6 results match your criteria: "University of Missouri─St. Louis (UMSL)[Affiliation]"

This minireview focuses on recent advancements in organic molecular-to-supramolecular self-assembled room-temperature phosphorescent (RTP) materials and their prospective biomedical applications. RTP materials, having their unique capacity to emit long-lasting phosphorescence at ambient temperature, have piqued researchers' interest in various biological applications, including biosensing, bioimaging, drug delivery, and photodynamic therapy (PDT). These materials have several benefits, including high sensitivity, remarkable photostability, and low cytotoxicity.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

One of the main goals of ecological studies is to disentangle the dynamics that underlie the spatiotemporal distribution of biodiversity and further functions of the ecosystem. However, due to many ecological and geopolitical reasons, many remote areas with high plant species diversity have not been assessed using newly based analytical approaches for vegetation characterization. Here, we classified and characterized different vegetation types (i.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Research examining physiological responses to trauma cues in PTSD has identified a subset of "nonresponders" showing suppressed physiological reactivity. The defense cascade model posits that individuals respond to stressors by progressing through a series of defensive reactions, with nonresponders having advanced to a shutdown response. It remains unclear whether dissociation is at the end of a continuum of passive behavior, indicating full shutdown, or if it comprises a distinct response.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

By assessing plant species composition and distribution in biodiversity hotspots influenced by environmental gradients, we greatly advance our understanding of the local plant community and how environmental factors are affecting these communities. This is a proxy for determining how climate change influences plant communities in mountainous regions ("space-for-time" substitution). We evaluated plant species composition and distribution, and how and which environmental variables drive the plant communities in moist temperate zone of Manoor valley of Northwestern Himalaya, Pakistan.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Numerous efforts are underway to train clinicians in evidence-based practices. Unfortunately, the field has few practical measures of therapist adherence and skill with which to judge the success of these training and implementation efforts. One possible assessment method is using behavioral rehearsal, or role-play, as an analogue for therapist in-session behavior.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Enhancing Community Safety through Interagency Collaboration: Lessons from Connecticut's Project Longevity.

J Law Med Ethics

December 2020

Camila Gripp, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Associate at the Yale Law School's Justice Collaboratory. Her research centers around criminal justice outcomes in the United States, with a particular focus on law enforcement agencies, their practices, training, organizational culture and public legitimacy. In addition to a Ph.D. in Political Science, Dr. Gripp holds Master's degrees in Liberal Studies and Politics from The New School (New York, NY), as well as a Master's in Economics from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil (Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil). Chandini Jha is a J.D. candidate at the Yale Law School. Her research interests include criminal justice reform and Constitutional Law. Paige E. Vaughn is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri - St. Louis (UMSL; St. Louis, MO). Her research interests include sociology of punishment, crime control policy, and race and inequality.

Group Violence Interventions (GVIs) combine a focused deterrence law enforcement approach with community mobilization and social services. The current study qualitatively examines Project Longevity, Connecticut's largest GVI initiative, to contribute to the limited literature on implementation of gun violence reduction strategies. Relying on interviews with 24 of Project Longevity law enforcement and non-law enforcement partners, we explore the establishment of interagency collaboration, which was viewed by study participants as the most pressing implementation challenge of Project Longevity.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF