Comparison of Two BPT Models and Their Effects on Parental Skill Acquisition

This study examined the effectiveness of two behavioral parent-training teaching models on the acquisition of six parenting skills (play, praise, tangible rewards, effective commands, ignoring, and time-out). One method focused more on didactic instruction with video modeling using the Incredible Years manualized treatment, while the other method focused more exclusively on rehearsal and structured feedback. Participants were 32 parents with children aged between I month and 20 years from the Central Valley region of California that participated in a group parent-training program. Structured role-plays with corresponding task analyses were used to assess parent skill integrity. Baseline scores were compared to the 1-week follow-up assessment scores. Results indicated that scores for the 32 participants significantly improved from baseline to the follow-up assessment for each of the six skills. The percentage of participants that reached mastery criterion at follow-up was significantly higher for the rehearsal and structured feedback method across each of the six skills. Statistical analyses revealed that there was a significant interaction between teaching method and assessment time for the skill play, rehearsal and structured feedback method improving more than didactic instruction and video modeling

The Love in Loving: Overcoming Artificial Racial Barriers

The rewritten opinion of Loving v. Virginia in Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court is in stark contrast to the original. Professor Teri McMurtry-Chubb’s judgment for the court “unmasks—and renders unavoidable— the link between America’s history of White supremacy and patriarchy and America’s legal structures for regulating marriage and families.” The feminist opinion relies almost entirely on legal, social, and cultural history, in particular the history of marriage and family relationships among and between Blacks and Whites during the colonial, antebellum, and postbellum eras in the American South. For the authors of this response Essay, both the original and rewritten Loving opinions get it right by focusing on White supremacy, but they fall short in treating Mildred and Richard as proxies for racial justice. In their view, it is important for the law to remember that Mildred and Richard were real people, whose lives depended on the outcome of this case. The authors also reflect on the future of what they identify as artificial racial barriers. In emphasizing that Mildred Jeter identified as mixed race, the authors highlight the difficulty of racial categorization in the modern era when so many are discovering, sometimes surprisingly, their mixed and diverse ancestry. Thus, the Essay suggests, while the rewritten feminist judgment might have worked some societal change through the development of the law, time and culture are equally powerful agents of change

Uridine-derived ribose fuels glucose-restricted pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is a lethal disease notoriously resistant to therap

Association between socioeconomic status with pregnancy and neonatal outcomes:An international multicenter cohort

Introduction: Previous evidence examining the association between socioeconomic status and pregnancy complications are conflicted and often limited to using area-based measures of socioeconomic status. In this study, we aimed to examine the association between individual-level socioeconomic factors and a wide range of adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes using data from the IMPROvED birth cohort conducted in Sweden, the Netherlands and Republic of Ireland. Material and methods: The study cohort consisted of women who participated in the IMPROvED birth cohort between 2013 and 2017. Data on socioeconomic factors were self-reported and obtained at 15 weeks' gestation, and included level of education, employment status, relationship status, and income. Data on pregnancy and neonatal outcomes included gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes mellitus, emergency cesarean section, preterm birth, post term delivery, small for gestational age and Apgar score at 1 min. These data were obtained within 72 h following delivery and confirmed using medical records. Multivariable logistic regression examined the association between each socioeconomic variable and each outcome separately adjusting for maternal age, maternal body mass index, maternal smoking, maternal alcohol consumption and cohort center. We also examined the effect of exposure to any ≥2 risk factors compared to none. Results: A total of 2879 participants were included. Adjusted results suggested that those with less than third level of education had an increased odds of gestational hypertension (OR: 1.74, 95% CI: 1.23–2.46), while those on a middle level of income had a reduced odds of emergency cesarean section (OR: 0.59, 95% CI: 0.42–0.84). No significant associations were observed between socioeconomic variables and neonatal outcomes. Exposure to any ≥2 socioeconomic risk factors was associated with an increased risk of preterm birth (OR: 1.75, 95% CI: 1.06–2.89). Conclusions: We did not find strong evidence of associations between individual-level socioeconomic factors and pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in high-income settings overall, with only few significant associations observed among pregnancy outcomes.</p

Voices Raised, Spring 2022

Director\u27s column; workforce diversification; women\u27s leadership immersion; staff spotlight on Leah Ward; focus on equity, education, and research (UD Men for Gender Equity; Gender Equity Research Colloquium); diversity and inclusion; Women of UD; student organization spotlight; Voice of Black Women; staff summaries.https://ecommons.udayton.edu/wc_newsletter/1057/thumbnail.jp

Meat and Components of Meat and the Risk of Bladder Cancer in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study

BACKGROUND: Meat could be involved in bladder carcinogenesis via multiple potentially carcinogenic meat-related compounds related to cooking and processing, including nitrate, nitrite, heterocyclic amines (HCAs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The authors comprehensively investigated the association between meat and meat components and bladder cancer. METHODS: During 7 years of follow-up, 854 transitional cell bladder-cancer cases were identified among 300,933 men and women who had completed a validated food-frequency questionnaire in the large prospective NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study. The authors estimated intake of nitrate and nitrite from processed meat and HCAs and PAHs from cooked meat by using quantitative databases of measured values. Total dietary nitrate and nitrite were calculated based on literature values. RESULTS: The hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for red meat (HR for fifth quintile compared with first quintile, 1.22; 95% CI, 0.96-1.54; Ptrend = .07) and the HCA 2-amino-1 methyl-6-phenylimidazo(4,5-b)pyridine (PhIP) (HR, 1.19; 95% CI, 0.95-1.48; Ptrend = .06) conferred a borderline statistically significant increased risk of bladder cancer. Positive associations were observed in the top quintile for total dietary nitrite (HR, 1.28; 95% CI, 1.02-1.61; Ptrend = .06) and nitrate plus nitrite intake from processed meat (HR, 1.29; 95% CI, 1.00-1.67; Ptrend = .11). CONCLUSIONS: These findings provided modest support for an increased risk of bladder cancer with total dietary nitrite and nitrate plus nitrite from processed meat. Results also suggested a positive association between red meat and PhIP and bladder carcinogenesis

Chloroquine resistance before and after its withdrawal in Kenya

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PPAC\u27s Disney Musicals in Schools: A Step to Building Providence Culture

In an educational partnership with the Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC), students from DEE3999 are working to produce videos that bring Disney musicals to urban schools in Rhode Island. The project encourages students from various majors to brainstorm concepts, film on site, and edit to deliver creative and on-strategy videos to the client. The videos highlight the program and inform parents, teachers, and school districts about the importance of the performing arts in grade schools. The design of PPAC’s Disney Musicals in Schools program gives students in urban Rhode Island school districts the opportunity to learn and perform theatrical pieces, which ultimately contribute to their educational experience. Overall, the videos address the importance of arts in grade schools and the overall contribution Disney Musicals in Schools will have on the culture and community of Providence