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Clinical evaluation of porcelain‐veneered zirconia crowns with 3D‐printed textured cores: A preliminary randomized clinical trial

Abstract Purpose Porcelain‐veneered zirconia crowns (PVZCs) provide the opacity required to mask discolored substrates and translucency needed for a natural appearance. Although in vitro studies have demonstrated that three‑dimensionally (3D)‑printed textures on zirconia cores ca...

Hemispheric Asymmetry of Neuroimaging Biomarkers in Early Onset Alzheimer's Disease: Clinical and Cognitive Outcomes

Objective Individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (AD) often exhibit amyloid, tau, and atrophy predominantly in the left or right hemisphere, but group‐level analyses typically ignore inter‐individual variability and changing asymmetry patterns when averaging data across p...

Global Incidence of All-Cause Dementia

Importance Global dementia incidence estimates are limited by underrepresentation of low- and middle-income countries and heterogeneous analytic methods. Due to these limitations, true understanding of the global dementia landscape remains incomplete. Objective To identify dement...

Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Individuals with Postpartum Mental Health Diagnoses: A Rapid Systematic Review

Date presented: April 25, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Kylie N Laker, kylaker@iu.edu

Landscape transcriptomics reveals ecological constraints on fish under anthropogenic coastal change

Abstract Urban zones are rapidly expanding worldwide, exposing organisms to complex and multidimensional stressors. However, linking organismal responses to environmental change at ecologically relevant scales remains a major challenge. To investigate the constraints imposed on f...

Design Thinking Improved Transitional Care Management and Primary Care Continuity in Rural America

BACKGROUND: Transitional care management (TCM) supports timely postdischarge follow-up and is associated with decreased emergency department visits and 30-day readmissions. However, delivering TCM in rural settings remains challenging, and staff frequently report frustration with...

Living 100 years and beyond: insights from Ethiopian centenarians on contexts contributing to extreme longevity

Purpose Extreme longevity is considered a sign of healthy ageing. While healthy ageing is a global goal, centenarian studies in Africa remain scanty. Design/methodology/approach Framed by the life course and social capital theoretical frameworks, this case study aimed to explore...

Well-being, Learning Environment, and Mistreatment Among Unionized Versus Nonunionized Surgery Residents During the COVID-19 Pandemic

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether residency program unionization was associated with differences in resident well-being, learning environment, and mistreatment during the COVID-19 pandemic. BACKGROUND: Resident unionization increased following the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by concer...

Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Thalamic Brain Metastases: A Retrospective Analysis and Literature Review.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The thalamus, a neural processor and integrator for forebrain activities, is an uncommon site for metastatic lesions. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) has become a noninvasive treatment for brain metastases. This study assesses the efficacy, safety, and...

Alcohol use trajectories and liver enzyme changes in adolescents with MASLD: A longitudinal multicenter cohort.

OBJECTIVES: To characterize longitudinal patterns of alcohol use and evaluate associations with liver enzyme changes in youth with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD). METHODS: We analyzed 1172 children with biopsy-confirmed MASLD and longitudinal Alc...

Disclosure of HIV Positive Status and Network Characteristics Among a Cohort of People Living with HIV in Western Kenya

Disclosure of HIV serostatus is critical in managing the health and well-being of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), yet the decision to disclose is shaped by complex interpersonal and contextual factors. The purpose of this study was to examine patterns of HIV status disclosur...

Compassionate Communication During Early Pregnancy Loss: Using Forum Theatre to Train Emergency Medicine Residents

ABSTRACT Background Compassionate communication is a critical skill when caring for patients experiencing early pregnancy loss (EPL) in the emergency department; however, medical learners often have limited opportunities to practice this skill in a psychologically safe, low‐stake...

Modifiable Factors Associated With Substance Use Disorder Screening by Nurses: A Cross‐Sectional Survey

ABSTRACT Aim To identify the training, organizational, attitudinal and competence factors associated with how frequently nurses screen patients for substance use disorder, and to determine which remain associated after demographic and structural characteristics are taken into acc...

The Double-Edged Power of Mentors: How Daily Feelings of Power Shape Mentees’ Experiences of Gender- and Race-Based Harm and Support

Abstract Power asymmetries shape everyday mistreatment in workplaces and academic training settings, yet little is known about how mentors' momentary feelings of power affect mentees' daily gender- and race-based experiences in real time. Drawing on power-approach and power-ampli...

Fossil ascospores of Potamomyces from the Early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site (USA)

Fossil fungal ascospores assignable to the genus Potamomyces have been recovered from Early Pliocene deposits at the Gray Fossil Site, a Fossil-Lagerstätte in Tennessee, USA. Characterized by four prominent equatorial verrucae, these ascospores closely resemble the fossil-species...

Rural and Small Libraries as Social Service Hubs: Types, Scope, and Challenges

This study examines social service delivery in rural public libraries through a mixed-method design combining qualitative interviews and a national survey of rural libraries. Findings reveal 36 distinct services organized into three categories: Core Social Services, Supportive So...

Gene flow, kinship, and source population assignment in Chrysomya blow flies

Abstract Blow flies of the genus Chrysomya are among the earliest colonizers of human remains and are important forensic indicators in Africa and the Middle East. However, the population genetic structure of Old World Chrysomya species in North Africa remains poorly understood. W...

Agentic or Experiencer? The Nonhuman Action in Ecofiction

The nonhuman has been widely studied in the humanities and social sciences (Cohen & Lemenager, 2016). While its meaning varies among disciplines and contexts, in literary studies the term nonhuman generally encompasses “plants, animals, spirits, gods, and, more recently, machines...

Agentic or Experiencer? The Nonhuman Action in Ecofiction

The nonhuman has been widely studied in the humanities and social sciences (Cohen & Lemenager, 2016). While its meaning varies among disciplines and contexts, in literary studies the term nonhuman generally encompasses “plants, animals, spirits, gods, and, more recently, machines...

School Suspensions and Juvenile Justice Punishment: An Assessment of the School-to-Prison Pipeline

This study investigated the influence of school suspensions on three juvenile court outcomes among male students referred from school: dismissal, diversion, and probation. It also investigated whether the relationship between school suspensions and court outcomes were moderated b...