Body appreciation around the world: Measurement invariance of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age.

The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset - with data collected between 2020 and 2022 - to assess measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across 65 nations, 40 languages, gender identities, and age groups. Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis indicated that full scalar invariance was upheld across all nations, languages, gender identities, and age groups, suggesting that the unidimensional BAS-2 model has widespread applicability. There were large differences across nations and languages in latent body appreciation, while differences across gender identities and age groups were negligible-to-small. Additionally, greater body appreciation was significantly associated with higher life satisfaction, being single (versus being married or in a committed relationship), and greater rurality (versus urbanicity). Across a subset of nations where nation-level data were available, greater body appreciation was also significantly associated with greater cultural distance from the United States and greater relative income inequality. These findings suggest that the BAS-2 likely captures a near-universal conceptualisation of the body appreciation construct, which should facilitate further cross-cultural research. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

Risk profiles and one-year outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed atrial fibrillation in India: Insights from the GARFIELD-AF Registry.

BACKGROUND: The Global Anticoagulant Registry in the FIELD-Atrial Fibrillation (GARFIELD-AF) is an ongoing prospective noninterventional registry, which is providing important information on the baseline characteristics, treatment patterns, and 1-year outcomes in patients with newly diagnosed non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF). This report describes data from Indian patients recruited in this registry. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 52,014 patients with newly diagnosed AF were enrolled globally; of these, 1388 patients were recruited from 26 sites within India (2012-2016). In India, the mean age was 65.8 years at diagnosis of NVAF. Hypertension was the most prevalent risk factor for AF, present in 68.5% of patients from India and in 76.3% of patients globally (P < 0.001). Diabetes and coronary artery disease (CAD) were prevalent in 36.2% and 28.1% of patients as compared with global prevalence of 22.2% and 21.6%, respectively (P < 0.001 for both). Antiplatelet therapy was the most common antithrombotic treatment in India. With increasing stroke risk, however, patients were more likely to receive oral anticoagulant therapy [mainly vitamin K antagonist (VKA)], but average international normalized ratio (INR) was lower among Indian patients [median INR value 1.6 (interquartile range {IQR}: 1.3-2.3) versus 2.3 (IQR 1.8-2.8) (P < 0.001)]. Compared with other countries, patients from India had markedly higher rates of all-cause mortality [7.68 per 100 person-years (95% confidence interval 6.32-9.35) vs 4.34 (4.16-4.53), P < 0.0001], while rates of stroke/systemic embolism and major bleeding were lower after 1 year of follow-up. CONCLUSION: Compared to previously published registries from India, the GARFIELD-AF registry describes clinical profiles and outcomes in Indian patients with AF of a different etiology. The registry data show that compared to the rest of the world, Indian AF patients are younger in age and have more diabetes and CAD. Patients with a higher stroke risk are more likely to receive anticoagulation therapy with VKA but are underdosed compared with the global average in the GARFIELD-AF. CLINICAL TRIAL REGISTRATION-URL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT01090362

STRATEGIC MARKETING AND HUMAN SUBJECTIVITY

The article analyses the marketing evolution, gives the original approach to marketing definition, emphasizes the significance of strategic, marketing both from the point of simulation of any enterprise future activity and from the point of chosen courses of its activity. The concept of marketing complex is also analyzed. The application of marketing is different fields, creation of new technologies, interactive marketing and the internet allow to enrich the marketing complex with new elements, which extend its application for solving different marketing tasks. The concept of human subjectivity in the context of marketing strategy is presented as well

