The use of fructose-containing sports beverage drinks has increased in recent years, especially at sport events, because of their reported ergogenic effects. However, the ingestion of low to moderate doses of caffeinated energy drinks has been associated with adverse side effects such as insomnia or increased nervousness. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of fructose beve...

The results of therapy with vincaleukoblastine in ~7 pat ients afflicted with various mal ignant diseases have been discussed. The drug caused a marked fall in the leukocyte count, with slight and transient decrease in platelets. A decrease in organ size and tumor mass was often produced. While slight anorexia, nausea, and nervousness have been noted in some patients and epilation or fever in a...

This paper describes design and results of a human robot interaction study aimed at determining the extent to which affective robotic behavior can influence participants' compliance with a humanoid robot’s request in the context of a mock up search and rescue setting. The results of the study argue for inclusion of affect into robotic systems, showing that nonverbal expressions of negative mood...

Introduction: The worldwide prevalence of mental disorders points to the need for adequate and urgent holistic responses. disconnection between science, health politics before during pandemic COVID-19 undermined actions reorganization reception support system, especially most vulnerable, women young people. Objective: To verify anxious, depressive hopelessness symptoms in academics a public uni...

A growing body of research highlights the collateral consequences of mass incarceration, including stop-and-frisk policing tactics. Living in a neighborhood with aggressive policing may affect one's mental health, especially for men who are the primary targets of police stops. We examine whether there is an association between psychological distress and neighborhood-level aggressive policing (i...

Elemental mercury exposures adversely affect several organ systems, with the effects of acute, high level inhalation exposures first appearing in the lungs as pulmonary dysfunction, possibly followed by respiratory failure leading to death. At lower levels of exposure, the kidneys and brain, especially the developing brain, are more sensitive targets. Short term maternal exposure to mercury vap...

Introduction Venlafaxine is a serotonin and noradrenalin reuptake inhibitor that was approved for marketing in 1994. In the past years, the number of prescriptions for the drug have gradually increased (Figure 1). The drug is indicated for the treatment of depression, especially when accompanied by vital signs, and for the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder [1]. The most frequently repor...

Exposure to trauma, is an overwhelming experience for those who witnessed or affected by trauma and can have severe and chronic psychological consequences. Trauma is a psychologically distressing event outside the range of usual human experience, often involves a sense of fear, terror and helplessness [1]. Trauma refers to how individuals emotionally react to terrible events, such as the sudden...

Humans have always done nonmonotonic reasoning, but rigorous monotonic reasoning in reaching given conclusions has been deservedly more respected and admired. Euclid contains the first extended monotonically reasoned text available to a large public. I suspect that even Euclid did nonmonotonic reasoning in arguing for the postulates. It is unfortunate that the rigorous monotonic reasoning of Eu...

(Received for publication, July 21, 1952) Many histological studies1),2),3) on the innervation of mammalian tongues have been reported and praiseworthy results achieved histherto, but much seems yet left unexplored, and in particular, many questions are still waiting solution in connection with dog tongue. Recently, much licht has been thrown on the subject of innervation of human tongue by the...