301 results match your criteria: "University at Albany-State University of New York.[Affiliation]"

Investigating social orienting in children with Phelan-McDermid syndrome and 'idiopathic' autism.

J Neurodev Disord

November 2024

Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, De Crespigny Park, London, UK.

Background: Phelan-McDermid syndrome (PMS) is a rare genetic syndrome characterized by developmental delay/intellectual disability, absent or delayed speech, physical dysmorphic features and high rates of autistic features. However, it is currently unknown whether people with PMS have similar neurocognitive atypicalities to those previously identified in idiopathic autism. Disruption in social orienting has previously been suggested as an early hallmark feature of idiopathic autism that impacts social learning and social interaction.

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As a vulnerable population, immigrants can be disproportionately affected by disasters. Because of their legal and migratory status, immigrants may have different challenges, needs, and possibilities when facing a disaster. Yet, within disaster studies, immigrants are rarely studied alone.

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Background This study analyzed the incidence, characteristics, and mortality risk associated with cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP) among hospitalizations for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with lung involvement. Methods Adult hospitalizations from the 2016-2020 nationwide inpatient sample were analyzed using relevant International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-10 codes for SLE with lung involvement (M32.13) and COP (J84.

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Maternal Serum Folate During Pregnancy and Congenital Heart Disease in Offspring.

JAMA Netw Open

October 2024

Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

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  • A study was conducted in China to explore the relationship between maternal serum folate levels during early to midpregnancy and the risk of congenital heart disease (CHD) in offspring, amid ongoing debates about folate supplementation.
  • The research involved matching 129 cases of CHD with 516 controls based on maternal age, analyzing data from serum levels of folate, vitamin B12, and homocysteine measured around 16 weeks of gestation.
  • Results indicated a U-shaped correlation between maternal folate and CHD risk, where both low and high levels of folate were associated with increased odds of CHD, suggesting potential exacerbating effects from vitamin B12 deficiency or elevated homocysteine levels.
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On the compatibility of established methods with emerging artificial intelligence and machine learning methods for disaster risk analysis.

Risk Anal

September 2024

Data Sciences and Machine Intelligence Group, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA.

There is growing interest in leveraging advanced analytics, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), for disaster risk analysis (RA) applications. These emerging methods offer unprecedented abilities to assess risk in settings where threats can emerge and transform quickly by relying on "learning" through datasets. There is a need to understand these emerging methods in comparison to the more established set of risk assessment methods commonly used in practice.

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Levels and Changes in Defensive Firearm Use by US Crime Victims, 1987‒2021.

Am J Public Health

December 2024

David McDowall and Colin Loftin are with the School of Criminal Justice and the Violence Research Group, University at Albany‒State University of New York (SUNY), Albany, NY. Brian Wiersema is with the Violence Research Group, University at Albany‒SUNY. Richard McCleary is with the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine.

To examine levels and temporal changes in the frequency of defensive gun use by US crime victims. We computed national-level counts of criminal incidents involving firearm defense during 3 periods: 1993 to 2005, 2007 to 2015, and 2016 to 2021. We also considered earlier national estimates for 1987 to 1990.

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Background: Maternal parenting stress during childhood may have important influences on offspring internalizing and externalizing behaviors during adolescence in unmarried households, but it is unclear whether effects differ across different trajectory patterns of maternal parenting stress and for native-born vs. immigrant families.

Methods: Using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we identified trajectory patterns of maternal parenting stress from ages 1-9 years using semi-parametric group-based trajectory modeling.

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Introduction: Research demonstrates that child maltreatment can negatively impact adolescent peer relationships. It is not well understood, however, how the type of maltreatment and its timing (when it occurs) affects the dimensions of peer relationship quality (i.e.

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Educators are responsible for supporting positive school experiences for all students, including those with or at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). Students with or at risk for EBD experience multiple negative outcomes impacting their school years, and these negative outcomes extend past graduation. Social and emotional learning programs are being used by schools to build students' competency in areas designed to help them successfully manage the school environment and life in general.

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Genome organization regulates nuclear pore complex formation and promotes differentiation during oogenesis.

Genes Dev

June 2024

Department of Cell, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology, Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NewYork 10029, USA;

Genome organization can regulate gene expression and promote cell fate transitions. The differentiation of germline stem cells (GSCs) to oocytes in involves changes in genome organization mediated by heterochromatin and the nuclear pore complex (NPC). Heterochromatin represses germ cell genes during differentiation, and NPCs anchor these silenced genes to the nuclear periphery, maintaining silencing to allow for oocyte development.

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Rationale: Marianismo beliefs, or traditional female gender role beliefs among Latinas, have been found to serve as risk or protective factors linked with health risk behaviors in prior studies, including alcohol and drug misuse. However, limited research has examined potential factors that may contribute to or explain these associations. Sexist discrimination, which can serve as a significant stressor that may contribute to substance misuse, is one potential factor that may link marianismo beliefs and substance misuse among Latina young adult women.

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3-Methyl-2-butene-1-thiol ((CH)C═CH-CH-SH; MBT) is a recently identified volatile organosulfur compound emitted from and is purported to contribute to its skunky odor. To understand its environmental fate, hydroxyl radical (OH)-mediated oxidation of MBT was conducted using high-level quantum chemical and theoretical kinetic calculations. Three stable conformers were identified for the title molecule.

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Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain disorder characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, fatigue, and stiffness in muscles and joints. Traumatic life experiences and post-traumatic stress symptoms play a role in its development and persistence. Although previous research suggests that pain and FM symptoms decrease after eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, its effectiveness has not been investigated in a controlled manner.

