Synergistic Polymer Coatings with Antibacterial and Antiviral Properties for Healthcare Applications.

The role of frequently touched surfaces in the transmission of infectious diseases is well-documented, and the urgent need for effective surface technologies with antipathogen activity has been highlighted by the recent global pandemic and rise in antimicrobial resistance. Here, we have explored combinations of up to 3 different classes of compounds within a polymeric matrix to enable the fabrication of coatings with broad-spectrum activity. Compounds were either based on metals or metal oxides, namely, copper, silver, and copper oxide, essential oils, namely, cinnamaldehyde, tea tree oil, and carvacrol oil, or cationic polymers, namely, poly(ε-lysine) and poly(hexamethylene biguanide).

COVID-19 school closures and Chinese children's school readiness: Results from the natural experimental data.

Aims: To determine the associations between COVID-19 school closures and school readiness skills for Chinese kindergarteners.

Design: We utilized the natural experimental condition created by local COVID-19 outbreaks in 2022 (Study 1) to compare school readiness skills of children whose kindergartens were closed for 5 months (Group 1) with children whose kindergartens stayed open (Group 2). We further compared the school readiness skills of one pre-COVID-19 cohort (Cohort 2019) with one COVID-19 cohort (Cohort 2021) from a fifth kindergarten (Study 2).

Age predicts likelihood for surgery for pediatric tbi: an analysis of 1745 hospitlizations from a Chinese Children's Hospital.

Purpose: We tested the role of age and sex in surgery following pediatric TBI hospitalization.

Methods: Records of 1745 children hospitalized at a pediatric neurotrauma center in China included age, sex, cause of injury, diagnosis of injury, days of hospitalization, in-house rehabilitation, Glasgow Coma Scale score, mortality, 6-month post-discharge Glasgow Outcome Scale score, and surgery intervention. The children were 0-13 years (M= 3.

History of pediatric TBI hospitalization and current child-parent relationship quality in China.

Background: Long-term child-parent relationship quality following hospitalization for pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains poorly understood.

Objective: We tested whether current child-parent conflict and closeness were related to the children's history of TBI-related experiences and contemporary child/family characteristics.

Methods: The sample included 202 Chinese children (Boys: 60.

Child-parent relationship during the Wuhan COVID-19 lockdown: Role of changes in preschool children's daily routines.

Objective: We examined the impact of the strict lockdown on 130 preschool-age children's daily routines and how their routine changes from pre-lockdown were related to child-parent relationship quality during the lockdown.

Background: To contain the spread of the COVID-19, the city of Wuhan underwent a strict 76-day lockdown, during which children's routines were drastically altered, yet families did not have a frame of reference to use to determine how changes in children's routines would be related to their family dynamics.

Method: Parents provided survey data on the amount of time their children spent daily on learning, screen devices, play and exercise, and nighttime sleep before, during, and after the lockdown.

Screen Time and ADHD Behaviors in Chinese Children: Findings From Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Data.

Objective: Research suggests that screen exposure presents a risk for ADHD behaviors in young children. However, the operationalization of screen exposure remains murky and longitudinal data is scarce. In this paper, we examined the relations between better operationalized daily screen time and behaviors of inattention and behaviors of hyperactivity/impulsivity in three cohorts of community samples of young Chinese children.

Affective Representation of Early Relationships with Parents and Current Anxiety and Depression.

Research on the role of early relationships with parents on youth's anxiety and depression, especially in collectivist societies such as China, is limited. To fill this gap, we investigated the unique role of early relationship with mothers and fathers, respectively, in Chinese youth's anxiety and depression outcomes. The participants were 347 Chinese college students from 20 provinces.

Inattention, hyperactivity/impulsivity, and academic competence: Findings from three cohorts.

Background: Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a risk for learning. Because ADHD commonly includes behaviours of inattention and behaviours of hyperactivity/impulsivity, how the two types of behaviours independently affect children's academic competence remains poorly understood.

Aims: To investigate the impact of behaviours of inattention and behaviours of hyperactivity/impulsivity on Chinese students' academic competence.

Testing Measurement Invariance Across Unobserved Groups: The Role of Covariates in Factor Mixture Modeling.

Factor mixture modeling (FMM) has been increasingly used to investigate unobserved population heterogeneity. This study examined the issue of covariate effects with FMM in the context of measurement invariance testing. Specifically, the impact of excluding and misspecifying covariate effects on measurement invariance testing and class enumeration was investigated via Monte Carlo simulations.

What is the Optimal Surgical Method for Achieving Correction and Avoiding Neurological Complications in Pediatric High-grade Spondylolisthesis?

Background: Controversy persists in the treatment of high-grade spondylolisthesis (HGS). Surgery is recommended in patients with intrusive symptoms and evidence debates the competing strategies. This study compares the radiologic outcomes and postoperative complications at a minimum of 2 years follow-up for patients with HGS treated with instrumented fusion with partial reduction (IFIS) with those treated with reduction, decompression, and instrumented fusion (RIF).

The Perceptions of New Zealand Lawyers and Social Workers About Children Being Adopted by Gay Couples and Lesbian Couples.

Global trends increasingly appear to be legitimizing same-gender relationships, yet international research shows that despite statutory rights to marry-and by extension, adopt children-same-gender couples continue to experience difficulties when trying to adopt. Primary among these barriers are the persistent heteronormative beliefs, which strongly underpin the unfounded myths about parenting abilities of same-gender couples. Such biased beliefs are perpetuated by some adoption professionals who oppose placing children with lesbian or gay couples.

