Background: The present study examines the relationship between resilience, mood, fear for Covid-19, and cognitive functioning during pandemic Covid-19. 
 Methods: A cross-sectional web-based was conducted from December 2020 to January 2021 among administrative staff of University Western Macedonia, Greece. Data collected using Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC), Depression, Anxiet...

BACKGROUND The indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the treatment of infectious diseases can increase the development of antibiotic resistance. Therefore, there is a big demand for new sources of antimicrobial agents and alternative treatments for reduction of antibiotic dosage required to decrease the associated side effects. OBJECTIVES In this study, the synergistic action of aminoglycoside...

The egcSEs comprise five genetically linked staphylococcal enterotoxins, SEG, SEI, SElM, SElN, and SElO and two pseudotoxins which constitute an operon present in up to 80% of Staphylococcus aureus isolates. A preparation containing these proteins was recently used to treat advanced lung cancer with pleural effusion. We investigated the hypothesis that egcSEs induce nitrous oxide (NO) and assoc...

PURPOSE Febrile seizures are the commonest convulsive event in children younger than 5 years of age (incidence of 2-5%). Electroencephalography (EEG) is not indicated in the work up of simple febrile seizures. Information about its role in the assessment of complex febrile seizures (CFSs) is unclear and EEGs are frequently ordered. This study was designed to assess utility of clinical variables...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess the risk of intracranial pathology requiring immediate intervention among children presenting with their first complex febrile seizure (CFS). DESIGN/METHODS This is a retrospective cohort review of patients 6 to 60 months of age evaluated in a pediatric emergency department between 1995 and 2008 for their first CFS. Cases were identified us...

Background and Aims: Most children get a lot of anxiety while they visit a dentist. The most important factor in the child's fear at the beginning of treatment is the syringe and needle. Ways to cope with this anxiety include behavioural control techniques such as mental regeneration, distraction, and induction. The purpose of this study was to compare the pain and anxiety in children when usin...

BACKGROUND Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) has been used to describe the consequences of oral health conditions and treatments in children. A better understanding of OHRQoL and its relationship with dental fear and previous dental experience is necessary to improve children's oral health status. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of dental history and experien...

AIM This was to investigate the influence of emotional and behavioural problems on the choice of treatment type. In addition, the actual contents of the treatment of dentally fearful children was studied in an attempt to develop dental treatment protocols for children with such problems. METHODS The parents of 265 children (144 girls, mean age 88.4 months, SD+/-34.2 months), referred to a cen...

Common fragile sites (CFSs) are large regions with profound genomic instability that often span extremely large genes a number of which have been found to be important tumor suppressors. RNA sequencing previously revealed that there was a group of six large CFS genes which frequently had decreased expression in oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCCs) and real-time reverse transcriptase ...

An empirical study was undertaken in San Diego, California, to test assumptions made by the government and by conservative religious policy advocates that there is a greater incidence of crime in the vicinity of peep show establishments. We asked two questions: (a) Is criminal activity in San Diego particularly acute at peep show establishments compared to surrounding control locations? and (b)...