BACKGROUND Autistic personality traits (APT) and schizotypal personality traits (SPT) are associated with depression. However, mediating factors within these relationships have not yet been explored. Thus, the focus of the current study was to examine the effects of childhood neglect on the relationship between APT/SPT and depression. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted on first-...

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS Discontinuation of all antiplatelet agents before endoscopic procedures may cause serious complications in some patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the hemorrhagic risk of post-endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in patients on antiplatelet therapy (APT). PATIENTS AND METHODS The subjects were 350 patients (377 lesions) who underwent gastric ESD betwee...

Recently, specific attention has been paid to aptamers, short DNA or RNA, as a tool for cancer diagnosis and therapy. In the present study MCS nanogels were prepared by Myristate: chitosan at 1:9 ratio and were characterized by several techniques. A selected ssDNA aptamer(Apt) capable of detecting LNCaP cells was linked to Myristilated chitosan nanogels (Apt-MCS) by glutaraldehyde and loaded wi...

The structure of the package apt and the implementation of models for asymmetric price transmission (APT) are explained in this note. This type of economic analysis is typically time series analysis with the steps of unit root test, cointegration test, and finally error correction model. APT studies have evolved with several distinct stages: pre-cointegration, linear cointegration, nonlinear th...

In this paper direct proofs of some common fixed point results for two and three mappings under weak contractive conditions are given. Some of these results are improved by using different arguments of control functions. Examples are presented showing that some generalizations cannot be obtained and also that our results are distinct from the existing ones.

BACKGROUND Outpatient facilities, such as community behavioral health organizations (CBHOs), play a critical role in the care of patients with serious mental illness, but there is a paucity of "real-world" patient outcomes data from this health care setting. Therefore, we conducted The Research and Evaluation of Antipsychotic Treatment in Community Behavioral Health Organizations, Outcomes (REA...

In this paper, we describe some topological properties of dualistic partial metric spaces and establish some fixed point theorems for weak contraction mappings of rational type defined on dual partial metric spaces. These results are generalizations of some existing results in the literature. Moreover, we present examples to illustrate our result.