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Nursing Home Residents' COVID-19 Infections in the United States: A Systematic Review of Personal and Contextual Factors

Description: This article suggests that along with known risk factors for COVID-19 infections, geographic and resident demographics are also important preventive care considerations. The authors assert that access to COVID-19 vaccinations for vulnerable residents should be a priority
Date: February 15, 2024
Creator: Yin, Cheng; Mpofu, Elias; Brock, Kaye & Ingman, Stanley R.
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A Range of Pandemic Adjustments: Changes to Texas Heritage Site Business Operations during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Description: This article examines the adjustments made by Texas heritage sites in response to emerging risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors' findings emphasize the importance of adjustments made by heritage sites to continue their operations during the pandemic while also offering strategies to mitigate future risks.
Date: March 29, 2024
Creator: Tamima, Salvesila; Zavar, Elyse; Lavy, Brendan L. & Schumann III, Ronald L.
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Strengths Perspective: How Social Work Students Use Mindfulness as a Self-Care Strategy

Description: This article studies social work students' experiences with using mindfulness from a strengths perspective. The study consisted of weekly mindfulness activities and writing prompts, concluding with a focus group in the final week, and a thematic analysis was utilized to identify key themes.
Date: April 13, 2024
Creator: Evans, Rosalind; Hawley-Bernardez, Alicia & Gibbons, Greg
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The Shape of Relations to Come: Multidimensional Analysis of Complex Human Behavior

Description: This article conceptualizes verbal behavior as a multidimensional field of environmental relations, and introduce the use of multi-axial radar charts for its visual and quantitative analysis. The authors demonstrate the use of radar charts for calculating simple shape descriptors as a quantitative measure of dynamic interactants, and show how they can be used to measure change over time.
Date: January 9, 2024
Creator: Mason, Lee; Andrews, Alonzo; Otero, Maria & James-Kelly, Kimberly
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Correction to: Analyzing the Functional Interdependence of Verbal Behavior with Multiaxial Radar Charts

Description: This article is a correction to "Analyzing the Functional Interdependence of Verbal Behavior with Multiaxial Radar Charts". The original article has been updated to include a negative sign before 1 in the formula to read √−1 in the 16th paragraph.
Date: July 23, 2024
Creator: Mason, Lee; Otero, Maria & Andrews, Alonzo
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Analyzing the Functional Interdependence of Verbal Behavior with Multiaxial Radar Charts

Description: This article extends the use of multidimensional analyses to compare the relative performance distributions of verbal behavior across four potential controlling variables. The authors discuss the use of radar charts as a framework for understanding the interdependence of verbal operants and suggest their use for complex analyses of complex verbal behavior.
Date: April 30, 2024
Creator: Mason, Lee; Otero, Maria & Andrews, Alonzo
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Preeclampsia, antihypertensive medication use in pregnancy and risk of childhood cancer in offspring

Description: This article examines the association between preeclampsia, antihypertensive medications, and childhood cancer in offspring. The authors' findings suggested an increased risk for certain types of cancer in the offspring of mothers with preeclampsia and an increased risk of cancer with diuretic intake during pregnancy.
Date: August 3, 2023
Creator: Askins, Lexie; Orimoloye, Helen T.; Deng, Chuanjie; Hansen, Johnni; Olsen, Jorn; Ritz, Beate et al.
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Impacts of Local Government Perceptions of Disaster Risks on land Resilience Planning Implementation

Description: This article asserts that local government managers play a critical role in sustainability and climate adaptation planning, and in relation to land-use policy, but little is known about how managers’ hazard risk concerns influence the implementation of resilience policy or how this relationship may vary across different landscapes and types of hazards. The authors discuss the nature of the differences across four hazards and explore the implications of the findings for the literature on land us… more
Date: July 19, 2024
Creator: Kim, Soyoung; Andrew, Simon A.; de la Cruz, Edgar Ramirez; Kim, Woo-Je & Feiock, Richard Clark
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Social networking older adults with mild cognitive impairment: Systematic review protocol on their use of information and communication technology

