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Consumer Grade Wearable Sensor Metrics Are Associated with Internal Forces at Common Running Injury Locations

INTRODUCTION: Inexpensive consumer-grade wearable sensors have expanded possibilities to assess, monitor, or modify a runner's gait. However, it is unclear which sensor-measured gait metrics are strongly associated with internal loading at common injury locations. PURPOSE: To mea...

Quality and Engagement Metrics of Short Versus Long-Form Videos on Atrial Fibrillation

Background Many patients with AF seek online resources for information to understand their condition and treatments.Objective To compare the quality and audience engagement of short- and long-form videos on AF and to determine the correlation between uploader type and audience en...

Effects of Fibrinogen and Thrombin Concentrations on Clot Structure and Internal Clot Lysis Time

Background: In the final steps of the coagulation cascade, thrombin converts fibrinogen to fibrin, which polymerizes into a fibrin network that stabilizes blood clots. The concentration of these two proteins can affect network structure. The fibrin network is dissolved by plasmin...

Irrational health beliefs as barriers to health behaviors: development and validation of a brief scale in a Japanese population

Health communication and public health research has shown that providing accurate, evidence-based information does not necessarily lead to appropriate health decisions or behaviors. Cognitive biases and irrational health beliefs may contribute to this gap by shaping how individua...

Zinc Homeostasis in Brucella ovis Under Zinc Scarcity: Characterization of the ZnuABC Zinc Import System and of a Newly Identified Gene of the Zur Regulon

The zinc import system ZnuABC is essential for the virulence of smooth (bearing O-polysaccharide chains) zoonotic Brucella species but remains uncharacterized in the non-zoonotic rough (lacking O-chains) species Brucella ovis, the causative agent of a type of ovine brucellosis of...

School Nurses' Perceptions of Mental Health Responsibilities Within School Nursing Practice: A Q Methodology Study

BACKGROUND: School nurses frequently encounter student mental health concerns, but little is known about how they prioritize mental health responsibilities relative to other nursing duties and local team structures. METHODS: This Q methodology study examined shared viewpoints abo...

Divergent Patterns of Speaker-Intention Discrimination and Emotional Valence Ratings in Self-Reported Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults

Autistic adults often interpret verbal and non-verbal cues underlying non-literal language differently compared to non-autistic people, reflecting differences in communicative style and shared context. Research on non-literal language in autism in controlled settings has typicall...

Assessment of insecticide use practices in licensed pest control operators in North Carolina

Abstract BACKGROUND The frequency and types of insecticides and application methods used by licensed pesticide operators were analyzed in this pilot study as a starting point to help understand insecticide applications in North Carolina (NC). The primary objective was to conduct...

A Behavioral Profile of weak epistemic adverbs in Colombian Spanish

Abstract The present study employs the Behavioral Profile approach to better understand the distribution and use of weak epistemic adverbs in Colombian Spanish. Tokens of six synonymous adverbs ( a lo mejor , de pronto , posiblemente , quizá , quizás , tal vez ) were extracted fr...

Predicting unplanned acute care transfer from an inpatient rehabilitation facility across rehabilitation populations

Risk factors for acute care transfers (ACTs) from inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) vary by setting and patient population. Prior risk prediction models designed to apply to all IRF patients in an IRF have achieved poor to acceptable predictive value, while better perfor...

Reading “Trouble”: Rehearsing Figured Worlds of Schooling Through Collaborative Roleplaying Games

In this study, we examine how collaborative speculative play in a tabletop roleplaying game functions as a literacy practice through which teachers read, compose, and revise figured worlds of schooling. Building on scholarship on roleplaying games and literacy learning, we analyz...

Building Community to Bridge Research and Practice: The North Carolina Chemistry Educators and Researchers (NC CER) Group

Abstract Communities of practice in chemical education provide networks for fostering collaboration, professional development, and integration of research with classroom practice. Here we describe the growth of the North Carolina Chemistry Educators and Researchers (NC CER) commu...

Implementing and upscaling pregnancy and postpartum physical activity: a workgroup report from the international society of behavioral nutrition and physical activity — from individual-level barriers to multilevel implementation and scale-up

Abstract Background Physical activity during pregnancy and the postpartum period is important for maternal health, yet participation remains suboptimal, and the implementation and scale-up of physical activity initiatives across diverse cultural and health-system contexts remain...

Increased Vulnerabilities: Attachment Injuries in the Transition to Parenthood

The transition to parenthood is a significant life event that activates attachment processes and vulnerability for both partners, particularly during labor and delivery. Attachment injuries may arise when partners experience fear, helplessness, or perceived abandonment during chi...

Craniofacial Education in Accredited Graduate Speech-Language Pathology Programs: National Patterns in Coursework and Clinical Training

PURPOSE: This study provides an updated national examination of craniofacial education across accredited graduate speech-language pathology programs in the United States. METHOD: A survey was distributed to 289 accredited graduate speech-language pathology programs. Ninety-nine p...

Emerging Adult College Students’ Ideal Marriage Age Gap: Linear and Nonlinear Associations

Guided by Marital Horizon Theory and Marital Paradigms Theory, this study examined how personal characteristics, relationship experiences and perspectives, romantic beliefs, and relationship intentions relate to the gap between college students’ current age and their perceived id...

Optimized Cardiac Leukocyte Isolation for Flow Cytometry Enumeration and Sorting

Accurate characterization of immune cell populations within the heart is critical for understanding inflammatory mechanisms that drive cardiac injury and repair. However, isolating viable leukocytes from cardiac tissue remains technically challenging due to the dense extracellula...

Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How Academic Discipline Moderates Entrepreneurship Education Effectiveness

Entrepreneurship education has expanded beyond business schools, yet programs do not operate uniformly across disciplines. Grounded in Shapero and Sokol's (1982) Entrepreneurial Event Model, this study examined whether an interdisciplinary program produced differential effects on...

Rethinking Mean Square Error: Information, Generalized Estimation, and the James–Stein Paradox

The James–Stein estimator’s dominance over maximum likelihood in mean square error has been called a paradox because maximum likelihood is known to be superior in many other respects. One response, due to Efron, is to question maximum likelihood. Another is to question MSE. We pu...

“A dicey situation:” asymptomatic hypertensive urgency caused by DICER1 mutation–derived cystic nephroma in a 12-month-old

Abstract Cystic nephroma (CN) in pediatric patients is a rare, benign, multi-lobular cystic mass often indicative of DICER1 tumor predisposition syndrome. This condition is caused by a germline mutation of the DICER1 gene and requires appropriate follow-up to monitor for other DI...