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Background: Women with perinatal depression (PD) are at high risk for unhealthy dietary behaviors and suboptimal child feeding practices. Despite evidence supporting the importance of healthful nutrition-related behaviors during and after pregnancy, few behavioral nutrition interventions for women with PD have been developed. The objectives of this study were to identify nutrition-related challenges and needs among women with PD and to elucidate the role that feeding plays in mother-infant interaction, to inform the development of nutrition interventions.

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Weight management requires resisting immediate temptations in one's environment (self-control) as well as the ability to persevere towards one's long-term goals despite minor setbacks (grit). This study sought to establish relationships between self-control, grit, and behavioral and health outcomes in the context of a couples-based weight management intervention. Couples (n = 64 dyads) in a behaviorally based intervention completed measures of self-control and grit at study entry and the end of treatment (6 months).

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The social intelligence hypothesis holds that complex social relationships are the major selective force underlying the evolution of large brain size and intelligence. Complex social relationships are exemplified by coalitions and alliances that are mediated by affiliative behavior, resulting in differentiated but shifting relationships. Male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, form three alliance levels or 'orders', primarily among non-relatives.

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Future wearable electronics and smart textiles face a major challenge in the development of energy storage devices that are high-performing while still being flexible, lightweight, and safe. Fiber supercapacitors are one of the most promising energy storage technologies for such applications due to their excellent electrochemical characteristics and mechanical flexibility. Over the past decade, researchers have put in tremendous effort and made significant progress on fiber supercapacitors.

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Reflective Transition Practice Model: The New Graduate Registered Nurse.

Nurs Sci Q

July 2023

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, College of Nursing - Chair of Adult Nursing, North Darmouth, MA, USA.

Reflection is a strategy that may enhance transition into practice for the new graduate registered nurse (NGRN). If introduced in the early stages of practice, reflection can be used as a tool to continuously evaluate and improve practice. A theory synthesis of Meleis' transition theory and Schon's reflective practice model was developed to support reflection as a tool for new nurses transitioning into the role of professional nurses.

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A Labor of Love: From Cranberry Biologist to Nurse Scholar and Educator.

Nurs Sci Q

July 2023

Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, NFLP Program Director, Assistant Director of the Office of Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, USA.

There are many nursing scholars who have contributed to nursing knowledge. Dr. Monika Schuler started her career as a cranberry biologist and is now a nurse scholar and educator.

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The direct support professional (DSP) workforce shortage crisis has reached untenable levels during the COVID-19 pandemic as DSPs rapidly exit the workforce. To gain a better understanding of factors that contribute to DSP resilience during stressful and challenging times, we interviewed 10 DSPs identified by colleagues as resilient to elicit strategies to promote DSP resilience. Our content analysis revealed nine distinct strategies: (a) communication; (b) self-worth and recognition; (c) authentic, equitable relationships; (d) embracing change and learning; (e) establishing and maintaining boundaries; (f) cultivating an intentional mindset; (g) self-care; (h) spirituality/"the bigger picture"; and (i) a daily practice of humor and fun.

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The solid-state structure of -methyl-serotonin {systematic name: [2-(5-hy-droxy-1-indol-3-yl)eth-yl](meth-yl)aza-nium hydrogen oxalate}, CHNO·CHO , is reported. The structure possesses a singly protonated -methylserotonin cation and one hydrogen oxalate anion in the asymmetric unit. In the crystal, the mol-ecules are linked by N-H⋯O and O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds into a three-dimensional network.

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The Image of Nursing in Children's Books.

Nurse Educ

February 2024

By Marni Kellogg , PhD, RN, CPN, CNE, and Mary R. McDonough , PhD, RN, C-EFM, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, .

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Background: A salutary effect of treatments for Gaucher disease (GD) has been a reduction in the incidence of avascular osteonecrosis (AVN). However, there are reports of AVN in patients receiving enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) , and it is not known whether it is related to individual treatments, genotypes, phenotypes, biomarkers of residual disease activity, or anti-drug antibodies. Prompted by development of AVN in several patients receiving ERT, we aimed to delineate the determinants of AVN in patients receiving ERT or eliglustat substrate reduction therapy (SRT) during 20 years in a tertiary referral center.

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Background: Experiencing racial microaggressions has clear effects on physical and psychological health, including obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms (OCS). More research is needed to examine this link. Psychological flexibility is an important process to examine in this work.

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We present observational evidence of a significant increase in Salinity Maximum intrusions in the Northeast US Shelf waters in the years following 2000. This increase is subsequent to and influenced by a previously observed regime-shift in the annual formation rate for Gulf Stream Warm Core Rings, which are relatively more saline than the shelf waters. Specifically, mid-depth salinity maximum intrusions, a cross-shelf exchange process, has shown a quadrupling in frequency on the shelf after the year 2000.

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Universality and Nonuniversality in Distributed Nuclear Burning in Homogeneous Isotropic Turbulence.

Phys Rev Lett

April 2023

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Department of Physics, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747, USA.

Nuclear burning plays a key role in a wide range of astrophysical stellar transients, including thermonuclear, pair instability, and core collapse supernovae, as well as kilonovae and collapsars. Turbulence is now understood to also play a key role in these astrophysical transients. Here, we demonstrate that turbulent nuclear burning may lead to large enhancements above the uniform background burning rate, since turbulent dissipation gives rise to temperature fluctuations, and in general the nuclear burning rates are highly sensitive to temperature.

