Continuous Biofeedback and Discrete Posttrial Verbal Feedback in Frontalis Muscle Relaxation Training

During training to relax the frontalis muscle, continuous biofeedback (BF) was compared to discrete verbal feedback (VF) delivered immediately after each trial. Both feedback modalities were based on frontalis electromyographic (EMG) activity. Training consisted of 3 consecutive daily session-each comprised of 3 baseline (nonfeedback) trials followed by 10 training trials of 128 see. The presence or absence of the two informationally positive feedback modalities were combined factorially to define four training conditions: BF + VF, NO BF + VF, BF + NO VF, and NO BF + NO VF. Results indicated that while VF alone facilitated muscle relaxation, BF was clearly prepotent ill effecting consistent decreases in EMG activity both across trials and days of training. Additionally, the facilitating effect of BF transferred to nonfeedback trials while VF did not affect performance on nonfeedback trials. Finally, accuracy of self-evaluations of performance on a trial by trial basis was markedly improved by BF, while VF improved accuracy only for trials having a very large absolute difference between levels of EMG activity. Ss receiving no feedback neither reduced muscle tension during training not were able to evaluate their performance accurately even when large absolute differences occurred between trials in frontalis EMG activity.     

Haemodynamic Adjustments to Mental Stress in Normotensives and Subjects with Mildly Elevated Blood Pressure

Cardiac output, heart rate, stroke volume, pre-ejection period, total peripheral resistance, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and oxygen consumption were monitored or derived in young men with mildly elevated casual blood pressures and unambiguously normotensive control subjects before, during, and after exposure to a mental arithmetic stress. Measurements were also taken while subjects underwent graded dynamic exercise. This permitted cardiac output-oxygen consumption regression equations to be calculated and, as a consequence, cardiac output during mental stress to be represented as additional cardiac output. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure were higher during all phases of the study in the mildly elevated blood pressure group. An overall groups effect during the mental stress phase of the experiment was observed for cardiac output and pre-ejection period, and the effect for stroke volume was close to significance. Significant Groups X Periods interactions were found for cardiac output and additional cardiac output, and the heart rate effect was nearly significant. Post-hoc comparisons here indicated that, in the main, group differences in these cardiac variables were more evident during the mental arithmetic stress than during the pre- and post-task baseline periods. Total peripheral resistance did not differ reliably between groups and the cardiac effects were specific to the mental stress phase of the study.     

Simple mechanical-chemical systemic pressure-control device

An implantable mechanical-chemical device was constructed to act as a feedback mechanism in controlling the blood pressure. It consisted of a balloon connected to a rubber catheter ending in a slit valve. Flow-pressure curves were derived fromin vitro testings for three valve thresholds (120, 140 and 170 mmHg). Five fast-acting hypotensive drugs subsequently filled the device during 40 noradrenaline infusions in 25 dogs, with the balloon in the abdominal aorta and the catheter in the inferior vena cava. The results were as follows: (i) Following a short initial increase in systolic aortic pressure, significantly lower (p<0·001) than in control experiments, the device prevented any pressure rise above its threshold. (ii) The time needed for pressure lowering at the device's threshold depended on the drug used being 3·34±0·84 (mean ± s.e. in minutes) for sodium nitroprusside, 5·99±0·96 for phentolamin, 11·63±2·97 for hydralazine, 14·54±2·43 for a-methyl-dopa and 23·32±2·07 for diazoxide.     

Sensory-feedback system compatible with myoelectric control

Progress in the development of a system to provide sensory feedback of the pinch force of an artificial hand is described. Design criteria relating to electrocutaneous stimulation and compatibility with myoelectric control are discussed. Details of a practical system, presently in use by two amputees prior to full-scale clinical evaluation, are presented.     

A combined 2-deoxyglucose and neurophysiological study of primate somatosensory cortex

The metabolic activity pattern produced in the primary somatosensory cortex (SI) of primates by repetitive delivery of a tactile stimulus is distinctly patchy. The functional significance of these patches, however, remains obscure. This investigation sought to determine the correlation between neural and metabolic activity produced by tactile stimuli and to evaluate the relationship, if any, between the neural activity and metabolic patches evoked by similar stimuli. Experiments were undertaken in which extracellular microelectrode recordings were carried out in animals that subsequently underwent a 2-deoxyglucose (2DG) study. Three types of relations were identified. First, the receptive fields (RF) and modality properties of neurons sampled in locations at which patches of metabolic label were found matched the "place" and "modal" properties of the stimulus used to produce 2DG labeling. Second, in cortical locations where the RF and modality properties of the sampled neurons differed from either the place or modal properties of the stimulus used to evoke the 2DG label, no above-background increases in metabolic labeling were found. Finally, in some cortical locations at which the receptive field and modality properties of the neurons matched those of the 2-deoxyglucose mapping stimulus, no above-background increases in metabolic labeling were found. This outcome leads us to suggest that moment-to-moment changes in neural responsivity, which might remain undetected by conventional receptive field mapping methods, contribute to the patchy pattern of metabolic activity visualized by the 2-deoxyglucose method.     

