Background: Completing advanced endoscopic procedures such as endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) under conscious sedation is challenging. International recommendations favor enhanced sedation (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTurbidity is commonly monitored as an important water quality index. Human activities, such as dredging and dumping operations, can disrupt turbidity levels and should be monitored and analysed for possible effects. In this paper, we model the variations of turbidity in Dublin Bay over space and time to investigate the effects of dumping and dredging while controlling for the effect of wind speed as a common atmospheric effect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFU.S. Hispanic families with limited English proficiency experience barriers to autism diagnosis, such as lack of Spanish-speaking providers and assessments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Integrating patient and community input is essential to the relevance and impact of patient-focused research. However, specific techniques for generating patient and community-informed research decisions remain limited. Here, we describes a novel CASCADE method (Community-Engaged Approach for Scientific Collaborations and Decisions) that was developed and implemented to make actionable, patient-centered research decisions during a federally funded clinical trial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe etiological heterogeneity of depression poses a challenge for prevention and intervention efforts. One solution is to map unique etiological pathways for subgroups defined by a singular risk factor. A relevant population for this approach is women who carry the premutation of the 1 (1) gene, who are at high risk for adult-onset depression.
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