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To compare the safety and immunogenicity of lyophilized PVRV under Zagreb and Essen regimen.A post-marketing parallel control clinical trial was conducted. Totally 240 subjects were assigned to two groups randomly, immunized with lyophilized PVRV under Zagreb and Essen schedule. Solicited adverse events were observed after each dose and unsolicited adverse events were collected. Serum samples were collected on days 0, 7, 14, 42, 180 and 365 to be used to determine immunogenicity level. No severe adverse events (SAE) were observed. The incidence of adverse events under Zagreb and Essen were similar and there was no significant difference between the two groups and within all age groups. Fever and pain were the most frequently reported systemic and local adverse events (AEs) respectively. There were no differences in the GMT and the positive seroconversion rate between these two groups. All participants in the Zagreb group obtained protective effect on day 14, while 99.16% of the subjects obtained in the Essen group. Both groups showed similar enduring immunity. Immunizations under Zagreb and Essen regimens showed similar safety and immunogenicity. For lyophilized PVRV, Zagreb was non-inferior to Essen to patients of all age groups.
This study was designed to evaluate the classification accuracy of the recently introducedforced-choice recognition trial to the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test - Revised (FCR
) as a performance validity test (PVT) in a clinical sample. Time-to-completion (T2C) for FCR
was also examined.
Forty-three students were assigned to either the control or the experimental malingering (
MAL) condition. Archival data were collected from 52 adults clinically referred for neuropsychological assessment. Invalid performance was defined using
MAL status, two free-standing PVTs and two validity composites.
Among students, FCR
≤11 or T2C ≥45 seconds was specific (0.86-0.93) to invalid performance. Among patients, an FCR
≤11 was specific (0.94-1.00), but relatively insensitive (0.38-0.60) to non-credible responding0. T2C ≥35 s produced notably higher sensitivity (0.71-0.89), but variable specificity (0.83-0.96). The T2C achieved superior overall correct classification (81-86%) compared to the accuracy score (68-77%). The FCR
provided incremental utilityin performance validity assessment compared to previously introduced validity cutoffs on Recognition Discrimination.
Combined with T2C, the FCR
has the potential to function as a quick, inexpensive and effective embedded PVT. The time-cutoff effectively attenuated the low ceiling of the accuracy scores, increasing sensitivity by 19%. Selleckchem FSEN1 Replication in larger and more geographically and demographically diverse samples is needed before the FCR
can be endorsed for routine clinicalapplication.
Combined with T2C, the FCRHVLT-R has the potential to function as a quick, inexpensive and effective embedded PVT. The time-cutoff effectively attenuated the low ceiling of the accuracy scores, increasing sensitivity by 19%. Replication in larger and more geographically and demographically diverse samples is needed before the FCRHVLT-R can be endorsed for routine clinical application.
In the present study we evaluated the incremental contribution of executive cognition (EC) subprocesses to antiretroviral medication adherence.
A comprehensive EC test battery assessing updating/working memory, mental flexibility, and inhibitory control, along with measures assessing non-executive cognitive functions were completed by 100 individuals with HIV. Medication adherence was determined via a visual analogue self-report scale and the Medication Adherence Questionnaire. Potential predictors, including demographic and clinical characteristics and neuropsychological performances on EC and other cognitive tasks were regressed to medication adherence. Predictive variables related to executive processes were added in the final block of the hierarchical regression model in order to assess their
predictive ability on medication adherence.
23% of the variance in the visual analogue scale was explained by treatment complexity, memory and EC performance. A measure of inhibitory control, in particular, predicted self-reported medication adherence above and beyond demographic, clinical and other cognitive factors.
The contribution of EC to self-reported medication adherence in young seropositive adults was limited, but inhibitory control was associated with proper medication management above and beyond demographic, clinical and other cognitive functions.
The contribution of EC to self-reported medication adherence in young seropositive adults was limited, but inhibitory control was associated with proper medication management above and beyond demographic, clinical and other cognitive functions.
Italy was the first Western country to be seriously affected by COVID-19, and the first to implement drastic measures, which successfully curtailed the first wave of the epidemic.
To understand which containment measures altered disease dynamics, we estimated change points in COVID-19 dynamics from official Italian data.
We found an excellent correlation between nationwide lockdown and the epidemic peak in late March 2020. Surprisingly, we found a change point in mid-April, which did not correspond to national measures, but may be explained by regional interventions. Change points in regional COVID-19 dynamics correlated well with local distribution of free face masks and regional orders requiring their mandatory use. Regions with no specific interventions showed no change point during April.
Our findings of the observed correlation between face mask use and disease dynamics lend further support to the importance of face masks in addition to lockdowns and other restrictions for the control of COVID-19.
Our findings of the observed correlation between face mask use and disease dynamics lend further support to the importance of face masks in addition to lockdowns and other restrictions for the control of COVID-19.Written language, a human cultural invention, is far too recent a development for dedicated neural infrastructure to have evolved in its service. Newly acquired cultural skills, such as reading, thus recycle evolutionarily older circuits that originally evolved for different, but similar, functions (e.g., visual object recognition). The destructive-competition hypothesis predicts that this neuronal recycling has detrimental behavioral effects on the cognitive functions for which a cortical network originally evolved. In a study with 97 literate, low-literate, and illiterate participants from the same socioeconomic background, we found that even after adjusting for cognitive ability and test-taking familiarity, learning to read was associated with an increase, rather than a decrease, in object-recognition abilities. These results are incompatible with the claim that neuronal recycling results in destructive competition and are consistent with the possibility that learning to read instead fine-tunes general object-recognition mechanisms, a hypothesis that needs further neuroscientific investigation.
