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Disability Measurement for Korean Community-Dwelling Adults With Stroke: Item-Level Psychometric Analysis of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing
(2018-04-30)
Objective: To investigate the psychometric properties of the activities of daily living (ADL) instrument used in the analysis of
Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA) dataset.
Methods: A retrospective study was ...
Computational identification of microRNAs associated to both epithelial to mesenchymal transition and NGAL/MMP-9 pathways in bladder cancer
(2016-11-08)
Bladder cancer is one of the leading cancer of the urinary tract. It is often diagnosed at advanced stage of the disease. To date, no specific and effective early detection biomarkers are available. Cancer development and ...
Combining ultrasonography and noncontrast helical computerized tomography to evaluate Holmium laser lithotripsy
(2016-11-14)
The purpose of the study was to establish a mathematical model for correlating the combination of ultrasonography and noncontrast helical computerized tomography (NCHCT) with the total energy of Holmium laser lithotripsy.
In ...
Effect of Increased Damping in Subordinate Oscillator Arrays
(2018)
Previous literature has shown that large structures with a significant number
of smaller attached structures exhibit much higher apparent damping than was predicted
by models. Further research into this effect led to the ...
Trauma Affecting Asian-Pacific Islanders in the San Francisco Bay Area
(2017-09-12)
Trauma is a transgenerational process that overwhelms the community and the ability of family members to cope with life stressors. An anthropologist trained in ethnographic methods observed three focus groups from a ...
The moral discourses of ‘post-crisis’ neoliberalism: a case study of Lithuania’s Labour Code reform
(2017-03)
This article problematizes the neoliberal reconfiguration of labour rights in Lithuania, a newer European Union member state, in which the impacts of the global economic and financial crisis were particularly severe and ...
The Madden-Julian Oscillation: A Tool for Regional Seasonal Precipitation Outlooks?
(2017-09-20)
Abstract: The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) is an important intraseasonal climate signal which circles the global tropics, but also impacts extratropical weather regimes. Few studies have investigated whether the MJO is ...
Transcriptional response to West Nile virus infection in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)
(2017-06)
West Nile virus (WNV) is a widespread arbovirus that imposes a significant cost to both human and wildlife health. WNV exists in a bird-mosquito transmission cycle in which passerine birds act as the primary reservoir host. ...
Trial by Fire: On the Terminology and Methods Used in Pyrogenic Organic Carbon Research
(2017-11-17)
Our understanding of the cycling of fire-derived, i.e., pyrogenic organic matter (pyOM), as well as the goals of the community of researchers who study it, may be inhibited by the many terms and methods currently used in ...
Blood‐based markers of efficacy and resistance to cetuximab treatment in metastatic colorectal cancer: results from CALGB 80203 (Alliance)
(2016-09)
Circulating protein markers were assessed in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) treated with cetuximab in CALGB 80203 to identify prognostic and predictive biomarkers. Patients with locally advanced or metastatic CRC ...