Abstract This study aims to investigate the relationship between individuals’ attitudes about acceptance of aesthetic surgery (e.g. rhinoplasty, autoplasty, blepharoplasty, and mammaplasty) and some of the worship practices in Islamic religion such as performing prayer, fasting, and going to pilgrimage. Although many people think that aesthetic surgery is inappropriate in Islamic religion, no studies in the literature were found to have investigated this issue. This study collected...
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Abstract Several studies have been conducted among cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) survivors. Some studies have shown that positive and negative experiences coexist. Emotional distress and psychopathology in CPR survivors are related to the urgent need to make growth. Understanding the meaning of CPR survivors’ lived experiences of growth may facilitate their growth. The aim of the study was to illuminate the meaning of CPR survivor’s lived experiences of growth in southeast...
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Abstract Death anxiety, obsession, and depression constitute three dimensions of death distress which can be influenced by religious coping in religious individuals. The aim of this study was to compare death anxiety, depression, and obsession between Muslims with positive and negative religious coping. In a cross-sectional study, a sample of 339 participants were selected via stratified random sampling method. The participants were screened using the Brief Religious Coping Scale,...
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Abstract The phenomenon of corporate social responsibility “CSR” has stimulated lots of debates and disagreement among the business scholars. One of the most howling sounds comes from strategy and CSR thinkers. Strategic thinkers of this debate believe that CSR is not only an accountability action but also it is countability action. Due to this countability action heavily based on profit, the scholar of strategy field stated that strategic thinking lens should revise the phenomenon...
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Abstract The aim of this article is threefold. First, we seek to elicit the attitudes and practices of middle-aged and elderly Moroccan Muslim women towards ageing and care for the elderly. Second, we aim to identify possible differences between middle-aged and elderly women’s attitudes and practices. Third, we seek to explore which role religion plays in their attitudes and practices. Qualitative empirical research was conducted with a sample of middle-aged and elderly Moroccan...
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Abstract This study presents the development and initial psychometric evaluation of the Religious Discrimination Scale (RDS). This 11-item instrument identified three dimensions based on perceived discrimination experiences of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS): Perceived Prejudice, Closet Symptoms, and Negative Labels. The psychometric evaluations of the RDS indicated a strong and clear factor structure as well as good internal consistency reliability....
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Abstract Although a significant body of research supports the psychological benefits of religion and spirituality, more investigations are needed to understand the mechanisms by which they impact mental health. While some studies suggest a causal direct influence, the findings may still be subject to unmeasured factors and confounders. Despite compelling empirical support for the dangers of response bias, this has been a widely neglected topic in mental health research. The aim...
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Abstract There is a limited amount of empirical data available regarding the cultural and religious variation in perceptions about the age when young people should be regarded as competent to make decisions in health settings. A public survey of 400 adults from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds was conducted in the UK and Spain. Attitudes were assessed using case vignettes. It was found that high religious practice was associated with recommending a higher age of consent...
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Abstract Background Patients with dysphagia may consider eating and drinking with acknowledged risk (EDAR) instead of artificial hydration/nutrition. Timely consideration of complex issues is required including dysphagia reversibility, risk/benefit discussions, patient wishes, their capacity and best interests. Objective This study aimed to establish...
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Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 857: Tunneling Nanotubes and Tumor Microtubes in Cancer Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040857 Authors: Cora Roehlecke Mirko H. H. Schmidt Intercellular communication among cancer cells and their microenvironment is crucial to disease progression. The mechanisms by which communication occurs between distant cells in a tumor matrix remain poorly understood. In the last two decades, experimental evidence from different groups proved the existence of thin...
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Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 855: Green Chemistry Synthesis of Silver Nanoparticles and Their Potential Anticancer Effects Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040855 Authors: Zubair Ahmed Ratan Mohammad Faisal Haidere Md. Nurunnabi Sadi Md. Shahriar A.J. Saleh Ahammad Youn Young Shim Martin J.T. Reaney Jae Youl Cho Nanobiotechnology has grown rapidly and become an integral part of modern disease diagnosis and treatment. Biosynthesized silver nanoparticles (AgNPs)...
