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Background: It is essential to assist individuals with a mental illness who have achieved clinical recovery in their personal recovery. Understanding the relationship between self‐stigma and social support and the effects on perceived recovery can be valuable for clinical professionals in helping patients lead meaningful lives. Aim: To examine the serial mediating roles of social support and perceived hope in self‐stigma and the effects on perceived recovery. Design: A cross‐sectional study. Methods: The study was conducted from September 2019 to June 2020. One hundred and fifty‐seven patients with schizophrenia in seven chronic rehabilitation wards were enrolled. Each patient had a Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale score ≤ 60 points, and they regularly participated in occupational rehabilitation. Research tools included demographic data, the Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale (ISMIS), Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS), Herth Hope Index (HHI), and Perceived Recovery Inventory (PRI). IBM SPSS 24.0 was used to analyse the data. Pearson correlation was used to analyse the relationships between variables, and models 4 and 6 of PROCESS macro V3.4 for SPSS were used to examine the mediation model. Results: The results indicated that self‐stigma and perceived recovery in patients with schizophrenia are negatively correlated, that peer support and perceived hope mediate the relationship between them, and that peer support and perceived hope also have a statistically significant serial mediating effect. Conclusion: The serial mediation effect of peer support and perceived hope on the relationship between self‐stigma and perceived recovery was statistically significant in this study. Impact: This research delves into strategies to assist psychiatric patients in reducing self‐stigma and achieving recovery. The findings underscore the heightened significance of peer support for patients in rehabilitative wards and offer valuable insights for medical staff. Reporting Method: STROBE checklist. Patient or Public Contribution: No patient or public contribution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In September 2021, 14 smallmouth bass (SMB; Micropterus dolomieu) with skin lesions were collected from Green Bay waters of Lake Michigan and submitted for diagnostic evaluation. All the skin samples tested positive for largemouth bass virus (LMBV) by conventional PCR. The complete genome of the LMBV (99,328 bp) isolated from a homogenized skin sample was determined using an Illumina MiSeq sequencer. A maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic analysis based on the 21 core iridovirus genes supported the LMBV isolated from SMB (LMBV-WVL21117) as a member of the species Santee-Cooper ranavirus. Pairwise nucleotide comparison of the major capsid protein (MCP) gene showed that LMBV-WVL21117 is identical to other LMBV reported from the United States and nearly identical to doctor fish virus and guppy virus 6 (99.2%) from Southeast Asia, as well as LMBV isolates from China and Thailand (99.1%). In addition, ML phylogenetic analysis based on the MCP gene suggests three genotypes of LMBV separated by region: genotype one from the United States, genotype two from Southeast Asia, and genotype three from China and Thailand. Additional research is needed to understand the prevalence and genetic diversity of LMBV strains circulating in wild and managed fish populations from different regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sex differentiation in teleost fish is complex and often dictated by genetics, environmental conditions, and population density during critical embryonic/larval development periods. Walleye Sander vitreus have a long propagation and stocking history, and sex ratios of hatchery‐reared Walleye have been variable, typically skewed towards males, and potentially influenced by temperature. In contrast to previous fry and small fingerling Walleye stocking in Wisconsin water bodies, the Wisconsin Walleye Initiative of 2013 focused on the production of extended growth Walleye fingerlings (EGW) stocked out in fall under the assumption of greater survivorship and in response to observed declines in Walleye natural recruitment. Observed sex ratios of adult Walleye in a stocked northern Wisconsin lake chain were suggestive of EGW sex ratios skewed towards females. This lake chain has been under rehabilitation and an aggressive EGW stocking regime due to prolonged Walleye natural recruitment failures. To test whether imbalances in EGW were occurring, we collected 30 EGW from one Wisconsin hatchery in 2019 and about 50 EGW from each of three Wisconsin hatcheries in 2020 to histologically determine sex ratios. In 2019, EGW were about 97% female. In 2020, the percentage of females in hatchery samples ranged from 60% to 100%. Nonfemales in 2019 and 2020 were all undifferentiated. Our results suggest that EGW raised in Wisconsin under similar incubation and rearing protocols may be skewed towards females. If sex ratios of EGW are skewed towards females, the use of EGW may hinder efforts to rehabilitate natural recruitment. A deductive experimental and observational framework will be used to test for mechanism(s) influencing the high percentage of females in the hatchery product to inform protocols to better balance sex ratios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sixteen isolates of gram-positive, coccoid bacteria were obtained from clinical cases of diverse conditions in cattle and identified as Streptococcus suis using 16S ribosomal DNA gene sequencing and other bacterial identification methods. None of the isolates could be assigned to any of the known S. suis capsular types. Virulence-associated gene profiling that targeted muramidase-released protein, extracellular protein factor, suilysin, 89-kb pathogenicity island, and arginine deiminase (arcA) genes were negative except for 1 isolate that was arcA positive. The arcA-positive isolate caused severe widespread lesions, including multiorgan suppurative and hemorrhagic inflammation in the meninges, lung, liver, spleen, lymph nodes, and serosae of heart and intestines. The other isolates were primarily associated with meningitis, bronchopneumonia, and multifocal acute necrotizing hepatitis. The isolates differed from each other by 4–6 fragments when examined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, indicating they are possibly related. The isolates were susceptible to ampicillin, penicillin, and tiamulin. Resistance was noted to sulfadimethoxine (93%), oxytetracycline (86%), chlortetracycline (86%), neomycin (67%), tilmicosin (47%), clindamycin (47%), enrofloxacin (33%), gentamicin (13%), florfenicol (7%), trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole (7%), and spectinomycin (53%). Multi-drug resistance (defined as resistance to at least 1 agent in 3 or more antimicrobial classes) was detected in 67% of the isolates. The pathology observations provide evidence that S. suis may be an important pathogen of bovine calves. S. suis is an agent that clinical bacteriology laboratories should consider when dealing with cases involving cattle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flip chip solder bumps were produced on Cu contact applying Sn-9Zn-xAl Pb-free solder by dipping method. The solder bumps were tested under 85 C/85% RH (relative humidity) or at 150 C for 1000 hours to explore the shear strength and the interfacial interaction behavior. Experimental results revealed that Al and Zn, while not Sn, diffuse to the Cu/solder interface during the extended period test. A thin layer of Al4.2Cu3.2Zn0.7 compound, characterized by XRD, was formed at the interface of the as-produced solder bump. This compound which resulted from the gathering of Al at the interface, provides a barrier to Sn diffusion toward Cu substrate and, thus, no Cu-Sn compound was detected. This is the first time to find a Sn-containing solder which, in contact with Cu, does not form Cu-Sn intermetallic compound during heat treatment and, thus, the Sn-Zn-Al solder is termed an inherent barrier solder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]