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Promoting radical healing to facilitate community capacity building among formerly incarcerated Black and Latino men with substance use disorders

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study reports on a qualitative thematic analysis of secondary data from group session recordings collected as part of the Community Wise Optimization Trial. Community Wise is a multilevel behavioral intervention designed to increase critical consciousness and reduce substance use among formerly incarcerated men living in predominantly ...
Richmond E. Hayes, Heather A. Jones, Ellen Benoit, Dora N. Watkins, Liliane C. Windsor   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asymptotic dimensioning of stochastic service systems [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
Stochastic service systems describe situations in which customers compete for service from scarce resources. Think of check-in lines at airports, waiting rooms in hospitals or queues in supermarkets, where the scarce resource is human manpower. Next to these traditional settings, resource sharing is also important in large-scale service systems such as
arxiv  

Perspectives on the Current and Future State of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Genetics

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming numerous aspects of daily life, including clinical practice and biomedical research. In light of this rapid transformation, and in the context of medical genetics, we assembled a group of leaders in the field to respond to the question about how AI is affecting, and especially how AI will ...
Benjamin D. Solomon, Morgan Cheatham, Thales A. C. de Guimarães, Dat Duong, Melissa A. Haendel, Tzung‐Chien Hsieh, Behnam Javanmardi, Britt Johnson, Peter Krawitz, Paul Kruszka, Tim Laurent, Ni‐Chung Lee, Kirsty McWalter, Michel Michaelides, Klaus Mohnike, Nikolas Pontikos, Maria J. Guillen Sacoto, Yousif J. Shwetar, Vincent D. Ustach, Rebekah L. Waikel, William Woof   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association of Lymphopenia with Short Term Outcomes of Sepsis Patients; a Brief Report

Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019
Introduction: Studies have claimed that low lymphocyte count is independently correlated with 28-day survival of sepsis patients. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the value of lymphopenia in predicting the short-term outcome of sepsis patients ...
Hojat Sheikh Motahar Vahedi, Aida Bagheri, Amirhosein Jahanshir, Javad Seyedhosseini, Elnaz Vahidi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Higher mortality rates amongst emergency patients admitted to hospital at weekends reflect a lower probability of admission

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 2016
Objective Patients admitted as emergencies to hospitals at the weekend have higher death rates than patients admitted on weekdays. This may be because the restricted service availability at weekends leads to selection of patients with greater average ...

semanticscholar   +1 more source

Technology in Hospitality Industry: Prospects and Challenges [PDF]

arXiv, 2017
The leisure and hospitality industry is one of the driving forces of the global economy. The widespread adoption of new technologies in this industry over recent years has fundamentally reshaped the way in which services are provided and received. In this paper, we explore some of the state-of-the-art technologies currently employed in the hospitality ...
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Repurposing With Purpose: Treatment of Bachmann–Bupp Syndrome With Eflornithine and Implications for Other Polyaminopathies

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rare diseases impact approximately 1 in 10 people worldwide, and yet, less than 5% of all rare diseases currently have an approved treatment option available. This is due to many challenges unique to rare diseases, including small, diverse patient populations, the cost of drug development that is not proportionate to the number of patients who
Caleb P. Bupp, Elizabeth A. VanSickle, Julianne Michael, Chad R. Schultz, Kelly Nguyen, Melissa Hoefer, Surender Rajasekaran, André S. Bachmann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Survey of Violence Against Staff Working in the Emergency Department in Ankara, Turkey

Asian Nursing Research, 2011
Purpose: Workplace violence in the emergency department is a significant problem world wide. The aims of this study were to identify the proportion of staff subjected to the types of violence, its sources, factors affecting violence experiences ...
Melek Serpil Talas, RN, PhD, Semra Kocaöz, RN, PhD, Selma Akgüç, RN   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A scoping review of non‐binary research in “Australian” social sciences: Community, solidarity, resilience and resisting marginalisation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Non‐binary and genderqueer identities are increasingly discussed in public discourse and academia, but there remains a dearth of academic literature centred on non‐binary people's lives and experiences. When non‐binary people are included in research, it is frequently as an additive to explorations of trans identities and subsumed under the ...
Lucy Nicholas, Sal Clark, Chloe Falzon
wiley   +1 more source

Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households: The Melbourne Access Point Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited.
Godwin Kavaarpuo, Kathryn Daley, Guy Johnson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source