Publications by authors named "P Cowan"

Ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) occurs when the blood supply to an organ is temporarily reduced and then restored. Kidney IRI is a form of acute kidney injury, which often progresses to kidney fibrosis. Necroptosis is a regulated necrosis pathway that has been implicated in kidney IRI.

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  • Interventionists can enhance coparenting dialogues between fathers and mothers, leading to positive involvement and better child development outcomes.
  • The new strategy and rating system developed from relationship enhancement groups helps assess the quality of these coparenting discussions among parents.
  • Results show that while coparenting topics are infrequently discussed, when raised, parents are motivated and engaged, and supportive co-leader responses help facilitate deeper conversations.
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In this paper we describe our Berkeley colleague Mary Main's intellectual contributions to our program of creating and evaluating couples group interventions for parents of young children. The first section presents the theoretical model and the projects at the heart of our research program. The second section illustrates how the Adult Attachment Interview, a Couple Attachment Interview, or a questionnaire describing attachment styles helped us to understand how internal working models of both parent-child and couple relationships added to our observational measures of couple and parenting behavior to provide unique information.

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Objective: Evaluate the quality of responses from Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) models compared to the answers for "Frequently Asked Questions" (FAQs) from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (AAO-HNS) Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) for Ménière's disease (MD).

Study Design: Comparative analysis.

Setting: The AAO-HNS CPG for MD includes FAQs that clinicians can give to patients for MD-related questions.

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Evaluations of interventions to promote fathers' involvement in family life typically focus on whether or not the intervention has a positive impact. Some evaluations also attempt to describe mediators that explain how the intervention is linked to specific outcomes. An evaluation of TRUE Dads, a Randomized Clinical Trial of a couples-based fatherhood intervention for low-income families, reported results that addressed these two issues.

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