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  1. Article: Honey for acute cough in children.

    Barker, Sarah J

    Paediatrics & child health

    2016  Volume 21, Issue 4, Page(s) 199–200

    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-07-12
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2106767-3
    ISSN 1918-1485 ; 1205-7088
    ISSN (online) 1918-1485
    ISSN 1205-7088
    DOI 10.1093/pch/21.4.199
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  2. Article: Improving the Corrosion Performance of Organically Coated Steel Using a Sol-Gel Overcoat.

    Watkins, Evan / Griffiths, Chris M / Richards, Calvin A J / Potts, Sarah-Jane / Batchelor, Chris / Barker, Peter / Searle, Justin / Jewell, Eifion

    Materials (Basel, Switzerland)

    2024  Volume 17, Issue 5

    Abstract: Organically coated steels are widely used in applications in which they are subjected to the natural environment and therefore require excellent corrosion resistance. Organic clearcoats are typically employed as a barrier that improves the overall ... ...

    Abstract Organically coated steels are widely used in applications in which they are subjected to the natural environment and therefore require excellent corrosion resistance. Organic clearcoats are typically employed as a barrier that improves the overall corrosion resistance; however, they are typically derived from fossil fuel-based feedstock. A more sustainable alternative could be possible using sol-gel coatings. The application of a simple tetraethoxysilane (TEOS)-based sol-gel was applied to polyurethane-coated steels using a spray coater. The concentration of TEOS was altered to produce coatings containing either 2.5% or 10%. The 10% TEOS resulted in dense, homogeneous coatings that offered a significant improvement in corrosion resistance compared to an uncoated substrate. Whereas the 2.5% TEOS coatings were inhomogeneous and porous, which indicated a limitation of concentration required to produce a uniform coating. The successful demonstration of using a simple TEOS-based coating to improve the corrosion resistance of organically coated steel highlights the potential for further investigation into the use of sol-gels for these applications.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-26
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2487261-1
    ISSN 1996-1944
    ISSN 1996-1944
    DOI 10.3390/ma17051075
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  3. Article ; Online: Corrigendum to: "Reducing Unplanned Intubations in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit After Children's Surgery: A Quality Improvement Project" [J Pediatr Surg 59 (1) (2024 Jan) 45-52].

    Juviler, Peter / Meyers, Jeffrey M / Levatino, Elizabeth / Axford, Jessica / Barker, Erin / Correll, Lynnie / Decker, Andrew S / Faria, John / Gloff, Marjorie / Loria, Anthony / McKenna Benoit, Margo / Schriefer, Jan / Stevens, Timothy P / Verna, Sarah / Wegman, Sarah / Wolcott, Kori / Wakeman, Derek

    Journal of pediatric surgery

    2024  Volume 59, Issue 4, Page(s) 747

    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Published Erratum
    ZDB-ID 80165-3
    ISSN 1531-5037 ; 0022-3468
    ISSN (online) 1531-5037
    ISSN 0022-3468
    DOI 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2024.01.005
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  4. Article ; Online: Metacognitive insight into cognitive performance in Huntington's disease gene carriers.

    Hewitt, Samuel Rc / White, Alice J / Mason, Sarah L / Barker, Roger A

    BMJ neurology open

    2022  Volume 4, Issue 1, Page(s) e000268

    Abstract: Objectives: Insight is an important predictor of quality of life in Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. However, estimating insight with traditional methods such as questionnaires is challenging and subjected to limitations. ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: Insight is an important predictor of quality of life in Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. However, estimating insight with traditional methods such as questionnaires is challenging and subjected to limitations. This cross-sectional study experimentally quantified metacognitive insight into cognitive performance in Huntington's disease gene carriers.
    Methods: We dissociated perceptual decision-making performance and metacognitive insight into performance in healthy controls (n=29), premanifest (n=19) and early-manifest (n=10) Huntington's disease gene carriers. Insight was operationalised as the degree to which a participant's confidence in their performance was informative of their actual performance (metacognitive efficiency) and estimated using a computational model (HMeta-d').
    Results: We found that premanifest and early-manifest Huntington's disease gene carriers were impaired in making perceptual decisions compared with controls. Gene carriers required more evidence in favour of the correct choice to achieve similar performance and perceptual impairments were increased in those with manifest disease. Surprisingly, despite marked perceptual impairments, Huntington's disease gene carriers retained metacognitive insight into their perceptual performance. This was the case after controlling for confounding variables and regardless of disease stage.
    Conclusion: We report for the first time a dissociation between impaired cognition and intact metacognition (trial-by-trial insight) in the early stages of a neurodegenerative disease. This unexpected finding contrasts with the prevailing assumption that cognitive deficits are associated with impaired insight. Future studies should investigate how intact metacognitive insight could be used by some early Huntington's disease gene carriers to positively impact their quality of life.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-04-05
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2632-6140
    ISSN (online) 2632-6140
    DOI 10.1136/bmjno-2022-000268
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  5. Article ; Online: Large carnivores avoid humans while prioritizing prey acquisition in anthropogenic areas.

