by Raphael Adu-Gyamfi, Juliana Enos, Kwame Yeboah, Veronika Shabanova, Nicola Hawley, Deda Alangea Ogum, Adwoa Agyei Nkansah, Elijah Paintsil, Kwasi Torpey Background Although AIDS-related deaths have reduced with increased access to antiretroviral care, cardiovascular disease-related morbidities among persons living with HIV are rising. Contributing...

by Céline Teney, Giuseppe Pietrantuono, Tobias Wolfram Various studies point to the lack of evidence of distributive opinion polarization in Europe. As most studies analyse the same item batteries from international social surveys, this lack of polarization might be due to an item’s issue (e.g., the nature or substance of an item) or item formulation...

by Stacey L. McComish, Xirui Liu, Florencio T. Martinez, Joey Y. Zhou, Sergey Y. Tolmachev The U.S. Transuranium and Uranium Registries performs autopsies on each of its deceased Registrants as a part of its mission to follow up occupationally-exposed individuals. This provides a unique opportunity to explore death certificate misclassification...

by Daniel Osborne, Ferozkhan Jadhakhan, Deborah Falla Background Previous systematic reviews have identified the benefits of exercise for chronic neck pain on subjective reports of pain, but not with objective measures such as quantitative sensory testing (QST). A systematic review was conducted to identify the effects of neck specific exercise on...

by Nakako Okamoto, Akitoshi Seiyama, Shota Hori, Satoru Takahashi There are numerous reports of enhanced or emerged visual arts abilities in patients with semantic impairment. These reports led to the theory that a loss of function on the language side of the brain can result in changes of ability to draw and/or to paint. Further, the left posterior...

by Yu-Hao Lin, Zhi-Jun Zhang, Jin-Qing Zhong, Zhi-Yi Wang, Yi-Ting Peng, Yan-Mei Lin, Huo-Ping Zhang, Jian-Qing Tian Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is strongly associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Lifestyle intervention remains a preferred treatment modality for NAFLD. The glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) receptor agonists...