KU Scholarly Papers Funded by the KU Open Access Fund: Recent submissions
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Health-Related Quality of Life of Older Adults in Costa Rica as Measured by the Short-Form-36 Health Survey
(Sage Publications, 2018-07-20)Objective: To test the validity of a common measure of health-related quality of life (Short-Form-36 [SF-36]) in cognitively healthy older adults living in rural and urban Costa Rica. Method: Confirmatory factor analysis ... -
Development, acceptability, appropriateness and appeal of a cancer clinical trials implementation intervention for rural- and minority-serving urology practices
(BMC, 2019-10-07)Background Few community urologists offer cancer patients the opportunity to participate in cancer clinical trials, despite national guidelines that recommend it, depriving an estimated 260,000 urological cancer patients ... -
Calculus-enhanced energy-first curriculum for introductory physics improves student performance locally and in downstream courses
(American Physical Society, 2019-09-13)Here we demonstrate the benefits of a new curriculum for introductory calculus-based physics that motivates classical mechanics using a modified version of Hamiltonian mechanics. This curriculum shifts the initial focus ... -
Sensitivity to Inflectional Morphology in a Non-native Language: Evidence From ERPs
(Frontiers Media, 2019-05-20)The extent to which non-native speakers are sensitive to morphological structure during language processing remains a matter of debate. The present study used a masked-priming lexical decision task with simultaneous ... -
Ocular infarction following ethanol sclerotherapy of an arteriovenous malformation
(Elsevier, 2019-09-01)Purpose: To illustrate a case of ocular infarction following percutaneous ethanol sclerotherapy of an orbital arteriovenous malformation. Observations: The patient is a 31-year-old female who developed ocular infarction ... -
Partially Redundant Actin Genes in Chlamydomonas Control Transition Zone Organization and Flagellum-Directed Traffic
(Elsevier, 2019-05-21)The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a biflagellated cell with two actin genes: one encoding a conventional actin (IDA5) and the other encoding a divergent novel actin-like protein (NAP1). Here, we probe ... -
General Well-Being in Adult Black Males With Chronic Illness
(SAGE Publications, 2019-06-27)As individuals age, they witness a decline in physical health and functional capacities. The presence of one or more chronic illnesses challenges their quality of life and general well-being, thus, impacting their abilities ... -
Body Size Influences Stingless Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Communities Across a Range of Deforestation Levels in Rondônia, Brazil
(Oxford University Press, 2019-04-19)Developments in understanding bee responses to habitat loss indicate that body size is a trait with important consequences for conservation. Stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) are a diverse group of eusocial ... -
HIV Knowledge and Risk Behaviors Among Older Church-Affiliated Blacks
(SAGE Publications, 2019-06-27)There is an emerging population of older adults living with HIV, and among them, Black older adults experience the greatest burden of the disease. This is a growing public health concern, as older adults are disproportionately ... -
Clinical Outcome of Ampullary Carcinoma: Single Cancer Center Experience
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2019-05-02)Ampullary cancers represent a subset of periampullary cancers, comprising only 0.2% all gastrointestinal cancers. Localized disease is primarily managed by a surgical intervention, called pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD), ... -
Aging in the Drosophila ovary: contrasting changes in the expression of the piRNA machinery and mitochondria but no global release of transposable elements
(BioMedCentral (Springer Nature), 2019-04-23)Background Evolutionary theory indicates that the dynamics of aging in the soma and reproductive tissues may be distinct. This difference arises from the fact that only the germline lineage establishes future generations. ... -
GeneAnalytics Pathways and Profiling of Shared Autism and Cancer Genes
(MDPI, 2019-03-07)Recent research revealed that autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and cancer may share common genetic architecture, with evidence first reported with the PTEN gene. There are approximately 800 autism genes and 3500 genes ... -
CDC37 as a novel target for the treatment of NPM1-ALK expressing anaplastic large cell lymphomas
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Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis secondary to pegfilgrastim in a patient with synovial sarcoma
(Wiley Open Access, 2019-02-07)Key Clinical Message Here, we report a case of neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis (NEH) in a teenage male with synovial sarcoma associated with extracutaneous manifestations including myositis and splenomegaly secondary ... -
Conservative management of hostile bladders with intravesical botulinum toxin for successful renal transplantation
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)Introduction: Renal transplant is the most desired and cost-effective therapy for patients with end stage renal disease. While a lower urinary tract cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is not an absolute contraindication ... -
Development of self-control in early childhood— a growth mixture modeling approach
(Cogent OA, 2018-11-04)Self-control emerges in early childhood and is shown to be strongly related to poor adulthood outcomes. The development of self-control was long believed to be homogeneous among individuals and stable in rank. The purpose ... -
Favorable outcome with early initiation of VV-ECMO for unilateral lung disease in children
(Elsevier, 2019-01-01)Unilateral lung diseases such as unilateral pneumonia, trauma or pulmonary hemorrhage can cause profound hypoxemic respiratory failure necessitating mechanical ventilation. These disorders are characterized by marked asymmetry ... -
Intravenous immunoglobulin for acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis refractory to plasmapheresis
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Self-report sleep quality combined with sleep time variability distinguishes differences in fatigue, anxiety, and depression in individuals with multiple sclerosis: A secondary analysis
(SAGE Publications, 2018-10-01)Background: Nearly 70% of individuals with multiple sclerosis report sleep disturbances or poor sleep quality. Sleep disturbances may exacerbate or complicate the management of multiple sclerosis-related symptoms. While ... -
Antibiotic Elution and Mechanical Strength of PMMA Bone Cement Loaded With Borate Bioactive Glass
(Ivyspring International Publisher, 2018-09-07)Introduction: Local delivery of antibiotics using bone cement as the delivery vehicle is an established method of managing implant-associated orthopedic infections. Various fillers have been added to cement to increase ...