    Barker, Kristin J / Cole, Eric / Courtemanch, Alyson / Dewey, Sarah / Gustine, David / Mills, Kenneth / Stephenson, John / Wise, Benjamin / Middleton, Arthur D

    The Journal of animal ecology

    2023  Volume 92, Issue 4, Page(s) 889–900

    Abstract: Large carnivores are recovering in many landscapes where the human footprint is simultaneously growing. When carnivores encounter humans, the way they behave often changes, which may subsequently influence how they affect their prey. However, little ... ...

    Abstract Large carnivores are recovering in many landscapes where the human footprint is simultaneously growing. When carnivores encounter humans, the way they behave often changes, which may subsequently influence how they affect their prey. However, little research investigates the behavioural mechanisms underpinning carnivore response to humans. As a result, it is not clear how predator-prey interactions and their associated ecosystem processes will play out in the human-dominated areas into which carnivore populations are increasingly expanding. We hypothesized that humans would reduce predation risk for prey by disturbing carnivores or threatening their survival. Alternatively, or additionally, we hypothesized that humans would increase predation risk by providing forage resources that congregate herbivorous prey in predictable places and times. Using grey wolves Canis lupus in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA as a study species, we investigated 170 kill sites across a spectrum of human influences ranging from heavily restricted human activities on protected federal lands to largely unregulated activities on private lands. Then, we used conditional logistic regression to quantify how the probability of predation changed across varied types and amounts of human influences, while controlling for environmental characteristics and prey availability. Wolves primarily made kills in environmental terrain traps and where prey availability was high, but predation risk was significantly better explained with the inclusion of human influences than by environmental characteristics alone. Different human influences had different, and even converse, effects on the risk of wolf predation. For example, where prey were readily available, wolves preferentially killed animals far from motorized roads but close to unpaved trails. However, wolves responded less strongly to humans, if at all, where prey were scarce, suggesting they prioritized acquiring prey over avoiding human interactions. Overall, our work reveals that the effects of large carnivores on prey populations can vary considerably among different types of human influences, yet carnivores may not appreciably alter predatory behaviour in response to humans if prey are difficult to obtain. These results shed new light on the drivers of large carnivore behaviour in anthropogenic areas while improving understanding of predator-prey dynamics in and around the wildland-urban interface.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Animals ; Ecosystem ; Deer/physiology ; Wolves/physiology ; Carnivora/physiology ; Predatory Behavior/physiology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-17
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3024-7
    ISSN 1365-2656 ; 0021-8790
    ISSN (online) 1365-2656
    ISSN 0021-8790
    DOI 10.1111/1365-2656.13900
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  6. Article ; Online: The associations between instructional approach, sleep characteristics and adolescent mental health: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Wong, Patricia / Meltzer, Lisa J / Barker, David / Honaker, Sarah M / Owens, Judith A / Saletin, Jared M / Seixas, Azizi / Wahlstrom, Kyla L / Wolfson, Amy R / Carskadon, Mary A

