• Breathing-Based Meditation for Improving COPD Burden: A Mixed Single- Case and Qualitative Approach 

  Lin, Ting-fen; Linville, Deanna; Nese, Rhonda N. T.; Seeley, John; Shune, Samantha (LISDEN Publishing Inc., 2023-12-19)

  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) impacts the physiological and psychoemotional aspects of life. COPD-related secondary sequelae also synergistically interact with each other. For example, dyspnea affects the ...
• Selecting the Number and Labels of Topics in Topic Modeling: A Tutorial 

  Weston, Sara J.; Shryock, Ian; Light, Ryan; Fisher, Phillip A. (Sage Journals, 2023-05-25)

  Topic modeling is a type of text analysis that identifies clusters of co-occurring words, or latent topics. A challenging step of topic modeling is determining the number of topics to extract. This tutorial describes tools ...
• Parent Gender Affects the Influence of Parent Emotional Eating and Feeding Practices on Child Emotional Eating 

  Trevino, Shaina D.; Kelly, Nichole R.; Budd, Elizabeth L.; Giuliani, Nicole R. (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021-09-10)

  Extant research supports a direct association between parent’s own emotional eating and their child’s emotional eating, and demonstrates correlations among parent emotional eating, feeding practices, and child emotional ...
• Ancient hybridization leads to the repeated evolution of red flowers across a monkeyflower radiation 

  Short, Aidan W.; Streisfeld, Matthew A. (Oxford Academic, 2023-06-05)

  The reuse of old genetic variation can promote rapid diversification in evolutionary radiations, but in most cases, the historical events underlying this divergence are not known. For example, ancient hybridization can ...
• Examination of current U.S. female firefighting personal protective equipment (PPE) sizing and fitting process challenges: an opportunity to improve safety 

  Sokolowski, Susan L.; Griffin, Linsey; Wu, Yingying; McKinney, Ellen; Morris, Kristen; Bettencourt, Chrissy (SpringerOpen, 2022-11-25)

  Between 2010 and 2014, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) estimated that female firefighters experienced 1260 injuries on the fireground each year. Previous research attributed some of these injuries to ...
• The numeric understanding measures: Developing and validating adaptive and nonadaptive numeracy scales 

  Silverstein, Michael C.; Bjälkebring, Pär; Shoots-Reinhard, Brittany; Peters, Ellen (Cambridge University Press, 2023-06-28)

  Numeracy—the ability to understand and use numeric information—is linked to good decision-making. Several problems exist with current numeracy measures, however. Depending on the participant sample, some existing measures ...
• Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study 

  Shoemaker, Stephen J. (University of California Press, 2022)

  Creating the Qur’an presents the first systematic historical-critical study of the Qur’an’s origins, drawing on methods and perspectives commonly used to study other scriptural traditions. Demonstrating in detail that the ...
• Measuring Hispanics/Latinxs: Racial Heterogeneity and Its Consequences for Modeling Social Outcomes in U.S. Population Samples 

  Shiao, Jiannbin Lee (Sage Journals, 2023-05-23)

  Quantitative sociologists have recognized the challenges of studying Latinx Americans, given their unique racial heterogeneity and unique measurement in surveys through dedicated Latinx-ethnicity questions. Using the ...
• Intimations of a New Paradigm for Lexical Studies in Psychology 

  Saucier, Gerard (Frontiers in Psychology, 2022-07-01)

  Several consecutive productive decades of research on basic dimensions of personality have given a firmer footing to the discipline due, in part, to contributions of lexical studies of personality. These studies helped ...
• Investigating Fractal Analysis as a Diagnostic Tool That Probes the Connectivity of Hippocampal Neurons 

  Rowland, Conor; Harland, Julian H.; Smith, Julian H.; Moslehi, Saba; Dalrymple-Alford, John; Taylor, Richard P. (Frontiers in Physiology, 2022-06-23)

  Many of nature’s fractal objects benefit from the favorable functionality that results from their pattern repetition at multiple scales. Our recent research focused on the importance of fractal scaling in establishing ...
• Neuron arbor geometry is sensitive to the limited-range fractal properties of their dendrites 

  Rowland, Conor; Smith, Julian H.; Moslehi, Saba; Harland, Bruce; Dalrymple-Alford, John; Taylor, Richard P. (Frontiers in Network Physiology, 2023-01-25)

