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COVID-19 in California Community Colleges: College Responses, College Resources, and Student Outcomes
No full textIn Spring 2020, colleges across the nation swiftly transitioned their operations—including both classes and student support services—to remote delivery on an emergency basis in response to the crisis posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. While prior research has documented that the transition was associated with decrements in student outcomes, there remains limited understanding of the organizational factors that might have mitigated these negative associations during the pandemic. Drawing on administrative data from the California Community College system, along with a novel survey conducted among distance education leaders, our study reveals that the degree of declines in course completion and course passing rates varied based on pre-COVID online education resources (such as the ratio of distance education personnel to students and the availability of pre-COVID professional development programs in online learning): Colleges with greater pre-COVID online resources experienced more modest declines in student performance. To a lesser extent, we also found that declines in student performance during the onset of the pandemic varied depending on the responses implemented in reaction to the pandemic, such as the extent of technology delivery to students. The implications of our findings extend to the realm of planning for the continuity of operations in potential future crises
How Allusion Enhances Consumer Response to Hope Appeals in Health Messaging
No full textWhile fear appeals often appear in health-oriented Public Service Announcements (PSAs), three experiments demonstrate that a positive appeal, hope, can be effectively used in PSAs to promote healthy eating when combined with an allusion, a type of figurative language. Specifically, Study 1 uses eye-tracking to establish that allusion moderates hope’s encouragement of visual attention and engagement. Study 2′s experiment illustrates how allusion moderates hope’s influence on message outcomes. Study 3 tests whether self-efficacy mediates the relationships between hope and allusion on message outcomes using Hayes PROCESS modeling. Results support self-efficacy’s mediation of the hope-allusion interaction on message response outcomes. One contribution is the investigation of a multimodal allusion incorporating both visual and verbal elements and its ability to enhance message effectiveness. This study also advances the theoretical understanding of the use of positive emotional appeals and the power of self-efficacy to account for their effects in health promotion PSAs
Pacific RxTracts - February 2025
No full textArticles: Revolutionizing Hypertension Screening: AI-Enhanced ECG as a Proactive Healthcare Tool Breaking News: New Indication for Zepbound FDA Approves Injectable Nivolumab: A New Era for Opdivo in Cancer Care Stromal Stem Cells for Steroid-Refractory Acute Graft-vs-Host Disease Cardiology: Beta Blocker vs. Verapamil Therapy for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy General News: Prolactin-Increasing Antipsychotics Increase the Odds of Breast Cancer Hope for a Cytomegalovirus Vaccine: mRNA-1647 Targeting IL-13: Innovations in the Treatment of Atopic Dermatitis Beyond Opioids: Multimodal Pain Management in Colorectal Surgery A Nanomaterial Dosage Form for Mupirocin Guselkumab, a potential drug for Ulcerative colitis Neuropsychiatry: Dextromethorphan for Depression: More For Just a Cold Breakthrough in PTSD Treatment: Brexpiprazole + Sertraline Combination Outperforms SSRI Monotherapy A New Way to Treat Obsessive Compulsive and Related Disorders Sovateltide: A Novel Drug for Acute Cerebral Ischemic Stroke Treatmenthttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/rx-tracts/1003/thumbnail.jp
Report From India on Callison\u27s First Class
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Know Your Birth: Improving Patient Education through Informed Maternity Care in Sega, Kenya
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Research Update - July 2025
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Research Update - August 2025
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The Role of Inflammatory Cytokines in the Bidirectional Relationship between Periodontitis and Diabetes Mellitus
No full textPeriodontitis and type 2 diabetes mellitus are associated with each other in a bidirectional relationship. The mechanism by which diabetes affects periodontitis is understood to be due to the inflammatory effects of hyperglycemia (high blood glucose levels) and a hospitable environment for sugar-consuming bacteria. Periodontitis is known to be associated with higher levels of glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), a long-term measurement of blood glucose control, and treatment of periodontitis reduces HbA1c. Inflammation caused by periodontitis induces insulin resistance (which leads to higher blood glucose levels), but due to the complex nature of inflammation it is difficult to single out one specific cause and effect relationship. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) is a cytokine produced by macrophages and monocytes during acute inflammation. TNF-α is of interest due to its association with the disruption of insulin receptors in skeletal muscle cells and dysfunction of the pancreatic β-cells that produce insulin and is found to be elevated in patients with periodontitis. Treatment of periodontitis reduces the burden of inflammation on the body’s metabolic controls to improve control of blood glucose levels. Thus, oral health care is associated with general healthcare to provide better outcomes and supplemental treatments to improve patient conditions at the margin