MTSS implementation in residential and day habilitation settings: A scoping review.

Although Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) has been used in schools, its success has prompted recommendations for its adoption in group home and day habilitation settings. This scoping review examines the literature on implementing MTSS in group home and day habilitation settings for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Of the 15 studies reviewed, most focused on Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) rather than a comprehensive MTSS framework, raising questions about the alignment of interventions with the three-tiered structure of MTSS.

COVID-19 and Mortality in the Spinal Cord Injury Population: Examining the Impact of Sex, Mental Health, and Injury Etiology.

Background/objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality rates in a community-dwelling spinal cord injury (SCI) population in Ontario.

Methods: Using health administrative databases, monthly mortality rates were evaluated pre-pandemic, during the pandemic, and post-pandemic from March 2014 to May 2024. Data were stratified by sex, injury etiology, and mental health status.

ATH434, a promising iron-targeting compound for treating iron regulation disorders.

Cytotoxic accumulation of loosely bound mitochondrial Fe2+ is a hallmark of Friedreich's Ataxia (FA), a rare and fatal neuromuscular disorder with limited therapeutic options. There are no clinically approved medications targeting excess Fe2+ associated with FA or the neurological disorders Parkinson's disease and Multiple System Atrophy. Traditional iron-chelating drugs clinically approved for systemic iron overload that target ferritin-stored Fe3+ for urinary excretion demonstrated limited efficacy in FA and exacerbated ataxia.

Coercive Control in 2SLGBTQQIA+ Relationships: A Scoping Review.

Existing measures and theories of intimate partner coercive control largely evaluate men's coercion of women. The extent of knowledge pertaining to intimate relationships among other genders and sexual identities is unclear. Guided by a theoretical framework of intersectionality, we examined and synthesized original studies on coercive control by (perpetration) or against (victimization) Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, and asexual individuals within intimate partner relationships.

Coercive control in a national U.S. self-report survey: Prediction of repeated intimate partner violence.

Coercive, controlling behavior toward intimate partners correlates with physical intimate partner violence (IPV). We examined whether it also predicts subsequent IPV or other aggression. We conducted a secondary analysis of self-reports by 1,039 women and 509 men who participated in the first two waves of the Interpersonal Conflict and Resolution Study (Mumford et al.

Perspectives of practicing school psychologists during COVID-19: A multi-country, mixed methods investigation.

COVID-19 presented a range of challenges to the delivery of school psychology services in countries around the world. The current study aimed to investigate the practices of school psychologists from the United States of America, Australia, Germany, Canada, and the United Kingdom, including changes to practice and exploration of the factors that supported the delivery of school psychology services during the pandemic. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from 1,030 school psychologists and analyzed using a mixed methods, multiple case study design.

Drawing attention to previous studies can reduce confidence in a new research finding, even when confidence should increase.

People often learn of new scientific findings from brief news reports, and may discount or ignore prior research, potentially contributing to misunderstanding of findings. In this preregistered study, we investigated how people interpret a brief news report on a new drug for weight loss. Participants read an article that either highlighted the importance of prior research when judging the drug's effectiveness, or made no mention of this issue.

Trusted Information Sources About the COVID-19 Vaccine Vary in Underserved Communities.

The COVID-19 pandemic was one of the deadliest global public health events. In the United States, over 1.1 million individuals have died, and now COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death (CDC, 2023).

Cultural expectations and perceptions of risk communication among Afro-Caribbean mothers and daughters in the United States.

Introduction: Mothers are key influencers in daughters' decision making about risk behaviors. Much research on parent-child relationships and communication has been conducted among predominantly White, nonimmigrant families. However, parent-child relationships and communications about risk behaviors may significantly differ for Black immigrant families.

Collateral Effects of the Tell Me MORE! Intervention on the Joint Reminiscing of Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze secondary data from three mother-child dyads in order to evaluate how family photographs and training in naturalistic strategies affected the way mothers reminisce with their children with autism spectrum disorders.

Method: A secondary analysis (i.e.

The reference strain SC5314 contains a rare, dominant allele of the transcription factor Rob1 that modulates filamentation, biofilm formation, and oral commensalism.

is a commensal fungus that colonizes the human oral cavity and gastrointestinal tract but also causes mucosal as well as invasive disease. The expression of virulence traits in clinical isolates is heterogeneous and the genetic basis of this heterogeneity is of high interest. The reference strain SC5314 is highly invasive and expresses robust filamentation and biofilm formation relative to many other clinical isolates.

The Life and Death of Freya the Walrus: Human and Wild Animal Interactions in the Anthropocene Era.

Freya the Walrus, who often climbed onto docked boats to sunbathe and frolic, was euthanized by the Norwegian Department of Fisheries in the Oslo fjord in August 2022, sparking international outrage and media attention. Since walruses are social animals, and since the Anthropocene era of climate change has displaced animals from their Arctic homes, forcing them to migrate, we can expect more human-animal interactions at such places as marinas, where Freya met her end. This paper asks and attempts to answer how we can make such interactions just going forward? In cases such as Freya's, we need to reconcile three competing interests: the animal's interest in living a flourishing life as best they can in a changing climate; the public's interest in a safe and fulfilling wildlife encounter with an animal they have come to know intimately enough to name and follow devotedly on social media; and interests in maintaining private property.

