As presented in other chapters contained within this book, emotions, and particularly their social aspects, have a vast infl uence on people’s attitudes, motivations, and behaviors in almost every domain of life. Yet, in some domains emotions operate merely peripherally and at times even as negligible psychological forces. In other domains, however, and under specifi c circumstances, collective...

regarding the infl uence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) on anticentromere antibody (ACA)-positive patients suff er ing from rheumatoid arthritis (RA) [1]. Th eir fi ndings explore the eff ect of ACA positivity in a patient group diff erent from the cohort of primary Sjögren syndrome (SS) patients we chose to study [2]. Due to the diff erent study population and the retrospective nat...

Acupunct Med 2010;28:6–11. doi:10.1136/aim.2009.001206 6 ABSTRACT Objectives In clinical practice it is known that subjects vary in their response to acupuncture, but there is little data on what predicts the outcome. The aim of this study was to identify such predictors. Method A secondary analysis was performed on data from 100 participants in a trial of laser and sham laser acupuncture for c...

Aim: The aim was to study the impact of nationwide clinical practice guidelines for soft tissue sarcomas (STS), introduced in 1994 and again in 2005 in North Savo, Finland. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed all the patients whose sarcoma was treated by a multidisciplinary team between the years 2000 and 2009 with mean follow-up time of 68 months. The patients were divided into 2 groups accor...

The spread of COVID-19 has had a signifi cant impact on economic and social activities, with the agri-food sector being no exception. Since outbreak, numerous studies investigating its sectoral infl uence have been carried out, putting emphasis demand supply shocks changes in trade volumes. However, there not much research into implications pandemic for prices. To fi ll gap, this paper is an at...

The purpose of the tests was to determine whether and how sterilisation process of samples made of AISI 316L stainless steel with diff erent strain impacts their corrosion resistance. Tests were made on steel samples that had been electrochemically polished in order to assure proper surface roughness. In order to evaluate the infl uence of sterilisation on physical and chemical properties of st...

A study on the infl uence of Lactina probiotics on the content of some microbial species and some histological characteristics in the intestine of Muscovy ducklings has been conducted. The authors proved, that Lactina probiotic had a signifi cant effect on the microfl ora in the large intestines, suppressing the development of the enterococci and pathogenic bacteria of Salmonella species and st...

Broken rails can cause train delays, trains cancelations and, unfortunately, they are common causes of accidents. This aff ects planning of a resources, budget and organization of railway track maintenance. Planning of railway track maintenance cannot be done without an estimation of number of rails that will be replaced due to the broken rail incidents. There are many factors that infl uence b...

ISSN 2167-8421 print/ISSN 2167-9223 online © 2013 Informa Healthcare DOI: 10.3109/21678421.2013.826469 neuroinfl ammation (18,19) occur in ALS, although attempts to manipulate these events have not yet shown clear benefi ts in human ALS trials. Propofol has a short half-life; once infusion is stopped, its clinical effects last only minutes (3). For this reason, it is diffi cult to understand ho...

The ANDRILL Program successfully recovered a 1285 m-long succession of cyclic glacimarine sediment with interbedded volcanic deposits in its fi rst season of drilling from the McMurdo Ice Shelf (MIS). The MIS AND-1B drill core represents the longest and most complete (98% recovery) geological record from the Antarctic continental margin to date, and will provide a key reference record of climat...