this longitudinal study aims to examine the relationships between the perception of parental style, hope, self-esteem and eysenck's psychoticism dimension throughout the span of four years.the sample was composed of 884 students from the wollongong youth study, which commenced when students entered high school. during the course of the 4 years of the study, each participant completed the test b...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a syndrome with a multitude of causes and is associated with high mortality and a permanent loss of renal function. Our current understanding of the most common causes of AKI is limited, and thus a silver bullet therapy remains elusive. A change in the approach to AKI that shifts away from the primary composite endpoint of death/dialysis, and instead focuses on impr...

Mechanical ventilation using high tidal volume (VT) and transpulmonary pressure can damage the lung, causing ventilator-induced lung injury. Permissive hypercapnia, a ventilatory strategy for acute respiratory failure in which the lungs are ventilated with a low inspiratory volume and pressure, has been accepted progressively in critical care for adult, pediatric, and neonatal patients requirin...

To evaluate the relationship between immune suppression and host range six lepidopteran species were parasitized by the ichneumonid parasitoid Campoletis sonorensis. Parasitism inhibited the growth of permissive hosts (Heliothis virescens, Helicoverpa zea, and Trichoplusia ni), whereas growth of semi-permissive (Spodoptera exigua, Agrotis ipsilon) and non-permissive hosts (Manduca sexta) was no...