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This study will investigate whether contempt is a positive, negative, or mixed emotion.

The purpose of this voluntary research study is to see if neratinib, endocrine therapy, and trastuzumab completely shrink breast tumors before having breast cancer surgery. You will need to have the following exams, tests, or procedures: blood draws, ECG, Echo or MUGA, ultrasound, MRI, receive study treatment, and breast biopsy.

Participants will be required to receive study treatments, laboratory assessments, undergo breast biopsy, and radiologic assessments,

This study, part of a broader dissertation on terrorism and radicalization, aims to experimentally determine how collective punishment fuses individual identities to that of an ingroup, expanding extant knowledge of identity fusion theory.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the investigational drug AMXT 1501 (a pill taken by mouth) in combination with the study drug eflornithine (DFMO) orally (a pill taken by mouth)). An investigational drug is one that has not been approved by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), or any other regulatory authorities around the world for use alone or in combination with any drug, for the condition or illness it is being used to treat.

You will undergo a number of standard tests and research-related procedures before being able to enroll on this study.

Participants 18 years and older who meet the diagnostic criteria for the basal cell nevus (Gorlin) syndrome will be assigned to receive either Patidegib Gel 2% or Placebo (no active medicine) to apply twice daily for 12 months. The assignment will be made according to sex assigned at birth, age, and number of BCC lesions at the treatment area at Baseline. The primary endpoint is a comparison between the 2 treatment arms of the number of new BCCs at Month 12 compared to Baseline. The BCCs will be imaged and tracked consistently throughout the study to identify new BCCs and to confirm their diagnosis by dermoscopy (handheld instrument with a 15x magnification lens and a cross-polarized light source).

Participants will participate in 15 visits over approximately 14 months (attend 6 in person visits along with 9 phone call visits). In addition, participants will receive study medication to apply twice a day for 12 months and undergo clinical tests at various time points, which include blood tests, ECG, complete questionnaires/diary, skin exam and skin photographs.

Compensation is provided for eligible participants.

The original Childhood Arthritis & Rheumatology Research Alliance (CARRA) Registry was first established in 2010 to advance alliance infrastructure,facilitate expanded clinical and translational pediatric research, and transform the culture of pediatric rheumatology toward universal participation in research. Continuation of the CARRA Registry as described in the protocol attached to this IRB submission will support data collection on patients with pediatric-onset rheumatic diseases. The CARRA Registry will form the basis for future CARRA studies. In particular, this observational registry will be used to answer pressing questions about therapeutics used to treat pediatric rheumatic diseases, including examining safety questions. The Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) is serving as the CARRA Clinicaland Data Coordinating Center (CDCC) for this protocol.

In addition to allowing the researchers to collect data on you from your medical record, we will ask you and your parents/caregivers to complete a short survey that takes about 15 minutes to complete The research team will follow up every 6 months by reviewing your medical record and asking you and your parents/caregivers to complete a short survey that takes about 15 minutes to complete. If you agree to take part, you will be in the study for 10 or more years.

This research aims to learn more about your daily thoughts, behaviors, and their impact on social relationships. We want to understand the different qualities of day-to-day thoughts, how these might affect your mood, and how this may influence how you behave in social interactions. We will first ask you to complete a set of structured questionnaires and a brief 30-minute psychological interview via Zoom. This will be followed by a training session in which you will learn how to use your smartphone to track your social interactions and related daily thoughts and behaviors eight times a day for eight days.

You will undergo an initial assessment visit conducted on Zoom, where you will provide informed consent and undergo screening through a brief 30-minute clinical interview. Based on your responses, we will know if you can participate in the study. If eligible, you will be invited to the second part of the study. If so, during the same session, you will then receive a brief half-hour training session reviewing instructions on using a mobile application to complete daily surveys and then complete a series of online questionnaires. When you leave this session, for the next eight days, you will complete eight (approximately 2-minute) questionnaires daily between 10 a.m. and 10 p.m. On the third day, you will attend a compliance check via Zoom to review your progress in the present study.

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The study goal is to develop robots that can learn simple games by interviewing humans. The robot interview strategies are represented as Markov Decision Process policies, and are developed offline through robot interactions with simulated interviewees. The investigator can set the simulated interviewee to respond to the robot's queries with different amounts of information. The games include board games like Connect 4, Quarto, and Checkers. The communication between the robot and simulated interviewee is in a formal language like first order logic. After a simulated dialogue, the robot will have more or less knowledge of the game, depending on the conditions of the simulated interviewee. Human subjects will interact with the robots in two ways. First, to test the utility of the new knowledge, human subjects will participate in experiments where they play the game with virtual robots that have learned the game under different conditions. Second, to investigate the kinds of misunderstandings of questions and answers that might arise if the robot could interview a human, we will present subjects with extracts from the formal language dialogues that we have mapped to English in different ways, and ask subjects to imagine how they would express the same meaning in English, or answer questions in different ways, or what sorts of misunderstandings they might imagine in a real dialogue.

