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Complex Humans: Quality Care And A Spirity Of Inquiry, Rachel A. Joseph, Shanna W. Akers

General Webinars

As human life becomes more complex and the speed of life increases, everyone needs quality care for health promotion, disease promotion, and management based on current, emerging evidence. All nurses, novice or expert, must be lifelong learners and researchers who translate evidence into their practice. In this webinar, the presenters will discuss the value of nursing research and inspire attendees to engage in evidence-based practice for better patient care. Learning Outcomes: - Discuss the need for clinical research to impact patient outcomes - Develop a desire to mentor or be mentored in research-related activities - Identify barriers to engaging in …

Racial And Ethnic Representation In Food Allergen Immunotherapy Trial Participants: A Systematic Review., Hannah Suffian, Aarti Pandya, Lauren Davidson, Vincent Staggs, Bridgette Jones

Manuscripts, Articles, Book Chapters and Other Papers

IMPORTANCE: The lack of inclusion of diverse population samples in food allergy immunotherapy clinical trials not only leads to decreased applicability to the general population in terms of results and treatments but can also be seen as a broader social injustice contributing to inequity within the health care system.

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the racial and ethnic distribution of participants included in food allergy immunotherapy clinical trials, and determine whether the racial and ethnic representation in trials accurately reflects the patients who experience food allergy.

EVIDENCE REVIEW: Data were collected from articles found on PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov using key terms of …

Programs Committee Agenda 9-3-24, Angela Brock

Programs Committee (PC)

No abstract provided.

The George-Anne Daily, Georgia Southern University

George-Anne Media Group: Newsletters & Magazines

No abstract provided.

Human Papillomavirus Vaccination And Human Papillomavirus-Related Cancer Rates, Victor Adekanmbi, Itunu Sokale, Fangjian Guo, Jessica Ngo, Thao N Hoang, Christine D Hsu, Abiodun Oluyomi, Abbey B Berenson

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

IMPORTANCE: To inform the design and implementation of targeted interventions to reduce the future burden of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers in Texas, it is necessary to examine the county and health service region (HSR) levels of (1) the proportion of children and teenagers aged 9 to 17 years who initiated and were up to date for HPV vaccination series and (2) HPV-related cancer incidence rates (IRs).

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate temporal trends and geospatial patterns of HPV vaccination initiation and up-to-date status as well as HPV-related cancer rates at county and HSR levels in Texas.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This population-based …

Solubility Change Behavior Of Fluoroalkyl Ether-Tagged Dendritic Hexaphenol Under Extreme Uv Exposure, Hyun-Taek Oh, Gayoung Kim, Seok-Heon Jung, Yejin Ku, Jin-Kyun Lee, Kanghyun Kim, Byeong-Gyu Park, Sangsul Lee, Chawon Koh, Tsunehiro Nishi, Hyun-Woo Kim

Staff and Researcher Publications

This study focuses on the discovery of a single-component molecular resist for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography by employing the ionizing radiation-induced decomposition of carbon–fluorine chemical bonds. The target material, DHP-L6, was synthesized by bonding perfluoroalkyl ether moieties to amorphous dendritic hexaphenol (DHP) with a high glass transition temperature. Upon exposure to EUV and electron beam irradiation, DHP-L6 films exhibited a decreasing solubility in fluorous developer media, resulting in negative-tone images. The underlying chemical mechanisms were elucidated by Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and nanoindentation experiments. These analyses highlighted the possible electron-induced decomposition of C–F bonds in DHP-L6, leading …

Exoskeletal-Assisted Walking In Veterans With Paralysis: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Ann M Spungen, Ellen J Dematt, Kousick Biswas, Karen M Jones, Zhibao Mi, Amanda J Snodgrass, Kel Morin, Pierre K Asselin, Christopher M Cirnigliaro, Steven Kirshblum, Peter H Gorman, Lance L Goetz, Katherine Stenson, Kevin T White, Alice Hon, Sunil Sabharwal, B Jenny Kiratli, Doug Ota, Bridget Bennett, Joseph E Berman, Denis Castillo, Kenneth K Lee, Byron W Eddy, M Kristi Henzel, Michelle Trbovich, Sally A Holmes, Felicia Skelton, Michael Priebe, Stephen L Kornfeld, Grant D Huang, William A Bauman

Faculty, Staff and Students Publications

IMPORTANCE: Robotic exoskeletons leverage technology that assists people with spinal cord injury (SCI) to walk. The efficacy of home and community exoskeletal use has not been studied in a randomized clinical trial (RCT).

