Avoidance in the face of novel situations or uncertainty is a prime feature of behavioral inhibition which has been put forth as a risk factor for the development of anxiety disorders. Recent work has found that behaviorally inhibited (BI) individuals acquire conditioned eyeblinks faster than non-inhibited (NI) individuals in omission and yoked paradigms in which the predictive relationship bet...

AIMS MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level by either degradation or translational repression of a target mRNA. Encoded in the genome of most eukaryotes, miRNAs have been proposed to regulate specifically up to 90% of human genes through a process known as miRNA-guided RNA silencing. For the first time, we sought to test how ...

We studied the ecological and functional aspects (such as role in sediment characteristics plant–animal interactions) of a Ruppia cirrhosa (Petagna) Grande meadow during its vegetative season choked Valle Campo lagoon, sub-basin wider Valli di Comacchio, on Northern Adriatic coast. Sampling campaigns were carried out with roughly fortnightly frequency 2017 at two sites, one bare sediment. Sedim...

The feeding diversity of subtidal samples of macroinvertebrates from Ria Formosa was estimated with Shannon Wiener information index and complementary evenness. The results were compared with other commonly used methodologies under the European water framework directive, such as diversity indices, AMBI and ITI. Assuming that in a healthy environment all feeding groups are present, and that no g...

A logic program development methodology has been proposed by the second author [3]. It aims at programming-in-the-small, and is (mainly) meant for “algorithmic” problems. It starts from a complete, yet informal, specification of the target problem. A crucial step is the design of the logic of the program, based solely on the declarative semantics of logic, and with exclusive concern about corre...

Introduction The levels of physicians' job satisfaction and burnout directly affect their professionalism, punctuality, absenteeism, and ultimately, patients' care. Despite its crucial importance, little is known about professional burnout of the physicians in Saudi Arabia. The objectives of this research are two-fold: (1) To assess the prevalence of burnout in physicians working in primary hea...

Background & Aims: Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) can be affected by different emotional, cognitive, and natural factors. The purpose of this study was to predict GAD based on emotion regulation deficits, thought-action fusion, and behavioral inhibition. Methods: This was a correlational study. The study sample was comprised of 135 patients with GAD selected from amo...