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s To evaluate benefit-risk profiles of lip-split mandibular "swing" vs. transoral approaches (LS-MSA; TOA) to the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage I-III posterior oral/oropharyngeal carcinomas (PO/OPC).

Using a retrospective double-cohort study design, we enrolled stage I-III PO/OPC patients treated in two German medical centers during a 4-year interval. The predictor variable was surgical technique (LS-MSA/TOA), and main outcomes were complete resection with R

margins (CR-R

), 5-year overall survival and recurrence (OS

 ; R

), and adverse events (AEs). Descriptive and bivariate statistics were computed with α=95%. Benefit-risk profiles were investigated using number needed to treat (NNT), to harm (NNH), and likelihood to be helped or harmed (LLH).

At 5-year follow-ups of 202 subjects, LS-MSA caused significantly better CR-R

(P=0.001; NNT 4) and fewer R

(P=0.003; NNT 5), but more risks of wound dehiscence ([WD]; P=0.01; NNH=8), and orocutaneous fistula ([OCF]; P=0.01; NNH 10). LLH calculations demonstrated that LS-MSA was 2 and 1.6 times more likely to result in CR-R

and fewer R

than an incident of WD. There was no significant difference in OS

, postoperative infections (within 30 postoperative days) and AE domains according to the University of Washington Quality of Life questionnaire version 4 (UW-QoLv4) between the surgical approach groups.

Compared to TOA, LS-MSA is an efficacious and tolerable intervention for inspecting and eradicating stage I-III PO/OPCs, and reducing recurrences at 5-year follow-ups. Post-LS-MSA WD and OCF require meticulous concerns and more investigations.

Compared to TOA, LS-MSA is an efficacious and tolerable intervention for inspecting and eradicating stage I-III PO/OPCs, and reducing recurrences at 5-year follow-ups. Post-LS-MSA WD and OCF require meticulous concerns and more investigations.Most Ghanaian research in the area of victimization among children has focused on the school setting. Little research has been done in an attempt to understand inmate-on-inmate victimization within the juvenile correctional facilities in Ghana. This study, therefore, investigated the extent to which peer victimization influences psychological distress among juvenile offenders in the Senior Correctional Center of Ghana. A cross-sectional design was used to purposively sample 115 juvenile offenders for the study. Following mediation analysis performed in PROCESS, the results revealed that prison climate and resilience serially mediated the relationship between peer victimization and psychological distress. Independently, both prison climate and resilience mediated the relationship between peer victimization and psychological distress. It was recommended that anti-bullying programs ought to be institutionalized to create mental health awareness within the correctional facilities. Also, support systems such as the Listener Scheme need to be deployed within the correctional facilities.

Women who exchange sex (WES) experience extensive interpersonal violence from multiple perpetrators. Violence towards WES contributes to poor mental and behavioral health outcomes, including high rates of drug use. However, it is difficult to disentangle the temporal relationship between drug use and violence among WES.

We used data from 251 WES, who completed baseline and 6-month follow up surveys. WES reported baseline sociodemographic characteristics, including homelessness and hunger. Participants reported their drug use by type and violent experiences by perpetrator at each time point. We conducted a path analysis examining the associations between drug use and violent victimization over time.

Participants were on average 37.8 years old, non-Hispanic White (57.4%) and experiencing high levels of structural vulnerability (59.4% homelessness; 58.6% weekly hunger). Drug use and violence were significantly correlated within each time point. Prospectively, baseline violent victimization was significantly associated with drug use (ß (SE)=0.13 (0.06)) and violence (ß (SE)=0.47 (0.05)) at follow up. Baseline drug use was associated with drug use at follow up (ß (SE)=0.45 (0.05)) but was not significantly associated with violence at follow up (ß (SE)=0.10 (0.06)).

Violence and drug use are closely linked in this population; and violence appears to facilitate sustained drug use. Interventions to address the dual epidemics of violence and substance use in this population should address underlying trauma as well as socio-structural drivers of violence as well as tailored harm reduction services for this population.

Violence and drug use are closely linked in this population; and violence appears to facilitate sustained drug use. Interventions to address the dual epidemics of violence and substance use in this population should address underlying trauma as well as socio-structural drivers of violence as well as tailored harm reduction services for this population.

Vaccinating healthcare workers (HCWs) against COVID-19 has been a public health priority since rollout began in late 2020. Promoting COVID-19 vaccination among HCWs would benefit from identifying modifiable behavioural determinants. We sought to identify and categorize studies looking at COVID-19 vaccination acceptance to identify modifiable factors to increase uptake in HCWs.

Rapid evidence review.

We searched MEDLINE and Cochrane databases until May 2021 and conducted a grey literature search to identify cross-sectional, cohort, and qualitative studies. Key barriers to, and enablers of, vaccine acceptance were categorized using the Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF), a comprehensive theoretical framework comprising 14 behavioural domains.

From 19,591 records, 74 studies were included. Almost two-thirds of responding HCWs were willing to accept a COVID-19 vaccine (median=64%, interquartile range=50-78%). Twenty key barriers and enablers were identified and categorized into eight TDF domains. The moson messaging, policy, campaigns, and programs to support HCWs vaccination uptake.

