The purpose of this study is to understand the ways in which systemic sclerosis (SSc) develops and identify potential treatments. Because this study focuses on the interaction between macrophages and fibroblasts, both peripheral blood and skin will be necessary for completion of this work. Results from this work will provide the rational basis for the development of novel treatments for SSc patients.

This study asks participants about their pre-pandemic, current, and expected post-pandemic behaviors to better understand long-term societal changes that may occur as a result of the pandemic. The study focuses on transportation-related outcomes.

The CDC reports that more than half of STD cases occur in youth aged 15-24 years old. As such, STDs are an important public health concern. This pilot study will test a series of condom promotion messages to select the most promising messages encouraging condom use among young adults.

To assess the nature of ideological intuitions citizens use when making informed guesses about other people's political issue positions. In other words, what do people conclude about each other's wider system of political beliefs upon learning that a conversation partner supports (or opposes) a certain policy position or regulation (e.g. support for renewable energy investments, opposition to the death penalty). Intuitions about wider sets of political beliefs may be relevant to political decision making (e.g. voting, candidate appraisal) and in everyday social interactions (deciding which friend-circles to enter, whom to associate with, which clubs, associations to join, ect). The goal of this study is to gain an overview of the prevalence and relative strength of ideological intuitions for a set of 16 different political attitudes and identity markers.

The CMR is a population based breast imaging registry for women screened for breast cancer in NC.

The purpose of this registry is to observe outcomes of heart transplant recipients who are managed with HeartCare. This is done by collecting information about your heart transplant such as test results, biopsy results, and outcomes, storing that information in a database, and using that information for research.

To better discover voice surgeon, facial plastic surgeon, and speech language pathologist involvement in transgender care in the United States.

Participants will be sent a 10-15 minute survey that will investigate football helmet maintenance to ensure optimum safety for our high school football athletes. It is imperative to understand our current knowledge base on this topic to improve our overall sports medicine care for our patients.

We want to know if members of editorial boards of psychological science journals: (a) are fully aware of the data quality issues associated with careless responding study participants and (b) whether they tend to insist that studies be screened for such data prior to being published in their journals.

We survey local public servants in one of the Russian regions. The goal of the study is to understand how local administration is organized, and which informal rules and beliefs influence the behavior of the public servants. We are most interested to find what makes public servants more innovative and encourages them to take initiative.