Publications by authors named "H C Rouse"

The present study examined the social-emotional development items assessed by kindergarten teachers in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort to determine the optimal factor structure underlying the items as well as the reliability and validity of the resulting factors. This study identified an empirically derived factor structure for teacher-reported social development, investigated whether there was evidence of bias in teacher assessments of social-emotional constructs, examined factor invariance across demographic characteristics (i.e.

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  • Cardiopulmonary complications in connective tissue diseases (CTDs) like pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and interstitial lung disease (ILD) significantly impact patient health and survival rates.
  • Multidisciplinary meetings can enhance diagnostic precision and treatment strategies for these conditions.
  • The review covers existing literature on these meetings in relation to CTD-ILD and PAH, along with insights from the authors' own experience at a specialized medical center.
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Background: In March 2020, when public health stay home orders began in order to halt the spread of COVID-19, child care as an industry was drastically and abruptly impacted. This public health emergency highlighted the weaknesses in the child care system in the United States.

Objective: This study investigated the changes in operations cost, child enrollment and attendance, and state and federal support that occurred during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic among both center-based and home-based child care programs.

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Objectives: The objective of this study was to examine associations between music engagement and episodic memory for more than 12 years in a nationally representative sample of middle- and older-aged adults in the United States.

Methods: This study is based on a secondary analysis of data from a sample (N = 5,021) of cognitively normal adults from the Health and Retirement Study (2006-2018). Episodic memory was measured by immediate and delayed recall tasks.

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