Purpose: Hispanic residents of multiunit housing (MUH) are disproportionately exposed to secondhand (SHS) and thirdhand tobacco smoke (THS) from neighboring apartment units and common areas.Comprehensive legislation and voluntary policies are needed to protect residents from smoke.We developed a culturally tailored bilingual fotonovela to educate H
Influence of lung CT changes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) on the human lung microbiome.
Changes in microbial community composition in the lung #built up saddle pad of patients suffering from moderate to severe COPD have been well documented.However, knowledge about specific microbiome structures in the human lung associated with CT defined abnormalities is limited.Bacterial community composition derived from brush samples from lungs o
EXAFS and XANES analysis of oxides at the nanoscale
Worldwide research activity at the nanoscale is triggering the appearance of new, and frequently surprising, materials properties in which the increasing importance of surface and interface effects plays a fundamental role.This opens further possibilities in the development of new multifunctional materials with tuned physical properties that do not
Seeing the Black Lives Matter Movement Through Computer Vision? An Automated Visual Analysis of News Media Images on Facebook
In this study, automated visual analysis was used to explore how the political leanings of news media are associated with their visual representation of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.We analyzed more than 9,000 images posted on Facebook pages run by U.S.news media between August 2014 and October 2020 using commercially developed computer Ha
Genetic basis of Cowden syndrome and its implications for clinical practice and risk management
Amanda Gammon,1 Kory Jasperson,1,2 Marjan Gammon11Huntsman Cancer Institute Family Cancer Assessment Clinic Salt Lake City, UT, USA; 2Ambry Genetics Medical Affairs Aliso Viejo, CA USAAbstract: Cowden syndrome (CS) is an often difficult to recognize hereditary cancer predisposition syndrome caused by mutations in phosphatase and tensin homolog dele