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Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 854: Progress towards Patient-Specific, Spatially-Continuous Radiobiological Dose Prescription and Planning in Prostate Cancer IMRT: An Overview Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040854 Authors: Emily Jungmin Her Annette Haworth Pejman Rowshanfarzad Martin A. Ebert Advances in imaging have enabled the identification of prostate cancer foci with an initial application to focal dose escalation, with subvolumes created with image intensity thresholds....
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Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 856: CD44s Induces miR-629-3p Expression in Association with Cisplatin Resistance in Head and Neck Cancer Cells Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040856 Authors: Junichiro Chikuda Kurataka Otsuka Iwao Shimomura Kagenori Ito Hiroaki Miyazaki Ryou-u Takahashi Masahiro Nagasaki Yoshiki Mukudai Takahiro Ochiya Toshikazu Shimane Tatsuo Shirota Yusuke Yamamoto Cisplatin (cis-diamminedichloroplatinum II [CDDP] ) is a well-known...
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Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 852: Cell Intrinsic and Systemic Metabolism in Tumor Immunity and Immunotherapy Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040852 Authors: Michael F. Coleman Alyssa J. Cozzo Alexander J. Pfeil Suhas K. Etigunta Stephen D. Hursting Immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) therapy has shown extraordinary promise at treating cancers otherwise resistant to treatment. However, for ICI therapy to be effective, it must overcome the metabolic limitations of the tumor...
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Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 853: The Core-Clock Gene NR1D1 Impacts Cell Motility in Vitro and Invasiveness in A Zebrafish Xenograft Colon Cancer Model Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040853 Authors: Alireza Basti Rita Fior Müge Yalҫin Vanda Póvoa Rosario Astaburuaga Yin Li Julian Naderi Miguel Godinho Ferreira Angela Relógio Malfunctions of circadian clock trigger abnormal cellular processes and influence tumorigenesis. Using an in vitro and in vivo xenograft...
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Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 850: L-Glucose: Another Path to Cancer Cells Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040850 Authors: Koki Ono Shota Takigawa Katsuya Yamada Cancerous tumors comprise cells showing metabolic heterogeneity. Among numerous efforts to understand this property, little attention has been paid to the possibility that cancer cells take up and utilize otherwise unusable substrates as fuel. Here we discuss this issue by focusing on L-glucose, the mirror image isomer...
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Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 851: Attenuation of the Hypoxia Inducible Factor Pathway after Oncolytic Adenovirus Infection Coincides with Decreased Vessel Perfusion Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040851 Authors: Iris Yousaf Jakob Kaeppler Sally Frost Len W. Seymour Egon J. Jacobus The interplay between oncolytic virus infection and tumour hypoxia is particularly unexplored in vivo, although hypoxia is present in virtually all solid carcinomas. In this study, oncolytic...
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Cancers, Vol. 12, Pages 849: Observational Multicenter Study on the Prognostic Relevance of Coagulation Activation in Risk Assessment and Stratification in Locally Advanced Breast Cancer. Outline of the ARIAS Trial Cancers doi: 10.3390/cancers12040849 Authors: Laura Pizzuti Eriseld Krasniqi Chiara Mandoj Daniele Marinelli Domenico Sergi Elisabetta Capomolla Giancarlo Paoletti Claudio Botti Ramy Kayal Francesca Romana Ferranti Isabella Sperduti Letizia...
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While there has been progress in making use of breath tests to guide clinical decision making, the full potential of exhaled breath analysis still remains to be exploited. Here we summarize some of the reasons why this is the case, what we have done so far to overcome some of the existing obstacles, and our vision of how we think breath analysis will play a more prominent role in the coming years. In particular, we envision that real-time high-resolution mass spectrometry will provide valuable information...
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New mass spectrometry (MS) techniques analysing exhaled breath have the potential to better define airway diseases. Here, we present our work to profile the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in exhaled breath from patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), using real-time MS, and relate this disease-specific breath profile to functional disease markers. Methods In a matched cohort study, patients with COPD, according to GOLD criteria, were recruited. Exhaled breath analysis by untargeted...
