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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38541612/effects-of-seed-size-and-cache-density-on-the-seed-fate-of-quercus-wutaishanica-mediated-by-rodents
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiming Cheng, Min Zhang, Xingfu Yan
Animal-mediated seed dispersal is very important for plant population regeneration and the stability of forest ecosystems. Seed size and cache density are important factors for seed dispersal, but we still know little about seed size selection at different cache densities. Here, we conducted field experiments in a Larix principis-rupprechtii plantation in the Liupan Mountains in Ningxia province to investigate the effects of tag-marked Quercus wutaishanica seeds of different sizes and cache densities on predation and the scatter-hoarding behavior of rodents...
February 21, 2024: Life
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38539218/choosing-and-accessing-covid-19-treatment-options-a-qualitative-study-with-patients-caregivers-and-health-care-providers-in-lebanon
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Reem Hoteit, Aya Hassoun, Elie Bou Sanayeh, Marie Christelle Saade, Gladys Honein-AbouHaidar, Elie A Akl
BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has strained healthcare systems globally, particularly in terms of access to medicines. Lebanon has been greatly affected by the pandemic, having faced concomitant financial and economic crises. The objective of the study was to understand the experiences of patients with COVID-19 in Lebanon, as well as those of their families, and healthcare providers, with regards to their treatment decisions and accessibility to COVID-19 medicines...
March 27, 2024: Health Research Policy and Systems
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38536614/seropositivity-for-toxocara-spp-in-individuals-with-animal-hoarding-disorder-in-southern-brazil-an-alarm-for-public-health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vamilton Alvares Santarém, Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Isabella Braghin Ferreira, Susana Angélica Zevallos Lescano, Roberto Teixeira de Souza Filho, Graziela Ribeiro da Cunha, Vivien Midori Morikawa, Sriveny Dangoudoubiyam, Andrea Pires Dos Santos, Alexander Welker Biondo
PURPOSE: Animal hoarding has been associated with unhealthy human, animal and environmental conditions that predispose such individuals to serious life-threatening risks such as arson, malnutrition, cruelty and zoonosis. The study aimed to evaluate the presence of anti-Toxocara spp. antibodies among individuals with animal hoarding disorder in Curitiba, Brazil. METHODS: 65 residences with register of animal hoarder behavior were visited and 11 residences were included in the study, with a total of 19 individuals consenting participation...
March 27, 2024: Acta Parasitologica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38500218/pilfering-personalities-effects-of-small-mammal-personality-on-cache-pilferage
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brigit R Humphreys, Alessio Mortelliti
Small mammals such as mice and voles play a fundamental role in the ecosystem service of seed dispersal by caching seeds in small hoards that germinate under beneficial conditions. Pilferage is a critical step in this process in which animals steal seeds from other individuals' caches. Pilferers often recache stolen seeds, which are often pilfered by new individuals, who may recache again, and so on, potentially leading to compounded increased dispersal distance. However, little research has investigated intraspecific differences in pilfering frequency, despite its importance in better understanding the role of behavioural diversity in the valuable ecosystem service of seed dispersal...
March 18, 2024: Journal of Animal Ecology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493597/cluttered-spaces-strained-bonds-examining-the-correlation-between-hoarding-symptoms-and-social-functioning-among-long-term-care-facilities-older-adult-residents
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mona Metwally El-Sayed, Samah Mohamed Taha, Eman Sameh Abd-Elhay, Hassan Mohammed Sonbol, Shaimaa Mohamed Amin, Manal Mohammed Hawash
BACKGROUND: Symptoms of hoarding, such as the inability to part with possessions, leading to significant clutter, are commonly observed among residents in long-term care facilities in Egypt. This behavior significantly impacts their social interactions and functioning. Therefore, this study examined the relationship between hoarding symptoms and social functioning among older adult residents in long-term care facilities. METHODS: The study employed a cross-sectional survey on a purposive sample of 300 older adults...
March 16, 2024: Geriatric Nursing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493392/parent-child-associations-in-covid-19-related-preventive-behaviors-and-efficacy-expectations-a-one-year-longitudinal-survey
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shinya Yoshino, Wai Him Crystal Law, Shinsuke Koike
PURPOSE: It is necessary to identify the variables that explain the variance in preventive behaviors against COVID-19 to increase adolescents' engagement in these behaviors. We focused on efficacy expectations of preventive behaviors and their associations within families. This study examined the associations between efficacy expectations and preventive behaviors, and between adolescents and their parents in terms of efficacy expectations and preventive behaviors. METHODS: A cross-lagged panel model was employed to analyze 281 parent-child pairs consisting of 245 children (118 girls, mean age = 17...
