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Patients in all three groups demonstrated similar visual pain scores when submitted to office hysteroscopy (Group 1 4.18 ± 3.1, Group 2 4.68 ± 2.9, group 3 4.45 ± 2.9, P = 0.59). Moreover, patients presented high acceptance scores of the procedure, similar between groups. We performed a subgroup analysis in patients in treatment for chronic pelvic pain and, in this subgroup, prior medication with diclofenac sodium isolated or associated with hyoscine were both effective in decreasing pain levels when compared to placebo (Group 1 6.0 ± 1.9, Group 2 3.6 ± 2.1, group 3 4.2 ± 1.5, P = 0.04). CONCLUSION(S) Office hysteroscopy is a well tolerated procedure and prior use of analgesic medication was not effective in decreasing pain. In selected patients with chronic pelvic pain the use prior analgesic medication may be beneficial. INTRODUCTION Being able to predict functional outcomes after a stroke is highly desirable for clinicians. This allows clinicians to set reasonable goals with patients and relatives, and to reach shared after-care decisions for recovery or rehabilitation. The aim of this study was to apply various machine learning (ML) methods for 90-day stroke outcome predictions, using a nationwide disease registry. METHODS This study used the Taiwan Stroke Registry (TSR) which has prospectively collected data from stroke patients since 2006. Three known ML models (support vector machine, random forest, and artificial neural network), and a hybrid artificial neural network were implemented and evaluated by 10-time repeated hold-out with 10-fold cross-validation. RESULTS ML techniques present over 0.94 AUC in both ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke using preadmission and inpatient data. By adding follow-up data, the prediction ability improved to 0.97 AUC. We screened 206 clinical variables to identify 17 important features from the ischemic stroke dataset and 22 features from the hemorrhagic stroke dataset without losing much performance. Error analysis revealed that most prediction errors come from more severe stroke patients. CONCLUSION The study showed that ML techniques trained from large, cross-reginal registry datasets were able to predict functional outcome after stroke with high accuracy. The follow-up data is important which can further improve the predictive models' performance. With similar performances among different ML techniques, the algorithm's characteristics and performance on severe stroke patients will be the primary focus when we further develop inference models and artificial intelligence tools for potential medical. Published by Elsevier B.V.The cotton fabrics are a cosmopolitan in usage due to their extraordinary features. The clothes are a very good medium for the growth of pathogenic microorganisms. The nanoparticles have diverse benefits in the biomedical field like drug carrier and as antimicrobials. The current investigation was aimed to synthesize the metallic silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) from the aqueous extract of Curcuma longa leaf and evaluating their antimicrobial and wound healing potential of AgNPs coated cotton fabric. The synthesized AgNPs were characterized by HR-TEM and FT-IR examinations. The formulated AgNPs were coated with cotton fabrics to test their efficiency against the pathogenic microorganisms. The existence of AgNPs in the cotton fabrics was confirmed via the SEM along with EDX analysis. The antimicrobial potential of fabricated AgNPs and its coated cotton fabrics was inspected against the human pathogenic strains. The wound healing efficacy was examined in the L929 cells. The HR-TEM analysis proved the existence of spherical shaped AgNPs. In the antimicrobial activity, the CL-AgNPs loaded cotton fabric was exhibited an appreciable decrease in the growth of pathogenic microorganisms. The crude extract, as well as formulated AgNPs, also exhibited the noticeable antimicrobial potency against the S.aureus, P.aeruginosa, S.pyogenes, and C.albicans. selleck The AgNPs loaded cotton fabrics was displayed the potent wound healing activity in the fibroblast (L929) cells. Consequently, it was concluded that the formulated AgNPs from C.longa coated cotton fabrics may be utilized for the variety of applications in hospital patients and even medical workers to prevent the microbial infection. In this paper, copper substituted zinc ferrite (ZCFO) catalyst with rich oxygen vacancies (OVs) was synthesized via a simple one pot sol-gel combustion method, and firstly used for peroxymonosulfate (PMS) activation to degrade a typical antibiotic ciprofloxacin (CIP). Only ∼15 min was required to achieve 96.6% of CIP degradation using ZCFO as the catalyst, and the pseudo-first-order reaction constant was about 95 times higher than that of conventional zinc ferrite (1.90 min-1 vs 0.02 min-1). ZCFO catalyst showed great stability and reusability based on the successive degradation cycles and could be easily recovered through magnetic separation. Besides, the effects of catalyst loading, PMS concentration, reaction temperature, initial solution pH, coexisting anions and humic acid (HA) on CIP degradation were systematically investigated. Radical quenching tests and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) revealed that sulfate radical (SO4-.), hydroxyl radical (OH∙), superoxide radical (O2∙-) and singlet oxygen (1O2) were involved in the ZCFO/PMS system, among which O2∙- and 1O2 were the dominant reactive oxygen species (ROS). The excellent catalytic activity of ZCFO was ascribed to the dual active sites of Fe and Cu and large amount of OVs after Cu substitution, which was beneficial to generate ROS for CIP removal. INTRODUCTION Males are born usually in excess of females and the ratio is often expressed as M/T (male divided by total births). Many acute and stressful