Publications by authors named "Charlotte Merrick"

Importance: Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are being referred more individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), even when their medical needs are not directly associated with OUD.

Objective: To characterize factors that influence SNF admission for individuals with OUD and identify strategies for providing medications for OUD (MOUD) in SNFs.

Design, Setting, And Participants: In this semistructured qualitative study, interviews were conducted with SNF administrators from 27 SNFs in Rhode Island from November 5, 2021, to April 27, 2022.

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A multitude of sensory modalities are involved in humans' experience of wetness, yet we know little of the integratory role of vision. Therefore, the aim was to quantify the effect of physical stain volume, chroma and size on wetness perception, and to compare wetness perception under different sensory conditions, including visuotactile and visual only interactions. Eighteen participants visually observed and/or used their index fingerpad to dynamically interact with stimuli varying in physical wetness (0, 2.

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Differences in skin thermal sensitivity have been extensively mapped across areas of the human body, including the torso, limbs, and extremities. Yet, there are parts of the female body, such as the breast and the pelvis for which we have limited thermal sensitivity data. The aim of this study was to map cutaneous warm and cold sensitivity across skin areas of the breast and pelvis that are commonly covered by female underwear.

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Mechanosensory inputs arising from dynamic interactions between the skin and moisture, such as when sliding a finger over a wet substrate, contribute to the perception of skin wetness. Yet, the exact relationship between the mechanical properties of a wet substrate, such as friction, and the resulting wetness perception remains to be established under naturalistic haptic interactions. We modeled the relationship between mechanical and thermal properties of substrates varying in moisture levels (0.

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Humans often experience wet stimuli using their hands, yet we know little on how sensitive our fingers are to wetness and the mechanisms underlying this sensory function. We therefore aimed to quantify the minimum amount of water required to detect wetness on the human index fingerpad, the wetness detection threshold, and assess its modulation by temperature. Eight blinded participants (24.

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Carrying babies in a sling, that is, babywearing, is a popular practice among new parents. Babies are thermally vulnerable and public health bodies advise to dress them in one extra layer than the adult. However, these guidelines do not consider babywearing and it is unclear whether babies' clothing insulation should be modified during babywearing.

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Hygroreceptors are a type of humidity sensor that have been identified in several invertebrate classes including Insecta and Arachnida. While their structure has been well researched, the nature of the mechanisms behind their function is debated as being either mechanical, evaporative, or psychrometric in insects and potentially also olfactory in arachnids. There is evidence that can be used to support or oppose each of these concepts, which also invites the possibility of multiple unified mechanisms occurring together.

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