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Who said what to whom? Memory for sources and destinations in monolinguals and bilinguals.

Mem Cognit

June 2024

Department of Psychology, The University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W. University Ave., El Paso, TX, 79968, USA.

Two experiments with monolingual and bilingual participants tested memory for sources (speakers) and destinations (listeners) in conversations consisting of self-referential statements. In Experiment 1, participants directly interacted in English conversations with audio-visually recorded confederates. In Experiment 2, participants observed recorded conversations among confederates.

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Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) is one of the layer-based technologies that fall under the umbrella term "Additive Manufacturing", where the desired part is created through the successive layer-by-layer addition process with high accuracy using computer-aided design data. Additive manufacturing technology, or as it is commonly known, 3D (three-dimensional) printing, is a rapidly growing sector of manufacturing that is incorporated in automotive, aerospace, biomedical, and many other fields. This work explores the impact of the Additive Manufacturing process on the mechanical proprieties of the fabricated part.

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Graphene-based nanomaterials (graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide, graphene quantum dots, graphene-based nanocomposites, etc.) are emerging as an extremely important class of nanomaterials primarily because of their unique and advantageous physical, chemical, biological, and optoelectronic aspects. These features have resulted in uses across diverse areas of scientific research.

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Pulsed electric field effect on acrylamide reduction and quality attributes of continuous-style Lamoka potato chips.

Heliyon

June 2024

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Food and Dairy Innovation Center, Boise State University, 1910 W University Dr, Boise, ID, 83725, USA.

Potato chips are a popular snack, well-liked because of their texture-flavor combination. Potato chips are made by frying slices of potato in vegetable oil to achieve a crispy texture. Frying potato slices initiates the Maillard reaction, resulting in chemical changes that enhance taste, color, and texture, but also undesired acrylamides, which are suspected carcinogens.

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The number of genome assemblies has rapidly increased in recent history, with NCBI databases reaching over 41,000 eukaryotic genome assemblies across about 2,300 species. Increases in read length and improvements in assembly algorithms have led to increased contiguity and larger genome assemblies. While this number of assemblies is impressive, only about a third of these assemblies have corresponding genome size estimations for their respective species on publicly available databases.

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Introduction: This is a systematic review on patient-provider satisfaction in U.S. prenatal care by addressing the following research question: What factors influence patient-provider satisfaction during prenatal care?

Methods: Thirty six online databases were searched for peer-reviewed research from February to September of 2018 using 10 key terms published in English on U.

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Cross sectional survey of attitudes on sustainability and climate change among baccalaureate nursing faculty and students.

Nurse Educ Today

September 2024

Clemson University, Emeritus College, 511 Westinghouse Rd, Pendleton, SC 29670, United States of America. Electronic address:

Background: Nurse educators are critical to ensuring future nurses are prepared to meet healthcare needs due to climate change.

Aim: The purpose of this research was to assess the attitudes of nursing students and faculty on sustainability and climate change in nursing and nursing education.

Design: This study used a descriptive, cross-sectional online survey of nursing students and faculty recruited online and at national conferences.

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A Pseudo-Surfactant Chemical Permeation Enhancer to Treat Otitis Media via Sustained Transtympanic Delivery of Antibiotics.

Adv Healthc Mater

September 2024

Robert F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Olin Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14850, USA.

Chemical permeation enhancers (CPEs) represent a prevalent and safe strategy to enable noninvasive drug delivery across skin-like biological barriers such as the tympanic membrane (TM). While most existing CPEs interact strongly with the lipid bilayers in the stratum corneum to create defects as diffusion paths, their interactions with the delivery system, such as polymers forming a hydrogel, can compromise gelation, formulation stability, and drug diffusion. To overcome this challenge, differing interactions between CPEs and the hydrogel system are explored, especially those with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), an ionic surfactant and a common CPE, and those with methyl laurate (ML), a nonionic counterpart with a similar length alkyl chain.

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Flexible Strain Sensors Based on an Interlayer Synergistic Effect of Nanomaterials for Continuous and Noninvasive Blood Pressure Monitoring.

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces

May 2024

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Forensic Science, & Environmental Science & Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso, 500 W University Ave, El Paso, Texas 79968, United States.

The continuous, noninvasive monitoring of human blood pressure (BP) through the accurate detection of pulse waves has extremely stringent requirements on the sensitivity and stability of flexible strain sensors. In this study, a new ultrasensitive flexible strain sensor based on the interlayer synergistic effect was fabricated through drop-casting and drying silver nanowires and graphene films on polydimethylsiloxane substrates and was further successfully applied for continuous monitoring of BP. This strain sensor exhibited ultrahigh sensitivity with a maximum gauge factor of 34357.

