Adelphi University

Integrating an Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Literacy Feature Into Shared Storybook Reading for Autistic Children Who Need or Rely on AAC

PURPOSE: This study explored the impact of integrating an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) literacy feature (Transition to Literacy [T2L] initial-letter sound feature), adapted to target letter-sound correspondence, within a grid-based AAC topic display on the acc...

Using AI to Organize and Publish Slavery Research Online: The Cowenhoven Project

The Cowenhoven Project (cowenhoven.org) is a multi-part digital humanities project combining archival research, genealogical scholarship, and data science in an effort to recover the names of people enslaved in New York and New Jersey by the Van Kouwenhoven-Conover family. In thi...

It is time to revisit the external determinants of state terror

Authoritarian regimes are frequently influenced by external policies and transnational relationships when shaping domestic repression strategies. Existing empirical research has largely focused on demonstration and diffusion effects, emphasizing how governments emulate repressive...

Winnicott’s Squiggle Game: A Study of Playfulness and Desire

Winnicott’s Squiggle Game is a game of free pictorial associations that enable the child and the therapist to create meaning out of seemingly random drawings. It is a game with no rules in which children find themselves expressing ideas and sharing associations that are often sur...

Institutional Factors Affecting Social Work Masters Licensure Exam Pass Rates in the US

Purpose This study analyzed the Association of Social Work Boards licensing examination data to empirically examine the impact of institutional factors on social work licensure examination pass rates that have not been addressed in previous research.Methods Using a robust statist...

Ultra-processed food increases mortality in the cockroach Nauphoeta cinerea

Abstract Ultra-processed food products make up more than half of the total calories consumed by people in some nations, and their sales keep growing. Eating these foods is correlated with human health issues, including cancer, cardiovascular disease and obesity, and also damages...

Balancing needs and resources in mental health care through the lens of public and provider perspectives

Abstract Background Telemental health care (TMHC) may offer convenient and private pathways to mental health support, but its feasibility and acceptability depend on the cultural, structural, and operational context in which it is delivered. This qualitative study examined how me...

Domestic Returns to Predictable US Participation in the World Health Organization: Health Security and Cost.

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A Pilot Study of a Video Cognitive Behavioral Intervention in Spanish and English for Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

This study presents a slide-based video cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-informed psychoeducational intervention for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients. The intervention addresses the lack of mental healthcare interventions for CKD patient...

Diffusion-OrderedNMR Spectroscopy to Characterizea Continuum of Brij-35 Self-Assembly

Abstract Brij-35 is a nonionic surfactant with diverse uses in protein solubilization, biochemical assays, cosmetics, drug formulations, and advanced material applications that require self-assembly. The critical micelle concentration (cmc) of Brij-35 has reported values ranging...

Use of pH Testing to Confirm Feeding Tube Placement: A Quality Improvement Project

BACKGROUND: Chest radiography confirms initial nasogastric tube placement but is impractical for repeated verification during feeding and medication administration. LOCAL PROBLEM: Nasogastric tube placement verification practices on the neuroscience unit delayed feedings and medi...