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J Psychiatr Res ; 174: 297-303, 2024 Jun.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38678687

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BACKGROUND: Biological rhythms denote the cyclical patterns of life activities anchored to a 24-hour cycle. Research shows that depression exhibits disturbances in biological rhythms. Yet, the relationship between these biological rhythms and concomitant anxiety symptoms is insufficiently investigated in structured clinical assessments. METHODS: This multicenter study, carried out in four Chinese hospitals, comprehensively examined the relationship between anxiety and disruptions in biological rhythms among patients with depression. The study encompassed 218 patients diagnosed with depression and 205 matched healthy controls. The Chinese version of the Biological Rhythms Interview of Assessment in Neuropsychiatry was utilized to evaluate the participants' biological rhythms, focusing on four dimensions: sleep, activity, social, and diet. RESULTS: In patients with depression, there is a significant positive correlation between the severity of anxiety symptoms and the disturbances in biological rhythms. The severity of anxiety and depression, along with the quality of life, are independently associated with disruptions in biological rhythms. The mediation model reveals that anxiety symptoms mediate the relationship between depressive symptoms and biological rhythms. CONCLUSION: This research highlights the role of anxiety within the spectrum of depressive disorders and the associated disturbances in biological rhythms. Our findings shed light on potential pathways towards more targeted preventive strategies and therapeutic interventions for individuals battling depression and anxiety.


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Ansiedad , Humanos , Femenino , Masculino , Adulto , Persona de Mediana Edad , Ansiedad/fisiopatología , Depresión/fisiopatología , Ritmo Circadiano/fisiología , Trastorno Depresivo/fisiopatología , Adulto Joven , Trastornos Cronobiológicos/fisiopatología
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Nanomaterials (Basel) ; 13(16)2023 Aug 12.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37630898

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To address the thermal comfort needs of the human body, the development of personal thermal management textile is critical. Phase change materials (PCMs) have a wide range of applications in thermal management due to their large thermal storage capacity and their isothermal properties during phase change. However, their inherent low thermal conductivity and susceptibility to leakage severely limit their application range. In this study, polyethylene glycol (PEG) was used as the PCM and polyacrylonitrile (PAN) as the polymer backbone, and the thermal conductivity was increased by adding spherical nano-alumina (Al2O3). Utilizing coaxial electrospinning technology, phase-change thermoregulated nanofiber membranes with a core-shell structure were created. The study demonstrates that the membranes perform best in terms of thermal responsiveness and thermoregulation when 5% Al2O3 is added. The prepared nanofiber membranes have a melting enthalpy of 60.05 J·g-1 and retain a high enthalpy after 50 cycles of cold and heat, thus withstanding sudden changes in ambient temperature well. Additionally, the nanofiber membranes have excellent air permeability and high moisture permeability, which can increase wearer comfort. As a result, the constructed coaxial phase change thermoregulated nanofiber membranes can be used as a promising textile for personal thermal management.

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Nanomaterials (Basel) ; 13(3)2023 Jan 27.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36770477

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Lightweight, durable waterproof and breathable membranes with multifunctional properties that mimic nature have great potential for application in high-performance textiles, efficient filtering systems and flexible electronic devices. In this work, the fluoride-free triblock copolymer poly(styrene-b-butadiene-b-styrene) (SBS) fibrous membrane with excellent elastic performance was prepared using electrospinning. According to the bionics of lotus leaves, a coarse structure was built onto the surface of the SBS fiber using dip-coating of silicon dioxide nanoparticles (SiO2 NPs). Polydopamine, an efficient interfacial adhesive, was introduced between the SBS fiber and SiO2 NPs. The hydrophobicity of the modified nanofibrous membrane was highly improved, which exhibited a super-hydrophobic surface with a water contact angle large than 160°. The modified membrane retained super-hydrophobic properties after 50 stretching cycles under 100% strains. Compared with the SBS nanofibrous membrane, the hydrostatic pressure and WVT rate of the SBS/PDA/SiO2 nanofibrous membrane improved simultaneously, which were 84.2 kPa and 6.4 kg·m-2·d-1 with increases of 34.7% and 56.1%, respectively. In addition, the SBS/PDA/SiO2 nanofibrous membrane showed outstanding self-cleaning and windproof characteristics. The high-performance fibrous membrane provides a new solution for personal protective equipment.

