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Institutional trust plays a crucial role when a nation is facing mega crises (e.g., the COVID-19 pandemic) and has implications for employee work experiences and well-being.

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed recommendations for individual COVID-19 prevention behaviors, as well as guidance for the safe reopening of businesses.

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Objective: Indigenous peoples are at elevated risk of exposure to trauma and related mental and physical health difficulties that are rooted in the ongoing experience of settler-colonialism. Historical and current trauma exposure feed intergenerational cycles that compromise the healthy development of Indigenous children.

Method: We conducted a systematic review of trauma-focused, caregiver-child interventions adapted for Indigenous communities.

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The impact of CARA mandates on nurse practitioner controlled substance prescribing in Oregon: a cohort study.

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

January 2022

OHSU Biostatistics and Design Program, Oregon Health and Sciences University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR, 97239-3098, USA.

Background: In 2017, the United States Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) expanded authorization to prescribe buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) to nurse practitioners (NPs). Compared to physicians, NPs were required to complete 16 additional hours of training on controlled substance prescribing before a buprenorphine waiver application. As this differential additional education mandate was seen as a potential barrier, we evaluated the impact of this requirement on both NP waiver acquisition and prescribing of controlled substances, comparing NPs who obtained waivers to those who had not.

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Attitudes toward aging as a psychological resource among caregivers of persons living with dementia.

Geriatr Nurs

April 2022

Washington State University Vancouver, Department of Human Development, McClaskey Building 229, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave, Vancouver, WA, 98686, United States.

Although there are a number of existing interventions to support caregivers in managing the behaviors and functioning of care recipients with dementia, less attention has focused on caring for caregivers and understanding how their characteristics may contribute to distress or wellbeing Positive psychological resources can promote health and well-being among caregivers and may also serve as protective factors that buffer negative caregiving experiences and minimize burden and stress. Informal dementia caregivers (N = 99, mean age = 54) answered survey questionnaires related to psychological resources (e.g.

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Wildfires and meteorological conditions influence the co-occurrence of multiple harmful air pollutants including fine particulate matter (PM) and ground-level ozone. We examine the spatiotemporal characteristics of PM/ozone co-occurrences and associated population exposure in the western United States (US). The frequency, spatial extent, and temporal persistence of extreme PM/ozone co-occurrences have increased significantly between 2001 and 2020, increasing annual population exposure to multiple harmful air pollutants by ~25 million person-days/year.

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Dysgraphia, a specific learning disability, impairs legible and automatic letter production by hand, which can interfere with written composing. The goal of the current study was not to investigate effective methods for teaching self-regulated writing to students with dysgraphia, but rather to investigate their self that is involved in their self-regulated writing. Students with dysgraphia in grades 4 to 9 (17 males; 3 females, =139.

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Popular press articles have advocated for parent-child conversations about race and racism to prevent children from developing racial biases, yet empirical investigations of the impact of racial socialization in White U.S. families are scarce.

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In this paper, a novel analytical design technique is presented to implement a coupled-line wideband Wilkinson power divider (WPD). The configuration of the WPD is comprised of three distinct coupled-line and three isolation resistors. A comprehensive theoretical analysis is conducted to arrive at a set of completely new and rigorous design equations utilizing the dual-band behavior of commensurate transmission lines.

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Cardiac regeneration occurs primarily through proliferation of existing cardiomyocytes, but also involves complex interactions between distinct cardiac cell types including non-cardiomyocytes (non-CMs). However, the subpopulations, distinguishing molecular features, cellular functions, and intercellular interactions of non-CMs in heart regeneration remain largely unexplored. Using the LIGER algorithm, we assemble an atlas of cell states from 61,977 individual non-CM scRNA-seq profiles isolated at multiple time points during regeneration.

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Detecting Novel Ototoxins and Potentiation of Ototoxicity by Disease Settings.

Front Neurol

August 2021

Department of Biomedical Sciences, School of Medicine, Creighton University, Omaha, NE, United States.

