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Fraction Learners: Assessing Understanding through Language Acquisition
(2018-11-16)
This study applies the Mathematics Acquisition Framework (MAF) (Bossé, Ringler, Bayaga, Fountain, & Young, 2018) to investigate fifth- through seventh-grade students’ comprehension of fractions and decimals and examines ...
Epigenome-Wide Analyses Identify Two Novel Associations With Recurrent Stroke in the Vitamin Intervention for Stroke Prevention Clinical Trial Citation metadata
(2018-09-06)
DNA methylation, a well-characterized epigenetic modification that is influenced by both environment and genetic variation, has previously been implicated in a number of complex diseases, including cardiovascular disease ...
Exploring links between greenspace and sudden unexpected death: A spatial analysis
(2018-02-06)
Greenspace has been increasingly recognized as having numerous health benefits. However, its effects are unknown concerning sudden unexpected death (SUD), commonly referred to as sudden cardiac death, which constitutes a ...
Expert Consensus Guidelines for Stocking of Antidotes in Hospitals That Provide Emergency Care
(2018-03-01)
We provide recommendations for stocking of antidotes used in emergency departments (EDs). An expert panel representing diverse perspectives (clinical pharmacology, medical toxicology, critical care medicine, hematology/oncology, ...
Factors Affecting Patient Portal Use Among Low-Income Pregnant Women: Mixed-Methods Pilot Study
(2018-03-22)
Background: Patient portals offer patients personalized and secure Web access to their medical information and enable patients
to manage their health care online. However, there is a lack of information about patient ...
Exploring behaviors, treatment beliefs, and barriers to oral chemotherapy adherence among adult leukemia patients in a rural outpatient setting
(2018-11-29)
Objective:
Adherence to oral chemotherapy is essential for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and multiple myeloma (MM) to remain in remission. Few studies have used a Likert-type scale to measure medication ...
Emergency Department Time Course for Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workup
(2018-06-13)
Introduction: Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is a common cause for visits to the emergency department
(ED). The actual time required for an ED workup of a patient with mTBI in the United States is not well
known. ...
Entropy Production Associated with Aggregation into Granules in a Subdiffusive Environment
(2018-08-30)
We study the entropy production that is associated with the growing or shrinking of a small granule in, for instance, a colloidal suspension or in an aggregating polymer chain. A granule will fluctuate in size when the ...
Functional and Comparative Genomics of Hoxa2 Gene cis-Regulatory Elements: Evidence for Evolutionary Modification of Ancestral Core Element Activity
(2016-03-26)
Hoxa2 is an evolutionarily conserved developmental regulatory gene that functions to specify rhombomere (r) and pharyngeal arch (PA) identities throughout the Osteichthyes. Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes) hoxa2a, like ...
Genome-wide association study identifies multiple susceptibility loci for craniofacial microsomia
(2016-02-08)
Craniofacial microsomia (CFM) is a rare congenital anomaly that involves immature derivatives from the first and second pharyngeal arches. The genetic pathogenesis of CFM is still unclear. Here we interrogate 0.9 million ...