Lehman College

Health insurance and MOUD: predicting OUD treatment success

Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a chronic condition with low rates of treatment success; use of medication for OUD (MOUD) is inconsistent across treatment settings. The purpose of this study was to examine the independent and interactive associations of MOUD and health insurance sta...

Health literacy and advance care planning among adults in New York City

Advance care planning (ACP) is a process for determining future medical decisions. ACP requires individuals to communicate their wishes. There is limited research measuring rates of ACP by levels of health literacy. The Transtheoretical Model (TTM) is a framework for evaluating t...

Torn from the root: a memoir of a Black transracial adoptee

This book is written from an insider’s perspective, written in memoir form, regarding transracial adoption. The author is an American Black female who was adopted into a white evangelical family in...

Connectivity for square percolation and coarse cubical rigidity in random right-angled Coxeter groups

Abstract We consider a random right-angled Coxeter group (RACG), upper W Subscript normal upper Gamma W Γ $W_{\Gamma}$ , whose presentation graph normal upper Gamma Γ $\Gamma$ is taken to be an Erdős–Rényi random graph, i.e. normal upper Gamma tilde script upper G Subscript n com...

Mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities of the ribotoxic stress response in cancer

Various environmental and endogenous stressors, including ultraviolet (UV) radiation, cytotoxins, and dysregulated translation, can induce ribosome stalling and collisions, disrupting protein homeostasis. The ribotoxic stress response (RSR) is a cellular surveillance mechanism th...