Comprehensive energy demand and usage data for building automation.

Buildings are essential in satisfying our daily need for comfort (privacy, protection from weather, etc.) and are responsible for almost half of the world's total energy consumption. Research at the interface of room comfort and energy efficiency is of critical societal importance.

Impact of a Genetic Diagnosis for a Child's Autism on Parental Perceptions.

Genetic testing is recommended as part of an autism assessment, and most parents support genetic testing for their minor children. However, the impact on parents of receiving a monogenetic/ copy number variant diagnosis for autism in their child is not well understood. To explore this, we surveyed and interviewed parents of children in the SPARK study, a study of autism that includes genetic testing.

CNS tuberculoma in an immunocompetent patient: A case report of multi-drug hypersensitivity to RIPE therapy.

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading cause of death due to an infectious disease worldwide (World Health Organization, 2022 [1]). The first line treatment of TB involves the concurrent use of four drugs: rifampin, isoniazid, pyrazinamide, and ethambutol (RIPE). Given the rising threat of multidrug resistant TB, it is crucial to understand how TB can be treated when first line treatment is not an option.

Objective and Subjective Neighborhood Crime Associated with Poor Sleep among Young Sexual Minority Men: a GPS Study.

Sleep disparities in sexual minority male (SMM) populations have received relatively little attention but they may be critical to explaining other health disparities seen among SMM, via neural or hormonal pathways. Recent research suggests that crime may be a psychosocial stressor that contributes to sleep disparities but that finding has been based on subjective measures of crime. We conducted the P18 Neighborhood Study of 250 SMM in New York City, including 211 with adequate GPS tracking data.

Treating in Place: Acute Care for Long-Stay Residents in Nursing Facilities Under a CMS Initiative.

Background/objectives: Nursing facility (NF) residents are commonly hospitalized, and many of these hospitalizations may be avoidable. A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiative enables participating NFs to bill Medicare for providing on-site acute care to long-stay residents diagnosed with one of six ambulatory care sensitive conditions (pneumonia, congestive heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, dehydration, skin infection, and urinary tract infection) that account for many avoidable hospitalizations. This study describes the frequency of initiative-related treatment for the six conditions, both on site and in the hospital, and the health status of residents who were treated.

Reducing pain associated with arterial punctures for blood gas analysis.

Arterial punctures for arterial blood gases (ABGs) analysis are described as the most painful laboratory procedure and are performed without the benefit of pain management. This study originated from one nurse's concern about the level of pain her hospitalized patients endured when she drew their ABGs. A review of the literature found that ABG pain relief has not been studied in hospitalized patients.

Microscopic Origin of the Non-Newtonian Viscosity of Semiflexible Polymer Solutions in the Semidilute Regime.

One of the great goals in polymer physics is to relate the various macroscopic features of polymeric fluids with the microscopic behavior of single chains. Here, we directly visualize the conformational dynamics of individual semiflexible polymers in a semidilute solution above the overlap concentration under shear. We observe that the tumbling dynamics are significantly slowed down, in marked contrast to the case of a dilute solution, due to steric interactions with neighboring filaments.

A simple method for the removal of dissolved organic matter and δ15N analysis of NO3(-) from freshwater.

Rationale: Stable isotopes of nitrogen in nitrate (NO(3)(-)) are frequently used to identify nitrate sources and to study nitrogen (N) transformation processes, but the measurement methods available are generally rather labor intensive and/or costly, and dissolved organic matter (DOM) can interfere with the δ(15)N signature of nitrate. We therefore have developed a simple cleanup procedure for freshwater samples with low nitrate and high DOM concentrations.

Methods: Nitrate and DOM are extracted from a freeze-dried water sample by using a concentrated sodium hydroxide solution.

A new isolation procedure of nitrate from freshwater for nitrogen and oxygen isotope analysis.

The nitrogen (δ(15)N) and oxygen isotope (δ(18)O) analysis of nitrate (NO(3)(-)) from aqueous samples can be used to determine nitrate sources and to study N transformation processes. For these purposes, several methods have been developed; however, none of them allows an accurate, fast and inexpensive analysis. Here, we present a new simple method for the isolation of nitrate, which is based on the different solubilities of inorganic salts in an acetone/hexane/water mixture.