Publications by authors named "GRAY J"

The Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) is used to assess depression with people from many cultures and ethnicities; however, the scale has been validated with very few populations other than the majority (Gray et al., 2016). Secondary analysis of data included two-factor confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) of the BDI-II with two independent American Indian samples, which were compared with the results in the BDI-II Manual (Beck et al.

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Purpose: Goals provide insight into what is important to an individual. We describe the development and application of a mixed methods approach to elicit goals and perceptions about goals in patients with advanced cancer.

Methods: Patients receiving first-line treatment for advanced lung cancer participated in semi-structured interviews about their goals.

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Background: Globally, there is a call for urgent investment in nursing and midwifery education as high-quality education leads to quality care provision. This call for investment includes a 'focus on faculty', that is, development of those who teach. However, challenges in the preparation and development of faculty have been identified and include lack of recognition of ongoing development, limited pathways for career progression, inadequate provision of, or access to, faculty development opportunities and a lack of research evaluating sustained impact of programs.

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Objectives: To characterize inappropriate shock delivery during pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA).

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: An international pediatric cardiac arrest quality improvement collaborative Pediatric Resuscitation Quality [pediRES-Q].

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Diphtheria is a respiratory disease caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. While the toxin-based vaccine has helped control outbreaks of the disease since the mid-20th century there has been an increase in cases in recent years, including systemic infections caused by non-toxigenic C. diphtheriae strains.

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Unlabelled: African American (AA) prostate cancer associates with vitamin D deficiency, but vitamin D receptor (VDR) genomic actions have not been investigated in this context. We undertook VDR proteogenomic analyses in European American (EA) and AA prostate cell lines and four clinical cohorts. Rapid immunoprecipitation mass spectrometry of endogenous protein (RIME) analyses revealed that nonmalignant AA RC43N prostate cells displayed the greatest dynamic protein content in the VDR complex.

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  • A study analyzed 424 patients with KRASG12C-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and identified key genomic alterations (in KEAP1, SMARCA4, and CDKN2A) that lead to worse outcomes with KRASG12C inhibitors (KRASG12Ci).
  • These alterations allowed researchers to classify patients into different prognostic groups, indicating nearly 50% of those who experienced early disease progression.
  • The research suggests potential pathways not only associated with poor response (like PI3K/AKT/MTOR) but also hints that certain DNA damage response issues might improve KRASG12Ci effectiveness, paving the way for personalized treatment strategies.
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Background And Objectives: Relational caring has the capacity to reduce stigma associated with dementia by shifting the focus from dysfunction and behavior management, to attending to the interdependencies and reciprocities that underpin caring relationships, and making explicit the centrality of relationships to quality care, growth, and quality of life. Education, particularly arts-based approaches, has been identified as a key strategy to decrease stigma. Yet rarely are the arts utilized in educational initiatives, and particularly so in community care settings.

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Introduction: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) adopted educational milestones for trainee assessment in 2013, as a key component of the Next Accreditation System. Two years later, the ACGME, American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), and American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) collaborated to create specialty-specific subcompetencies in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM). Since that time, emerging data have demonstrated the need to revise specialty milestones.

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Impulsivity refers to a number of conceptually related phenotypes reflecting self-regulatory capacity that are considered promising endophenotypes for mental and physical health. Measures of impulsivity can be broadly grouped into three domains, namely, impulsive choice, impulsive action, and impulsive personality traits. In a community-based sample of ancestral Europeans (n = 1534), we conducted genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of impulsive choice (delay discounting), impulsive action (behavioral inhibition), and impulsive personality traits (UPPS-P), and evaluated 11 polygenic risk scores (PRSs) of phenotypes previously linked to self-regulation.

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In-person undergraduate research experiences (UREs) promote students' integration into careers in life science research. In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted institutions hosting summer URE programs to offer them remotely, raising questions about whether undergraduates who participate in remote research can experience scientific integration and whether they might perceive doing research less favorably (i.e.

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  • Adoptive cell therapy using CAR-expressing NK cells shows promise for treating multiple myeloma, but challenges exist due to NK cells expressing the target antigen CD38.
  • Researchers are exploring an approach that monitors CD38 expression during the long-term stimulation of NK cells to optimize the introduction of an affinity-optimized CAR, avoiding self-destruction of the NK cells.
  • The study found that CAR-NK cells effectively attack CD38-positive multiple myeloma cells, suggesting this method could be a powerful immunotherapy for patients with this type of cancer.
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The human infectious disease COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has become a major threat to global public health. Developing a vaccine is the preferred prophylactic response to epidemics and pandemics. However, for individuals who have contracted the disease, the rapid design of antibodies that can target the SARS-CoV-2 virus fulfils a critical need.

