Publications by authors named "K P Rankin"
Postpartum care, including contraception, benefits maternal health and decreases mortality, which increased in the United States with COVID-19. Pandemic disruptions to postpartum health care access in vulnerable populations are not well understood. We utilize electronic health record (EHR) data for prenatal patients ( = 2,265) at six urban Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) from one year prepandemic (January 1, 2019) through one year after the first stay-at-home orders ("lockdown") (March 31, 2021).
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- Poor affect recognition is an early indicator of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), and this study used the Comprehensive Affect Testing System (CATS-A) to assess emotional dysfunction in FTD patients compared to healthy controls.
- The study involved 139 FTD patients of various subtypes and tested them alongside 116 healthy controls, measuring their Affective Recognition Quotient (ARQ) to evaluate emotional recognition accuracy.
- Results showed that the CATS-A effectively differentiated between FTD patients and healthy controls with high accuracy (AUC 0.89) and had robust internal reliability, suggesting it's a valuable clinical tool for assessing emotional dysfunction in FTD.
Beetles exhibit an extraordinary diversity of brilliant and colourful appearances and optical effects invisible to humans. Their underlying mechanisms have received some attention, but we know little about the ecological variables driving their evolution. Here we investigated environmental correlates of reflectivity and circular polarization in a group of optically diverse beetles (Scarabaeidae-Rutelinae).
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- Machine learning algorithms show great potential for classifying various neurodegenerative diseases but often misclassify cases due to insufficient understanding of the underlying factors.* -
- A study involving 468 participants used a multi-class classification approach on MRI scans and achieved a 71% accuracy in diagnosing specific syndromes and 85% in distinguishing healthy controls from dementia.* -
- Most misclassifications occurred in cases with minimal brain atrophy, particularly in early-onset Alzheimer's and certain types of frontotemporal dementia, highlighting the challenges posed by the heterogeneity of these diseases.*
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- Moral decisions often involve tough choices where sometimes helping many people means harming a few.
- Most research shows that being utilitarian (choosing the most good for the most people) can mean being less sensitive to others' feelings.
- A study of a person with a brain issue showed they still made selfless choices that helped others, suggesting not everyone with this condition is unfriendly.