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Front Psychol ; 13: 1049077, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36353091

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Since 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic, as a global public health emergency, has led to stringency measures (such as lockdown) of various degrees worldwide. As these measures such as social distancing measures and mandatory lockdown are intended to minimize social mobility, they have exerted remarkable impact on individuals' mental health, particularly, adolescents and children. The mental health problems caused include fear, anxiety, sense of isolation and development of more maladaptive behaviors due to prolonged lockdown and restricted interpersonal contact. However, well adaption status and stable interpersonal relationships play an important role in maintaining and promoting the mental health of adolescents and children. This study aims to gain a new sight of understanding of the mental health quality of Chinese adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic in terms of adaptation and interpersonal quality. The study is based on a survey on a total of 7,318 junior and senior high school students aged 12-18 years in various regions of China, and intended to examine the differences in adolescent mental health quality by sociodemographic variables such as gender, grade, urban and rural areas, only child, and parental education level. Our study finds that Chinese adolescents show an overall good adaptation and interpersonal quality during the lockdown. However there exists disparity across different categories in developmental patterns of adaptation and interpersonal quality. In addition, good family environment, moderate financial and emotional support, higher parental education level, etc. contribute to the cultivation and improvement of adolescents' mental health quality. Finally, we suggest that the government and researchers should pay more attention to adolescents' mental health issues in terms of adaption status and interpersonal relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially for disadvantaged social groups such as girls, younger students, and low-income family students.

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Alcohol Alcohol ; 57(6): 742-748, 2022 Nov 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35945705

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OBJECTIVE: The present study was a randomized controlled trial with a longitudinal design aimed at examining the effectiveness of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) on harmful alcohol use in the community health centres in Shanghai, China, and further compared the effects of a multi-session brief intervention (MBI) and a single-session brief intervention (SBI). METHODS: A total of 362 participants were recruited from four districts of Shanghai and randomly assigned to MBI, SBI and routine care (RC) groups. The MBI group received the brief intervention twice. Follow-up assessments were conducted at 1 and 3 months after the intervention. RESULTS: Compared with the SBI and the RC groups, the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) scores (F = 6.422, P = 0.002), SDS scores (F = 5.779, P = 0.003) and SAS scores (F = 4.004, P = 0.019) were significant improved in the MBI group at 1and 3-month follow-up assessment. In the SBI group, the SDS scores decreased significantly compared with the RC group, and there were no significant differences in ASSIST scores, drinking knowledge scores and SAS scores 1-month follow-up assessment. CONCLUSION: The findings suggested that SBIRT with two sessions of BI had considerable effects on individuals with harmful alcohol use. It provided clinical evidence for future use in China and other Asian countries with similar situations.


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Alcoholismo , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias , Humanos , Trastornos Relacionados con Sustancias/terapia , Intervención en la Crisis (Psiquiatría) , China/epidemiología , Alcoholismo/diagnóstico , Alcoholismo/epidemiología , Alcoholismo/terapia , Derivación y Consulta , Tamizaje Masivo , Centros Comunitarios de Salud , Consumo de Bebidas Alcohólicas/epidemiología
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Nat Commun ; 13(1): 4955, 2022 08 24.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36002452

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Most intensive human activities occur in lowlands. However, sporadic reports indicate that human activities are expanding in some Asian highlands. Here we investigate the expansions of human activities in highlands and their effects over Asia from 2000 to 2020 by combining earth observation data and socioeconomic data. We find that ∼23% of human activity expansions occur in Asian highlands and ∼76% of these expansions in highlands comes from ecological lands, reaching 95% in Southeast Asia. The expansions of human activities in highlands intensify habitat fragmentation and result in large ecological costs in low and lower-middle income countries, and they also support Asian developments. We estimate that cultivated land net growth in the Asian highlands contributed approximately 54% in preventing the net loss of the total cultivated land. Moreover, the growth of highland artificial surfaces may provide living and working spaces for ∼40 million people. Our findings suggest that highland developments hold dual effects and provide new insight for regional sustainable developments.


