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A Culturally Adapted Telehealth Intervention for Parents of Children with Autism in China
(2022)
Autism affects about 4.57 million children under the age of five worldwide, and 95% of them live in low-and-middle-income countries, where services are scarce. In China, there is a scarcity of professionals who can provide ...
A Multi-Pronged Modulation of Signaling Pathways in Targeting Breast Cancer Stem Cells.
(2012)
Emerging evidence suggest that cancer stem cells (CSCs) are an essential target for effective cancer therapy because CSCs drive tumor growth, chemo-resistance, tumor relapse, and metastasis. The goal of this study was to ...
Evaluating the Risk of Ototoxicity Due to Metals Exposures
(2019)
Hearing is vital for speech communication and evaluation of the environment. Damage to this sense harms both physical and social health; poor learning outcomes can also arise. Noise is a well-known exposure that can result ...
A Novel Mechanistic and Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Model with Dynamic Gastrointestinal Fluid Transport
(2018)
A better understanding of the rate and extent for oral drug product dissolution in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract can provide an invaluable perspective in the drug development process. As it is difficult to experimentally ...
Associations of Environmental Risk Factors with Age-Related Cataract and Glaucoma
(2018)
Cataract and Glaucoma are two leading causes of visual impairment and blindness, showing an increasing prevalence with age. However, in spite of this significance, the etiology of age-related cataract (ARC) or glaucoma is ...
Analysis of Marked Recurrent Events in the Presence of a Terminating Event.
(2012)
In many biomedical studies where the event of interest is recurrent (e.g., hospital admission), marks are observed upon the occurrence of each event (e.g., medical costs, length of stay). In Chapter II, we propose novel ...
Mechanistic Dissection of DNA Repair Pathways in Bacillus subtilis.
(2014)
All cells must accurately copy and maintain their DNA to ensure the faithful transmission of their genetic material to the next generation. Organisms ranging from bacteria to humans contain a suite of DNA repair pathways ...
Schooling and Health: A Life Course Approach.
(2013)
Health differences between adults with different levels of schooling are among the largest and most wide-ranging of health disparities in the United States. Yet there remains much we do not know about how and when in the ...
Evaluation and Application of Current Methods Used to Estimate Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollutants at High Spatial or Temporal Resolutions.
(2018)
Strategies for reducing exposure to ambient air pollution in urban areas may be less effective as pollutants and their sources have shifted from being dominated by large point sources to more complex mixtures that include ...
Electronic Dating Violence in Adolescence: Trajectories, Implications for Depressive Symptoms and Delinquency, and Identifying Events and Behaviors that are Most Predictive of EDV Engagement
(2022)
Electronic dating violence (EDV) is a prevalent problem during adolescence, but little is known about trajectories across time, implications of EDV on depressive symptoms or delinquent behaviors, or what specific events ...