The Status Of Reading Ability Among Prairie View College Freshmen: An Exploratory Study

This is a part of the larger exploratory study of the status of reading at Prairie View State College and this part deals primarily with a selected group—. those who were enrolled in school the whole year. The other part of the study deals with sectioning of those groups that were not enrolled in school the entire year, that is they were enrolled in school the first or second semester. The entire group consisted of over 400 representatives from over 125 different high schools throughout the state of Texas. There were several representatives from out of the state

Recent results on heavy-ion induced reactions of interest for neutrinoless double beta decay at INFN-LNS

Abstract. The possibility to use a special class of heavy-ion induced direct reactions, such as double charge exchange reactions, is discussed in view of their application to extract information that may be helpful to determinate the nuclear matrix elements entering in the expression of neutrinoless double beta decay halflife. The methodology of the experimental campaign presently running at INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud is reported and the experimental challenges characterizing such activity are describe

Demographic, clinical, and service-use characteristics related to the clinician’s recommendation to transition from child to adult mental health services

Purpose: The service configuration with distinct child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult mental health services (AMHS) may be a barrier to continuity of care. Because of a lack of transition policy, CAMHS clinicians have to decide whether and when a young person should transition to AMHS. This study describes which characteristics are associated with the clinicians’ advice to continue treatment at AMHS. Methods: Demographic, family, clinical, treatment, and service-use characteristics of the MILESTONE cohort of 763 young people from 39 CAMHS in Europe were assessed using multi-informant and standardized assessment tools. Logistic mixed models were fitted to assess the relationship between these characteristics and clinicians’ transition recommendations. Results: Young people with higher clinician-rated severity of psychopathology scores, with self- and parent-reported need for ongoing treatment, with lower everyday functional skills and without self-reported psychotic experiences were more likely to be recommended to continue treatment. Among those who had been recommended to continue treatment, young people who used psychotropic medication, who had been in CAMHS for more than a year, and for whom appropriate AMHS were available were more likely to be recommended to continue treatment at AMHS. Young people whose parents indicated a need for ongoing treatment were more likely to be recommended to stay in CAMHS. Conclusion: Although the decision regarding continuity of treatment was mostly determined by a small set of clinical characteristics, the recommendation to continue treatment at AMHS was mostly affected by service-use related characteristics, such as the availability of appropriate services

Cohort profile : demographic and clinical characteristics of the MILESTONE longitudinal cohort of young people approaching the upper age limit of their child mental health care service in Europe

Purpose: The presence of distinct child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) and adult mental health services (AMHS) impacts continuity of mental health treatment for young people. However, we do not know the extent of discontinuity of care in Europe nor the effects of discontinuity on the mental health of young people. Current research is limited, as the majority of existing studies are retrospective, based on small samples or used non-standardised information from medical records. The MILESTONE prospective cohort study aims to examine associations between service use, mental health and other outcomes over 24 months, using information from self, parent and clinician reports. Participants: Seven hundred sixty-three young people from 39 CAMHS in 8 European countries, their parents and CAMHS clinicians who completed interviews and online questionnaires and were followed up for 2 years after reaching the upper age limit of the CAMHS they receive treatment at. Findings to date: This cohort profile describes the baseline characteristics of the MILESTONE cohort. The mental health of young people reaching the upper age limit of their CAMHS varied greatly in type and severity: 32.8% of young people reported clinical levels of self-reported problems and 18.6% were rated to be ‘markedly ill’, ‘severely ill’ or ‘among the most extremely ill’ by their clinician. Fifty-seven per cent of young people reported psychotropic medication use in the previous half year. Future plans: Analysis of longitudinal data from the MILESTONE cohort will be used to assess relationships between the demographic and clinical characteristics of young people reaching the upper age limit of their CAMHS and the type of care the young person uses over the next 2 years, such as whether the young person transitions to AMHS. At 2 years follow-up, the mental health outcomes of young people following different care pathways will be compared. Trial registration number: NCT03013595

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Reduction by Indobufen of Neutrophil Activation in Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease

We evaluated the effectiveness of indobufen administration in reducing neutrophil activation in a clinical model of ischemia-reperfusion. Thirty stable patients with intermittent claudication due to occlusive peripheral arterial disease of the leg were randomly assigned to two groups. Patients in group I were treated with indobufen [200 mg orally twice daily (p.o. b.i.d.) for a week]; patients in group II received a placebo. Both groups of patients were submitted to standardized treadmill exercise until onset of claudication. Plasma levels of thromboxane B2 (TxB2) and 6-keto-prostaglandin F1alpha(6-k-PGF1alpha) neutrophil filterability, and neutrophil activation (by nitro-blue tetrazolium test) were assessed in blood samples from the femoral vein draining the ischemic leg. The values were obtained at rest and 5, 30, and 60 min after onset of claudication. Urinary albumin excretion was measured at rest and 1 h after onset of claudication. Plasma levels of TxB2 and 6-k-PGF1alpha increased significantly in the placebo group 5 min after onset of claudication, whereas only a slight nonsignificant increase was observed in the indobufen-treated group at the same timepoint

Evaluation of left atrial appendage function and thrombi in patients with atrial fibrillation: from transthoracic to real time 3D transesophageal echocardiography

The detection of embolic sources in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) is important to guide anticoagulant therapy. Two-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is the gold standard to study left atrial appendage (LAA) anatomy and morphology, despite some false-positive diagnosis. We hypothesized that real time 3D TEE (RT3DTEE) is superior to 2DTEE in detecting and/or excluding LAA thrombi. We studied 93 patients with non-valvular AF (60 males, age = 67.1 ± 14.2 years) referred for electric cardioversion with transthoracic, 2DTEE and RT3DTEE. Before cardioversion, TTE allowed a confident measurement of emptying velocity of LAA (LAAeV) only in 59/93 patients (63%). On the contrary a good quality TEE LAAeV was obtained in all patients with 49/93 (53%) dysfunctional LAA (LAAeV < 40 cm/s). A subgroup of 5 patients (7.2% of the 69 effective cardioversion) presented a persistent dysfunction after cardioversion (with LAAeV values of <40 cm/s on the TEE post-CV). TEE allowed to observe a bilobed shape in 45 patients (48.4%) and three lobes in 22 patients (23.7%). In addition, besides to several additional findings, 2DTEE managed to detect thrombi with certainty in 8/93 patients (8.6%). In other 5 cases with diagnostic doubts for thrombi with 2DTEE (5/93 patients: 5.4%), the addition of the RT3DTEE mode allowed to discriminate with certainty the presence of just pectinate muscles in 4 patients RT3DTEE in patients with AF at risk of embolism is feasible, accurate and showed an additional diagnostic capability in the differential diagnosis of selected cases with suspected LAA thrombi