Change of management results in good-grade aneurysm patients

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether contact with future possible selves impacts individuals’ outcome expectancies, intended behaviors, and long-term outcomes with regard to academic performance. Specifically, we investigated whether having college students attempt to connect with an academically successful or unsuccessful future possible self through a message composition activity would impact their perceived likelihood of getting a good grade point average, intended academic engagement (i.e., intentions to attend class, study, etc.), and academic performance as measured by grade point average over two subsequent semesters. The study was novel in that we considered the role of temporal position—that is, the current self contacting a future possible self or a future possible self contacting the current self. Results found that students who composed a message from an academically unsuccessful future possible self to their current self had lower outcome expectancies—that is, they believed that they had less chance of obtaining a good grade point average—and lower intended academic engagement than a control group that composed a message to a friend; however, the groups did not vary in academic performance. It is possible that contact with a future possible self that was academically unsuccessful introduced a form of learned helplessness in those participants.

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Elevated Baseline C-Reactive Protein as a Predictor of Outcome After Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage

Neurosurgery ◽

10.1227/neu.0000000000000963 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 77 (5) ◽

pp. 786-793 ◽

Cited By ~ 22

Author(s):

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Carole L. Turner ◽

Karol Budohoski ◽

Christopher Smith ◽

Peter J. Hutchinson ◽

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Keyword(s):

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ◽

Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Cerebral Injury ◽

World Federation ◽

C Reactive Protein ◽

Reactive Protein ◽

Poor Outcome ◽

Fisher Grade ◽

Good Grade

Abstract BACKGROUND: There remains a proportion of patients with unfavorable outcomes after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage, of particular relevance in those who present with a good clinical grade. A forewarning of those at risk provides an opportunity towards more intensive monitoring, investigation, and prophylactic treatment prior to the clinical manifestation of advancing cerebral injury. OBJECTIVE: To assess whether biochemical markers sampled in the first days after the initial hemorrhage can predict poor outcome. METHODS: All patients recruited to the multicenter Simvastatin in Aneurysmal Hemorrhage Trial (STASH) were included. Baseline biochemical profiles were taken between time of ictus and day 4 post ictus. The t-test compared outcomes, and a backwards stepwise binary logistic regression was used to determine the factors providing independent prediction of an unfavorable outcome. RESULTS: Baseline biochemical data were obtained in approximately 91% of cases from 803 patients. On admission, 73% of patients were good grade (World Federation of Neurological Surgeons grades 1 or 2); however, 84% had a Fisher grade 3 or 4 on computed tomographic scan. For patients presenting with good grade on admission, higher levels of C-reactive protein, glucose, and white blood cells and lower levels of hematocrit, albumin, and hemoglobin were associated with poor outcome at discharge. C-reactive protein was found to be an independent predictor of outcome for patients presenting in good grade. CONCLUSION: Early recording of C-reactive protein may prove useful in detecting those good grade patients who are at greater risk of clinical deterioration and poor outcome.

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MENGUATKAN BRANDING TENUN ENDEK KHAS BULELENG MELALUI REVITALISASI PEWARNAAN DENGAN FIKSATOR NANOPASTA ANORGANIK BERBAHAN ABU VULKANIK GUNUNG AGUNG

JURNAL WIDYA LAKSANA ◽

10.23887/jwl.v10i2.30053 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 117

Author(s):

I Wayan Karyasa ◽

I Gede Putu Banu Astawa ◽

I Gede Ardwi Pradnyana ◽

Made Vivi Oviantari

Keyword(s):

