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The global expansion of Aedes albopictus has stimulated the development of environmentally friendly methods aiming to control disease transmission through the suppression of natural vector populations. Sterile male release programmes are currently being deployed worldwide, and are challenged by the availability of an efficient sex separation which can be achieved mechanically at the pupal stage and/or by artificial intelligence at the adult stage, or through genetic sexing, which allows separating males and females at an early development stage...

PURPOSE: The aim of the current study was to investigate the relationship between state (i.e., hostility) and trait (i.e., social detachment, alexithymia) psychological constructs associated with suicidal ideation among university students. METHODS: A group of 190 university students was consecutively recruited in the period between September 2022 and March 2023. After a clinical interview, a series of psychological tests were administered: the Cattell's 16-Personality Factors Questionnaire (16PF), the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R), and the anamnestic form of the Cognitive Behavioral Assessment (CBA2...

BACKGROUND: Clinical progress in form of "total mesometrial resection" (TMMR) in cervical cancer and "total mesorectal excision" (TME) in rectal cancer can be traced to a paradigm-shift regarding the extent and range of resection. More significance is bestowed upon embryologically defined borders which define compartments, "morphogenetic units" and "cancer fields", that have to be addressed in order to avoid incomplete tumor resection. We want to transfer this rationale on the pancreas and define such borders for pancreatic compartments...

PURPOSE: Stereotactic radiosurgery/radiation therapy (SRS/SRT) increasingly has been used to treat brain metastases. However, the development of distant brain metastases (DBMs) in the untreated brain remains a serious complication. We sought to develop a spatially aware radiomic signature to model the time-to-DBM development in a cohort of patients leveraging pretreatment magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and radiation therapy treatment planning data including radiation dose distribution maps...

The study aimed to investigate the allocation of figurative language comprehension (FLC) within the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) model of cognitive abilities, using three newly developed tests: the Reverse Paraphrase Test (RPT), the Literal Paraphrase Test (LPT), and the Proverb Test (PT). The analysis of a sample of 909 participants revealed that the RPT and LPT measured a unidimensional construct of FLC, while the PT was excluded due to insufficient fit. Combining RPT and LPT items, various models were evaluated, with a bifactor S-1 model showing the best fit, indicating the influence of a general factor (representing FLC) and test-specific method factors...

Although many fluid reasoning (Gf) tests have been developed, there is a lack of figural tests measuring its lower-order process factors simultaneously. The present article introduces the development of the Multidimensional Induction-Deduction Computerized Adaptive Test (MID-CAT) to measure two process factors of Gf. The MID-CAT is designed to provide an instrument that is flexible, efficient, and entirely free for non-commercial use. We created 530 items and administered them to a sample of N = 2,247. Items were fitted and calibrated using the Rasch model...

OBJECTIVE: The overall objective of the study was to describe the disposition status of children presenting with a burn injury to five emergency departments (ED) across New South Wales (NSW), Australia. DESIGN: A retrospective study design was used to review routinely collected ED data. SETTING: Study sites included five acute hospitals across NSW, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: During the 5-year study period between 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020, there were 5213 paediatric burn injury presentations...

Arterial variations in the liver's blood supply play a pivotal role in the success of pancreatoduodenectomy (PD), impacting both its technical execution and oncological outcomes. Among these variations, a common hepatic artery arising from the superior mesenteric artery (SMA) occurs in about 3% of cases. An exceptionally rare variation is the intrapancreatic common hepatic artery (IPCHA). Preserving or reconstructing the IPCHA is vital during PD to prevent liver and biliary necrosis. Particularly for cases of pancreatic cancer with high rates of intrapancreatic perineural spread, preserving IPCHA without compromising radicality presents challenges...

INTRODUCTION: This study aimed to investigate the effect of multidimensional spiritual psychotherapy on anxiety, depression, and attitude towards self and god in bone cancer patients after amputation. METHOD: Forty one cancer patients with a history of Below-The-Knee amputation were recruited in this quasi-experimental study. The design included pre-and post-tests in experimental and control  groups. The experimental group received 15 sessions of multidimensional spiritual psychotherapy...

BACKGROUND: Dissection of para-aortic lymph nodes (Station 16) provides an important prognosticator for patients with gastrointestinal, colorectal, and hepatobiliary cancers.1-4 For example, a positive Station 16 lymph node has been shown to lead to 2-year survival of 3% in patients with pancreas adenocarcinoma, akin to stage IV disease.5,6 Thereby, Station 16 involvement can help with the risk/benefit stratification of the decision to move forward with radical surgery.7-9 Furthermore, it has been shown for gallbladder cancer that involvement of Station 16 cannot necessarily be predicted from the dissection of the hepatoduodenal ligament lymph nodes only...

