To the Editor We greatly enjoyed reading the recently published article by Kim et al. (1). The authors found that the serum D-dimer levels were significantly associated with left atrial enlargement in anticoagulation-naïve patients with acute ischemic stroke and non-valvular atrial fibrillation. A number of studies have indicated the role of D-dimer in the stroke diagnosis, progression, and mor...

The perception of criminal injustice is common among disadvantaged American racial and ethnic minority groups. This perception of injustice is especially common for highly educated and socially and economically successful African-Americans. It is also well established that encounters between citizens and the police play an important part in such perceptions of racial injustice. Yet, there is mu...

Asthma is a chronic respiratory disorder that affects over 7 million children in the United States. Evidence indicates that family stressors are associated with worsening of asthma symptoms, and some research suggests that these stressful experiences engender changes in children's immune systems in ways that exacerbate airway inflammation and contribute to both acute and chronic asthma symptoms...

Cognitive control is required to regulate conflict. The conflict monitoring theory suggests that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) is involved in detecting response conflict and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) plays a critical role in regulating conflict. Recent studies, however, have suggested that rostral dACC (rdACC) responds to response conflict whereas caudal dACC (cdA...

Introduction. Trigeminal neuralgia is a fairly rare disease manifested by acute paroxysmal pain of the type electric shock in innervation zone one or more branches trigeminal nerve. usually sporadic, but familial cases have also been described. The study can help understanding causes and mechanisms development neuralgia. We present series 4 families which 2 family members generation suffered fr...

today, the work-family conflict is a challenge to nurses and nursing. in this regard, the ghaem hospital's 448 nurses making random sample of 100 individuals were studied. to analysis collected data, partial least squares (pls) and haland procedures were employed.the results were significant and positive relationship between the variables of a conflict between people intention to leave, and wor...

Task conflict is usually associated with effective decisions, and relationship conflict is associated with poor decisions. The 2 conflict types are typically correlated in ongoing groups, however, which creates a prescriptive dilemma. Three explanations might account for this relationship--misattribution of task conflict as relationship conflict, harsh task conflict tactics triggering relations...