Autism Disparities: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography of Qualitative Research.

Racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are evident across many service domains including access to early assessment, diagnosis, and therapeutic interventions. To better understand the complex social and structural factors contributing to these disparities, this article offers a systematic review of peer-reviewed qualitative research conducted from 2010 to 2016 in the United States that investigates autism disparities experienced by marginalized communities. Based on these criteria, we identified 24 qualitative research studies and conducted an analysis using meta-ethnography and an intersectional interpretive lens.

Exploring the Concept of Healing Spaces.

Evidence-based design (EBD) research has demonstrated the power of environmental design to support improved patient, family, and staff outcomes and to minimize or avoid harm in healthcare settings. While healthcare has primarily focused on fixing the body, there is a growing recognition that our healthcare system could do more by promoting overall wellness, and this requires expanding the focus to healing. This article explores how we can extend what we know from EBD about health impacts of spatial design to the more elusive goal of healing.

Regulatory Fit Improves Fitness for People With Low Exercise Experience.

Considering only 20.8% of American adults meet current physical activity recommendations, it is important to examine the psychological processes that affect exercise motivation and behavior. Drawing from regulatory fit theory, this study examined how manipulating regulatory focus and reward structures would affect exercise performance, with a specific interest in investigating whether exercise experience would moderate regulatory fit effects.

Skeletal Myoblast-Seeded Vascularized Tissue Scaffolds in the Treatment of a Large Volumetric Muscle Defect in the Rat Biceps Femoris Muscle.

High velocity impact injuries can often result in loss of large skeletal muscle mass, creating defects devoid of matrix, cells, and vasculature. Functional regeneration within these regions of large volumetric muscle loss (VML) continues to be a significant clinical challenge. Large cell-seeded, space-filling tissue-engineered constructs that may augment regeneration require adequate vascularization to maintain cell viability.

Older Adults' Acceptance of Activity Trackers.

Objective: To assess the usability and acceptance of activity tracking technologies by older adults.

Method: First in our multimethod approach, we conducted heuristic evaluations of two activity trackers that revealed potential usability barriers to acceptance. Next, questionnaires and interviews were administered to 16 older adults ( M = 70, SD = 3.

Computerized assessment of age differences in memory beliefs.

Beliefs about memory play a role in older adults' concerns about aging and can influence their performance on memory tasks. Visual analog scales can capture beliefs about how aging affects memory in general (the General Beliefs About Memory Instrument [GBMI]) and one's own memory (the Personal Beliefs About Memory Instrument [PBMI]). Data were combined across four cross-sectional studies of adults who had completed the two measures, contrasting traditional paper-and-pencil versions of the questionnaires with newer computerized versions that use a computer mouse for visual analog scaling.

Integral role of platelet-derived growth factor in mediating transforming growth factor-β1-dependent mesenchymal stem cell stiffening.

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) play an important role in matrix remodeling, fibroblast activation, angiogenesis, and immunomodulation and are an integral part of fibrovascular networks that form in developing tissues and tumors. The engraftment and function of MSCs in tissue niches is regulated by a multitude of soluble proteins. Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) and platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF) have previously been recognized for their role in MSC biology; thus, we sought to investigate their function in mediating MSC mechanics and matrix interactions.