factors have been shown to influence M/T, and these transiently lower M/T for a one month period, three to five months after such events. This study was carried out in order to ascertain whether the Las Vegas shooting (10/2017) and the Hawaii false missile alert (01/2018) influenced M/T in the respective populations. METHODS Monthly live births by gender for the states of Nevada and Hawaii for 2016-2018 were obtained from the website of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). RESULTS There were no significant dips in M/T for any of the relevant months (3-5 months) following these events. DISCUSSION Research to date has shown M/T dips following catastrophic or tragic events. Equivalent dips were not noted in this study. The reasons for this may be one or a combination of the following. The population size was not sufficiently large in order to detect an M/T dip. Alternatively, the events were not felt to be sufficiently momentous by the populace such that an M/T dip was not produced. Yet another possibility is that these particular populations are somehow hardier and more resistant to such influences. Not all acute events may result in a visible/significant reduction in M/T. If remembering the past requires a cue to stimulate mental reactivation of an experience (i.e., a memory), then the nature of the retrieval cue should bias how that experience is recalled. Based on the established link between emotion and memory, we tested how two emotional properties of a cue - valence (positive and negative) and arousal (high and low) - influence different phases of autobiographical memory retrieval searching/accessing an autobiographical episode, and then elaborating on the associated memory representation. Young, healthy participants completed two experimental sessions that were separated by 24 to 48 h. In session one, participants used musical retrieval cues that varied in emotional valence and arousal to access autobiographical memories. Cue-evoked physiological arousal and valence responses were measured via skin conductance and facial electromyography, respectively, as were the reaction times to access each memory. In session two, participants reactivated and then described (elaborated) the details of the memories that were accessed in session one. The resultant descriptions were scored for the number of specific episodic (internal) and non-episodic (external) details. While arousal and valence levels of the retrieval cues, as well as the evoked physiological responses, significantly predicted the reaction time to access a memory, only cue arousal predicted how detailed the representations were constructed. Memories that were initially accessed to high-arousing cues were later described with more episodic details than memories accessed to low-arousing cues. These data provide new insights into how emotional valence and arousal levels of retrieval cues distinctly bias the accessibility and detailed elaboration of autobiographical memories. This study examined how the distribution and amount of practice affect word retrieval in aphasia as well as how such factors relate to the efficiency of learning. The central hypothesis was that factors that enhance the learning of new knowledge also enhance persistent access to existing, but inconsistently available, word representations. The study evaluated the impact of learning principles on word retrieval by manipulating the timing and amount of retrievals for items presented for naming. Nine people with chronic aphasia with naming impairment completed the experiment. Training materials involved proper noun entities assigned to six conditions formed by crossing a 2-level factor of spacing of sessions, i.e., intersession interval (1 day versus 7 days between sessions) with a 3-level factor of number of correct retrievals per item per session, i.e., criterion level (Criterion-1, Criterion-2, and Criterion-4). Each intersession interval condition comprised three training sessions and a one-month retention test. Increasing the criterion level enhanced naming performance after short (1 day, 7 days) and long (one month) retention intervals, but these advantages came at the cost of many additional training trials. In most cases, later naming success was superior when the same number of correct retrievals of an item was distributed across multiple sessions rather than administered within one session. The substantial advantages for across-session spacing were gained at little cost in terms of additional training trials. At one-month retention, naming accuracy was numerically but not significantly higher in the 7-day versus 1-day intersession interval condition. Implications for theories of lexical access and naming treatment in aphasia are discussed. Cigarette butts (CBs) are the most common litter item on Earth but no long-term studies evaluate their fate and ecological effects. Here, the role of nitrogen (N) availability and microbiome composition on CBs decomposition were investigated by a 5-years experiment carried out without soil, in park grassland and sand dune. During decomposition, CBs chemical changes was assessed by both 13C CPMAS NMR and LC-MS, physical structure by scanning electron microscope and ecotoxicity by Aliivibrio fischeri and Raphidocelis subcapitata. Microbiota was investigated by high-throughput sequencing of bacterial and eukaryotic rRNA gene markers. CBs followed a three-step decomposition process at the early stage (∼30 days) CBs lost ∼15.2% of their mass. During the subsequent two years CBs decomposed very slowly, taking thereafter different trajectories depending on N availability and microbiome composition. Without soil CBs showed minor chemical and morphological changes. Over grassland soil a consistent N transfer occurs that, after de-acetylation, promote CBs transformation into an amorphous material rich in aliphatic compounds.