This is a drug study that will evaluate how well the investigational drug works compared to a placebo following CAR-T cell therapy. Participants will be required to keep all your scheduled visits, receive drug treatment, blood draws, imaging, and possibly a tumor biopsy.

Participants will be required to receive the study treatments including CAR-T infusion, blook tests, imaging, tumor biopsy, and study medications.

A randomized placebo-controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of VIB4920 in study participants with active lupus nephritis

Patients come for in-person visits at the Penn State Hershey main hospital location. There will be blood draws, physical exams, and questionnaires spread out across 60 weeks.

In contexts where people speak different dialects of the same language, how much overlap is there between the dialects, and what are the genuine grammatical differences? This study explores this question through a series of three experiments examining how people from three different dialects understand a variety of negative sentences (e.g., I didn't eat nothing). The results will contribute to our understanding of linguistic diversity.

Participants will sit at a computer and have their eye movements tracked by a camera as they read or listen to sentences and look at pictures on the screen.

$15 per hour

This study investigates whether persons with aphasia understand and process sentences with vernacular features in a manner similar to more typical populations. Participants will rate sentences on their naturalness and on whether they make sense, and they will also read sentences while we track their eye movements.

In an increasingly global environment, both within the US and abroad, the ability to rapidly gain native-like linguistic competence is a critical asset. The ability to use an L2 in a way that is both expected and recognized by its native speakers is important both to the broad public, and to specific sectors, such as military personnel, that must develop native-like competence in a foreign language in a limited amount of time. The studies conducted under this IRB protocol will examine how learners/speakers of a second language acquire and process multi-word units (e.g., carry a business; run a store) in their second language, and how knowledge from the first language might influence the learning and processing of multi-word units in a second language.

Participants will complete a number of simple tasks on a computer in English and/or in Spanish (depending on language background).

$12/hour (behavioral sessions); $18/hour (EEG sessions); $20 bonus at completion of study when at least 3 behavioral sessions or 2 EEG sessions are required.

This study seeks to verify the findings of the CHARM I pilot study by conducting a multi-center clinical trial. We hypothesize that: • Pancreatic cyst infusion with a specifically designed drug therapy cocktail following normal saline lavage will result in cyst destruction rates that do not significantly differ from those achieved by alcohol-based cyst treatment (ethanol lavage followed by infusion of the same chemotherapeutic cocktail). • The removal of alcohol from the procedure will decrease both serious and minor adverse event rates associated with pancreatic cyst treatment. • There may be molecular markers contained within the fluid of these cystic tumors which identify cysts that are favorable to or resistant to EUS-guided fine needle infusion using this drug combination. As such, we will test all treated cysts for 10 of the best known molecular markers for evaluation in post study analysis. We expect that administering a specifically designed chemotherapeutic cocktail without prior alcohol lavage will result in an equivalent rate of cyst resolution with fewer complications when compared to alcohol. The results of this study will provide important information about the most efficient and safest method for treating premalignant pancreatic cysts, an important step for treating these lesions with a minimally invasive technique and preventing their progression to cancer. Standard alternative treatment options for this patient group (if not taking part in this study) would be ongoing periodic radiographic monitoring with MR or CT imaging waiting for signs of cancer to develop or to consider surgical removal of the affected tissue.

Patients will have to sign the consent form to participate in the trial

We are asking you to take part in this voluntary research study because you have a brain tumor (glioblastoma) that has gotten worse despite first treatment. The purpose of this voluntary research study is to is to learn if the SonoCloud-9 (SC9) implantable device can be used in combination with Carboplatin chemotherapy to help control glioblastoma at recurrence. Neither Sonocloud-9 (SC9) in combination with Carboplatin chemotherapy is not FDA approved.

As part of your routine care, you will be asked to undergo surgery to remove the tumor that has come back. You will be randomized into one of the treatment groups. If you are in the study drug group the surgeon will insert the SonoCloud-9 device (SC9) implant into the skull bone at the end of the tumor resection surgery. If you are in the routine treatment group, the surgeon will close the wound without implanting the SC9 device. The treatment itself will start within 12 to 21 days after the randomization. - If you are in the study drug group you will receive up to 7 doses (every 3 weeks) of Carboplatin at the same time the SonoCloud-9 device is being activated. Further details on the procedures are described below. A brain MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scan will be performed after the first cycle as part of the research to evaluate opening of the BBB (blood-brain barrier). - If you are in the routine treatment group, you will receive up to 4 doses of Lomustine (every 6 weeks), or, if considered as best appropriate, up to 6 doses of Temozolomide (every 4 weeks). Additional in-person hospital visits or telehealth consultations by video or phone will be performed at regular intervals.

