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Sleep Disturbances in COPD are Associated with Heterogeneity of Airway Obstruction
2018
Individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) experience sleep disturbances due to the impact of respiratory symptoms on sleep quality. We explored whether sleep disturbances in COPD are linked to heterogeneity of airway constriction.The impact of breathing problems on sleep quality was measured in consecutive COPD outpatients with the COPD and Asthma Sleep Impact Scale (CASIS) questionnaire. Impulse oscillometry technique (IOS) was employed to assess heterogeneity of airway constriction. Subjects with a previous or concomitant diagnosis of asthma or obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) were excluded.Fifty COPD subjects (M/F 40/10; age: 71 +/- 8 yrs, Body Mass Index (BMI): 26.2 +/-…
Introduction
2010
Excessive Daytime Sleepiness in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients Treated With Continuous Positive Airway Pressure: Data From the European Sleep Apnea…
2021
Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a symptom of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) that resolves under treatment with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). In some patients, sleepiness persists despite CPAP treatment. We retrospectively analyzed data on subjective residual EDS, assessed as an Epworth Sleepiness Scale score (ESS) >10, in patients from the European Sleep Apnea Database (n = 4,853, mean age +/- SD 54.8 +/- 11.8 years, 26.1% females), at baseline and at the first visit (median follow-up: 5 months, interquartile range 3-13). An ESS > 10 occurred in 56% of patients at baseline and in 28.2% of patients at follow-up. Residual EDS was analyzed in 2,190 patients (age: 55.1 +/- 12…
Commentary: Long-term Practice with Domain-Specific Task Constraints Influences Perceptual Skills.
2018
Impressions of Questionable Marketing Practices in Indonesia: The Influence of Gender and Social Desirability Response Bias
2008
Our research examines the ethical sensitivity of 90 Indonesian business students (61 male and 29 female) toward questionable marketing practices using self-reported data; however, unlike most ethics research, we control for social desirability responsibility bias. In our research, we found that, when social desirability response bias was not considered, there was a significant gender difference. However, we also found that female students scored significantly higher on our measure of social desirability response bias than did their male counterparts. When we considered both gender and social desirability response bias in our models, the differences in ethical sensitivity between genders wer…
Conclusions: Late Chalcolithic Northern Mesopotamia. Setting the Agenda in the Debate on the Rise of Urbanization in the Ancient Near East
2022
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Attitudes : Tendencies and Variations
2018
This chapter presents an overview of religiosity and attitudes to religious diversity in media and other public spaces based on a cross-Scandinavian survey conducted in 2015. Although Scandinavians in general have a weak personal connection to religion, Christianity still holds a privileged position as an expression of cultural identity. Scandinavians express support for equal rights to practice religion, but also doubtfulness towards public expressions of religion. More than one-fourth of respondents discuss news about religion and religious extremism regularly. There is a widespread sentiment that Islam is a threat to the national culture, even though most respondents state that they oppo…
Musiikkipsykoterapia somaattisesti sairastuneen potilaan sairaalahoidossa : the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine -musiikkiterapiaosaston…
2011
Tiivistelmä – Abstract Tämän laadullisen tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää musiikkiterapian sovellusmahdollisuuksia osana somaattisesti sairastuneen potilaan kokonaishoitoa. Tutkimusaineistoa kerättiin opintomatkalla, jonka aikana tutkija perehtyi käytännön työn kautta somaattisessa sairaalassa toimivan The Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine -musiikkiterapiaosaston työskentelymalleihin. Tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan millaisiin ongelmiin ja millaisin musiikkiterapiamenetelmin Louis Armstrong -musiikkiterapiaosaston työskentelyllä pyritään vaikuttamaan somaattisesti sairastuneen potilaan hoidossa. Tutkimuksen lähtökohta on fenomenologinen. Tutkimuksen aineistoanalyysissä on käy…
Functional molecular materials: supramolecular networks and coordination polymers with optical and/or magnetic properties
2020
El camp dels materials moleculars atrau l’atenció de molts científics degut al gran potencial de la química molecular en el disseny de materials amb un ajust precís de les seues propietats. Els dos projectes tractats en aquesta tesi representen dos temes que destaquen en aquesta àrea, materials de transició d’espín i polímers de coordinació amb propietats òptiques i/o magnètiques, gràcies al seu significant progrés i ràpid desenvolupament en els últims anys. La primera part d’aquesta tesi es basa en l’ús d’enllaços d’hidrogen en el disseny de xarxes multifuncionals de ferro(II) amb transicions d’espín abruptes. El capítol 1 és una introducció a aquest tema des de la perspectiva dels complex…
Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover
2022
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-28T19:52:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2022-03-18 Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally. Plants were assayed for a Mendelian antiherbivore defense that also affects tolerance to abiotic stressors. Urban-rural gradients were associated with the evolution of clines in defense in 47% of cities throughout the world. Variation in the strength of clines was explained by environmental changes in drought stress and vegetation cover that varied am…