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Pueblo Asiatico , Ecosistema , Asia , Asia Sudoriental , Humanos
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Cureus ; 14(7): e27299, 2022 Jul.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35903483

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Mobile health (mHealth) applications (apps) have the potential to increase access to mental health care. In China, there is growing interest in mHealth apps for depression. Our objective was to systematically review research on mHealth for depression in China to identify benefits and challenges. A systematic literature search was conducted using Chinese and English databases in accordance with Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. Randomized and nonrandomized clinical studies on mHealth apps and depression in China were included. Study quality was assessed using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool. Seven studies met the inclusion criteria with three randomized trials, two quasi-randomized trials, one clinical trial with an uncertain grouping method, and one study with a single-group design. All studies used the WeChat platform and included activities such as psychoeducation, self-management, supervised group chats, and/or remote contact with a healthcare team, in comparison to usual care. All studies reported significant and large benefits for outcomes, but the risk of bias was high. There are few rigorous evaluations of mHealth apps for depression in China, with all included studies involving WeChat programs and most using WeChat to extend nursing discharge care for inpatients with depression. While these studies showed significant improvement in health outcomes as compared to usual care, the results remain inconclusive because of the high risk of bias. mHealth holds promise for increasing access to mental health care in China, but issues such as efficacy, scalability, patient and clinician acceptability, and data privacy must be addressed.

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J Environ Public Health ; 2022: 9883324, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35795537

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To improve the level of oral English teaching, improve students' oral communicative competence (OCA), and promote successful communication with native English speakers, this study studies the pragmatic function of dialogue markers and constructs the cognitive evaluation system of artificial intelligence (AI) by comparing the two cognitive evaluation systems of human subjectivity and knowledge base; in this study, the credibility of human subjective evaluation and the coupling degree of machine objective evaluation are discussed. The key coefficient R 2 is obtained by the linear regression method, and the correlation is obtained by the Spearman correlation algorithm. The cognitive effects of knowledge base and AI are verified; the results show that the cognitive analysis system of pragmatic function of discourse markers in oral English based on AI has good teaching value. In the context of AI computing, we can put forward targeted learning methods and learning methods for students according to the amount and accuracy of markers in oral English that students have mastered, so that students can quickly improve the learning quality and the learning effect of oral English markers, which is more conducive to improving students' oral English level and realizing students' effective communication.


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Inteligencia Artificial , Estudiantes , Cognición , Humanos
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Front Public Health ; 10: 875104, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35433582

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, medical products have been crucial to the global fight against the disease. As a major manufacturing country, China occupies an important position in the medical products field. However, China's terms of trade are not commensurate with its status as a major exporter of medical products. Therefore, studying China's market power in medical product exports has important practical significance for determining China's value chain position in the global market and then proposing policies and measures to enhance China's market power. The findings of this paper, utilizing HS 6-digit data from 1992 to 2020, illustrate that China's market power is only in limited medical product export markets. Accordingly, we propose countermeasures to enhance the market power of China's medical product exports.


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COVID-19 , Pandemias , COVID-19/epidemiología , COVID-19/prevención & control , China , Comercio , Humanos
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Front Psychol ; 13: 751665, 2022.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35242073

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In recent studies, numerous anomalies against the weak and semi-strong-forms of efficient market hypothesis (EMH) have been found insignificant after controlling the small-firm effect. We investigate whether the insider trading anomaly, a major anomaly against the strong-form of EMH, can survive after excluding small firms with a novel data set (FTSE-350) and document several new findings. We find a substantially larger number of insider purchases than sales, while the average volume of insider sales is much higher than the average volume of insider purchases. Echoing recent US studies, we find that insider sales generate more abnormal returns than insider purchases do. We find much lower abnormal returns from insider trading than documented in the literature and the associated trading costs, which suggests that the market efficiency of individual stocks may depend on their sizes, and even the strong-form of EMH holds to a larger extent than previously recognized.

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Front Public Health ; 9: 780348, 2021.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34805086

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This paper examines the effects of the pandemics-related uncertainty on corporate innovation in Chinese firms. For this purpose, the recent uncertainty measure of pandemics, the Pandemics Discussion Index (PDI), is used. The findings from the fixed-effects estimations show the negative impact of the PDI on corporate innovation. Government subsidies, operation profits, and total exports also positively affect corporate innovation. In addition, firms' management efficiency promotes corporate innovation. These results hold when the Blundell-Bond estimations are utilized to address potential endogeneity. Various robustness analyses, such as considering the lagged PDI and the lagged controls, are also conducted. Consequently, the main results remain robust. Thus, this paper provides novel and robust evidence on the negative impact of pandemics on Chinese firms' corporate innovation behavior.


