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Rural-urban migration: A path for empowering women through entrepreneurial activities in West Africa
The impact of emotional well-being on long-term recovery and survival in physical illness: a meta-analysis
This meta-analysis synthesized studies on emotional well-being as predictor of the prognosis of physical illness, while in addition evaluating the impact of putative moderators, namely constructs of well-being, health-related outcome, year of publication, follow-up time and methodological quality of the included studies. The search in reference lists and electronic databases (Medline and PsycInfo) identified 17 eligible studies examining the impact of general well-being, positive affect and life satisfaction on recovery and survival in physically ill patients. Meta-analytically combining these studies revealed a Likelihood Ratio of 1.14, indicating a small but significant effect. Higher levels of emotional well-being are beneficial for recovery and survival in physically ill patients. The findings show that emotional well-being predicts long-term prognosis of physical illness. This suggests that enhancement of emotional well-being may improve the prognosis of physical illness, which should be investigated by future research
Effects of Age, Sex, Body Weight, and Quantity of Alcohol Consumption on Occurrence and Severity of Alcoholic Hepatitis
Only a minority of heavy drinking individuals develop alcoholic hepatitis (AH), for unclear reasons. We analyzed data from the Translational Research and Evolving Alcoholic Hepatitis Treatment cohort: subjects who drink heavily with normal results from liver tests (controls) and patients with AH. We examined risk factors for the development of AH including body mass index (BMI), drinking pattern and quantity, and sex
Precision bond lengths for Rydberg Matter clusters KN (N = 19, 37, 61 and 91) in excitation levels n = 4 - 8 from rotational radio-frequency emission spectra
Clusters of the electronically excited condensed matter Rydberg Matter (RM)
are planar and six-fold symmetric with magic numbers N = 7, 19, 37, 61 and 91.
The bond distances in the clusters are known with a precision of +- 5% both
from theory and Coulomb explosion experiments. Long series of up to 40
consecutive lines from rotational transitions in such clusters are now observed
in emission in the radio-frequency range 7-90 MHz. The clusters are produced in
five different vacuum chambers equipped with RM emitters. The most prominent
series with B = 0.9292 +- 0.0001 MHz agrees accurately with expectation (within
2%) for the planar six-fold symmetric cluster K19 in excitation level n = 4.
Other long series agree even better with K19 at n = 5 and 6. The ratio between
the interatomic distance and the theoretical electron orbit radius (the
dimensional ratio) for K19 in n = 4 is found to be 2.8470 +- 0.0003. For
clusters K19 (n = 6) and K37 (n = 7 and 8) the dimensional ratio 2.90 is the
highest value that is found, which happens to be exactly the theoretical value.
Clusters K61 and K91 in n = 5 and 6 have slightly lower dimensional ratios.
This is expected since the edge effects are smaller. Intensity alternations are
observed of approximately 7:3. The nuclear spins interact strongly with the
magnetic field from the orbiting electrons. Spin transitions are observed with
energy differences corresponding accurately (within 0.6%) to transitions with
apparent total (delta)F = -3 at excitation levels n = 5 and 6. The angular
momentum coupling schemes in the clusters are complex but well understood.Comment: 37 pages, 14 figure
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