The purpose of the study is to examine how individuals change over time and what impacts their development. In particular, we are interested in mental health outcomes in young adulthood. Participants will be required to complete a survey one time that will take about 10-15 minutes to complete. Participants will be eligible to win a $10.00 amazon gift card.

Sensory processing is often affected in children and adolescents with ASD (autism). The 8th sensory system, coined interoception, is under studied in how it affects children with autism. Our study will compare children with and without autism (ages 11-18 years) using a tool we are developing. Our study hopes to develop psychometric properties of a tool to measure this new sensory sense.

The purpose of this study is to determine what golf equipment and swing characteristics best predict playing ability in a population of golfers. Golfers will come to the laboratory and hit shots with various clubs while the movement of their body and the ball are tracked.

Participants will come to the Penn State Golf Teaching and Research Center and hit golf shots using their driver, 7 iron, and putter. A golf simulator will be used to track the ball trajectory. The movements of participant's body segments and the force they apply to the ground will be measured in three-dimensions as they swing. Participants will receive brief instruction from a Class-A PGA Professional upon completion.

Participants will receive brief instruction from a Class-A PGA Professional upon completion.

This is a randomized efficacy trial of a family and alcohol intervention (mFF+) for expecting couples with heavy drinking fathers and light drinking/abstaining (in pregnancy) mothers. We propose to test an innovative preventive strategy by adapting an evidence-based preventive intervention for couples at the transition to parenthood - Family Foundations (FF) - to yield a multi-modal intervention that incorporates alcohol content into existing modules of FF and adding alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) for hazardous drinking. This is a multi-PI application with Drs. Eiden (at Penn State) and Godleski (at Rochester Institute of Technology) as co-PIs. Dr. Colder (at the University at Buffalo (UB)) is a co-investigator and will serve as PI of the UB subcontract. Families will be recruited in Western New York (Buffalo and Rochester). Investigators at Penn State (Drs. Eiden and Feinberg) will provide training and supervision. Data management and analyses will occur at Penn State

Couples will be asked to participate in online parenting classes and family assessments during and after pregnancy. There are 3-5 prenatal and 1-4 postnatal classes that take place over Zoom. Family are also asked tp participate in 3 family assessments: 1 during pregnancy, 1 at 6 months of infant age, and one at 12 months of infant age. Families will be asked to complete inline surveys before each assessment. Additionally, families are asked to submit hair and saliva samples.

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The primary objective of this study is to examine, via online focus groups, the perceptions that are held by potentially-eligible subjects in the PSH DPP program in regard to the importance of physical exercise, particularly within the context of diet, social connectivity, and stress reduction. These perspectives will then be used to help develop, test, and refine additional motivational text messages that can be used in a text messaging intervention. Participants will receive a $25.00 gift card.

With the COVID-19 pandemic affecting everyone’s daily routine, our lives have changed drastically. The health of ourselves, families, friends, and communities is our biggest concern and finding a cure to this problem is still underway The purpose of this survey is to analyze how people are taking control of their health using various health applications forms.

Fieldwork is a core activity in the geosciences. Immersive technologies, such as virtual reality (VR), allow for embodied experiences while not physically present at a field site or create experiences not possible in physical reality. Immersive VR (short: iVR) refers to systems using head-mounted displays to deliver 360-degree experiences. It can deliver remote and large-scale geological entities to the laboratory, allowing geoscientists to apply real-world skills and methods to explore and interact with 3D geological models. We describe a project in which we developed an iVR workbench and experience for Iceland’s Thrihnukar volcano combining satellite imagery with terrain elevation data to create a basic reconstruction of the real world, using terrain elevation terrestrial LiDAR data to provide a point cloud model of the entire magmatic-volcanic system and intensity values for the identification of rock types, and Structure from Motion (SfM) mapping to construct a photorealistic point cloud of the volcano. To reproduce fieldwork activities, this project digs deeply into the scientific workflow of geosciences research, evaluates the priorities of the major phases of geosciences fieldwork, and develops a prototype immersive workbench for direct manipulation, information retrieval, geometric measurement, and the integration of multimedia resources. This workbench offers analytic functions currently not available in the field and is expected to help making fieldwork experiences accessible, shareable, and available any time. Future developments will also allow for collaborating remotely as well as designing repositories for comparative studies.

