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Cognitive reserve and cognitive performance of patients with focal frontal lesions

2017

The Cognitive reserve (CR) hypothesis was put forward to account for the variability in cognitive performance of patients with similar degrees of brain pathology. Compensatory neural activity within the frontal lobes has often been associated with CR. For the first time we investigated the independent effects of two CR proxies, education and NART IQ, on measures of executive function, fluid intelligence, speed of information processing, verbal short term memory (vSTM), naming, and perception in a sample of 86 patients with focal, unilateral frontal lesions and 142 healthy controls. We fitted multiple linear regression models for each of the cognitive measures and found that only NART IQ pre…

MARKET ASSESSMENT OF HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS IN ROMANIA FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS USING A HOLISTIC APPROACH

2012

s. PHYTOPHARM 2012 M 102 Obzory po kliniceskoj farmacologii i lekarstvennoj terapii [Reviews of clinical pharmacology and drug therapy] ТОМ 10/2012/2 MARKET ASSESSMENT OF HERBAL SUPPLEMENTS IN ROMANIA FOR A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS USING A HOLISTIC APPROACH © Stoia Mihaela , Oancea Simona , Coman Diana 3 Faculty of Medicine, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania Department of Agricultural Sciences, Food Industry and Environmental Protection, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania Faculty of Engineering, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania Almost nonexistent in the early ‘90s, herbal supplements market gained an important dimension to Romanians, with the growing awareness and the amou…

2020

Importance Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been associated with impaired educational performance. Previous studies on the disorder could not control for important measured and unmeasured confounders. Objective To prospectively investigate the association between PTSD and objective indicators of educational attainment across the life span, controlling for familial factors shared by full siblings, psychiatric comorbidity, and general cognitive ability. Design, Setting, and Participants This population-based cohort study included 2 244 193 individuals born in Sweden between January 1, 1973, and December 31, 1997, who were followed-up until December 31, 2013. Clusters of full siblings …

The serum copper/zinc ratio in childhood and educational attainment : a population-based study

2016

Background Micronutrients are potentially important determinants of adult outcomes such as educational attainment. Copper and zinc have known effects on several medical conditions and cognitive development. Elevated copper and depressed zinc is a common trace metal imbalance. Methods We estimate the correlation between the copper/zinc ratio (Cu/Zn) in childhood (year 1980) and educational attainment in adulthood (year 2010). We use the Young Finns Study (YFS) combined with the Finnish Linked Employer-Employee Data (FLEED). The regression models account for confounders such as other biomarkers and parental observables. Results We report a sizeable, negative correlation between Cu/Zn and educ…

Drones in cyber security environment

2019

Aerial unmanned vehicles (AUV) are currently used for a wide range of operations such as border surveillance, surveillance, reconnaissance, transport, aerial photography, traffic control, earth observation, communications, broadcasting and armed attacks. AUVs are presumed to be reliable, automated and autonomous machines. AUVs are extremely suitable for long missions that strain flight crews or put them to harm's way. Two advantages can be gained by eliminating the flight crew: 1) performance improves (range, endurance, increased payload and maneuverability, smaller physical size and lower observability) and; 2) the ability to take higher risks. UAV/RPAS/drone cyber security has largely foc…

Main factors of emotionally attached customers in retail banking of Latvia

2019

How the banking strategy in Latvia is changing? How can banks increase the number of active clients? Are banks in Latvia focusing to attract new clients or prefer to work with the existing client portfolio? How can the retail banking sector in Latvia impact the customer loyalty? The regulation developed by the Basel Committee and the regulations of The Financial and Capital Market Commission impacted the number of banks in Latvia and the number of active clients in retail banking. Latvian banks are getting more flexible in customer services and actively working to increase customer loyalty. If previously banks actively attracted the new clients to increase the number of customers, now banks…

Propagation of Bankruptcy Risk over Scale-Free Economic Networks.

2022

The propagation of bankruptcy-induced shocks across domestic and global economies is sometimes very dramatic; this phenomenon can be modelled as a dynamical process in economic networks. Economic networks are usually scale-free, and scale-free networks are known to be vulnerable with respect to targeted attacks, i.e., attacks directed towards the biggest nodes of the network. Here we address the following question: to what extent does the scale-free nature of economic networks and the vulnerability of the biggest nodes affect the propagation of economic shocks? We model the dynamics of bankruptcies as the propagation of financial contagion across the banking sector over a scale-free network…

Emerging Economies Faced With The Downside Of Financial Globalization: Hedges And Way Outs

2009

The underlining assumption of this paper is that developing countries are in a fragile state nowadays. Economically, they have been seriously harmed by the 2008 crisis1 but this is not the end of the story: the future still has pitfalls in which these economies might get trapped, due to their enhanced vulnerability to exogenous shocks generated by financial globalization. Ideologically, the recent events have triggered a serious backlash against capitalism, particularly the Anglo-Saxon template. Getting an insight into the causes and implications of global economic crises is therefore critical for policy-makers in emerging economies. History might be a good adviser in this respect. Lessons …

Periodontal health in a population with Parkinson's disease in Spain: a cross-sectional study.

2022

Background: The aim of this research is to evaluate the periodontal health of patients with Parkinson Disease (PD) in a Spanish cohort. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed on 104 patients with PD (mean age: 66.19+9.3 years) and 106 controls (mean age: 59.26+14.11 years). A pre-designed clinical protocol was implemented, which included a standardized epidemiological index for periodontal disease (CPITN), clinical attachment loss (CAL), tooth-loss, full mouth plaque index (FMPI), and oral hygienic habits. Univariate descriptions and comparative analysis were performed. Results: The majority of PD patients presented good oral hygienic habits. There were no significant d…

Iekļaujošas sociālā dzimuma normas kā apdraudējums heteronormatīvām pārliecībām un sociālā dzimuma identitātei

2021

Pētījumā tika prognozēts, ka informācija par pāreju no heteronormatīvām uz iekļaujošām sociālā dzimuma normām radīs apdraudējumu tikai vīriešiem ar izteiktām heteronormatīvām pārliecībām un augstu identificēšanās pakāpi ar dzimuma grupu, kas rezultēsies paaugstinātā dzimuma esencializēšanā (1. hipotēze) un negatīvākā attieksmē pret dzimuma un seksuālajām minoritātēm (2. hipotēze). Lai pārbaudītu izvirzītās hipotēzes, tika veiktas divas faktoriālās dispersiju analīzes (2x2x2x2 ANOVA). Abas hipotēzes tika noraidītas, bet mainīgo lielumu savstarpējās saistības norādīja uz to, ka tomēr ir pamats sagaidīt apdraudējuma radītu pretreakciju noteiktā cilvēku grupā. Lai iegūtu konkrētus secinājumus, …