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Long non-coding RNAs (LncRNAs) are being unveiled as crucial regulators of several biological processes and pathways. Among the lncRNAs is metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1), which is also known as nuclear enriched abundant transcript 2 (NEAT2). MALAT1 is highly conserved in mammals, and controls cellular processes such as proliferation, migration, invasion, angiogenesis, and apoptosis in both physiological and pathological conditions.

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Pedagogical discontentment refers to the feeling of dissatisfaction or frustration that teachers experience with the current state of their teaching. The purpose of this study is to explore high school physics teachers' pedagogical discontentment within the Kazakhstani context. A survey was administered to 126 physics teachers from urban and suburban areas.

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As the first long noncoding RNA to be discovered, H19 has gained substantial attention as a key regulator of several biological processes and its roles in female reproductive biology are gradually getting revealed. Herein, we have summarized the current evidence regarding H19 expression pattern and involvement in the developmental and pathological processes associated with the ovary and the placenta. The findings indicate that within the ovaries, H19 is expressed in the antral and cystic atretic follicles as well as in the corpora lutea but absent in the primordial, primary, and secondary follicles.

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Unveiling mesoscopic structures in distorted lamellar phases through deep learning-based small angle neutron scattering analysis.

J Colloid Interface Sci

April 2024

Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, 37831, TN, United States. Electronic address:

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  • The study explores the formation of distorted lamellar phases, characterized by crumpled, stacked layers, which disrupt long-range order and create interconnected structures resembling sponge phases.
  • It introduces a novel strategy that combines deep learning techniques, like convolutional neural networks and variational autoencoders, with regression analysis to extract structural features from small angle neutron scattering data of AOT surfactant solutions.
  • The results show that deep learning effectively analyzes the varied morphologies of distorted lamellar phases, demonstrating its potential for understanding complex structures in soft matter science.
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Traditional gender role beliefs, or marianismo beliefs, are theorized to be largely protective against health risk behaviors, including sexual risk behaviors among Latina young adults. However, measurement differences across studies and research with heterogeneous samples of abstinent and sexually active Latina young adults have led to unclear findings. Thus, we investigated whether endorsement of certain marianismo beliefs may promote sexual health behaviors or solely promote abstinence.

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Unlabelled: This study aimed to determine current physical activity trends association with bone density in a racial and ethnically diverse sample of older adults. We found that those engaged in no and some physical activity had lower femoral BMD when compared to those that met the physical activity recommendation.

Purpose: Most older adults do not engage in the recommended levels of physical activity to improve health, and there are racial and ethnic differences in physical activity participation.

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Long non-coding RNAs are cellular transcripts that have ˃200 nucleotides in length and do not code for proteins. Due to their low expression levels, long non-coding RNAs were previously considered as mere transcriptional noise. However, current evidence indicates that they regulate a myriad of biological processes such as cell proliferation, invasion, and apoptosis.

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Background: Home INR testing (patient self-testing) is feasible and effective for warfarin patients but little is known about real-world differences in outcomes for patients using PST versus laboratory-based INR monitoring.

Objective: To compare the safety/efficacy of patient self-testing of real-world warfarin therapy versus office/lab-based monitoring of therapy.

Design/setting/participants/exposure: A retrospective claims-based analysis of warfarin patients enrolled in the MarketScan® Commercial Claims and Encounters and Medicare databases between January 1, 2013, and March 30, 2020.

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Maternal serum neonicotinoids during early-mid pregnancy and congenital heart diseases in offspring: An exploratory study.

Environ Pollut

February 2024

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital (Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences), Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Electronic address:

Article Synopsis
  • A study investigated the relationship between in-utero exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides and congenital heart diseases (CHDs) in pregnant women, focusing on NEO distribution during early-mid pregnancy.
  • Although no significant overall association between total NEOs and CHDs was found, there was a possible increased risk for septal defects related to higher NEO levels, especially from nitro-containing pesticides.
  • Results suggested that lower education levels in pregnant women correlated with higher NEO exposure, indicating that future studies with larger sample sizes are needed to confirm these findings.
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Single-case design meta-analyses in education and psychology: a systematic review of methodology.

Front Res Metr Anal

November 2023

Center for Research on Child Wellbeing, Princeton University, Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ, United States.

Meta-analysis is of increasing importance as this quantitative synthesis technique has the potential to summarize a tremendous amount of research evidence, which can help making evidence-based decisions in policy, practice, and theory. This paper examines the single-case meta-analyses within the Education and Psychology fields. The amount of methodological studies related to the meta-analysis of Single-Case Experimental Designs (SCEDs) is increasing rapidly, especially in these fields.

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Given that half or more of supervisees (therapist trainees) never have their clinical work monitored or observed, supervisees who withhold salient information in clinical supervision compromise supervisors' ability to monitor client welfare and promote supervisees' professional development. Attempting to further understand the factors explaining supervisee nondisclosure, we tested the supervisory working alliance as a mediator of the hypothesized inverse relations of cultural humility and collaborative supervision with supervisee nondisclosure (supervision-related and clinically-related nondisclosure) among a diverse sample of 214 supervisees in applied psychology and allied mental health programs. Results supported the hypotheses that (1) descriptively, supervision-related nondisclosure was more prominent than clinically-related nondisclosure, (2) cultural humility substantially inversely predicted supervisee nondisclosure, and (3) the supervisory working alliance fully mediated the inverse relations of cultural humility and collaborative supervision with supervisee nondisclosure.

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