OBJECTIVE: To examine whether use of a wheelchair plus an exoskeleton compared with use of only a wheelchair led to clinically meaningful net improvements in patient-reported outcomes for mental and physical health.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This RCT of veterans with SCI was conducted at 15 Veterans Affairs medical centers in the US from September 6, 2016, to September 27, 2021. Data analysis was performed from March …

09.03.2024 Orsp Connect, Liz Williamson

ORED Newsletter

RED Talk

OpenScholar website opportunity

William Magee Institute for Student Wellbeing

Complications And Influential Perioperative Factors Associated With Spaceoar Hydrogel Placement, Kerith Wang, Rishabh Simhal, Cassra Clark, Mark Mann, James Mark, Costas Lallas, Robert Den, Edouard Trabulsi

Department of Urology Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVE: To examine one academic institution's experiences with SpaceOAR placement, its associated complications, and periprocedural characteristics that affect outcomes for the purpose of quality improvement.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective review of 233 patients who received SpaceOAR from four surgeons and one radiation oncologist between 2018 and 2021. Variables such as demographics, oncologic parameters, radiation plan, and radiographic assessment of hydrogel placement were recorded. The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) was used to assess comorbidity risk. Mann-Whitney and Fisher's exact tests were performed to compare patients with and without complications.

RESULTS: Of the 233 patients who received SpaceOAR, 24 …

The Implementation And Barriers Of Green Recruitment: A Qualitative Study On Green Human Resource Management, Jinghan Wang, Lijun Tang, Tiancheng Zhang, Chris Phillips, Lamis Sultan Aldawish

Plymouth Business School

Green human resource management (GHRM) has become an indispensable strategy in green management. As the first step of GHRM, green recruitment and selection (GRS) has been emphasised as the important and probably the only practice to help the firm obtain green human capital directly. However, research has shown that not many firms implement GRS in practice, and there is a lack of studies exploring the barriers to GRS. This study fills this gap by examining the barriers to GRS across different industries in China. It adopted a qualitative and inductive approach, which is relatively rare in the GHRM field. Based …

Vibrant Voices, Sweeping Stories: Hispanic And Latinx: Writings, Lone Damasco

University Libraries Blog Archive

Join the University of Dayton as we celebrate Latinx Heritage Month, from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15. Nationally known as Hispanic Heritage Month, this is a time when we honor the many cultures and contributions of people whose roots trace back to Spain, Mexico and the Spanish-speaking countries of Central America, South America and the Caribbean.

Keratin 17 Is A Prognostic And Predictive Biomarker In Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, Lyanne Delgado-Coka, Lucia Roa-Peña, Sruthi Babu, Michael Horowitz, Emanuel Petricoin, Lynn Matrisian, Edik Blais, Natalia Marchenko, Felicia Allard, Ali Akalin, Wei Jiang, Md, Phd, Brent Larson, Andrew Hendifar, Vincent Picozzi, Minsig Choi, Kenneth Shroyer, Luisa Escobar-Hoyos

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

OBJECTIVES: To determine the role of keratin 17 (K17) as a predictive biomarker for response to chemotherapy by defining thresholds of K17 expression based on immunohistochemical tests that could be used to optimize therapeutic intervention for patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).

METHODS: We profiled K17 expression, a hallmark of the basal molecular subtype of PDAC, by immunohistochemistry in 2 cohorts of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded PDACs (n = 305). We determined a K17 threshold of expression to optimize prognostic stratification according to the lowest Akaike information criterion and explored the potential relationship between K17 and chemoresistance by multivariate predictive analyses.

RESULTS: …

Physiological Role For S-Nitrosylation Of Ryr1 In Skeletal Muscle Function And Development, Qi-An Sun, Zachary W. Grimmett, Douglas T. Hess, Zhaoxia Qian, Ruchi Chaube, Nicholas M. Venetos, Bradley N. Plummer, Kenneth R. Laurita, Richard T. Premont, Jonathan S. Stamler

Faculty Scholarship

Excitation-contraction coupling in skeletal muscle myofibers depends upon Ca2+ release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum through the ryanodine receptor/Ca2+-release channel RyR1. The RyR1 contains ∼100 Cys thiols of which ∼30 comprise an allosteric network subject to posttranslational modification by S-nitrosylation, S-palmitoylation and S-oxidation. However, the role and function of these modifications is not understood. Although aberrant S-nitrosylation of multiple unidentified sites has been associated with dystrophic diseases, malignant hyperthermia and other myopathic syndromes, S-nitrosylation in physiological situations is reportedly specific to a single (1 of ∼100) Cys in RyR1, Cys3636 in a manner gated by pO2. Using mice expressing a form …

