When a cognitive ability is assessed repeatedly, test scores and ability estimates are often observed to increase across test sessions.This phenomenon is known as the retest (or practice) effect.One explanation for retest effects is that situational test anxiety interferes with a testee’s performance during earlier test sessions, thereby crea

Abstract Introduction Mental health is considered a major public health issue.Non-psychiatric physicians often engage in the treatment of mental disorders.The aim of this study was to describe psychiatric drug prescription knowledge and practices among non-psychiatric specialists and evaluate their training needs.Methods A descriptive cross-section

This paper aims to examine how the trajectory dimension influences sensorimotor control during arm tracking.We designed three trajectories with different dimensions in a three-dimensional (3D) immersive virtual reality environment and instructed the subjects to control a virtual hand to follow a cubic target that moved along the designed trajectori

Abstract Sperm length is highly variable across species and many questions about its variation remain open.Although variation in body mass may affect sperm length evolution through its influence on multiple factors, the extent to which sperm length variation is linked to body mass remains elusive.Here, we use the Pareto multi-task evolution framewo

Mastitis, mainly caused by bacterial intramammary infections, is the main problem in the breeding of dairy animals.The inflammations of the mammary gland is separated by types of mastitis, being subclinical, clinical, and the most severe, gangrenous mastitis.Here, we used 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing to characterize the bacterial microbiota of goat