About two in five people who are undergoing a kidney biopsy have diabetes. Diabetes is a common finding in people with kidney disease, but little is known about the specific ways in which diabetes affects kidney function. The purpose of this study is to gather two groups of patients with diabetes who undergo a kidney biopsy in order to create a source of information with genetic, blood, and urine samples available, by which researchers can study how diabetes affects kidney function.

This study will illustrate how place is created for older adults through connections among aging, environment, and occupation. I will use a narrative approach to examine how community-based organizational leaders relate stories of anticipated meaningful relationships among aging, environment, and occupation in a community-based Intergenerational Center for Arts and Wellness. Additionally, I will explore how older adults narrate their meaningful occupational engagement among these environmental contexts. Overall, I will assess the connections between community-based organizational leaders' related stories of how aging, environment, and occupation would be situated and older adults' narrated accounts of their occupational engagement among the Center's environmental contexts.

Through semi-structured interviews with Arab entrepreneurs and business owners, this project considers questions of immigration, identity, and local processes of action and decision making within the context of the food industry and entrepreneurship. The food industry was chosen as food is a significant symbol for identity, faith, and culture. There is also significant diversity of Arab-owned businesses in the food industry.

We are aiming to create and test a questionnaire that measures symptoms related to a condition called eosinophilic esophagitis

To explore barriers contributing to low screening coverage and to come up with new ways to improve cervical cancer screening and treatment in South Africa

The purpose of this Heart Failure Research Registry is to collect relevant patient-level demographic, clinical, laboratory and hemodynamic data from CardioMEMS patients to advance scientific knowledge about pulmonary hemodynamics and heart failure therapies.

This study compares two different surgical tubes and post-op ointments as treatment for one type of glaucoma, an ocular disorder in which the pressure inside the eye is too high.

This research will study the relationship between Wikipedia, searchability, and visibility of prominent academics, who may benefit from additional visibility in order to learn more about how they view the risks and benefits of visibility.

The purpose of this research study is to describe how and why country dancers preserve information and materials related to their dance practice, especially those materials which are typically not included in the formal archives maintained by various country dance societies.

The purpose of this study is to pilot a qualitative aim for an eventual proposal. We will series of semi-structured interviews of those well-positioned to describe the effects of disasters on the health care system caring for LTC residents. These potential interviewees include managers of rural LTC facilities, hospitals, and other health care services in the community as well as other key informants, such as area agencies on aging. By understanding the effects of the disaster on the healthcare system, we can translate patterns of care utilization and health outcome data following natural disaster events to design mitigation strategies to minimize the disruption to vulnerable LTC residents.