Generational IQ test scores in the general population were observed to increase over time (i.e., the Flynn effect) across most of the 1900s. However, according to more recent reports, Flynn effect patterns have seemingly become less consistent. So far, most available evidence on this phenomenon has been categorized by drawing on the classic fluid vs. crystallized intelligence taxonomy. However, recent evidence suggests that subdomain-specific trajectories of IQ change may well be more complex. Here, we present evidence for cross-temporal changes in measurement-invariant figural reasoning tasks in three large-scale, population-representative samples of German secondary school students (total N = 19,474)...

INTRODUCTION: The biosimilar CT-P13, the first and only subcutaneous (SC) infliximab formulation, is recommended for patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and can be administered as a maintenance treatment, to be started 4 weeks after the induction treatment with 2 intravenous (IV) infliximab infusions. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate treatment with SC infliximab without prior IV infusion induction to meet patient needs. MATERIALS AND METHODS: After approval by the ethics review board and based on the schedule approved for rheumatoid arthritis, SC induction was performed with infliximab CT-P13 120 mg weekly for 4 weeks, followed by an injection of 120 mg every 2 weeks...

Accurate differentiation of benign and malignant cervical lymph nodes is important for prognosis and treatment planning in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. We evaluated the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance image (MRI) texture analysis and traditional 18F-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) features. This retrospective study included 21 patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. We used texture analysis of MRI and FDG-PET features to evaluate 109 histologically confirmed cervical lymph nodes (41 metastatic, 68 benign)...

BACKGROUND: Blumgart pancreaticojejunostomy (PJ) was shown to be an effective method for pancreaticojejunostomy in open pancreaticoduodenectomy. But the original Blumgart method is involved in complicated and interrupted sutures, which may not be suitable for the laparoscopic approach. In this study, we introduced a simplified Blumgart method for laparoscopic pancreaticojejunostomy. METHODS: We retrospectively reviewed 90 cases of pancreaticoduodenectomy in our institute from 2019 to 2022...

Developed more than 2 decades ago, the MEZURE (Assessment Technologies, 1995-2020; https://www.mezure.com/) has received increased attention as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first individualized test of cognitive ability created to use an online (local or remote) assessment modality. The MEZURE claims to be aligned both with the extended Gf-Gc theory and the Cattell-Horn-Carroll model of abilities. Whereas the test publisher claims it used exploratory factor analysis to investigate the instrument's factor structure, only the subtest factor loadings on the Gf-Gc factors were furnished...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a series of published executive function factor models for the Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS) and contrast these models with an a priori three-factor model based on Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory. METHOD: This was a cross-sectional study using the 16 main achievement scores from the D-KEFS standardization sample, which includes three separate age-cohorts. We aimed to replicate previously reported factor models for the D-KEFS in the 20-to-49-year cohort (N = 361) using the approaches described in the original published studies...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S): Local intracranial therapy for brain metastases (BM) has taken on particular importance as survival among metastatic patients improves. However, the development of distant BMs (DBMs) outside the treated area remains a stubborn problem for which canonical clinical features (age, histology, ECOG PS) have limited predictive capability. In this study, we hypothesized that MRI-based "radiomic" features (sub-visual cues extracted from diagnostic images) can accurately predict the time-to-DBM development (TTDD) on a retrospectively curated dataset of patients treated with stereotactic radiosurgery/radiotherapy (SRS/SRT)...

The purpose of our research is to study the creative potential as psychological capacities for younger schoolchildren's creative self-realization and self-development in various conditions of the educational environment. The methodological basis of this work is Vygotsky's conceptual provisions according to which the human psyche is culturally determined, and a sociocultural environment is considered to be the main source and condition for the child's mental development. The study involved younger schoolchildren (a total of 160 children from the 4th grade aged 9-10 years, n  = 160, M  = 9...

Across mammalian skin, structurally complex and diverse mechanosensory end organs respond to mechanical stimuli and enable our perception of dynamic, light touch. How forces act on morphologically dissimilar mechanosensory end organs of the skin to gate the requisite mechanotransduction channel Piezo2 and excite mechanosensory neurons is not understood. Here, we report high-resolution reconstructions of the hair follicle lanceolate complex, Meissner corpuscle, and Pacinian corpuscle and the subcellular distribution of Piezo2 within them...