Abstract Generalized disformal transformations enable us to construct the generalized Horndeski theories, which form most general class of ghost-free scalar-tensor theories this date. We extend effective field theory (EFT) cosmological perturbations incorporate these theories. The main difference from conventional EFT is that our extended involves operators with higher spatial derivatives lapse...

BACKGROUND High prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in active military and veterans present a treatment challenge. Many PTSD studies have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). OBJECTIVES To develop clinical best practice guidelines for the use of EFT to treat PTSD, on the basis of the published literature, practitioner experience, and...

OBJECTIVES Psoriasis vulgaris is one of the most common skin disorders. Patients with psoriasis carry an excessive risk of coronary artery disease. Visceral adipose tissue around the heart affects the heart and coronaries by secreting proatherogenic mediators. It can be evaluated easily by measurement of epicardial fat thickness (EFT). The aim of this study was to investigate EFT in patients wi...

OBJECTIVES It has been shown that an increasing number of adults deliberately feign attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), which demonstrates the need for new tests designed to detect feigned ADHD. METHODS An Embedded Figures Test (EFT) was developed for the detection of feigned ADHD in adulthood. EFT performance of 51 adults with ADHD was compared to the performance of 52 matched h...

OBJECTIVE Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) consist of a number of chronic inflammatory diseases. Inflammatory process is known to be involved in all stages of atherosclerosis. Early atherosclerosis is reflected by increased levels of carotid artery intima media thickness (c-IMT) and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP). Epicardial fat thickness (EFT) strongly influences both the format...

BACKGROUND GRACE risk score (GS) is a scoring system which has a prognostic significance in patients with non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (non-STEMI). OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to determine whether end-systolic or end-diastolic epicardial fat thickness (EFT) is more closely associated with high-risk non-STEMI patients according to the GS. METHODS We evaluated 207 pati...

Previous studies found normal or even superior performance of autistic patients on visuospatial tasks requiring local search, like the Embedded Figures Task (EFT). A well-known interpretation of this is "weak central coherence", i.e. autistic patients may show a reduced general ability to process information in its context and may therefore have a tendency to favour local over global aspects of...

conclusions the vibratory innocent murmur is associated with the presence of left ventricular false tendon and higher left ventricular outflow tract velocity. the presence of the left ventricular false tendon was somewhat associated with decreased early diastolic myocardial velocity. normal left ventricular systolic and diastolic function can be used as a reassurance in cases with the vibratory...

egardless of underlying etiology, heart failure may be ssociated with an abnormal sequence of ventricular ontractions, referred to as cardiac or ventricular dysynchrony. This abnormality may be due to both disurbed electrical activation and regional abnormalities n contraction due to ischemia, myocardial scarring or eplacement of myocardium by infiltrative diseases. pproximately 33% of patients...

v P a a p a l o v g t a c c g e 76-year-old female presented with an acute oronary syndrome manifested by chest pain, a new eft bundle branch block, and positive troponin. he had a previous history of aortic valve replaceent. Emergent diagnostic coronary angiography ia the right femoral arterial approach with a 5-F eft Judkins 4.0 catheter demonstrated significant eft main coronary artery (LMCA...