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Surmountable Caregiver Barriers to Paratonia Treatment in Community-Dwellers with Dementia: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Paratonia is an involuntary, variable resistance to passive movement that affects 90%-100% of patients with advanced dementia, interferes with care and contributes to caregiver burden. Botulinum toxin A is a candidate treatment but has no approved indication, and whether communit...

Sex & Gender Science: integrating the social with the biological

Abstract For decades, researchers have largely studied aspects of sex and gender separately; the former as a basic science and the latter as a social construct with real world consequences, including health inequities. In recent years, as our collective understanding of how the b...

Understanding rhythmic behavior in infancy: Perspectives for addressing developmental, methodological, and analytical challenges

Neural sensitivity to rhythm emerges prenatally, yet observable movement synchronization to an external beat occurs later and more gradually over development. Integrating findings from developmental psychology, neuroscience, music cognition, and social interaction research, we pr...

What Jobs Do Workers Want? Worker Preferences in Global Value Chains

ABSTRACT What do workers in global value chains (GVCs) consider a good job? Research on work in GVCs largely studies compliance with standards set from the top‐down rather than worker preferences. Understanding worker preferences is crucial because workers are the intended benefi...