BACKGROUND Portal systemic encephalopathy (PSE) is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with hepatic failure. Small scale studies have shown the benzodiazepine receptor antagonist flumazenil to be effective in ameliorating PSE. AIMS To determine the efficacy of flumazenil in patients with non-comatous mild to moderate PSE (stages I to III) due to severe chronic liver disease. PATI...

Parenting self-efficacy (PSE) has been positively linked to children’s adjustment and negatively associated with maternal depression. However, most PSE research has been cross-sectional, limited to predominantly white, middleclass samples, and has not examined potential mechanisms underlying associations of PSE with children’s behavior. The present study investigates (1) how PSE changes over ti...

A review of the literature reporting the methods and results of studies concerned with the nature of nonpoint source microbial pollution leads to several conclusions: (i) Comparison f data from different studies may be complicated by variation in the choice of indicator organisms, variation in watershed size and homogeneity, and variation in media and procedures for determining fecal streptococ...

P assive smoke exposure (PSE) is carcinogenic, linked to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, increased risk for sudden infant death, and increased severity of asthma, and is generally harmful. 2 According to the behavioural ecological model (BEM), smoking and passive smoke exposure are behaviours influenced by interacting physiological, environmental, and cultural contingencies. Social mod...

BACKGROUND Apart from skills, and knowledge, self-efficacy is an important factor in the students' preparation for clinical work. The Physiotherapist Self-Efficacy (PSE) questionnaire was developed to measure physical therapy (TP) students' self-efficacy in the cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, and neurological clinical areas. The aim of this study was to establish the measurement properties ...

BACKGROUND This study examined predictors of parenting self-efficacy (PSE) in a sample of first-time mothers during the first year after childbirth and evaluated the effect of a brief, intensive, mother-infant residential intervention on PSE and infant behaviour. METHODS 83 primiparous women with infants aged 0-12 months admitted to a residential parent-infant program participated in a struct...

Objective We examine the effect of children's sex and behaviors on parents' level parental self-efficacy (PSE). Background PSE is a fundamental predictor effective positive parenting. Child characteristics could influence can help in understanding why some parents feel lower PSE. Method randomly assigned 1,020 American to read one four vignettes describing 16-year-old boy or girl with either ex...

(ABSTRACT) This thesis describes user interface and visualization components in the problem solving environment " Site-Specific System Simulator for Wireless System Design " (S 4 W) developed by CS and ECE faculty and students at Virginia Tech. S 4 W integrates visualization and computational tools with a high level user interface. The objective of this PSE is to improve the ability of wireless...

T paper investigates the issues concerning a film producer that finances production costs not only by the conventional funding from an institutional investor, but also by “Internet funding,” financing through the Internet from so-called netizen investors. In Internet funding, netizen investors engage in word-of-mouth activities. Assuming that information asymmetry exists between the producer an...

Methods We evaluated 543 patients (497 females/45 males) treated for idiopathic scoliosis with either PSE only (144 patients, 15.5°±9.3°Cobb), or brace and PSE (399 patients, 33.3°±12.1°). Patients started treatment at Risser 0-1, with a minimum age of 10 years, and were followed up to Risser 3. A comparison was then made between the following subgroups: PSE + Sport (PSESP: 88 patients, 14.8°±5...