Press Releases from Pabst Science Publishers (68 total)
Health literacy: How to improve health behaviors
Health literacy is defined as "people´s knowledge, motivation and competences to access, understand, appraise and apply information to make judgements and take decisions in everyday…
Health literacy: how to improve the advantages and to reduce the risks
The new volume "Health literacy across the lifespan" stresses the importance of health literacy for changing multiple health-risk-factors. Anne-Kathrin Mayer and colleagues shed light on…
Directed deceased donation: beyond the impartial allocation system
"Within a pluralistic account of morality, partial values have a merit of their own and should be assessed in their own terms. These values are…
Transplantation: Prisoners are killed for their organs in China
Transplantation: China is the only country in the world systematically using organs from prisoners for transplantation, Professor Huige Li reports. For over 40 years, executed…
Applying multiple indices to monitor bullying longitudinally
Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling: Japanese Scientists demonstrate the multiple ways to monitor the condition of bullying in a whole school level as well as…
Chemsex parties: Gay and bisexual men get high and have sex
Gay or bisexual adults are more likely to take illicit drugs. A five-year research project undertaken by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation reported levels of…
Increasing mental health in managers and organisations: how to improve transcult …
Management Psychology: International organizations are in need of an internal and an external diversity focus. Transcultural competences can support the efficiency in diverse organisations with…
Advantages of Educational Large-Scale Assessments
Now the journal Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling published the second part of the special issue on current methodological issues in educational large-scale assessments.…
Drugs research: Misuse by shareholders of the drugs industry
A new textbook illustrates the complex and multi-faceted dimensions of evidence building in European drugs research. On one level, the authors have identified practical and…
New Methodological Issues in Educational Large-Scale Assessments
Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling: Educational Large-Scale Assessments are objects of a growing and highly active area of research. The Journal Psychological Test and Assessment…
Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling: Metric scales for emotion measuremen …
Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling: Ordinal Difference Scaling allows to measure emotion intensity on a metric scale level for most individuals. As a consequence, quantitative…
Coaching and training for managers: Empowering transcultural leadership competen …
Managing healthy transcultural organisations is based on the strength and the sense of coherence of individuals, to comprehend, manage, and create meaning in challenging work…
Water and dialysis fluids: How to avoid dangerous contaminations
Current opinions among nephrologists indicate that water quality is even more important for the longterm clinical success of hemodialysis therapy than the biocompatibility of dialysis…
Commercial kidney transplantation: high burden of serious complications
The Multi-Organ Transplant Center Dammam (Saudi Arabia) reviewed the outcome of patients undergone commercial kidney transplantation in foreign clinics - and observed bad results. Meteb…
Uterus Transplantation: First Promising Results in Sweden
"The worldwide experience of uterus transplantation is so far 11 published cases (Saudi Arabia 1, Turkey 1, Sweden 9), and 2 unpublished cases (China 1,…
Illegal trading of human organs: a worldwide growing market
Illegal organ trade is on the rise worldwide - with approx. one billion USD per year. The study "Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose…
Nephrology: How to improve and maintain dialysis water purity
Nephrology: Dialysis water free of bacterial contamination and void of chemical contaminants is of paramount importance, and continuous actions should be taken to improve and…
Educational Hypertext: How to avoid the risk of getting lost in the text
Advantages of educational hypertext: The high degree of freedom of the users to arrange the reading sequence in hypertext themselves ultimately results in active knowledge…
Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling: PROMIS Fatigue measure items can be …
Fatigue is the most prevalent and distressing symptom related to cancer and its treatment affecting functioning and quality of life. The National Cancer Institute´s Clinical…
Autoimmune diseases: Autoantibodies differ in their diagnostic sensitivity and s …
The prevalence of autoimmune diseases in the population - 3 to 5% - underlines the importance of autoantibody diagnostics in the public health sector. Autoimmune…
Useful: e-health tools for drug users
E-health tools contribute to work with drug users. Cristina Vale Pires and colleagues analysed the most common strategies used by netreach work to address the…
Shamans in cyberspace and sacramental drug use
Neo-shamanism: Drug mysticism is a cultural theme associated with social drug use. Professor Dr. Alfred Springer (Vienna) explored new discourse and practice in sacramental drug…
Intensive connections between auditory and social intelligence
"Social and Auditory Intelligence are promising constructs that have not to be subsumed under the label of inflationary constructs. The unique components of the constructs,…
Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling: Attention, scientific reasoning and …
Risto Hotulainen and colleagues (Helsinki University) examined how attention measured in prolonged over-learned response tasks predicts scientific reasoning and school performance and if high levels…
Old age: more optimism and well-being in males, more pessimism and neurosis in f …
Longevity is no longer today´s concern; rather, it is the quality of life of the aging, Professor Eva Sandis (Fordham University/USA) notes. She examined world…
Organ donation and transplantation in emerging economies: organ trafficking, mis …