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Der Band widmet sich Formen und Formgebungsprozessen von Zeit in der europäischen Literatur der Moderne. Den theoretischen Horizont des Bandes bilden aktuelle Forschungsansätze, in denen das Verhältnis von modernen Formtheorien zur Zeitlichkeit ästhetischer Prozesse reflektiert und problematisiert wird. Im Zentrum steht damit die Frage nach dem Wie der literarischen Zeitdarstellung. Die versammelten Beiträge zu Werken von Goethe, Novalis, Kleist, Baudelaire, Musil, Arendt oder Celan untersuchen gattungsspezifische,...
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Aus juristischer Sicht handelt es sich beim Medienrecht um eine Querschnittmaterie, welche eine Vielzahl verschiedener herkömmlicher Rechtsgebiete tangiert, in dieser Form relativ jung und nicht scharf umrissen ist und als Teil eines umfassender verstandenen Kommunikationsrechts gesehen werden kann . Im Zentrum dieses Skriptums steht der professionelle Journalismus . Die Medienlandschaft wandelt sich rasch. Das (Medien-)Recht kann mit diesem Tempo kaum Schritt halten. Es wird oft als statisch und...
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In this study, we discovered a method to synthesize large single crystals of Cu-BTC MOFs (Cu-s) with the assistance of a surfactant (PF-127) in an ethanol-water mixture solution. Single crystal and powder XRD (X-ray diffraction) measurements revealed that Cu-s, with the appearance of long rods, has the chemical formula Cu(BTC)(3)center dot H2O. We proposed the growth mechanism of Cu-s by a series of experiments and demonstrated that the addition of surfactant PF-127 can effectively inhibit the contact...
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The superconducting proximity effect has recently attracted a renewed interest as the basis of topologically nontrivial states in materials with a large spin-orbit interaction, with protected boundary states useful for quantum information technologies. However, spectroscopy of these states is challenging because of the limited control of conventional tunnel barriers. Here we report electronic spectroscopy measurements of the proximity gap in a semiconducting indium arsenide nanowire segment coupled...
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Mechanical properties of micrometer long DNA have mainly been probed at room temperature with a force resolution limited by thermal fluctuations. Cryo-force spectroscopy combined with computer simulations now enables to quantify adhesion and intra-molecular mechanics at the sub-nanometer level by stretching up to several nano-newton tensile loads spray-deposited single-strand DNA oligomers on surfaces in ultrahigh vacuum.
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The type II seesaw mechanism is an attractive way to generate the observed light neutrino masses. It postulates a SU(2)L-triplet scalar field, which develops an induced vacuum expectation value after electroweak symmetry breaking, giving masses to the neutrinos via its couplings to the lepton SU(2)L-doublets. When the components of the triplet field have masses around the electroweak scale, the model features a rich phenomenology. We discuss the current allowed parameter space of the minimal low...
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This work measured ds/dO for neutral kaon photoproduction reactions from threshold up to a c.m. energy of 1855MeV, focussing specifically on the.p. K0S+,.n. K0., and.n. K 0 S 0 reactions. Our results for.n. K0S0 are the first-ever measurements for that reaction. These data will provide insight into the properties of N * resonances and, in particular, will lead to an improved knowledge about those states that couple only weakly to the pN channel. Integrated cross sections were extracted by fitting...
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Electrons driven through a suspended carbon nanotube by a constant bias excite mechanical vibrations — including self-sustaining oscillations — and, in some cases, even suppress them down to only a few quanta.
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Das wichtige Sozialwerk der beruflichen Vorsorge stellt die Rechtspraxis häufig vor grosse Herausforderungen. Die umfassende Kommentierung der beiden Bundesgesetze, die der beruflichen Vorsorge zu Grunde liegen, erforderte die Kooperation von Herausgebern von unterschiedlichen Universitäten (Lausanne, St. Gallen, Zürich) aus verschiedenen Landesteilen. Damit wurde innerhalb des Kommentars eine nationale Kohärenz im Verständnis der beruflichen Vorsorge angestrebt.Seit dem Erscheinen der ersten Auflage...
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