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Interventions Incorporating Therapeutic Alliance to Improve Medication Adherence in Black Patients with Diabetes, Hypertension and Kidney Disease: A Systematic Review Patient Preference

Background: Black Americans have a disproportionately increased risk of diabetes, hypertension, and kidney disease, and higher associated morbidity, mortality, and hospitalization rates than their White peers. Structural racism amplifies these disparities, and negatively impacts self-care including medication adherence, critical to chronic disease management. Systematic evidence of successful interventions to improve medication adherence in Black patients with diabetes, hypertension, and kidney disease is lacking. Knowledge of the impact of therapeutic alliance, ie, the unique relationship between patients and providers, which optimizes outcomes especially for minority populations, is unclear. The role and application of behavioral theories in successful development of medication adherence interventions specific to this context also remains unclear. Objective: To evaluate the existing evidence on the salience of a therapeutic alliance in effective interventions to improve medication adherence in Black patients with diabetes, hypertension, or kidney disease. Data Sources: Medline (via PubMed), EMBASE (OvidSP), Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) (EBSCOhost), and PsycINFO (ProQuest) databases. Review Methods: Only randomized clinical trials and pre/post intervention studies published in English between 2009 and 2022 with a proportion of Black patients greater than 25% were included. Narrative synthesis was done. Results: Eleven intervention studies met the study criteria and eight of those studies had all-Black samples. Medication adherence outcome measures were heterogenous. Five out of six studies which effectively improved medication adherence, incorporated therapeutic alliance. Seven studies informed by behavioral theories led to significant improvement in medication adherence. Discussion/Conclusion: Study findings suggest that therapeutic alliance-based interventions are effective in improving medication adherence in Black patients with diabetes and hypertension. Further research to test the efficacy of therapeutic alliance-based interventions to improve medication adherence in Black patients should ideally incorporate cultural adaptation, theoretical framework, face-to-face delivery mode, and convenient locations.
Radio Variability from a Quiescent Stellar-mass Black Hole Jet

Relativistic outflows are believed to be a common feature of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXBs) at the lowest accretion rates, when they are in their “quiescent” spectral state. However, we still lack a detailed understanding of how quiescent jet emission varies with time. Here we present 24 yr of archival radio observations (from the Very Large Array and the Very Long Baseline Array) of the BHXB V404 Cygni in quiescence (totaling 150 observations from 1.4 to 22 GHz). The observed flux densities follow lognormal distributions with means and standard deviations of and at 4.9 and 8.4 GHz, respectively (where fν is the flux density in units of mJy). As expected, the average radio spectrum is flat with a mean and standard deviation of , where . We find that radio flares that increase the flux density by factors of 2–4 over timescales as short as <10 minutes are commonplace, and that long-term variations (over 10–4000 day timescales) are consistent with shot-noise impulses that decay to stochastic variations on timescales ≲10 days (and perhaps as short as tens of minutes to several hr). We briefly compare the variability characteristics of V404 Cygni to jetted active galactic nuclei, and we conclude with recommendations on how to account for variability when placing quiescent BHXB candidates with radio luminosities comparable to V404 Cygni (LR ≈ 1028 erg s−1) onto the radio/X-ray luminosity plane.
Validation of Spherical Born Approximation Sensitivity Functions for Measuring Deep Solar Meridional Flow

Accurate measurements of deep solar meridional flow are of vital interest for understanding the solar dynamo. In this paper, we validate a recently developed method for obtaining sensitivity functions (kernels) for travel-time measurements to solar interior flows using the Born approximation in spherical geometry, which is expected to be more accurate than the classical ray approximation. Furthermore, we develop a numerical approach to efficiently compute a large number of kernels based on the separability of the eigenfunctions into their horizontal and radial dependence. The validation is performed using a hydrodynamic simulation of linear wave propagation in the Sun, which includes a standard single-cell meridional flow profile. We show that, using the Born approximation, it is possible to accurately model observational quantities relevant for time–distance helioseismology such as the mean power spectrum, disk-averaged cross-covariance functions, and travel times in the presence of a flow field. In order to closely match the model to observations, we show that it is beneficial to use mode frequencies and damping rates that were extracted from the measured power spectrum. Furthermore, the contribution of the radial flow to the total travel time is found to reach 20% of the contribution of the horizontal flow at travel distances over 40°. Using the Born kernels and a 2D SOLA inversion of travel times, we can recover most features of the input meridional flow profile. The Born approximation is thus a promising method for inferring large-scale solar interior flows.
Adjustment of Adolescents with Alcoholic Fathers

