Three new species records, Axinella arctica (Vosmaer, 1885), Semisuberites cribrosa (Miklucho-Maclay, 1870), and Cladocroce spatula (Lundbeck, 1902), and one new combination, Plicatellopsis bowerbanki (Vosmaer, 1885) comb. nov. from eastern Canada are described. The four species have similar growth forms which are either fan or cup-shaped with obvious stalks. This is the first description of a member of the genus Plicatellopsis in the North Atlantic, and the second record of the genus in the northern hemisphere. The four species described here have a history of misidentification in eastern Canada and this work aims to guide future identifications in the region.
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BMC Psychol
January 2025
Department of Research and Development, War Child Alliance, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Background: There is a paucity of brief self-report parenting measures validated for use in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). We developed the Brief Parenting Questionnaire (BPQ), a 24-item self-report measure for use with parents of children ages 3-12.
Objective: We describe the development and evaluation of the psychometric properties of the BPQ, which was designed to include two subscales: warm and responsive parenting (WRP) and harsh parenting (HP).
Int J Gynecol Cancer
January 2025
The NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Macarthur Cancer Therapy Centre, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Western Sydney University, Department of Medicine, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Electronic address:
Objective: We evaluated the accuracy of oncologists' estimates of expected survival time in recurrent ovarian cancer.
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Front Public Health
January 2025
School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Introduction: HIV self-testing (HIVST) is an innovative strategy that has been shown to increase uptake of HIV testing compared to conventional facility-based testing. HIVST implementation with digital-based supports may help facilitate testing accessibility and linkage to care after a reactive self-test. Economic evidence around community-based implementation of HIVST is growing; however, economic evidence around digital-based HIVST approaches remains limited.
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School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA.
United States (US) background ozone (O) is the counterfactual O that would exist with zero US anthropogenic emissions. Estimates of US background O typically come from chemical transport models (CTMs), but different models vary in their estimates of both background and total O. Here, a measurement-model data fusion approach is used to estimate CTM biases in US anthropogenic O and multiple US background O sources, including natural emissions, long-range international emissions, short-range international emissions from Canada and Mexico, and stratospheric O.
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February 2025
Department of Surgery and Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta Children's Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The Calgary Kids' Hand Rule (CKHR) is a clinical prediction rule intended to guide referral decisions for pediatric hand fractures presenting to the emergency department, identifying "complex" fractures that require surgical referral and optimizing care through better matching of patients' needs to provider expertise. The objective of this study was to externally validate the CKHR in two different tertiary pediatric hospitals in Canada. We partnered with British Columbia Children's Hospital (BCCH) and the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) to externally validate the CKHR using data from retrospective cohorts of pediatric hand fractures (via electronic medical record and x-ray review).
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