Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Materials from Vegetable Oils.

The production of materials based on fossil resources is yielding more sustainable and ecologically beneficial methods. Vegetable oils (VO) are one example of base materials whose derivatives rival the properties of their petro-based counterparts. Gaps exist however and one way to fill them is by employing sol-gel processes to synthesize organic-inorganic hybrid materials, often derived from silane/siloxane compounds.

Comparing in-home telehealth and in-person administration of neuropsychological measures in an outpatient pediatric sample during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Research establishing the validity of neuropsychological assessment using telehealth (teleNP) is much needed in pediatric populations. Current analyses compared performances on twelve common neuropsychological measures completed at home teleNP or in-person during the COVID-19 pandemic in 476 youth (ages 6 to 17, M 11.4 ± 3.

Uncovering and mitigating bias in large, automated MRI analyses of brain development.

Large, population-based MRI studies of adolescents promise transformational insights into neurodevelopment and mental illness risk . However, MRI studies of youth are especially susceptible to motion and other artifacts . These artifacts may go undetected by automated quality control (QC) methods that are preferred in high-throughput imaging studies, 5 and can potentially introduce non-random noise into clinical association analyses.

Precise Alkoxyamine Design to Enable Automated Tandem Mass Spectrometry Sequencing of Digital Poly(phosphodiester)s.

A major step towards reliable reading of information coded in the sequence of long poly(phosphodiester)s was previously achieved by introducing an alkoxyamine spacer between information sub-segments. However, MS/MS decoding had to be performed manually to safely identify useful fragments of low abundance compared to side-products from the amide-based alkoxyamine used. Here, alternative alkoxyamines were designed to prevent side-reactions and enable automated MS/MS sequencing.