Publications by authors named "M G Marcus"

This project report explores the use of a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach by the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) to integrate health perspectives into affordable housing policy and practice in Georgia. It focuses on five interconnected projects from over a decade-long collaboration to illustrate how the GHPC team started with a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) to seed cross-sector partnerships and then sustained them through subsequent collaborations. These projects included comprehensive-, intermediate-, and rapid-scale HIAs, as well as direct collaborations on housing development funding applications and a multidisciplinary research study on public housing renovations.

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To investigate co-infection of bacterial isolates associated with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in children aged less than two years who were admitted to hospital with confirmed lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) in Kelantan, Malaysia. The demographic data, clinical history, case management, haematological as well as infectious parameters (white blood cell differential and count, plus C-reactive protein, CRP) of the patients were systematically recorded. Less than one-third of cases were RSV-positive (21.

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Objective: Fear of Aversive Consequences (FOAC), such as choking or vomiting, is an important associated feature of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID). However, the manifestation of FOAC in young children is poorly understood. This study aimed to describe the fears of children with ARFID symptoms and examine the concordance between parent and child ratings of fear.

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In this study, innovative nanoscale devices are developed to investigate the charge transport in organic semiconductor nanoparticles. Using different steps of lithography techniques and dielectrophoresis, planar organic nano-junctions are fabricated from which hole mobilities are extracted in a space charge-limited current regime. Subsequently, these devices are used to investigate the impact of the composition and morphology of organic semiconductor nanoparticles on the charge mobilities.

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  • The study focused on understanding the rates of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) placement among survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, specifically in patients aged 65 and older with shockable rhythms.
  • Out of 3226 patients analyzed, only 30.9% received an ICD before discharge, and factors like older age, being female, and a history of diabetes were linked to lower chances of obtaining one, but race/ethnicity showed no significant differences in ICD placement.
  • The research highlighted substantial variability in ICD implantation rates among different hospitals, with some facilities providing them to nearly 50% of survivors, while others offered them to only 20%, indicating a need for more uniform practices in
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