A study of DFMO for patients with neuroblastoma in remission.

Participating in this study requires that you visit the Penn State health Medical Center multiple times over the course of the full study for evaluations (physical exam, blood draw, urine analysis, etc.) and scans (MRI/CT, MIBG).If you agree to take part, you will receive treatment on this study for about 2 years and will be followed for survival for 5 years after the last dose of study drug. You will be asked to return to the research site approximately 15 times.

Prediction of a subject's goal in a task based on patterns in their body language, speech, facial expressions, reaction to outcome, in short any observable measure.

This study is a phase 3 study that will be comparing recurrence-free survival (RFS) between patients withlocally advanced renal cell carcinoma randomly assigned toperioperative nivolumab in conjunction with radical or partialnephrectomy with patients randomized to surgery alone.

You are being asked to take part in this research study because you have cancer in your kidney, which is planned to be removed by a surgeon. The standard treatment for your disease is to remove the kidney or part of the kidney that contains the cancer by surgery. You are then monitored after surgery with imaging scans and exams to watch for any possiblesigns of recurrence (close observation)

This research is an attempt to understand the components of empathy and the cultural factors that shape its development. I am seeking about 200 Master's-level counseling students in the U.S. to complete the online survey. The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete, and participants will have chances to win Amazon gift cards and to learn the study results.

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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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of context on the processing of words in young adults with and without an autism spectrum disorder. The knowledge gained may lead to further understanding of the cognitive and linguistic processing of individuals with autism spectrum disorder—how they understand and see the world around them. The study is being conducted at our on-campus lab and includes the completion of some standardized paper and pencil tests and some computer-based activities. Participants receive compensation for their participation.

This study will examine how international spouses improve their English ability and form connections with the local community. Participants will be interviewed to learn about their experiences. Social events that are found to be positive will be recorded so that the interactions in that space can be analyzed to determine how they help international spouses.

This study is aiming to identify the differences in medicated hair care practices amongst adult patients with scalp conditions. Typical treatment for scalp conditions involves the continued use of medicated shampoos; however, hair care practices across all ethnic and racial barriers are different. This could impact the effectiveness of these medicated washes if they are by chance not being used frequently enough. To our knowledge, no research has explored hair care practices and their relationship to dermatological conditions that affect the scalp.

Participants will complete a one-time survey that will take approximately 5-10 minutes.

This study will examine the relationships among time-of-day, light exposure, stress markers, and self-reported eating. Physiological measures of stress will be assessed both in and out of the laboratory using a gold-standard emotion induction task, along with out-of-lab questionnaires and ambulatory sensors.

This is a week-long study consisting of two in-person visits and five out-of-lab days. During the in-person visits, you will be connected to equipment that measures your physiological data and participate in a task with different sounds. During the out-of-lab days, you will wear a sensor that will collect your physiological data and answer questionnaires.

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We plan to conduct a qualitative study exploring perspectives of physical therapists and people with disability regarding physical activity promotion

Individuals with cancer that has spread to their brain who have 1-4 lesions, or breast cancer history and may or may not have treatment and are within 8 weeks of surgery, will be randomized to either surgery first followed by radiation or radiation first followed by surgery.

Subjects are expected to come to all Radiation/Gamma Knife appointments and continue onto surgery/resection.

This study will examine how the brain controls blood pressure responses during exercise, and will include 2 separate visits. In one visit, you will perform a series of handgrip exercises followed by inflation of a blood pressure cuff while we collect muscle nerve activity and blood pressure. In the other two sessions you will perform a similar task while laying in an MRI machine.

