A patient's immune status plays an essential role in COVID-19 infection. Different alternative medicines arise, along with the increasing number of patients experiencing symptoms, considering limited supply medication against COVID-19. Non-pharmacological and self-care options were actively pursued by people interested improving modifying their healthy lifestyle using medicinal plants such as C...

The rare decays B ! K `` , B ! K )  and Bs ! + are analyzed in a generic scenario where New Physics e ects enter predominantly via Z penguin contributions. We show that this possibility is well motivated on theoretical grounds, as the sbZ vertex is particularly susceptible to non-standard dynamics. In addition, such a framework is also interesting phenomenologically since the sbZ coupling is r...

Purpose – This study examines the relationships between a firm’s CSR activities and its performance and risk. We hypothesize that industry-level effects are highly determinant of the sign and magnitude of these relationships to establish a ranking of industries to identify the position of the most prominent tourism-related industries: hotels and airlines. Based on the cybernetic model of decisi...

We report our results on nonlinear optical properties of 2(3), 9(10), 16(17), 23(24) tetra tert-butyl phthalocyanine and 2(3), 9(10), 16(17), 23(24) tetra tert-butyl Zinc phthalocyanine studied using Z-scan technique with 800 nm femtosecond and 532 nm nanosecond pulses. Nonlinear absorption behavior in both femtosecond and nanosecond domains was studied in detail. We observed three-photon absor...

We study direct CP violation in hadronic B-decays in the ρ 0-ω interference region, and focus specifically on the rate asymmetry in B ± → ρ ± ρ 0 (ω) → ρ ± π + π −. In this channel, the strong phase is dominated by isospin violation, so that it can be essentially determined by e + e − → π + π − data in the ρ 0-ω interference region. We find that the asymmetry in the ρ ± π + π − channel is of or...

This study examined predictors of the psychological adjustment of mothers of adolescents and young adults with CF. In our sample of 51 mothers (mean age 48 years) with at least one child with CF, aged between 16 and 25 years, high levels of anxiety and depression were found. Illness representations, in particular perceptions of the cyclical nature of CF and emotional representations of CF, were...

OBJECTIVE To design a questionnaire to assess cognitive representations of mental health problems held by people diagnosed with schizophrenia. BACKGROUND Personal beliefs about health problems have been reliably associated with emotional and behavioural responses to those health problems and health outcomes. This area has been extensively explored in relation to physical health, but somewhat ...

This study analyzed the mediating role of psychological morbidity and the variables that discriminated low versus high disability, in patients receiving physiotherapy and acupuncture. A total of 203 patients answered measures of illness and medication representations, coping, depression, anxiety, quality of life, and functional disability. Morbidity was a mediator between functional disability ...

Theory of mind (ToM) impairment is common in individuals with schizophrenia and is associated with poor social functioning. Poor insight has also been linked to poor outcome in schizophrenia. Social developmental research has shown representations of self (insight) and representations of others (ToM) are related. In schizophrenia, contradictory reports of associations between insight and ToM ha...

Correlation and covariance matrices provide the basis for all classical multivariate techniques. Many statistical tools exist for analyzing their structure, but, surprisingly, there are few techniques for exploratory visual display, and for depicting the patterns of relations among variables in such matrices directly, particularly when the number of variables is moderately large. This paper des...