Patients unable to participate in decision-making about their care deserve a surrogate decision-maker to act on their behalf. In this study we will examine typical patterns employed by trainees to identify surrogates and communicate basic understanding of the surrogate role.

The purpose of this research study is to interview patients with fatty liver disease who are planning to have liver surgery. Our goal is to understand patients' health beliefs with fatty liver disease and what weight loss behaviors they would be willing to follow prior to surgery. You are being asked to be in the study because you are a patient with fatty liver disease planning to have liver surgery.

We are examining the effect of eating allergens when someone has IgE to those allergens on blood biomarkers.

This study is designed to evaluate outcomes for UNC School of Medicine faculty who participate in the Leadership in Academic Medicine Program (LAMP), a faculty development program for junior faculty. Participation is restricted to UNC School of Medicine faculty participating in LAMP.

This study aims to gain valuable insights into how pre-service teachers perceive Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies and their potential impact on teaching and learning. Findings from this study will be used to help design and refine curriculum for pre-service teachers to train their AI literacy and improve their ability to support their students to understand and responsibly use AI.

Conventional wisdom in the press has held that the Democratic party, whose base includes younger, marginal voters, benefits electorally from lower costs of voting. The issue of voting access is highly polarized, with Democratic politicians championing reforms that would make it easier to register and vote, and Republican politicians opposing these policies on the ground that they would lead to fraudulent voting. Mass partisans reflect this divide as well. To what degree is the difference in partisan support for increased access to voting reflective of instrumental concerns over which party benefits, rather than principled belief in expanding access to voting? We conduct an experiment to test this question, leveraging a recent shift in the propensity of Democrats to excel in low-turnout elections and the changing composition of unregistered voters. We present respondents with information to update their beliefs about who benefits from laws making it easier to register to vote in

The purpose of this research study is to survey what is currently being practiced among current third/fourth year dental students at the UNC Adams School of Dentistry with regards to treatment of dental infections.

This study compares two dose strengths of a new epilepsy medicine to placebo for treatment of refractory focal onset epilepsy as measured by the change in 28-day average seizure frequency.

The purpose of this study is to understand how saltwater intrusion affected farmer's use of their cropland, and the quantities and quality of the crops harvested on croplands that have been suffering from saltwater intrusion. We also plan to understand what are the strategies people usually deal with saltwater intrusion.

To learn how participants of past research studies are doing 1-5 years after completing the T-STEP program