    Sleep health

    2024  Volume 10, Issue 2, Page(s) 221–228

    Abstract: Objectives: To test whether adolescents' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with the combination of their instructional approach(es) and their sleep patterns.: Design: Cross-sectional.: Setting: Adolescents were recruited ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: To test whether adolescents' mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with the combination of their instructional approach(es) and their sleep patterns.
    Design: Cross-sectional.
    Setting: Adolescents were recruited through social media outlets in October and November 2020 to complete an online survey.
    Participants: Participants were 4442 geographically and racially diverse, community-dwelling students (grades 6-12, 51% female, 36% non-White, 87% high schoolers).
    Measurements: Participants completed items from the PROMIS Pediatric Depressive Symptoms and Anxiety scales. Participants reported their instructional approach(es), bedtimes, and wake times for each day in the past week. Participants were categorized into five combined instructional approach groups. Average sleep opportunity was calculated as the average time between bedtime and waketime. Social jetlag was calculated as the difference between the average sleep midpoint preceding non-scheduled and scheduled days.
    Results: Emotional distress was elevated in this sample, with a large proportion of adolescents reporting moderate-severe (T-score ≥ 65) levels of depressive symptoms (49%) and anxiety (28%). There were significant differences between instructional approach groups, such that adolescents attending all schooldays in-person reported the lowest depressive symptom and anxiety T-scores (P < .001, η
    Conclusions: Prioritizing in-person education and promoting healthy sleep patterns (more sleep opportunity, more consistent sleep schedules) may help bolster adolescent mental health.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Adolescent ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; Female ; Male ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Sleep ; Mental Health ; Depression/epidemiology ; Anxiety/epidemiology ; Students/psychology ; Students/statistics & numerical data ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Child ; Pandemics
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-22
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ZDB-ID 2813299-3
    ISSN 2352-7226 ; 2352-7218
    ISSN (online) 2352-7226
    ISSN 2352-7218
    DOI 10.1016/j.sleh.2023.11.013
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  7. Article ; Online: How do we best engage young people in decision-making about their health? A scoping review of deliberative priority setting methods.

    Watson, Daniella / Mhlaba, Mimi / Molelekeng, Gontse / Chauke, Thulani Andrew / Simao, Sara Correia / Jenner, Sarah / Ware, Lisa J / Barker, Mary

    International journal for equity in health

    2023  Volume 22, Issue 1, Page(s) 17

    Abstract: Introduction: International organisations have called to increase young people's involvement in healthcare and health policy development. We currently lack effective methods for facilitating meaningful engagement by young people in health-related ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: International organisations have called to increase young people's involvement in healthcare and health policy development. We currently lack effective methods for facilitating meaningful engagement by young people in health-related decision-making. The purpose of this scoping review is to identify deliberative priority setting methods and explore the effectiveness of these in engaging young people in healthcare and health policy decision-making.
    Methods: Seven databases were searched systematically, using MeSH and free text terms, for articles published in English before July 2021 that described the use of deliberative priority setting methods for health decision-making with young people. All titles, abstracts and full-text papers were screened by a team of six independent reviewers between them. Data extraction followed the Centre for Reviews and Dissemination guidelines. The results are presented as a narrative synthesis, structured around four components for evaluating deliberative processes: 1) representation and inclusion of diverse participants, 2) the way the process is run including levels and timing of participant engagement, 3) the quality of the information provided to participants and 4) resulting outcomes and decisions.
    Findings: The search yielded 9 reviews and 21 studies. The more engaging deliberative priority setting tools involved young people-led committees, mixed methods for identifying and prioritising issues and digital data collection and communication tools. Long-term and frequent contact with young people to build trust underpinned the success of some of the tools, as did offering incentives for taking part and skills development using creative methods. The review also suggests that successful priority setting processes with young people involve consideration of power dynamics, since young people's decisions are likely to be made together with family members, health professionals and academics.
    Discussion: Young people's engagement in decision-making about their health is best achieved through investing time in building strong relationships and ensuring young people are appropriately rewarded for their time and contribution. If young people are to be instrumental in improving their health and architects of their own futures, decision-making processes need to respect young people's autonomy and agency. Our review suggests that methods of power-sharing with young people do exist but that they have yet to be adopted by organisations and global institutions setting global health policy.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Adolescent ; Narration ; Health Personnel ; Family
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-25
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2092056-8
    ISSN 1475-9276 ; 1475-9276
    ISSN (online) 1475-9276
    ISSN 1475-9276
    DOI 10.1186/s12939-022-01794-2
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  8. Article ; Online: Reference Values for Fetal Cardiac Dimensions, Volumes, Ventricular Function and Left Ventricular Longitudinal Strain Using Doppler Ultrasound Gated Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Healthy Third Trimester Fetuses.

