Diary - Science topic

Dementia is an emerging public health issue resulting from population aging and epidemiological transition. Therefore, this research aimed to analyze the living networks woven by a user with dementia and her family in the path of seeking health care and support, through the existential connections established in their journey, from the perspective...

When he returned to Amsterdam in spring 1945, Otto Frank discovered that not one but two versions of his daughter's diary had survived the Holocaust: the three notebooks of so‐called version A and the revision of that diary on loose sheets of paper, called version B. Other texts also survived, including a notebook Anne titled “Tales and Events from...

Lo spunto per l’articolo è tratto dall’utilizzo dell’espressione programmatica 'favola di vita', posta significativamente ad incipit e a incorniciare circolarmente il testo diaristico profilato in "Quasi una vita", già di memoria leopardiana (poiché attestata nelle "Operette morali"), e intesa ad alludere alla maniera in cui nella narrazione viene...

Objective Sunflower syndrome is a rare photosensitive childhood‐onset epilepsy, featuring repetitive handwaving events (HWE) triggered by light. Objective documentation of these HWE can be difficult due to the numerous events occurring daily and/or caregivers who document the seizures but are not always present. Hence, seizure diaries can be underr...

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gained increased attention since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022. Following the popularity and wide application, several generative AI (GAI or GenAI) tools have been released, with capabilities of generating novel content such as text, images, audio, and video. Previous research has noted both oppor...

Introduction Stroke survivors are at risk of sleep disturbance, which can be reflected in discrepancies between objective and subjective sleep measures. Given there are limited studies on this phenomenon and using portable monitoring devices is more convenient for stroke survivors to monitor their sleep, this study aimed to compare objectively meas...

In recent years, the focus on student safety and well-being has intensified within educational settings, driven by national crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic and school shootings and rates of student mental health decline. School mental health professionals (SMHPs) such as school counselors and school social workers are resources that schools ca...

Accurate estimation of perinatal sleep is important for informing future research and multigenerational health interventions. We compared diary- and actigraphy-estimated sleep parameters during pregnancy and postpartum. We informed our interpretation of these analyses with participants’ feedback about these sleep estimation methods. This preregiste...

Trip-level household travel surveys (HTS) are an efficient and widely used instrument in transport planning and research and are expected to remain in this role for at least the near future. Mode information is typically assigned to trips in these surveys based on a hierarchy of transport modes that hides important information on the individual sta...

Ice cream tastes great! Frozen delights between the princely court table and bourgeois dinner parties (1770-1850) Ice cream is the subject of this book. Between 1770 and 1850, various transitions from a princely table and court culture to a bourgeois consumer and table society can be shown. I am interested in how frozen food became part of gastrono...

Food preservation aims to maintain safe and nutritious food for extended periods by inhibiting microbial growth that causes spoilage and poses health risks. Traditional chemical preservatives like sodium sulfite, sodium nitrite, sodium benzoate, tBHQ and BHA have raised concerns due to potential carcinogenicity, genotoxicity and allergies with long...

Background: Previous studies in individuals exposed to stressors, including traumatic ones, have shown inverse relations between life meaning and distress. Furthermore, meaning-related treatments can benefit (traumatic) stressor-exposed individuals. However, the evidence regarding the effect of life meaning interventions on PTSD symptoms is limited...

Theoretical accounts emphasize the importance of context sensitivity in emotion regulation, yet research often neglects this. This study explored how adolescents’ use of three emotion regulation strategies—cognitive reappraisal, distraction, and rumination—interacted with stressor intensity and perceived controllability to influence daily emotions....

Objective: The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to test the effects of an online, coached mindfulness intervention on momentary negative affect (mNA) for youth with high levels of trait negative affectivity. Method: Participants were 111 youth ages 12 to 17 years old (M = 14.17, SD = 1.60). Youth self-identified as 68% female, 29% ma...

Early-nineteenth century Russian accounts of the coastline between Alaska and Fort Ross are rare. This article helps fill this gap, providing diary accounts by Russian American Company employee, Afanasy Shvetsov, of two joint Russian-American sea otter hunting trips along the Oregon and northern California coasts in 1808-09. Recently recovered and...

Background Current understanding of the associations between adolescents' daily sleep and daytime alertness and fatigue under naturalistically occurring restricted (school) and unrestricted (vacation) sleep opportunities is limited. Methods A convenience sample of adolescents (n = 205; 54.1% females, Mage ± SD = 16.9 ± 0.87 years) completed daily...