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Pandemias , Responsabilidad Social , China/epidemiología , Organizaciones , Pandemias/prevención & control , Incertidumbre
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BMC Psychiatry ; 21(1): 430, 2021 09 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34470624

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BACKGROUND: Measurement-based care (MBC) is an evidence-based practice for depression, but its use by clinicians remains low. Enhanced MBC (eMBC), which uses digital technologies, can help to facilitate the use of MBC by clinicians and patients. Understanding factors that act as barriers and drivers to the implementation of MBC and eMBC is important to support the design of implementation strategies, promoting uptake by clinicians and patients. OBJECTIVE: This situational analysis identifies barriers and facilitators to the implementation of standard and eMBC at mental health centers in Shanghai, China. METHODS: We used mixed methods to develop a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing MBC and eMBC implementation in Shanghai. This study took place across three mental health centers in Shanghai. We used situational analysis tools to collect contextual information about the three centers, conducted surveys with n = 116 clinicians and n = 301 patients, conducted semi-structured interviews with n = 30 clinicians and six focus groups with a total of n = 19 patients. Surveys were analysed using descriptive statistics, and semi-structured interviews and focus groups were analysed using framework analysis. RESULTS: Several potential barriers and facilitators to MBC and eMBC implementation were identified. Infrastructure, cost, attitudes and beliefs, and perceptions about feasibility and efficacy emerged as both challenges and drivers to MBC and eMBC implementation in Shanghai. CONCLUSIONS: The results of this study will directly inform the design of an implementation strategy for MBC and eMBC in Shanghai, that will be tested via a randomized controlled trial. This study contributes to the emerging body of literature on MBC implementation and, to the best of our knowledge, is the first such study to take place in Asia. This study identifies several factors that are relevant to the equitable delivery of MBC, recognizing the need to explicitly address equity concerns in global mental health implementation research.


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Depresión , Salud Mental , China , Grupos Focales , Humanos , Encuestas y Cuestionarios
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Brain Behav ; 11(8): e2313, 2021 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34333875

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OBJECTIVES: This study aims to explore the reliability, validity, and feasibility of Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale (CUDOS) in screening mixed features in patients diagnosed with mania. METHODS: A total of 109 patients with (hypo-) manic episode were recruited. The reliability of Chinese version of CUDOS (CUDOS-C) were analyzed with Cronbach's alpha and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). Spearman correlation coefficient was used to analyze the validity by comparing the correlation between CUDOS-C and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9), 32-item Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32). The score of MINI (hypo-) manic episode with mixed features-DSM-5 Module-Chinese version(MINI-M-C) ≥ 2 was considered as the gold standard of mixed features, and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis was used to calculate the optimal cut-off values of CUDOS-C score. RESULTS: The Cronbach's alpha value of CUDOS-C was 0.898, and the ICC of CUDOS-C test-retest was 0.880 (95% CI: 0.812-0.923, p < .05).The CUDOS-C score was significantly correlated with PHQ-9 score (r = 0.893, p = .000), but not with HCL-32 score(r = 0.088, p = .364).The area under ROC curve was 0.909 (95% CI: 0.855 to 0.963, p < .001) for CUDOS-C identifying mixed features in mania. The optimal cut-off value was 11 with a sensitivity of 0.854 and a specificity of 0.868. The CUDOS-C (score ≥ 12) identified 40.4% of the patients with mixed features, which was higher than those diagnosed by clinicians (18.3%) and screened using MINI-M-C (37.6%). CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate the CUDOS-C is a reliable and valid self-administered questionnaire for assessing depressive symptoms and screening patients with mixed mania.


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Depresión , Manía , Humanos , Psicometría , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Encuestas y Cuestionarios
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J Affect Disord ; 294: 723-729, 2021 11 01.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34343931