"The impact of commerce, transplant tourism and organ trafficking remains a burning issue in the global community of transplantation. Emerging economies became the centre of…
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Physicians and scientists are wa …
In an open letter physicians and scientists demand that German Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel halts negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and…
Development of leadership: Tension between culture and structure is dysfunctiona …
There is probably tension in every organization. Productive tension is essential, if anything is to be accomplished. Contradictions that are too great result in dysfunctional…
Experimental Psychology: High time-of-day effects on cognitive control depend on …
Elisabeth Cohors-Fresenborg and colleagues (TU Dresden) investigated the vulnerability of cognitive control functioning to variations in individual daytime optima. While previous studies on the influence…
Mentally Ill Patients in Prison Undertreated
"It is doubtful whether the majority of prisoners with psychiatric illnesses in Germany receive appropriate care such as that mandated by the European Convention…
Sense of coherence improves the ability to manage conflicts in organizations
The sense of coherence sensu Aaron Antonovsky is considered as a universal construct measuring a global life orientation, a way of viewing the life as…
Autoimmunity in myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy
Autoimmune Diseases: "Myocarditis is an acquired inflammatory condition involving the myocardial tissue. Although myocarditis is largely associated with viral infections, some cases remain idiopathic, while…
Allergic asthma bronchiale: Plasmapheresis with Clinical Success
"Therapeutic Apheresis or adsorption methods would seem advisable in patients with severe therapy-resistant allergic asthma bronchiale, particularly in status asthmaticus when medical therapy is inadequate.…
Walter Land: Crucial role of innate immune events in organ transplantation
"There is growing evidence that innate immune events provide critical initiating steps in immune responses to transplantation and key pathogenic steps in the tissue damage…
Factor V leiden and prothrombin G20210A mutations may predispose for cerebral in …
A recent age- and sex-matched paired case-control study comparing patients suffering from cerebral infarction with and without patent foramen ovale (PFO) revealed that the occurence…
Teachers´ burnout is related to lowered speed and quality for short-term tasks
Tuulia Ortner (Berlin) investigated the relation between burnout and performance assessed by computerized, short-term behavioral tasks. She reported in Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling: "Several…
Relationships Between Parents and Adult Children: The Difficulties Are Growing
Relationships between parents and adult children become more and more difficult, Prof. Dr. Matti Gershenfeld (Jenkintown/USA) states. "There are huge emotional ties, a lifetime of…
Paradoxical embolism essential for the occurence of stroke in association with P …
The clinical significance of inherited thrombophilia in the pathogenesis of cerebral infarction associated with patent foramen ovale (PFO) is estimated in a different way according…
Immunology: Distinctive features of autoantibodies in and out of the context of …
"Although autoantibodies are a hallmark of autoimmune illnesses, they are also observed in other disease conditions and even in healthy individuals. By means of careful…
Transplantation, Innate Alloimmunity: Primary Allograft Injury Leads to Alloimmu …
The rediscovery of innate immunity appears to have revolutionized not only basic immunology but transplant immunology as well. Walter Land described in his new monograph…
Reference-Book: Quality Assurance and Improvement in the Field of Hygiene in Dia …
The "Guideline for Applied Hygiene in Dialysis Units" represents a reference book which links hygiene with quality management and gives answers to all relevant practical…
Psychological Test and Assessment Modeling: Cognitive analytical approach introd …
With the increased interest in student-level diagnostic information from multiple performance assessments, it becomes possible to create multivariate classifications of knowledge, skills and abilities. Dres.…
Autoimmune forms of complement associated kidney disorders
"The field of autoimmune forms of kidney disorders is rapidly progressing and new autoimmune forms and new pathological principles are emerging. Based on similarities among…
Chronic fatigue syndrome and sick building syndrome may be autoimmune diseases
"The role of environmental factors, such as those entailing an immune adjuvant activity, is well established in the pathogenesis of immune mediated diseases. It appears…
Greece: Citizens View Corruption as a Normal Way of Getting Things Done
"There are a number of ambivalences characterising perceptions of corruption in Greece", PD Dr. Giannakopoulos (University Konstanz/Germany) reports. He found in his EU-research-project "Crime and…
Cross-Cultural Study of Infants and Toddlers: Developmental Stages According to …
"Cross-cultural research has been particularly useful in demonstrating the universality of cognitive stages during child development. For instance, the sequence and timing of Piagetian sensorimotor…
Non invasive respiratory support successfully used in a multi-trauma setting
Non invasive respiratory support has been used in a wide variety of settings. I. Condon and P. Papadakos (Rochester/USA) publish a case report illustrating…
Organ Transplantation: Children as Donors
The field of organ transplantation is at its most poignant when a child dies in circumstances where he/she may be considered a potential donor. Undeniably…
Successful Introducing Performance-based Reward Systems within Collectivistic Na …
"Individualism versus Collectivism is an important cultural value concerning its influence on the reward system design in a way that Individualism favours the performance-based reward…
An appropriate dialysis treatment provides the unique opportunity to slow down c …
"Cardiac disease is the major cause of death in dialysis patients, accounting for half of the total mortality. When routinely assessed by echocardiography, the proportion…
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