[PDF] Top 20 Abstracts from the College of Podiatry Annual Conference 2018

... Aim: Develop a logic model describing the active ingredients, under- pinning theories, and outcomes of a complex intervention to build patient motivation for diabetic foot ulcer protection using insoles. Methods: The ... See full document

... benefits from this enhanced and joint working approach including increased activity levels, success of smoking cessation advice, improvement in quality of life measures and symptoms experienced from ... See full document

... Material was collected from clinical uniforms and 10×10cm squares were cut from the upper leg of the trousers. All materials used were sterilized prior to the experiment and aseptic techniques used at all ... See full document

... Thirty PwP (survey respondents recruited from the larger study) mean age = 69, 15 females, mean time since diagnosis 64 months attended a single assessment at Southampton General Hospital. Those who were able to ... See full document

... extracted from peripheral blood leukocytes (PBL) iso- lated from 13 evaluable HLA-A2+ patients with advanced-stage mel- anoma treated with dasatinib plus an autologous dendritic cell/ peptide-based vaccine ... See full document

... Imagery rescripting (IR) has been widely used to treat various mental health problem, however, little is known about its usefulness in eat- ing disorders. A previous study suggested that a body-specific IR ap- proach ... See full document

... feedback from intervention sites, particularly those that alter and enhance current ...data from preimplementation study documents and meeting minutes with health system providers and leaders and team ... See full document

... Hereditary cancer is estimated to account for up to 10% of the worldwide cancer burden and breast cancer is one of the top cancers with a large pro- portion (10-15%) of hereditary cases. Many cancer-predisposing genes ... See full document

... samples from dogs affected with genetic dis- eases and healthy ...extracted from blood and 3000 nucleic acids (DNA, RNA) extracted from tissue samples (tumoral and con- trols), representing 300 ... See full document

... resulting from embedded definitions of professional identifications, particularly relating to individuals’ perceptions of self and others could be posited as a restraining factor, dampening any renewal of ... See full document

... Drawn from 4 newspapers, 2 of which have tended to chart a religious cause and 2 others serving ethnic interests, the participants’ role in the conflicts is defined beyond ... See full document

... A 38-year-old female with an 8-year history of infertility, fibroids, ovarian cysts, uterine scar- ring, and painful menstruation underwent two myomectomies and a few failed attempts at IVF. Information was collected ... See full document

... Chien, 2018) for hierarchical, thematic and sparse topics from natural ...Lee, 2018), Bayesian RNN (Gal and Ghahramani, 2016; Chien and Ku, 2016), sequence-to-sequence learning (Graves et ...Lin, ... See full document

... Energy saving is a social and collective effort and thus energy efficient habits should be taught as early as possible, to become part of people’s lifestyle. Games are pow- erful educational tools, because they foster ... See full document

... The trisomy 18 syndrome, also known as Edwards syndrome, has a live birth prevalance ranging from 1/3600 to 1/10000. The main clin- ical findings consist of growth retardation, characteristic facial fea- tures, ... See full document

... To combine the ostensibly separate therapeutic strat- egies of activating immune cells against and targeting the unique genetic characteristics of a tumor model, we sought to thoroughly [r] ... See full document

... displacement from a place of attachment to lead to a stressful period of transition involving a sense of grief and loss, as well as a period of mourning (Brown & Perkins 1992, Fried, ... See full document

... There is an epidemic of high myopia in Asia and pathologic myopia will become a huge public health problem in urban aging cities such as Singapore, leading to decreased vision or quality of life. The preva- lence of ... See full document

... Pkd2 has been extensively associated with Left-Right (LR) axis estab- lishment in several animal models. This calcium channel is very im- portant for the intracellular calcium response after mechanical/ chemical stimuli ... See full document

... People aged >45 years with symptomatic radiographic first MTP joint OA were recruited from the community using advertisements and our exist- ing networks. Participants in the intervention arm had 3-5 visits ... See full document