中小学校学生流感疫苗接种效果评估和卫生经济学评价

目的评估中小学校学生流感疫苗接种效果,开展疫苗接种的卫生经济学评价,为制定流感疫苗接种策略提供依据。方法采用易感者-潜伏者-显性感染者/隐性感染者-移出者/恢复者(susceptible-exposed-infectious/asymptomatic-removed/recovered,SEIARR)动力学模型对既往疫情数据进行模拟,计算累计罹患率评估疫苗接种效果,计算成本-效果和成本-效益进行卫生经济学评价。结果当流感疫苗接种率为0%、50%、70%和90%时,疫情平均累积罹患率为99.79%(99.75%,99.82%)、70.84%(70.58%,71.09%)、56.81%(56.17%,57.45%)和34.29%(32.46%,36.20%),流感疫苗接种率越高,累计罹患率越低;当疫苗接种率为50%、70%和90%时,疫苗的成本-效果比为:141.03(139.86,142.19)元、133.16(131.34,135.08)元和112.90(110.03,116.11)元,疫苗的成本-效益比为:6.27(6.22,6.32)元、6.65(6.56,6.74)元和7.88(7.66,8.09)元;流感疫苗接种率越高,疫苗的成本-效果越好,成本-效益越高。结论接种流感疫苗能有效降低疫情的累计罹患率,提高接种率能有效增加疫苗接种的卫生经济学效应。     

2016—2020年菏泽市食源性疾病暴发动态分析与防治对策

目的 对菏泽市食源性疾病暴发进行动态分析,为有效预防食源性疾病的发生提供有效的防治对策。方法 采用Excel及SPSS 16.0统计软件对2016年—2020年菏泽市5年食源性疾病暴发情况进行描述统计分析。结果 2016—2020年菏泽市食源性疾病暴发事件年平均罹患率分别是14.71%,25.59%,18.33%,34.34%,5.34%。该五年的年平均罹患率17.14%之间差异有统计学意义(χ2=375.10,P＜0.001);年份作为有序变量资料进行秩和检验(Z=-8.95,P＜0.001)。菏泽市食源性疾病暴发以7—9月份暴发起数最多,暴发起数128起(占比51.20%),植物类食品在报告起数方面(73起)及罹患率方面(80.00%)均较高;污染物类别方面,不同污染物类别平均罹患率间差异有统计学意义(χ2=132.70,P＜0.001),致病微生物及毒素、化学污染物所占构成比较高;引起食源性疾病暴发的主要原因是食品加工储存不当,误食误用等;不同发生场所平均罹患率间差异有统计学意义χ2=243.70,P＜0.001),家庭、宾馆饭店、街头摊点是高发场所。结论 政府及卫生行政部门应针对家庭、宾馆饭店、街头摊点重点场所,尽可能查明食源性疾病暴发的原因,各部门应加强配合、监管及宣传。     

政策反馈理论视域：中国医疗卫生政策钟摆式变迁及其逻辑

新中国成立以来,党和国家不断强化医疗卫生建设,70余年来医疗卫生政策演进呈钟摆式变迁的特征,即从公益导向的福利性医疗卫生政策摆向效率导向的市场化政策,再摆向公益为主兼顾效率的民生导向政策,在公益与效率间发生三次摆动。本文借助政策反馈理论分析医疗卫生政策钟摆式变迁的内在逻辑,发现政策变迁过程中原有政策通过资源效应、解释效应、演化效应和学习效应影响新政策的制定,使得新政策留有原政策的烙印,呈现出摆动式变迁而非剧烈或范式变迁。政策反馈理论为医疗卫生政策制定提供新视角,制定医疗卫生政策需注重原政策的历史影响力,以公共价值引领医疗医保医药政策,从多重政策反馈效应视角出发优化卫生政策的制定。     

Relative Validity of MijnEetmeter: A Food Diary App for Self-Monitoring of Dietary Intake

This study aimed to evaluate the relative validity of intake of energy, nutrients and food groups assessed with MijnEetmeter food diary as compared to 24-h dietary recalls, and if this differed between experienced and new users. One hundred men and women aged 18–70 y participated, of whom 47 had prior experience with the tool. Participants kept MijnEetmeter on three days. Trained dietitians called them three times for a 24-h dietary recall interview, once recalling food consumption on the same day as the food recording in MijnEetmeter. Systematic differences and correlations were assessed, and Bland–Altman plots were created; both for 3-day mean intakes and for intakes on the same day. Relative to 24-h dietary recalls, MijnEetmeter underestimated consumption of drinks, added fat, cereal products, and potatoes. Relative underestimation was observed for energy intake (6%) and about half of the nutrients. Experienced MijnEetmeter users underestimated intake the least. For intake of energy and six key nutrients, correlations between 3-day mean intakes were above 0.7 except for sodium intake. In conclusion, MijnEetmeter moderately underestimates intakes of energy and some nutrients and food groups. To improve the self-monitoring of dietary intake, it is recommended that the users record food consumption for several days and that the apps probes for easily forgotten foods and drinks.     

剑川鼠疫自然疫源地蚤类群落季节动态研究

运用最优分割法(Fisher算法),对剑川鼠疫自然疫源地蚤类群落季节动态进行了研究,分为5个时段,根据结构与功能统一的原理.指出该疫源地的最佳灭蚤时间是2月末3月初。同时指出。如果防制时期选择不当.反而会使有害蚤的功能显现出来。