This is an interview study that examines how people use online symptom checker platforms or apps (e.g., WebMD, Ada, K health app, Your.MD) to self-diagnose or support the decision of whether and when to do a medical visit. The research procedure involves: 1) a short screening survey which helps us determine who are eligible to participate; 2) an audio‐taped interview with each eligible participant that will last approximately 30‐60 minutes online or offline near Penn State University Park. Each participant will be compensated with a $20 Amazon gift card for completing the interview.

This study will collect information about the use of gaming communities for social interaction.

Participants will be asked to complete a short survey.

An online program to reduce depression in MS – a phase III international multicenter randomized controlled trial

The overall goal of the project is to better understand how people subjectively perceive differences in concert hall acoustics. Subjects will listening to musical passages, side-by-side, in aural simulations of being in different concert halls or rooms. Subjects will then be asked to provide perceptual ratings on reverberance about the different rooms in which they are listening to.The results from this research will help to better understand how concert-goers perceive different room, and will help acoustic consultants to better design concert hall in the future to produce more pleasing acoustic environments.

The main research goal of this work is to collect drivers’ opinions on autonomous vehicles and their perceptions of time when they ride with autonomous vehicles comparing with manual-driven vehicles.

This study aims to provide original descriptions and analyses of features of the vernacular varieties of English spoken in Central Pennsylvania. Previously understudied, this project will provide new data from both spontaneous speech and controlled experiments to contribute to our understanding of language variation in Central PA, and to the larger body of knowledge on variation in American English.

The purpose of this study is to develop a better understanding of the lived experiences of college students of color with psychiatric disabilities, particularly related to the formation of racial identity, disability identity, and the impact of perceived discrimination.

The main purpose of this research study is to provide access to the investigational product, CNM-Au8 at a dose of 30mg per day, to up to 300 people living with ALS. The study wants to find out if CNM-Au8 is safe to take without causing too many side effects and can help people with ALS.

Participants will have a visit to see if they qualify to participate. Following this visit, they will return to the clinic for visits every 12 weeks and these visits will continue in 48-week periods until the treatment plan is discontinued. Participants will have one last visit 4 weeks after their last dose of the investigational medicine. 

Adults recently diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection who use a 4-day combined intervention of nasal washes with 1% baby shampoo solution and oral gargles with Listerine Antiseptic® will have a reduced SARS-CoV-2 viral load compared to those using nasal and oral washes with normal saline. This combined intervention should be acceptable, tolerable and safe in this population. To test this, we are conducting a trial comparing the efficacy of a number of washes in reducing the oral and nasal SARS-CoV-2 viral load amongst adults.

At their home, participants will perform three nasal and oral rinses per day for 4 days and self-swab the nose and mouth before and after each morning rinse to collect specimens under the guidance of a zoom visit. On the morning of the 5th day participants will also self swab the nose and mouth for a final collection specimen. Participants will answer questions on an app and online platform.

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This project will examine adolescents', parents'/guardians', and society's attitudes toward the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) and theta burst stimulation (TBS) in adolescent depression. The attitudes and concerns of adolescents,their parents/guardians, and society around TMS are important as they can influence the uptake of the interventions, with adolescents playing an important role in assenting to the intervention, and parents/guardians consenting to treatment.

Participation will involve about 1 hour of your time in a semi-structured interview. We will have a separate 1 hour semi-structure interview with your child. The interviews will take place via Zoom or phone. Interviews will be recorded. Phone calls to Zoom meetings are encouraged, if phone calls are the preferred interview method.

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The is a drug study to compare the progression freesurvival of the three drug combination Ibrutinib-Obinutuzumab-Venetoclax (IOV) to Ibrutinib-Obinutuzumab (IO) in untreated CLL patients younger than 70 years of age.

pt will either get ibrutinib and obinutuzumab, plus venetoclax for up to 19 months or will get ibrutinib and obinutuzumab until doctor decides disease is getting worse or the side effects become too severe. After 19 cycles completed, doctor will follow condition every 90 days until progression and watch for side effects. They will check pt every 3 months for 2 years. After that, they will check pt every 6 months for 3 years. After that, they will check pt every 12 months for 5 years