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Alex Casillas

ACT, Inc.
Verified email at act.org
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[HTML][HTML] Adverse drug reactions: types and treatment options

MA Riedl, AM Casillas - American family physician, 2003 - aafp.org
Drug hypersensitivity results from interactions between a pharmacologic agent and the
human immune system. These types of reactions constitute only a small subset of all adverse …

Health disparities in allergic and immunologic conditions in racial and ethnic underserved populations: a Work Group Report of the AAAAI Committee on the …

CM Davis, AJ Apter, A Casillas, MB Foggs… - Journal of Allergy and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Health disparities are health differences linked with economic, social, and environmental
disadvantage. They adversely affect groups that have systematically experienced greater …

Match makers and deal breakers: Analyses of assortative mating in newlywed couples

D Watson, EC Klohnen, A Casillas… - Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted a comprehensive analysis of assortative mating (ie, the similarity between
wives and husbands on a given characteristic) in a newlywed sample. These newlyweds …

Third-year college retention and transfer: Effects of academic performance, motivation, and social connectedness

J Allen, SB Robbins, A Casillas, IS Oh - Research in Higher Education, 2008 - Springer
We studied the effects of academic performance, motivation, and social connectedness on
third-year retention, transfer, and dropout behavior. To accommodate the three outcome …

Unraveling the differential effects of motivational and skills, social, and self-management measures from traditional predictors of college outcomes.

SB Robbins, J Allen, A Casillas… - Journal of educational …, 2006 - psycnet.apa.org
The authors report on a large-scale study examining the effects of self-reported psychosocial
factors on 1st-year college outcomes. Using a sample of 14,464 students from 48 …

Impact of pesticides in karst groundwater. Review of recent trends in Yucatan, Mexico

AGP Rodríguez, MIR López, ÁDV Casillas… - Groundwater for …, 2018 - Elsevier
The anthropogenic activities in karst aquifer increase the vulnerability for groundwater pollution
by organochlorine pesticides (OCP). Recent research have been published about high …

Predicting early academic failure in high school from prior academic achievement, psychosocial characteristics, and behavior.

A Casillas, S Robbins, J Allen, YL Kuo… - Journal of …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
The authors examined the differential effects of prior academic achievement, psychosocial,
behavioral, demographic, and school context factors on early high school grade point …

COVID-19 vaccine decision-making factors in racial and ethnic minority communities in Los Angeles, California

SL Carson, A Casillas, Y Castellon-Lopez… - JAMA network …, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The COVID-19 pandemic has had disproportionate effects on racial and ethnic
minority communities, where preexisting clinical and social conditions amplify health and …

Enhanced nasal cytokine production in human beings after in vivo challenge with diesel exhaust particles

D Diaz-Sanchez, A Tsien, A Casillas, AR Dotson… - Journal of Allergy and …, 1996 - Elsevier
Background: Diesel exhaust particles (DEPs) have been implicated in the worldwide increased
incidence of allergic airway disorders over the past century. They can enhance in vivo …

Motivational and skills, social, and self-management predictors of college outcomes: Constructing the Student Readiness Inventory

H Le, A Casillas, SB Robbins… - Educational and …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors used a rational-empirical approach to construct the Student Readiness Inventory,
measuring psychosocial and academic-related skill factors found to predict two important …