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These clients were experienced as ideal largely because they helped the system operate efficiently. Findings suggest that these organizational norms, preferences, and expectations-and bureaucratic demands for efficiency-may engender an implicit organizational bias that creates barriers for culturally different groups. These biases may also hinder practice innovations, whether patient-centered, disparities-focused, or otherwise. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).Low treatment utilization, relapse, and chronicity are characteristic of substance use disorders (SUDs). Craving is an important predictor of relapse. Individuals with an SUD report using various coping strategies in response to negative affect, two of which are investigated in the current study suppression and acting with awareness. Suppression is typically understood to be avoidance of unwanted experience through turning attention away from unwanted stimuli. Acting with awareness (AWA) is a facet of mindfulness, which includes turning toward experience with kindness and curiosity, even when the experience is unwanted. Evidence suggests mindfulness may reduce craving, while suppression has been associated with increased craving. In the current study, participants (N = 210) had recently completed inpatient or intensive outpatient SUD treatment followed by a randomized controlled trial of aftercare. Participants completed measures within 2 weeks following the completion of the aftercare intervention. Negative affect and severity of dependence were both positively associated with craving. read more Structural equation modeling evaluated AWA and suppression as partial mediators of the link between negative affect and craving. Suppression was positively associated and AWA was negatively associated with craving. Mediation analyses revealed the indirect effect of negative affect on craving through AWA was significant, but the path through suppression was not. These findings suggest that AWA may inhibit the development of craving from negative affect, but further research is needed. Future research should investigate the path from negative affect to craving with greater temporal resolution to evaluate how these phenomena function with increased ecological validity. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).Last decade witnessed the outbreak of many life-threatening human pathogens including Nipah, Ebola, Chikungunya, Zika, Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV), Severe Acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and more recently novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV or SARS-CoV-2). The disease condition associated with novel coronavirus, referred to as Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The emergence of novel coronavirus in 2019 in Wuhan, China marked the third highly pathogenic coronavirus infecting humans in the 21st century. The continuing emergence of coronaviruses at regular intervals poses a significant threat to human health and economy. Ironically, even after a decade of research on coronavirus, still there are no licensed vaccines or therapeutic agents to treat coronavirus infection which highlights an urgent need to develop effective vaccines or post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent future epidemics. Several clinical, genetic and epidemiological features of COVID-19 resemble SARS-CoV infection. Hence, the research advancements on SARS-CoV treatment might help scientific community in quick understanding of this virus pathogenesis and develop effective therapeutic/prophylactic agents to treat and prevent this infection. Monoclonal antibodies represent the major class of biotherapeutics for passive immunotherapy to fight against viral infection. The therapeutic potential of monoclonal antibodies has been well recognized in the treatment of many diseases. Here, we summarize the potential monoclonal antibody based therapeutic intervention for COVID-19 by considering the existing knowledge on the neutralizing monoclonal antibodies against similar coronaviruses SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV. Further research on COVID-19 pathogenesis could identify appropriate therapeutic targets to develop specific anti-virals against this newly emerging pathogen.Thiopeptides are a class of natural products with untapped therapeutic potential. To expand the methods available for the scaled production of these antibiotics, we report the laboratory synthesis of micrococcin P1 showcasing thiazole forming reactions of cysteine derivatives and nitriles followed by oxidation. In most instances, this thiazole forming sequence does not require chromatography and proved scalable. Using this approach, 199 mg of micrococcin P1 was generated in a single synthetic sequence.A novel and reversible detection method for N-terminal amino groups and alternative to the Kaiser test during Fmoc-SPPS has been developed. The utility of the new method was exemplified in its monitoring of the construction of a peptide, the final yield of which was higher than that of an identical peptide constructed under identical conditions but using the Kaiser test, and its scope was established to include all 20 proteinogenic amino acids as well as nonproteinogenic ones.Plasmonic resonators enable deep subwavelength manipulation of light matter interactions and have been intensively studied both in fundamental physics as well as for potential technological applications. While various metallic nanostructures have been proposed as plasmonic resonators, their performances are rather limited at mid- and far-infrared wavelengths. Recently, highly confined and low-loss Luttinger liquid plasmons in metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) have been observed at infrared wavelengths. Here, we tailor metallic SWNTs into ultraclean nanocavities by advanced scanning probe lithography and investigate plasmon modes in these individual nanocavities by infrared nanoimaging. The dependence of mode evolutions on cavity length and excitation wavelength can be captured by a Fabry-Perot resonator model of a plasmon nanowaveguide terminated by highly reflective ends. Plasmonic resonators based on SWNT nanocavities approach the ultimate plasmon confinement limit and open the door to the strong light-matter coupling regime, which may enable various nanophotonic applications.