March 15, 2024: Journal of Adolescent Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38490775/natural-experiment-outcomes-studies-in-rotor-wing-air-medical-transport-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis-of-before-and-after-and-helicopter-unavailable-publications-from-1970-to-2022
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David Schoenfeld, Caroline E Thomas, Michael P McCartin, Ira J Blumen, Samuel M Galvagno, Stephen H Thomas
OBJECTIVE: Helicopter emergency medical services (HEMS) is widely used for prehospital and interfacility transport, but there is a paucity of HEMS outcomes data from studies using randomized controlled trial designs. In the absence of robust randomized controlled trial evidence, judgments regarding HEMS potential benefit must be informed by observational data. Within the study design set of observational analyses, the natural experiment (NE) is notable for its high potential methodologic quality; NE designs are occasionally denoted "quasi-experimental...
2024: Air Medical Journal
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38481394/four-years-since-covid-19-day-zero-a-time-to-evaluate-past-and-future-pandemic-control-policies-and-practices-in-sub-saharan-africa
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Obinna O Oleribe, Andrew W Taylor-Robinson, Okey C Nwanyanwu, Marsha Y Morgan, Simon D Taylor-Robinson
Four years after the first case of COVID-19, the world is still determining how best to prevent and control the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were employed at the start of the pandemic as the only available options, prior to effective vaccines and antiviral agents. The World Health Organization recommended dual vaccination for 70% worldwide as the threshold for a return to "normal" community life. Immunization rates needed to increase in all global regions, irrespective of socioeconomic status, necessitating more equitable access...
2024: Risk Management and Healthcare Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38470939/one-health-approach-for-brucella-canis-serological-and-molecular-detection-in-animal-hoarding-individuals-and-their-dogs
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Letícia Schiavo, Matheus Lopes Ribeiro, Meila Bastos de Almeida, Graziela Ribeiro da Cunha, Giselle Almeida Nocera Espírito Santo, Vivien Midori Morikawa, Acácia Ferreira Vicente, Claire Ponsart, Carlos Eduardo de Santi, Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Jane Megid, Alexander Welker Biondo
Animal hoarding disorder (AHD) is classified as a psychiatric obsessive-compulsive condition characterized by animal accumulation and often accompanied by unsanitary conditions and animal cruelty. Although AHD may increase pathogen transmission and spread, particularly for zoonotic diseases, human and dog exposure in such cases has yet to be fully established. Accordingly, this study aimed to assess Brucella canis in 19 individuals with AHD (11 households) and their 264 dogs (21 households) in Curitiba, the eighth largest city in Brazil, with approximately 1...
March 2024: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38467946/environmental-harshness-does-not-affect-the-propensity-for-social-learning-in-great-tits-parus-major
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Emil Isaksson, Julie Morand-Ferron, Alexis Chaine
According to the harsh environment hypothesis, natural selection should favour cognitive mechanisms to overcome environmental challenges. Tests of this hypothesis to date have largely focused on asocial learning and memory, thus failing to account for the spread of information via social means. Tests in specialized food-hoarding birds have shown strong support for the effects of environmental harshness on both asocial and social learning. Whether the hypothesis applies to non-specialist foraging species remains largely unexplored...
March 12, 2024: Animal Cognition
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38452617/childhood-environmental-unpredictability-and-hoarding-mediating-roles-of-attachment-and-security
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hang Ma, Yuhang Wu, Xiaojun Lv, Xiaofan Yang, Ping Hu
Life history theory provides a unified perspective for understanding human behaviors as adaptive strategies to specific environmental conditions. Within this theoretical framework, hoarding emerges as a behavior reflecting an evolved strategy in response to unpredictable environmental challenges, serving as a buffer against resource scarcity and enhancing survival prospects. This study aimed to explore the key roles of childhood environmental unpredictability, attachment, and sense of security in the development of hoarding...
March 6, 2024: Acta Psychologica
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38429860/the-effects-of-plant-hormones-on-dispersal-and-predation-of-seeds-by-leopoldamys-edwardsi-the-co-evolutionary-knot-between-acorns-and-rodents-grows-tighter
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Michael Steele, Michal Bogdziewicz
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 1, 2024: New Phytologist
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38416512/reply-to-letter-to-the-editor-does-hoarding-impact-interview-distribution-among-orthopaedic-surgery-residency-applicants-a-modeling-study-based-on-a-large-database
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Catherine E T Hutchison, Kenneth R Gundle
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
February 28, 2024: Clinical Orthopaedics and related Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38395848/the-prader-willi-syndrome-profile-validation-of-a-new-measure-of-behavioral-and-emotional-problems-in-prader-willi-syndrome
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Elisabeth M Dykens, Elizabeth Roof, Hailee Hunt-Hawkins
BACKGROUND: Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare, neurodevelopmental disorder caused by the lack of expression of paternally imprinted genes on chromosome 15q11-13. PWS features a complex behavioral phenotype, including hyperphagia, anxiety, compulsivity, rigidity, repetitive speech, temper outbursts, aggressivity, and skin-picking. Questionnaires exist for measuring hyperphagia, but not for the aggregation of other problems that are distinctive to PWS. A PWS-specific tool is needed for phenotypic research, and to help evaluate treatment efficacy in future clinical trials aimed at attenuating PWS's hyperphagia and related problems...
