BACKGROUND Portal systemic encephalopathy (PSE) is a complex neuropsychiatric syndrome associated with hepatic failure. Small scale studies have shown the benzodiazepine receptor antagonist flumazenil to be effective in ameliorating PSE. AIMS To determine the efficacy of flumazenil in patients with non-comatous mild to moderate PSE (stages I to III) due to severe chronic liver disease. PATI...

Parenting self-efficacy (PSE) has been positively linked to children’s adjustment and negatively associated with maternal depression. However, most PSE research has been cross-sectional, limited to predominantly white, middleclass samples, and has not examined potential mechanisms underlying associations of PSE with children’s behavior. The present study investigates (1) how PSE changes over ti...

رویکرد باززنده‌سازی در عرصۀ حفاظت از میراث معماری نیازمند شناسایی و احصای همۀ ارزش‌های مرتبط با اثر است، اما فرایند به تأثیرگذاری جغرافیای طبیعی بر شکل‌گیری اندیشۀ انسان برای خلق آن، ‌عنوان مکانی، کمتر توجه شده است. ضعف شناخت تبیین این ارزش‌ها سبب دست رفتن محیط اثرگذار نابودی یکپارچگی زمینه‌اش می‌شود. سوی دیگر، معماری، علاوه ‌بر مرتبط، تداوم بستر زمان نیز ضروری پژوهش، هدف ارتقای دانش ارزش‌گذاری...

BACKGROUND Apart from skills, and knowledge, self-efficacy is an important factor in the students' preparation for clinical work. The Physiotherapist Self-Efficacy (PSE) questionnaire was developed to measure physical therapy (TP) students' self-efficacy in the cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, and neurological clinical areas. The aim of this study was to establish the measurement properties ...

BACKGROUND This study examined predictors of parenting self-efficacy (PSE) in a sample of first-time mothers during the first year after childbirth and evaluated the effect of a brief, intensive, mother-infant residential intervention on PSE and infant behaviour. METHODS 83 primiparous women with infants aged 0-12 months admitted to a residential parent-infant program participated in a struct...

Methods We evaluated 543 patients (497 females/45 males) treated for idiopathic scoliosis with either PSE only (144 patients, 15.5°±9.3°Cobb), or brace and PSE (399 patients, 33.3°±12.1°). Patients started treatment at Risser 0-1, with a minimum age of 10 years, and were followed up to Risser 3. A comparison was then made between the following subgroups: PSE + Sport (PSESP: 88 patients, 14.8°±5...

Based on theory that parents with higher levels of self-efficacy (PSE) should find it easier to parent effectively in the face of challenging child behaviors than should parents with lower levels of PSE, this study examines the link between PSE and parenting using children's behaviors as potential moderators. Participants were 130 parents who had an older adolescent (Mage = 17.58) in addition t...

Previous studies from our laboratory suggested that differential expression of genes between normal and pale, soft, and exudative (PSE) turkey is associated with development of the PSE syndrome. However, a detailed understanding of molecular mechanisms responsible for the development of this meat defect remains unclear. The objective of this study was to extend and complement our previous work ...

BACKGROUND Because randomized cancer screening trials are very expensive, observational cancer screening studies can play an important role in the early phases of screening evaluation. Periodic screening evaluation (PSE) is a methodology for estimating the reduction in population cancer mortality from data on subjects who receive regularly scheduled screens. Although PSE does not require assump...