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The Indian River Lagoon is a primary location of field-based "grow-out" for bivalve shellfish aquaculture along Florida's Atlantic coast. Grow-out locations have substantially higher clam densities than surrounding ambient sediment, potentially attracting mollusk predators to the area. Inspired by clammer reports of damaged grow-out gear, we used passive acoustic telemetry to examine the potential interactions between two highly mobile invertivores-whitespotted eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari) and cownose rays (Rhinoptera spp.

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A vitamin D deficient diet increases weight gain and compromises bone biomechanical properties without a reduction in BMD in adult female mice.

J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol

July 2023

Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; NJ Institute of Food, Nutrition and Health, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA; Department of Medicine, Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Univ. Hospital, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. Electronic address:

Vitamin D contributes to the development and maintenance of bone. Evidence suggests vitamin D status can also alter energy balance and gut health. In young animals, vitamin D deficiency (VDD) negatively affects bone mineral density (BMD) and bone microarchitecture, and these effects may also occur due to chronic ethanol intake.

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Analogues of 4-phosphoryloxy--dimethyltryptamine (psilocybin) are being sold on recreational drug markets and developed as potential medications for psychedelic-assisted therapies. Many of these tryptamine-based psilocybin analogues produce psychedelic-like effects in rodents and humans primarily by agonist activity at serotonin 2A receptors (5-HT). However, the comprehensive pharmacological target profiles for these compounds compared to psilocybin and its active metabolite 4-hydroxy--dimethyltryptamine (psilocin) are unknown.

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The title compound, 4-hy-droxy--iso-propyl-tryptamine () or 4-HO-NiPT (systematic name: 3-{2-[(propan-2-yl)amino]-eth-yl}-1-indol-4-ol), CHNO, was synthesized in three steps from 4-benzyl-oxyindole () (systematic name: 4-phen-oxy-1-indole), CHNO. () was treated with oxalyl chloride and iso-propyl-amine to produce -isopropyl-4-benz-yloxy-3-indole-glyoxyl-amide () {systematic name: 2-[4-(benz-yloxy)-1-indol-3-yl]-2-oxo--(propan-2-yl)acet-amide}, CHNO. () was reduced to generate 4-benz-yloxy--iso-propyl-tryptamine or 4-HO-NiPT, which was characterized as its chloride salt 4-benz-yloxy--iso-propyl-tryptammonium chloride () (systematic name: {2-[4-(benz-yloxy)-1-indol-3-yl]eth-yl}(propan-2-yl)aza-nium chloride), CHNO·Cl.

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Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify nurses' responses to psychological trauma and strategies to support nurses' healing and resilience during COVID-19 and generate creative integrated understandings of nurses' responses to psychological trauma and strategies supporting nurses' healing and resilience during COVID-19.

Background: COVID-19 exacerbated trauma already experienced by some nurses. Nursing leadership called for action to improve nurses' mental health and resilience.

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Unlabelled: This pediatric psychiatric mental health hospital implemented a new mechanical restraint, the chair restraint, as an additional safety management intervention, to join the already utilized six-point board.

Purpose: The purpose of this project was to assess perceptions, thoughts, and feelings of psychiatric mental health nursing staff when utilizing the chair restraint on an adolescent unit. Furthermore, to explore decision making related to choosing the chair restraint verses choosing to use the six-point board as a safety management intervention.

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Descriptive Analysis of Newly Hired Academic Nurse Educator Onboarding Practices.

Nurse Educ

June 2023

Associate Professor and Director (Dr Hansbrough) and Lecturer and Associate Director (Ms Lawrence), School of Nursing, California State University San Marcos; Department Chair (Dr Dunker), Nursing and Health Science, Pacific Union College, Angwin, California; Master's Program Director and Clinical Associate Professor (Dr Duprey), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Background: Prelicensure nursing programs often hire clinical experts who are novice educators to teach integration of nursing clinical judgment within the context of patient care experiences.

Purpose: To describe practices of schools of nursing to onboard, orient, and mentor newly hired faculty.

Methods: Faculty (n = 174) and leaders (n = 51) replied to an online survey.

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The Synergy between Deep Learning and Organs-on-Chips for High-Throughput Drug Screening: A Review.

Biosensors (Basel)

March 2023

Division of Engineering in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

Organs-on-chips (OoCs) are miniature microfluidic systems that have arguably become a class of advanced in vitro models. Deep learning, as an emerging topic in machine learning, has the ability to extract a hidden statistical relationship from the input data. Recently, these two areas have become integrated to achieve synergy for accelerating drug screening.

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Problem: Although physical restraint practices and psychotropic/sedative pro re neta (PRN, as needed) medications have been commonly used for managing inpatient aggression, little is known about the characteristics of adolescents who receive them in psychiatric adolescent inpatient units. We aimed to determine the relationship between the use of physical restraints and psychotropic/sedative PRN medications, and to characterize individual attributes, substance use, clinical factors, and time of the first restraint episodes of the use of physical restraints and psychotropic/sedative PRN medications.

Methods: A retrospective case-control study approach was used with the data from electronic health records at a pediatric psychiatric hospital in the United States.

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