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An exploratory study on internet addiction, somatic symptoms and emotional and behavioral functioning in school-aged adolescents
Objective: In the last two decades there has been a significant transformation regarding the use of new technologies. Despite growing acknowledgement concerning the different activities and functions of digital technologies, there remains a lack of understanding on how technology overuse may negatively impact both physical and psychosocial well-being. Although researchers have begun to explore the meaning and implications of excessive Internet use in non-clinical populations of children and adolescents, there is still little consistent knowledge on the topic. This study aimed to extend existing knowledge on the excessive use of the Internet among school-aged adolescents, focusing on its association with recurrent somatic symptoms, depressive risk and behavioral and emotional problems. Method: Two hundred and forty adolescents (51.9% females) aged between 10 and 15, participated in this study. Data was collected using the Children’s Somatization Inventory, the Internet Addiction Test, the Children’s Depression Inventory, the Youth Self Report and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Structural Equation Model analysis was used to analyse the data. Results: Approximately 21.8% of participants reported excessive Internet use based on Young’s criteria. Higher levels of Internet use were associated with somatic and depressive symptoms as well as emotional and behavioral problems. Depressive Symptoms predicted both Internet Addiction (b = 0.304, p < 0.001) and Internalizing (b = 0.542, p <0.001) and Externalizing problems (b = 0.484, p < 0.001). Internet Addiction also significantly predicted both Internalizing (b = 0.162, p = 0.02) and Externalizing problems (b = 0.183, p = 0.02). Finally, Structural Equation Modeling showed that the indirect effect of Depressive Symptoms (via Internet Addiction) on Internalizing or Externalizing problems were significant. Conclusions: Longitudinal studies are needed to confirm these findings and to identify the mechanisms linking Internet use, somatic symptoms and adaptive functioning
¿Modifican el PSA los licopenos de la dieta y exógenos?
El objetivo del presente artículo es describir la historia alimentaria y la composición corporal de pacientes con alto
riesgo de padecer cáncer de próstata (CAP) y observar la influencia de la
suplementación con licopeno sobre el PSA de la misma población.Fil: López Laur, José Daniel.
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias MédicasFil: López Fontana, C..
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias MédicasFil: López Fontana, G..
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias MédicasFil: López Fontana, R..
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Médica
Some closure operations in Zariski-Riemann spaces of valuation domains: a survey
In this survey we present several results concerning various topologies that
were introduced in recent years on spaces of valuation domains
Thermodynamic Scaling of the Viscosity of Van Der Waals, H-Bonded, and Ionic Liquids
Viscosities and their temperature, T, and volume, V, dependences are reported
for 7 molecular liquids and polymers. In combination with literature viscosity
data for 5 other liquids, we show that the superpositioning of relaxation times
for various glass-forming materials when expressed as a function of TV^g, where
the exponent g is a material constant, can be extended to the viscosity. The
latter is usually measured to higher temperatures than the corresponding
relaxation times, demonstrating the validity of the thermodynamic scaling
throughout the supercooled and higher T regimes. The value of g for a given
liquid principally reflects the magnitude of the intermolecular forces (e.g.,
steepness of the repulsive potential); thus, we find decreasing g in going from
van der Waals fluids to ionic liquids. For strongly H-bonded materials, such as
low molecular weight polypropylene glycol and water, the superpositioning
fails, due to the non-trivial change of chemical structure (degree of
H-bonding) with thermodynamic conditions.Comment: 16 pages 7 figure
New distinguished classes of spectral spaces: a survey
In the present survey paper, we present several new classes of Hochster's
spectral spaces "occurring in nature", actually in multiplicative ideal theory,
and not linked to or realized in an explicit way by prime spectra of rings. The
general setting is the space of the semistar operations (of finite type),
endowed with a Zariski-like topology, which turns out to be a natural
topological extension of the space of the overrings of an integral domain,
endowed with a topology introduced by Zariski. One of the key tool is a recent
characterization of spectral spaces, based on the ultrafilter topology, given
in a paper by C. Finocchiaro in Comm. Algebra 2014. Several applications are
also discussed
Phonon Properties of Knbo3 and Ktao3 from First-Principles Calculations
The frequencies of transverse-optical phonons in KNbO and
KTaO are calculated in the frozen-phonon scheme making use of the
full-potential linearized muffin-tin orbital method. The calculated frequencies
in the cubic phase of KNbO and in the tetragonal ferroelectric phase are in
good agreement with experimental data. For KTaO, the effect of lattice
volume was found to be substantial on the frequency of the soft mode, but
rather small on the relative displacement patterns of atoms in all three modes
of the symmetry. The TO frequencies in KTaO are found to be of the
order of, but somehow higher than, the corresponding frequencies in cubic
KNbO.Comment: 8 pages + 1 LaTeX figure, Revtex 3.0, SISSA-CM-94-00
West syndrome followed by juvenile myoclonic epilepsy: a coincidental occurrence?
West syndrome followed by juvenile
myoclonic epilepsy: a coincidental
occurrence? is an age-dependent epilepsy with onset peak in the first
year of life. According to the ILAE classification, the
etiology of WS could be symptomatic or cryptogenic. An
idiopathic etiology was considered too. In literature, there
was never previously described a transition from WS to
JME.
Methods: The proband, (male) was referred to our
Department at the age of 8 months because he showed
clusters of symmetric spasms. Interictal EEG recording
displayed an hypsarrhythmic pattern. The clinical and EEG
data suggested WS diagnosis. At 1 year of age increasing
long and thick hair in both elbow regions was observed.
This picture suggested an additional diagnosis of \u201cHairy
Elbows Syndrome\u201d. During follow-up, the neurological
examination was normal and the EEGs showed age
appropriate background activity without abnormalities until
12 years of age, when he experienced some clusters of
bilateral, arrhythmic myoclonic jerks, synchronous with
generalized discharges of 4Hz spike-wave. This features
suggested JME diagnosis.
Results: We report a child with WS with onset at 8 months
of age followed by JME at 12 years of age. This unusual
evolution, never reported previously, suggests that both
seizure types may share some pathophysiological processes
genetically determined, which produce a susceptibility to
seizure.
Conclusion: This case documents a new transition type
from WS to JME and improves the knowledge about the
spectrum of seizure susceptibility. These findings suggest
that some genes other than those currently known and nonconventional
genetic factors can play a role in seizure
predisposition
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