A Short Form for Measuring Anxiety in Nursing Education.

Nursing education lacks an easily accessible, valid, and reliable short instrument to support researchers and instructors in quickly assessing student anxiety. The purpose of this research was to respond to this need by assessing the reliability and validity of a short-form anxiety instrument adapted from psychology which could measure state and trait anxiety. Using a one-group, repeated measures design, 51 sophomore level undergraduate nursing students had their state and trait anxiety levels measured at three time points over the course of a semester.

A rasch analysis of three socialization and communication measures in 4-year doctor of pharmacy students.

The impact of communication and anxiety on Doctor of Pharmacy students across three measures was examined. Data were collected (N = 120) from 4-year Doctor of Pharmacy students at a historically black college/university using the Interprofessional Socialization and Valuing Scale, the Personal Report of Communication Apprehension, and the Social Phobia Inventory. Results of Rasch Differential Item Functioning Analysis indicated statistically significant differences between each ethnic group on subcomponents of anxiety in each measure (20% Caucasian, 43% African American, 31.

An AI-based framework for studying visual diversity of urban neighborhoods and its relationship with socio-demographic variables.

This study presents a framework to study quantitatively geographical visual diversities of urban neighborhood from a large collection of street-view images using an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based image segmentation technique. A variety of diversity indices are computed from the extracted visual semantics. They are utilized to discover the relationships between urban visual appearance and socio-demographic variables.

Study on Tissue Homogenization Buffer Composition for Brain Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics.

Mass spectrometry-based proteomics aims to study the proteome both qualitatively and quantitatively. A key step in proteomic analysis is sample preparation, which is crucial for reliable results. We investigated the effect of the composition of the homogenization buffer used to extract proteins from brain tissue on the yield of protein extraction and the number and type of extracted proteins.

Impact and feasibility of a pharmacist-delivered pharmacotherapy rotation on pediatric resident education.

Pharmacotherapy training for pediatric residents is an important part of their overall education. Limited data exist describing formal engagement of clinical pharmacists in residency training. The objective of this study was to evaluate a novel pharmacotherapy rotation for learner gains and program feasibility.