Examining Baseline Relations Between Parent-Child Interactions and STEM Engagement and Learning.

Several studies suggest that children's learning and engagement with the content of play activities is affected by the ways parents and children interact. In particular, when parents are overly directive and set more goals during play with their children, their children tend to play less or are less engaged by subsequent challenges with the activity on their own. A concern, however, is that this directed interaction style is only compared with other styles of parent-child interaction, not with a baseline measure of engagement or learning.

Enabling systemic identification and functionality profiling for Cdc42 homeostatic modulators.

Maintaining body homeostasis is the ultimate key to health. There are rich resources of bioactive materials for the functionality of homeostatic modulators (HMs) from both natural and synthetic chemical repertories. HMs are powerful modern therapeutics for human diseases including neuropsychiatric diseases, mental disorders, and drug addiction (e.

Primary malignant melanoma of the genitourinary tract: case series of a rare form of primary mucosal melanoma.

Primary malignant melanoma of the genitourinary tract is extremely rare. We present two such cases in elderly Caucasian females. An 81-year-old female with urinary retention and polypoid urinary bladder mass and a 72-year-old female with gross hematuria and urethral caruncle.

Evaluation of Thermal Support during Anesthesia Induction on Body Temperature in C57BL/6 and Nude Mice.

Heat supplementation during surgery is a common practice; however, thermal support is not commonly used during anesthesia induction. Mice lose body temperature quickly, and air movement can exacerbate this, potentially putting mice at a thermal deficit before surgery. Whether the method of warming during induction affects overall heat loss during anesthesia is unknown.

Enabling Systemic Identification and Functionality Profiling for Cdc42 Homeostatic Modulators.

Unlabelled: Homeostatic modulation is pivotal in modern therapeutics. However, the discovery of bioactive materials to achieve this functionality is often random and unpredictive. Here, we enabled a systemic identification and functional classification of chemicals that elicit homeostatic modulation of signaling through Cdc42, a classical small GTPase of Ras superfamily.