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Q: Can family physicians accurately screen for AAA with point-of-care ultrasound?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 7/8/2021)
Evidence-based answer: LIKELY YES. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) by nonradiologist physicians is 98% sensitive and 99% specific, compared with imaging performed by radiologists ...
The Effects of Mindfulness on Test Anxiety in Nursing Students
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
Test anxiety in nursing students is a common problem that greatly affects individual performance
in nursing school. The purpose of this quasi-experimental evidence-based practice improvement
project is to reduce test ...
‘It’s Because of Her Success the Rest of the Hive Succeeds’: The American Honey Queen Program and Women’s Advocacy in Twentieth-Century Apiculture
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2021)
This study examines the foundational decades of the American Beekeeping Federation’s
American Honey Queen Program from the 1950s through the 1990s. While women have played
vital roles in American apiculture, their ...
A Narrative Analysis of Spiritual Coping in Individuals with Terminal Heart Failure
(2021)
Approximately 6 million Americans have heart failure with treatment costs estimated at $30.7 billion annually. Those in late stages of the disease experience profound physical, emotional, and spiritual suffering. Spiritual ...
Smart hydrogel for enzyme responsive vaginal delivery of anti-HIV peptide therapeutics
(2021)
In response to an urgent need for advanced formulations for the delivery of anti-retrovirals, a stimuli sensitive hydrogel formulation that intravaginally delivers HIV-1 entry inhibitor upon being exposed to a specific ...
Bugs, Drugs and Data: Antibiotic Resistance, Prevalence and Prediction of Bug-Drug Mismatch using Electronic Health Records (EHR) Data
(2021)
Bug-Drug Mismatch (BDM) occurrences are an important and modifiable category of inappropriate antibiotic therapy (IAAT) that increases adverse outcomes for patients and drives overall antibiotic resistance (AR). Surveillance ...
Deep learning-based artifacts removal in video compression
(2021)
The block-based coding structure in the hybrid video coding framework inevitably introduces compression artifacts such as blocking, ringing, etc. To compensate for those artifacts, extensive filtering techniques were ...
Memories of My Hometown
(2021)
My orchestral piece, Memories of My Hometown, has two movements: I. Pine Trees Standing on the Snowy Mountain; II. Passionate Land. After studying abroad for many years, I yearned for my hometown in China and hoped to ...
Building a reliable and secure management framework for software-defined networks
(2021)
The Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies promise to enhance the performance and cost of managing both wired and wireless network infrastructures, functions, controls, and services (i.e., Internet of Things). ...
Digital Technology and Digital Workflow Application in the Current Landscape of Private Practice Orthodontics
(2021)
This study examined which demographic factors and practice characteristics influence orthodontists to utilize a digital workflow in their private practice, as well as which factors influence their opinions on the current ...
Orthodontists' perceptions of teledentistry and remote dental monitoring in orthodontic treatment
(2021)
The purpose of this study was two-fold. First, to survey orthodontists to determine the clinician demographics and practice characteristics that may influence the utilization of teledentistry and/or remote dental monitoring. ...
Molecular mechanism, binding free energy, and sequence selectivity of intercalation of doxorubicin and DNA
(2021)
Many drugs interact noncovalently with DNA either by groove binding or intercalation. Intercalation is a key process in drug discovery and biosensor development. Doxorubicin (DOX) is an intercalator drug that treats a wide ...
Intolerance of Uncertainty and the Physiological Correlates of Anticipation and Appraisal of Affective Stimuli
(2021)
Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) is an important transdiagnostic construct found across many psychiatric conditions. This construct is thought to reflect a general tendency to interpret uncertainty as overly aversive, and ...
Development of pulsed power sources using self-sustaining nonlinear transmission lines and high-voltage solid-state switches
(2021)
The demand for short pulses capable of delivering high peak power is increasing by leaps and bounds over the last few decades. These pulses are garnering attraction from a wide variety of end-users associated with the ...
An analysis of the decision to formally register a new venture in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2021)
This dissertation considers the factors that influence the decision to formally register a new venture, by nascent entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa. Understanding these factors is important because registration is the ...
How Discrimination Experiences Impact Prolonged Grief Disorder Symptoms in Bereaved Black and African Americans
(2021)
Black and African American people experience bereavement more frequently and earlier in life than their White counterparts and thus may be more impacted by Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). However, relatively little research ...
CEO narcissism and strategic entrepreneurial behaviors: the moderating role of industry environment
(2021)
The role of firm-level entrepreneurial behavior in explaining firm performance is well established in the entrepreneurship literature. Scholars can capture firm-level entrepreneurial behavior employing strategic entrepreneurial ...
An attention-based view on environmental exigencies and opportunity valuation
(2021)
Attention-based view of the firm (ABV) combines structural components of the task environment with cognitive components of the decision-maker, developing a comprehensive perspective of strategic behavior. ABV suggests ...
Assessment of the impact of the great plains biomass burning on the air quality of the Kansas City metro area
(2021)
This study investigates the impact of biomass burning smoke emissions from the Great Plains on Kansas City’s Air quality from 2015 to 2019 (5 years). The daily data of carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), sulfur ...
Developing an OER textbook : the fun, the frustrations, and the progress
(2021)
Hoping to improve on available options with a high quality, locally created free resource, the presenters received UM system funding and support to coordinate the creation of an open educational resource (OER) textbook. ...