In Touch Week Of September 3, 2024, New York Medical College

InTouch

• NYMC to Celebrate Visionary Public Health Leaders at Annual Founder’s Dinner
• Dr. Vikas Grover Named Chair of the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
• College Announces New Leadership Appointments
• GSBMS Greets Incoming Students for the New Academic Year
• NYMC Club Fair 2024 Highlights Student Involvement and Inclusion
• COVID-19 Symptoms During the Omicron Surge Differ Between Boosted and Vaccinated Non-Boosted Individuals
• NYMC Enhances Campus Parking with New Parking Lot
• Student Spotlight: SOM Student Advances Reproductive Health Science on the Global Stage

Segregation By Payer In Obstetrics And Gynecology Residency Ambulatory Care Sites, Kavita Vinekar, Neena Qasba, Hannah Reiser, Erika Banks, Kavita Arora, Brownsyne Edmonds, Karen George

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Faculty Papers

IMPORTANCE: Many teaching hospitals in the US segregate patients by insurance status, with resident clinics primarily composed of publicly insured or uninsured patients and faculty practices seeing privately insured patients. The prevalence of this model in obstetrics and gynecology residencies is unknown.

OBJECTIVES: To examine the prevalence of payer-based segregation in obstetrics and gynecology residency ambulatory care sites nationally and to compare residents' and program directors' perceptions of differences in quality of care between payer-segregated and integrated sites.

DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This national survey study included all 6060 obstetrics and gynecology residents and 293 obstetrics and gynecology residency program …

Ucc Minutes 9-3-24, Angela Brock

UCC Agendas/Minutes

No abstract provided.

Changes In Multimorbidity Among Hospitalized Adults In The Us, Christine Loyd, Lauren Picken, Richelle Sanders, Yue Zhang, Richard E. Kennedy, Cynthia J. Brown

School of Medicine Faculty Publications

OBJECTIVE: This investigation examines burden of comorbidity measured by the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) and Elixhauser Comorbidity Index (ECI) among inpatients based on age, sex, and race. METHODS: Cross-sectional analysis of 2012-2018 US NIS datasets. Participants were inpatients 55y+. ICD-9/10 codes for admitting diagnoses were used to calculate disease burden using the CCI and ECI. Unweighted mean CCI and ECI scores were compared across demographic variables. RESULTS: An increase in mean CCI and ECI scores across age, sex, and races (p < .001) was identified. Compared to the youngest age group (55-59y), all age groups had higher mean CCI and ECI adjusting for time (p < .001). Increases were greatest in older age groups until age 80-84 for CCI and 85-89 for ECI. The female group had lower CCI adjusting for time (p < .001) compared to males. There was no difference between sex groups in mean ECI (p=.409). Compared with the White group, all other race groups had higher mean CCI adjusting for time (p < .001). Black inpatients had the highest CCI followed by Native American inpatients. Findings were similar for ECI, but with no difference between Hispanic and White groups (p=.434). CONCLUSIONS: Growing multimorbidity burden among adult inpatients across age, sex, and race supports the continued need for programs for preventing and reducing multimorbidity, especially among communities that experience health inequity including older, Black, and Native American patients.

Supporting Students’ Physical Activity Self-Efficacy Within High School Physical Education, Ken Murfay, Aaron Beighle, Heather Erwin, Erin Aiello, Sarah Pyszczynski

International Journal of Physical Activity and Health

Research examining physical activity (PA) is significant because of the known benefits of PA. Studying high school (HS) students is particularly important due to the consistent decline in PA as students age. One strategy to increase PA is to increase someone’s self-efficacy (confidence) to be physically active which is commonly positively associated with PA. Most of the research on how to support physical activity self-efficacy (PASE) comes from outside-of-school interventions with minimal literature on how to support students’ PASE within HS physical education (PE). This study attempted to identify and share practices that current HS PE teachers were implementing to …

Association Between Obesity And Risk Of Total And Obesity-Related Cancer In People With Incident Cardiovascular Disease., Sarah Malik, Avirup Guha, Xiaoling Wang, Neal L. Weintraub, Ryan Harris, Biplab Datta, Justin Moore, Priyanshu Nain, Sagar A. Patel, Steven Coughlin, Elizabeth Polter, Anna Prizment, Anne Blaes, Roberta Florido, Shelby Kutty, Alvaro Alonso, Corinne E. Joshu, Elizabeth A. Platz

Markey Cancer Center Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and cancer frequently co-occur due to shared risk factors such as obesity, which is linked to CVD and 14 cancer types. This study explores whether CVD pathophysiologies, combined with obesity, increase cancer risk, impacting clinical management.

METHODS AND RESULTS: Data from the ARIC (Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities) study, spanning 28 years, were analyzed. The cohort included 5127 participants with incident CVD (myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, coronary heart disease), of whom 1511 developed a first primary cancer. Follow-up began at CVD diagnosis after Visit 1. Obesity was assessed using body mass index, waist circumference, and waist-to-hip …

Going Pro, Keith Testa

UNH Today Archive

No abstract provided.

