Publications by authors named "J M Gaskin"
Indoor radon trends with building code change in two Canadian cities.
J Environ Radioact
December 2024
Radon studies were conducted in two Canadian cities, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Winnipeg, Manitoba, to evaluate trends in indoor radon before and after the 2010 National Building Code of Canada was adopted into the legally binding provincial building codes in 2011. Participants were recruited in neighbourhoods characterized by newer housing developments. A postcard campaign in each city offered free radon testing to every house in the target areas, and free testing kits were mailed to study participants.
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- The study explored the impact of risk perception during the COVID-19 pandemic on public cooperation and mental health, highlighting potential emotional distress risks.
- Researchers analyzed two groups of Chinese participants to identify different risk perception profiles related to pandemic response and emotional well-being.
- Results indicated that a specific profile—perceived-controllable-high-perceived-risk—led to the most cooperation and the least emotional distress, suggesting that this adaptive risk perception approach can balance effective pandemic control with mental health protection.
The wheat stem sawfly, Cephus cinctus Norton (Hymenoptera: Cephidae), is a major pest of wheat (Triticum aestivum L., Poales: Poaceae) across the northern Great Plains of North America. Cephus cinctus has a wide host range, attacking numerous wild grasses and cultivated cereals in crop and grassland habitats, where it is, in turn, attacked by 2 native braconid parasitoids.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImportance: Clinical decision support (CDS) could help emergency department (ED) physicians treat patients with heart failure (HF) by estimating risk, collating relevant history, and assisting with medication prescribing if physicians' perspectives inform its design and implementation.
Objective: To evaluate CDS usability and workflow integration in the hands of ED physician end users who use it in clinical practice.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This mixed-methods qualitative study administered semistructured interviews to ED physicians from 2 community EDs of Kaiser Permanente Northern California in 2023.
Objectives: Childhood maltreatment, cognitive emotion regulation strategies (CERSs), and depression can be important in adolescents' Internet addiction. The current study aims to investigate the direct effect of childhood maltreatment on Internet addiction and its indirect effects via CERSs and depression.
Participants And Setting: 4091 adolescents (age M = 13.