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Two of every three persons living with dementia reside in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The projected increase in global dementia rates is expected to affect LMICs disproportionately. However, the majority of global dementia care costs occur in high-income countries (HICs), with dementia research predominantly focusing on HICs.

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Transitions of care: An aerodigestive provider assessment survey.

Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol

May 2024

Department of Otolaryngology, Texas Children's Hospital, 6701 Fannin Street, Houston, TX, 77030, USA; Department of Otolaryngology, Baylor College of Medicine, 1977 Butler Blvd, Suite E5.200, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. Electronic address:

Objective: To create, validate, and apply an aerodigestive provider assessment survey.

Methods: A survey assessing provider knowledge and current practice in the transition of patients with chronic aerodigestive disorders from pediatric to adult care was drafted by a multidisciplinary expert panel. Once agreement of the initial survey items was obtained, the survey was distributed to a national multidisciplinary panel of aerodigestive experts for review.

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While considerable research exists on parent feeding practices for infants and toddlers, past research has not focused on children with feeding problems. The goal of this study was to identify parent feeding practices in a sample of infants (n = 178) and toddlers (n = 221) referred to a hospital-based feeding clinic and then examine how these parent feeding practices were correlated with specific feeding problems. Parents completed surveys to report child demographics, feeding problems, and use of 54 feeding practices.

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Phylogenomics of Psammodynastes and Buhoma (Elapoidea: Serpentes), with the description of a new Asian snake family.

Sci Rep

April 2024

Ecological Genetics Research Unit, Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014, Helsinki, Finland.

Asian mock vipers of the genus Psammodynastes and African forest snakes of the genus Buhoma are two genera belonging to the snake superfamily Elapoidea. The phylogenetic placements of Psammodynastes and Buhoma within Elapoidea has been extremely unstable which has resulted in their uncertain and debated taxonomy. We used ultraconserved elements and traditional nuclear and mitochondrial markers to infer the phylogenetic relationships of these two genera with other elapoids.

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Background: The processes that shape microbial biogeography are not well understood, and concepts that apply to macroorganisms, like dispersal barriers, may not affect microorganisms in the same predictable ways. To better understand how known macro-scale biogeographic processes can be applied at micro-scales, we examined seagrass associated microbiota on either side of Wallace's line to determine the influence of this cryptic dispersal boundary on the community structure of microorganisms. Communities were examined from twelve locations throughout Indonesia on either side of this theoretical line.

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A scoping review of advanced pharmacy practice experience readiness assessment measures across schools of pharmacy.

Curr Pharm Teach Learn

July 2024

The University of Texas at El Paso School of Pharmacy, 500 W. University Ave, El Paso, TX 79968, United States of America. Electronic address:

Background: The development and implementation of Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (APPE) readiness assessments has been an area of increased interest to the academy since the publication of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) standards in 2016. This scoping literature review aims to provide an updated summary of current APPE readiness assessment practices among ACPE-accredited institutions in the United States (US).

Methods: A literature search was conducted between 2022 and 2024 using the terms "APPE student readiness," "APPE readiness assessment," "APPE preparedness," "APPE student preparedness," "pharmacy" AND "readiness assessment", "pharmacy" AND "practice readiness," and "pharmacy" AND "student practice readiness" in Pubmed and Embase.

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Detection of in , , , and in Utah.

Plant Dis

April 2024

Utah Valley University, 6234, Biology, 800 W University Parkway, SB 242p, Orem, Orem, Utah, United States, 84058-5999.

Historically, beet curly top virus (BCTV; , ) is known for destroying the sugar beet industry in Utah and has been a persistent problem in the state since then (Ball, 1917). Starting in June of 2022, we began identifying plants in San Juan County, Utah with chlorosis and leaf curling. Of note, , the Four Corners potato, , big sagebrush, and , common sunflower, were found with general chlorosis, severe leaf curling and in the case of the sage brush, completely lacking in smell whereas nearby sage plants without the yellowing were intensely fragrant.

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Cellular magnetic field effects are assumed to base on coherent singlet-triplet interconversion of radical pairs that are sensitive to applied radiofrequency (RF) and weak magnetic fields (WEMFs), known as radical pair mechanism (RPM). As a leading model, the RPM explains how quantum effects can influence biochemical and cellular signalling. Consequently, radical pairs generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) that link the RPM to redox processes, such as the response to hypoxia and the circadian clock.

