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‘Rona Cyah Cancel Embodied Black Joy: An Emancipatory Inquiry and Experience Design Exploration of Positive Health and Wellbeing; Pleasure, Healing, and Liberation; and Equitable Change in Carnival in the Caribbean
(2021-06-10)
As a spi(ritual) practice and experience rooted in celebrating the resistance, emancipation, and cultural traditions of enslaved Black Africans, Carnival in the Caribbean epitomizes a desire for happier, freer, and healthier ...
Densely sampled viral trajectories suggest longer duration of acute infection with B.1.1.7 variant relative to non-B.1.1.7 SARS-CoV-2
(2021-02-16)
To test whether acute infection with B.1.1.7 is associated with higher or more sustained nasopharyngeal viral concentrations, we assessed longitudinal PCR tests performed in a cohort of 65 individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 ...
Structure and Catalytic Mechanism of a Human Triacylglycerol-synthesis Enzyme
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-13)
Triglycerides (triacylglycerols, TGs) store metabolic energy in organisms and have industrial uses for foods and fuels. Excessive accumulation of TGs in humans causes obesity and is associated with metabolic diseases1. TG ...
Value for Money of Donor-Funded Health Programs: The Case of HIV/AIDS Programming in Mozambique
(2021-06-10)
Value for money represents a critical component of development assistance for health programming in low- and middle-income countries. The costs that local individuals pay to access and use these programs seldom figure into ...
Psychological Consequences of the Flint Water Crisis: A Scoping Review
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021-05-07)
Objective: To summarize existing literature on the mental health impact of the Flint Water Crisis.
Methods: In March 2020, we searched 5 databases for literature exploring the psychological consequences of the crisis. ...
Functionally informed fine-mapping and polygenic localization of complex trait heritability
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-11-16)
Fine-mapping aims to identify causal variants impacting complex traits. We propose PolyFun, a computationally scalable framework to improve fine-mapping accuracy by leveraging functional annotations across the entire ...
Telehealth for Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation & Pain Care: Applying Qualitative Methods and the Six-Forces Innovation Framework to Assess and Address a Prevalent US Healthcare Need
(2021-04-23)
Musculoskeletal Disorders are the leading cause of pain and disorder in the United States and globally. Of all musculoskeletal disorders, back pain is the most prevalent, with a lifetime prevalence of 84% for any form of ...
The Impact and Social Response of COVID-19 in Chelsea, Massachusetts
(2021-04-16)
Chelsea was one of the hardest-hit communities by COVID-19 in Massachusetts. Chelsea was known for its weaknesses: high rates of over-crowded housing, a large immigrant and Latinx community, low-wage workers among larger ...
A systems thinking approach to risk reduction and mitigation for improving disaster management
(2021-04-19)
Disasters negatively impact lives and livelihoods, and over the last two decades of 2000 to 2019, they have cost the global economy approximately US$3 trillion (CRED (Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters) ...
Modeling the Comparative Impact of Individual Quarantine vs. Active Monitoring of Contacts for the Mitigation of COVID-19
(2020-03-08)
Individual quarantine and active monitoring of contacts are core disease control strategies, particularly for emerging infectious diseases such as Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). To estimate the comparative efficacy ...