The purpose of this study was to know the adjustment of adolescents with alcoholic fathers. Sample included 100 adolescents, 50 with alcoholic fathers and 50 with non-alcoholic fathers each group is further bifurcated into gender; 25 boys and 25 girls. Data was collected from Haridwar, Roorkee and Muzzafarnagar district. Adolescents in age range of 13-17 years, who belong to the middle income families, were included in the sample. Adjustment was measured using Bell Adjustment Inventory constructed and standardized by Ojha (2011). The inventory measures adjustment of an individual in four areas i.e. home, health, social and emotional. Data was analyzed using M, SD, ‘t’ test and ANOVA. Results revealed that adolescents with alcoholic fathers have significantly poor home, health, social, emotional and overall adjustment than the adolescents with Non-alcoholic fathers.
Financial structure, capital openness and ﬁnancial crisis

: This paper examines how the financial structure and capital openness of a country have affected the likelihood of financial crisis over the past two decades. By applying a panel probit estimation to a sample of 38 countries, we find the following. 1) An economy with a more market-based financial structure is less likely to experience a currency crisis. 2) More capital openness is associated with a lower probability of a currency crisis. 3) Countries with a more market-based financial structure are also less likely to experience a currency crisis if that structure is coupled with a more open capital account. 4) Unlike what is found for currency crises, neither financial structure nor capital openness has any effect on banking crises. JEL G01, G15, G28
Galaxy pre-processing in substructures around z ∼ 0.4 galaxy clusters

We present a detailed analysis of galaxy colours in two galaxy clusters at z similar to 0.4, MACS J0416.1 - 2403 and MACS J1206.2 - 0847, drawn from the CLASH-VLT survey, to investigate the role of pre-processing in the quenching of star formation. We estimate the fractions of red and blue galaxies within the main cluster and the detected substructures and study the trends of the colour fractions as a function of the projected distance from the cluster and substructure centres. Our results show that the colours of cluster and substructure members have consistent spatial distributions. In particular, the colour fractions of galaxies inside substructures follow the same spatial trends observed in the main clusters. Additionally, we find that at large cluster-centric distances (r >= r(200)) the fraction of blue galaxies in both the main clusters and in the substructures is always lower than the average fraction of UVJ-selected star-forming galaxies in the field as measured in the COSMOS/Ultra Vista data set. We finally estimate environmental quenching efficiencies in the clusters and in the substructures and find that at large distances from the cluster centres, the quenching efficiency of substructures becomes comparable to the quenching efficiency of clusters. Our results suggest that pre-processing plays a significant role in the formation and evolution of passive galaxies in clusters at low redshifts.
Thermal degradation kinetics and surface pyrolysis of vinyl polymers

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A Comprehensive Bayesian Discrimination of the Simple Stellar Population Model, Star Formation History, and Dust Attenuation Law in the Spectral Energy Distribution Modeling of Galaxies

When modeling and interpreting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of galaxies, the simple stellar population (SSP) model, star formation history (SFH), and dust attenuation law (DAL) are three of the most important components. However, each of them carries significant uncertainties that have seriously limited our ability to reliably recover the physical properties of galaxies from the analysis of their SEDs. In this paper, we present a Bayesian framework to deal with these uncertain components simultaneously. Based on the Bayesian evidence, a quantitative implement of the principle of Occam’s razor, the method allows a more objective and quantitative discrimination among the different assumptions about these uncertain components. With a Ks-selected sample of 5467 low-redshift (mostly with z ≲ 1) galaxies in the COSMOS/UltraVISTA field and classified into passively evolving galaxies (PEGs) and star-forming galaxies (SFGs) with the UVJ diagram, we present a Bayesian discrimination of a set of 16 SSP models from five research groups (BC03 and CB07, M05, GALEV, Yunnan-II, BPASS V2.0), five forms of SFH (Burst, Constant, Exp-dec, Exp-inc, Delayed-τ), and four kinds of DAL (Calzetti law, MW, LMC, SMC). We show that the results obtained with the method are either obvious or understandable in the context of stellar/galaxy physics. We conclude that the Bayesian model comparison method, especially that for a sample of galaxies, is very useful for discriminating the different assumptions in the SED modeling of galaxies. The new version of the BayeSED code, which is used in this work, is publicly available at https://bitbucket.org/hanyk/bayesed/.
An Optical Transmission Spectrum for the Ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b Measured with the Hubble Space Telescope

