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e., evaporation and condensation of water vapor) becomes dominant compared to the other mechanisms. At 1000 kHz, the mechanism of heat transfer persists to be dominant for all the used acoustic amplitudes (from 1 to 3 atm). Practically, all the above observations were maintained for bubbles at and around the optimum bubble radius, whereas no significant impact of the three energetic mechanisms was observed for bubbles of too lower and too higher values of R0 (limits of the investigated ranges of R0).This study sought to investigate the association between paranoia and performance in a range of neurocognitive domains using a large community sample. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of 4507 individuals within the PISMA-ep Study. We used a large community sample selected after multistage sampling using standard stratification techniques. Socio-demographic variables such as age, gender, educational level, urbanicity, and geographical region were recorded. The Spanish version of the Green Paranoid Thought Scale (S-GPTS) was used to assess paranoid thoughts. The Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP) was used to assess neurocognitive performance both globally and by domains (i.e., immediate and delayed verbal learning, working memory, verbal fluency and processing speed). Individuals with high S-GPTS paranoia scores showed significantly lower performance on global cognitive function and also on immediate (but not delayed) verbal learning, working memory, verbal fluency and processing speed. These results held statistical significance even after controlling for the effects of education and estimated IQ. We propose that cognitive deficits may be mediators of paranoid thinking formation and need to be considered when assessing patients with high levels of paranoia.Loneliness has a pernicious effect on mental health in later life and is likely to have a bidirectional relationship with psychopathology. However, longitudinal research examining loneliness and posttraumatic stress symptoms among older adults is scarce. This study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationship between different types of loneliness (social and emotional) and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Using two waves of an older adult sample (n = 1,276) from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA), this longitudinal relationship was examined using a multivariate two wave-latent change score (2W-LCS) model. There were significant, however, very small increases in both posttraumatic stress symptoms and emotional loneliness over time, whereas, average social loneliness scores did not significantly increase/decrease over time. Changes in both social (β = .16) and emotional loneliness (β = .15) were associated with small changes in posttraumatic stress symptoms, consistent with the existence of a longitudinal association between the constructs, net of covariate effects. Results provide evidence of the existence of a longitudinal association between subtypes of loneliness and posttraumatic stress symptoms, among older adults. Results have implications for clinicians who should identify individuals at risk of developing posttraumatic stress symptoms, and for the theory of both posttraumatic stress disorder and loneliness. Decompressive hemicraniectomy can be life-saving for malignant middle cerebral artery acute ischemic stroke (AIS). However, utilization and outcomes for hemicraniectomy in the US are not known. We sought to analyze baseline characteristics and outcomes of patients receiving hemicraniectomy for AIS in the US. We identified adults who received hemicraniectomy for AIS, identified with validated International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9) code in the Nationwide Readmissions Database 2014. We calculated 30-day readmission rates, reasons for readmission, and procedures performed. 2850 of 531,896 AIS patients (0.54%) received hemicraniectomy. Although patients receivi