Background: Clinicians and researchers should consider the expected benefits and potential harms of an intervention. Parenting programmes are a widely used evidence-based intervention for child behaviour problems. However, few data are available on potential negative effects.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Chikungunya virus infection can lead to long-term debilitating symptoms. A precursor phase 3 clinical study showed high seroprotection (defined as a 50% plaque reduction of chikungunya virus-specific neutralising antibodies on a micro plaque reduction neutralisation test [μPRNT] titre of ≥150 in baseline seronegative participants) up to 6 months after a single vaccination of the chikungunya virus vaccine VLA1553 (Valneva Austria, Vienna, Austria) and a good safety profile. Here we report antibody persistence and safety up to 2 years.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA combined analysis of millimeter-wave (70-700 GHz) and rotationally resolved infrared (400-1200 cm) spectra of the ground state and seven fundamental vibrational modes of 1-1,2,4-triazole is reported. While the lowest-energy vibrationally excited state (ν) is well-treated using a single-state distorted-rotor Hamiltonian, the second (ν) and third (ν) vibrationally excited states are involved in strong -type Coriolis coupling and require an appropriate two-state Hamiltonian. The oblate nature of 1-1,2,4-triazole is sufficiently close to the oblate symmetric-top limit that the analysis requires the use of A-reduced, sextic centrifugally distorted-rotor Hamiltonian models in the I representation in order to achieve low σ values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe rotational spectrum of 3-furonitrile has been collected from 85 to 500 GHz, spanning the most intense rotational transitions observable at room temperature. The large dipole moment imparted by the nitrile substituent confers substantial intensity to the rotational spectrum, enabling the observation of over 5600 new rotational transitions. Combined with previously published transitions, the available data set was least-squares fit to partial-octic, distorted-rotor A- and S-reduced Hamiltonian models with low statistical uncertainty (σ < 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExceedingly high levels of the chemokine CCL5/RANTES have been found in fatty degenerated osteonecrotic alveolar bone cavities (FDOJ) and aseptic ischemic osteolysis of the jaw (AIOJ) from toothless regions. Because CCL5/RANTES seems to have a prominent role in creating the COVID-19 "cytokine storm", some researchers have used the monoclonal antibody Leronlimab to block the CCR5 on inflammatory cells. Is preexisting FDOJ/AIOJ jaw marrow pathology a "hidden" co-morbidity affecting some COVID-19 infections? To what extent does the chronic CCL5/RANTES expression from preexisting FDOJ/AIOJ areas contribute to the progression of the acute cytokine storm in COVID-19 patients? Authors report on reducing the COVID-19 "cytokine storm" by treating infected patients through targeting the chemokine receptor 5 (CCR5) with Leronlimab and interrupting the activation of CCR5 by high CCL5/RANTES signaling, thus dysregulating the inflammatory phase of the viremia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe gas-phase rotational spectrum from 8 to 750 GHz and the high-resolution infrared (IR) spectrum of pyridazine (o-C4H4N2) have been analyzed for the ground and four lowest-energy vibrationally excited states. A combined global fit of the rotational and IR data has been obtained using a sextic, centrifugally distorted-rotor Hamiltonian with Coriolis coupling between appropriate states. Coriolis coupling has been addressed in the two lowest-energy coupled dyads (ν16, ν13 and ν24, ν9).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe gas-phase rotational spectrum of 1-cyano-2-methylenecyclopropane (, CHN), an isomer of pyridine, is presented for the first time, covering the range from 235 to 500 GHz. Over 3600 -, -, and -type transitions for the ground vibrational state have been assigned, measured, and least-squares fit to partial-octic A- and S-reduced distorted-rotor Hamiltonians with low statistical uncertainty (σ = 42 kHz). Transitions for the two lowest-energy fundamental states (ν and ν) and the lowest-energy overtone (2ν) have been similarly measured, assigned, and least-squares fit to single-state Hamiltonians.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBroad-band ultraviolet photolysis (λ > 200 nm) of (cyanomethylene)cyclopropane () in an argon matrix at 20 K generates 1-cyano-2-methylenecyclopropane (), a previously unknown compound. This product was initially identified by comparison of its infrared spectrum to that predicted by an anharmonic MP2/6-311+G(2d,p) calculation. This assignment was unambiguously confirmed by the synthesis of 1-cyano-2-methylenecyclopropane () and observation of its authentic infrared spectrum, which proved identical to that of the observed photoproduct.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The authors sought to determine whether the Fast Track mental health intervention delivered to individuals in childhood decreased mental health problems and the need for health services among the children of these individuals.
