We examined the association between community violence exposure and childhood asthma risk in a multilevel, multimethod, longitudinal study controlling for individual- and neighbourhood-level confounders and pathway variables. Analyses included 2,071 children aged 0-9 yrs at enrolment from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. Multilevel logistic regression models estimated ...

Disparities in verbal ability, a major predictor of later life outcomes, have generated widespread debate, but few studies have been able to isolate neighborhood-level causes in a developmentally and ecologically appropriate way. This study presents longitudinal evidence from a large-scale study of >2,000 children ages 6-12 living in Chicago, along with their caretakers, who were followed where...

Point sources (PS) are one of the main contaminants to recovery cosmic microwave background (CMB) signal at small scales, and their detection is important for next generation CMB experiments. We develop a method (PoSeIDoN) based on fully convolutional networks detect PS in realistic simulations, we compare its performance against most used method, Mexican hat wavelet 2 (MHW2). produce simulatio...