Visual Perceptual Learning (VPL) is the ability to detect, discriminate, or identify visual information through training over a long period of time. While sleep has …
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting the upper and lower motor neurons. While most ALS cases are sporadic, there have been …
Background & Aims. Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) play a crucial role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing care to isolated rural communities. Declining population …
Background Socioeconomic status has been shown to influence patients’ ability to access healthcare. Hypothesis/Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the socioeconomic status …
Abstract of The modified 5-item frailty index, mortality, and hospital length of stay in geriatric traumatic fall injuries, by Daniel Antonson, Degree ScM., Brown University, …
Throughout the twentieth century, Warsaw was a city pulled between dramatic extremes. In 1918, it was named the capital city of the newly founded Polish …
Background: The National Center for Health Statistics implemented the ICD-10 code U09.9 for “Long COVID'' or “post COVID-19 condition” on October 1st, 2021. Overall utilization, …
Malaria remains a significant global health threat, with 608,000 malaria-attributed deaths in 2022. The global spread of artemisinin resistance and insecticide-resistant vectors mandates novel approaches …
Sensory neurons have the unique ability to rapidly adapt their output in response to changes in their environment. Sensory nerve endings can become transiently or …
Abstract of ‘The Latin Poetics of Modern Greek Prose, 1821-1945’, by Christopher Jotischky, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2024 Although Latin was compulsory for many students …
Formerly incarcerated individuals face a host of social and medical barriers to reintegrating sustainability into society. A novel intervention of customizable form letters written by …
“Monstrous Fugitivity: Reading Slave Legacies in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction” offers a critical reading analytic that examines how Black women writers conceptualize healing and liberty …
Nationwide, the need for mental health crisis care has trended upwards in recent years and currently exceeds capacity. This qualitative study aims to explore stakeholder …
This dissertation contains three essays in econometrics. A common theme is the impact of publication bias on the statistical credibility of published research, reproducibility, and …
Background: Testicular germ cell cancer/tumor (TGCC/TGCT), both seminoma and non-seminoma, rates have significantly risen in the U.S. Inconclusive results have been published on epidemiologic studies …
People can flexibly adjust how they achieve their goals by configuring cognitive control, but the investment of cognitive control must be sufficiently motivated. Whereas prior …
Neurodevelopment and transmission rely on the complex orchestration of gene expression at the levels of transcription and translation. Once considered simple housekeeping molecules, tRNAs, which …
Few studies have explored the metacognitive mechanisms behind effort-based decision making in dynamic paradigms designed intentionally for young children. In this preregistered study, we introduced …
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by symptoms of inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity. While ADHD has a high degree of heritability, how rare genetic …