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Emotional states and physical health.
Positive emotional states may promote healthy perceptions, beliefs, and physical well-being itself. To explore potential mechanisms linking pleasant feelings and good health, th...
A glucose-responsive transcription factor that regulates carbohydrate metabolism in the liver
Carbohydrates mediate their conversion to triglycerides in the liver by promoting both rapid posttranslational activation of rate-limiting glycolytic and lipogenic enzymes and t...
Emotion and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis
This paper attempts to present a largely symbolic interactionist analysis of some aspects of emotion and, in doing so, to indicate the utility of the sociological study of emoti...
From Ego Depletion to Vitality: Theory and Findings Concerning the Facilitation of Energy Available to the Self
Abstract Vitality, or the energy available to the self, is a salient and functionally significant indicator of health and motivation. Previous models (e.g., ) have suggested how...
The Measurement of Multiple Chronic Diseases--A Systematic Review on Existing Multimorbidity Indices
The systematic literature further emphasis the heterogeneity of existing multimorbidity indices. However, one important similarity is that the focus is on diseases with a high p...
Ximelagatran vs Warfarin for Stroke Prevention in Patients With Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation
The results establish the efficacy of fixed-dose oral ximelagatran without coagulation monitoring compared with well-controlled warfarin for prevention of thromboembolism in pat...
An Autologistic Model for the Spatial Distribution of Wildlife
1. A new method for estimating the geographical distribution of plant and animal species from incomplete field survey data is developed. 2. Wildlife surveys are often conducted ...
2017 Cardiovascular and Stroke Endpoint Definitions for Clinical Trials
This publication describes uniform definitions for cardiovascular and stroke outcomes developed by the Standardized Data Collection for Cardiovascular Trials Initiative and the ...
Cyclooxygenase-2 is instrumental in Parkinson's disease neurodegeneration
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder of uncertain pathogenesis characterized by the loss of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons, which can be modeled by t...