Intraorbital and intracranial complications of acute bacterial rhinosinusitis require timely medical and surgical treatment to prevent the development of long-term neurologic sequelae. The era of Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) has complicated the management of complicated acute rhinosinusitis, especially when patients have concurrent acute sinusitis and COVID-19 infection. This case series aims to highlight the clinical course of pediatric patients at a single tertiary pediatric hospital with concurrent complicated bacterial rhinosinusitis and COVID-19.

A search of pediatric patients treated for COVID-19 and complications from acute sinusitis was performed using billing records for the year 2020-2021 at a single pediatric tertiary hospital. Data regarding presentation, management, microbiology, and hospital course was collected for review.

A total of 6 patients with complicated bacterial sinusitis in the setting of COVID-19 infection were included. All patients were initially managed with medical t rates of surgical requirement in the pediatric population. COVID-19 safety precautions have influenced management practices for patients with severe bacterial rhinologic infections. While there may be an association between complicated bacterial rhinosinusitis and COVID-19 infection, further research is necessary to determine a true correlation.This study aimed to investigate the effects of sodium alginate (ALG) coating incorporated with Ferulago angulata (Schlecht.) Boiss essential oil (FAEO, 10 and 20 mg/mL), nisin (N, 500 and 1000 IU/mL), and NaCl (2 %) on microbial (lactic acid bacteria, LAB; total viable bacteria, TVC; psychrotrophic bacteria; Pseudomonas; Enterobacteriaceae, and yeast and mold), chemical (pH, PV, TVB-N, and TBARS), sensory (color, odor, texture, and overall acceptance), and antioxidant properties of refrigerated (4 °C) chicken breasts. GC-MS analysis revealed that trans-β-ocimene (45.36 %) and α-pinene (18.01 %) constituted most of the components in FAEO. The antioxidant properties of FAEO were evaluated via the DPPH method. The IC50 value of FAEO was 562 mg/mL. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/l-glutamic-acid-monosodium-salt.html The results of antimicrobial evaluations indicated that there was no significant difference between control and ALG treatments (p > 0.05). The highest antimicrobial effect was associated with ALG + FAEO2 + N2 + NaCl treatment. The logarithmic reduction of the TVC, psycin the treatment of ALG+ FAEO2 + N2 + NaCl treatment, its level was 0.36 mg MDA/kg. The results of sensory properties indicated that in evaluating the color, odor, texture, and overall acceptance on the final days, treatments containing FAEO, nisin, and NaCl had higher scores due to their antimicrobial and antioxidant properties. In conclusion, this study indicated that adding FAEO, nisin, and NaCl to ALG coating would enhance the shelf-life of chicken meat.A novel method is proposed for fitting microbial inactivation models to data on liquid media the Most Probable Curve (MPC) method. It is a multilevel model that makes a separation between the "true" microbial concentration according to the model, the "actual" concentration in the media considering chance, and the actual counts on the plate. It is based on the assumptions that stress resistance is homogeneous within a microbial population, and that there is no aggregation of microbial cells. Under these assumptions, the number of colonies in/on a plate follows a Poisson distribution with expected value depending on the proposed kinetic model, the number of dilutions and the plated volume. The novel method is compared against (non)linear regression based on a normal likelihood distribution (traditional method), Poisson regression and gamma-Poisson regression using data on the inactivation of Listeria monocytogenes. The conclusion is that the traditional method has limitations when the data includes plates with low (or zero) cell counts, which can be mitigated using more complex (discrete) likelihoods. However, Poisson regression uses an unrealistic likelihood function, making it unsuitable for survivor curves with several log-reductions. Gamma-Poisson regression uses a more realistic likelihood function, even though it is based mostly on empirical hypotheses. We conclude that the MPC method can be used reliably, especially when the data includes plates with low or zero counts. Furthermore, it generates a more realistic description of uncertainty, integrating the contribution of the plating error and reducing the uncertainty of the primary model parameters. Consequently, although it increases modelling complexity, the MPC method can be of great interest in predictive microbiology, especially in studies focused on variability analysis.This paper describes the scientific achievements of a collaboration between a research group and the waste management division of a company. While these results might be the basis for several practical or commercial developments, we here focus on a novel scientific contribution a methodology to automatically generate geo-located waste container maps. It is based on the use of Computer Vision algorithms to detect waste containers and identify their geographic location and dimensions. Algorithms analyze a video sequence and provide an automatic discrimination between images with and without containers. More precisely, two state-of-the-art object detectors based on deep learning techniques have been selected for testing, according to their performance and to their adaptability to an on-board real-time environment EfficientDet and YOLOv5. Experimental results indicate that the proposed visual model for waste container detection is able to effectively operate with consistent performance disregarding the container type (organic waste, plastic, glass and paper recycling,…) and the city layout, which has been assessed by evaluating it on eleven different Spanish cities that vary in terms of size, climate, urban layout and containers' appearance.