Noise Audit of Device Selection for Peripheral Vascular Interventions in the Vascular Quality Initiative.

Objective: To conduct a "Noise Audit" of the Vascular Quality Initiative (VQI) Peripheral Vascular Intervention (PVI) Registry to analyze variation in device selection for similar patients and anatomies.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study analysis of the VQI PVI Registry. Eight clinical-based, and seven lesion-based scenarios were developed, and the VQI was queried for all procedures matching these descriptions from December 2010 to December 2021.

The impacts of alien species on river bioassessment.

The extent of alien taxa impacts on river ecosystem health is unclear, but their frequency continues to rise. We investigated 1) the prevalence of including alien taxa in common bioindicators used in river bioassessment, 2) the effect of alien taxa on the richness and abundance of natives, and 3) whether including alien taxa in bioassessment tools increased their sensitivity to river degradation. In the 17 countries analyzed fish represented the greatest number of alien species (1726), followed by macrophytes (925), macroinvertebrates (556), and diatoms (7).

Early life exposure to structural sexism and late-life memory trajectories among black and white women and men in the United States.

Introduction: We investigated whether early life exposure to state-level structural sexism influenced late-life memory trajectories among United Staes (U.S.) -born women and men and determined whether associations differed between racialized groups.

Ecology and life history predict avian nest success in the global tropics.

Nest predation rates critically influence avian biodiversity and evolution. In the north temperate zone, increased nest failure along edges of forest fragments is hypothesized to play a major role in the disappearance of bird species from disturbed landscapes. However, we lack comprehensive syntheses from tropical latitudes, where biodiversity is highest and increasingly threatened by habitat fragmentation and disturbance.