Tensile Strength ◽

Natural Resources ◽

Raw Materials ◽

Color Fastness ◽

Local Color ◽

Current Finding ◽

Natural Dyeing ◽

Color Quality ◽

Good Grade ◽

Silk Yarn

In the Covid-19 pandemic era, most of craft industries, including Buleleng endek ethnical woven crafts, had an impact on sales drastically. Woven craft industries did some preventive efforts, one of them was through enhancing ecofriendly industry branding, i.e. through intensifying yarn dying using natural colors from local raw materials. However, the main problems on color quality, color fastness, tensile strength and ductile ability of colored yarns resulted by natural dyeing should be handled. Our current finding on inorganic nanopaste fixator of natural colors could be as solution. The natural color dyeing technology was applied for cotton as well as silk yarn by using local color natural resources. It resulted that the yarns had better color quality, good grade color fastness and higher tensile strength and ductile ability. The industrial partner had good response on the natural dyeing technology, where it was also supported by good response from costumer candidates of the endek woven crafts. The revitalization of natural dyeing technology through applying inorganic fixator nanopaste affected the stronger branding of Buleleng endek woven crafts through enhancing the selling revenue.

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Case series of 100 supraorbital mini-craniotomies in patients with good grade aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage at a single neurosurgical Centre

British Journal of Neurosurgery ◽

10.1080/02688697.2021.2005771 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Gopiga Thanabalasundaram ◽

Wai Cheong Soon ◽

Athiththan Ponnampalam ◽

Howard L. Brydon

Keyword(s):

Subarachnoid Haemorrhage ◽

Case Series ◽

Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Haemorrhage ◽

Good Grade

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110 PREGNANCY RATES OF BOVINE EMBRYOS AND HEMI-EMBRYOS TRANSFERENCE

Reproduction Fertility and Development ◽

10.1071/rdv24n1ab110 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 167

Author(s):

C. A. A. Torres ◽

C. A. C. Fernandes ◽

F. A. Oliveira ◽

J. M. Penitente Filho ◽

C. T. S. A. M. Oliveira ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Birth Rate ◽

Cost Benefit Analysis ◽

Cost Benefit ◽

Blastocyst Stage ◽

Pregnancy Rates ◽

Treatment Groups ◽

Operational Technique ◽

Intact Embryo ◽

Good Grade ◽

Donor Cows

Embryo transfer (ET) in cattle speeds up genetic gains, but its use is limited by cost-benefit analysis. In addition other techniques can be developed, such as sexing and bipartition of embryos. An alternative to improve the economic viability of ET in cattle would be to bipartition embryos in order to increase the yield of the technique. The aim of this study was to investigate the operational viability of embryo bipartition technique in an ET program in cattle and to study aspects related to the viability and development of bovine hemi-embryos (HE) compared with intact ones. The embryos were collected by nonsurgical technique 7 days after the onset of oestrus. Viable structures (130) from 49 embryo collections from 25 Aberdeen and Simmental donor cows and heifers were used. Only embryos in compact morula, early blastocyst and blastocyst stage, with a morphological range from excellent to good grade (IETS Grade 1), were split. The embryos, split (78) or not (52), were transferred into the uterine horn ipsilateral to the corpus luteum of the recipients 7 days after oestrus. The treatment groups evaluated were T1 (intact embryo, n = 52), T2 (1 HE, n = 27) and T3 (2 HE, n = 51). Crossbred heifers were used as recipients and pregnancy diagnosis was done at 60 to 80 days of gestation. The embryos of T1, T2 and T3 were classified morphologically as excellent or good and by developmental stage as morula, early blastocyst, or blastocyst, distributed as follows: T1: 30, 22 and 16, 17 and 19; T2: 15, 12 and 7, 9 and 11; and T3: 29, 22 and 15, 15 and 21, respectively. The birth rate per original embryos was greater for T2 than for T1 and T3 (Table 1). The pregnancy rates for excellent and good embryos and morulae, early blastocysts and blastocysts were not different (P > 0.05). The T1, T2 and T3 twin births were 0, 1 and 5, respectively. It is concluded that embryo bipartition technique applied in a commercial ET program is a viable operational technique. Table 1.Pregnancy at 60 to 80 days and birth rate per original embryos used Supported by CAPES, CNPq, FAPEMIG and BIOTRAN.

