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Language, Culture, and Cancer: Qualitative Insights Into Communication Disparities Among Spanish‐Speaking Caregivers of Children With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Latino children are projected to make up nearly one‐third of United States (US) children by 2060, and many of their caregivers speak Spanish. Prior survey research has documented communication difficulties for Spanish‐speaking caregivers of children with cancer, but contemporary qualitative data are limited.
Jenny Ruiz, Alejandra Curbelo‐Paz, Sonia Morales, Elizabeth Contreras, Amy Houtrow, Scott H. Maurer, Judy C. Chang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating marginal treatment effects using parametric and semiparametric methods [PDF]

, 2017
We describe the new command margte, which computes marginal and average treatment effects for a model with a binary treatment and a continuous outcome given selection on unobservables and returns.
Walstrum, Thomas, Brave, Scott
core   +1 more source

Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin [PDF]

This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal policy effects are fundamentally easier to identify and to
Vytlacil, Edward, Carneiro, Pedro, Heckman, James J.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Comparative Evaluation of Hemodiafiltration, Hemoperfusion, and Standard Hemodialysis on Efficacy, Inflammatory Control, Dialysis Adequacy, and Safety in End‐Stage Renal Disease: A Prospective Observational Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic micro‐inflammation in patients with end‐stage renal disease (ESRD) is a significant driver of cardiovascular complications and diminished quality of life. While standard hemodialysis (SHD) effectively manages small‐molecule clearance, its ability to remove medium‐to‐large uremic toxins—the primary catalysts of systemic ...
Hongwei Zuo, Weisi Dai, Jie Mao, Mei Ye, Xingshan Lu, Xiaocui Zhang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ligand‐dependent transcriptional heterogeneity in cell cycle gene expression delays G1/S entry

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
EGF and HRG induce distinct G1/S progression programs in ErbB2‐amplified BT474 breast cancer cells. Despite activating the potent ErbB2–ErbB3 heterodimer, HRG does not accelerate cell‐cycle entry. Instead, EGF promotes earlier restriction‐point passage via ERK–FOS signaling, whereas HRG activates the AKT–MYC axis, driving transcriptional heterogeneity ...
Ririn Rahmala Febri, Ayaka Nagasato‐Ichikawa, Keita Iida, Shuhei Kimura, Akira Imamoto, Mariko Okada   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating causal effects of rare treatments on binary outcomes: addressing sample size requirements and bias correction

BMC Medical Research Methodology
Background Inverse probability weighting (IPW) is a widely used method to estimate the causal effect of an exposure on the outcome of interest in epidemiological observational studies.
Ariful Islam Sanim, M. Shafiqur Rahman, Mahbub A. H. M. Latif   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nutrient availability and pH level as influenced by inorganic fertiliser, biochar, compost, and biochar-compost blend in bioenergy sweet sorghum under marginal soils in Cullinan, Gauteng, South Africa

Frontiers in Agronomy
Marginal soils play an important role in the production of bioenergy crops. Sustainable production systems are consequently of paramount importance as a means to avoid further deterioration in the condition of marginal soils.
Lekukele A. Moloto, Mashapa E. Malobane, Mashapa E. Malobane, Thobo Motlhalamme   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Irrigation Strategies on Yield of Drip Irrigated Sunflower Oil and Fatty Acid Composition and its Economic Returns

Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2019
A field trial was conducted to observe the effects of different irrigation strategies on the yield and the water use, oil content and marginal return of sunflower which was irrigated by means of a drip system during 2010 and 2011 under Çukurova condition
Semih Metin Sezen, Dilşat Bozdoğan Konuşkan, Servet Tekin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From junk to function — How weak selection in eukaryotes builds new parts and drives genomic complexity

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
How do genomes gain new functional parts? In eukaryotes, which tend to evolve under weak selection, much of the genome is junk. Palazzo and Qiu borrow the logic of Markov chains to show how non‐functional DNA becomes functional through the appearance of intermediate states, which arise due to epistasis, buffering, and biochemical messiness, allowing ...
Alexander F. Palazzo, Yi Qiu
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the Conditional Contribution of Cement Content to Concrete Strength Using Interpretable Causal Machine Learning

Buildings
Concrete compressive strength is traditionally modeled as a function of mixture composition, with cement dosage often assumed to produce proportional strength gains. However, such interpretations are typically correlational and do not quantify the causal
Ayse Nur Adiguzel Tuylu, Serkan Tuylu, Deniz Adiguzel, Ismail Demir   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source