PREVALENCE AND PREDICTORS OF ABUSE IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION AT A TERTIARY CARE CENTRE IN SAURASHTRA, INDIA

Prevalence and predictors of abuse in elderly patients with depression at a tertiary care centre in Saurashtra, India

Context: Elder abuse has devastating consequences such as poor quality of life, psychological distress and loss of property and security.Abuse of elderly patients with depression has not been adequately researched in India.Aims: To explore the prevalence and predictors of abuse and its relation to various sociodemographic variables in elderly patie

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ECE2 is a prognostic biomarker associated with m6A modification and involved in immune infiltration of lung adenocarcinoma

BackgroundThe targeted therapy for lung cancer relies on prognostic genes and requires further research.No research has been conducted to determine the effect of endothelin-converting enzyme 2 (ECE2) in lung cancer.MethodsWe analyzed the expression of ECE2 in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) and normal adjacent tissues and its relationship with clinicopa

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Investigating the Efficacy of the SMAP Downscaled Soil Moisture Product for Drought Monitoring Based on Information Theory

Soil moisture (SM) information can be routinely obtained from high-quality microwave retrievals at a global scale—such as datasets generated by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission.In this article, using mutual information (MI) theory, we investigate the efficacy of the downscaled SMAP/Sentinel-1 L2 3-km EASE-Grid SM produc

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