Нутритивная реабилитация пациентов после выхода из комы

Background. Along with the measures to restore the basic body functions and prevent secondary brain injury, one of the key areas of modern rehabilitation is nutritional and metabolic support. Aims: to improve the results of the treatment of the patients by optimizing the system of nutritional and metabolic rehabilitation using enteral, parenteral, combined parenteral-enteral nutrition methods, who are undergoing rehabilitation after recovering from Coma resulting from injuries and diseases of the central nervous system. Methods. In a prospective cohort study, the results of the study and complex treatment of 113 patients after recovering from Coma as a result of brain injury of various etiologies who were undergoing rehabilitation in the period from 2017 to 2019 in the FNRC RR were analyzed. Results. Indirect calorimetry has proven to be the most accurate method for creating an effective and adequate program of nutritional and metabolic support in patients in chronic critical conditions who recovers from the coma. In patients who recovers from the coma, due to the excessive process of hypercatabolism, increasing protein requirements: the average protein requirements for a patient who recovers from the coma are 1.26-1.5 g of protein per kg/weight. Conducting optimal nutritional support for patients recovering from Coma involves determining the functional state of the gastrointestinal tract. To build an effective and adequate program of nutritional and metabolic support where accurate determination of energy needs is of great importance. Conclusions. The indirect calorimetry method is a valuable tool for assessing energy needs, although without taking into account the functionality of the gastrointestinal tract and other factors affecting body compositions, it may not be sufficient to prescribe optimal nutritional support in patients after recovering from Comatose.Обоснование. Наряду с мероприятиями по восстановлению основных функций организма и предотвращению вторичного повреждения головного мозга одним из ключевых направлений современной реабилитологии является нутритивно-метаболическая поддержка. Цель исследования - улучшить результаты восстановительного лечения пациентов, находящихся на реабилитации после выхода из комы в результате травм и заболеваний центральной нервной системы, путем оптимизации системы нутритивно-метаболической реабилитации методами энтерального, парентерального, сочетанного парентерально-энтерального питания. Методы. В проспективном когортном исследовании проанализированы результаты обследования и комплексного лечения 113 пациентов, находившихся на реабилитации в период с 2017 по 2019 г. в ФНКЦ РР после выхода из комы в результате повреждения головного мозга различной этиологии. Результаты. Показано, что для построения эффективной и адекватной программы нутритивно-метаболической поддержки у больных в хронических критических состояниях после выхода из комы наиболее точным методом является непрямая калориметрия. У пациентов после выхода из комы в связи с выраженным процессом гиперкатаболизма преобладают потребности в белке: средние пластические потребности составляют 1,26-1,5 г белка на кг массы тела. Проведение оптимальной нутритивной поддержки у пациентов после выхода из комы предполагает определение функционального состояния желудочно-кишечного тракта. Обсуждение. Для построения эффективной и адекватной программы нутритивно-метаболической поддержки принципиальное значение имеет точное определение энергетических потребностей организма в субстратном обеспечении (белки, жиры, углеводы). Заключение. Метод непрямой калориметрии - хороший инструмент для оценки энергетических потребностей, хотя без учета возможностей желудочно-кишечного тракта и других факторов, влияющих на состав тела, может быть недостаточен для назначения оптимальной нутритивной поддержки у пациентов после выхода из комы

PREVALENCE OF HELMINTHIASIS OPISTHORCHIS FELINEUS IN CHILDREN IN TOMSK AND TOMSK REGION

Tomsk region is the territory precinctive with infection of Opisthorchis felineus. The rates of prevalence of this infection in the region differ according to the data from several studies (from 15 to 80%). Objective: to evaluate the prevalence of helminthiasis with O. felineus in children in Tomsk and its region via PCR-diagnosticum of opisthorchiasis. Methods: 896 children 7–15 years old from different districts of Tomsk region were examined. Faeces were PCR-tested for the detection of O. felineus. Results: the prevalence of O. felineus-invasion in children in Tomsk region is 27.7%, in north and north-east regions the prevalence is even higher (35.1%), than in south regions (20.4%; p &lt; 0.005). Conclusion: the study showed high prevalence of O. felineus invasion in children 7–15 years old living in Tomsk region.Key words: children, Opisthorchis felineus, prevalence.(Voprosy sovremennoi pediatrii — Current Pediatrics. 2011; 10 (3): 43–47

Influence of thermotechnical and technological factors on temperature of blast-furnace blast

Translated from Russian (Izv. Vyssh. Uchebn. Zaved., Chern. Metall. 1988 (8) p. 116-120)Available from British Library Document Supply Centre- DSC:9022.06(BISI-Trans--27108)T / BLDSC - British Library Document Supply CentreSIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

A new heterometallic pivalate {Fe<inf>8</inf>Cd} complex as an example of unusual "ferric wheel" molecular self-assembly

© 2020 The Royal Society of Chemistry. The interaction of the pivalate complexes of iron(iii), [Fe3O(Piv)6(H2O)3]·HPiv, and cadmium(ii), [Cd(Piv)2], in Et2O resulted in one more type of "ferric wheel"family complex, namely [Fe8(Piv)16{Cd(Piv)2}(μ-OH)8]·Et2O (1). The complex is an octanuclear iron(iii) wheel with a {Cd(Piv)2} moiety asymmetrically incorporated into the ring