Description: This article identifies and synthesizes the emerging evidence on older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) utilizing Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to maintain, restore, or augment social networks. The authors plan to share the outcomes of this systematic review through online presentations and dissemination within the research community.
Date: May 2, 2024
Creator: Zhan, Rongfang; Mpofu, Elias; Prybutok, Gayle & Ingman, Stanley R.
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The Role of Technology in Online Health Communities: A Study of Information-Seeking Behavior

Description: This study significantly contributes to both theory and practice by providing valuable insights into the role and value of healthcare in the context of online health communities. The findings of this study identify the most beneficial technology-related issues, like ease of site navigation and interaction with other online members, which have important implications for the development and management of online health communities.
Date: January 29, 2024
Creator: Boyce, LeAnn; Harun, Ahasan; Prybutok, Gayle & Prybutok, Victor R.
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Qualities of Older Adults' Family and Friendship Relationships and their Association with Life Satisfaction

Description: This study examined how family and friendship relationship qualities may be supportive of (compensatory) or conflict with (competing) older adults’ life satisfaction. The findings indicate that the spouse/partner support relationship contributes to older adults’ life satisfaction overall and is associated with greater social support and less social strain.
Date: April 10, 2024
Creator: Mpofu, Elias; Zhan, Rong-Fang; Yin, Cheng & Brock, Kaye
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Cross-modal plasticity in children with cochlear implant: converging evidence from EEG and functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Description: The authors assert that over the first years of life, the brain undergoes substantial organization in response to environmental stimulation, and in a silent world it may promote vision by recruiting resources from the auditory cortex and making the visual cortex more efficient. The authors examine 7-18 years old children who either had cochlear implants with delayed or age-appropriate language abilities, or had typical hearing and language.
Date: May 21, 2024
Creator: Deroche, Mickael L. D.; Wolfe, Jace; Neumann, Sara; Manning, Jacy; Hanna, Lindsay; Towler, Will et al.
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Motor Processing in Children With Cochlear Implants as Assessed by Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Description: This article investigated whether the cortical responses of children with cochlear implants (CI) to a simple and repetitive motor task would differ from that of children with typical hearing (TH) and we sought to understand whether this response related to their language development. The authors used functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to record cortical responses over the whole brain, as children squeezed the back triggers of a joystick that vibrated or not with the squeeze.
Date: November 17, 2023
Creator: Alemi, Razieh; Wolfe, Jace; Neumann, Sara; Manning, Jacy; Hanna, Lindsay; Towler, Will et al.
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Sexual and reproductive health and rights decision-making among Australian migrant and refugee youth: a group concept mapping study

Description: This article aims to identify socioecological factors influencing migrant and refugee youth SRH decision-making and compare perspectives of youth with key stakeholders. This study reveals factors informing migrant and refugee youth’s decision-making.
Date: November 17, 2023
Creator: Napier-Raman, Sharanya; Hossain, Syeda Zakia; Mpofu, Elias; Lee, Mi-Joung; Liamputtong, Pranee & Dune, Tinashe
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A prediction model for classifying maternal pregnancy smoking using California state birth certificate information

Description: The authors assert that systematically recorded smoking data are not always available in vital statistics records, and even when available it can underestimate true smoking rates. The authors designed a case–control study where childhood cancer cases were identified from the California Cancer Registry and controls were from the California birth rolls between 1983 and 2011 who were cancer-free by the age of six.
Date: November 15, 2023
Creator: He, Di; Huang, Xiwen; Arah, Onyebuchi A.; Walker, Douglas I.; Jones, Dean P.; Ritz, Beate et al.
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Pain and quality of life in persons with spinal cord injury: Mediating effects of mindfulness, self-efficacy, social support, and functional independence

