Neurodiversity in the Minds of Students: From Perception to Campus Programming.

Neurodiversity is a social justice movement at the nexus of neuroscience, academia, and public policy. A contemporary view of neurodiversity is one that embraces neurological differences, encompassing all "neurotypes," including more specific identifiers like autistic or dyslexic. The goal of this study was to investigate student awareness and perception of neurodiversity since they are the next generation of public policy makers.

Corrigendum: What can the common fruit fly teach us about stroke?: lessons learned from the hypoxic tolerant .

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What can the common fruit fly teach us about stroke?: lessons learned from the hypoxic tolerant .

Stroke, resulting in hypoxia and glucose deprivation, is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Presently, there are no treatments that reduce neuronal damage and preserve function aside from tissue plasminogen activator administration and rehabilitation therapy. Interestingly, , the common fruit fly, demonstrates robust hypoxic tolerance, characterized by minimal effects on survival and motor function following systemic hypoxia.

Self-Perception of Extroversion Increases with Social Media Use: A Social Media Induction Task.

Previous studies have examined the relationship between social media and extroversion, often relying on correlational designs. This study introduced a social media induction procedure to examine the relationship between social media and extroversion with an experimental design. In a procedure adapted from the personality research literature, participants used a written prompt to imagine themselves as a social media influencer and were then asked to use social media with this mindset.

Pilot study testing the effects of a multicomponent intervention for increasing moderate-intensity physical exercise.

Physical inactivity has been associated with several health problems, including diabetes, obesity, and heart disease. Although many of these health problems are preventable through regular exercise, a small percentage of the adult population engages in the recommended levels. Reinforcement-based interventions have been implemented successfully to promote physical activity, but studies targeting moderate or vigorous physical exercise using behavior-analytic interventions are scarce.

The Effects of Optical Flow Perturbations on Standing Balance in People With Multiple Sclerosis.

Multiple sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease that causes balance deficits, even in early stages. Evidence suggests that people with multiple sclerosis (PwMS) rely more on vision to maintain balance, and challenging balance with optical flow perturbations may be a practical screening for balance deficits. Whether these perturbations affect standing balance in PwMS is unknown.

Can a Checklist Facilitate Recognition of a Transfusion-Associated Adverse Event by Prelicensure Nurses?

Background: Early identification of a transfusion-associated adverse event (TAAE) is key to patient safety. Research has indicated that use of a TAAE checklist resulted in greater frequency of TAAE recognition behaviors.

Purpose: To explore whether use of a TAAE checklist resulted in greater frequency of TAAE recognition behaviors among nursing students.

Rhythmic chew cycles with distinct fast and slow phases are ancestral to gnathostomes.

Intra-oral food processing, including chewing, is important for safe swallowing and efficient nutrient assimilation across tetrapods. Gape cycles in tetrapod chewing consist of four phases (fast open and -close, and slow open and -close), with processing mainly occurring during slow close. Basal aquatic-feeding vertebrates also process food intraorally, but whether their chew cycles are partitioned into distinct phases, and how rhythmic their chewing is, remains unknown.

Relationships Between Cultural Factors and Engaging in Guided Imagery and Music: An Exploratory Qualitative Study.

Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) is now practiced and taught on every inhabited continent. With this international growth of GIM, both GIM therapists and clients have unique cultural backgrounds that are often different from the US American context in which the method was originally developed. According to this reality, we undertook a cross-cultural study to explore how cultural factors relate to ways in which GIM clients engage in the therapeutic process.

Beclin 1 regulates astrocyte phagocytosis and phagosomal recruitment of retromer.

Phagocytosis plays an important role in maintaining brain homeostasis and when impaired can result in the accumulation of unwanted cellular material. While microglia are traditionally considered the phagocytes of the brain, astrocytes are also capable of phagocytosis and are the most numerous cells in the brain. In Alzheimer's disease (AD), astrocytes can be found surrounding β-amyloid (Aβ) plaques yet they seem unable to eliminate these deposits, suggesting phagocytosis may be impaired in AD.

Extensive regional variation in the phenology of insects and their response to temperature across North America.

Climate change models often assume similar responses to temperatures across the range of a species, but local adaptation or phenotypic plasticity can lead plants and animals to respond differently to temperature in different parts of their range. To date, there have been few tests of this assumption at the scale of continents, so it is unclear if this is a large-scale problem. Here, we examined the assumption that insect taxa show similar responses to temperature at 96 sites in grassy habitats across North America.

Molecular identification of wines using liquid SIMS and PCA analysis.

Composition analysis in wine is gaining increasing attention because it can provide information about the wine quality, source, and nutrition. In this work, liquid secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) was applied to 14 representative wines, including six wines manufactured by a manufacturer in Washington State, United States, four Cabernet Sauvignon wines, and four Chardonnay wines from other different manufacturers and locations. liquid SIMS has the unique advantage of simultaneously examining both organic and inorganic compositions from liquid samples.

"A Widely Applicable Model": Teaching Sarah Manguso's The Two Kinds of Decay Across Institutions.

Many of those teaching at the intersection of medicine and the humanities are siloed within institutional spaces. This essay recounts the teaching of Sarah Manguso's The Two Kinds of Decay to students across different academic contexts and considers what we can learn when we put classrooms in conversation with each other. This essay argues for the value of texts like Manguso's, which explicitly hold the narrating subject and form of illness narrative up for critical examination.

Privately manufactured firearms, newly purchased firearms, and the rise of urban gun violence.

Gun violence in many U.S. cities increased dramatically after the commencement of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Traumatic disclosures in the life stories of older Vietnam era veterans.

Background: Eliciting life stories is an important component of person-centered care that may aid in understanding how an individual's unique background and narrative impacts their health. Such life stories, especially when gathered from older military Veterans, may include traumatic events, raising the urgency that clinicians be prepared to provide care that is trauma-informed and ensure Veteran's experiences are acknowledged and treated effectively.

Methods: We examined the prevalence and type of potentially traumatic and/or adverse life events spontaneously shared by 231 older Veterans participating in a life story intervention while receiving care within the U.

Research Dominance Definitions May Not Identify Higher Risk Limb for Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury in NCAA D3 Student-Athletes.

Background/purpose: Recent work has identified non-significant correlations of established limb dominance to the lower extremity (LE) at greater risk for Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury in an active, non-athletic sample. The most common LE dominance definition is preferred leg to kick a ball. Athletes develop a unilaterality pattern different from their active, non-athlete peers.

Global urban environmental change drives adaptation in white clover.

Urbanization transforms environments in ways that alter biological evolution. We examined whether urban environmental change drives parallel evolution by sampling 110,019 white clover plants from 6169 populations in 160 cities globally. Plants were assayed for a Mendelian antiherbivore defense that also affects tolerance to abiotic stressors.

Cross-modal distribution alignment embedding network for generalized zero-shot learning.

Many approaches in generalized zero-shot learning (GZSL) rely on cross-modal mapping between the image feature space and the class embedding space, which achieves knowledge transfer from seen to unseen classes. However, these two spaces are completely different space and their manifolds are inconsistent, the existing methods suffer from highly overlapped semantic description of different classes, as in GZSL tasks unseen classes can be easily misclassified into seen classes. To handle these problems, we adopt a novel semantic embedding network which helps to encode more discriminative information from initial semantic attributes to semantic embeddings in visual space.

The pollen virome of wild plants and its association with variation in floral traits and land use.

Pollen is a unique vehicle for viral spread. Pollen-associated viruses hitchhike on or within pollen grains and are transported to other plants by pollinators. They are deposited on flowers and have a direct pathway into the plant and next generation via seeds.