The effect of increased family finance and dual-parental absence since infancy on Children's cognitive Abilities.

Existing research suggests that parental absence per se does not have a main effect on children's cognitive development. However, this body of research is confounded by decreased family finance resulted from parental absence. Further insights on children's cognitive development can be gained by studying situations where parental absence actually leads to higher family finance.

Comparing Chinese youth with American youth on adjustment: An illustration of measurement issues in cross-cultural research.

In this article, we used results from two studies to show the need to go beyond linguistic equivalence to establish construct validity and measurement invariance in cross-cultural research. Study 1 examined Rosenberg Self-Esteem (RSE; 10 items) data from 156 Mainland Chinese youth (M = 13.8 years, SD = .

Mothers' feeding profiles among overweight, normal weight and underweight Chinese preschoolers.

We adopted a person-centered approach to identify maternal feeding profiles among urban Chinese mothers of preschoolers, including two previously unexamined culturally-emphasized practices, and examine the associations between these feeding profiles and child and parent characteristics. Participants included 167 mothers and their preschoolers residing in Shanghai, China. Mothers reported on their feeding beliefs and practices, perceptions of child's body shapes, child dietary intake, and family demographic information.

The Neglect of Left-Behind Children in China: A Meta-Analysis.

Objective: To evaluate the neglect of left-behind children (LBC) in China.

Method: Children separated from one or both parents for at least 6 months. Trauma of separation.

Youth's school experience: Testing the role of symptoms of anxiety and co-occurring symptoms of depression.

Unlabelled: Although symptoms of anxiety often coexist with symptoms of depression, little is known on how such coexistence affects youth's school experiences.

Objectives: We tested how the two types of behaviors, when coexisting, were associated with youth's negative attitude toward teachers, school, and poor peer relations.

Method: Data were collected from 203 ethnically and socioeconomically diverse youth (male: 24.

A Novel Solvent-based Method to Separate Duct Tape from Porous Surface for Fingerprint Development.

In this study, we have proposed a novel solvent-based method using a specific concentration of 3M™ Novec™ HFE-72DE and 7200 solvents to untangle duct tape from porous article with minimal impact to the quality of latent fingerprint deposited on the sticky-side surface of duct tape. A series of experiments determined that a mixture of 30% HFE-72DE:7200 (v/v) was found to be the most effective to separate various brands of duct tape from different types of porous surface, including office copy paper, newspaper, cardboard, and tissue wipe, which had been stored for up to 30 days before untangling. Further studies also revealed that 30% HFE-72DE:7200 was compatible with three common fingerprint development methods for porous articles, namely ninhydrin, indanedione-zinc, and physical developer.

The effect of left-behind phenomenon and physical neglect on behavioral problems of children.

Objective: Left-behind children have a high incidence of behavioral problems in some Eastern countries, especially China. We sought to assess the combined effects of physical neglect, a major embodiment of the left-behind phenomenon, and the trauma of being left behind on subsequent behavioral problems.

Method: 776 children (including 600 left-behind children) aged 12-16 years were chosen by cluster sampling in rural China.

Asia & Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Maternal Fetal Medicine Committee's consensus statements on screening for hyperglycemia in pregnancy.

These are consensus statements on screening for hyperglycemia in pregnancy derived from AOFOG MFM Committee's Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy Consensus Working Group during a workshop in Singapore on 13 January 2018.

The relationship between licensed mental health counselors' political ideology and counseling theory preference.

Given the current political climate in the United States, it is ever more important to understand the role political ideology plays in the counseling profession. Our study examined the role of political ideologies in 467 licensed mental health counselors' preferred counseling theories in clinical practice. We found (a) most participants reported liberal political ideologies; (b) the participants preferred cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT), humanistic/constructivist/existentialist, and mindfulness-based theories over systemic, psychodynamic, and experiential theories; and (c) self-identification as conservative, registration with the Republican Party, and endorsement of Libertarian beliefs predicted a preference for CBT, self-identified liberal ideology predicted a preference for psychodynamic theory, and lower levels of libertarian beliefs predicted a preference for humanistic theories.

A Multilevel Bifactor Approach to Construct Validation of Mixed-Format Scales.

Wording effects associated with positively and negatively worded items have been found in many scales. Such effects may threaten construct validity and introduce systematic bias in the interpretation of results. A variety of models have been applied to address wording effects, such as the correlated uniqueness model and the correlated traits and correlated methods model.

Reliability and construct validity of the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire in Chinese kindergartners.

The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) is widely used in clinical settings to screen for sleep problems in children aged 4-10 years. Existing studies on children in different cultures have included children across a wide age range and results have raised questions about CSHQ's psychometric quality. Our study addressed some of the limitations of existing studies by focusing on Chinese children within a much narrower age range of 4-5 years old.

Preschool-Age Chinese Children's Weight Status: WHO Classification, Parent Ratings, Child/Family Characteristics.

Purpose: We aimed to compare preschool-age Chinese children's weight status based on the WHO guidelines with parental ratings on their children's body type, and child/family demographic characteristics.

Method: The sample included 171 preschool-age children (M=60.5months, SD=6.

Mental Health Trainees' Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Toward Transracial Adoptive Families Headed by Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Couples.

We investigated 109 (79.8% female; 76% White, and 83.5% Heterosexual) mental health trainees' explicit and implicit attitudes toward heterosexual, lesbian, and gay White couples adopting and raising Black children.