successful in 10 out of 24 studies with generally small increases in adherence up to a maximum of 23 per cent. Complex interventions involving more than one technique increased adherence in eight out of 18 studies, ranging from 5 per cent to a maximum of 41 per cent. Patient education alone seemed largely unsuccessful. Authors’ conclusions Reducing the number of daily doses appears to be effect...

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In the November 2003 issue of EHP, Liu et al. (2003) concluded that " relatively low concentrations of gaseous air pollutants are associated with adverse effects on birth outcomes. " Although this may be true from a purely statistical sense, there appear to be limitations of this research that suggest cautious interpretation of the findings. Liu et al. (2003) evaluated individual-level birth ce...

Necessary Existence, Immutability, and God's Knowledge of Particulars:A Reply to Amirhossein Zadyousefi Ebrahim Azadegan (bio) From the Qur'an, Surah Maryam: (21) So she conceived him, went in seclusion with him a remote place. (22) And pains childbirth drove her trunk palm tree: cried (in anguish): "Ah! would that I had died before this! Would been thing forgotten out sight!" (23) But (a voice...

The main goal of this paper is to develop applications of advanced tools of first-order and second-order variational analysis and generalized differentiation to the fundamental notion of full stability of local minimizers of general classes of constrained optimization and minimax problems. In particular, we derive second-order characterizations of full stability and investigate its relationship...

Objective: We examined the inhibition of stimulus-stimulus associations (formally ‘conditioned inhibition’) in Tourette syndrome (TS). Method: The present study used video game style conditioned inhibition procedures suitable for children and adolescents. We tested 15 participants with a clinical diagnosis of TS in the absence of co-morbid attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and compared t...

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) trial outcomes have largely focused on synovitis, bone marrow oedema (BME) and erosions. Tenosynovitis is a common manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but relatively understudied; combined inflammation score (CIS) summing BME tenosynovitis may be highly responsive measure. We previously showed the responsiveness Outcome Measures in Rheumatolo...

Approximately 75% of hospitalized patients undergo urinary catheterization, and 90% urinary-tract infections (UTIs) in ICU are catheter-associated tract (CAUTI).1Bizuayehu H. Bitew A. Abdeta Ebrahim S. Catheter-associated adult intensive care units at a selected tertiary hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.in: PLoS One. vol. 17. 2022e0265102https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265102Crossref Googl...

We are developing an Internet platform called MediaTeam that provides a marketplace connecting media content consumers to communities of media content creators. The platform is enabled by our method for automated assembly of virtual project teams. Media creators use the automated team assembler to quickly identify and team with collaborators. The team assembly platform factors in how the skills...