Publications by authors named "S M Barlow"
Article Synopsis
- Biological aging involves a gradual loss of homeostasis in molecular and cellular functions, particularly in the brain, which contains diverse cell types that differ in their aging resilience.
- This study offers an extensive single-cell RNA sequencing dataset of approximately 1.2 million transcriptomes from brain cells in young and aged mice, identifying 847 cell clusters and 14 age-biased clusters predominantly involving glial types.
- Key findings reveal specific gene expression changes with aging, including decreased neuronal function genes and increased immune-related genes, particularly in cells around the third ventricle of the hypothalamus, suggesting its critical role in the aging process of the mouse brain.
Bulky organic cations are used in perovskite solar cells as a protective barrier against moisture, oxygen, and ion diffusion. However, bulky cations can introduce thermal instabilities by reacting with the near-surface of the 3D perovskite forming low-dimensional phases, including 2D perovskites, and by diffusing away from the surface into the film. This study explores the thermal stability of CsFAPbI 3D perovskite surfaces treated with two anthracene salts─anthracen-1-ylmethylammonium iodide (AMAI) and 2-(anthracen-1-yl)ethylammonium iodide (AEAI)─and compares them with the widely used phenethylammonium iodide (PEAI).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: [F] Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET-CT is a clinical imaging modality widely used in diagnosing and staging lung cancer. The clinical findings of PET-CT studies are contained within free text reports, which can currently only be categorised by experts manually reading them. Pre-trained transformer-based language models (PLMs) have shown success in extracting complex linguistic features from text.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDirect and Vicarious Experiences of COVID-19-Related Racism Across Racial and Ethnic Groups in the United States.
J Racial Ethn Health Disparities
November 2024
Objectives: Due to stigmatization associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, certain groups were believed to be the cause of COVID-19 and thus experienced COVID-19-related racism through direct interpersonal and vicarious experiences. This study used quantitative and qualitative responses to examine whether the prevalence of experiencing these types of racism varied across racial and ethnic groups.
Study Design: This cross-sectional study included 5,480 participants in the REACH-US (Race-Related Experiences Associated with COVID-19 and Health in the United States) study, which is a nationally representative survey administered to 5,500 U.
Background: Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is a driver of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Understanding factors that contribute to secondary infection risks (SIRs) can define changing trends and inform public health policies.
Methods: The ORegon CHild Absenteeism due to Respiratory Disease Study (ORCHARDS) prospectively monitors respiratory viruses within the Oregon School District (OSD) in southcentral Wisconsin.