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John Foo

Latent class analysis and longitudinal development trajectory study of psychological distress in patients with stroke: a study protocol

Background: Psychological distress affects the treatment and rehabilitation of patients with stroke, affects their long-term functional exercise and quality of life, and increases the risk of stroke recurrence and even death. This is a multi-dimensional and multi-level mental health problem and a dynamic process variable that shows a dynamic development

The Interactive Effect between Economic Uncertainty and Life History Strategy on Corrupt Intentions: A Life History Theory Approach

Why do some people show more corruption when facing uncertain environment?The present study aimed to give a plausible answer from an evolutionary perspective: this might be rooted in people's different life history strategies (slow vs. fast). The present study measured the participants' corrupt intentions by a hypothetical scenario and

What are the implications if WHO succeeds in imposing its IHR amendments on us?

To understand the impact the World Health Organisation’s (“WHO’s”) proposed International Health Regulations (“IHR”) amendments will have on every person on Earth, we have to get to grips with what totalitarian rule is – because should the amendments proposed by WHO be accepted next month, the people of the

Immune niches for hair follicle development and homeostasis

The hair follicle is a dynamic mini-organ that has specialized cycles and architectures with diverse cell types to form hairs.

A CT texture-based nomogram for predicting futile reperfusion in patients with intraparenchymal hyperdensity after endovascular thrombectomy for acute anterior circulation large vessel occlusion

Background: Post-thrombectomy intraparenchymal hyperdensity (PTIH) in patients with acute anterior circulation large vessel occlusion is a common CT sign associated with a higher incidence of futile reperfusion (FR). We aimed to develop a nomogram to predict FR specifically in patients with PTIH. Methods: We retrospectively collected information on patients with

Jet Lag Hurts Both Mental and Physical Performance

Editor's Note: This article is a reprint.

ARE YOUR EYES OPEN?: Global Governments are in a Silent War Against Humanity- The Prelude to WW3 & the March Towards a Digital Dystopia

It is an honour, a privilege and a joy to give my thoughts and words to my brothers and sisters in our fight to preserve our identity, our history, our national culture, the honour of our ancestors, our freedoms, our health, our individuality, our spirituality, our families, our lives, our

5 Herbs to Detox with this Spring

Spring is the perfect time of year for a gentle detox.Think of it as spring cleaning for your body! As the seasons change, we naturally change with them.

“Climate change” profiteering from the Amazon versus the needs of the population causes tensions in Guyana and Brazil

As is a common theme behind the “climate change” agenda, local and indigenous people suffer at the hands of those who seek to capitalise on the natural world and profit from it.

What ‘Brave New World’ and ‘1984’ got wrong and what ‘The Castle’ got right

Charles Hugh Smith compares the writings of Kafka, Huxley and Orwell in the context of our current predicament. For self-evident reasons, the fictional visions of Orwell and Huxley resonate as maps to current ails being afflicted on the world. But what Kafka got right, Smith says, is how societies can

Anthocyanin gene enrichment in the distal region of cotton chromosome A07: mechanisms of reproductive organ coloration

Introduction: The biosynthesis of secondary metabolites like anthocyanins is often governed by metabolic gene clusters (MGCs) in the plant ancestral genome.

Effective analysis of job satisfaction among medical staff in Chinese public hospitals: a random forest model

Objective: This study explored the factors and influence degree of job satisfaction among medical staff in Chinese public hospitals by constructing the optimal discriminant model.

How Mandarin-English Bilinguals Interpret qián/forward：Impact of language proficiencies on retrieval of temporal concepts

Mandarin qián and English forward are semantically equivalent in the domain of Space, but could be semantically opposite in the domain of Time.

Maternal Fluoride Exposure During Pregnancy Correlates to Lower IQ in Their Children

Editor's Note: This article is a reprint.

A Multimodal Exertional Test for concussion: a pilot study in healthy athletes

Introduction: Exertional tests have become a promising tool to assist clinicians in the management of concussions, however require expensive equipment, extensive spaces, and specialized clinician expertise. As such, we developed a test with minimal resource requirements encompassing key elements of sport and physical activity. The purpose of this study was