Medical Art Therapy

Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy that uses art materials. Art therapy combines traditional psychotherapeutic theories and techniques with an understanding of the psychological aspects of the creative process, especially the affective properties of the different art materials. Medical art therapy has been defined as the clinical application of art expression and imagery with individuals who are physically ill, experiencing physical trauma or undergoing invasive or aggressive medical procedures such as surgery or chemotherapy and is considered as a form of complementary or integrative medicine. Several studies have shown that patients with physical illness benefit from medical art therapy in different aspects. Unlike other therapies, art therapy can take the patients away from their illness for a while by means of creative activities during sessions, can make them forget the illness or lost abilities. Art therapy leads to re-experiencing normality and personal power even with short creative activity sessions. In this article definition, influence and necessity of medical art therapy are briefly reviewed

Neuropeptides as Ligands for GPCRs

Neuropeptides constitute an important part of the nervous system, since the simple nerve nets (i.e. of Hydra). The assigned functions of these peptides vary enormously. For instance, besides inhibiting or stimulating the release of some hormones, they can be responsible for tentacle contraction of the Hydra, dropping the tail of the lizard, postnatal care of the beetles and also aggressiveness of humans. They perform these tasks via activating their cognate GPCRs, which are hypothesized to be coevolved with their ligand neuropeptides. In this chapter, we will introduce the concept of neuropeptide, its intracellular maturation process, characteristics of some typical neuropeptide families and the common properties of their cognate GPCRs. At last, we will try to give information about the widely used methods for studying GPCR-neuropeptide interactions

Residual Data-Driven Variational Multiscale Reduced Order Models for Parameter Dependent Problems

Over the last decade, several closure modeling strategies for reduced order models (ROMs) of turbulent flows have been developed. These closure models aim to include the effect of the discarded ROM basis functions, which can significantly increase the ROM accuracy in under-resolved, turbulent flows. Probably the most active area of research in this field has been data-driven closure modeling, in which available data is used to construct accurate ROM closure operators. Most of the current data-driven ROM closures depend on the ROM coefficients. In this paper, we propose a different strategy: the ROM closure model depends on the ROM residual. We illustrate the new residual-based data-driven ROM closure within the variational multiscale (VMS) framework and investigate it in the numerical simulation of a one-dimensional parameter-dependent convection-diffusion problem. For comparison purposes, we also investigate a streamline-upwind Petrov-Galerkin (SUPG) ROM stabilization strategy and the standard Galerkin ROM (G-ROM). Our numerical investigation shows that the new residual-based data-driven VMS-ROM is more accurate than both the standard G-ROM and the SUPG-ROM.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figure

Sexuality among People with Physical Disability

Physical disability is termed as disturbance or defect which impede or eliminate human body’s ability by disturbing human structure and shape. Physical disability may occur due to neonatal, natal or postnatal causes. People with physical disability have some natural needs as everyone. They are known to have difficulties in many areas of life. In society, sexual lives of these individuals are treated as an unknown and ignored issue, and moreover it has been assumed that they have no such needs. Disabled patients experience many troubles in their life domains including sexuality. This article provides information about physical disability and sexuality, and difficulties with which disabled people faces in their sexual life and overviews literature on this topic

Radiochemical studies of neutron induced fission in heavy nuclides

The presence of tin-129 isomers has been confirmed among fission products. Their half-lives were measured and found to be 7.5 + 0.1 min and 2 min. No evidence was found for a longer-lived isomer previously reported. 0.17 ± 0.01 and 0.39 + 0.03% were obtained for the cumulative yields of 7.5 min tin-129 and antimony-129 respectively in the thermal neutron induced fission of uranium-235. The cumulative yields of 10 fission products (bromine-83, and -84, strontium-91, zirconium-97, molybdenum-99, ruthenium-105, silver-113, antimony-129, cerium-143 and praseodymium-145) from the fission of protactinium-231 induced by 3 MeV neutrons have been measured radio-chemically using a recoil method. The massyield distribution was found to be highly asymmetric with a peak to trough ratio of about 100 and a peak width at half-height of 14 mass units. The maxima were observed at masses 91 and 138 with yields around 7.2%. Previously a correlation between the relative width ratio for symmetric fission and neutron re-emission and a term depending on the relative energies available for the two processes was derived and tested for 14 MeV neutron induced fission of heavy nuclides. In the present work this was tested for fission induced by 3 MeV neutrons. The fission cross-section of protactinium-231 for 14.8 MeV neutrons was measured by a radiochemical method and found to be 1.43 + 0.12 barns. This result was used in a discussion of the correlation mentioned above. In a search for irregularities in yields in the mass region 131-135 for 14.8 MeV neutron induced fission of protactinium-231, the independent yield of xenon-135 and the cumulative yields of iodine-131, -133 and -134 and xenon-133 and -135 were measured radio-chemically. Fine structure was observed at mass-134.. A comparison of the results with those obtained in 14 MeV neutron induced fission of thorium-232 and uranium-238 suggests that the prominence of the fine structure increases with decreasing atomic number. In all measurements zirconium-97 or molybdenum-99 and where possible both of them were used as reference masses. Counting was carried out using an end-window gas-flow β-proportional counter for solid, and a gas Geiger-counter for gaseous samples

