Browsing Duke Scholarly Works by Affiliation of Duke Author(s) "Staff"
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1,001 Ways to Share VIVO Data
(2017-08-15)This presentation shows a variety of ways to repurpose data from a research discovery system like Scholars@Duke. -
17 librarians and one big undertaking: creating a digital project from start to finish
(Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2020-03-02)© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. As academic librarians prepare for new forms of collaboration with researchers on digital projects, there is a growing demand for librarians ... -
20 Years of Government Responses to the Global Plastic Pollution Problem: The Plastics Policy Inventory
(2020-05-15)Plastic pollution in the ocean is a global problem that requires cooperation from a wide range of groups (e.g., governments, producers, consumers, researchers, civil society). This study aims to synthesize the policy response ... -
30-Day outcomes and predictors of complications after Puestow procedure
(American Journal of Surgery, 2019-01-01)© 2019 Background: A lateral pancreaticojejunostomy, or a Puestow procedure, is used in chronic pancreatitis with ductal dilation and pain. The current literature on the Puestow is sparse. This study examines outcomes of ... -
30-day readmission after radical cystectomy: Identifying targets for improvement using the phases of surgical care
<jats:p>Introduction: Postoperative readmissions following radical cystectomy (RC) have gained attention in the past decade. Postoperative and post-discharge complications play a role in readmission rates; however, our ability ... -
5-α reductase inhibitors and prostate cancer prevention: where do we turn now?
(BMC Med, 2011-09-15)With the lifetime risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer so great, an effective chemopreventive agent could have a profound impact on the lives of men. Despite decades of searching for such an agent, physicians still ... -
500,000 fish phenotypes: The new informatics landscape for evolutionary and developmental biology of the vertebrate skeleton.
(J Appl Ichthyol, 2012-06-01)The rich phenotypic diversity that characterizes the vertebrate skeleton results from evolutionary changes in regulation of genes that drive development. Although relatively little is known about the genes that underlie ... -
A BIOMECHANICAL EVALUATION OF AN INTRAMEDULLARY FIXATION DEVICE FOR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURES
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A Brain to Spine Interface for Transferring Artificial Sensory Information.
(Scientific reports, 2020-01-21)Lack of sensory feedback is a major obstacle in the rapid absorption of prosthetic devices by the brain. While electrical stimulation of cortical and subcortical structures provides unique means to deliver sensory information ... -
A Brief Chronicle of CD4 as a Biomarker for HIV/AIDS: A Tribute to the Memory of John L. Fahey.
Foundational cellular immunology research of the 1960s and 1970s, together with the advent of monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry, provided the knowledge base and the technological capability that enabled the elucidation ... -
A case for robust Bayesian priors with applications to clinical trials
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A Closed Loop Brain-machine Interface for Epilepsy Control Using Dorsal Column Electrical Stimulation.
(Scientific reports, 2016-09-08)Although electrical neurostimulation has been proposed as an alternative treatment for drug-resistant cases of epilepsy, current procedures such as deep brain stimulation, vagus, and trigeminal nerve stimulation are effective ... -
A community-based intervention increases physical activity and reduces obesity in school-age children in North Carolina.
(Child Obes, 2015-06)BACKGROUND: Community-based interventions are promising approaches to obesity prevention, but few studies have prospectively evaluated them. The aim of this study was to evaluate a natural experiment—a community intervention ... -
A comparison of COVID-19 and imaging radiation risk in clinical patient populations.
(J Radiol Prot, 2020-10-07)OBJECTIVE: The outbreak of coronavirus SARS-COV2 affected more than 180 countries necessitating fast and accurate diagnostic tools. Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) has been identified as a gold standard ... -
A conceptual framework for patient-centered fertility treatment.
(Reproductive health, 2017-09-07)BACKGROUND:Patient-centered care is a pillar of quality health care and is important to patients experiencing infertility. In this study we used empirical, in-depth data on couples' experiences of infertility treatment decision ... -
A critical comment on the ‘multiple variance Brownian motion’ model of Smaers et al. (2016)
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A current perspective on stereotactic body radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer.
(Onco Targets Ther, 2016)Pancreatic cancer is a formidable malignancy with poor outcomes. The majority of patients are unable to undergo resection, which remains the only potentially curative treatment option. The management of locally advanced ... -
A database of 40 patient-based computational models for benchmarking organ dose estimates in CT.
(Medical physics, 2020-07-06)PURPOSE:Patient radiation burden in CT can best be characterized through risk estimates derived from organ doses. Organ doses can be estimated by Monte Carlo simulations of the CT procedures on computational phantoms assumed ... -
A Decade On: Systematic Review of ClinicalTrials.gov Infectious Disease Trials, 2007-2017.
(Open forum infectious diseases, 2019-06)Background:Registration of interventional trials of Food and Drug Administration-regulated drug and biological products and devices became a legal requirement in 2007; the vast majority of these trials are registered in ...
