AN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY INTERVENTION FOR PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY AND DISTRESS AMONG ADULTS UNDERGOING ONCOLOGICAL SURGERY: PROTOCOL FOR A 3-PHASE DEVELOPMENT AND FEASIBILITY TRIAL

BackgroundPreoperative state anxiety (PSA) is distress and anxiety directly associated with perioperative events.PSA is associated with negative postoperative outcomes such as longer hospital length of stay, increased pain and opioid use, and higher rates of rehospitalization.Psychological prehabilitation, such as education, exposure to hospital en

This paper deals with the morphology of Pomacea caniculata (Lamarck, 1822) collected at Corrientes, Argentina.Comparison is made with Pomacea lineata (Spix, 1827) and Pomacea sordida (Swainson, 1823).The shell is globose, heavy, with greenish or horn-colored periostracum and dark spiral bands; apex subelevated, 5-6 whorls increasing rather rapidly

Abstract Expansion of urbanization and infrastructure associated with human activities has numerous impacts on wildlife including causing wildlife-structure collisions.Collisions with building windows represent a top bird mortality source, but a lack MSM1000MG of research into timing of these collisions hampers efforts to predict them and mitigate

This paper compiles results of chromosome counts of Paspalum hydrophilum, P.modestum and P.palustre.Four Brazilian accessions of P.modestum have shown 2n = 2x = 20 chromosomes, a number already found in one accession from Argentina and in two from Brazil.Three other Brazilian accessions showed tetraploid level (2n = 4x = 40), which was previously u

BACKGROUND:Large-scale regeneration programmes to improve the personal conditions and living circumstances in deprived areas may affect health and the lifestyle of the residents.Previous evaluations concluded that a large-scale urban regeneration programme in the Netherlands had some positive effects within 3.5 years.The aim of the current study wa