$350.00

Description: This research study is to assess energetic status, reproductive health, and bone health in a population of young exercising men. Secondarily, this study will also explore how diet, fitness, cardiovascular function, eating behaviors, stress, cognitive function, and sleep related to energy and reproductive outcomes in exercising men. Eligible young men (age 18-35) are those who are generally healthy and either a) exercising or b) not exercising.

There will be essentially 5 study visits - The first visit will include informed consent to take part in the study & completion of questionnaires and measurement of anthropometrics. Visit 2 will include tests of your metabolism, a blood draw, a saliva collection, and assessment of diet and physical activity. Visit 3 will be a short visit for a saliva collection. Visit 4 will include tests of stress (a hair sample), body composition, bone health, aerobic and anaerobic fitness, cognitive testing, and reproductive function. Visit 5 will consist of a results meeting and return of wearable devices and logs.

This trial will examine different doses of JANX007 to find the safest dose to treat metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC)

Participants will be required to come to all clinic visits, report any symptoms they are having and all medications they are taking, including over the counter medications.

The purpose of the study is to test how social decisions are affected by possible risk of infection. We aim to examine how choices in a risky social decision-making situation can influenced by viewing images of infection threat (e.g., person with runny nose) vs. images of neutral scenes or other threatening scenes.

There will be one 90-minute in-person visit. Participants will be asked to have electrodes placed on their skin to record their physiological signals, answer questionnaires, and complete a decision-making task on the computer while looking at different images.

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To determine if chemotherapy added to ovarian suppression and endocrine therapy is better than endocrine therapy and ovarian supression alone.

Subjects will be required to keep all study appointments, take the medications as required, have an annual mammogram, inform the study of any over the counter medications they may be taking.

This study aims to measure child eating behavior at home. Parents will video record their child eat 3 meals at home using a smart phone device and then take pictures of food storage locations (e.g., fridge, pantry). Videos will be coded for child eating behaviors. Parents will complete baseline and follow-up questionnaires. Children will wear an activity watch (like a Fitbit) for 1 week. In addition to these study procedures, there is an optional urine sample collection for children in order to study urinary metabolites as a marker of diet.

You will be asked to video record your child eating 3 meals at home and to take photos of food storage locations in your home (e.g., fridge, pantry).

$75 and an optional $25 for completing the urine sample collection

This study will examine the effects of different brain games on cognitive and everyday activities in middle-aged and older adults. Participants will play either 20 or 40 hours of ENACT brain games on a study provided laptop. They will also complete daily surveys on a study-provided mobile phone for the duration of the study. These surveys will take approximately 5-6 minutes to complete per day. The study will last either 6 or 9 months depending on the brain game training time. The study will be done remotely from the comfort of home using study-provided mobile devices. Participants are compensated for their time.

Participants will play either 20 or 40 hours of ENACT brain games on a study provided laptop. They will also complete daily surveys on a study-provided mobile phone for the duration of the study. These surveys will take approximately 5-6 minutes to complete per day. The study will last either 6 or 9 months depending on the brain game training time. The study will be done remotely from the comfort of home using study-provided mobile devices.

$230

In this study, we hope to better understand the neural mechanisms underlying risk for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in adolescent girls. BPD is a condition that is usually found in adults. However, it may be possible to identify risk for the disorder before adulthood. Understanding who is at risk for BPD early in development is important in order to develop preventative interventions.

There will be a total of three visits - one main visit and two follow-ups. Participants will be completing questionnaires, participating in a parent-child observation task, and children will be doing an EEG assessment during the first visit. Participants will be asked to complete questionnaires and participate in a parent-child observation task during the follow-up visits.

$100

Clinical trial on the treatment of persons who are diagnosed with Lung Cancer.

