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  1. Book ; Online ; E-Book: The Andean wonder drug

    Crawford, Matthew James

    cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800

    2016  

    Author's details Matthew James Crawford
    Keywords Cinchona ; Quinine / history ; Malaria / drug therapy ; Plants, Medicinal ; Drug Discovery / history ; Peru / https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010568 ; Ecuador / https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004484
    Subject code 615.1
    Language English
    Size 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 284 Seiten), Illustrationen, Karten
    Publisher University of Pittsburgh Press
    Publishing place Pittsburgh, Pa
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Book ; Online ; E-Book
    Remark Zugriff für angemeldete ZB MED-Nutzerinnen und -Nutzer
    HBZ-ID HT019462848
    ISBN 978-0-8229-8139-8 ; 9780822944522 ; 0-8229-8139-4 ; 0822944529
    Database ZB MED Catalogue: Medicine, Health, Nutrition, Environment, Agriculture

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  2. Article ; Online: Age is positively associated with fading affect bias: A cross-sectional comparison.

    Marsh, Claire / Crawford, Matthew T

    Psychology and aging

    2024  Volume 39, Issue 2, Page(s) 139–152

    Abstract: Emotions elicited by personal event memories change over time such that negative affect fades more quickly than positive affect. This asymmetric fade is called the fading affect bias (FAB) and has been posited as a mechanism that helps promote a positive ...

    Abstract Emotions elicited by personal event memories change over time such that negative affect fades more quickly than positive affect. This asymmetric fade is called the fading affect bias (FAB) and has been posited as a mechanism that helps promote a positive outlook on life. A similar bias toward positive information (i.e., the positivity effect) driven by greater emphasis on emotion regulation has been demonstrated in older adults. The current research uses two age-diverse community samples to examine the relationship between age and the strength of FAB. Participants recalled positive and negative event memories and rated the intensity of affect at the time of the event (i.e., retrospectively) and at the time of recollection. Participants of all ages exhibited a significant FAB, and crucially, the strength of the effect was positively associated with age. Age-based differences in psychological well-being and recalled event intensity had no influence on the relationship between age and FAB. The relationship was, however, related to greater personal importance placed on positive (but not negative) events. The findings are consistent with the socioemotional selectivity theory and suggest another mechanism through which emotion regulation is associated with aging to maintain a positive outlook on life. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Aged ; Affect/physiology ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Retrospective Studies ; Memory, Episodic ; Aging ; Emotions
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-25
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 635596-1
    ISSN 1939-1498 ; 0882-7974
    ISSN (online) 1939-1498
    ISSN 0882-7974
    DOI 10.1037/pag0000797
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  3. Article ; Online: Time heals all wounds? Naïve theories about the fading of affect associated with autobiographical events.

    Crawford, Matthew T / Marsh, Claire

    Memory & cognition

    2023  Volume 51, Issue 8, Page(s) 1715–1728

    Abstract: The current research examined the naïve theories that individuals hold about how affect fades over time. In three studies (with various replications), participants read about positive and negative events and estimated the emotional impact of those events ...

    Abstract The current research examined the naïve theories that individuals hold about how affect fades over time. In three studies (with various replications), participants read about positive and negative events and estimated the emotional impact of those events on either themselves or a hypothetical other over different time frames (i.e., 1 week, 1 month, 1 year-Studies 1a-1c) or how long it would take for specific amounts of fade to occur (Studies 2a & 2b). In a final study, participants were directly asked about their beliefs regarding affect fade. Results demonstrated that people have inaccurate expectations about affect fade for positive and negative events. Specifically, participants rate that positive events fade more in the short term, but that negative events fade more in the long term. Results are discussed in terms of how these (incorrect) naïve theories of affect fade relate to metacognitive biases in memory and emotion.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Affect ; Memory, Episodic ; Emotions ; Mental Recall
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-04-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 185691-1
    ISSN 1532-5946 ; 0090-502X
    ISSN (online) 1532-5946
    ISSN 0090-502X
    DOI 10.3758/s13421-023-01426-2
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  4. Article ; Online: The pipetting Olympics: Propagating proper pipetting

    Crawford, Matthew L / Shuford, Christopher M / Grant, Russell P

    Journal of mass spectrometry and advances in the clinical lab

    2023  Volume 29, Page(s) 16–20

    Abstract: Introduction: Engaging pipetting events were developed to assess and challenge technicians' practical sample handling using matrices common to the clinical laboratory. As correct pipetting stands as a prerequisite for accurate clinical laboratory ... ...

