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Assessing population-level target product profiles of universal human influenza A vaccines.

Epidemics

September 2024

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, NJ, USA; School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, NJ, USA.

Influenza A has two hemagglutinin groups, with stronger cross-immunity to reinfection within than between groups. Here, we explore the implications of this heterogeneity for proposed cross-protective influenza vaccines that may offer broad, but not universal, protection. While the development goal for the breadth of human influenza A vaccine is to provide cross-group protection, vaccines in current development stages may provide better protection against target groups than non-target groups.

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  • Broader coverage can lead to improved economic outcomes by providing access to resources and services that benefit communities.
  • Climate-related benefits include better practices that reduce environmental impact and promote sustainability.
  • Enhancements in animal welfare and human health can occur through stricter regulations and better care practices in industries that affect living beings.
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  • - The introduction of NPCC4 highlights the key themes from the first three NPCC Reports, focusing on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in its work and methods.
  • - It outlines the assessment process with a stronger focus on ongoing evaluation and improvement.
  • - The introduction also previews the different chapters of NPCC4, detailing their objectives and areas of focus.
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This chapter of the New York City Panel on Climate Change 4 (NPCC4) report discusses the many intersecting social, ecological, and technological-infrastructure dimensions of New York City (NYC) and their interactions that are critical to address in order to transition to and secure a climate-adapted future for all New Yorkers. The authors provide an assessment of current approaches to "future visioning and scenarios" across community and city-level initiatives and examine diverse dimensions of the NYC urban system to reduce risk and vulnerability and enable a future-adapted NYC. Methods for the integration of community and stakeholder ideas about what would make NYC thrive with scientific and technical information on the possibilities presented by different policies and actions are discussed.

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NPCC4: Climate change and New York City's health risk.

Ann N Y Acad Sci

September 2024

New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York, New York, USA.

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  • This chapter from the NPCC4 report focuses on assessing climate health risks and resilience strategies in New York City, updating data since the last report in 2015.
  • It highlights specific risks related to heat and flooding, and also addresses other health threats like air pollution, insect-borne illnesses, and water contamination.
  • The report offers evidence-based strategies aimed at minimizing future climate-related health issues, especially in the context of concurrent public health crises like COVID-19.
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Objective: To qualitatively assess surgeons' decision making for lip surgery in patients with cleft lip/palate (CL/P).

Design: Prospective, non-randomized, clinical trial.

Setting: Clinical data institutional laboratory setting.

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Young children learn language from their caregivers, family members, and friends. However, with few exceptions, contemporary developmental scientists have studied language input and language learning through the lens of the primary caregiver and the nuclear family, rather than the infants' broader communities. In many communities-and increasingly in the United States-nonnuclear family structures are common, and extended kin, fictive kin, and intergenerational relationships are relied upon for child care.

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This paper uses data from the American Voices Project, an interview study based on a random population sample, to explore the relationship between assault experiences and how people narrate their lives. Using quantitative sentiment analysis, we find that survivors of assault express significantly greater negative sentiment when asked to tell their life stories. These negative sentiments are observable throughout the entire interview, including before questions of assault are asked.

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Social and Systemic Barriers to Transition-Related Surgical Procedures for Transgender Americans.

LGBT Health

December 2024

Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) individuals in the United States face disproportionate barriers to health care access. This study compared characteristics of individuals who have and have not undergone gender-affirming surgery with the goal of identifying social and systemic barriers to transition-related surgery. Data were extracted from the 2015 United States Transgender Survey, a cross-sectional nonprobability sample of nearly 28,000 TGD adults.

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Threatened species are by definition species that are in need of assistance. In the absence of suitable conservation interventions, they are likely to disappear soon. There is limited understanding of how and where conservation interventions are applied globally, or how well they work.

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What solutions can we find in the research literature for preventing sexual violence, and what psychological theories have guided these efforts? We gather all primary prevention efforts to reduce sexual violence from 1985 to 2018 and provide a bird's-eye view of the literature. We first review predominant theoretical approaches to sexual-violence perpetration prevention by highlighting three interventions that exemplify the zeitgeist of primary prevention efforts at various points during this time period. We find a throughline in primary prevention interventions: They aim to change attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge (i.

