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Correction: Amino Acid Transporter LAT1 (SLC7A5) Promotes Metabolic Rewiring in TNBC Progression Through the L-Trp/QPRT/Nad+ Pathway
No full textCorrection: J Exp Clin Cancer Res 44, 190 (2025) Following publication of the original article [1], the authors found that Dr. Leila Saeednejad Zanjani was not included in the final author list despite her contributions. The details are provided below: Current authors: Margot Y. Fedoroff1†, Lei Zhao1†, Shaomin Wang1, Alok Bhushan2, Haifeng Yang1, Karen M. Bussard3, Stephen C. Peiper1 and Jun He1*. Updated author list: Margot Y. Fedoroff1†, Lei Zhao1†, Shaomin Wang1, Leili Saeednejad Zanjani1, Alok Bhushan2, Haifeng Yang1, Karen M Bussard3, Stephen C Peiper1, Jun He1*. The correction does not compromise the validity of the conclusions and the overall content of the article. The author group has been updated above and the original article [1] has been corrected
Prebiotic prophylaxis of abdominal bloating in mechanically ventilated patients fed through nasogastric tubes: A randomised clinical trial
No full textSexual Desire and Related Factors in Middle-Aged and Elderly Married Women: A Cross-Sectional Study in Iran
No full textBACKGROUND: The sexual desire in the middle-aged and senior women is one of the factors affecting their quality of life and psychological well-being.
AIM: The present study was aimed to assess the sexual desire and related factors among married women aged 50-70 years.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive-analytical study, 210 married menopausal women aged 50-70 years were selected by cluster sampling method. Data were collected using a demographic profile questionnaire and Sexual Desire Inventory (SDI), and analysed by SPSS version 22 software using descriptive statistics and independent t-test, ANOVA and Pearson correlation coefficient tests.
RESULTS: The mean age of women was 59.40 ± 5.93 years, and the mean sexual desire score was 22.66 ± 17.78 (out of 112). There was a significant relationship between sexual desire score and age, educational level, occupation of women and spouses, age of menopause, marital history, number of pregnancies and children, individual health and pain level (P < 0.001). The sexual desire score had a significant association with diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, high cholesterol, chronic pain, gastrointestinal problems, chronic ulcers, bladder and intestinal problems, joint and bone disorders, taking cardiac medications, antihypertensive, anticoagulant, insulin, cholesterol-lowering drugs (P < 0.001).
CONCLUSION: The low sexual desire score and its reduction with age and the presence of various diseases and factors affecting sexual desire highlight the importance of diagnostic screening, family related educational planning and the role of health care providers in the health status of the older adults
Meenutades Tullio Ilometsa: Remembering Tullio Ilomets
No full textTullio Ilomets (13 July 1921 in Paide – 22 August 2018 in Tartu), anassociate professor of organic chemistry at the University of Tartu,was one of the authors of the idea of establishing the University ofTartu Museum and its lifelong supporter. As an active member of theheritage protection movement, he frequently spoke about questionsregarding the preservation of the University’s cultural heritage andthe protection of the old university.The author of this article, the chief curator of the University ofTartu museum in the years 1979–2015, developed a very good collaboration with Tullio Ilomets on the collection and preservation of theheritage objects of the university over the decades.Tullio Ilomets worked at the university for over 65 years. His final(and very fruitful) years were spent working as a consultant to themuseum in its Toome Hill building. Despite his advanced age, he wrote his most interesting overviews on the history of science in theseyears, based on the museum’s collections, on topics such as laboratoryglass, historic scales, the photographic collection of the University’sphotographer Kald, etc.Tullio Ilomets’ extensive activities in the area of heritage protection received attention and awards: the Order of the White Star,Third Class was bestowed on him in 2001. He was an honorary citizen of Tartu and recipient of the Tartu Suurtäht decoration (2001).The writer of this article has also attempted to reflect on TullioIlomets as a person, his friendly, humorous, but very purposeful andresilient personality
Fotograafi luulealbum: Gedichte von Charles Borchardt: A Photographer's Poetry Album: Gedichte von Charles Borchardt
No full textThe poetry album written by the well-known photographer CharlesBorchardt is a remarkable historical source of Baltic German occasionalpoetry in terms of its content as well as design. The handwritten,beautifully bound album has 568 pages numbered by the author, plusa register. The titles of the chapters and poems are highlighted in calligraphy,and the poems often end with a vignette. The pages, partiallywritten in gold, are artistically designed with thematic romantical(decal) pictures, printed lithographies and a few photos.The poetry album contains three chapters, it begins with a prologueand dedication (Prolog und Weihe), the first chapter is titled „TheSoft, Gentle Period“, the most comprehensive chapter is „The SecondPeriod“ (Zweite Period), and finally „The Third Period“ (Dritte Period),followed by the „Register“ (Inhalt) and „Annex“ (Anhang).The first part of the album, as the title highlights, consists mostlyof the author’s romantic occasional poetry and love poems, titled asfollows: „Ceremony of Youth“ (Jugend Feier), „Joy of Love“ (Freude anLiebe), „Bringer of Joy“ (Die Freundenspenderin), as well as descriptionsof the beauty of nature: „Song of Spring“ (Frühlingslied), „MorningSong of the Wanderer“ (Wanderers Morgenlied) etc.The second period starts with poems dedicated to people andplaces encountered on the road. Romantic nationalism is evident inthe poems „Greetings from Homeland“ (Heimatgruss), „Czar City“(Die Czarenstadt) etc. The poems dedicated to his kin deserve someattention as well: there are poems for his brothers, photographersRobert (Kunstgefühl) and Ferdinand (Epistel an Ferdinand B), hiswife Olga (An Olga), and poems shedding light on the personal celebrationsof the author’s life („On the Occasion of My 30th Birthday“[An meinem 30. Geburtstag], „25 March“ [Zum 25. Märtz]).Sonnets and epic ballades dominate in the third period: „Love andGrave“ 1–21 (Liebe und Grab), „Songs of Northern Lands“ 1–6 (NordischeLieder). Many texts carry a note on when they were publiclyperformed, for example, the poem dedicated to the silver wedding anniversaryof artists August Krüger and Caroline K. was „Performedon 30 August 1866“ (Zur Silber Hochzeit des Künstlerpaares AugustKrüger u. Caroline K. Angeführt am 30. August 1866), and the „Prologueto Silver Wedding Anniversary, „Party“. Performed on 14 March1868“ (Silberhochzeit “Fest” Prolog) etc.Borchardt’s poetry album contains pages upon pages of sentimentalpoems and cycles of poems driven by love, the beauty of natureand art. The motivation was often to amuse the public as well. Thealbum contains salon poetry written for acquaintances or importantpeople, as well as occasional poetry for performing at celebratory orcommunity events.Borchardt’s activity as a photographer allowed him to meet manyremarkable contemporaries. The ladies among them must have hada greater influence on the author, as is evident from the titles of numerouspoems dedicated to them. The contents of the poetry albumsuggest that Charles Borchardt had the romantic „soul of an artist“,and he was an active member of the society, as well as a remarkablephotographer.His main contribution to Estonian cultural history is his photoseries Estonian Types (Eesti tüübid; 1867), but also images of BalticGerman families, pastors, burghers, and views of Tallinn from thesecond half of the 19th century. As Borchardt and his direct offspringpassed away young, his personal heritage was left to its fate. Hence, itis gratifying that his poetry album and photos are preserved in Estonianmemory institutions and available to the public. This allows usto visually imagine the life, people, landscapes, and sights in the townof Tallinn in 19th century Estonia. We are also able read about thethoughts and feelings experienced by Charles Borchardt, the mostwell-known lensman in 19th century Estonia
EU HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES IN THE CENTRAL ASIAN COUNTRIES OF THE POST-SOVIET SPACE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR RUSSIA
No full textIn connection with the growing security threats related to migration flows from the troubled regions of the world and the need to diversify transport flows of hydrocarbon resources, the EU began to pay attention to the cooperation with the Central Asian countries. Within the framework of the EU Strategy for Central Asia, several priority areas were adopted, according to which it was planned to build relations with the post-Soviet republics most closely. This study aims to analyze the main projects in the field of humanitarian cooperation between the EU and the Central Asian countries and to establish to what extent such projects are competitive in comparison with the Russian ones, as the countries of the region belong to the area of Russian interests. To achieve this goal the author used general scientific methods and systematic approach. While analyzing the documents which give the theoretical explanation of the importance of the region for European partners and materials of foreign and Russian researchers devoted to the humanitarian problems of the region and the main results of the EU Strategy for Central Asia, the author comes to the conclusion that the projects of humanitarian cooperation of the EU with the countries of Central Asia do not take into account the national characteristics and priority needs of the former Soviet republics. However, many projects are quite competitive in comparison with the Russian ones and in order to stay as a strategic partner in the long-term future for the countries of the region Russia needs to take into account their best characteristics and achievements
Psychometric Evaluation of the E-Learning Acceptance Scale among Virtual Education Students of the Universities of Medical Sciences in Tehran Province, Iran
No full textBackground and Objective: E-learning has become an increasingly popular learning approach in higher educational institutions due to the rapid growth of technologies. We need valid and reliable tools to assess the acceptance of this type of training. This study aimed to validate the e-learning acceptance scale.