Participants in this study will undergo screening tests and procedures to determine whether you are eligible to participate with the research study. If you meet the requirements to participate with the study, you be given Brigatinib by mouth each day for 7 days. If you do not experience any intolerable side effects while taking Brigatinib, you will receive an increased dose starting on Day 8 and take Brigatinib continuously each day thereafter. Bevacizumab will be given intravenously (IV) on Day 8 in combination with Brigatinib. The first 28 days of treatment is called Cycle 1. Starting Cycle 2 and thereafter, one cycle will consist of 21 days. Bevacizumab will be given on Day 1 every 21 days starting Cycle 2. Participation is expected to last until your disease worsens or you decide you no longer want to participate in the study. There will be a follow-up visit within 30 days of treatment discontinuation. The study team will check in with you every three months after this final visit to see how you are doing. If you decide to take part, this is what will happen: Since we are looking for the highest dose of the study drug that can be administered safely without severe or unmanageable side effects in participants that have Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase (ALK) Rearranged Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLS), not everyone who participates in this research study will receive the same dose of the study drug. The dose you get will depend on the number of participants who have been enrolled in the study before you and how well they have tolerated their doses. If you take part in this research study, you will be given a drug diary. You will be asked to document information in the drug diary about the study drug you are being asked to take. If you take part in this research, study you will be given a study calendar. Information about what to expect during and between study visits will be included in the study calendar.

The purpose of the first part of this study is to compare the usual treatment of a standard-dose radiation given over 6 weeks with cisplatin chemotherapy to a reduced-dose radiation given over either 6 weeks with cisplatin or 5 weeks with the immunotherapy drug, nivolumab. A lower dose of radiation as compared to the usual radiation treatment dose could be as effective in lengthening the time without your cancer getting worse. Nivolumab with reduced-dose radiation may or may not be as effective in lengthening the time without your cancer getting worse. This study will help the study doctors find out if this different approach is the same or worse than the usual approach.

The purpose of the first part of this study is to compare the usual treatment of a standard-dose radiation given over 6 weeks with cisplatin chemotherapy to a reduced-dose radiation given over either 6 weeks with cisplatin or 5 weeks with the immunotherapy drug, nivolumab. A lower dose of radiation as compared to the usual radiation treatment dose could be as effective in lengthening the time without your cancer getting worse. Nivolumab with reduced-dose radiation may or may not be as effective in lengthening the time without your cancer getting worse. This study will help the study doctors find out if this different approach is the same or worse than the usual approach.

This research is being done to study the deterioration of the central olfactory system (sense of smell system) in the brains of patients diagnosed with H&Y stage 1 or 2 Parkinson’s disease compared to that of healthy volunteers.

In this study, you will receive a clinical evaluation and an MRI examination. After that, you will be followed every 12 months for up to 4 years.

up to a total of $250.00.

The purpose of the study is to determine the effects of amiloride on the blood pressure response during exercise, and exercise tolerance in patients with PAD and healthy controls.

There will be 3 in-person visits. You will take a capsule of amiloride or placebo before visits 2 and 3 and blood pressure, heart rate and other physiological measurements will be recorded.

You will receive $25 per hour for your participation in this research study

The purpose of this study is to see if stool or blood can be used to determine whether or not a patient has any colon polyps or colon cancer. This study will compare these biological samples (blood, urine, stool) to any colonoscopy or surgery a patient has to see if the outcome could be predicted.

Sound symbolism is the idea that the sound of a word alone can convey its meaning. Aphasia is a language impairment, occurring most often as a result of a stroke. There is some evidence that sound-symbolic language is preserved in stroke patients. Studies in this protocol will investigate the extent to which this is so, and whether sound-symbolic language could be a rehabilitation strategy for aphasia.

We will ask you to listen to real words and non-words, or look at pictures of objects, and make judgements about them. We may also ask you to complete some tests of language ability. The total time commitment may be up to four hours but will be split into two sessions.

Amount varies depending on the study

The purpose of this study is to better understand how human teams with non-human virtual agent team members operate and function.

If you agree to be in this study, you will be fitted to sensors that will measure your neurophysiological (i.e., brain, cardiac, and respiratory) signals while you complete group tasks in person or in virtual reality. This interaction will be recorded and coded. You will also be asked to complete several questionnaires about your demographics, behaviors, and emotions.

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The purpose of this research study is to learn about how humans provide corrections to robot movements when the robot makes mistakes while performing a task. Understanding the intent of humans can inform how we incorporate the information provided by that interaction into machine learning algorithms that improve the robot’s task performance in future.

Participants will observe the robot performing three different tasks. The robot will place a peg in a hole, pickup and pour a cup, and draw and erase an image on a whiteboard. The robot may or may not make mistakes while performing these tasks. Mistakes may be minor or may be significant such as colliding with an object or the work table. Participants will be asked to correct the robot’s mistake by moving the robot arm or stopping the task execution altogether by hitting a red stop button. After observing the robot perform each task several times, you will be asked to demonstrate a new task to the robot. The robot will then try to replicate your demonstration and you may choose to provide corrections to improve the robot’s execution of the task anytime you think it is making a mistake or not performing well enough.

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