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17 - 4.66) and AHI (OR 2.44, 95% CI 1.23 - 4.84) and red blood cell count in women only. Correlation analysis also showed that erythrocyte measures and markers of cardiometabolic risk were more closely correlated in women than in men. CONCLUSIONS This study provides novel data suggesting a significant association between erythrocyte measures and OSA severity in women, but not in men. Similarly, the relationship between hematologic metrics and cardiometabolic risk markers was more pronounced in women than in men. Our findings suggest a sex-specific impact of OSA on erythrocyte measures, and on their relationship with indexes of cardiometabolic risk. © 2020 American Academy of Sleep Medicine.Efforts to professionalize the field of bioethics have led to the development of the Healthcare Ethics Consultant-Certified (HEC-C) Program intended to credential practicing healthcare ethics consultants (HCECs). Our team of professional ethicists participated in the inaugural process to support the professionalization efforts and inform our views on the value of this credential from the perspective of ethics consultants. In this paper, we explore the history that has led to this certification process, and evaluate the ability of the HEC-C Program to meet the goals it has set forth for HCECs. We describe the benefits and weaknesses of the program and offer constructive feedback on how the process might be strengthened, as well as share our team's experience in preparing for the exam.Beneficence is a foundational ethical principle in medicine. To provide benefit to a patient is to promote and protect the patient's wellbeing, to promote the patient's interests. But there are different conceptions of wellbeing, emphasizing different values. These conceptions of wellbeing are contrary to one another and give rise to dissimilar ideas of what it means to benefit a patient. This makes the concept of beneficence ambiguous is a benefit related to the patient's goals and wishes, or is it a matter of objective criteria that constitute wellbeing? This paper suggests a unified conception of wellbeing for use in medicine to determine what counts as a benefit. Two components of wellbeing are identified (1) objective functioning/health and (2) the patient's view of her own good. The paper explores how to apply, balance, and weigh these components in clinical situations to determine what counts as a benefit to a patient.Many people living with neurological disorders, such as cerebral palsy, stroke, muscular dystrophy or dystonia, experience upper limb impairments (muscle spasticity, loss of selective motor control, muscle weakness or tremors) and are unable to eat independently. This article presents the development of a new device to assist with eating, aimed at stabilizing the movement of people who have movement disorders. The design was guided by insights gathered through focus groups, with occupational therapists and engineers, about the challenges faced by individuals who have movement disorders and difficulty in eating autonomously. The proposed assistive device prototype is designed to be fixed on a table and to support a spoon. The mechanism is designed so that the spoon maintains a position parallel to the ground for the user. Dampers and inertia allow stabilizing the user's motion. A preliminary trial with five individuals living with cerebral palsy is presented to assess the prototype's performance and to guide future iterations of the prototype. Task completion time generally decreased and movement fluidity generally improved when using the assistive device prototype. The prototype showed good potential in stabilizing the spoon for the user and improving movement fluidity.Virtual microscopy (VM) using scanned slides and imaging software is increasingly used in medical curricula alongside instruction in conventional microscopy (CM). Limited reports suggest that VM is useful in the veterinary education setting, and generally well-received by students. Whether students can apply knowledge gained through VM to practical use is unknown. Our objective was to determine whether instruction using VM, compared to CM, is a successful method of training veterinary students for the application of cytology in practice (i.e., using light microscopes). Seventy-one veterinary students from Colorado State University who attended a voluntary 3-hour cytology workshop were randomized to receive the same instruction with either VM (n = 35) or CM (n = 36). We compared these students to a control group (n = 22) of students who did not attend a workshop. All students took a post-workshop assessment involving the interpretation of four cases on glass slides with CM, designed to simulate the use of cytology in general practice. Students also took an 18-question survey related to the effectiveness of the workshop, providing their opinions on cytology instruction in the curriculum and their learning preference (VM or CM). Akt inhibitor The mean assessment score of the VM group (14.18 points) was significantly higher than the control group (11.33 points, p = .003), whereas the mean of the CM group (12.77 points) was not statistically significantly different from controls (p = .170). VM is not only an effective method of teaching cytology to veterinary students that can be translated to a real-world case scenario, but it outperformed CM instruction in this study.A recombinant gene CCS consisting of three single genes (CAP-ScFv, CPFX-ScFv and SM2-ScFv) were constructed by PCR with three pairs of primers. The length of CCS gene fragment was 2,260 bp. A recombinant plasmid (pGEX-CCS) was obtained in pGEX-6p-1. pGEX-CCS was induced in E.coli BL21(DE3), and the molecular weight of recombinant fusion protein (GST-CCS) was 108.87 kDa. GST-CCS was successfully applied to analysis of CAP-OVA (CAP-ovalbumin conjugate), CPFX-OVA and SM2-OVA simultaneously. The sensitivity of GST-CCS against three veterinary drugs was tested by indirect ELISA at dilution ratio 18000. These findings provide a foundation for the construction of fusion genes with linkers and for the potential development of a rapid screening method for the simultaneous detection of veterinary drug residues.