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In Csikszentmihalyi’s 1990 theory of “flow”, individuals can become immersed in creative activities as well as other positive activities including exercise and meditation. Research has suggested that individuals engaged in “flow” could persevere regardless of feeling boredom or fatigue. However, the flow state is more difficult to achieve in the face of stress. In the current study, an archival database on a COVID-19 lockdown was analyzed for the relations between flow-like activities (creative work, meditation, and inside exercise) and psychological well-being (boredom, fatigue, anxiety, and depression). Hierarchical regressions suggested that creative work was positively associated with meditating, indicating that participants who reported more frequent creative work also reported meditating more often. Further, creative work, inside exercise, and meditation were associated with feeling boredom and fatigue. And, inside exercise was associated with decreased anxiety and depression symptoms. These findings should inform interventions to improve psychological well-being during lockdowns like COVID-19.

CFCF model is a new model about corporate finance. It requires calculating twenty nine cash flow ratios using three financial statements -the balance sheet, the income statement and the cash flow statement. The building of the model continues with the stage of the assignment of the cash flow ratios to the functions of cash flow based corporate finance. At last, the functions being assigned the cash flow ratios were joined each other and was named as CFCF model.

Our country has offered plenty of literature on family education in ancient time. After stepping in modern times, as the people turned to value education, family education, a key part of education has been attached with increasingly high importance. Based on social role theory, this research applied participant observation and semi-structured interview to collect data from the families in communities, and analyzed the absence of father’s role due to role conflict based on these data, in turn applied the method of group social work to assist father in relieving the problem of role conflict, help restore the father’s role in family education. In addition, through survey and the implementation of group social work research, to consider more the role of father before entering the group in the practice of father’s role in group social work intervention in family education, also to address the problems of less peer support, and poor social work concept at early stage, the research provided operable recommendations, e.g.: improve the social workers’ personal ability, optimize role awareness, unite all stakeholders to assist in family education, to be used for reference by similar groups.

Faculty founded social work agency is something with “Chinese characteristics”, also a unique phenomenon appearing in the special development process of social work in China, moreover, such a phenomenon has been widely recognized, and it will sustain for a long time. However, faculty founded social work agencies face not only the dilemmas which are common for all social work agencies, but also a variety of unique dilemmas. This paper analyzed such dilemmas from several aspects including censure of the society, lack of resources, treatment dilemmas, time and energy dilemmas, it is a thorough summary and overview on the current dilemmas of faculty founded social work agencies. Based on the analysis over the dilemmas of faculty founded social work agencies, and the present situation of social work education, practice and sector development, this paper addressed the dilemmas of faculty founded social work agencies from three aspects. i.e.: thinking and orientation, understanding and mutual-aid, mission and persistence, in turn proposed their development direction for the future, which is also the conclusion of the paper.

This case report could be considered very useful to show to the surgical residents how to obtain a correct diagnosis utilizing logically both clinical signs and diagnostic tools. Twenty days after a right hemicolectomy for colon cancer this patient presented a right sided colic pain in the lumbar region with irradiation to the groin and a CT showing a dilated right ureter. The anamnesis of the recent surgery was suggestive for iatrogenic ureteral lesion. Through the comparison of pre-operative and postoperative CT, however, it has been realized that a stone present in the right pelvis before surgery had been gone down to the ureter just immediately after surgery. Iatrogenic ureteral lesions after colorectal surgery are rare but should be considered a potential event during colorectal surgery. However, the correct and complete evaluation of anamnesis, clinical history, and diagnostic tools should be always done in order to reach a correct diagnosis. During the surgical residency, the residents should be encouraged to reason and think carefully, without any haste, to obtain a valid diagnostic solution.

This study examined the effect of feelings of invulnerability on risk-taking among Cameroonian construction workers. Our sample consisted of 99 construction workers selected by reasoned choice sampling technique and randomly assigned to three different groups (invulnerability priming (n=33), vulnerability priming (n=33) and neutral priming (n=33)). A questionnaire was used to collect the data. It consisted of the Feeling of Invulnerability Scale, items from the Theory of Planned Behavior used to measure risk-taking at work, and priming texts to differentiate groups. The results indicate that invulnerability to danger and psychological invulnerability lead to risk-taking among Cameroonian construction workers. This study suggests taking into account perceptual biases in general and the feeling of invulnerability in particular in the prevention of accidents among construction workers.

This narrative review summarizes published research on psychological problems of the elderly during COVID-19. This includes brief reviews of 54 studies that have focused on loneliness, anxiety, depression and/or sleep problems and their comorbidities. Risk factors for these problems have included pre-existing conditions, infection, inactivity, fear of COVID, fear of death, and lack of social media skills. Buffers for the problems have included exercise, cognitive behavior therapy, acupuncture and melatonin. Limitations of this literature are that the studies are typically surveys, they focus on infections or psychological problems but rarely on the combination of those problems, and they are highly variable on recruitment during lockdown and non-lockdown periods as well as varying on their measures, precluding the use of meta-analyses.

Background: Enteric duplication cysts are rare congenital malformations. Cases in adults are rare, often asymptomatic and diagnosed incidentally. Enteric duplication cysts in adults could present abdominal pain, distention, mass and dysphagia. The preoperative diagnosis is difficult, radiological images, even an abdominal Computed Tomography scan could not show a bowel duplication. Malignant transformation is rare. Case presentation: We present a case of a 67 year-old man admitted in Our Surgery Unit for several episodes of bowel obstruction. After an ileal resection the anatomopathological exam diagnosed an Enteric duplication cysts. Conclusion: A diagnosis before surgery is difficult. Only surgery and a precise anatomopathological exam can discover this malformation.

Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome (RCVS) is a coined term to express conditions that manifest narrowing of the cerebral arteries. The most common manifestation of a patient with RVCS is severe headache that is thunderclap in presentation, however, some may present with focal neurologic deficits related to the site of edema or vascular occlusion and even cortical manifestation such as seizure. The current treatment for RCVS is still observational, which includes use of calcium channel blockers and intra-arterial vasodilation. In this case report, Cilostazol, a phosphodiesterase 3 inhibitor with a myosin light chain kinase enzyme inhibitor, can be used as a treatment for recanalization of constricted cerebral arteries.

This effort will suggest that the compounding educational disabilities of poor/working class students in the nation’s educational system has been further exacerbated by the Covid 19 Pandemic and school closings in the USA.