Assessing The Impact Of A College Service-Learning Course Focused On The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Anna L. Krift, Antonella Regueiro, Patrick J. Cooper, Alanna L. Lecher

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

Liberal arts education in the United States seeks not only to prepare students for a specific career but also to develop well-rounded citizens. As part of the core liberal arts curriculum at Lynn University, all students must complete a service-learning course known as the Citizenship Project. A core component of the course is a student-designed service-learning project executed each year. In 2019, the Citizenship Project was revised to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ensuring that each project would seek to contribute to one of these goals. The purpose of this study is to examine which SDGs …

Book Review: The Evolved Nest: Nature’S Way Of Raising Children And Creating Connected Communities

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

No abstract provided.

An Ecopsychological Reading Of Susan Fennimore Cooper’S “Rural Hours”

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

Ecopsychology explores the relationships between the mind (psyche) and the surrounding environment. As Andy Fisher puts it in Radical Ecopsychology (2013), ecopsychology, “would approach the psyche in relation to its earthly or natural home, its native abode” as well as the “the basic shifts in our patterns of identity and relationship that occur when we include our connection to the web of life around us as essential to human well-being.” Fisher considers ecopsychology as a project that paves the ground for changing the role of humans from exploiters to members in the biotic community. If eco or ‘oikos’ refers to …

Humanitarian Natural Disaster Response And Recovery: A Proposed Ecopsychological Framework, Megan Scott

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

This paper explores humanitarian natural disaster response and recovery through an ecopsychological lens. The author proposes an ecopsychological approach to humanitarian natural disaster response and recovery to (that?) addresses structural and personnel challenges typical of mainstream humanitarian disaster response. Three main threads inform this proposed ecopsychological natural disaster framework. First, exploreing the roots of colonization in disaster contexts and offering different ways of knowing through Indigenous perspectives and traditional ecological knowledge. Second, examineing grief experienced by humanitarian workers. Third, offering ecopsychological tools and healing modalities to support healing and resiliency for humanitarian workers and communities on the frontlines of natural …

Vol 9(1) Editorial: Dr. Matthew Jamnik, Matthew Jamnik

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

No abstract provided.

Americanitis

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

No abstract provided.

The Relationship Between The Physical Activity Environment, Nature Relatedness, Anxiety, And The Psychological Well-Being Benefits Of Regular Exercisers

The International Journal of Ecopsychology (IJE)

Research from a variety of scientific fields suggests that physical activity in nature and feelings of connection to nature enhance psychological health and well-being. This study investigated the psychological health and well-being impact of the physical activity environment for those already undertaking the recommended weekly amount of physical activity. This topic is important for the design of health and well-being environments and interventions involving physical activity. Participants (N = 262) aged 18–71 years (M = 34.5, SD = 13.1) who met the UK physical activity guidelines completed the Nature Relatedness Scale, the trait section of the State Trait Inventory for …

Editor's Introduction, Michael D. Pante

Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints

No abstract provided.

Social Vulnerability And Sickle Cell Disease Mortality In The Us, Jia Yi Tan, Boon Jian San, Yong-Hao Yeo, Kok Hoe Chan, Hamid S Shaaban, Daniel E Ezekwudo, Modupe Idowu

Faculty, Staff and Student Publications

Importance: Social determinants of health (SDOH) influence health outcomes, including those of sickle cell disease (SCD), despite advancements in treatments like disease-modifying therapies.

Objective: To investigate the association of SDOH with SCD mortality rates from 2016 to 2020.

Design, setting, and participants: This cross-sectional study combined county-level data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) with SCD mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research database from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2020. US counties were divided into …

Concurrent Ependymal And Ganglionic Differentiation In A Subset Of Supratentorial Neuroepithelial Tumors With Ewsr1-Plagl1 Rearrangement, Julieann C Lee, Sonika Dahiya, Kaleigh Roberts, Et Al.

2020-Current year OA Pubs

Neuroepithelial tumors with fusion of PLAGL1 or amplification of PLAGL1/PLAGL2 have recently been described often with ependymoma-like or embryonal histology respectively. To further evaluate emerging entities with PLAG-family genetic alterations, the histologic, molecular, clinical, and imaging features are described for 8 clinical cases encountered at St. Jude (EWSR1-PLAGL1 fusion n = 6; PLAGL1 amplification n = 1; PLAGL2 amplification n = 1). A histologic feature observed on initial resection in a subset (4/6) of supratentorial neuroepithelial tumors with EWSR1-PLAGL1 rearrangement was the presence of concurrent ependymal and ganglionic differentiation. This ranged from prominent clusters of ganglion cells within ependymoma/subependymoma-like areas, …