    Abstract Introduction: Engaging pipetting events were developed to assess and challenge technicians' practical sample handling using matrices common to the clinical laboratory. As correct pipetting stands as a prerequisite for accurate clinical laboratory testing, this helped to understand sources of imprecision and bias attributed to the underlying step of aspirating and dispensing patient samples and internal standard in clinical LC-MS/MS assays while highlighting the importance for the clinical laboratory to evaluate this source of variability on an on-going basis and mitigate its impact.
    Methods: The events involved pipetting water, methanol, serum, and whole blood. Gravimetric analysis was used to determine the exact volumetric delivery of each matrix using two different techniques. Imprecision and bias were calculated based on the volume derived from the mass and density of each matrix, using literature values for each matrix type.
    Results: Low imprecision and bias were observed when pipetting water, as in common commercial pipetting assessment programs. Significantly increased imprecision and bias were observed in more applicable matrices (i.e., serum, whole blood, and methanol), indicating that water-based pipetting proficiency assessment leads to a false sense of technical ability. Additionally, the events within illuminated areas for training, leading to improved imprecision and bias. It was shown that pre-rinsing (aspirating and dispensing matrix three times to coat the tip) improved bias, particularly for delivery of methanol and whole blood.
    Conclusions: Precise and accurate pipetting within the clinical laboratory should not be taken for granted, nor implicitly inferred from proficiency assessment using aqueous solutions. The engaging and collegial events fostered training opportunities. Assay-specific patient sample delivery considerations (pipets and matrices) can inform the practicality of these events - the Pipetting Olympics - and drive improvements within the laboratory.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-13
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2667-145X
    ISSN (online) 2667-145X
    DOI 10.1016/j.jmsacl.2023.06.002
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  5. Article: Predicting the Need for Transition from Pediatric to Adult Pain Services: A Retrospective, Longitudinal Study Using the Electronic Persistent Pain Outcome Collaboration (ePPOC) Databases.

    Champion, Joel / Crawford, Matthew / Jaaniste, Tiina

    Children (Basel, Switzerland)

    2023  Volume 10, Issue 2

    Abstract: A proportion of youth with chronic pain do not respond to interdisciplinary pain management and may require transition to adult pain services. This study sought to characterize a cohort of patients referred to pediatric pain services who subsequently ... ...

    Abstract A proportion of youth with chronic pain do not respond to interdisciplinary pain management and may require transition to adult pain services. This study sought to characterize a cohort of patients referred to pediatric pain services who subsequently required referral to an adult pain service. We compared this transition group with pediatric patients eligible by age to transition but who did not transition to adult services. We sought to identify factors predicting the need to transition to adult pain services. This retrospective study utilized linkage data from the adult electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration (ePPOC) and the pediatric (PaedePPOC) data repositories. The transition group experienced significantly higher pain intensity and disability, lower quality of life, and higher health care utilization relative to the comparison group. Parents of the transition group reported greater distress, catastrophizing, and helplessness relative to parents in the comparison group. Three factors significantly predicted transition: compensation status (OR = 4.21 (1.185-15)), daily anti-inflammatory medication use (OR = 2 (1.028-3.9)), and older age at referral (OR = 1.6 (1.3-2.17)). This study demonstrated that patients referred to pediatric pain services who subsequently need transition to adult services are a uniquely disabled and vulnerable group beyond comparative peers. Clinical applications for transition-specific care are discussed.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-10
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2732685-8
    ISSN 2227-9067
    ISSN 2227-9067
    DOI 10.3390/children10020357
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  6. Article ; Online: Emotion in motion: perceiving fear in the behaviour of individuals from minimal motion capture displays.

    Crawford, Matthew T / Maymon, Christopher / Miles, Nicola L / Blackburne, Katie / Tooley, Michael / Grimshaw, Gina M

    Cognition & emotion

    2024  , Page(s) 1–12

    Abstract: The ability to quickly and accurately recognise emotional states is adaptive for numerous social functions. Although body movements are a potentially crucial cue for inferring emotions, few studies have studied the perception of body movements made in ... ...

