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Principles of Micro X-ray Computed Tomography
(2021-08-09)The most authoritative and comprehensive resource available in the molecular-imaging field, written by over 170 of the leading scientists from around the world who have evaluated and summarized the most important methods, ... -
Desertification
(2013-01-01)The phenomenon of desertification involves the loss of biological or economic productivity and biodiversity in arid and semiarid croplands, pastures, rangelands, and subhumid woodlands due mainly to nonsustainable human ... -
“Women work particularly well in community organizations”: Cultivating Community and Consumerism in the Comanche County REA Women’s Club, 1939-1940
(2022-01-16)From 1939-1941, the U.S. Rural Electrification Administration conducted a nationwide educational campaign to share the benefits of electricity with rural Americans, known as the “Electric Farm Equipment Show.” A key part ... -
A literacy-based approach to learning visualization with R’s ggplot2 package
(2022)This recipe describes the process for delivering a 2-hour workshop on visualization in R using ggplot2. The workshop is designed to promote literacy around ggplot2 and data visualization creation. Over the course of the ... -
In Vitro Differentiation of Tumor- Associated Macrophages from Monocyte Precursors with Modi<ed Melanoma-Conditioned Medium.
(2021)Tumor-associated macrophages (TAMs) are one of most important components of the tumor microenvironment. Although many assays have been developed to differentiate monocytes into macrophages (Mϕ) for studying the biology of ... -
Text Recycling in Chemistry Research: The Need for Clear and Consistent Guidelines
(2021-11-29)Like most scientists, chemists frequently have reason to reuse some materials from their own published articles in new ones, especially when producing a series of closely related papers. Text recycling, the reuse of material ... -
A full house: Re-shuffling our transfer strategy to better manage capacity across Duke Hospitals
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Patient Acuity Scores to Prevent Rapid Responses
Background: In the last 10 years, patient safety committees nationwide have focused on creating taskforces such as rapid response teams (RRTs) that can intervene when patients start to decompensate prior to a code. At Duke ... -
Is objective mobility data associated with pharmacologic venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis use among hospitalized older adults?
(Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2018-04-10)Background: Clinical practice guidelines state that mobility is supposed to play an important role in determining use and duration of pharmacologic VTE prophylaxis. This study examines whether measured mobility levels relate ... -
Writer Characterization and Identification of Short Modern and Historical Documents
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Potential contrast - A new image quality measure
(IS and T International Symposium on Electronic Imaging Science and Technology, 2017-01-01)This paper suggests a new quality measure of an image, pertaining to its contrast. Several contrast measures exist in the current research. However, due to the abundance of Image Processing software solutions, the perceived ... -
Prediction of Bitcoin prices using Twitter Data and Natural Language Processing
(2021-12-16)The influence of social media platforms like Twitter had long been perceived as a bellwether of Bitcoin Prices. This paper aims to investigate if the tweets can be modeled using two different approaches, namely, the Naïve ... -
HOUT-21. CHARACTERISTICS OF SHORT-TERM SURVIVAL IN PATIENTS WITH GLIOBLASTOMA: A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS
(Neuro-Oncology, 2019-11-11)<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We sought to identify characteristics of glioblastoma (GBM) patients with short survival (< 10 months) in order to identify prognostic factors useful for guiding ... -
Organ-based and DLP-based effective dose as representations of radiation risk in a population of 8946 patients with cumulative effective dose greater than 100 mSv
(2021-12-01)Purpose. Recent studies have shown that it is not uncommon for a patient to undergo multiple CT exams resulting in high cumulative dose above 100 mSv, the radiation risk associated with which is not negligible. The purpose ... -
A mathematical framework to quantitatively balance clinical and radiation risk in Computed Tomography
(2021-12-01)Purpose: Risk in medical imaging is a combination of radiation risk and clinical risk, which is largely driven by the effective diagnosis. While radiation risk has traditionally been the main focus of Computed Tomography ...