The objective of the research was to improve the writing of academic texts in higher education students through a workshop based on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), taught to sixth semester students of four undergraduate programs. degree from a Normal School in the center of the Mexican Republic. A evaluation was carried...

Nobody in the Wilderness: A Mental Health Record of a Patient with Depression (2008) is the first of a number of memoirs that contemporary Chinese writer Li Lanni (1956- ) has composed to document her fight against the depression that hit her in 2003, after being cured of thyroid cancer. The memoir brings together Li’s diary entries from different...

Latar Belakang: Tingginya angka kematian ibu (AKI) dan bayi (AKB) karena salah satu penyebabnya tidak direncanakan persiapan kehamilan, sehingga banyak wanita yang mengalami kehamilan berisiko. Deteksi mandiri pada masa prakonsepsi dapat membantu dan mencegah terjadinya kehamilan berisiko. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah mengembangkan buku saku p...

Il presente contributo si pone l’obiettivo di esplorare l’evoluzione del rapporto medico-paziente in sinergia con la narrazione diaristica e l’impronta distopica che caratterizzano “The Diary of the Rose” (1976), uno tra i più complessi e penetranti racconti della raccolta The Compass Rose (1982), dove spicca la maestria e l’incredibile talento di...

In this study we discuss the complexity faced by a teacher when Critical Mathematics Education (CME) and climate change are being brought into a specific teaching setting that is part of a teacher education program a large university in Sweden. Taking CME and Active Network Theory into account along with the teacher’s dilemmas, we here perform an i...

The article is the result of an ethnographic investigation with babies that, based on contributions from the field of Childhood Geography Studies and discussions from the Pikler approach, had as its central objective to discuss the spatial experiences of babies based on free movement and autonomy in daycare. Methodologically, the research was devel...

A Zona costeira é considerada um domínio público, com suas próprias características e uma potencialidade para atrair os turistas que buscam a experiência do sol, mar e praia. Desenvolver estudos qualitativos neste contexto é desafiante. A partir da reflexão sobre as dificuldades de operacionalização de um estudo guarda-chuva, realizado nas zonas co...

The article proposes an interpretation of an unpublished poem by Witold Wirpsza, Ut pictura poesis, discovered in the Archives of the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin. Analysis of the poem makes it possible to distinguish two basic thematic lines in its structure: philosophical-logical (due to references to L. Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosop...

Aim Psychiatric problems are common in critically ill patients after discharge from an intensive care unit (ICU). The effect of intensive care unit (ICU) diaries on psychiatric symptoms after ICU discharge was investigated in this prospective study. Methods Enrolled were critically ill adult patients who were emergently admitted to an ICU and expe...

Automatic visual recognition for photo-based food diaries is increasingly prevalent. However, existing tools in food recognition often focus on food classification and calorie counting, which may not be sufficient to support the variety of food and healthy eating goals people have. To understand how to better design computer-vision-based food diari...

Qualitative digital diary methods are a promising tool for capturing participants’ experiences in their own words and over time. The use of smartphone apps to collect this kind of data provides an accessible and flexible way to participate in research, but to truly benefit from this method, participants needs and preferences must be taken into acco...

In this paper, we consider the time evolution of entanglement asymmetry of the black hole radiation in the Hayden-Preskill thought experiment. We assume the black hole is initially in a mixed state since it is entangled with the early radiation. Alice throws a diary maximally entangled with a reference system into the black hole. After the black ho...

A large body of research has examined the relationship between belief in a just world (BJW) and well-being. However, this research, and work on BJW more broadly, has predominantly employed experimental and cross-sectional methods, which may not adequately capture how BJW functions in daily life. To help address this, we considered how two forms of...

Purpose To determine the efficacy of nurse-delivered brief behavioral treatment for insomnia (BBTI) compared to an attention control, in a heterogeneous sample of cancer survivors to reduce insomnia symptom severity. Methods We recruited 132 participants from cancer care clinics, who had an Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) score ≥ 8. Participants wer...

Background/Problem: Despite ongoing efforts and numerous studies aimed at enhancing inclusion for sexual and gender minorities (SGM), most research has focused primarily on mental health and discrimination issues among gay men. There remains a significant gap in studying the cultivation of gratitude within this group from a behavioral science persp...

Photochemical C−C coupling reactions can be tailored to industrial chemical processes and preparations of pharmaceuticals. Recent approaches in this area are limited to using precious transition metal coordination complexes that facilitate light absorption and redox processes with benchtop chemicals. Herein, we propose a paradigm that involves all‐...