    Abstract The ability to quickly and accurately recognise emotional states is adaptive for numerous social functions. Although body movements are a potentially crucial cue for inferring emotions, few studies have studied the perception of body movements made in naturalistic emotional states. The current research focuses on the use of body movement information in the perception of fear expressed by targets in a virtual heights paradigm. Across three studies, participants made judgments about the emotional states of others based on motion-capture body movement recordings of those individuals actively engaged in walking a virtual plank at ground-level or 80 stories above a city street. Results indicated that participants were reliably able to differentiate between height and non-height conditions (Studies 1 & 2), were more likely to spontaneously describe target behaviour in the height condition as fearful (Study 2) and their fear estimates were highly calibrated with the fear ratings from the targets (Studies 1-3). Findings show that VR height scenarios can induce fearful behaviour and that people can perceive fear in minimal representations of body movement.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 639123-0
    ISSN 1464-0600 ; 0269-9931
    ISSN (online) 1464-0600
    ISSN 0269-9931
    DOI 10.1080/02699931.2023.2300748
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  7. Article ; Online: Caregiver Burden Associated With Pediatric Chronic Pain: A Retrospective Study Using the Pediatric Electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration Database.

    Ngo, Danny / Palmer, Greta M / Gorrie, Andrew / Kenmuir, Tracey / Crawford, Matthew / Jaaniste, Tiina

    The Clinical journal of pain

    2024  Volume 40, Issue 3, Page(s) 137–149

    Abstract: Objectives: This retrospective, cross-sectional study investigated the nature and extent of burden experienced by caregivers of children and adolescents with chronic pain, and factors associated with increased caregiver burden.: Methods: The ... ...

    Abstract Objectives: This retrospective, cross-sectional study investigated the nature and extent of burden experienced by caregivers of children and adolescents with chronic pain, and factors associated with increased caregiver burden.
    Methods: The Pediatric Electronic Persistent Pain Outcomes Collaboration database provided prospectively collected data from 1929 families attending 9 pediatric chronic pain services across Australia and New Zealand. Data included demographic information, responses to child pain and functioning measures, caregiver work impairment, and psychosocial functioning.
    Results: Caregivers of children with chronic pain reported work impairment associated with their child's pain (mean: 15% ± SD 25 absenteeism; 38% ± SD 29 productivity lost), significantly worse than published international population norms (large-scale community survey data), most other caregiver samples of adults and children with other chronic conditions, and adult samples with various pain conditions. Caregivers reported considerable burden in multiple psychosocial functioning domains, particularly leisure functioning, pain-related catastrophizing, and adverse parenting behaviors (with greater pain-related avoidance). Caregiver psychosocial burden was significantly associated with child psychosocial functioning (β = -0.308, P < 0.01), school absenteeism (β = 0.161, P < 0.01), physical disability (β = 0.096, P < 0.05), and pain duration (β = 0.084, P < 0.05), but not pain intensity. Caregiver work productivity loss was significantly associated with school absenteeism (β = 0.290, P < 0.01), child physical disability (β = 0.148, P < 0.01), child health care utilization (β = 0.118, P < 0.05), and worst pain intensity (β = 0.101, P < 0.05).
    Discussion: These results highlight the significant and varied impacts experienced by caregivers of children with chronic pain. This work is novel in reporting significant work impairment and confirms psychosocial burden in a larger sample than previous studies.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Adolescent ; Humans ; Child ; Chronic Pain ; Retrospective Studies ; Caregiver Burden ; Cross-Sectional Studies ; Caregivers/psychology ; Electronics ; Quality of Life
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-03-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 632582-8
    ISSN 1536-5409 ; 0749-8047
    ISSN (online) 1536-5409
    ISSN 0749-8047
    DOI 10.1097/AJP.0000000000001189
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  8. Article: An Empire's Extract: Chemical Manipulations of Cinchona Bark in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic World.

    Crawford, Matthew James

    Osiris

    2015  Volume 29, Page(s) 215–229

    Abstract: In 1790, the Spanish Crown sent a "botanist-chemist" to South America to implement production of a chemical extract made from cinchona bark, a botanical medicament from the Andes used throughout the Atlantic World to treat malarial fevers. Even though ... ...