Article Synopsis
  • Over 100 drugs and chemicals can cause permanent hearing loss, tinnitus, and balance issues (ototoxicity), which is often overlooked during drug development and clinical trials.
  • During the pandemic, some potential COVID-19 treatments, like chloroquine and lopinavir-ritonavir, are known to be ototoxic, highlighting the need for assessing ototoxic risks in new and existing drugs.
  • The review suggests using models like mammalian auditory cell lines and zebrafish to quickly identify ototoxic potential, along with a computational approach to compare new drugs with known ototoxins to enhance preclinical drug development.
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Nurse practitioners (NPs) are authorizing providers for medical cannabis in many states, and may serve as a primary care clinician. We report findings from a nationally distributed 2-h continuing education (CE) module aimed to improve knowledge, confidence, and willingness to communicate with patients about cannabis. Data were electronically obtained from the CE platform pre- and post-test (=289) and a follow-up survey sent within 3 months postcompletion (=184, 63%).

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Using Infodemiology Metrics to Assess Public Interest in Liver Transplantation: Google Trends Analysis.

J Med Internet Res

August 2021

Department of Internal Medicine I, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.

Background: Liver transplantation (LT) is the only curative treatment for end-stage liver disease. Less than 10% of global transplantation needs are met worldwide, and the need for LT is still increasing. The death rates on the waiting list remain too high.

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Morphine restores and naloxone-precipitated withdrawal depresses wheel running in rats with hindpaw inflammation.

Pharmacol Biochem Behav

October 2021

Department of Psychology, Washington State University Vancouver, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave., Vancouver, WA 98686, United States of America.

Opioids such as morphine are the most effective treatment for pain, but termination of opioid use can produce severe withdrawal symptoms. The present study models this process by using home cage wheel running to assess well-being as a result of pain, morphine analgesia, and opioid withdrawal. Injection of CFA into the right hindpaw caused a dramatic decrease in wheel running and body weight.

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Comparative benefits of social housing and buprenorphine on wheel running depressed by morphine withdrawal in rats.

Psychopharmacology (Berl)

October 2021

Department of Psychology, Washington State University Vancouver, 14204 NE Salmon Creek Ave, Vancouver, WA, 98686, USA.

Rationale: Social support and opioid replacement therapy are commonly used to treat opioid withdrawal.

Objective: The present study tested the hypothesis that social housing and buprenorphine administration can restore wheel running depressed by morphine withdrawal in rats.

Results: Experiment 1 assessed disruptive side effects of buprenorphine and found that administration of low doses (3.

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Background: As COVID-19 continues to spread globally, it is important to understand psychological factors that may influence compliance with social distancing.

Purpose: The present study examined whether Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) constructs were associated with social distancing, with a focus on exploring moderators of the intention-behavior relationship.

Methods: Using a longitudinal design, U.

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  • Social anxiety can make some people want to use cannabis more, especially in social situations.
  • This study looked at how social anxiety and reasons for using cannabis affect young adults' willingness to use it around friends.
  • Surprisingly, higher social anxiety actually made people less willing to use cannabis, unless they had strong reasons to fit in with others.
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A human health risk assessment (HHRA) will not remain simple and straightforward when it involves multiple uncertain input variables. Uncertainties in HHRA result from the unavailability and subjectivity of input variables. Though several studies have performed HHRA, the quantification of uncertainty in HHRA under a situation of data scarcity and the simultaneous application of random and non-random input variables have rarely been reported.

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In this article, an inkjet-printed circular-shaped monopole ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna with an inside-cut feed structure was implemented on a flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrate. The coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed antenna was designed using ANSYS high-frequency structural simulator (HFSS), which operates at 3.04-10.

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ANCA Status or Clinical Phenotype - What Counts More?

Curr Rheumatol Rep

April 2021

Department of Internal Medicine IV (Nephrology and Hypertension), Medical University Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.

Purpose Of Review: There is ongoing debate concerning the classification of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis. That is, whether classification should be based on the serotype (proteinase 3 (PR3)- or myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA) or on the clinical phenotype (granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) or microscopic polyangiitis (MPA)). To add clarity, this review focused on integration of the most recent literature.

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College students lack fact-checking skills, which may lead them to accept information at face value. We report findings from an institution participating in the Digital Polarization Initiative (DPI), a national effort to teach students lateral reading strategies used by expert fact-checkers to verify online information. Lateral reading requires users to leave the information (website) to find out whether someone has already fact-checked the claim, identify the original source, or learn more about the individuals or organizations making the claim.

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Objectives: Depression affects an estimated 7% of the adult population at an estimated cost of over US$200 billion/year in the USA. Complete, transparent reporting of clinical trial data facilitates valid estimates of treatment efficacy. In the USA, ClinicalTrials.

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