Publications by authors named "W M Hart"
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- In-person interactions are crucial, but effectively identifying COVID-19 infections through screening can help ensure safety in schools and workplaces during outbreaks.
- The study uses simulations to evaluate different screening strategies with antigen tests, focusing on how many infected individuals are detected based on factors such as test frequency and sensitivity.
- Results indicate that early and frequent testing significantly improves infection detection rates, with high sensitivity tests yielding the best outcomes, ultimately supporting a safe return to in-person activities.
Background: Aedes aegypti spread pathogens affecting humans, including dengue, Zika, and yellow fever viruses. Anthropogenic climate change is altering the spatial distribution of Ae aegypti and therefore the locations at risk of vector-borne disease. In addition to climate change, natural climate variability, resulting from internal atmospheric processes and interactions between climate system components (eg, atmosphere-land and atmosphere-ocean interactions), determines climate outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough baby boomer generation accounts for a little more than 15% of the US population, the cohort represents a disproportionate percentage of patients undergoing surgery. As this group continues to age, a multitude of challenges have arisen in health care regarding the safest and most effective means of providing anesthesia services to these patients. Many older adults patients may be exquisitely sensitive to the effects of anesthesia and surgery and may experience cognitive and physical decline before, during, or after hospital admission.
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- The 2022 global outbreak of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) and its 2023 sporadic cases underscored the need for effective nonpharmaceutical interventions like case isolation.
- A new modeling framework was created to analyze how long infected individuals remain infectious based on their viral load, revealing that viral shedding can vary significantly from 23 to 50 days.
- The study found that while existing symptom-based isolation guidelines are generally effective, switching to a testing-based rule could minimize unnecessary isolation after individuals are no longer infectious.
Although clinical psychologists have long speculated that antagonistic individuals may lack insight into their moral deficits, some evidence has shown that more (vs. less) antagonistic people view moral traits as somewhat desirable and rate themselves as lower on moral characteristics (suggestive of some insight). But, we suggest that antagonistic people's struggles with insight can be detected as part of a basic social-cognitive bias that entails believing the self is better-than-average on socially desirable characteristics (i.
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