It has been argued recently that blunted cardiovascular reactions to acute psychological stress have adverse behavioural and health corollaries that reflect dysregulation of the neural systems that support motivation. We examined the association between cardiovascular reactions to a standard stress task, the paced auditory serial arithmetic rest, and forced expiratory volume in one second, an e...

Background Serum C-terminal telopeptide of type I collagen (CTX - a marker bone resorption) and ACPA titer have been associated to higher erosive score in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) lower mineral density (BMD), even patients with pre-arthritis. Prominent inflammatory status cannot totally explain such association. The interplay between ACPA, disease activity, BMD CTX is still unclear. Objectives...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine whether interindividual variation in parasympathetic (cholinergic) and sympathetic (adrenergic) regulation of heart rate (as estimated by frequency components of heart rate variability [HRV]) may be accounted for, in part, by genetic variation in the choline transporter, a component of acetylcholine neurotransmission. METHODS Resting HRV ...

The first anniversary for older widows (n = 47) has been explored during Months 11, 12, and 13. Concurrent correlations show that optimism inversely correlates with psychological (intrusion and avoidance) stress as measured with the Impact of Event Scale (r = -.52 to -.66, p < .005) and positively correlates with well-being (physical: r = .36 to .46, p < .025; psychosocial: r = .58 to .72, p < ...

Self-medication has been identified as a prevalent practice in Nigeria it provides ready low-cost alternative low-income countries. The current study aims to assess the influence of knowledge and experience COVID-19 symptoms on self-medication behaviour cross-section Nigerian undergraduates. Three hundred fifty-six university undergraduates across 31 universities was conducted during outbreak b...

The National Cancer Register maintained by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) was used to investigate the relative risks of soft tissue sarcomas among farmers, agricultural workers, and related occupational groups. The relative risk for the group as a whole was 1.15 (95% confidence limits 0.83-1.59). One of the four subgroups (which comprises farmers, farm managers, and market...

This study aimed to investigate the impact of task sequencing, along +/- reasoning demands dimension, on writing task performance in terms of accuracy.  The study was motivated by Robinson’s Cognition Hypothesis (CH) as well as previous studies investigating the relationships between task complexity and second language production. The participants of the study were 90 intermediate students at t...

In null hypothesis significance testing (NHST), p values are judged relative to an arbitrary threshold for significance (.05). The present work examined whether that standard influences the distribution of p values reported in the psychology literature. We examined a large subset of papers from three highly regarded journals. Distributions of p were found to be similar across the different jour...

Health professionals in Tanzania report a perceived need for sexual and reproductive health communication training to meet patient needs reduce disparities. Simulation optimizes clinical performance public entrustment. The study describes the development, feasibility, acceptability measures of evidence-based, Afrocentric, standardized scenarios train nursing, medical, midwifery students Tanzani...

The present paper aims to study the effect of skill complexity during different delays on bidirectional transfer on bidirectional transfer of tracking task in different stages (pretest, acquisition phase, immediate transfer, one-day delayed transfer, two-day delayed transfer, and seven-day delayed transfer). Three variables including handedness, time lagges, and skill complexity were studied. T...