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Evaluating Air Pollutant Exposure and the Impacts of Indoor Air Filtration Using Low-Cost Monitors

Johnson, Karoline K (2020)

In highly polluted cities, many residents seek to reduce their personal exposure to air pollutants. However, over the course of a day, people spend time in a variety of micro-environments (e.g., different rooms in their ...

The Road to Crony Capitalism

Munger, Michael; Vilarreal-Diaz, Mario (INDEPENDENT REVIEW, 2019-12-01)

Modification of messenger RNA by 2′-O-methylation regulates gene expression in vivo

Holley, Christopher; Elliott, Brittany A; Ho, Hsiang-Ting; Ranganathan, Srivathsan V; Vangaveti, Sweta; Ilkayeva, Olga; Abou Assi, Hala; ... (9 authors) (Nature Communications, 2019-12)

Interplay between c-Src and the APC/C co-activator Cdh1 regulates mammary tumorigenesis

Chen, Ming; Han, Tao; Jiang, Shulong; Zheng, Hong; Yin, Qing; Xie, Mengyu; Little, Margaret R; ... (12 authors) (Nature Communications, 2019-12)

An Exploratory Radiomics Approach to Quantifying Pulmonary Function in CT Images

Lafata, Kyle; Hong, Julian; Zhou, Zhennan; Liu, Jian-Guo; Kelsey, Chris R; Yin, Fang-Fang (Scientific Reports, 2019-12)

The Influence of Amusement and Love on Consumers’ Choice between National Brands and Private Labels

Chen, Coco (2019-11-26)

Love and amusement are positive emotions that are commonly used in marketing. Although a plethora of research has shown that emotions have influence on consumer choice, few prior studies have examined the influence of discrete ...

Genetic Mutations and Ubiquitination in Melanoma Growth and Metastasis

Zhang, Jennifer; Dikshit, Anushka (2019-11-08)

Upon neoplastic transformation, melanoma is intrinsically prone to metastasis, which marks the most dangerous aspect of the disease and dubs it one of the most challenging cancers to treat. BRAF/MEK oncokinase inhibitors ...

Genetic variants of genes in the NER pathway associated with risk of breast cancer: A large-scale analysis of 14 published GWAS datasets in the DRIVE study.

Wei, Qingyi; Luo, Sheng; Moorman, Patricia; Ge, Jie; Liu, Hongliang; Qian, Danwen; Wang, Xiaomeng; ... (8 authors) (International journal of cancer, 2019-09)

A recent hypothesis-free pathway-level analysis of genome-wide association study (GWAS) datasets suggested that the overall genetic variation measured by single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the nucleotide excision ...

Duke University Libraries Staff Directory Usability Test - August 2019

Thorne, Samantha; Andes, Eden (2019-08-19)

This study was conducted to test the overall usability of the Duke University Libraries Staff Directory prototype, evaluate users' understanding of the site, and provide recommendations to the developers based on the study ...

Retrospective analysis of the embayment in the Rachel Carson Estuarine Research Reserve from 1998 to current

Delgado, Scott (2019-08-16)

The Rachel Carson Estuarine Research Reserve in Beaufort, NC has been a highly monitored and researched area due to its proximity to the Duke Marine Lab, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Beaufort Lab, and ...

Does an ‘iron gate’ carbon preservation mechanism exist in organic–rich wetlands?

Richardson, Curtis; Wang, Hongjun; River, M (Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2019-08-01)

© 2019 Recent research suggested that iron oxidation may protect carbon from drought-accelerated decomposition in wetlands by promoting the sorption of lignin derivatives and decreasing phenolic oxidase activities. Here ...

Introducción al dossier: “Justicia y ley en el cine documental en América Latina”

Furtado, Gustavo; Arenillas, Maria Guadalupe (Revista Cine Documental, 2019-08-01)

El cine documental y los procedimientos de la ley: observación y reflexividad en el cine de Maria Augusta Ramos

Furtado, Gustavo (revista cine documental, 2019-08-01)

A partir de la noción de que el cine y el derecho constituyen prácticas y regímenes discursivos afines, pese a sus distintas funciones sociales, el presente ensayo elabora la relación entre estos dos campos mediante un análisis ...

Three- and 5-year-old children's understanding of how to dissolve a joint commitment.

Svetlova, Margarita; Kachel, Ulrike; Tomasello, Michael (Journal of experimental child psychology, 2019-08)

When young children form a joint commitment with a partner, they understand that this agreement generates obligations. In this study, we investigated whether young children understand that joint commitments, and their associated ...

Commentary on Winhusen et al. (2019): Substance use disorders, chronic diseases, and electronic health records-a paradigm for screening and intervention.

Mannelli, Paolo; Wu, Li-Tzy (Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2019-08)

Clinical Effectiveness of Direct Oral Anticoagulants vs Warfarin in Older Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Ischemic Stroke: Findings From the Patient-Centered Research Into Outcomes Stroke Patients Prefer and Effectiveness Research (PROSPER) Study.

Xian, Ying; O'Brien, Emily; Pencina, Michael; Xu, Haolin; Shah, Shreyansh; Thomas, Laine; Fonarow, Gregg C; ... (16 authors) (JAMA neurology, 2019-07-22)

Importance:Current guidelines recommend direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) over warfarin for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who are at high risk. Despite demonstrated efficacy in clinical trials, ...

Cross-sectional CT Assessment of the Extent of Injectate Spread at CT Fluoroscopy-guided Cervical Epidural Interlaminar Steroid Injections.

Luo, Sheng; Amrhein, Timothy J; Bozdogan, Erol; Vekaria, Sunit; Patel, Prasad; Lerebours, Reginald; Kranz, Peter G (Radiology, 2019-07-16)

Background Previous studies analyzed contrast agent spread during cervical interlaminar epidural steroid injections (CILESIs) by using planar fluoroscopy and reported wide variance of the rate of spread to the ventral epidural ...