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An increase in the class difference in average income among the destination neighborhoods of short-distance migrants is a particularly important source of the growth in the class difference in neighborhood income among blacks. In contrast, among whites, the bulk of the increase in the class difference in neighborhood income is attributable to a divergence in neighborhood income between rich and poor non-migrants.There is a growing body of research linking racial and ethnic discrimination to adverse youth outcomes. Beyond experienced racial and ethnic discrimination, this study considers the relevance of anticipated and vicarious racial and ethnic discrimination for depression and suicidal behavior. Hierarchical regression models on a diverse sample of 1147 youth (50.31 % female) within 79 neighborhoods from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods indicated that experienced, anticipated, and vicarious racial and ethnic discrimination were associated with an increased risk of depression and suicidal behavior. Additionally, African American and Hispanic youth were disproportionately exposed to-but not differentially impacted by-racial and ethnic discrimination. Findings suggest that developmental research should account for experienced, anticipated, and vicarious racial and ethnic discrimination.Rights and a tolerance of diversity are central to a democratic polity, and for over 60 years scholars have viewed education as a powerful wellspring of liberal attitudes on these issues. But recent concerns with selection bias raise questions about whether exposure to education indeed shapes attitudes. This study offers new perspective on the influence of education on rights and tolerance attitudes in the United States. We use a larger and wider-ranging array of items (63) than has been considered in recent scholarship on this topic. Analyzing General Social Surveys panel data, we apply the Morgan/Winship model to address selection bias concerns. We find novel evidence that education shapes rights and tolerance attitudes. It is exposure to college education, not high school, that appears to be most consequential, suggesting the importance of higher-educational institutions to the diffusion of liberal attitudes. We discuss study limitations and directions for further investigation.This paper focuses on advancing the traditional association rule mining (ARM) approach to capture the rich, multidimensional and multiscalar context that is anticipated to be associated with residential Motor Vehicle Theft (MVT) across urban environments. We tackle the challenge to materialize complex social and spatial components in the mining process and present a novel interactive visualization based on social network analysis of rules and associations to facilitate the analysis of mined rules. The spatial ARM (SARM) findings successfully identify many socio-spatial associations to MVT prevalence and establish their relative influence on crime outcome in a case study. Also, the analysis provides unique insights to understand the interactive relationships between neighborhood characteristics and environmental features to both high and low MVT and underscores the importance of spatial properties of spillover and neighborhood effects on urban residential MVT prevalence. This work follows the tradition of inductive and abductive learning and presents a promising analysis framework using data mining which can be applied to different applications in social sciences.
Mass media suggest rising political and religious concern about secularism-induced decline of the family. Implications for loneliness remain unexamined. The current study filled this gap.

Data were from 10 national probability samples in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Multilevel longitudinal models tested linkages of societal secularism with loneliness, their mediation by specific family relationships, and the role of this cultural dimension in weakening associations of family ties with loneliness. Both weighted Maximum Likelihood and unweighted Bayesian analyses were conducted, separately for each gender.

Societal secularism was not positively linked to either gender's loneliness. Associations with family ties were inconsistent, with only men's average partnered status lower in more secular settings. Nor did any positive indirect effects emerge. Moderation results were also inconsistent, with secularism only weakening linkages of some family dimensions with loneliness. Bayesian estimates were generally nonsignificant.

Societal secularism may not be a risk factor for loneliness or for weak family ties. Results stand at odds with religious and political rhetoric on secularism-induced decline of the family, and its individual and societal consequences.
Societal secularism may not be a risk factor for loneliness or for weak family ties. Results stand at odds with religious and political rhetoric on secularism-induced decline of the family, and its individual and societal consequences.The use of school suspension and expulsion is a widespread phenomenon in American schools (Wallace et al., 2009; Owens and McLanahan, 2020). Osimertinib EGFR inhibitor Yet, much of what we know about these exclusionary practices provide little insight into the personal biographies of the students themselves-specifically their histories of childhood trauma. Using measures of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), we examine the link between early ACEs (up to age 5) and school suspension/expulsion using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (1998-2010) (FFCWS). We find that a child with a cumulative ACE score are almost four times more likely to have been suspended or expelled. Importantly, this negative link persists even when accounting for factors known to be associated with ACEs and school discipline. This work offers new theoretical insight into how we understand discipline in school contexts and suggests the importance of trauma-informed interventions in the American education system.Myocardial bridging (MB) is a congenital coronary anomaly in which a segment of the epicardial coronary artery traverses through the myocardium for a portion of its length. The muscle overlying the artery is termed a myocardial bridge, and the intramyocardial segment is referred to as a tunneled artery. MB can occur in any coronary artery, although is most commonly seen in the left anterior descending artery. Although traditionally considered benign in nature, increasing attention is being given to specific subsets of MB associated with ischemic symptomatology. The advent of contemporary functional and anatomic imaging modalities, both invasive and noninvasive, have dramatically improved our understanding of dynamic pathophysiology associated with MBs. This review provides a contemporary overview of epidemiology, pathobiology, diagnosis, functional assessment, and management of MBs.
Cardiac amyloidosis (CA) is a set of amyloid diseases with usually predominant cardiac symptoms, including light-chain amyloidosis (AL), hereditary variant transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRv), and wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTRwt). CA are characterized by high heterogeneity in phenotypes leading to diagnosis delay and worsened outcomes.