February 23, 2024: Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38386390/development-and-validation-of-the-acquiring-and-saving-motives-questionnaires-for-use-in-clinical-and-nonclinical-populations
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jonathan David, Miriam K Forbes, Melissa M Norberg
Our consumer-driven culture has negative impacts for individuals who are vulnerable to clinical hoarding and compulsive shopping. Because of this, there is an ever-present need to have standardized tools to assess why we acquire and save things we might not need. In this article, we present the development of the Acquiring Motives Questionnaire (AMQ) and Saving Motives Questionnaire (SMQ), which were written based on a thorough literature review and consultation with 22 experts in the field. After piloting with two large nonclinical samples, we administered the measures to another large nonclinical sample (N = 535; Mage = 24...
March 2024: Psychological Assessment
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38382621/effects-of-ghrelin-on-food-caching-behaviour-and-body-composition-in-black-capped-chickadees-poecile-atricapillus
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Matthew Williamson, Sara Lupi, Scott A MacDougall-Shackleton
Several metabolic hormones signal an organism's energy balance to the brain and modulate feeding behaviours accordingly. These metabolic signals may also regulate other behaviour related to energy balance, such as food caching or hoarding. Ghrelin is one such hormone, but it appears to exert different effects on appetite and fat levels in birds and mammals. Ghrelin treatment inhibits food intake and decreases fat stores in some bird species, but these effects may differ between acylated and unacylated (des-acyl) forms of ghrelin...
February 19, 2024: General and Comparative Endocrinology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38342330/coping-with-extreme-free-cortisol-levels-seasonal-stress-axis-changes-in-sympatric-north-american-flying-squirrels
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REVIEW
Samantha M Stead, Phoebe D Edwards, Rebekah Persad, Rudy Boonstra, Julie A Teichroeb, Rupert Palme, Jeff Bowman
Most environments exhibit predictable yearly changes, permitting animals to anticipate them. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is a key physiological pathway that enables animals to cope with such changes. Monitoring glucocorticoid (the end products of the HPA axis) levels in wild animals throughout the year can improve our understanding of how this pathway responds to different conditions. For this study, we collected 18 months of data on two species of North American flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus and G...
February 9, 2024: General and Comparative Endocrinology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38313442/effect-of-adverse-childhood-experiences-parenting-styles-and-family-accommodation-on-patients-diagnosed-with-obsessive-compulsive-disorder
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ziming Xu, Cheng Zhu
BACKGROUND: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental illness that has multiple biological, psychological, and sociological factors. The aim of this study was to investigate childhood traumatic experiences, parenting style, and family adaptive behaviors in patients with OCD, to explore the psychosocial factors that affect its occurrence, and to analyze the correlation between these psychosocial factors and OCD symptoms to better understand its etiology. METHODS: We recruited 109 patients diagnosed with OCD (patient group) and 144 healthy controls (control group) into this study...
November 2023: Alpha Psychiatry
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38308384/the-children-of-parents-who-receive-treatment-for-binge-eating-disorder-experience-improvements-in-disordered-eating
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Janet A Lydecker, Elise V Ozbardakci, Carlos M Grilo
OBJECTIVE: Parental eating disorders are associated with disordered eating behaviors and psychopathology in their children, but it is not known whether parent treatment for binge-eating disorder (BED) is associated with changes in child disordered eating behaviors and weight. Benefits or the "ripple" effect of treatment on untreated family members has been described in the obesity literature but not for BED. METHOD: Participants evaluated for two randomized clinical trials for BED were screened for whether they had children...
February 2, 2024: International Journal of Eating Disorders
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38306877/a-hamster-model-for-stress-induced-weight-gain
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kevin M Moran, Yvon Delville
This review addresses the translational relevance of animal models of stress and their effects on body weight. In humans, stress, whether chronic or acute, has often been associated with increased food intake and weight gain. In view of the current obesity epidemic, this phenomenon is especially relevant. Such observations contrast with reports with commonly used laboratory animals, especially rats and mice. In these species, it is common to find individuals gaining less weight under stress, even with potent social stressors...
February 1, 2024: Hormones and Behavior
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