The Health Wagon Partners with the Virginia Department of Health to Provide COVID-19 Testing in Rural Southwest Virginia

The Health Wagon has been providing care for the rural population of southwest Virginia for the past 40 years. The mission of the Health Wagon is to provide quality health care to the medically underserved people in the mountains of Appalachia. It has expanded to two stationary clinics, three mobile units, and a mobile dental unit, logging over 19,000 patients encounters in the past year

What do child characteristics contribute to outcomes from care: A PRISMA review

This article presents the findings from a systematic review of the literature regarding factors related to positive placement outcomes. Children in care are particularly vulnerable to problems with their emotional and behavioural development. It is important to know which factors affect whether children will have a positive placement outcome or not. Previous research has aimed to examine this, and has found that certain child characteristics can affect placement outcome. Reviews have not reported their search strategy in line with PRISMA guidelines, nor have they always reported the source of the data. This review was particularly interested in which studies had contact with the children or carers themselves, as opposed to a reliance on administrative data. There appear to be child characteristics that affect placement outcome, but findings need to be interpreted with caution due to a high volume of results from administrative data. Future research should aim to conduct full assessments with children when they come into care

The calcium channel β2 (CACNB2) subunit repertoire in teleosts

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Moving to capture children’s attention: developing a methodology for measuring visuomotor attention

Attention underpins many activities integral to a child’s development. However, methodological limitations currently make large-scale assessment of children’s attentional skill impractical, costly and lacking in ecological validity. Consequently we developed a measure of ‘Visual Motor Attention’ (VMA) - a construct defined as the ability to sustain and adapt visuomotor behaviour in response to task-relevant visual information. In a series of experiments, we evaluated the capability of our method to measure attentional processes and their contributions in guiding visuomotor behaviour. Experiment 1 established the method’s core features (ability to track stimuli moving on a tablet-computer screen with a hand-held stylus) and demonstrated its sensitivity to principled manipulations in adults’ attentional load. Experiment 2 standardised a format suitable for use with children and showed construct validity by capturing developmental changes in executive attention processes. Experiment 3 tested the hypothesis that children with and without coordination difficulties would show qualitatively different response patterns, finding an interaction between the cognitive and motor factors underpinning responses. Experiment 4 identified associations between VMA performance and existing standardised attention assessments and thereby confirmed convergent validity. These results establish a novel approach to measuring childhood attention that can produce meaningful functional assessments that capture how attention operates in an ecologically valid context (i.e. attention's specific contribution to visuomanual action)

Moral Narratives Workshop Proceedings

The Moral Narratives Workshop (www. moralnarratives.org) was organized in 2022 to kickstart and develop an interdisciplinary, empirical study of stories told about people’s moral actions and characters. Across eight weeks, the workshop featured talks on topics such as the cognitive mechanisms of moral narrative construction (e.g., narrator’s goals, pragmatic inferences, the role of audiences, deception), the various functions of moral narratives (e.g., cultural/master narratives, narrative identity, understanding, legitimization and maintenance of power, persuasion, autobiographical memory, victimizing, redemption, moral development), featuring cases of moral narratives in various contexts (e.g., criminal justice, propaganda, politics, journalism, literature, science communication). Each talk was followed by an hour-long group discussion expanding on the themes of the talks. Participants came from diverse backgrounds, including psychology, philosophy, linguistics, communications, journalism, literature, political science, and anthropology. Here, we provide a record of the insights arising from the group discussions. Its contents faithfully reflect the diversity, complexity and messiness of human knowledge production. We intend for these workshop proceedings to serve as a rich and generative resource for future scholarship on moral narratives

Major viral impact on the functioning of benthic deep-sea ecosytems

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