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Personal Digital Urbanism: The Promise and the Mess of New Mobility Technologies
The presence of digital technologies is expanding in professional planning practice and in everyday urban life. Recent research has asked what digitality does in cities, and answers by examining how these technologies ... -
The COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Access to Culturally Sensitive Food in Seattle
Disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic created a relatively sudden and compressed onset of economic downturn, high unemployment rates, stay-at-home orders, closure/limited hours for food retail, with a substantial impact on ... -
Likelihood-based haplotype frequency modeling using variable-order Markov chains
The localized haplotype-cluster model uses variable-order Markov chains (VOMCs) to create an empirical model for haplotype probabilities that adapts to the changing structure of linkage disequilibrium (LD) across the genome. ... -
Statistical Divergences for Learning and Inference: Limit Laws and Non-Asymptotic Bounds
Statistical divergences have been widely used in statistics and artificial intelligence to measure the dissimilarity between probability distributions. The applications range from generative modeling to statistical inference. ... -
Childhood Adversity Among Adolescent Mothers and its Intergenerational Consequences
Childhood adversity affects the majority of children in the United States, with as many as 67% of children reporting some type of psychological trauma associated with adversity by age 16. While not predictive of maladaptive ... -
Population Genetic Screening in Adults: Implementation and Health Equity Considerations
Population genetic screening among adults has been suggested as a strategy to identify people at risk for adult-onset diseases or disorders of cancer and high lipids who would benefit from early preventive intervention, ... -
Genetics and Infectious Diseases: From Host Transcriptome of HIV Infection to Bioethical Considerations in International Cohorts
Host genetic research has fueled infectious disease discoveries, including for HIV-1, from early candidate gene studies to recent multi-omics efforts. It offers opportunities for a more comprehensive understanding of ... -
Visual Cortical Plasticity and the Implications for Sight Restoration Technologies
Degenerative eye diseases are a leading cause of blindness in adults. While only limited treatment options for diseases such as age related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa exist, there have been a variety of ... -
Uncovering Determinants of Perceived Feasibility of TF-CBT through Coincidence Analysis
A mental health provider’s perception of how well an intervention can be carried out in their context (i.e., feasibility) is an important implementation outcome. This study aims to identify determinants of feasibility of ... -
Gender Prototypes Hinder Bystander Intervention in Women’s Sexual Harassment
Bystander intervention is a powerful immediate response to sexual harassment that reduces victims’ burden to respond. However, narrow gender prototypes depicting sexual harassment victims as stereotypically feminine ... -
Immunogenomic and behavioral consequences of diet and social stress in nonhuman primates (Macaca fascicularis)
Aspects of the modern human environment, such as diet and the social environment, are highly variable and are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. One common dietary pattern, the Western diet, is associated ... -
Forgetting to Heal: Post-traumatic stress, depression, and autobiographical memory
Background: Cognitive models of mental disorders suggest that memory processing deficits, such as overgeneral and inconsistent memory, play a role in the etiology of depression (Williams et al., 2007) and posttraumatic ... -
Examining the Impact of Guided Memory Retrieval on Intrusive Memories: An Online Trauma Film Paradigm Study
Intrusive memories are a cardinal symptom of chronic post-traumatic mental health problems (e.g., Brewin et al., 2010). Post-event memory processing may be a key facilitator of remission of intrusive memories (Marks et ... -
Inclusive gender cognition: Exploring gender categorization with diverse gender identities
Research on gender cognition has mostly approached gender as a binary construct, examining the perceptions of and perspectives from people whose identities conform to the gender binary (e.g., cisgender and gender conforming ... -
Representation of Plume Dynamics by Mitral and Tufted Cells in the First Relay of Mouse Olfactory Processing
In ethologically relevant environments odor molecules travel in plumes. As a result, an odor does not diffuse slowly through the air, but rather is pulled and pushed stochastically away from its source in discrete filaments. ... -
Impacts of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus in Decision-Making
The Hippocampus (HPC) and medial Prefrontal Cortex (mPFC) are known to be two of the most vital structures underlying decision-making and spatial working memory (SWM) abilities across species. Known for its role in episodic ... -
Gentrification Causes Social Class Disparities in Belonging
Gentrification impacts nearly every major metropolitan area in the U.S. One critique of gentrification is that the influx of wealthy newcomers and the associated change to the neighborhood threatens working-class residents’ ... -
Estimation of population receptive fields in human visual and auditory cortex
Topographical organization is a foundation principle of human sensory cortices where the sensory neurons encode information from the physical world into orderly representational maps along sensory-specific dimensions. The ... -
Stress and Marital Adjustment in Parents of Children with Cancer: The Moderating Role of Emotion Regulation
Caregivers of children with cancer report high levels of distress and family conflict. Previous research has found that greater life stressors during the first year post-diagnosis predicted lower marital adjustment between ... -
The relationship between hookup-associated substance use and post-hookup consequences among young adults
The present study investigated the relationship between substance use in hookup contexts and post-hookup consequences among a sample of young adults aged 18-24 in the Greater Seattle area. Of the N=778 participants in the ...