Publications by authors named "S L Putnam"

Background: Bladder health encompasses total bladder well-being and not merely the absence of urinary symptoms. While much is known about the prevalence of urinary symptoms in women, little is known about the distribution of bladder health (eg, optimal to poor).

Objective: We report the distributions of multiple dimensions of bladder health and function in a population-based sample of community-dwelling women, overall and separately in women without urinary symptoms to begin to explore bladder health dimensions that may precede the onset of symptoms.

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  • - The study investigates how different cultural values influence parenting practices and child development by looking at the relationship between cultural dimensions, socialization goals, and parental beliefs about raising children.
  • - Data from 865 mothers of toddlers across 14 countries were analyzed to explore how individualism vs. collectivism and other cultural traits relate to parenting styles that promote independence or interdependence.
  • - Results showed mixed support for the hypotheses, revealing that while certain cultural traits like indulgence promote autonomy in parenting, traits like masculinity can negatively impact relational parenting approaches, highlighting the complexity of cultural influences on parenting.
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Improving the stability of platinum-group-metal-free (PGM-free) catalysts is a critical roadblock to the development of economically feasible energy storage and conversion technologies. Fe-N-C catalysts, the most promising class of PGM-free catalysts, suffer from rapid degradation. The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) during the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) has been proposed as a central cause of this loss of activity.

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Importance: Feasibility of home urogenital microbiome specimen collection is unknown.

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate successful sample collection rates from home and clinical research centers.

Study Design: Adult women participants enrolled in a multicentered cohort study were recruited to an in-person research center evaluation, including self-collected urogenital samples.

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Data from 83,423 parent reports of temperament (surgency, negative affectivity, and regulatory capacity) in infants, toddlers, and children from 341 samples gathered in 59 countries were used to investigate the relations among culture, gender, and temperament. Between-nation differences in temperament were larger than those obtained in similar studies of adult personality, and most pronounced for negative affectivity. Nation-level patterns of negative affectivity were consistent across infancy, toddlerhood, and childhood, and patterns of regulatory capacity were consistent between infancy and toddlerhood.

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