To understand the manifestations of gender disparity in academic achievement between boys and girls, we conducted the Namibian boys’ underachievement in education study. In this article we present data from this study on secondary school learners’ understanding of the disparity. Using a pragmatic parallel mixed methods research design, systematic a...
Published in Frontiers in Allergy
Introduction Penicillins and other beta-lactam antibiotics are used in greater than one-third of pregnant women as treatment for Group B Streptococcus colonization and prophylaxis for Caesarean sections. Penicillin allergy labels have been associated with increased morbidity in the pregnant population, and penicillin allergy evaluation during pregn...
Published in Frontiers in Sociology
Legal decision-making aspires to be objective, a principle regarded as foundational to justice, public trust, and the legitimacy of legal outcomes. However, this ideal is often challenged by the reality of human judgment, which is influenced by subjective factors such as emotions, biases, and varying cognitive strategies. This paper investigates th...
Introduction: Regional differences in socioeconomic status (SES) are well known, and we believe that the use of geocoding (zip code) can facilitate the introduction of targeted interventions for underserved populations. This is a single-center, retrospective analysis of data extracted from the cancer registry at the Capital Health Cancer Center in ...
Published in Health services research
To examine how long COVID is associated with financial hardship (food insecurity, inability to pay bills, or threat of losing service) across income and education levels, and to assess the role of employment loss or reduced work hours in this hardship. We used nationally representative data on 271,076 adults from the 2022 Behavioral Risk Factor Sur...
Published in American journal of ophthalmology
To investigate healthcare disparities associated with keratoconus (KCN) patients receiving treatment (collagen cross-linking (CXL) and keratoplasty), as well as comorbidities associated with KCN. Retrospective clinical cohort study. 3224 patients from the UI-Health database from 2020 to 2024, including 1612 patients with an ICD-10 diagnosis of KCN ...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction The binocular system provides a stereoscopic view from slightly different retinal images and produces perceptual alternations, namely, binocular rivalry, from significantly different retinal images. When we observe a stereogram in which the stimulus configurations induce stereopsis and rivalry simultaneously, the binocular system prefe...
IntroductionFew studies have examined the relationship between education and cognition among the oldest-old.MethodsCognitive assessments were conducted biannually for 803 participants (62.6% women) of LifeAfter90, a longitudinal study of individuals ≥ 90 years old. Gender differences in associations between education (
Published in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis & frontotemporal degeneration
Motor neuron disease (MND) is a group of neurological diseases, the majority being amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with varying clinical presentations across demographics. Clinical trial enrollment reflecting global disease burden improves understanding of diverse presentations and aids personalized therapy development. We assessed the sex, ra...
Published in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Background Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a rare, chronic, progressive form of pulmonary hypertension in which increased arterial pressure causes remodeling of the arterial system and is associated with heart failure. Methamphetamine is a stimulant that has recently become a focus in PAH research, but the recent trends and demographics of...