Building a new reasonable atomic theory.

Context: This article is an initiation to build reasonable atomic/molecular theory to study chemicals utilized in different sectors of science including chemistry, biology, and medicine as well as the material science. It is all about opening new pathways and method-developments which need to be simple, reasonable, rational, and applicable to all chemicals and be closely consistent with the experimental data and real world. Hence, the success may simplify the process and eliminate the need to sophisticated software and heavy computations.

The reference strain SC5314 contains a rare, dominant allele of the transcription factor Rob1 that modulates biofilm formation and oral commensalism.

Unlabelled: is a diploid human fungal pathogen that displays significant genomic and phenotypic heterogeneity over a range of virulence traits and in the context of a variety of environmental niches. Here, we show that the effects of Rob1 on biofilm and filamentation virulence traits is dependent on both the specific environmental condition and the clinical strain of . The reference strain SC5314 is a heterozygote with two alleles that differ by a single nucleotide polymorphism at position 946 resulting in a serine or proline containing isoform.

Photographs and Parent Training to Support Conversations about Past Events between Caregivers and Children with Autism.

Objectives: Children with autism spectrum disorder experience communication difficulties that can make it challenging to engage in conversations. Their caregivers also often struggle with finding ways to support the child's communication. Parent-implemented interventions and visual supports are evidence-based practices to support the communication skills of children with autism.

Teaching with core concepts to facilitate the integrated learning of introductory organismal biology.

Despite the call from biology educators for students to learn the biological sciences as a unified whole, the teaching of introductory organismal biology is still largely arranged into separate sections that tend to focus exclusively on the biology of individual taxonomic categories (i.e., animals and plants).

Embryo Loss and Moral Status.

There is a significant debate over the moral status of human embryos. This debate has important implications for practices like abortion and IVF. Some argue that embryos have the same moral status as infants, children, and adults.

Under pressure: What individual characteristics lead to performance of high-quality chest compressions during CPR practice sessions?

Aim: Despite well-established protocols for cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, performance during real-life cardiac arrests can be suboptimal. Understanding personal characteristics which could influence performance of high-quality chest compressions could provide insight into the practice-performance gap. This study examined chest compression performance, while employing feedback and introducing code team sounds as an anxiety-inducing factor in registered nurses using a cardiopulmonary resuscitation training manikin.

Metabolic engineering of p-hydroxybenzoate in poplar lignin.

Ester-linked p-hydroxybenzoate occurs naturally in poplar lignin as pendent groups that can be released by mild alkaline hydrolysis. These 'clip-off' phenolics can be separated from biomass and upgraded into diverse high-value bioproducts. We introduced a bacterial chorismate pyruvate lyase gene into transgenic poplar trees with the aim of producing more p-hydroxybenzoate from chorismate, itself a metabolic precursor to lignin.

A Qualitative Investigation of the Impact of COVID-19 on United States' Frontline Health Care Workers and the Perceived Impact on Their Family Members.

Although previous research has documented the mental and physical health impacts that COVID-19 had on frontline health workers in the United States, little is known about how the pandemic affected their families. This study sought to explore the impact COVID-19 had on the individual functioning of frontline health care workers in the USA and the perceived impact it had on their family members during the initial nine months of the pandemic. More specifically, this study sought to explore if and how family roles, routines, rules, and social-emotional well-being changed as a result of COVID-19.

Atomic excited states and the related energy levels.

This article is about generalization and extension of the Bohr atomic model as well as the Rydberg formula to make them applicable to all atomic/ionic excited states and their energy levels. Bohr and Rydberg's original works were deemed only for hydrogen and the hydrogen-like ions but in time many mistakenly have come to the conclusion that those original forms of the theory are applicable to all species. This article clarifies the subject and helps with the misunderstandings.

Construction of Double Heterozygous Deletion Strains for Complex Haploinsufficiency-Based Genetic Analysis in Candida albicans.

Complex haploinsufficiency refers to the genetic interaction that occurs in strains with heterozygous mutations at two different loci (a double heterozygous deletion mutant). Double heterozygous deletion mutants can be used to identify gene partners that act within the same pathway or to determine expression-dependent genetic interactions that result in phenotypic changes outside of what would be expected based on the phenotypes of the single heterozygous deletion mutants. The approach outlined here uses a lithium acetate transformation method on a parental "query" strain to introduce a transcription factor deletion DNA construct that is derived from the Homann et al.

, Everyone's Favorite Gene in : A Comprehensive Literature Review.

sp. are among the most common fungal commensals found in the human microbiome. Although can be found residing harmlessly on the surface of the skin and mucosal membranes, these opportunistic fungi have the potential to cause superficial skin, nail, and mucus membrane infections as well as life threatening systemic infections.