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BACKGROUND Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) shows the weakest treatment response among anxiety disorders. This study aimed at examining whether an acceptance-based group behavioral therapy (ABBT) for patients in a Brazilian anxiety disorders program, combining mindfulness and exposure strategies, can improve clinical outcome when compared with a standard nondirective supportive group therapy (NDST). METHODS Ninety-two individuals diagnosed with GAD were randomized to receive 10 sessions of either ABBT or NDST. Assessments at pretreatment, midtreatment, posttreatment, and 3-month follow-up comprised the following outcome measures Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A), Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ), Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS), and the Clinical Global Impressions (CGI). The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) was administered at pretreatment and posttreatment. RESULTS The mixed-effects regression models for DASS-stress, Hamilton Anxiety Interview, and CGI showed a significant effect for Time and the Time × Treatment effect, but not for the Treatment main effect. Selleckchem S63845 Similarly, there was a significant Time × Treatment effect for the PSWQ, but not main effects of Time or Treatment. Altogether, these data indicate that symptoms decreased in both conditions across treatment and follow-up, and that the rate of change was more rapid for those participants in the ABBT condition. We found no differences between groups from pretreatment to posttreatment in DASS-anxiety or any secondary outcome measure, but for the physical health domain of WHOQOL, which was faster in ABBT. CONCLUSIONS Both groups showed good clinical outcomes, but in general, participants of the ABBT group improved faster than those in the NDST group. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.A 23-year-old male presented at the hospital referring progressive blurred vision in his right eye three weeks ago. The ocular examination by a slit-lamp demonstrated an accumulation of a turbid cream-colored material at the bottom of the anterior chamber (AC) of the eyeball (Figure 1, black arrow). An AC paracentesis was carried out, obtaining 0.5 ml of non-transparent fluid. The sample was sent to the Cytology laboratory and the fluid was subjected to cytocentrifugation. The cytological smears were stained with Diff-Quik (Figure 2) and by the Papanicolaou method (Figure 3). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Patients often present in dental settings with orofacial lesions, which can be challenging to diagnose clinically due to their heterogenous characteristics. This can have serious implications for patient health, especially for head and neck tumours, which can undergo rapid metastatic spread (Kalele, Kulkarni, Patil, and Nayyar 2016). Histological examinations provide crucial diagnostic information and can indicate the likelihood of a malignant transformation, which impacts prognosis and optimal treatment planning (Logan and Goss, 2010). Histo-diagnostic data can also generate epidemiological information to guide regional healthcare policies. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Layered/two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D COF) are crystalline porous materials composed of light elements linked by strong covalent bonds. Interlayer force is one of the main factors directing the formation of a stacked-layer structure, which plays a vital role in the stability, crystallinity, and porosity of layered COF. The as-developed new way to modulate the interlayer force of imine-linked 2D TAPB-PDA-COF by only adjusting solution pH. In alkaline and neutral pH, pore size of COF decreases from 34 Å due to the turbostratic effect. In highly acidic conditions (pH 1), the TAPB-PDA-COF shows faster and stronger turbostratic effect, thus causing the 2D structure to exfoliate. This yields bulk quantities of exfoliated few/single-layer 2D COF, which were well dispersed and displayed a clear Tyndall effect (TE). Furthermore, nanopipette-based electrochemical testing also confirms the slipping of layers with increase in acidic pH. A model of pH-dependent layer-slipping of TAPB-PDA-COF is then proposed. This controllable pH-dependent change in layer structure may open a new door for potential applications in controlled gas adsorption/desorption and drug loading/releasing. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation between advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and skin elasticity or blood perfusion values in healthy people of different age groups and to evaluate the relationship between non-invasive detection of AGEs and age or skin aging. METHODS 102 healthy people were enrolled and grouped into groups of 20 years old. Group I 19-40 years old; Group II 41-60 years old; Group III 61-80 years old. Non-invasive techniques such as fluorescence spectroscopy and laser speckle flowmetry were used to detect AGEs levels, local skin perfusion value and skin elasticity in skin tissue at all age groups. RESULT The AGEs in the skin increased with age, and the difference between the three age groups was statistically significant (P0.4, P less then 0.05). CONCLUSION There is a significant correlation between AGEs and age or skin aging indicators. As the age increasing, the level of AGEs increases obviously, which can be used as a potential non-invasive tool for detecting skin aging. