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Effects of Cannabis Use on Lifestyle Choices
Get PDFThis study explores the use of cannabis among young adults and its impact on health behavior
“‘From ‘El Grado de Felicidad’ to ‘Cuán Feliz Se Encuentra’: Improving Spanish Translations of Relationship Measures”
Get PDFRelationship research in the United States has focused primarily on White couples, with less focus placed on Latinx couples. Contributing to this problem is a lack of Spanish measures to assess relationship quality, functioning, and sentiment, creating a significant barrier to treatment and research participation for Spanish-speakers. We address this issue by improving the Spanish translations of five relationship measures that were previously translated but were not psychometrically equivalent to their original English versions (Author, 2015). We used sequential stages of item analysis, cognitive probing, and re-translation to improve the equivalence of these measures. This process resulted in updated versions of the translations and recommendations regarding the translation of assessment instruments. Developing valid Spanish measures of couple functioning will be critical in expanding research and interventions in Latinx populations
Effect of Link Between Substance Use and Poor Diet on Emotional Regulation
Get PDF● Substance use (alcohol, illicit ADHD medication, marijuana, and cigarettes) have been linked to mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, as well as unhealthy habits (poor eating and limited exercise)
● We studied the correlation between substance use and emotional regulation and substance use and healthy habits (healthy eating and exercise)
● How is substance use related to poor emotional regulation and unhealthy habits? Using a short survey, we collected data on the substance usage, emotional status, as well as eating and exercise habits of 207 individuals
● We found a significant correlation between substance use, poor emotional regulation, and unhealthy habit
Moving beyond the 2018 minimum international care considerations for osteoporosis management in duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD): Meeting report from the 3rd International Muscle-Bone Interactions Meeting 7th and 14th November 2022
Get PDFThis current manuscript summarizes the proceedings of the “Third Muscle-bone interactions in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Symposium: Moving Beyond the 2018 Minimum International Standards of Care for Osteoporosis Management”, an event co-organized by the World Duchenne Organization (www.worldduchenne.org) and the International Conference on Children’s Bone Health (www.theiscbh.org). This virtual symposium, held on November 7th and 14th 2022, brought together a total of 385 delegates representing 55 countries registered for the symposium, which included 239 clinicians, 70 researchers, 40 patient representatives and others from pharmaceutical companies and regulators. This symposium aimed to review the evidence base that informed the 2018 international minimum Care Considerations, best practices for implementation of these Care Considerations, and emerging knowledge that has arisen from research since the 2018 Care Considerations that shines light on the path forward. The online symposium and this report cover the following areas: 1. Current understanding of the bone morbidity in DMD, especially in relation to conventional glucocorticoid therapy. 2. The published, 2018 minimum international Care Considerations for osteoporosis monitoring and management in DMD. 3. Real world initiatives and challenges in the implementation of the 2018 minimum international Care Considerations for osteoporosis monitoring and management in DMD. 4. The need to consider strategies to move beyond the 2018 minimum international Care Considerations to prevent first fractures in DMD. 5. New therapies in DMD with potential impact on skeletal outcomes
Intern to Interpretation: A Take on Public Archaeology at Strawbery Banke
Get PDFInterning at Strawbery Banke Museum offers a unique and important experience. While providing insight into museum archaeology, public archaeology also plays an important role in interpreting sites. Planned work at the Penhallow House through the Heritage House Program was the reason for excavating and holding a field school in 2016 and 2017. The intern acts as the teaching assistant for the field-school students, a position that offers an advanced research and leadership opportunity for students with prior experience. Field-school participants are of various ages and backgrounds, making it pertinent to emphasize the archaeology department’s role in transmitting Portsmouth and New Hampshire history. The field school and an additional archaeology camp run by the education department help to inform museum visitors about ongoing research and discoveries in the Puddle Dock neighborhood. This article highlights the role that the archaeology department and its ongoing internship program hold relative to public archaeology’s importance at Strawbery Banke
The Private Side of Victorian Mourning Practices in Nineteenth-Century New England: The Cole’s Hill Memorial Cache
Get PDFExcavated in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts, a cache of 19th-century personal-adornment artifacts, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and organic materials provides an alternative view of mourning and memorialization practices in Victorian-era New England. The associated artifacts possess characteristics indicative of Victorian mourning symbols and material types. However, no other current examples of this mourning practice exist in the historical and archaeological records. Thus, this article will attempt to understand this discovery as an aspect of the private side of the traditionally public mourning practices and women’s efforts to create mourning customs that served in creating a feminine historical memory in the Victorian era
The Efficacy of ChatGPT: Is it Time for the Librarians to Go Home?