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BACKGROUND: A useful scale for identification of mixed features in major depressive episodes (MDE) patients is urgent in China. This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Clinically Useful Depression Outcome Scale supplemented with questions for the DSM-5 mixed features specifier (Chinese-CUDOS-M) in MDE patients. METHODS: A total of 152 MDE patients were recruited and assessed using Chinese-CUDOS-M, Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and 32-item Hypomania Checklist (HCL-32). Principal component analysis (PCA) and exploratory factor analysis (EFA) were conducted. The predictive validity was calculated by the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC). RESULTS: The Cronbach's alpha of Chinese-CUDOS-M was 0.85. PCA showed three common factors with eigenvalue greater than 1; the eigenvalue of factor I was 4.96, with 38.1% of variance explanation. Chinese-CUDOS-M depression subscale was associated with PHQ-9 (r = 0.83, p<0.01), and manic subscale was associated with HCL-32 (r = 0.73, p< 0.01). AUROC of the Chinese-CUDOS-M for patients with mixed depression was 0.90 (95%CI: 0.85-0.95), with a cut-off value of 7, sensitivity of 0.95, and specificity of 0.73. Furthermore, AUROC was 0.88 in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD), with a cut-off value of 7, sensitivity of 0.96, and specificity of 0.71. AUROC was 0.92 in bipolar disorder (BD) depression patients, with a cut-off value of 9, sensitivity of 0.89, and specificity of 0.87. CONCLUSION: Our study shows that the Chinese-CUDOS-M can identify mixed features in both MDD and BD depression with satisfactory reliability and validity.


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Trastorno Depresivo Mayor , Trastornos del Humor , China , Trastorno Depresivo Mayor/diagnóstico , Humanos , Psicometría , Reproducibilidad de los Resultados , Encuestas y Cuestionarios
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Front Psychiatry ; 12: 512689, 2021.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33776809

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Purpose: This study examines health literacy among older outpatients in two Community Healthcare Service Centers in Shanghai, China to facilitate the design of public education programs for the aged population on mood disorders (both depression and mania). Patients and Methods: A total of 173 outpatients aged 60 years or more with a chronic physical illness were randomly sampled. A health literacy questionnaire was used to assess participants' awareness of depression and mania. Participants were then asked to label two vignettes depicting depression and mania and to give their recommendations for how to seek help for those in the vignettes and how mood disorders should be managed. Results: In all, 86.1 and 36.4% of participants had heard of depression and mania, respectively, with the most common source of information being relatives and friends. Over half of the participants attributed the possible causes of mood disorders to psychological trauma, pressure or stress in daily life, taking things too hard, and personality problems. Almost two-thirds of participants correctly labeled the depression vignette, but only 26.6% correctly labeled the mania vignette. The most common methods recommended by the participants as being helpful for the individuals portrayed in the vignettes were "traveling" and help-seeking from a psychological therapist/counselor, a psychiatrist, or a close family member or friend. Conclusion: The older individuals attending community healthcare service settings in Shanghai have good depression literacy but relatively poor mania literacy. However, most participants had a positive attitude toward psychiatric treatment for mood disorders.

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Front Public Health ; 8: 611325, 2020.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33363099

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This paper introduces a health index for measuring the health level of societies during the lockdown era, i. e., for the period from March 21, 2020 to April 7, 2020. For this purpose, individual-level survey data from the Global Behaviors and Perceptions in the COVID-19 Pandemic dataset are considered. We focus on cases in the United States and the United Kingdom, and the data come from 11,270 and 11,459 respondents, respectively. We then use unit root tests with structural breaks to examine whether COVID-19-related economic shocks significantly affect the health levels of the United States and the United Kingdom. The empirical results indicate that the health levels in the United States and the United Kingdom are not significantly affected by the COVID-19-related economic shocks. The evidence shows that government directives (such as lockdowns) did not significantly change the health levels of these societies.


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COVID-19/economía , Factores Económicos , Estado de Salud , Distanciamiento Físico , Conjuntos de Datos como Asunto/estadística & datos numéricos , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2 , Reino Unido , Estados Unidos
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Front Psychiatry ; 11: 570, 2020.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32625124

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PURPOSE: A substantial proportion of patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) does not respond or cannot tolerate to currently available treatments. This study was to assess the safety and tolerability of Remote Limb Ischemic Preconditioning (RLIPC) as an adjunctive therapy in patients with MDD. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Enrolled patients underwent RLIPC, five cycles of simultaneous bilateral arm ischemia, 5 min and followed by reperfusion of each cycle, and once daily for eight consecutive weeks. Depression and anxiety severity, and quality of life were assessed every 2 weeks. Descriptive analysis was used for safety and tolerability data. RESULTS: Thirty-seven participants completed at least one RLIPC. Twenty-four of them (64.9%) completed the study. Twelve patients prematurely discontinued the study due to poor adherence, and one due to a mild side effect. The changes in HRSD-17, GAD-7 and QOL-6 total scores from baseline to the endpoint were significant from the end of second week treatment onwards. The responder and remission rates were 59.46% (22/37) and 54.05% (20/37) at the endpoint, respectively. CONCLUSION: RLIPC was safe and well tolerated, and may be effective in reducing depressive symptoms in patients with MDD. Large studies are warranted to test its efficacy and safety as monotherapy or adjunctive therapy in the treatment of MDD.

