What Happened Next? The Experiences of Postsecondary Students With Disabilities as Colleges and Universities Reconvened During the Pandemic.

COVID-19 caused nearly every college and university in the United States to rapidly shift to remote learning during the spring 2020 semester. While this impacted all students to different degrees, students with disabilities (SWD) faced new challenges related to their mental health, the accessibility of their instruction, the receipt of accommodations, and their interactions with faculty and student support personnel. Literature is emerging that describes the experiences of SWD during the spring 2020 semester and the swift change to remote learning.

Blood Pressure States Transition Inference Based on Multi-State Markov Model.

The investigation of risk factors associated with hypertension patients has been extensively studied in the past decades. However, the pattern of natural progressive trajectories to hypertension from nonhypertensive states was rarely explored. In this study, we are interested in discovering the underlying transition patterns between different blood pressure states, namely normal state, elevated state, and hypertensive state among the working population in the United States.

Effects of virtual human animation on emotion contagion in simulated inter-personal experiences.

We empirically examined the impact of virtual human animation on the emotional responses of participants in a medical virtual reality system for education in the signs and symptoms of patient deterioration. Participants were presented with one of two virtual human conditions in a between-subjects experiment, static (non-animated) and dynamic (animated). Our objective measures included the use of psycho-physical Electro Dermal Activity (EDA) sensors, and subjective measures inspired by social psychology research included the Differential Emotions Survey (DES IV) and Positive and Negative Affect Survey (PANAS).

Nucleated red blood cells in normal bone marrow for transplantation.

Aim: Nucleated red blood cells (nRBCs) are indistinguishable from white cells, and therefore are counted by standard electronic cell counters as white cells. We sought to find a correlation between the number of nRBCs and the age of the bone marrow donor, and determine when to correct the total nucleated cell count (TNCC), when reporting graft data.

Material And Methods: Presence of nucleated red blood cells was evaluated in 117 samples of normal bone marrow from the donors aged 3 months to 52 years.

Human leukocyte antigen-DR expression on peripheral blood monocytes and the risk of pneumonia in pediatric lung transplant recipients.

Background: Pneumonia is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality after living lobar lung transplantation (LT). Low levels of human leukocyte antigen-DR (HLA-DR) expression on peripheral blood monocytes, have been demonstrated to correlate with risk of infection in surgical, trauma, and adult transplant patients. In addition, interleukin (IL)-10 has been shown to be a negative regulator of HLA-DR expression.