University of Hartford

A Community-Based Behavioral Intervention and Body Mass Index in School-Aged Children

Importance Childhood obesity remains a major concern in the US, with increases in body mass index (BMI) observed during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Scalable behavioral interventions are needed to support obesity prevention in community settings. Objective To evaluate the eff...

Marginalized Voices, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Community Media: A Complexity Framework for Community-Engaged Research in Contentious Times

Amid rising authoritarianism, the criminalization of dissent, and the erasure of indigenous expertise from policy discourse, this paper examines community-engaged research as critical public scholarship through the Deccan Development Society’s (DDS) four-decade-plus collaboration...

A PGSA approach to interactive pricing optimization: converting consumer costs into marketing value

Purpose This study reconceptualizes interactive pricing as a reciprocal and value co-creation process that sets personalized optimal prices to drive purchases and profit margins. We introduce Predictive Global Sensitivity Analysis (PGSA) as a method for real-time interactive pric...

MemTrax as a scalable digital triage tool for mild cognitive impairment screening: primary validation in Alzheimer’s disease and exploratory analysis in Parkinson’s disease

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) pose escalating global health challenges, with early detection of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) being critical for timely intervention. The 2023 Delphi consensus highlights the need for scalable tools suitable for primary ca...

Urbanicity and County-Level Variation in Transitional Housing Placements for Transition-Age Youth in California Foster Care

The decentralized U.S. child welfare system has resulted in significant variation in practices and outcomes across states and counties. Despite growing attention to varying child welfare experiences based on urbanicity, particularly rural child welfare practice concerning younger...