This short term digitally distributed longitudinal study evaluated impacts of the Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) pandemic on college students from Southern California. A total number of three hundred and eighteen [n=318] individuals were included in the study of which 154 or 48% were females, n=161 or 51% males and n=3 or 0.1% were individuals who refused to provide that information. The study was based on two separate data sets collected four months a part (Dec. 2020 and April 2021) from students of which n= 154 and n=164 were 1 st and 2 nd cohort respectfully. From all individuals surveyed n=253 or 80% were 26 years of age or younger at the time. Troubling pattern observed was a decline in overall satisfaction and wellbeing in all parameters analyzed. Some of the most concerning were an increase in stress from 74% to 77% while abilities to perform simple tasks declined from 67% to 55% from the first to the second cohort of students surveyed in that order. Such results, which were measured in two separate instances and only four months, apart suggest that distressed psychosomatic equilibriums need to be urgently addressed if we are to come out of the pandemic with physically and emotionally healthy population of young adults.
Handedness is challenging to estimate on skeletonized human remains when muscular markers of it are not available. This preliminary study anthropometrically explores if human teeth could be used to aid in identification of handedness. The dental data for this research is collected from a total of fifty (N=50) living adult volunteers with good dental health of which thirty‐nine (N=39) were right handed and eleven (N=11) left‐handed. Non‐invasive anthropometric data collected via digital dental caliper consists of the Maxillary and the Mandibular quadrants in which permanent incisors and canines were analyzed. The study reconfirms that males on average have larger teeth than females. The lateral incisors were not taken into consideration as they show minimal variations across the quadrants. The left‐handed males measure slightly larger central Maxillary incisors and canines at the left and the right quadrant than the right‐handed males. The left‐handed females have smaller central incisors than the right‐handed females on the Maxillary quadrants, but slightly larger central incisors on the Mandibular quadrants. Mandibular right quadrant central incisors are slightly larger among the left‐handed than they are among the right‐handed individuals of both sex.Support or Funding InformationSWCThis abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2019 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.
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