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7% upon initiation of therapy to 29.9% within 1 year (p less then 0.001). Patients who subjectively rated their “overall respiratory health” as good to excellent increased from 13.6% upon initiation of therapy to 60.5% in 1 year (p less then 0.001) and those who rated their “ability to clear your lungs” as good to excellent increased from 13.9% to 76.6% (p less then 0.001). Conclusion NCFB patients showed improved self-reported outcomes associated with the initiation of HFCWO therapy as measured by number of hospitalizations, antibiotic use, and the subjective experience of airway clearance. The improvement was observed early on after initiation of therapy and sustained for at least 1 year. The reviews of this paper are available via the supplemental material section.Neutropenia is the most frequent side effect of commercially available myelosuppressive drugs and its most significant complication is febrile neutropenia. It is associated with increased hospital admissions and higher probability of death. Prophylaxis with the administration of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor can prevent neutropenia caused by anticancer drugs. The correct administration of these drugs and the management of febrile neutropenia are extremely important in the treatment of patients with cancer.The rapid development of new genetic breeding techniques is accompanied by a polarized debate around their risks. Research on the public perception of these techniques lags behind scientific developments. Bindarit This study tests a method for revealing laypeople’s perceptions and attitudes about different genetic techniques. The objectives are to enable laypeople to understand the key principles of new genetic breeding techniques and to permit a comparison of their modes of classification with those of scientific experts. The combined method of a free sorting task and focus groups showed that the participants distinguished the techniques that did not induce any change in DNA sequence, and applied two different logics to classify the other breeding techniques a Cartesian logic and a naturalistic logic with a distinct set of values. The lay categorization differed substantially from current scientific categorizations of genetic breeding techniques. These findings have implications for food innovation policy and genetically modified organism legislation.Objective To determine the relationship between dental/skeletal malocclusions and sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) in the early diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders in children. Methods Patients were evaluated by pedodontists to identify dental, skeletal, and functional malocclusion (n = 240; less then 15 years). In order to determine the sleep and daytime behavior of the patients, pediatric sleep questionnaires (PSQ) were applied. Per results of the PSQ, patients with a mean of ≥ 0.33 were defined as the high-risk group. Results A total of 25.8% children were in the high-risk group, with the most convex profile, high-angle growth direction, and mandibular retrognathy. The prevalence of habitual snoring, mouth breathing, and dry mouth was 48.4%, 64.5%, and 87.2% among all high-risk children, respectively. Conclusion Convex profile, high-angle growth direction, and retrognathic mandible were determined as risk factors for SDB. The prevalence of dry mouth, mouth breathing, and snoring was higher in the high-risk group.Background/study context Recent research has shown a benefit of temporally regular structure presented during the maintenance period in short-term memory for young adults. Because maintenance is impaired in aging, we investigated whether older adults can also benefit from the temporal regularities for maintenance and how their cognitive capacities might affect this potential benefit. Methods Healthy older adults (range 63-90 years old) had to memorize visually presented letters and maintain them in short-term memory for 6 s until recall. The six-second retention interval was either filled with an isochronous rhythmic sound sequence that provided a temporally regular structure or silent. Results The effect of the isochronous rhythm on recall performance was modulated by inhibition capacities of older adults as compared to silence, improved recall performance thanks to the rhythm emerged with increased inhibitory capacity of the participants. Conclusion Even though maintenance of older adults benefits less from the presence of temporal regularities than does the maintenance of younger ones, our findings provide evidence for improved maintenance in short-term memory for older adults in the presence of a temporally regular structure, probably due to enhanced attentional refreshing. It further provides perspectives for training and rehabilitation of age-related working memory deficits.Objective Adequate physical activity following cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is required to reduce secondary cardiovascular disease risk. The aim of this review and meta-analysis was to determine the effect of exercise-based CR on objectively measured physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) comparing pre- to postintervention, pre- to postchange compared to a control group, and in a longer term follow-up. Methods Five databases were searched (PubMed, MEDLINE [OVID], Scopus, SPORTDiscus, and CINAHL) from inception to January 2019. Two reviewers screened and selected 15 studies involving 1434 participants. Data were synthesized descriptively and by meta-analyses. Results CR resulted in an improvement in activity behaviors compared with preintervention levels (standardized mean difference [SMD] 0.50, 95% CI 0.25-0.55, P less then .0001). CR resulted in a greater improvement in activity behaviors in the intervention compared with the control group (SMD 0.25, 95% CI 0.02-0.49, P = .04). Increased PA was maintained (SMD 0.32, 95% CI 0.22-0.41, P less then .0001). Eight out of 15 studies showed an improvement in PA outcomes while 7 reported that objectively measured PA did not change immediately following the intervention compared to preintervention levels and/or compared with the control group. Of the 7 studies that reported changes in SB, 4 observed a reduction following CR while 3 reported no change. Conclusion Participation in exercise-based CR programs is effective in improving PA and SB. However, our descriptive synthesis indicates that only half the studies were successful in improving activity behaviors following exercise-based CR. Standard guidelines for the assessment of activity behaviors following CR would be valuable in understanding of the effects of CR on long-term activity participation.