Lifting the lid on impact and peer review.

has grown in tandem with the British Neuroscience Association's campaign to build Credibility in Neuroscience, which encourages actions and initiatives aimed at improving reproducibility, reliability and openness. This commitment to credibility impacts not only what the Journal publishes, but also how it operates. With that in mind, the Editorial Board sought the views of the neuroscience community on the peer review process, and on how they should respond to the Journal Impact Factor that will be assigned to .

Risk Adjustment, Mode Adjustment, and Nonresponse Bias Analysis on Quality Measures From a Long-Term Care Hospital Experience of Care Survey.

Objectives: To develop a patient risk adjustment model for experience of care (EOC) quality measures for long-term care hospitals (LTCHs) that includes mode of survey administration. To assess presence of nonresponse bias in the adjusted facility-level scores.

Design: We tested 3 modes of collecting the EOC data: mail-only, mixed (ie, mail with telephone follow-up), and in-facility.

Health care access and perceptions of provider care among individuals in same-sex couples: findings from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS).

We compared individuals in same-sex couples to those in different-sex married couples on various health care indicators using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. Compared to individuals in different-sex married couples, individuals in same-sex couples were more likely to report difficulty seeing specialists, getting medical care when needed, and delays getting necessary prescription drugs. They were also more likely to report dissatisfaction with the level of respect shown by and time spent with providers.

Health literacy in adult education: a natural partnership for health equity.

Incorporating health literacy in adult education instruction is a promising approach to increasing the health equity of people who face racial/ethnic health disparities. Six adult education centers throughout a small Northeast state received 1-year Health Literacy Project grants from a local foundation to increase their capacity to teach health literacy through Study Circles. The evaluation of the project assessed changes in adult learners' skills needed to navigate health systems, manage chronic diseases, and engage in preventive behavior; learners' self-efficacy; and how the education centers increased their capacity to teach health literacy skills to adult learners of color.

Print-and-peel fabricated passive micromixers.

Advection driven mixing is essential for microfluidics and poses challenges to the design of microdevices. Force transducers or complex channel configurations provide means for, respectively, active or passive disrupting of laminar flows and for homogenizing the composing fluids. Print-and-peel (PAP) is a nonlithographic fabrication technique that involves direct printing of masters for molding polymer components of microdevices.

Print-and-peel fabrication for microfluidics: what's in it for biomedical applications?

This article reviews the development and the advances of print-and-peel (PAP) microfabrication. PAP techniques provide means for facile and expedient prototyping of microfluidic devices. Therefore, PAP has the potential for broadening the microfluidics technology by bringing it to researchers who lack regular or any accesses to specialized fabrication facilities and equipment.

Print-and-peel fabrication of microelectrodes.

We describe a facile and expedient approach for the fabrication of arrays of microelectrodes on smooth substrates. A sequence of print-and-peel procedures allowed for the microfabrication of capacitance microsensors using office equipment and relatively simple wet chemistry. Microfluidic assemblies with reversibly adhered elastomer components allowed for the transfer of patterns of metallic silver, deposited via Tollens' reaction, onto the substrate surfaces.