Hei Ning Cham
25 Papers
7 Citations
Hei Ning Cham is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Internal medicine. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications.
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Papers
Why the estrous cycle matters for neuroscience
TL;DR: In this paper , the importance of the estrous cycle information for the analysis of sex differences in neuroscience research was assessed and compared in female and male mice with and without estrous cycles, giving a side-by-side comparison of the analyses of behavior, brain structure, gene expression, and 3D genome organization.
Direct and moderating impacts of the CARE mindfulness-based professional learning program for teachers on children’s academic and social-emotional outcomes
Joshua L. Brown,Patricia A. Jennings,D. Rasheed,Hei Ning Cham,Sebrina L. Doyle,Jennifer L. Frank,Regin Davis,Mark T. Greenberg +7 more
TL;DR: This cluster randomized trial (n=5200 children, 224 teachers) found the CARE mindfulness-based program positively impacted children's engagement, motivation, and reading competence, but unexpectedly increased conflict and social skills deficits in certain teacher subgroups.
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Propensity Score Estimation with Random Forests
Hei Ning Cham
- 01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a simulation study to examine the effects of three random forests model specifications in propensity score analysis and found that, depending on the nature of data, optimal specification of decision rules to select the covariate and its split value in a Classification Tree, the number of covariates randomly sampled for selection, and methods of estimating Random Forests propensity scores could potentially produce an unbiased average treatment effect estimate after propensity scores weighting by the odds adjustment.
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Measuring a Patient's understanding of their prognosis: An exploratory analysis
Barry Rosenfeld,Leah E. Walsh,Danqi Zhu,Hei Ning Cham,Laura Polacek,Melissa Duva,Allison J. Applebaum +6 more
TL;DR: The initial development of a measure of prognostic understanding: the Prognostic Understanding Perceptions Scale (PUPS) for use in patients with advanced cancer is described.
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Racial-Ethnic Discrimination and Early Adolescents' Behavioral Problems: The Protective Role of Parental Warmth.
Jinjin Yan,Elizabeth Jelsma,Yijie Wang,Youchuan Zhang,Zhenqiang Zhao,Hei Ning Cham,Margarita Alegría,Tiffany Yip +7 more
TL;DR: This study examines the association between racial-ethnic discrimination and behavioral problems in early adolescents, finding that parental warmth mitigates the negative effects of discrimination on attention, internalizing, and externalizing problems.
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