Publications by authors named "Moeller K"

Number order processing is thought to be characterised by a reverse distance effect whereby consecutive sequences (e.g., 1-2-3) are processed faster than non-consecutive sequences (e.

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Health apps have increased in popularity as people increasingly follow the advice these apps provide to enhance physical and mental well-being. One key aspect of improving neurosensory health is identifying and expressing emotions. Emotional intelligence is crucial for maintaining and enhancing social interactions.

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In young children in particular, processing numerical magnitudes is influenced by spatial characteristics of those magnitudes (e.g., extent).

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The history of the emerging elastographic technique is presented. Ultrasound imaging of elasticity and tissue strain has gained clinical acceptance as an established technique useful in routine daily clinical practice.

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  • The apnea test (AT) is important for confirming brain death and typically involves disconnecting the patient from a ventilator to observe spontaneous breathing, though visual checks can sometimes miss subtle movements.
  • A case study of a morbidly obese 55-year-old man undergoing the AT revealed that using electrical impedance tomography (EIT) alongside visual observation led to identifying spontaneous breathing, resulting in the test being discontinued.
  • The study concludes that EIT may improve the accuracy and sensitivity of detecting breathing efforts during the AT, allowing for better assessment of a patient's respiratory status.
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DNA-aptamer-functionalized electrode arrays can provide an intriguing method for detecting pathogen-derived exometabolites. This work addresses the limitations of previous aptamer-based pathogen detection methods by introducing a novel surface design that bridges the gap between initial efforts in this area and the demands of a point-of-care device. Specifically, the use of a diblock copolymer coating on a high-density microelectrode array and Cu-mediated cross coupling reactions that allow for the exclusive functionalization of that coating by any electrode or set of electrodes in the array provides a device that is stable for 1 year and compatible with the multiplex detection of small-molecule targets.

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  • The study analyzes trends in advanced airway management, specifically endotracheal intubation (ETI) and supraglottic airway (SGA) use, within U.S. emergency medical services (EMS) from 2011 to 2022.
  • Among 47.5 million EMS calls, there was a notable decline in ETI attempts and a rise in SGA attempts, particularly in cardiac arrest and pediatric cases, indicating a shift in emergency response practices.
  • Findings suggest that understanding these trends is essential for improving overall care and optimizing emergency medical responses.
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Deaths related to opioid overdoses continue to climb, and there remains a need for innovative strategies to address this ongoing crisis. Harm reduction (HR), a nonjudgmental philosophy aimed at reducing consequences associated with drug use and other potentially unsafe behavior, has emerged as a compassionate and effective approach. Harm reduction further emphasizes overdose prevention and fosters a shift in perspective that recognizes substance use disorder as a disease and not a moral failing.

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  • A study reviewed the clinical and imaging results of 17 children with an abnormal cranial nerve 7 (CN7), finding associated issues with other cranial nerves in the brainstem.
  • All patients had a distinct imaging characteristic of an enlarged CN7 that took an unusual path towards the Gasserian ganglion, resulting in it being closely situated to CN5.
  • Notably, many of the children had hearing loss, and a significant number of those with available birth histories had maternal or gestational diabetes, hinting at potential developmental issues during pregnancy.
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Purpose: T cells modified with chimeric antigen receptors (CARTs) have demonstrated efficacy for hematologic malignancies; however, benefit for patients with CNS tumors has been limited. To enhance T cell activity against GD2+ CNS malignancies, we modified GD2-directed CART cells (GD2.CARTs) with a constitutively active interleukin (IL)-7 receptor (C7R-GD2.

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In typical times, adolescents' relationships with family members influence changing cognitive, social, and physical aspects of their development. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, impacted the full family system in ways that were unprecedented. Scholars of adolescence worldwide were driven to understand how adolescents' relationships with family members changed due to these dramatic societal shifts and the influence these relationships had on adolescents' well-being.

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The question of whether finger use should be encouraged or discouraged in early mathematics instruction remains a topic of debate. Scientific evidence on this matter is scarce due to the limited number of systematic intervention studies. Accordingly, we conducted an intervention study in which first-graders (M = 6.

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Recent evidence suggests that using finger-based strategies is beneficial for the acquisition of basic numerical skills. There are basically two finger-based strategies to be distinguished: (a) finger counting (i.e.

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Objectives: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important public health problem resulting in significant death and disability. Emergency medical services (EMS) personnel often provide initial treatment for TBI, but only limited data describe the long-term course and outcomes of this care. We sought to characterize changes in neurologic status among adults with TBI patients enrolled in the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Hypertonic Saline (ROC-HS) trial.

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Indirect electrochemical methods are a powerful tool for synthetic chemistry because they allow for the optimization of chemical selectivity in a reaction while maintaining the advantages of electrochemistry in terms of sustainability. Recently, we have found that such methods provide a handle for not only the synthesis of complex molecules, but also the construction of complex, addressable molecular surfaces. In this effort, the indirect electrochemical methods enable the placement or synthesis of molecules by any electrode or set of electrodes in a microelectrode array.

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This study aimed to investigate whether neurological patients presenting with a bias in line bisection show specific problems in bisecting a line into two equal parts or their line bisection bias rather reflects a special case of a deficit in proportional reasoning more generally. In the latter case, the bias should also be observed for segmentations into thirds or quarters. To address this question, six neglect patients with a line bisection bias were administered additional tasks involving horizontal lines (e.

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Introduction: Depression rates in children/adolescents in the United States have increased in the last 10 years. Fluoxetine and escitalopram are the only 2 antidepressants approved for the treatment of major depression disorder (MDD) in children/adolescents. In adults, some antipsychotics are approved for augmented treatment of MDD.

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Anodic cyclization reactions can provide a versatile method for converting newly obtained chiral lactols to densely functionalized cyclic building blocks. The method works by first converting the lactol into an electron-rich olefin and then oxidatively generating a radical cation that is trapped by a nucleophile. Historically, such reactions have benefited from the use of less polar radical cations when the trapping nucleophile is a heteroatom and more polar radical cations when the reaction forms C-C bonds.

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YM-254890 and FR900359 are potent and selective inhibitors of the Gq/11-signaling pathway. As such, they have been attractive targets for both synthesis and biological studies. Yet in spite of this effort, a versatile synthetic approach to the molecules that allows for the rapid construction of a variety of non-natural and labelled analogs and an increase in the amount of those analogs available remains elusive.

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Introduction: The legalization of cannabidiol (CBD) across the United States, in varying degrees, has made CBD easily accessible to consumers for complementary and medical purposes. However, there is a paucity of scientific evidence on the benefits and risks of commercially available CBD. In the literature, 2 studies have gathered consumer perceptions and attitudes on cannabis products, specifically CBD, using survey-based questionnaires.

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Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a low-cost imaging method with promising results in visualizing ventilation distribution within the lungs. However, in clinical settings, the interpretability of EIT images is often limited by blurred anatomical alignment and reconstruction artifacts. Integrating structural priors into the EIT reconstruction process can enhance the interpretability of EIT images.

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Tidal volume can be estimated using the surface motions of the upper body induced by respiration. However, the precision and instrumentation of such estimation must be improved to allow widespread application. In this study, respiration induced changes in parameters that can be recorded with inertial measurement units are examined to determine tidal volumes.

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Both adults and children are slower at judging the ordinality of non-consecutive sequences (e.g., 1-3-5) than consecutive sequences (e.

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