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Depression is known to be one of the most common mental disorders raising global concerns. However, evidence regarding the association between short-term air pollution exposure and risk of development of depression is limited. The aim of this was to assess the relationship between short-term ambient air pollution exposure and depression in outpatient visits in Xi'an, a northwestern Chinese metropolis. Data for air pollutants including particulate matter (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels from October 1, 2010 to December 31, 2013 and number of daily depression outpatient visits (92,387 in total) were collected. A time-series quasi-Poisson regression model was adopted to determine the association between short-term air pollutant concentrations and frequency of outpatient visits for depression with different lag models. Consequently, 10 μg/m3 increase of SO2 and NO2 levels corresponded to significant elevation in number of outpatient-visits for depression on concurrent days (lag 0), and this relationship appeared stronger in cool seasons (October to March). However, the association of PM10 was only significant in males aged 30-50 at lag 0. Evidence indicated that short-term exposure to ambient air pollutants especially in cool seasons might be associated with increased risk of outpatient visits for depression.The Outback™ Elite re-entry catheter (CORDIS, Cardinal Health, USA) is designed to facilitate placement and positioning of guidewires within the peripheral vasculature and allows for re-entry of a guidewire back into the true lumen of a vessel following a subintimal crossing of an arterial occlusion. selleck products The device was first introduced in 2005 and has become widely utilized in a variety of situations involving both arterial and venous interventions. This article aims to share our experiences with the Outback™ device and inform interventionalists of its utility and versatility.This study aimed to evaluate the magnitude of synchronization and symmetry between blind and guide sprinters. Elite and sub-elite pairs of male blind sprinters and guide sprinters performed maximal effort 60-m sprints, during which ground reaction force (GRF) for a 50-m distance and sprinting motion during the initial acceleration and maximal speed phases were measured. While there were no significant differences in spatiotemporal and GRF variables between the sprinters of the elite pair, flight time and braking, propulsive and vertical forces in the sub-elite pair showed a significant difference between the sprinters. During the initial acceleration phase, although thigh segment angles in the sagittal plane between the blind and guide sprinters showed obvious phase shifting (lag = -0.078 and -0.088) for the sub-elite pair, the elite pair showed no phase shift and high cross-correlation coefficients (0.96 and 0.83) for the corresponding variable. During the maximal speed phase, for both the elite and sub-elite pairs, there were trivial lags (-0.004 to 0.008) and high cross-correlation coefficients (>0.98) between the thighs of the blind and guide sprinters for both legs. The results demonstrate that a higher magnitude of synchronization between blind and guide sprinters is possibly important for better blind sprint performance.The innate immune system has numerous signal transduction pathways that lead to the production of type I interferons in response to exposure of cells to external stimuli. One of these pathways comprises RNA polymerase (Pol) III that senses common DNA viruses, such as cytomegalovirus, vaccinia, herpes simplex virus-1 and varicella zoster virus. This polymerase detects and transcribes viral genomic regions to generate AU-rich transcripts that bring to the induction of type I interferons. Remarkably, Pol III is also stimulated by foreign non-viral DNAs and expression of one of its subunits is induced by an RNA virus, the Sindbis virus. Moreover, a protein subunit of RNase P, which is known to associate with Pol III in initiation complexes, is induced by viral infection. Accordingly, alliance of the two tRNA enzymes in innate immunity merits a consideration.Growing evidences suggest that autophagy plays a momentous part in the tumorigenesis and development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, there are not many researches to predict the prognosis of HCC using autophagy-related genes. Therefore, based on the clinical information and RNA-Seq data of The Cancer Genome Atlas data portal (TCGA), 13 autophagy‑related gene pairs were screened to build the autophagy‑related signature to predict the prognosis by least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression analysis. Besides, the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) cohort was further applied to verify the autophagy‑related prognostic signature. Gene ontology (GO), Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) and gene set enrichment analysis (GSEA) were also used to predict the relevant function of the autophagy-related gene pairs signature. As shown in the results, the autophagy-related gene pairs were mainly involved in process utilizing autophagic mechanism, autophagy, macroautophagy and cellular response to oxidative stress. The immune cell levels in the high-risk and low-risk group were explored, which showed that the three immune cells were obviously increased in the high-risk group, while the five immune cells were obviously increased in the low-risk group. In conclusion, an autophagy‑related prognostic signature was established to predict the prognosis of HCC patients with great accuracy and we found that autophagy‑related prognostic signature was related to infiltrating immune cells.In decision-making people react differently to positive wordings than to negatives, which may be caused by negativity bias a difference in emotional force of these wordings. Because emotions are assumed to be activated more strongly in one's mother tongue, we predict a Foreign Language Effect, being that such framing effects are larger in a native language than in a foreign one. In two experimental studies (N = 475 and N = 503) we tested this prediction for balanced and unbalanced second language users of Spanish and English and for three types of valence framing effects. In Study 1 we observed risky-choice framing effects and attribute framing effects, but these were always equally large for native and foreign-language speakers. In our second study, we added a footbridge dilemma to the framing materials. Only for this task we did observe a Foreign Language Effect, indicating more utilitarian choices when the dilemma is presented in L2. Hence, across two studies, we find no Foreign Language Effect for three types of valence framing but we do find evidence for such an effect in a moral decision task.