Joseph J. Zilber College of Public Health
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Images Connect Us Together: Navigating a COVID-19 Local Outbreak in China Through Social Media Images
(ACM, 2024-04-23)Social media images, curated or casual, have become a crucial component of communicating situational information and emotions during health crises. Despite its prevalence and significance in informational dissemination and ... -
Engage Wider Audience or Facilitate Quality Answers? a Mixed-methods Analysis of Questioning Strategies for Research Sensemaking on a Community Q&A Site
(ACM, 2024-04-23)Discussing research-sensemaking questions on Community Question and Answering (CQA) platforms has been an increasingly common practice for the public to participate in science communication. Nonetheless, how users strategically ... -
An assessment of prevalence and expenditure associated with discharge brain MRI in preterm infants
(2021-03-05)To assess national expenditure associated with preterm-infant brain MRI and potential impact of reduction per Choosing Wisely campaign 2015 recommendation to “avoid routine screening term-equivalent or discharge brain MRIs ... -
Promoting the health of refugee women: a scoping literature review incorporating the social ecological model
(2021-01-23)The health of refugee women after settlement in a new country, can be adversely or positively affected by individual, interpersonal, community, and organizational factors. While much of the previous literature highlights ... -
The Emerging Role of Two-Pore Domain Potassium Channels in Breast Cancer
(2017-12-08)Potassium ion channels are transmembrane proteins that selectively facilitate ion flow down an electrochemical gradient between intracellular and extracellular environments. There is accumulating evidence which suggest ... -
Physical activity and annual medical outlay in U.S. colorectal, breast and prostate cancer survivors
(2018-02-02)Multiple chronic conditions in cancer survivors are highly prevalent and may increase health care costs for both patients and the health care system. Studies of cancer survivors reveal positive effects of physical activity ... -
Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Youths’ Public Facilities Use and Psychological Well-Being: A Mixed-Method Study
(2017-01-01)Purpose: In this study, we explored experiences and feelings of safety in public facilities in relation to psychological well-being among transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) youth in the Midwest in the summer of ... -
Associations of two‑pore domain potassium channels and triple negative breast cancer subtype in The Cancer Genome Atlas: systematic evaluation of gene expression and methylation
(2017-01-01)Objectives: It is unclear whether 2-pore domain potassium channels are novel molecular markers with differential expression related to biologically aggressive triple-negative type breast tumors. Our objective was to ... -
Are Neuronal Mechanisms of Attentional Modulation Universal Across Human Sensory and Motor Brain Maps?
(2022-01-01)One's experience of shifting attention from the color to the smell to the act of picking a flower seems like a unitary process applied, at will, to one modality after another. Yet, the unique experience of sight vs smell ... -
Remote concussion history does not affect visually-guided reaching in young adult females
(2019-12-05)Aim: We examined the long-term effects of concussions in young adult females on visuomotor behavior during a visually-guided reaching task of various complexities. Materials & methods: 20 females with a history of longer ... -
Lack of generalization between explicit and implicit visuomotor learning
(2019-10-17)Visuomotor adaptation has been thought to occur implicitly, although recent findings suggest that it involves both explicit and implicit processes. Here, we investigated generalization between an explicit condition, in ... -
Do Stand-Biased Desks in the Classroom Change School-Time Activity and Sedentary Behavior?
(2019-03-19)The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of stand-biased desks on the physical activity and sedentary behavior of third, fourth and sixth grade students across the school year. Methods: This within classroom ...
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