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Sue Weidemann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the war memorial as healing environment the Psychological Effect of the vietnam veterans memorial on vietnam war combat veterans posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms
Environment and Behavior, 2010Co-Authors: Nicholas Watkins, Frances Cole, Sue WeidemannAbstract:It has been hypothesized that experiences with memorials might reduce trauma-related symptoms. Magazines and scholarly work suggest that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, helps Vietn...
Jan Sundquist - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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psychiatric disorders in offspring of childhood or adolescent central nervous system tumor survivors a national cohort study
Cancer Medicine, 2020Co-Authors: Wuqing Huang, Kristina Sundquist, Jan SundquistAbstract:BACKGROUND: Children experience a higher risk of psychiatric problems when their parents are diagnosed with cancer. However, the Psychological Effect among offspring who are born after parental cancer diagnosed in childhood or adolescence is unknown. We aimed to investigate the risk of psychiatric disorders in children of survivors with childhood or adolescent central nervous system (CNS) tumors.METHODS: By combining several nationwide Swedish registers, we identified all children who had at least one parent previously diagnosed with CNS tumor below the age of 20. Five children without parental CNS tumor were randomly selected for the matching. Cox proportional hazards model was used to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) with 95% confidence interval (CI).RESULTS: The incidence rate of psychiatric disorders was 8.46 per 1000 person-years in children of CNS tumor survivors, whereas the rate was 7.47 in the matched comparisons, yielding an adjusted HR of 1.10 (95% CI = 0.94, 1.28). Boys of survivors had a higher risk of psychiatric disorders (adjusted HR = 1.29, 95% CI = 1.04, 1.59). The risk of the specific types of psychiatric disorders in children of tumor survivors was comparable with that in the matched comparisons, except for mental retardation. Children of survivors experienced 2.36 times higher risk of mental retardation (95% CI = 1.21, 4.58), mainly of mild mental retardation (adjusted HR = 2.99, 95% CI = 1.40, 6.38).CONCLUSION: Children of survivors with CNS tumor in early life did not experience a significantly increased risk of overall psychiatric disorders, with the exception of an elevated risk of mental retardation that was mainly mild. (Less)
Olga V. Shvetsova - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Party fragmentation and presidential elections in post-communist democracies
Constitutional Political Economy, 1999Co-Authors: Mikhail G. Filippov, Peter C. Ordeshook, Olga V. ShvetsovaAbstract:Despite its controversial status as a stable governmental form, many of today’s societies attempting to make the transition to democracy have or will, for a variety of reasons, choose presidentialism. Meanwhile, the evidence suggests that the combination of presidentialism and multipartism is especially dangerous for democratic stability (Mainwaring 1994). The question this essay addresses, though, is whether presidential elections themselves serve to encourage a fragmented party system, at least in the initial stages of democratization. In transitional political systems presidential elections encourage party fragmentation, but in a way different from that of highly proportional purely parliamentary mechanisms. Specifically, parties proliferate to support the presidential aspirations of political elites. Multivariate regression analysis on cross-sectional aggregate electoral data, supported by extensive outliers diagnostics and assessments of the role of country-specific Effects is applied. A nested model is used to discriminate among the secondary hypotheses. Controls include: parliamentary election rules (district magnitude, threshold for representation, adjustment districts, ballot structure), relative timing of presidential and parliamentary elections, and basic societal cleavage structure. Using as our data source the recent elections in East and Central Europe and the European part of the former Soviet Union, we show that presidential elections consistently significantly increase party fragmentation. At the same time, the data are consistent with the hypothesis that presidentialism does encourage the overall consolidation in party systems through voters’ abandonment of some parties, akin to Duverger’s ‘Psychological Effect.’
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party fragmentation and presidential elections in post communist democracies
1997Co-Authors: Mikhail Filippov, Peter C. Ordeshook, Olga V. ShvetsovaAbstract:Theory: Despite its controversial status as a stable governmental form, many of today's societies attempting to make the transition to democracy have or will, for a variety of reasons, choose presidentialism. Meanwhile, the evidence suggests that the combination of presidentialism and multipartism is especially dangerous for democratic stability (Mainwaring 1994). The question this essay addresses, though, is whether presidential elections themselves serve to encourage a fragmented party system, at least in the initial stages of democratization. Hypothesis: In transitional political systems presidential elections encourage party fragmentation, but in a way different from that of highly proportional purely parliamentary mechanisms. Specifically, parties proliferate to support the presidential aspirations of political elites. Methods: Multivariate regression analysis on cross-sectional aggregate electoral data, supported by extensive outliers diagnostics and assessments of the role of country-specific Effects. A nested model is used to discriminate among the secondary hypotheses. Controls include: parliamentary election rules (district magnitude, threshold for representation, adjustment districts, ballot structure), relative timing of presidential and parliamentary elections, and basic societal cleavage structure. Results: Using as our data source the recent experiences of Central Europe and the European part of the former Soviet Union, we show that presidential elections consistently significantly increase party fragmentation. At the same time, the data are consistent with the hypothesis that presidentialism does encourage the overall consolidation in party systems through voters= abandonment of some parties, akin to Duverger's Psychological Effect.
S K Efetov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a technical guide for everted natural orifice specimen extraction after low anterior resection of the rectum
Colorectal Disease, 2020Co-Authors: S K Efetov, Yu E Kitsenko, A G Minenkova, P V Sukhanova, I A Tulina, P V TsarkovAbstract:Compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery, the natural orifice specimen extraction (NOSE) technique results in a shorter hospital stay, shorter time to first flatus, less postoperative pain, and total perioperative complications [1], including better cosmetic and Psychological Effect and lower rates of incisional hernia [2,3]. Moreover, the last meta-analysis demonstrates more accelerated postoperative bowel movement and earlier discharge from the hospital [4].
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international consensus on natural orifice specimen extraction surgery noses for colorectal cancer
Gastroenterology Report, 2019Co-Authors: Xu Guan, S K Efetov, Zheng Liu, Antonio Longo, Jianchun Cai, William Tzu Liang Chen, Luchuan Chen, Hokyung Chun, Joaquim Manuel Da Costa Pereira, Ricardo EscalanteAbstract:In recent years, natural orifice specimen extraction surgery (NOSES) in the treatment of colorectal cancer has attracted widespread attention. The potential benefits of NOSES including reduction in postoperative pain and wound complications, less use of postoperative analgesic, faster recovery of bowel function, shorter length of hospital stay, better cosmetic and Psychological Effect have been described in colorectal surgery. Despite significant decrease in surgical trauma of NOSES have been observed, the potential pitfalls of this technique have been demonstrated. Particularly, several issues including bacteriological concerns, oncological outcomes and patient selection are raised with this new technique. Therefore, it is urgent and necessary to reach a consensus as an industry guideline to standardize the implementation of NOSES in colorectal surgery. After three rounds of discussion by all members of the International Alliance of NOSES, the consensus is finally completed, which is also of great significance to the long-term progress of NOSES worldwide.
P V Tsarkov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a technical guide for everted natural orifice specimen extraction after low anterior resection of the rectum
Colorectal Disease, 2020Co-Authors: S K Efetov, Yu E Kitsenko, A G Minenkova, P V Sukhanova, I A Tulina, P V TsarkovAbstract:Compared with conventional laparoscopic surgery, the natural orifice specimen extraction (NOSE) technique results in a shorter hospital stay, shorter time to first flatus, less postoperative pain, and total perioperative complications [1], including better cosmetic and Psychological Effect and lower rates of incisional hernia [2,3]. Moreover, the last meta-analysis demonstrates more accelerated postoperative bowel movement and earlier discharge from the hospital [4].