Move it or lose it: Predicted effects of culverts and population density on Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) connectivity.

Roadways and railways can reduce wildlife movements across landscapes, negatively impacting population connectivity. Connectivity may be improved by structures that allow safe passage across linear barriers, but connectivity could be adversely influenced by low population densities. The Mojave desert tortoise is threatened by habitat loss, fragmentation, and population declines.

Using movement to inform conservation corridor design for Mojave desert tortoise.

Background: Preserving corridors for movement and gene flow among populations can assist in the recovery of threatened and endangered species. As human activity continues to fragment habitats, characterizing natural corridors is important in establishing and maintaining connectivity corridors within the anthropogenic development matrix. The Mojave desert tortoise () is a threatened species occupying a variety of habitats in the Mojave and Colorado Deserts.

Gratitude, Social Cognition, and Well-Being in Emerging Adolescents.

The authors explored Canadian emerging adolescents' social and moral reasoning skills (empathy, theory of mind), and their perceptions of gratitude, self-competencies, and well-being (spiritual, emotional). As part of a larger five-year longitudinal study, the authors describe results of Year 2 (2016-2017) data from 46 ninth-grade students (33 girls;  = 13.5 years,  = 5.

Skeletal and dental disturbances in children after facial burns and pressure garment use: a 4-year follow-up.

Pressure garment use alters facial growth during rehabilitation after a facial burn injury. We previously studied 3 children with full facial burns and 3 children with partial facial burns who wore pressure garments for 1 year, and we found that maxillary horizontal growth and mandibular anterior-inferior growth are inhibited during the time of pressure garment use. The purpose of this follow-up study was to prospectively document skeletal and dental changes after pressure garment use was discontinued.