Housing and Long-Term Services and Supports for People With Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities From Racially and Culturally Minoritized Communities.

This article describes research on the places people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) live and disparities in housing and long-term services and supports (LTSS) outcomes for people with IDD from racially and culturally minoritized groups. It also summarizes the conclusions and recommendations of the Housing and Long-Term Services and Supports strand of the 2022 State of the Science Conference on the Intersection of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Supports and Services for People with IDD, identifies limitations of the available research and recommends strategies to improve research, knowledge translation, and practices.

Examining Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Tobacco Dependence Treatment Among Medicaid Beneficiaries Using Fifty State Medicaid Claims, 2009-2014.

In the USA, low-income racial/ethnic minority groups experience higher smoking rates and greater smoking-related disease burden than their White counterparts. Despite the adverse effects, racial/ethnic minorities are less likely to access tobacco dependence treatment (TDT). Medicaid is one of the largest payers of TDT in the USA and covers predominantly low-income populations.

Emergency Physician and Advanced Practice Provider Diagnostic Testing and Admission Decisions in Chest Pain and Abdominal Pain.

Objective: We compare utilization of diagnostic resources and admissions in emergency department (ED) patients with chest pain and abdominal pain when managed by advanced practice providers (APPs) and physicians.

Methods: We used 2016 to 2019 data from a national emergency medicine group. We compared visits managed by physicians and APPs based on demographics and observed resource utilization (labs, radiography, computed tomography) use and hospital admission/transfer, stratified by patient age.

The Impact of Advanced Practice Provider Staffing on Emergency Department Care: Productivity, Flow, Safety, and Experience.

Objectives: We examined emergency department (ED) advanced practice provider (APP) productivity and how APP staffing impacted ED productivity, safety, flow, and experience.

Methods: We used 2014 to 2018 data from a national emergency medicine group. The exposure was APP coverage: APP hours as a percentage of total clinician hours at the ED-day level.

Health care of Latino children with autism and other developmental disabilities: quality of provider interaction mediates utilization.

This study examines access to, utilization of, and quality of health care for Latino children with autism and other developmental disabilities. We analyze data from the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs (N  =  4,414 children with autism and other developmental disabilities). Compared with White children, Latino children with autism and other developmental disabilities had a consistent pattern of worse health care access, utilization, and quality.

High touch in high tech: the presence of relatives and friends during resuscitative efforts.

Hospital emergency departments traditionally have policies that require relatives and friends to wait out the resuscitative attempt of their loved ones in a counseling room. In recent years, this widespread practice has been questioned. In some hospitals, family members and friends are given the option to attend the resuscitative effort.

Steric-model for activation of muscle thin filaments.

The structural basis of thin filament-linked regulation of muscle contraction is not yet understood. Here we have used electron microscopy and three-dimensional image reconstruction to observe the effects of Ca2+ and myosin head binding on thin filament structure, especially on the position of tropomyosin. Thin filaments isolated in EGTA were treated with Ca2+ or myosin heads (S-1) and negatively stained.

IgG Fc receptors that resemble class I major histocompatibility complex antigens.

(1) The intestinal Fc receptors of neonatal rats and mice consists of beta 2m and an alpha-chain that is similar to those of MHC class I and CD1 antigens. (2) Mouse and rat FcRns are highly conserved. There are no amino acid substitutions in the 90 amino acid alpha 3 domain, and only one in the 40 amino acid cytoplasmic tail.

Altruism, motivation, and allocation: giving and using human organs.

With tens of thousands of waiting recipients but only 4000-5000 organs available annually, there is a chronic and largely insatiable demand for organ transplants. This article draws on three sources of data regarding the sources of organs donated: a survey of the families of organ donors, a survey of the general public, and a prospective data collection effort from organ procurement agencies. It considers which Americans are willing to engage in this kind of altruism.

Requirements for U2 snRNP addition to yeast pre-mRNA.

The in vitro spliceosome assembly pathway is conserved between yeast and mammals as U1 and U2 snRNPs associate with the pre-mRNA prior to U5 and U4/U6 snRNPs. In yeast, U1 snRNP-pre-mRNA complexes are the first splicing complexes visualized on native gels, and association with U1 snRNP apparently commits pre-mRNA to the spliceosome assembly pathway. The current study addresses U2 snRNP addition to commitment complexes.

Helical reconstruction of frozen-hydrated scallop myosin filaments.

Native myosin filaments from scallop striated muscle that have been rapidly frozen in relaxing solutions appear to be well preserved in vitreous ice. Electron micrographs of samples at -177 degrees C were recorded with an electron dose of 10 e/A2 at 1.5 microns defocus.

A sulphate metabolizing centre in Euglena mitochondria.

We have previously shown that a sulphate activating system is present on the outside of the inner mitochondrial membrane of Euglena gracilis Klebs. var. bacillaris Cori, but efforts to couple this system to ATP produced from oxidative phosphorylation were unsuccessful.