and nurse presenteeism: the role of workload and leader identification.

Background: Nurses' health in the workplace is crucial for ensuring the quality of healthcare. However, presenteeism, the behavior of working in a state of ill health, is widespread in the nursing industry. Considering that the origin of authoritarian leadership and the prevalence of presenteeism are inseparable from Chinese workplace culture, this study aimed to explore the impact and mechanism of authoritarian leadership on presenteeism.

Supramolecular catalytic nanomedicines based on coordination self-assembly of amino acids for cascade-activated and -amplified synergetic cancer therapy.

Simple biomolecule-based supramolecular nanomedicines hold great promise in cancer therapy, but their clinical translation is greatly hindered by low tumor-specificity and unsatisfactory antitumor performance. Herein, we developed an amino acid basedsupramolecular nanomedicine that could be co-activated by multiple stimuli in tumor tissue to trigger cascade catalytic reactions for synergetic therapy. The supramolecular nanomedicine was developed based on a combination of coordination and hydrophobic noncovalent interactions among amphiphilic amino acids, glucose oxidase (GOx), copper ions, as well as doxorubicin (DOX)-camptothecin (CPT) prodrugs.

The Mechanisms of Parental Burnout Affecting Adolescents' Problem Behavior.

Parental burnout refers to the feelings of extreme exhaustion that many parents experience due to parenting. Although parental burnout has received considerable interest from researchers, the effects and mechanisms of parental burnout on adolescents' physical and psychological development remain largely unknown. This study investigated the relationship between parental burnout and adolescents' problem behaviors in Chinese families.

Multicolor fluorescence assay of tetracycline: lanthanide complexed amino clay loaded with copper nanoclusters.

A multicolor fluorescent nanoprobe has been prepared by loading bovine serum albumin-stabilized copper nanoclusters (BSA-Cu NCs) onto amino clay (AC) and grafting Eu with auxiliary ligand citric acid (Cit). Tetracycline (TC) can coordinate with Eu by β-diketone structure and transfer energy to Eu through antenna effect. When the concentration of TC is in the range 0 to 13 μM, the blue emission intensity of BSA-CuNCs is basically unchanged, and the red emission of Eu is remarkably enhanced due to the coordination with TC.