Abstract Background Emerging data from younger and middle-aged persons suggest that cognitive ability is negatively associated with risk aversion, but this association has not been studied among older persons who are at high risk of experiencing loss of cognitive function.Methods Using data from 369 community-dwelling older persons without dementia
Printed Electronics (PE) based on additive manufacturing has a rapidly growing market.Due to large feature sizes and reduced complexity of PE applications compared to silicon counterparts, they are more prone to counterfeiting.Common solutions to detect counterfeiting insert watermarks or extract unique fingerprints based on (irreproducible) proces
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors are prototypical ligand gated ion channels typically found in muscular and neuronal tissues.Functional nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, however, have also recently been identified on other cell types, including stem cells.Activation of these receptors by the binding of agonists like choline, acetylcholine, or nic
Young Min Choe,1,2 Min Soo Byun,3 Jun Ho Lee,4 Bo Kyung Sohn,5 Dong Young Lee,3,4 Jee Wook Kim1,2 1Department of Neuropsychiatry, Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hwaseong, Republic of Korea; 2Department of Psychiatry, Hallym University College of Medicine, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea; 3Institute of Human Behavioral Medicine, Medic
Patients with sepsis have a wide range of respiratory disorders that can be treated with oxygen therapy.Experimental data in animal sepsis models show that oxygen therapy significantly increases survival, while clinical data on the use of different oxygen therapy protocols are ambiguous.Oxygen therapy, especially hyperbaric oxygenation, in patients