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Gold Nanoparticle-Modified Carbon-Fiber Microelectrodes for the Electrochemical Detection of Cd via Fast-Scan Cyclic Voltammetry.

Micromachines (Basel)

February 2024

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Florida Institute of Technology, 150 W. University Blvd, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA.

Neurotoxic heavy metals, such as Cd, pose a significant global health concern due to their increased environmental contamination and subsequent detrimental health hazards they pose to human beings. These metal ions can breach the blood-brain barrierblood-brain barrier, leading to severe and often irreversible damage to the central nervous system and other vital organs. Therefore, developing a highly sensitive, robust, and rapid in vivo detection method for these hazardous heavy metal ions is of the utmost importance for early detection, thus initiating timely therapeutics.

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Brain Age Prediction Using Multi-Hop Graph Attention Combined with Convolutional Neural Network.

Bioengineering (Basel)

March 2024

Division of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, Ewha W. University, Seoul 03760, Republic of Korea.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been used widely to predict biological brain age based on brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. However, CNNs focus mainly on spatially local features and their aggregates and barely on the connective information between distant regions. To overcome this issue, we propose a novel multi-hop graph attention (MGA) module that exploits both the local and global connections of image features when combined with CNNs.

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Combining the experimental techniques of high-resolution X-ray diffraction, magnetometry, specific heat measurement, and X-ray photoelectron, Raman and dielectric spectroscopy techniques, we have studied the influence of La and Cr doping on the crystal structure and magnetism of the room temperature Aurivillius multiferroic BiTiFeO by investigating the physical properties of (BiLa)TiFeO and BiTi (FeCr)O. The parent (BiTiFeO) and the doped ((BiLa)TiFeO and BiTi(FeCr)O) compounds crystallize in the 2 space group, which is confirmed through our analysis of high-resolution synchrotron X-ray diffraction data obtained on phase-pure polycrystalline powders. We determined the oxidation states of the metal atoms in the studied compounds as Fe, Ti, Cr, and La through the analysis of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy data.

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Research Experiences via Integrating Simulations and Experiments (REVISE): A Model Collaborative Research Project for Undergraduate Students in CO Sorbent Design.

J Chem Educ

March 2024

School of Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi, 118 College Drive, #5050, Hattiesburg, Mississippi 39406, United States.

Undergraduate research experiences are an instrumental component of student development, increasing conceptual understanding, promoting inquiry-based learning, and guiding potential career aspirations. Moving one step further, as research continues to become more interdisciplinary, there exists potential to accelerate student growth by granting additional perspectives through collaborative research. This study demonstrates the utilization of a model collaborative research project, specifically investigating the development of sorbent technologies for efficient CO capture, which is an important research area for improving environmental sustainability.

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Nozzle-Free Printing of CNT Electronics Using Laser-Generated Focused Ultrasound.

Small Methods

October 2024

School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, 110 SW Park Terrace Pl, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA.

Printed electronics have made remarkable progress in recent years and inkjet printing (IJP) has emerged as one of the leading methods for fabricating printed electronic devices. However, challenges such as nozzle clogging, and strict ink formulation constraints have limited their widespread use. To address this issue, a novel nozzle-free printing technology is explored, which is enabled by laser-generated focused ultrasound, as a potential alternative printing modality called Shock-wave Jet Printing (SJP).

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The family of Janus Kinases (JAKs) associated with the JAK-signal transducers and activators of transcription signaling pathway plays a vital role in the regulation of various cellular processes. The conformational change of JAKs is the fundamental steps for activation, affecting multiple intracellular signaling pathways. However, the transitional process from inactive to active kinase is still a mystery.

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The purpose of the current study was to explore the lived experiences among parent leaders and a program coordinator who participated in a parent-directed training program to support other Latine parents of children with autism spectrum disorder. We used qualitative methods to explore 4 Latine parent leaders' and 1 program coordinator's experiences with a parent-directed training program to support other Latine parents who have children with autism spectrum disorder. We interviewed parent leaders and a program coordinator to learn about their lived experiences as leaders in a parent-directed training program.

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Aerosol jet printing (AJP) is an advanced manufacturing technique for directly writing nanoparticle inks onto target substrates. It is an emerging reliable, efficient, and environmentally friendly fabrication route for thin film electronics and advanced semiconductor packaging. This fabrication technique is highly regarded for its rapid prototyping, the flexibility of design, and fine feature resolution.

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