Materials and Methods: This psychometric study was conducted on 223 samples of virtual education students from the Medical Universities in Tehran. Initial instrument was 49 questions from previous studies that were translated into Persian after obtaining permission from the original author. Instrument validation procedures included impact item method, content validity index (CVI) and content validity ratio (CVR) of the judgment of 10 experts and exploratory factor analysis and internal reliability of the scale was determined by Cronbach's alpha and with the test-retest method the external consistency of a test was assessed.
Results: Of the original 49 items, all of them based on the impact item index, CVR, and CVI were considered as valid; based on exploratory factors analysis, 41 items were retained. And considering a minimum Eigen value of 1 for each factor, the five factors were extracted. This instrument was able to predict 52% of the properties as an acceptance e-learning variance.
Conclusion: The results of this study indicated the strength of the factor structure and reliability of an instrument for measuring student acceptance e-learning scale
The Control Of Gadget Use At Gagas Ceria Bandung Elementary School Indonesia As An Anticipation Toward Negative Impacts Of Social Media
No full textThe existence of gadget is like the two sides of a coin. On one side, it brings benefits to our
life, but on the other side, it facilitates negative impacts to its users. The adults have at least
been wise in their use of gadgets, children are on the contrary. Children are generally at
their age of exploring the world beyond themselves, regardless their lack of knowledge and
wisdom to sort the positive instead of the negative ones. In this research, the author
presents an incident occured at one of the private schools in Bandung, Indonesia, that is
Gagas Ceria Elementary School. Gagas Ceria Elementary School is a modern school
supported by technology media in its daily learning process. An incident has made a rule to
emerge at this school. The rule says “Gadget Use is Strictly Controlled.”
As the trend of chatting-room goups and social media is growing children at elementary
school age follows this trend as well. From 54 fourth-grader students, 34 of them joined ‘
Line’, a social media chatting-room. They intended to make social-media chatrooms as a
medium to communicate with each other, but in fact, the chatrooms are contaminated by
bullying content from some particular children to the others
Communer la finitude : entre l’individu et la foule, entre le réel et le virtuel Retour sur deux expériences dramaturgiques des Perses d’Eschyle (theatercombinat 2006-cie Kaleidos 2024)
No full textCette contribution entend montrer le potentiel heuristique de la recherche-création pour l’étude du théâtre antique. L’épreuve de la scène est en effet décisive si nous voulons dépasser l’anachronisme inhérent à une approche strictement textuelle de la tragédie athénienne. Ainsi, on montrera qu’envisager l’interaction entre le chœur et les protagonistes depuis une perspective intra-fictionnelle, comme c’est le cas la plupart du temps, relève d’un tel anachronisme. C’est le théâtre moderne qui procède de la sorte, en ayant réalisé le vœu aristotélicien d’une transformation de la performance politico-rituelle en spectacle de divertissement. En revenant sur les collaborations dramaturgiques qu’elle a nouées avec deux metteures en scène (Claudia Bosse et Leili Yahr) sur une même pièce (les Perses d’Eschyle) à vingt ans d’intervalle, l’autrice montre l’importance de retrouver la triangulation co-actante entre des chœurs, des actrices et un public, afin d’inventer de nouvelles manières de « communer » dans un monde désacralisé et dépolitisé par le néolibéralisme. Summary: This paper aims to demonstrate the heuristic potential of research-creation for the study of ancient theater. The test of the stage is decisive if we are to overcome the anachronism inherent in a strictly textual approach to Athenian tragedy. We’ll show that considering the interaction between the chorus and the protagonists from an intra-fictional perspective, as is usually the case, is an anachronism of this kind. This approach is characteristic of modern theatre, which has fulfilled Aristotle’s wish to transform the politico-ritual performance into an entertainment spectacle. Looking back on the dramaturgical collaborations she forged with two directors (Claudia Bosse and Leili Yahr) on the same play (Aeschylus’ The Persians) twenty years apart, the author shows the importance rediscovering the co-acting triangulation between choruses, actresses and an audience, in order to invent new ways of “communing” in a world desacralized and depoliticized by neoliberalism