This study analyses intersections between body, gender, and sexuality from a decolonial pedagogical perspective within the field of physical education. Both theoretical and practical in nature, the text draws from literature related to social markers of difference (notably, gender and sexuality) and decoloniality. It is also guided by reflections o...

This article examines elements of the work of the international/war correspondent (print newspaper and radio broadcast) before and during the beginning of the Second World War (1934-1940). It discusses how different wartime conditions affected journalism, and thus the news. Among other considerations, correspondents had to deal with second-hand inf...

The article discusses the censorship of the magazine “Pamiętnik Literacki” (Literary diary) between 1980 and 1983. The investigation is based on selected archive materials from the Central Control Office of the Press, Publications and Public Performances and on the analysis of the content of individual volumes of the magazine. The research shows th...

Background Paper symptom diaries are a common tool for assessing motor fluctuations in Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients, but there are concerns about inaccuracies in the assessment of motor fluctuation due to recall bias and poor compliance. We, therefore, developed an electronic diary with reminder and real-time recording functions. Objectives a...

Background: Compared with the general female population, female sex workers (FSWs) experience a greater burden of STIs, including HIV. Consistent condom use reduces HIV risk; however, while many FSWs are aware of condom efficacy, this knowledge does not consistently translate into use. This study aimed to assess the frequency of condomless sex amon...

Purpose To prospectively evaluate the effect of a preventive jaw-training intervention program on the development of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) in patients treated for head and neck cancer (HNC). Methods We randomized 58 consecutive patients with squamous cell carcinoma in the head and neck area into two groups before initiation of a curati...

Quantitative research approach with one group pretest - posttest research design was used to examine the “Efficacy of customized smartphone based sleep hygiene therapy on insomnia among senior citizens during the COVID-19 lockdown, Tamil Nadu, India”. Objectives were 1) To assess the existing level of insomnia and 2) To determine the efficacy of cu...

Dementia is an emerging public health issue resulting from population aging and epidemiological transition. Therefore, this research aimed to analyze the living networks woven by a user with dementia and her family in the path of seeking health care and support, through the existential connections established in their journey, from the perspective...

Introduction Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disease with a diverse clinical presentation that involves multiple organ systems and may lead to organ damage and increased risk of mortality. SLE is associated with a high burden of disease that can include loss of productivity and employment and reduced health-related qualit...

Mass Observation was the most ambitious and controversial investigation into cultural life in Britain in the twentieth century. Buoyed by a democratic spirit yet riven by eclectic intellectual allegiances, the project, in its inception, revelled in contradictions, many of which have endured in its legacy. This paper revisits the early countercultur...

Aim(s) To explore the day‐level interactions between challenge and hindrance job demands and their effects on work engagement and emotional exhaustion among healthcare professionals, focusing on the moderating role of resilience. Design A longitudinal, diary‐based design was employed. Methods This study utilised a multilevel modelling approach to...

Past studies have provided evidence supporting how the coparenting relationship functions as a causal risk mechanism explaining the association between couple relationship quality and parenting practices both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. While scholars have argued that the coparenting relationship fluctuates daily, less is known about how...

The COVID-19 pandemic influenced the physical and mental health of millions of people around the world. Now, that the COVID emergency is over, its repercussions remain and management plans on how to regain emotional stability are discussed worldwide. The study examined the role of the multidimensional gratitude practice in regaining mental health a...

En este texto describimos y reflexionamos sobre cómo construimos la serie documental Latinas´diary desde la multimodalidad y transdisciplinariedad. Desde construir la investigación y las narrativas, hasta la producción audiovisual.

Objective Novel subcutaneous electroencephalography (sqEEG) systems enable prolonged, near-continuous cerebral monitoring in real-world conditions. Nevertheless, the feasibility, acceptability and overall clinical utility of these systems remains unclear. We report on the longest observational study using ultra long-term sqEEG to date. Methods We c...

Background Recent research has shown significant individual differences in COVID-19 psychosomatic symptoms. However, there has been a lack of studies investigating the influence of physical and psychological factors on these symptoms and their underlying mechanisms. This study aims to fill this gap by investigating the predictive role of self-compa...

Finding meaning in life is a developmental task for adolescents, which is essential for their mental health. Therefore, it is necessary to explore what promotes adolescents’ meaning in life. Because supportive relationships play critical roles in the formation of meaning in life, and parental support is a fundamental source of support, this study i...