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Owing to their permanent porosity, high-ordered and extended structure, good chemical stability and tuneability, covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as a new type of organic materials that can offer various applications in different fields. Benefiting from the huge database of organic reactions, the required functionality of COFs can be readily achieved by modification of the corresponding organic functional groups on either polymerizable monomers or established COF frameworks. This striking feature allows us to reasonably design and synthesize homochiral COFs (HCCOFs), furthermore, use them as a unique platform to fabricate asymmetric catalysts. This contribution provides an overview of new progress in HCCOFs-based asymmetric catalysis, including design, synthesis and their application in asymmetric organic synthesis. Moreover, major challenges and developing trends in this field are also discussed. We anticipate that this review article will provide some new insights into HCCOFs for heterogeneous asymmetric catalysis, furthermore, help encourage further contributions in this young but promising field. © 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.AIMS We aimed to analyze the relationship between epilepsy and Glutamatic Acid Decarboxylase autoantibodies (GADA) in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and the impact of GADA on demographic, clinical, and metabolic data in T1DM patients with epilepsy. METHODS We searched for patients with T1DM ≤20 years and GADA measurements, and within this group for patients with epilepsy. We formed groups T1DM+Epilepsy+GADA positive; T1DM+Epilepsy+GADA negative; T1DM+GADA positive; T1DM+GADA negative. We used logistic regression to analyze the relationship between epilepsy and GADA with odds ratio adjusted for sex, duration of diabetes (DOD), and age at diabetes onset (ADO). We used logistic regression with odds ratio adjusted for DOD and ADO onset using epilepsy as a dependent variable and GADA, HbA1c, ketoacidosis, severe hypoglycemia (SH), sex, celiac disease, and autoimmune thyroiditis (AIT) as independent variables. We conducted regression analyses adjusted for sex, DOD, and ADO to analyze differences in clinical/ metabolic parameters between the groups. RESULTS Epilepsy was not more frequent in GADA-positive patients (GPP). Logistic regression including all patients with GADA measurements showed that hypoglycemia with coma (HC) correlated with epilepsy when compared to no SH. We found no differences in clinical and metabolic data between GPP and GADA-negative patients (GNP) with epilepsy. SH occurred more often in GPP with epilepsy in comparison to GPP without epilepsy. GNP with epilepsy had a higher rate of HC than GPP without epilepsy. CONCLUSION We found no relationship between epilepsy and GADA. A relationship between T1DM and epilepsy might be explainable by SH. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.The accuracy of a cytology diagnosis obtained by fine needle aspiration (FNA) is influenced by several factors such as the technique used and the experience of both the aspirator as well as the cytologist. In this trial we planned to evaluate the interobserver differences of thyroid nodule cytopathology in our medical center. The study was conducted using retrospective pathology reports from a single academic center from August 2013-September 2017. We compared the sensitivity, specificity, negative and positive predictive values malignancy rates, and accuracy of two cytopathologists who evaluated thyroid nodules. We included 287 FNAs of thyroid nodules in the study. Approximately one fifth (18.5%) of patients had surgery and the rate of malignancy was 40%. There was a similar frequency of use of all thyroid Bethesda system (TBS) categories with the exception of TBS 3 (8.0% and 21.2%, p=0.01). As a consequence, the malignancy rate was different in TBS 3 category (40% vs. 17%, p=0.545). In conclusion, there is an interobserver difference in the evaluation of thyroid nodule. Clinicians should be aware of such differences since they affect the malignancy rate in each TBS category. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.PURPOSE To develop new encoding and reconstruction techniques for fast multi-contrast/quantitative imaging. METHODS The recently proposed Echo Planar Time-resolved Imaging (EPTI) technique can achieve fast distortion- and blurring-free multi-contrast/quantitative imaging. In this work, a subspace reconstruction framework is developed to improve the reconstruction accuracy of EPTI at high encoding accelerations. The number of unknowns in the reconstruction is significantly reduced by modeling the temporal signal evolutions using low-rank subspace. As part of the proposed reconstruction approach, a B0 -update algorithm and a shot-to-shot B0 variation correction method are developed to enable the reconstruction of high-resolution tissue phase images and to mitigate artifacts from shot-to-shot phase variations. Moreover, the EPTI concept is extended to 3D k-space for 3D GE-EPTI, where a new "temporal-variant" of CAIPI encoding is proposed to further improve performance. RESULTS The effectiveness of the proposed subspace reconstruction was demonstrated first in 2D GESE EPTI, where the reconstruction achieved higher accuracy when compared to conventional B0 -informed GRAPPA. For 3D GE-EPTI, a retrospective undersampling experiment demonstrates that the new temporal-variant CAIPI encoding can achieve up to 72× acceleration with close to 2× reduction in reconstruction error when compared to conventional spatiotemporal-CAIPI encoding. In a prospective undersampling experiment, high-quality whole-brain T 2 ∗ and tissue phase maps at 1 mm isotropic resolution were acquired in 52 seconds at 3T using 3D GE-EPTI with temporal-variant CAIPI encoding. CONCLUSION The proposed subspace reconstruction and optimized temporal-variant CAIPI encoding can further improve the performance of EPTI for fast quantitative mapping. © 2020 International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.