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Polymers (Basel) ; 12(3)2020 Mar 19.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32204447

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: Controllable feature and size, good mechanical stability and intelligent release behavior is the capsule products relentless pursuit of the goal. In addition, to illustrate the quantitative relationship of structure and performance is also important for encapsulation technology development. In this study, the sphericity and size of millimeter-scale calcium sodium alginate capsules (mm-CaSA-Caps) with aqueous core were well tuned by manipulating the viscosity, surface tension, and density of CaCl2/carboxyl methyl cellulose (CMC) drops and sodium alginate (SA) solution. The well-tuned mm-CaSA-Caps showed significant mechanical and control-releasing property effects. The results showed that the prepared mm-CaSA-Caps were highly monodispersed with average diameter from 3.8 to 4.8 mm. The viscosity of the SA solution and the viscosity and surface tension of the CaCl2/CMC solution had significant effects on the mm-CaSA-Caps sphericity. Uniform and spherical mm-CaSA-Caps could be formed with high viscosity CaCl2/CMC solution (between 168.5 and 917.5 mPa·s), low viscosity SA solution (between 16.2 and 72.0 mPa·s) and decreased surface tension SA solution (by adding 0.01 wt.% poloxamer 407). The diameter of the mm-CaSA-Caps could be predicted by a modified Tate's law, which correlated well with the experimental data. The Caps with sphericity factor (SF) < 0.07 had better mechanical stability, with the crushing force 2.91-15.5 times and the surface Young's modulus 2.1-3.99 times higher than those of the non-spherical Caps (SF > 0.07). Meanwhile, the spherical Caps had a more even permeation rate, which was helpful in producing uniform and sustained releasing applications in foodstuff, medicine, agriculture and chemical industry.

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RSC Adv ; 10(73): 44688-44698, 2020 Dec 17.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35516286

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Graphene/polyaniline composites have attracted considerable attention as high-performance supercapacitor electrode materials; however, there are still numerous challenges for their practical applications, such as the complex preparation process, high cost, and disequilibrium between energy density and power density. Herein, we report an efficient method to produce graphene/polyaniline composites via a one-pot ball-milling process, in which aniline molecules act as both the intercalator for the exfoliation of graphite and the monomer for mechanochemical polymerization into polyaniline clusters on the in situ exfoliated graphene sheets. The graphene/polyaniline composite electrode delivered a large specific capacitance of 886 F g-1 at 5 mV s-1 with a high retention of 73.4% at 100 mV s-1. The high capacitance and rate capability of the graphene/polyaniline composite can contribute to the fast electron/ion transfer and dominantly capacitive contribution because of the synergistic effects between the conductive graphene and pseudocapacitive polyaniline. In addition, a high energy density of 40.9 W h kg-1 was achieved by the graphene/polyaniline-based symmetric supercapacitor at a power density of 0.25 kW kg-1, and the supercapacitor also maintained 89.1% of the initial capacitance over 10 000 cycles.

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Polymers (Basel) ; 10(2)2018 Jan 31.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30966171

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Flexible paper electrodes for supercapacitors were prepared with partially-exfoliated graphite and polypyrrole as the active materials. Graphite was coated on paper with pencil drawing and then electrochemically exfoliated using the cyclic voltammetry (CV) technique to obtain the exfoliated graphite (EG)-coated paper (EG-paper). Polypyrrole (PPy) doped with ß-naphthalene sulfonate anions was deposited on EG-paper through in-situ polymerization, leading to the formation of PPy-EG-paper. The as-prepared PPy-EG-paper showed a high electrical conductivity of 10.0 S·cm-1 and could be directly used as supercapacitor electrodes. The PPy-EG-paper electrodes gave a remarkably larger specific capacitance of 2148 F∙g-1 at a current density of 0.8 mA∙cm-2, compared to PPy-graphite-paper (848 F∙g-1). The capacitance value of PPy-EG-paper could be preserved by 80.4% after 1000 charge/discharge cycles. In addition, the PPy-EG-paper electrodes demonstrated a good rate capability and a high energy density of 110.3 Wh∙kg-1 at a power density of 121.9 W∙kg-1. This work will pave the way for the discovery of efficient paper-based electrode materials.

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