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New York City (NYC) faces many challenges in the coming decades due to climate change and its interactions with social vulnerabilities and uneven urban development patterns and processes. This New York City Panel on Climate Change (NPCC) report contributes to the Panel's mandate to advise the city on climate change and provide timely climate risk information that can inform flexible and equitable adaptation pathways that enhance resilience to climate change. This report presents up-to-date scientific information as well as updated sea level rise projections of record.

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  • * The World Health Organization advises that at least 80% of new births should be vaccinated against rubella to minimize CRS cases, but previous research has primarily looked at national data, missing local variations.
  • * In Nigeria, researchers found significant differences in rubella transmission levels between states, suggesting that low-risk areas can achieve safe vaccination with coverage below 80%, while high-risk areas need extra campaign support to improve vaccination rates effectively.
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Food and Nutrition Insecurity: Experiences That Differ for Some and Independently Predict Diet-Related Disease, Los Angeles County, 2022.

J Nutr

August 2024

Department of Psychology, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States; Spatial Sciences Institute, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

Background: National surveillance shows that food insecurity affects ∼1 in 10 Americans each year. Recently, experts have advocated for surveillance of nutrition insecurity alongside food insecurity. Nutrition security refers to the nutritional adequacy of accessible food and factors that impact one's ability to meet food preferences.

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Novel multihost pathogens can threaten endangered wildlife species, as well as humans and domestic animals. The zoonotic protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii is transmitted by members of Felidae and can infect a large number of animal species, including humans. This parasite can have significant health consequences for infected intermediate hosts and could further endanger wild carnivore populations of Madagascar.

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We compare the social determinants of health (SDOH) and the social determination of health (SDET) from the school of Latin American Social Medicine/Collective Health. Whereas SDET acknowledges how capitalist rule continues to shape global structures and public health concerns, SDOH proffers neoliberal solutions that obscure much of the violence and dispossession that influence contemporary migration and health-disease experiences. Working in simultaneous ethnographic teams, the researchers here interviewed Honduran migrants in their respective sites of Honduras, Mexico, and the United States.

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A representative democracy requires citizens to be politically engaged; however, a substantial portion of eligible United States voters do not vote. While structural (e.g.

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Preparation requires technical research and development, as well as adaptive, proactive governance.

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Introduction: Protective associations of greenspace with Parkinson's disease (PD) have been observed in some studies. Visual exposure to greenspace seems to be important for some of the proposed pathways underlying these associations. However, most studies use overhead-view measures (e.

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The highly decentralized nature of global health governance presents significant challenges to conceptualizing and systematically measuring the agenda status of diseases, injuries, risks and other conditions contributing to the collective disease burden. An arenas model for global health agenda setting was recently proposed to help address these challenges. Further developing the model, this study aims to advance more robust inquiry into how and why priority levels may vary among the array of stakeholder arenas in which global health agenda setting occurs.

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The spread of misinformation through media and social networks threatens many aspects of society, including public health and the state of democracies. One approach to mitigating the effect of misinformation focuses on individual-level interventions, equipping policymakers and the public with essential tools to curb the spread and influence of falsehoods. Here we introduce a toolbox of individual-level interventions for reducing harm from online misinformation.

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The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

May 2024

Wilf Family Department of Politics and Center for Social Media and Politics, New York University, New York, NY 10012.

We study the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior by randomizing a subset of 19,857 Facebook users and 15,585 Instagram users to deactivate their accounts for 6 wk before the 2020 U.S. election.

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Machine learning (ML) methods are proliferating in scientific research. However, the adoption of these methods has been accompanied by failures of validity, reproducibility, and generalizability. These failures can hinder scientific progress, lead to false consensus around invalid claims, and undermine the credibility of ML-based science.

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  • The study investigates how the gut microbiome of hybrid zebras is influenced by factors like diet, environment, and maternal effects.
  • Researchers found that hybrid zebras have microbiomes largely similar to their maternal species, the plains zebra, suggesting strong maternal influence.
  • The results support the maternal-effects hypothesis more than other factors, indicating that diet and microbiome composition are closely linked and inherited from mothers in these animal lineages.
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The question of whether artificial intelligence (AI) can be considered conscious and therefore should be evaluated through a moral lens has surfaced in recent years. In this paper, we argue that whether AI is conscious is less of a concern than the fact that AI can be considered conscious by users during human-AI interaction, because this ascription of consciousness can lead to carry-over effects on human-human interaction. When AI is viewed as conscious like a human, then how people treat AI appears to carry over into how they treat other people due to activating schemas that are congruent to those activated during interactions with humans.

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