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Gender, Immigration, and the Republican Coalition: Attitude Activation Versus Attitude Change in the 2020–2024 Electoral Transition

The 2024 presidential election resulted in the following paradox: despite unprecedented affective polarization, mega-partisan identity alignment, and historical party loyalty, Donald Trump expanded his electoral coalition. This thesis aims to demonstrate how this seemingly parado...

Crystal Structure of New Polar Rare Earth Borates Na2.62Ln2.12(Bo3)3 (Ln = Pr, Nd, Sm) Containing Isolated Bo3 Groups

Three new rare earth borates, Na2.62Ln2.12(BO3)3 (Ln = Pr, Nd, Sm), were synthesized via a high-temperature solution reaction using a BaCO3–H3BO3–NaF flux and structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. The compounds crystallize in the orthorhombic sp...

Single Crystal Growth of the Orthoborate NaBaLu(BO3)2 and Optical Investigation of Eu3+ and Tb3+ Doped NaBaLu(BO3)2

Sodium barium lutetium borate NaBaLu(BO3)2 crystals were synthesized using a high-temperature solution method. The crystal structure of this layered orthoborate is described and corresponds to that of an extensive orthoborates family, NaBaR(BO3)2 (R = Sc, Y, Yb, Tb – Lu). NaBaLu(...

Automated Guided Wave Characterization of Marcelling: In-Plane Fiber Waviness in Thermoplastic Composites

Thermoplastic composite (TPC) materials often develop in-plane fiber waviness during manufacturing, a defect known as marcelling. Marcelling negatively impacts the strength and overall performance of the composite and are hard to control. While it may appear as a surface imperfec...

Steaming into the Unknown: Technological Change, the British Niger Expeditions, and Imperialism, 1832–1857

This thesis repositions the nineteenth-century Niger Expeditions at the center of early British imperial development in West Africa. Rather than treating these ventures as isolated exploratory episodes, it argues that they functioned as technological and administrative experiment...

An Epidemic of Complexity: Polysubstance Use Fatal Overdose Typologies Across Cook County, Illinois, Neighborhoods, 2017‒2022.

. 2026;116(8):1210-1219. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308446).

Beyond the 90 Reserved Days for Each Parent: Associations Between Fathers' Parental Leave Duration and Depression Symptoms in a Swedish National Cohort Study.

. 2026;116(8):1121-1129. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308589).

Paternity Leave Status and Mental Health Symptoms Among Ohio Fathers: A Population-Representative Survey, 2022‒2023.

. 2026;116(8):1136-1145. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308554).

Perceived Effectiveness of Cigar Warnings Among Young People in the U.S.

Introduction: The effectiveness of warning size and format on cigar packaging in influencing youth and young adult smoking behaviors is not well understood. This study tested these cigar warning characteristics among youth and young adults who use or are susceptible to using litt...

Interspecific interactions alter survival strategies of tree-shrub plants and hinder treeline ascent at alpine treelines in Southeastern Tibet: Evidence from13C and15N.

-N), and this preference increased in mixed communities for both species, with the increase in R. nivale substantially greater than that in J. saltuaria. (2) Within mixed communities, the inorganic nitrogen uptake rates of leaves, branches, and fine roots in R. nivale were signif...

Expectations and Utilization of Paternity Leave Among Male Partners in a Postpartum Public Hospital Setting in Los Angeles, California.

. 2026;116(8):1130-1135. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308556).

Racialized and Gendered Narratives for Middle-Aged African American Men as a Facilitator and Inhibitor for Self-Care Norms.

. 2026;116(8):1165-1170. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308477).

Masculinity as a Determinant of Men's Vasectomy Utilization.

. 2026;116(8):1116-1120. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308558).

The Dutch Clinical Practice Guideline: Pain, analgesia/sedation, delirium, immobility and sleep disturbances; PADIS

Objective: To update the Dutch Pain Sedation and Analgesia (PSA) guideline and to combine this with Delirium, Immobility and Sleep disturbances (DIS) to form the Dutch multidisciplinary PADIS guideline. Methods: A multidisciplinary team of 23 professionals with expertise from dif...

Reach of Palliative Care in Parkinson Disease: Progress and Gaps After a National Team-Based Implementation Project.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The value of palliative care (PC) is increasingly recognized in the care of people with Parkinson disease (PWP) and their carepartners. While clinical trials demonstrate PC improves quality of life for PWP and carepartners, little is known about the imp...

Beauty premia in wage offers: Evidence from Vietnamese online job postings

We analyze a sample of nearly 40,000 gender-targeted online job vacancies in Vietnam from February 2019 to July 2020 to estimate wage offer premia for physical attractiveness and how they vary between genders. Specifically, we compare the monthly wages offered in matched vacancie...

Perinatal loneliness: prevalence, impacts, drivers, interventions, solutions and future directions

Loneliness has been associated with perinatal mental illness, which is shown to negatively affect infant mental health. This review outlines current understandings of prevalence and negative impacts, and summarises what is currently known about contributing factors, highlighting...

Modeling Mean and Variability of Anxiety in Ecological Momentary Assessment Data Using Mixed-Effects Location–Scale Models

Ecological Momentary Assessment is a method of collecting repeated measures of people in real time within natural environments. This results in hierarchical data that has a significant amount of variation at the person level. The traditional linear mixedeffects models assume that...

A Large and Robust Legless Lizard (Squamata, Anguinae) from the Gray Fossil Site of Eastern Tennessee

The early Pliocene Gray Fossil Site in Tennessee preserved an abundance of microfossils, including numerous anguid lizard specimens. This includes the following elements: dentaries, a pterygoid fragment, a jugal, frontals, parietal fragments, dorsal and caudal vertebrae, and many...

Computational Studies of the Spin Trapping Potential of Gallic Acid and its Derivatives in the Reactions with Hydroxyl Free Radicals

Gallic acid (GA) and its derivatives are naturally occurring phenolic antioxidants that have been proposed as spin-trapping agents to study radical reactions in vivo. Despite significant interest, this has not been previously studied using computational chemistry methods. To asse...