Transformative impacts of a civic leadership program created by and for refugees and immigrants.

Immigrants and refugees are severely underrepresented at all levels of political decision-making in the United States. These groups face significant barriers to civic and political participation and leadership, despite a frequent commitment to community care and engagement. There is an urgent need to address immigrant integration and underrepresentation through transformative means that go beyond voting to create a more inclusive and socially just society.

Trans-arterial embolization of renal cell carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Purpose: To evaluate if trans-arterial embolization (TAE) of the primary tumor in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) improves symptomatology such as pain and hematuria or oncologic outcomes such as progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).

Materials And Methods: The systematic review search included PubMed, Ovid/MEDLINE, and Embase for full-text English articles including randomized and non-randomized prospective trials as well as prospective and retrospective case series. To be included, prospective trials needed ≥ 25 patients in each arm while case series and retrospective chart reviews required at least two patients.

Hierarchical Organization of Single Crystal Polymorphs of Azobenzene Chromophore in Anisotropic Media Subjected to Local Thermal Gradients upon Cold Spraying.

The present article entails the emergence of diverse crystal polymorphs following thermal quenching into various coexistence regions of binary azobenzene chromophore (ACh)/diacrylate (DA) solution and of azobenzene/nematic liquid crystal (E7) mixture. Development of various crystal topologies encompassing rhomboidal and hexagonal shapes can be witnessed in a manner dependent on thermal quenched depths into the crystal + liquid coexistence region of ACh/DA system. Upon spraying with compressed carbon dioxide (CO ) fluid, the local temperature gradient is generated resulting in spherulitic morphology showing discrete lamellae undergoing twisting locally in some regions and branched dendrites or seaweeds in another.

Uniting liberatory and participatory approaches in public psychology with refugees.

Increasing inequities both within and between nations call psychologists to consider whom they intend their research and practice to serve. The purpose of this article is to propose a public psychology rooted in the values of liberation psychology and utilizing participatory research methods to enact change. To exemplify this framework, we present the work of a community research partnership between academics and individuals with lived experience as refugees.

Creating collective solidarity: Insights from the development and process evaluation of civic action for refugee empowerment in Cincinnati.

Objective: Our goal was to describe the development, progress, and functioning of Civic Action for Refugee Empowerment in Cincinnati (CARE: Cincinnati) as a model for community-based participatory research (CBPR) with refugees. We conducted a participatory evaluation to assess our collective ability to employ shared power and equitable decision-making, and to facilitate structures that build member ownership and solidarity. We identify principles and processes that can be used by researchers, practitioners, and activists interested in working toward the creation of more equitable community spaces for refugees.

STARD Adherence in an Interventional Radiology Guideline for Diagnostic Arteriography.

To assess the quality of reporting in diagnostic accuracy studies (DAS) referenced by the Quality Improvement Guidelines for Diagnostic Arteriography and their adherence to the Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD) statement. Citations specific to the Society of Interventional Radiology's Quality Improvement Guidelines for Diagnostic Arteriography were collected. Using the 34-item STARD checklist, two authors in a duplicate and blinded fashion documented the number of items reported per diagnostic accuracy study.

Evaluation of indicators supporting reproducibility and transparency within cardiology literature.

Objectives: It has been suggested that biomedical research is facing a reproducibility issue, yet the extent of reproducible research within the cardiology literature remains unclear. Thus, our main objective was to assess the quality of research published in cardiology journals by assessing for the presence of eight indicators of reproducibility and transparency.

Methods: Using a cross-sectional study design, we conducted an advanced search of the National Library of Medicine catalogue for publications in cardiology journals.

An analysis of key indicators of reproducibility in radiology.

Background: Given the central role of radiology in patient care, it is important that radiological research is grounded in reproducible science. It is unclear whether there is a lack of reproducibility or transparency in radiologic research.

Purpose: To analyze published radiology literature for the presence or lack of key indicators of reproducibility.

High correlation between mechanical properties and bone mineral parameters in embalmed femurs after long-term storage.

Background: Fresh frozen human femurs are considered "the gold standard" in biomechanical studies of hip fractures, resembling the in vivo situation mostly. A more readily available alternative is formalin embalmed femurs. However, to which extent formalin affects key features of bone; its mechanical properties, bone mineral content and their mutual relationship over time, remains unknown.

Feasibility of detecting orthopaedic screw overtightening using acoustic emission.

A preliminary study of acoustic emission during orthopaedic screw fixation was performed using polyurethane foam as the bone-simulating material. Three sets of screws, a dynamic hip screw, a small fragment screw and a large fragment screw, were investigated, monitoring acoustic-emission activity during the screw tightening. In some specimens, screws were deliberately overtightened in order to investigate the feasibility of detecting the stripping torque in advance.

Assessment of harbor seal predation on adult salmonids in a Pacific Northwest estuary.

The populations of many native species have increased or expanded in distribution in recent decades, sometimes with negative consequences to sympatric native species that are rarer or less adaptable to anthropogenic changes to the environment. An example of this phenomenon from the Pacific Northwest is predation by locally abundant pinnipeds (seals and sea lions) on threatened, endangered, or otherwise depleted salmonid (Oncorhynchus spp.) populations.