The authors used clustering analysis to identify typical clinical profiles in a large population of patients with suspected CA.

Data were collected from the French Referral Center for Cardiac Amyloidosis database (Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil), including 1,394 patients with suspected CA between 2010 and 2018 345 (25%) had a diagnosis of AL, 263 (19%) ATTRv, 402 (29%) ATTRwt, and 384 (28%) no amyloidosis. Based on comprehensive clinicobiological phenotyping, unsupervised clustering analyses were performed by artificial neural network-based self-organizing maps to identify patient profiles (clusters) with similar characteristics, independent of the final diagnosi to improve amyloidosis diagnosis and stratify prognosis depending on associated risk factors.
Recent trends, including survival beyond 30days, in aortic valve replacement (AVR) following the expansion of indications for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are not well-understood.

The authors sought to characterize the trends in characteristics and outcomes of patients undergoing AVR.

The authors analyzed Medicare beneficiaries who underwent TAVR and SAVR in 2012 to 2019. They evaluated case volume, demographics, comorbidities, 1-year mortality, and discharge disposition. Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess the annual change in outcomes.

Per 100,000 beneficiary-years, AVR increased from 107 to 156, TAVR increased from 19 to 101, whereas SAVR declined from 88 to 54. The median [interquartile range] age remained similar from 77 [71-83] years to 78 [72-84] years for overall AVR, decreased from 84 [79-88] years to 81 [75-86] years for TAVR, and decreased from 76 [71-81] years to 72 [68-77] years for SAVR. For all AVR patients, the prevalence of comorbidities remained relatively stable. The 1-year mortality for all AVR decreased from 11.9% to 9.4%. Annual change in the adjusted odds of 1-year mortality was 0.93 (95%CI 0.92-0.94) for TAVR and 0.98 (95%CI 0.97-0.99) for SAVR, and 0.94 (95%CI 0.93-0.95) for all AVR. Patients discharged to home after AVR increased from 24.2% to 54.7%, primarily driven by increasing home discharge after TAVR.

The advent of TAVR has led to about a 60% increase in overall AVR in older adults. Improving outcomes in AVR as a whole following the advent of TAVR with increased access is a reassuring trend.
The advent of TAVR has led to about a 60% increase in overall AVR in older adults. Improving outcomes in AVR as a whole following the advent of TAVR with increased access is a reassuring trend.
Surgical risk, age, perceived life expectancy, and valve durability influence the choice between surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and transcatheter aortic valve implantation. The contemporaneous life expectancy after SAVR, in relation to surgical risk and age, is unknown.

The purpose of this study was to determine median survival time in relation to surgical risk and chronological age in SAVR patients.

Patients≥60 years with aortic stenosis who underwent isolated SAVR with a bioprosthesis (n=8,353) were risk-stratified before surgery into low, intermediate, or high surgical risk using the logistic EuroSCORE (2001-2011) or EuroSCORE II (2012-2017) and divided into age groups. Median survival time and cumulative 5-year mortality were estimated with Kaplan-Meier curves. Cox regression analysis was used to further determine the importance of age.

There were 7,123 (85.1%) low-risk patients, 942 (11.3%) intermediate-risk patients, and 288 (3.5%) high-risk patients. Median survival time was 10.9 years (95% confidence interval 10.6-11.2 years) in low-risk, 7.3 years (7.0-7.9years) in intermediate-risk, and 5.8 years (5.4-6.5 years) in high-risk patients. The 5-year cumulative mortality was 16.5% (15.5%-17.4%), 30.7% (27.5%-33.7%), and 43.0% (36.8%-48.7%), respectively. In low-risk patients, median survival time ranged from 16.2 years in patients aged 60 to 64 years to 6.1 years in patients aged≥85 years. Age was associated with 5-year mortality only in low-risk patients (interaction P< 0.001).

Eighty-five percent of SAVR patients receiving bioprostheses have low surgical risk. Estimated survivalis substantial following SAVR, especially in younger, low-risk patients, which should be considered in Heart Teamdiscussions.
Eighty-five percent of SAVR patients receiving bioprostheses have low surgical risk. Estimated survival is substantial following SAVR, especially in younger, low-risk patients, which should be considered in Heart Team discussions.
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