Methods: The authors examined whether Fast Track assignment in one generation of children (generation 2; G2) from grades 1 through 10 reduced parent-reported mental health problems and health services use in these children's children (generation 3; G3) 18 years later relative to a control group. The Fast Track intervention blended parent behavior-management training, child social-cognitive skills tutoring, home visits, and classroom social-ecology changes across grades 1-10 to ameliorate emerging conduct problems among the G2 children.
The millimeter-wave rotational spectrum of 1-oxaspiro[2.5]octa-4,7-dien-6-one () was collected from 235 to 360 GHz. With the rotational spectrum of this compound available for the first time, more than 5500 - and -type transitions were observed and assigned for the vibrational ground state.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The global spread of the chikungunya virus (CHIKV) increases the exposure risk for individuals travelling to or living in endemic areas. This Phase 3 study was designed to demonstrate manufacturing consistency between three lots of the single shot live-attenuated CHIKV vaccine VLA1553, and to confirm the promising immunogenicity and safety data obtained in previous trials.
Methods: This randomized, double-blinded, lot-to-lot consistency, Phase 3 study, assessed immunogenicity and safety of VLA1553 in 408 healthy adults (18-45 years) in 12 sites across the USA.
Photolysis (λ > 613 nm) of 1-(3-thienyl)diazoethane () yields the rotamer of triplet 1-(3-thienyl)ethylidene (), as characterized by UV/vis and EPR spectroscopy. The rotamer of was not observed. EPR and UV/vis signals attributed to carbene decrease by approximately 50% upon standing in the dark for 68 h at 10 K.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecent advances in gas-phase structure determination afford outstanding agreement between the CCSD(T)/cc-pCVTZ-corrected semi-experimental () equilibrium structures and their corresponding best theoretical estimates (BTEs) of the equilibrium structures () based upon corrections to the CCSD(T)/cc-pCV5Z geometries for the aromatic heterocycles pyrimidine and pyridazine. Herein, that same analysis is extended to the fundamental aromatic molecule benzene, using published experimental spectroscopic data for a total of 11 available isotopologues. The incorporation of rotational constants from all of these isotopologues and CCSD(T) corrections to address the impacts of both the vibration-rotation interaction and electron-mass distribution results in a highly precise and accurate structure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are common throughout childhood, and the presence of these experiences is a significant risk factor for poor mental health later in development. Given the association of PLEs with a broad number of mental health diagnoses, these experiences serve as an important malleable target for early preventive interventions. However, little is known about these experiences across childhood.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe millimeter-wave rotational spectrum of ketene (H2C=C=O) has been collected and analyzed from 130 to 750 GHz, providing highly precise spectroscopic constants from a sextic, S-reduced Hamiltonian in the Ir representation. The chemical synthesis of deuteriated samples allowed spectroscopic measurements of five previously unstudied ketene isotopologues. Combined with previous work, these data provide a new, highly precise, and accurate semi-experimental (reSE) structure for ketene from 32 independent moments of inertia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aims to investigate the goal selection patterns among adolescents and examines the extent to which goals focused on oneself, relationships, and the larger community were associated with variability of daily purpose and mean level sense of purpose in life.
Methods: Participants were 213 high school students with an average age of 15.18 years in an urban public school district in the Northeast United States.
Background: VLA1553 is a live-attenuated vaccine candidate for active immunisation and prevention of disease caused by chikungunya virus. We report safety and immunogenicity data up to day 180 after vaccination with VLA1553.
Methods: This double-blind, multicentre, randomised, phase 3 trial was done in 43 professional vaccine trial sites in the USA.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry
March 2024
Background: Across several sites in the United States, we examined whether kindergarten conduct problems among mostly population-representative samples of children were associated with increased criminal and related (criminal + lost offender productivity + victim; described as criminal + victim hereafter) costs across adolescence and adulthood, as well as government and medical services costs in adulthood.
Methods: Participants (N = 1,339) were from two multisite longitudinal studies: Fast Track (n = 754) and the Child Development Project (n = 585). Parents and teachers reported on kindergarten conduct problems, administrative and national database records yielded indexes of criminal offending, and participants self-reported their government and medical service use.
Coercive and disruptive behaviors commonly interfere with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) trials among youths with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Although evidence supports parent management training (PMT) for reducing disruptive behavior, no group-based PMT interventions exist for OCD-related disruptive behaviors. We studied feasibility and effectiveness of group-based adjunctive PMT among non-randomized, OCD-affected families receiving family-based group CBT.
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