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Best Practices for Developing and Validating Scales for Health, Social, and Behavioral Research: A Primer.

Frontiers in public health

Boateng GO, Neilands TB, Frongillo EA, Melgar-Quiñonez HR, Young SL.
PMID: 29942800
Front Public Health. 2018 Jun 11;6:149. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2018.00149. eCollection 2018.

Scale development and validation are critical to much of the work in the health, social, and behavioral sciences. However, the constellation of techniques required for scale development and evaluation can be onerous, jargon-filled, unfamiliar, and resource-intensive. Further, it is...

Societies of Futures Past: Examining the History and Potential of International Society Collaborations in Addressing the Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease in the Developing World.

Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine

Enumah ZO, Boateng P, Bolman RM, Beyersdorf F, Zühlke L, Musoni M, Tivane A, Zilla P.
PMID: 34796211
Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021 Nov 02;8:740745. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.740745. eCollection 2021.

This paper explores the role and place of national, regional, and international society collaborations in addressing the major global burden of rheumatic heart disease (RHD). On the same order of HIV, RHD affects over 40 million people worldwide. In...

Proximity-dependent biotinylation detects associations between SARS coronavirus nonstructural protein 1 and stress granule-associated proteins.

The Journal of biological chemistry

Gerassimovich YA, Miladinovski-Bangall SJ, Bridges KM, Boateng L, Ball LE, Valafar H, Nag A.
PMID: 34774526
J Biol Chem. 2021 Dec;297(6):101399. doi: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.101399. Epub 2021 Nov 11.

The nonstructural protein 1 (nsp1) of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is a critical viral protein that suppresses host gene expression by blocking the assembly of the ribosome on host mRNAs. To...

Contextual factors that shape uptake of COVID-19 preventive measures by persons of Ghanaian and Eritrean origin in the Netherlands: A focus group study.

Journal of migration and health

Torensma M, Harting J, Boateng L, Agyemang C, Lassooy Tekle Y, Jacob Y, van den Muijsenbergh M, El Fakiri F, Prins M, Stronks K.
PMID: 34693384
J Migr Health. 2021;4:100070. doi: 10.1016/j.jmh.2021.100070. Epub 2021 Oct 13.

OBJECTIVES: To explore the contextual factors that shape uptake of COVID-19 preventive measures, in specific migrant and ethnic minority populations, with a focus on migration-related, sociocultural and socioeconomic conditions.DESIGN: A qualitative design, consisting of three online focus group discussions.SETTING:...

Effect of preoperative versus postoperative use of transversus abdominis plane block with plain 0.25 % bupivacaine on postoperative opioid use: a retrospective study.

BMC anesthesiology

Kalu R, Boateng P, Carrier L, Garzon J, Tang A, Reickert C, Stefanou A.
PMID: 33845790
BMC Anesthesiol. 2021 Apr 12;21(1):114. doi: 10.1186/s12871-021-01333-6.

BACKGROUND: Enhanced recovery protocols optimize pain control via multimodal approaches that include transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of preoperative vs. postoperative plain 0.25 % bupivacaine TAP block on postoperative...

Precision medicine reaching out to the patients in allergology - a German-Japanese workshop report.

Allergologie select

Pfaar O, Blumchen K, Boateng E, Hamelmann E, Iinuma T, Jakob T, Krauss-Etschmann S, Nagase H, Nakajima S, Nakano T, Renz H, Sato S, Taube C, Wagenmann M, Werfel T, Worm M, Izuhara K.
PMID: 34079922
Allergol Select. 2021 May 27;5:162-179. doi: 10.5414/ALX02234E. eCollection 2021.

An expert workshop in collaboration of the German Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (DGAKI) and the Japanese Society of Allergy (JSA) provided a platform for key opinion leaders of both countries aimed to join expertise and to highlight...

Development of a rapid polarized total synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy (pTSFS) method for protein quantification in a model bioreactor broth.

Biotechnology and bioengineering

Boateng BO, Elcoroaristizabal S, Ryder AG.
PMID: 33501639
Biotechnol Bioeng. 2021 May;118(5):1805-1817. doi: 10.1002/bit.27694. Epub 2021 Feb 04.

Protein quantification during bioprocess monitoring is essential for biopharmaceutical manufacturing and is complicated by the complex chemical composition of the bioreactor broth. Here we present the early-stage development and optimization of a polarized total synchronous fluorescence spectroscopy (pTSFS) method...

Financial sector and economic growth amid external uncertainty shocks: Insights into emerging economies.

PloS one

Asafo-Adjei E, Boateng E, Isshaq Z, Idun AA, Owusu Junior P, Adam AM.
PMID: 34762668
PLoS One. 2021 Nov 11;16(11):e0259303. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259303. eCollection 2021.

The study aims to shed new lights on the lead-lag relationships between the financial sector (RFSI) and economic growth (GDP) in the midst of global economic policy uncertainty (GEPU) shocks for BRICS economies. Hence, the bivariate, partial, and wavelet...

Incidence and correlates of high blood pressure from childhood to adulthood: the Birth to Twenty study.

Journal of hypertension

Meer R, Boateng D, Klipstein-Grobusch K, Norris SA, Kagura J.
PMID: 34475345
J Hypertens. 2022 Feb 01;40(2):274-282. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000003004.

BACKGROUND: There is growing evidence from high-income countries suggesting that hypertension developed in childhood and adolescence persists into adulthood. The objective of this study was to investigate the incidence and risk factors of high blood pressure (BP) in urban...

Cadherin puncta are interdigitated dynamic actin protrusions necessary for stable cadherin adhesion.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Li JXH, Tang VW, Boateng KA, Brieher WM.
PMID: 34099568
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Jun 15;118(24). doi: 10.1073/pnas.2023510118.

Cadherins harness the actin cytoskeleton to build cohesive sheets of cells using paradoxically weak bonds, but the molecular mechanisms are poorly understood. In one popular model, actin organizes cadherins into large, micrometer-sized clusters known as puncta. Myosin is thought...

Socio-Demographic Predictors of Willingness to Pay for Premium of National Health Insurance: A Cross-sectional Survey of Six Districts in Sierra Leone.

International journal of health policy and management

Agyei-Baffour P, Jimmy AI, Twum P, Larbie D, Boateng KA, Duah IK, Bangura A, Conteh HM.
PMID: 34124869
Int J Health Policy Manag. 2021 May 26; doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.50. Epub 2021 May 26.

BACKGROUND: The government of Sierra Leone introduced Social Health Insurance Scheme as a measure to remove financial barriers that beset the people in accessing health to ensure universal coverage. Under this policy, the citizens were encouraged to subscribe to...

Structure Activity Relationships for a Series of Eticlopride-Based Dopamine D.

Journal of medicinal chemistry

Shaik AB, Boateng CA, Battiti FO, Bonifazi A, Cao J, Chen L, Chitsazi R, Ravi S, Lee KH, Shi L, Newman AH.
PMID: 34636551
J Med Chem. 2021 Oct 28;64(20):15313-15333. doi: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.1c01353. Epub 2021 Oct 12.

The crystal structure of the dopamine D

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