We present an atmospheric transmission spectrum for the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b, measured using the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph on board the Hubble Space Telescope. Across the 0.47–1 wavelength range, the data imply an atmospheric opacity comparable to—and in some spectroscopic channels exceeding—that previously measured at near-infrared wavelengths (1.15–1.65 ). Wavelength-dependent variations in the opacity rule out a gray cloud deck at a confidence level of 3. 7σ and may instead be explained by VO spectral bands. We find a cloud-free model assuming chemical equilibrium for a temperature of 1500 K and a metal enrichment of 10–30× solar matches these data well. Using a free-chemistry retrieval analysis, we estimate a VO abundance of dex. We find no evidence for TiO and place a 3σ upper limit of −7.9 dex on its abundance, suggesting TiO may have condensed from the gas phase at the day–night limb. The opacity rises steeply at the shortest wavelengths, increasing by approximately five pressure scale heights from 0.47 to 0.3 in wavelength. If this feature is caused by Rayleigh scattering due to uniformly distributed aerosols, it would imply an unphysically high temperature of 6810 ± 1530 K. One alternative explanation for the short-wavelength rise is absorption due to SH (mercapto radical), which has been predicted as an important product of non-equilibrium chemistry in hot Jupiter atmospheres. Irrespective of the identity of the NUV absorber, it likely captures a significant amount of incident stellar radiation at low pressures, thus playing a significant role in the overall energy budget, thermal structure, and circulation of the atmosphere.
Pulse propagation in a magnetic flux tube

The linear development of a pulse as it propagates adiabatically along an isothermal magnetic flux tube embedded in a gravitationally stratified atmosphere is studied. It is shown that, for a quiescent environment, longitudinal disturbances in the tube are governed by an equation of the Klein-Gordon type. An impulsively generated disturbance results in a wave front propagating at the subsonic and subAlfvenic tube speed; the wave front trails a wake oscillating at the tube frequency. The results are illustrated for solar photospheric conditiions.
PSZ2LenS. Weak lensing analysis of the Planck clusters in the CFHTLenS and in the RCSLenS

The possibly unbiased selection process in surveys of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect can unveil new populations of galaxy clusters. We performed a weak lensing analysis of the PSZ2LenS sample, i.e. the PSZ2 galaxy clusters detected by the Planck mission in the sky portion covered by the lensing surveys CFHTLenS and RCSLenS. PSZ2LenS consists of 35 clusters and it is a statistically complete and homogeneous subsample of the PSZ2 catalogue. The Planck selected clusters appear to be unbiased tracers of the massive end of the cosmological haloes. The mass concentration relation of the sample is in excellent agreement with predictions from the Lambda cold dark matter model. The stacked lensing signal is detected at 14 sigma significance over the radial range 0.1<R<3.2 Mpc/h, and is well described by the cuspy dark halo models predicted by numerical simulations. We confirmed that Planck estimated masses are biased low by b_SZ= 27+-11(stat)+-8(sys) per cent with respect to weak lensing masses. The bias is higher for the cosmological subsample, b_SZ= 40+-14+-(stat)+-8(sys) per cent.
Investigating The Eﬀect of Brand’s Social Media Pages On Developing Economy Consumers Purchase Intention

: With the passage of time people come to know that, investigating the brand social media, the brand familiarity and information quality on the future purchase intention is very impactful. In spite of appreciation of brand familiarity and information, quality prominence in brand communities, dynamics and consequences remains limited. To explore this subject of consumer purchase intention we found that information quality and brand familiarity effect the future purchase. To explore our hypotheses, we directed a survey with about 200 university students with the target population of Karachi Pakistan using Facebook with considerable experience with a particular brand. In this research, the statistical technique we use is the structural equation Modeling SEM. This technique helps to determine the structural relation found between latent constructs and measured variables. Furthermore, the findings show that there is a big impact of Brand familiarity and Information quality on Attitude towards brand social media pages and Future purchase intention.
Discovery of Extreme Examples of Superclustering in Aquarius