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Importance: Heroin addiction and related mortality impose a devastating toll on society, with little known about the neurobiology of this disease or its treatment. Poor inhibitory control is a common manifestation of prefrontal cortex (PFC) impairments in addiction, and its potential recovery following treatment is largely unknown in heroin (or any drug) addiction.

Objective: To study inhibitory control brain activity in iHUD and HC, before and after 15 weeks of inpatient treatment in the former.

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  • The brain of a mouse has millions of different cells, and scientists want to make a complete list of these cell types to understand how the brain works.
  • Researchers created a detailed map of these cells by studying around 7 million cells with a special technique that looks at their genes and how they are placed in the brain.
  • They discovered that there are many different types of cells in the brain, with some areas being very unique, like the dorsal part having fewer but more distinct types, while the ventral part has many similar types.
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Due to intense interest in the potential applications of quantum computing, it is critical to understand the basis for potential exponential quantum advantage in quantum chemistry. Here we gather the evidence for this case in the most common task in quantum chemistry, namely, ground-state energy estimation, for generic chemical problems where heuristic quantum state preparation might be assumed to be efficient. The availability of exponential quantum advantage then centers on whether features of the physical problem that enable efficient heuristic quantum state preparation also enable efficient solution by classical heuristics.

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Background: Measurement of SARS-CoV-2 antibody seropositivity is important to accurately understand exposure to infection and/or vaccination in specific populations. This study aimed to estimate the serologic response to SARS-CoV-2 virus infection and vaccination in children in Calgary, Alberta over a two-year period.

Methods: Children with or without prior SARS-CoV-2 infections, were enrolled in Calgary, Canada in 2020.

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Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common hospital-acquired complications. Insertion of a urinary catheter and the duration of catheterization are the main risk factors, with catheter-associated UTIs (CAUTIs) accounting for 70-80% of hospital-acquired UTIs. Guidance is available regarding the prevention of hospital-acquired CAUTIs; however, how best to operationalize this guidance remains a challenge.

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Carbohydrates dynamically and transiently interact with proteins for cell-cell recognition, cellular differentiation, immune response, and many other cellular processes. Despite the molecular importance of these interactions, there are currently few reliable computational tools to predict potential carbohydrate binding sites on any given protein. Here, we present two deep learning models named CArbohydrate-Protein interaction Site IdentiFier (CAPSIF) that predict carbohydrate binding sites on proteins: (1) a 3D-UNet voxel-based neural network model (CAPSIF:V) and (2) an equivariant graph neural network model (CAPSIF:G).

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Selection upon intrinsic fitness differences is one of the most basic mechanisms of evolution, fundamental to all biology. Equally, within macroscopic populations and microscopic environments, ecological interactions influence evolution. Direct experimental evidence of ecological selection between microscopic agents continues to grow.

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  • Researchers investigated protic ruthenium complexes with dihydroxybipyridine (dhbp) ligands and spectator ligands (like bpy and phen) to evaluate their effectiveness against cancer cells and their luminescent properties.
  • The study focuses on 16 complexes derived from two protonation states (acidic and deprotonated), including new complexes that were synthesized and characterized through spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography.
  • Key findings show that certain complexes can be activated by light to exhibit photocytotoxicity, with specific complex characteristics such as longer luminescent lifetimes correlating with improved effectiveness against cancer cells.
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  • Most tumor cells die through apoptosis due to immune responses and unfavorable environments, but the effects of dying cells on live tumor cells during metastasis are unclear.
  • This study shows that dying cancer cells can actually promote the growth of surviving cancer cells through a process called Padi4-mediated nuclear expulsion, which creates a harmful DNA-protein complex.
  • The study found that this complex activates receptors in nearby living tumor cells, leading to increased growth, and a similar nuclear expulsion pattern was observed in patients with breast, bladder, and lung cancer, correlating with worse outcomes.
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Background: To reveal successes and potential limitations of the lung cancer screening program, we conducted a survey that included both quantitative and open-ended questions to measure patient experiences and satisfaction with screening.

Methods: We report on the five open-ended items related to barriers to returning for screening, experience with other cancer prevention screenings, positive and negative experiences, and suggestions for improving future appointments. The open-ended responses were analyzed using constant comparison method and inductive content analysis.

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