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Inhibition as a family of functions: The case of reading comprehension and reading comprehension difficulties
No full textIl ritrattamento dei pazienti con epatite cronica da HCV nella pratica clinica: risultati di uno studio multicentrico retrospettivo.
No full textResearch on autoimmunity in hepatopathy with immunofluorescence, immunodiffusion and passive hemagglutination].
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Integrating Executive Function Activities Into a Computerized Cognitive Training to Enhance Reading Comprehension in Primary Students
Full text linkIt is acknowledged the need for interventions to improve reading comprehension and its cognitive underpinnings, such as executive functions. The present study implemented a computerized cognitive training for enhancing reading comprehension in primary school children through EF activities embedded in text comprehension exercises. 263 third and fourth graders were involved in this study and randomly divided into experimental (n = 156, M-age = 9.06, SD = 0.62) and control (n = 107, M-age = 9.21, SD = 0.63) groups. All the children of the experimental group attended 9 training sessions, twice a week, for approximately 1 h and 30 min each within the school context during teaching hours. The intervention proposed several exercises requiring EF processes implicated in text comprehension (e.g., identifying incongruences in the text, ordering events) through a metacognitive approach. The intervention was as standardized as possible through digitalization of the activities and videotaped explanations and demonstrations. The intervention proved to be feasible and effective in enhancing processes relevant for reading comprehension, verbal updating working memory, and nonverbal reasoning, and individual differences in pre-test performances and EF predicted the gains obtained by the training. The study provides a good model of intervention on the cognitive control processes underpinning text comprehension in primary graders
Vertical transmission of hepatitis C virus: an epidemiological study on 2,980 pregnant women in Italy
No full textCome migliorare la comprensione del testo? Risultati preliminari di una rassegna degli interventi in studenti con scarsa capacità di comprensione del testo
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Quality of life, depression and cytokine patterns in patients with chronic hepatitis C treated with antiviral therapy
No full textPurpose: To evaluate the effect of chronic hepatitis C and antiviral therapy on health-related quality of life (HRQoL), depression symptoms and cytokine patterns. Methods: Twenty HCV+ patients treated with peginterferon plus ribavirin were enrolled in this cohort study and invited to complete SF-12 and BDI questionnaires prior to (T0) and at the end of the treatment (T1). HCV-RNA, serum levels of ALT, AST, haemoglobin, ferritin and IFN-γ, TNF-α, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6 and IL-10 were evaluated at T0 and T1. The questionnaire results were correlated to biochemical and cytokine parameters. Results: Two patients (1%) dropped out and 18 HCV patients composed the final sample (11 males (61.1%); mean age 42.5±11.9 yr; mean disease duration 9.7±6.9 yr). Between T0 and T1 ALT (p=0.02), AST (p=0.052) HCV-RNA (P=0.0002) and haemoglobin levels decreased (p=0.0003), whereas ferritin level increased (P=0.003). Also, at T1 all cytokine levels were augmented. Regarding depression status, at T0 10 patients (55.5%) scored above to the BDI questionnaire (suggesting clinically significant depression), whereas at T1 14 patients scored 10 or above (77.7%). At T1 the mean BDI score increased, but this difference was not significant. Regarding HRQoL, the majority of patients had T0 summary scores ≤ 50. At T1 HRQoL changed and scores decreased in 66.7% of the patients. A correlation was observed between the T0 level of ferritin and the amount of change in BDI and SF-12 mental score between T0 and T1 (Spearman rho = -0.56 and +0.61, respectively) and IL-4 level at T0 and the change in BDI and SF-12 mental scores (Spearman rho = -0.49 and +0.45, respectively). Conclusion: BDI, SF-12, IL-4 and ferritin are good tools to predict the appearance of depressive symptoms and worsening of the quality of life in the HCV+ population
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