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Safety and Clinical Outcome of Good-Grade Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage in Non-Intensive Care Units

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases ◽

10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020.105123 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (10) ◽

pp. 105123

Author(s):

Clare Angeli G. Enriquez ◽

Jose Danilo B. Diestro ◽

Abdelsimar T. Omar ◽

Romergryko G. Geocadin ◽

Gerardo D. Legaspi

Keyword(s):

Intensive Care ◽

Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ◽

Clinical Outcome ◽

Intensive Care Units ◽

Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ◽

Good Grade

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The Effects of Demographic Mismatch in an Elite Professional School Setting

Education Finance and Policy ◽

10.1162/edfp_a_00280 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 457-486

Author(s):

Chris Birdsall ◽

Seth Gershenson ◽

Raymond Zuniga

Keyword(s):

Fixed Effects ◽

School Setting ◽

Law School ◽

Professional School ◽

First Year ◽

Education Production Function ◽

Education Production ◽

Course Grades ◽

Percentage Points ◽

Good Grade

Ten years of administrative data from a diverse, private, top-100 law school are used to examine the ways in which female and nonwhite students benefit from exposure to demographically similar faculty in first-year, required law courses. Arguably, causal impacts of exposure to same-sex and same-race instructors on course-specific outcomes such as course grades are identified by leveraging quasi-random classroom assignments and a two-way (student and classroom) fixed effects strategy. Having an other-sex instructor reduces the likelihood of receiving a good grade (A or A–) by 1 percentage point (3 percent) and having an other-race instructor reduces the likelihood of receiving a good grade by 3 percentage points (10 percent). The effects of student–instructor demographic mismatch are particularly salient for nonwhite and female students. These results provide novel evidence of the pervasiveness of demographic-match effects and of the graduate school education production function.

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A simplified superovulation protocol using split-single administration of Folltropin®-V in hyaluronan: application to purebred sheep

Veterinární Medicína ◽

10.17221/52/2016-vetmed ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 63 (No. 7) ◽

pp. 321-328 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

S. Panyaboriban ◽

J. Suwimonteerabutr ◽

T. Swangchan-Uthai ◽

T. Tharasanit ◽

W. Suthikrai ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Half Life ◽

Follicle Stimulating Hormone ◽

Reproductive Technology ◽

Degradable Polymers ◽

Single Administration ◽

Modified Technique ◽

Good Grade ◽

Animal Handling ◽

Better Than ◽

Stimulating Hormone

Superovulation is an important step in assisted reproductive technology. Due to its short half-life, follicle stimulating hormone is usually given twice daily to ewes for three to five days, which is both time- and labour-intensive. However, dissolving follicle stimulating hormone in degradable polymers to delay absorbtion has been effective in ruminants. Experiment 1 was performed to compare a split-single follicle stimulating hormone dissolved in hyaluronan (S group; 150 mg follicle stimulating hormone on the first day and 30 mg 48 h later; n = 21) and six decreasing doses of follicle stimulating hormone (M group; 50, 50, 30, 30, 10 and 10 mg; n = 22) at 12-h intervals. Ovarian responses and numbers of recovered ova/embryos did not differ significantly between groups. However, there tended to be more Grade 1 and 2 embryos in S vs M groups (mean ± SEM, 5.1 ± 4.9 vs 2.9 ± 2.9, respectively; P = 0.08). Experiment 2 tested the effectiveness of a simplified split-single follicle stimulating hormone in purebred sheep on a commercial farm. The numbers of recovered good-grade embryos (day 2) were 4.8 ± 5.0 and 4.0 ± 2.5 per donors in Corriedale and Bond sheep breeds, respectively. We conclude that this modified technique for ewe superovulation improved animal welfare, reduced animal handling and labour and yielded results similar to or better than conventional twice-daily follicle stimulating hormone treatments.

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How to Get a Good Grade

The Educational Forum ◽

10.1080/00131725609338230 ◽

1956 ◽

Vol 20 (4) ◽

pp. 443-448

Author(s):

Leopold Kohr

Keyword(s):

Good Grade

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