The results of spectroscopic observations of 46 R ≥ 1 clusters of galaxies from the Abell and Abell, Corwin, & Olowin (hereafter ACO) catalogs are presented. The observations were conducted at the ESO 3.6 m telescope with the Meudon-ESO Fibre Optics Spectrograph (MEFOS) multiple-fiber spectrograph. Thirty-nine of the clusters lie in a 10° × 45° strip of sky that contains two supercluster candidates (in Aquarius and Eridanus). These candidates were identified by a percolation analysis of the Abell and ACO catalogs, using estimated redshifts for clusters that had not yet been measured. With our measurements and redshifts from the literature, the target strip is now 85% complete in redshift measurements for R ≥ 1 ACO clusters with m10 ≤ 18.3. Seven other clusters were observed in a supercluster candidate in the Grus-Indus region. Seven hundred thirty-seven galaxy redshifts were obtained in these 46 cluster fields. We find that one of the supercluster candidates is a collection of 14 R ≥ 1 ACO/Abell clusters with a spatial number density that is 20 times the average spatial density for rich ACO clusters. This overdensity has a maximum extent of ~110 h-1 Mpc, making it the longest supercluster composed only of R ≥ 1 clusters to be identified to date. This filament of clusters runs within 6° of the line of sight in the Aquarius region, and, on its high-z end, four R = 0 ACO clusters (three of which are R = 1 in the Abell catalog) appear to bridge gaps to other clusters, extending the structure to ~150 h-1 Mpc. Our analysis also reveals that another supercluster, consisting of eight rich clusters with an extent of ~75 h-1 Mpc, runs roughly perpendicular to Aquarius near its low-redshift end. Both of these superclusters are remarkably filamentary. Fitting ellipsoids to all N ≥ 5 clumps of clusters (at b = 25 h-1 Mpc) in the measured-z Abell/ACO R ≥ 1 clusters sample, we found two other superclusters with axis ratios ≥3 (long-to-midlength axis). The frequency of such filaments (~20%) was nearly identical with that found among "superclusters" in Monte Carlo simulations of random and random-clumped cluster samples, however, so the Abell/ACO clusters have no particular tendency toward filamentation. The Aquarius and Aquarius-Cetus superclusters, in this one region of the sky, have axis ratios of 4.3 and 3.0, respectively. The Aquarius filament also contains a "knot" of six R ≥ 1 clusters at z ~ 0.11, with five of the clusters close enough together to represent an apparent overdensity of 150n̄. There are three other R ≥ 1 cluster density enhancements similar to this knot at lower redshifts: Corona Borealis, the Shapley concentration, and another grouping of seven clusters in Microscopium. All four of these dense superclusters appear near the point of breaking away from the Hubble flow, and some may now be in collapse, but there is little indication of any being virialized. With four such objects, studies of them as a class may now lead to much greater insight into large-scale processes.
The Rising Veto Power of the Checkbook: An empirical Investigation of Parents’ Impacts on Their Children’s University enrollment

This study drew on different streams in the literature to theorize a power shift in favor of parents in the post-COVID-19 era. The authors investigated the impact of parents’ campus site visits on university enrollment decisions by empirically testing a model that draws on concepts from service marketing and sociology and links university enrollment to parents’ evaluative and intentional constructs. Data were obtained from 339 parents of final-year high school students immediately after their campus site visits and analyzed using structural equation modelling. The results indicate that antecedents of parent university satisfaction include human encounters, university reputation, and physical setting. Satisfaction was found to drive intention to advocate to children and brand preference. These two outcomes affected enrollment. The results offer important theoretical contributions to the field of higher education marketing and present managerial implications for university administrators in their quest to augment student recruitment processes.
Role of Gravity Waves in Triggering Deep Convection during TOGA COARE

The role of gravity waves in the initiation of convection over oceanic regions during the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean‐Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) experiment is investigated. First, an autocorrelation method is applied to infrared temperature observations of convective events from satellite images. It reveals that new deep convective cells often occur a few hours after a previous intense event at a typical distance of a few hundred kilometers. Such fast moving modes (faster than 15 m s 21) are interpreted as the trace of gravity waves excited by previous convection and contributing to trigger further convection. Second, the specific case of 11‐12 December 1992, during which an active squall line is generated after the collapse of a previous mesoscale convective system (MCS) nearby, is analyzed with a nonhydrostatic model. The triggering of the second MCS is well reproduced explicitly, owing to the use of the two-way interactive grid nesting. The convective source appears to emit pulses of gravity waves on a wide range of small scales. On the contrary, the troposphere response to the convective source exhibits a spectral simplicity. A slowly evolving mode, characterized by an ascent in the PBL and a compensating subsidence in the free troposphere, favors shallow convection and inhibits deep convection, respectively. Traveling modes propagating away from the convective source are characterized by a fast mode (;50 m s21) and a slower mode (; 25 ms 21) associated with the convective and stratiform development of the source, respectively, in agreement with previous studies. A budget analysis reveals the different factors leading to the deep convection triggering. First, an active PBL characterized by strong surface fluxes and mean ascent, initiates shallow convection, lasting about 2 h, inhibited above by the subsiding motions maintaining a dry layer. Second, horizontal advection of moist and cooler air at midlevels, and detrainment from cumuli, contribute to destroy the dry air layer capping the shallow convective layer. Finally, vertical advection induced by the gravity waves passage modulates the vapor and temperature evolution. Ascending phases favor moistening and cooling, whereas subsiding phases stop these effects, delaying the deep convection onset. The triggering occurs after a strong subsidence, when the ascent phases of deep and shallow modes are combined.