Description: This object aims to identify mediating roles of mindfulness, self-efficacy, social support, and functional independence in the relationship between pain and quality of life (QOL) in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Findings showed significant direct effects of pain on functional independence, self-efficacy, mindfulness, and social support.
Date: October 21, 2023
Creator: Bhattarai, Muna; McDaniels, Bradley; Jin, Yuanyuan & Smedema, Susan M.
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Utilising qualitative data for social network analysis in disaster research: opportunities, challenges, and an illustration

Description: This paper overviews the use of qualitative data in quantitative social network analysis in disaster research. It discusses two types of networks, each with a relevant major topic in disaster research—that is, (i) whole network approaches to emergency management networks and (ii) personal network approaches to the social support of survivors—and four usable forms of qualitative data. This paper explains five opportunities afforded by these approaches, revolving around their flexibility and abil… more
Date: July 20, 2023
Creator: Benedict, Bailey C.; Lee, Seungyoon; Jarvis, Caitlyn M.; Siebeneck, Laura K. & Wolfe, Rachel
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Empowering Accessible Community Mobility: Community based transportation challenges for older adults and persons with disabilities

Description: This poster examines institutional arrangements and operational challenges and aim to answer what coordinated systems exist to aid transportation disadvantaged populations, and how are tehse services managed and adapted amid resources limitations. It was presented at the UNT Research Day on October 4, 2024 in Denton, Texas.
Date: October 4, 2024
Creator: Keyes, Laura; Balachandra, Sowmya; Andrew, Simon A. & Ford, Sara
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Associated Factors of Patients' Survival in Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest; a Cross-sectional Study

Description: This article asserts that Chinese populations have an increasingly high prevalence of cardiac arrest. This study aimed to investigate the prehospital associated factors of survival to hospital admission and discharge among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) adult cases in Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), China.
Date: May 9, 2024
Creator: Ke, Liang; Ieong, Pui I.; Brock, Kaye E.; Mpofu, Elias; Yin, Cheng; Feng, Xiuhua et al.
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Maternal autoimmune disease and its association with childhood cancer: A population-based case-control study in Denmark

Description: This article asserts that autoimmune diseases have been linked to an increased risk of pregnancy-related complications. A family history of autoimmune diseases may be related to the risk of childhood cancer based on similar histocompatibility antigens. The authors utilized data from national registries in Denmark to examine associations between maternal autoimmune disease and cancer in their offspring.
Date: January 29, 2024
Creator: Orimoloye, Helen T.; Nguyen, Nicholas; Deng, Chuanjie; Saechao, Chai; Ritz, Beate; Olsen, Jorn et al.
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Tourism and national collaboration in protected areas

Description: This article asserts that more than 45% of international visitors enjoy tourism in Nepalese protected areas. The article identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of Nepalese protected areas in the context of tourism.
Date: August 16, 2024
Creator: KC, Birendra; Adhikari, Hari & Stainback, George Andrew
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Maternal residential exposure to solvents from industrial sources during pregnancy and childhood cancer risk in California

Description: This study evaluates the associations between maternal residential exposure to solvents from industrial pollution during pregnancy and childhood cancer. The authors' overall findings suggested maternal residential exposure to solvents from industrial sources might be associated with elevated childhood cancer risks.
Date: May 4, 2024
Creator: Chen, Yixin; Van Deventer, Darcy; Nianogo, Roch; Vinceti, Marco; Kang, Wei; Cockburn, Myles et al.
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Exposure to outdoor ambient air toxics and risk of breast cancer: The multiethnic cohort

Description: This article states that growing literature has reported associations between traffic-related air pollution and breast cancer, however there are fewer investigations into specific ambient agents and any putative risk of breast cancer development, particularly studies occurring in populations residing in higher pollution areas such as Los Angeles. The authors examined the relationships between ambient air toxics and breast cancer risk in the Multiethnic Cohort among 48,665 California female part… more
Date: April 4, 2024
Creator: Heck, Julia E.; He, Di; Wing, Sam E.; Ritz, Beate; Carey, Chandra D.; Yang, Juan et al.
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