Socioecological Determinants of Health and the Quality of Colonoscopy in Rural Alabama.

Background: Rural patients experience a higher incidence of and mortality from colorectal cancer. Ensuring high-quality screening is essential to address these disparities.

Objective: To investigate whether socioecological determinants of health are associated with colonoscopy quality in rural Alabama.

Bibliometric Insight Into Thyroid Cancer Research: A Comprehensive Review and Future Directions.

Introduction: In the past 3 decades, thyroid cancer research has surged, becoming the leading topic in clinical thyroidology. Despite this, there's a lack of data identifying key articles, authors, and journals. This study aims to provide insights for authors, physicians, and research labs by highlighting the most influential journals, authors, and research topics in thyroid cancer.

Novel Characterization of Socioecological Determinants of Health in Rural Alabama.

Introduction: Socioecological determinants of health (SEDOHs) influence disparities in surgical outcomes. However, SEDOHs are challenging to measure, limiting our ability to address disparities. Using a validated survey (SEDOH-88), we assessed SEDOHs in three rural communities in Alabama.

Control of Polarity in Kagome-NiAs Bismuthides.

A 2×2×1 superstructure of the P6/mmc NiAs structure is reported in which kagome nets are stabilized in the octahedral transition metal layers of the compounds NiPdBi, NiPtBi, and MnPdBi. The ordered vacancies that yield the true hexagonal kagome motif lead to filling of trigonal bipyramidal interstitial sites with the transition metal in this family of "kagome-NiAs" type materials. Further ordering of vacancies within these interstitial layers can be compositionally driven to simultaneously yield kagome-connected layers and a net polarization along the c axes in NiBi and NiPdBi, which adopt Fmm2 symmetry.

Interventionism and Intelligibility: Why Depression Is Not (Always) a Brain Disease.

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious condition with a large disease burden. It is often claimed that MDD is a "brain disease." What would it mean for MDD to be a brain disease? I argue that the best interpretation of this claim is as offering a substantive empirical hypothesis about the causes of the syndrome of depression.