Documents serve as a crucial and indispensable medium for everyday workplace tasks. However, understanding, interacting and creating such documents on today's planar interfaces without any intelligent support are challenging due to our natural cognitive constraints on remembering, processing, understanding and interacting with these information. My...

Aim: To evaluate the awareness of prosper exercise protocol in post mastectomy patients among physiotherapist. Background: PROSPER exercise programme is a 12 months home-based programme that includes warm-up and posture exercises, a daily sustained stretch, range of movement (ROM) and strengthening exercises and advice about physical activity. It a...

When the Soviet Union stripped Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn of his Russian citizenship and expelled him to the West, he began a twenty-year exile that merged his fight for a global political voice with unrelenting opposition to Soviet power. As cultural memory fades, it is easy to forget that this abrasive, GULAGprisoner-turned-dissident firebrand domina...

Father love is recognized as an important factor in personal development. While previous research has extensively examined the adverse effects of father-love absence on subjective well-being, it is important to note that these studies often treated subjective well-being as a singular, overarching construct, potentially limiting validity and compreh...

Introduction in a university hospital, multiple employment relationships are adopted, implying distinct contract regimes and also distinct employers. In this context, there are four types of employment relationships: civil servants, employees, outsourced workers, and public hired employees, who, working side by side, coexist with differences such a...

Sleep is crucial for the healthy development of adolescents, yet many suffer from chronic sleep deprivation. Over the transition to and course of adolescence there are known changes to sleep patterns e.g. shifts towards evening chronotypes. To study changes and patterns of sleep over these critical developmental time-points, detailed longitudinal d...

Abstract:The paper focuses on translation solutions used in translating expressive language from English into German, Croatian and Serbian. This qualitative analysis is corpus-based and it includes translations of a children’s book from the series Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. These books are written for children aged 9-12 and represent a ki...

The discovery of the Diary of Merer (papyri Wadi al-Jarf) allows us to see the Egyptian calendar applied in a logbook. The diary is dated to the 26th year of reign of Khufu and describes Merer and his crew transporting the limestone blocks from the Tura quarries to Akhet Khufu, that is, the pyramid of Khufu (Old Kingdom). We find a calendar with 30...

The research aims to reveal the plot-thematic and stylistic peculiarities of the unpublished correspondence between S. A. Tolstaya and T. A. Kuzminskaya (the 1870s). The article considers the epistolary as a key document that helps to recreate not only the biographical, but also the socio-historical, cultural context of the life and work of Leo Tol...

The discovery of the Diary of Merer (papyri Wadi al-Jarf) allows us to see the Egyptian calendar applied in a logbook. The diary is dated to the 26th year of reign of Khufu and describes Merer and his crew transporting the limestone blocks from the Tura quarries to Akhet Khufu, that is, the pyramid of Khufu (Old Kingdom). We find a calendar with 30...

Prior research posits that for African Americans, engaging in poor health behaviors (PHBs), such as smoking or drinking, buffers the negative effects of stressful life events. This study explored how PHBs exacerbate (double jeopardy) or buffer reactivity to daily family stressors among African Americans and European Americans (N = 1931) ages 34–84...

Introduction Investigations of drinking practices often rely on cross‐country comparisons of population averages in beverage preferences, drinking volumes and frequencies. Here, we investigate within‐culture patterns and variations in where, why and how people drink, answering the research question: how does engagement in drinking practices vary by...

This volume examines the botanical practice of the Moravian Church in the second half of the 18th century. It presents the history of the Moravian Church and its connection to natural history, especially botany. The Herbarium Barbiense, which is preserved in the Herbarium Dresdense and still contains 1260 specimens today, is presented in detail for...

Idiomatic expressions are challenging for translators of different genres, especially children's literature, as they need proper strategies to ensure an age-appropriate and easily comprehensible meaning. This study examined the strategies that the translators employed in rendering idiomatic expressions in Kenny's children's series Diary of a Wimpy...

Introduction The American Neurogastroenterology and Motility Society Gastroparesis Cardinal Symptom Index‐Daily Diary (ANMS GCSI‐DD) is a patient‐reported outcome (PRO) instrument for gastroparesis. This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the ANMS GCSI‐DD and determined a meaningful change threshold using the data from a phase 2b trial...

This is a brief expedition diary summarizing the highlights of around 94 hours of ROV video recordings in the deep-water ecosystems located in the U.S. Economic Exclusive Zone within the Palau National Marine Sanctuary.