No full textAsking ChatGPT to produce citations results in references that lead no where. These inaccuracies are considered hallucinations in AI
Functionalized nanoprobes for multiplexed surface enhanced raman spectroscopic detection of cancer biomarkers
No full textCancer has a huge impact on people across the world. In 2020, there were about 19.3 million cancer cases and approximately 10 million deaths globally. Early detection and diagnosis of cancer results in a higher rate of survival of the disease. A key challenge is the need for a highly sensitive technique for early cancer detection. Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and scattering (SERS) is a technique that can address the challenge by detecting biomarkers such as Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and Neuron-specific enolase (NSE), which provide diagnostic information for assessing cancer detection. This work focuses on the use of gold nanoprobes conjugated with Raman reporters and capture/detection antibodies for the SERS detection of multiple cancer biomarkers. The main objective is to develop a nanoprobe system that can accurately detect the presence of biomarkers in multicomponent solutions. The results demonstrated that with an increase in the biomarker (CEA or NSE) antigen concentration, there is an increase in the SERS peak intensity. The results also revealed the multiplexed detection capability when the two biomarkers co-exist in the sample. These findings suggest that the further development of this multiplexing capability with magnetic core gold shell nanoparticles may be beneficial for even greater amplification of the SERS detection signal by enhancing the sensitivity and lowering the detection limit
Temporality-induced chaos in the Kuramoto Model
Get PDFSwitched dynamical systems have been extensively studied in engineering literature in the context of system control. In these systems, the dynamical laws change between different subsystems depending on the environment, a process that is known to produce emergent behaviors---notably chaos. These dynamics are analogous to those of temporal networks, in which the network topology changes over time, thereby altering the dynamics on the network. It stands to reason that temporal networks may therefore produce emergent chaos and other exotic behaviors unanticipated in static networks, yet concrete examples remain elusive. Here, we present a minimal example of a networked system in which temporality produces chaotic dynamics not possible in any static subnetwork alone. Specifically, we consider a variant of the famous Kuramoto model, in which the network topology alternates between different configurations in response to the phase dynamics. We show under certain conditions this can produce a strange attractor, and we verify the presence of chaos by analyzing its geometrical properties. Our results provide new insights on the consequences of temporality for network dynamics, and acts as a proof of concept for a novel mechanism behind generating chaotic dynamics in networks
Politicians, Pundits, and Platform Migration: A Comparison of Political Polarization on Parler and Twitter
Get PDFParler, a self-proclaimed free speech social media platform founded in 2018, attracted a large influx of new members in 2020 as the result of a highly visible platform migration campaign. Parler usage was linked to the planning of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol building, leading to a shutdown of the Parler platform. Parler, which is now back online, offers an important lens through which to examine the broader attempts at platform migration in response to changing content moderation and platform governance policies and their impact on political polarization. We begin by examining the network connections between US Congressional Representatives on both Twitter and Parler. We find that Parler has a homogenous population of users, consisting of a single isolated group, where polarization seems irrelevant, while Twitter demonstrates two clearly polarized groups. We compare how politicians and political pundits use Parler differently. Finally, we examine the evolution of Parler including comparing Parler’s own policies before and after the shutdown and reflecting on the future of platforms like Parler and similar platform migration experiments