  Fractal geometry is a well-known model for capturing the multi-scaled complexity of many natural objects. By analyzing three-dimensional images of pyramidal neurons in the rat hippocampus CA1 region, we examine how the ...
• Aesthetics and Psychological Effects of Fractal Based Design 

  Robles, Kelly E.; Roberts, Michelle; Viengkham, Catherine; Smith, Julian H.; Rowland, Conor; Moslehi, Saba; Stadlober, Sabrina; Lesjak, Anastasija; Lesjak, Martin; Taylor, Richard P.; Spehar, Branka; Sereno, Margaret (Frontiers in Psychology, 2021-08-17)

  Highly prevalent in nature, fractal patterns possess self-similar components that repeat at varying size scales. The perceptual experience of human-made environments can be impacted with inclusion of these natural patterns. ...
• Introduced annuals mediate climate-driven community change in Mediterranean prairies of the Pacific Northwest, USA 

  Reed, Paul B.; Pfeifer-Meister, Laurel E.; Roy, Bitty A.; Johnson, Bart R.; Bailes, Graham T.; Nelson, Aaron A.; Bridgham, Scott D. (Wiley, 2021-11-01)

  Aim: How climate change will alter plant functional group composition is a critical question given the well-recognized effects of plant functional groups on ecosystem services. While climate can have direct effects on ...
• Navigating the intersection of 3D printing, software regulation and quality control for point‑of‑care manufacturing of personalized anatomical models 

  Paxton, Naomi C. (BMC, 2023-04-07)

  3D printing technology has become increasingly popular in healthcare settings, with applications of 3D printed anatomical models ranging from diagnostics and surgical planning to patient education. However, as the use of ...
• Non-singular and singular flat bands in tunable phononic metamaterials 

  Karki, Pragalv; Paulose, Jayson (APS, 2023-04-18)

  Dispersionless flat bands can be classified into two types: (1) non-singular flat bands whose eigenmodes are completely characterized by compact localized states, and (2) singular flat bands that have a discontinuity in ...
• Comparison of fractal and grid electrodes for studying the effects of spatial confinement on dissociated retinal neuronal and glial behavior 

  Moslehi, Saba; Rowland, Conor; Smith, Julian H.; Griffiths, Willem; Watterson, William J.; Niell, Cristopher M.; Alemán, Benjamín J.; Perez, Maria-Thereza; Taylor, Richard P. (Nature, 2022-10-20)

  Understanding the impact of the geometry and material composition of electrodes on the survival and behavior of retinal cells is of importance for both fundamental cell studies and neuromodulation applications. We ...
• Temporary establishment of bacteria from indoor plant leaves and soil on human skin 

  Mhuireach, Gwynne Á.; Fahimipour, Ashkaan K.; Vandegrift, Roo; Muscarella, Mario E.; Hickey, Roxana; Bateman, Ashley C.; Van Den Wymelenberg, Kevin G.; Bohannan, Brendan J. M. (BMC, 2022-12-22)

  Background: Plants are found in a large percentage of indoor environments, yet the potential for bacteria associated with indoor plant leaves and soil to colonize human skin remains unclear. We report results of experiments ...
• The lifetime of charged dust in the atmosphere 

  Harper, Joshua Méndez; Harvey, Dana; Huang, Tianshu; McGrath, Jake, III; Meer, David; Burton, Justin C. (Oxford Academic, 2022-10-14)

  Wind-blown dust plays a critical role in numerous geophysical and biological systems, yet current models fail to explain the transport of coarse-mode particles (>5μm) to great distances from their sources. For particles ...
• Degeneracies and symmetry breaking in pseudo-Hermitian matrices 

  Melkani, Abhijeet (APS, 2023-04-18)

  Real eigenvalues of pseudo-Hermitian matrices, such as real matrices and PT −symmetric matrices, frequently split into complex conjugate pairs. This is accompanied by the breaking of certain symmetries of the eigenvectors ...
• Addressing US Youth Violence and Central American Migration through Fortifying Children, Families, and Educators in Central America: A Collaborative Approach to the Development and Testing of a Youth Violence Preventive Intervention 

  McClure, Heather H.; Eddy, J. Mark; Martinez, Charles R., Jr.; Esmail, Rubeena; Figueroa, Ana Lucila; Batz, Ruby (IntechOpen, 2022-10-14)

  Youth violence is a pressing problem in the United States (US) with multiple contributors. Some violence involving US youth can be linked to a larger global epidemic of youth violence in Latin America and in Central ...

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