Background A dementia diagnosis can lead to a decline in cognitive, social, and physical health, but people with dementia can live meaningful lives and participate actively in society with psychosocial support. This single-arm, non-randomised feasibility study explored the feasibility and acceptability of a Comprehensive REsilience-building psychoS...

The purpose of this research was to develop three models for the online teaching of music composing, along with creating a composing-specific technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge (TPACK) model from Mishra and Koeher’s (2006) original TPACK model. The teaching models developed were synchronous (live teaching), asynchronous (teaching is pre- r...

Background Coffee is widely consumed by office workers, primarily for its caffeine content, which plays an important role in improving alertness. For white-collar workers, alertness is crucial to maintaining productivity, and one measurable parameter of alertness is reaction time. Changes in reaction time can be classified as either shorter or long...

Tezepelumab blocks the activity of thymic stromal lymphopoietin, an epithelial cytokine implicated in the pathogenesis of asthma and chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). In a previous analysis, tezepelumab improved asthma and rhinosinusitis symptoms compared with placebo in patients with severe, uncontrolled asthma and a history of CR...

Introduction and Hypothesis We aimed to evaluate the clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) rate in women undergoing their first OnabotulinumtoxinA (BTX-A) treatment and to investigate factors predictive of initiating CIC. Methods This was a retrospective cohort of women, who had their first BTX-A treatment for symptoms of overactive bladder (OA...

In the current dynamic society, creativity stands as a crucial asset, empowering individuals to devise new and inventive solutions to navigate the shifts accompanying societal evolution. This trend significantly influences both the preparation of future educators and the ongoing professional growth of practicing teachers. It's essential to consider...

The necropolis from Țițești (23 km northeast of Pitești) was one of the earliest discoveries that would furnish the distribution map of Fergile archaeological group. Rescue excavations were carried out there in the 60s and 70s of the last century, but the brief information left by the authors of these field researches (Ion Nania, Eugenia Popescu, m...

Giovanni Maria Parenti was a 15th-century humanist cleric who wrote a book on the life and miracles of Saint Geminianus, the patron saint of his native Modena. The book, decorated with colour engravings, was published in 1495, also in Modena. A lesser known detail of the author’s life is that in 1486 he was part of an embassy to Hungary and compile...

The study examines the association between discrimination and suicidality, nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), and depressive symptoms among a sample of youth experiencing homelessness (YEH). Cross-sectional data were collected on n = 147 YEH (ages 16–24) of which n = 49 participated in a follow-up diary study lasting 7 days. The majority of the sample...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the incidence of working from home (WFH) skyrocketed as businesses closed and distancing standards were mandated, exposing many workers to a remote work arrangement. This paper studies how WFH relates to worker time allocation and enjoyment, considering gender differences and pandemic phases, using real-time data from...

Objective: Egocentric social network analyses show that drinking habits of college students’ friends predict personal alcohol consumption. To date, most of this research focused on between-person, cross-sectional, or long-term longitudinal designs to evaluate these effects. This study used intensive longitudinal methods to examine episode-specific...

This article explores the reflections on and ways of appropriation of a critical intercultural process approaching the practices and knowledge of Afro-Colombian peoples through the virtual, narrative, and physical resignification of zoteas or ancestral community gardens by Afro-Pacific populations at schools in Bogotá. An emerging process was ident...

“Aliabadnameh” ― a diary on Aliabad ― or “Qom Zahabiyeh Itinerary” is a report from the four days journey of Aminolsutan, Iranian prime minister at the beginning 14th A.H. century/ the last parts 19th A.D century, from Tehran to Qom in 1304 A.H./ 1886 A.D. It includes a collection from historical news and events and contemporary features which Amin...

Purpose We developed a self-directed Leg And Walking Self-exercise (LAWS) program informed by the Exercise is Medicine initiative and evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of this program in older adults with cancer. Methods Over a 1-year period, we prospectively enrolled 40 older adults who received a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA...

У статті висвітлено специфіку функціювання прецедентного ойконі- ма Харків і прямих та опосередкованих утворень від нього – хороніма Харківщина, катойконіма харків’янин (харків’янка, харків’яни), атрибутива харківський – у щоденниковому дискурсі О. Гончара. За допомогою прийомів статистичного методу встановлено ступінь уживаності досліджуваних онім...

[Filip Orlik (1672–1742) and his Diary. Study, reading from the manuscript, introduction, comments by Walentyna Sobol. University of Warsaw Publishing House. 2021. 532 p.]