The effect of different harvesting times on seed-set efficiency in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) varieties

This study was undertaken in the South Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey during the 2006 and 2007 growing seasons to investigate the seed set efficiencies (SSE) of ten cotton cultivars grown in semi-arid climatic conditions. SSE changed by year by approximately 1-2%, averaging 87-88% in both of the study years, respectively. Mean values for varieties ranged from 86.5% (SG-125) to 89.9% (DPL-5111) in 2006 and from 86.2% (SG-125) to 89.5% (Fantom) in 2007. There were significant differences (p<0.05) among the cultivars according to harvesting time, except for the first harvest in 2006. Although differences were small, generally, it was observed that SSE diminished in flowers opened at the end of the growing season. The results showed that SSE was significantly affected (p<0.05) by cultivars, harvesting times and years. Additionally, SSE was significantly (p<0.05) and positively (r= 0.39* and r= 0.44*) correlated to seed cotton yield and seed yield in 2007. There was a significant difference in the number of seeds within the bolls formed early or late in the season, indicating bolls harvested at different times throughout the growing season could not be used for seed production. However, study results strongly indicated that seeds from the first harvest should be used for cotton seed production.Key words: Cotton, Gossypium hirsutum L., variety, harvesting time, seed-set efficiency

A rare cause of emergency department visit: Euphorbia helioscopia contact dermatitis

AbstractEmergency department visits due to dermatologic disease is quite rare. Euphorbia helioscopia is a widely distributed plant in rural areas. E. helioscopia related contact dermatitis (Irritant contact dermatitis or allergic contact dermatitis) are known however only a few case reported in literature. We are reporting on three patients with contact dermatitis from E. helioscopia. Irritant contact dermatitis was occurred only one of these cases. This case refused to wash face with water. We recommend washing the face with water after contact with E. helioscopia

Frequency, origins and courses of anomalous coronary arteries in 607 Turkish children with tetralogy of Fallot

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence, origins and courses of coronary artery anomalies using a combination of angiographic and surgical methods in Turkish children with tetralogy of Fallot (ToF). Methods: Seventy-seven patients in whom coronary artery anomalies had been identified by angiography and/or at operation out of 549 ToF and 58 Fallot-type double outlet right ventricle (total 607) patients, were enrolled in the study. Results: Coronary artery anomalies were identified in 12.7% of the patients. The incidence was 12.2% (67/549) in patients with aortic overriding £ 50%, and 17.2% (10/58) with aortic overriding > 50% (p > 0.05). The incidence of anomalous coronary arteries crossing the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) was 7.91%. The commonest anomaly was the left anterior descending artery (LAD) or accessory LAD arising from the right coronary artery (RCA; n = 25). Other frequent anomalies were single coronary ostium (n = 21) and enlarged conal branch of RCA (n = 18). In 62.3% (48/77) of the patients with a coronary anomaly, the anomalous vessels were crossing the RVOT. The ratio of crossing the RVOT was 92.0% for LAD arising from the RCA, 66.7% for conal branch, and 42.9% for single coronary ostium. Conclusions: Two thirds of the anomalous coronary arteries were crossing the RVOT, and had surgical importance. The most frequent coronary artery anomaly that crossed the RVOT was the LAD or the accessory LAD arising from the RCA. Also, an enlarged conus artery should be considered as an anomaly because of its surgical importance, given its high rate of crossing the RVOT. (Cardiol J 2011; 18, 5: 546–551