    Abstract In 1790, the Spanish Crown sent a "botanist-chemist" to South America to implement production of a chemical extract made from cinchona bark, a botanical medicament from the Andes used throughout the Atlantic World to treat malarial fevers. Even though the botanist-chemist's efforts to produce the extract failed, this episode offers important insight into the role of chemistry in the early modern Atlantic World. Well before the Spanish Crown tried to make it a tool of empire, chemistry provided a vital set of techniques that circulated among a variety of healers, who used such techniques to make botanical medicaments useful and intelligible in new ways.
    MeSH term(s) Americas ; Antimalarials/chemistry ; Antimalarials/history ; Cinchona/chemistry ; History, 18th Century ; Malaria/drug therapy ; Malaria/history ; Plant Bark/chemistry ; Plant Extracts/chemistry ; Plant Extracts/history ; Spain
    Chemical Substances Antimalarials ; Plant Extracts
    Language English
    Publishing date 2015-06-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Historical Article ; Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 0369-7827
    ISSN 0369-7827
    DOI 10.1086/678104
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  9. Article ; Online: Holding on & letting go: romantic attachment and fading affect bias.

    Crawford, Matthew T / Hammond, Matthew D / Marsh, Claire

    The Journal of social psychology

    2021  , Page(s) 1–18

    Abstract: The current research examined the phenomenon of fading affect bias - the tendency for affect associated with negative events to fade more than affect associated with positive events - within the context of romantic relationships. Participants recalled ... ...

    Abstract The current research examined the phenomenon of fading affect bias - the tendency for affect associated with negative events to fade more than affect associated with positive events - within the context of romantic relationships. Participants recalled and evaluated positive and negative relationship-specific and non-relationship autobiographical events. Participants also completed measures of attachment avoidance and anxiety. Multi-level modeling demonstrated fading affect bias for relationship and non-relationship events, but that affect fade was shaped by attachment orientations. Specifically, higher attachment anxiety, and lower attachment avoidance predicted greater importance of relationship events which predicted lower fading of affective intensity of memories. Thus, attachment anxiety sustained, while attachment avoidance suppressed the affect of relational memories. We discuss implications of these findings for relationship maintenance.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-12-22
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2066653-6
    ISSN 1940-1183 ; 0022-4545
    ISSN (online) 1940-1183
    ISSN 0022-4545
    DOI 10.1080/00224545.2021.2017254
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  10. Book: The Andean wonder drug

    Crawford, Matthew James

    cinchona bark and imperial science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800

    2016  

    Abstract: In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial ... ...

    Author's details Matthew James Crawford
    Abstract "In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial drug quinine. In 1751, the Spanish Crown asserted control over the production and distribution of this medicament by establishing a royal reserve of "fever trees" in Quito. Through this pilot project, the Crown pursued a new vision of imperialism informed by science and invigorated through commerce. But ultimately this project failed, much like the broader imperial reforms that it represented. Drawing on extensive archival research, Matthew Crawford explains why, showing how indigenous healers, laborers, merchants, colonial officials, and creole elites contested European science and thwarted imperial reform by asserting their authority to speak for the natural world. The Andean Wonder Drug uses the story of cinchona bark to demonstrate how the imperial politics of knowledge in the Spanish Atlantic ultimately undermined efforts to transform European science into a tool of empire"--

    "In the eighteenth century, malaria was a prevalent and deadly disease, and the only effective treatment was found in the Andean forests of Spanish America: a medicinal bark harvested from cinchona trees that would later give rise to the antimalarial drug quinine. The Andean Wonder Drug uses the story of cinchona bark to demonstrate how the imperial politics of knowledge in the Spanish Atlantic ultimately undermined efforts to transform European science into a tool of empire"--
    MeSH term(s) Cinchona ; Quinine/history ; Malaria/drug therapy ; Plants, Medicinal ; Drug Discovery/history
    Keywords Peru ; Ecuador
    Language English
    Size xi, 284 pages :, illustrations, map ;, 24 cm
    Document type Book
    ISBN 9780822944522 ; 0822944529
    Database Catalogue of the US National Library of Medicine (NLM)

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