Publications by authors named "K Oswalt"

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  • Mosquitoes and other biting insects transmit diseases that lead to over 700,000 deaths and costs around 3 billion USD each year, particularly affecting Aedes species.
  • The modern textiles currently available are not effective at preventing mosquito bites, highlighting the need for better solutions.
  • The study introduces three innovative knitted designs that significantly reduce mosquito bites and can be mass-produced using automation, ensuring comfort while allowing individuals to protect themselves from insect bites during daily activities without harming the environment.
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How gender diversity is exhibited varies: some individuals feel similar to the other gender; others experience little similarity to either gender, and some feel similar to both genders. For children, do these variations relate to differing relationships with peers? The goal was to assess whether a community sample of children (884, M = 9.04, SD = .

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Promoting prosocial behaviour towards those who are dissimilar from oneself is an urgent contemporary issue. Because children spend much time in same-gender relationships, promoting other-gender prosociality could help them develop more inclusive relationships. Our goals were to better understand the development of school-age children's intergroup prosocial behavior and the extent to which elementary school-age children consider their own and the recipient's gender in prosocial behaviour.

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Background Opioid sparing anesthesia and enhanced recovery after surgery protocols are not innovative ideas. However, the utilization of pancreaticoduodenectomy is limited. With the rise in awareness of the opioid epidemic in the United States, we have created a multimodal approach to anesthesia and postoperative care to limit adverse effects of opioids and curb the use of opioids postoperatively.

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Background Fascial plane blocks are a valuable and important aspect of patient care. However, nerve blocks sometimes present with a technical difficulty that can lead to upsetting the operating room schedule, cause discomfort to the patient, or lead to inadequate block. Potential predictors of this difficulty were evaluated.

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