    Minocha, Prashant K / Englund, Erin K / Friesen, Richard M / Fujiwara, Takashi / Smith, Sarah A / Meyers, Mariana L / Browne, Lorna P / Barker, Alex J

    Journal of magnetic resonance imaging : JMRI

    2023  

    Abstract: Background: Recent advances in hardware and software permit the use of cardiac MRI of late gestation fetuses, however there is a paucity of MRI-based reference values.: Purpose: To provide initial data on fetal cardiac MRI-derived cardiac dimensions, ...

    Abstract Background: Recent advances in hardware and software permit the use of cardiac MRI of late gestation fetuses, however there is a paucity of MRI-based reference values.
    Purpose: To provide initial data on fetal cardiac MRI-derived cardiac dimensions, volumes, ventricular function, and left ventricular longitudinal strain in healthy developing fetuses >30 weeks gestational age.
    Study type: Prospective.
    Population: Twenty-five third trimester (34 ± 1 weeks, range of 32-37 weeks gestation) women with healthy developing fetuses.
    Field strength/sequence: Studies were performed at 1.5 T and 3 T. Cardiac synchronization was achieved with a Doppler ultrasound device. The protocol included T2 single shot turbo spin echo stacks for fetal weight and ultrasound probe positioning, and multiplanar multi-slice cine balanced steady state free precession gradient echo sequences.
    Assessment: Primary analyses were performed by a single observer. Weight indexed right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) volumes and function were calculated from short axis (SAX) stacks. Cardiac dimensions were calculated from the four-chamber and SAX stacks. Single plane LV longitudinal strain was calculated from the four-chamber stack. Interobserver variability was assessed in 10 participants. Cardiac MRI values were compared against available published normative fetal echocardiogram data using z-scores.
    Statistical tests: Mean and SDs were calculated for baseline maternal/fetal demographics, cardiac dimensions, volumes, ventricular function, and left ventricular longitudinal strain. Bland-Altman and intraclass correlation coefficient analysis was performed to test interobserver variability.
    Results: The mean gestational age was 34 ± 1.4 weeks. The mean RV and LV end diastolic volumes were 3.1 ± 0.6 mL/kg and 2.4 ± 0.5 mL/kg respectively. The mean RV cardiac output was 198 ± 49 mL/min/kg while the mean LV cardiac output was 173 ± 43 mL/min/kg.
    Data conclusion: This paper reports initial reference values obtained by cardiac MRI in healthy developing third trimester fetuses. MRI generally resulted in slightly larger indexed values (by z-score) compared to reports in literature using fetal echocardiography.
    Evidence level: 1 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 2.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-19
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1146614-5
    ISSN 1522-2586 ; 1053-1807
    ISSN (online) 1522-2586
    ISSN 1053-1807
    DOI 10.1002/jmri.29077
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  9. Article ; Online: Improvement in mucosal discoid lupus erythematosus with anifrolumab.

    Shaw, Katharina / Taylor, Dustin / Sanchez-Melendez, Stephanie / Barker, Julia / Lonowski, Sarah / Shahriari, Neda / Porter, Hannah J / Morley, Keith / LaChance, Avery / Vleugels, Ruth Ann

    Clinical and experimental dermatology

    2023  Volume 48, Issue 10, Page(s) 1165–1167

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized/therapeutic use ; Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic ; Lupus Erythematosus, Discoid/drug therapy
    Chemical Substances anifrolumab (38RL9AE51Q) ; Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-05-26
    Publishing country England
    Document type Letter
    ZDB-ID 195504-4
    ISSN 1365-2230 ; 0307-6938
    ISSN (online) 1365-2230
    ISSN 0307-6938
    DOI 10.1093/ced/llad190
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  10. Article: Effects of Classroom-Based Resistance Training With and Without Cognitive Training on Adolescents' Cognitive Function, On-task Behavior, and Muscular Fitness.

    Robinson, Katie J / Lubans, David R / Mavilidi, Myrto F / Hillman, Charles H / Benzing, Valentin / Valkenborghs, Sarah R / Barker, Daniel / Riley, Nicholas

    Frontiers in psychology

    2022  Volume 13, Page(s) 811534

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    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-21
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2563826-9
    ISSN 1664-1078
    ISSN 1664-1078
    DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.811534
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