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Beginning A Patient-Centered Approach in the Design of A Diabetes Prevention Program
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The Betrayal Aversion Elicitation Task: An Individual Level Betrayal Aversion Measure
(PLOS, 2015-09-02)Research on betrayal aversion shows that individuals’ response to risk depends not only on probabilities and payoffs, but also on whether the risk includes a betrayal of trust. While previous studies focus on measuring ... -
Bioinformatic Analysis of Coronary Disease Associated SNPs and Genes to Identify Proteins Potentially Involved in the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis
(Open Access Pub, 2017-03-04)Factors that contribute to the onset of atherosclerosis may be elucidated by bioinformatic techniques applied to multiple sources of genomic and proteomic data. The results of genome wide association studies, such as the ... -
Building Capacity for Data Driven Governance - Creating a New Foundation for Democracy
Existing data flows at the local level, public and administrative records, geospatial data, social media, surveys, as well as other federal, state, and local databases, are ubiquitous in our everyday life. These data, when ... -
Can a Patient's In-Hospital Length of Stay and Mortality Be Explained by Early-Risk Assessments?
(PLOS, 2016-09-15)Objective To assess whether a patient’s in-hospital length of stay (LOS) and mortality can be explained by early objective and/or physicians’ subjective-risk assessments. Data Sources/Study Setting Analysis of a ... -
Can Administrative Housing Data Replace Survey Data?
(HUD, 2017)This article examines the feasibility of using local administrative data sources for enhancing and supplementing federally collected survey data to describe housing in Arlington County, Virginia. Using real estate assessment ... -
Can long-term historical data from electronic medical records improve surveillance for epidemics of acute respiratory infections? A systematic evaluation
(PLOS, 2018-01-31)Background As the deployment of electronic medical records (EMR) expands, so is the availability of long-term datasets that could serve to enhance public health surveillance. We hypothesized that EMR-based surveillance ... -
Characterization and prediction of tropical cyclone forerunner surge
(Elsevier, 2019)Forerunner surge, a water level rise ahead of tropical cyclone landfall, often strikes coastal communities unexpectedly, stranding people and increasing loss of life. Surge forecasting systems and emergency managers almost ... -
Characterizing the Genetic Basis for Nicotine Induced Cancer Development: A Transcriptome Sequencing Study
(PLOS, 2013-06-18)Nicotine is a known risk factor for cancer development and has been shown to alter gene expression in cells and tissue upon exposure. We used Illumina® Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology to gain unbiased biological ... -
A Classifier to Detect Informational vs. Non-Informational Heart Attack Tweets
(MDPI, 2021-01-16)Social media sites are considered one of the most important sources of data in many fields, such as health, education, and politics. While surveys provide explicit answers to specific questions, posts in social media have ... -
Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US
(2020-08-11)Although continental urban areas are relatively small, they are major drivers of environmental change at local, regional and global scales. Moreover, they are especially vulnerable to these changes owing to the concentration ... -
Comparing Effectiveness of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Strategies in Containing Influenza
(Public Library of Science, 2011-09-22)This research compares the performance of bottom-up, self-motivated behavioral interventions with top-down interventions targeted at controlling an “Influenza-like-illness”. Both types of interventions use a variant of the ... -
Compositional Mining of Multi-Relational Biological Datasets
(Department of Computer Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, 2007-08-01), TR-07-29High-throughput biological screens are yielding ever-growing streams of information about multiple aspects of cellular activity. As more and more categories of datasets come online, there is a corresponding multitude of ... -
Connecting the Dots between PubMed Abstracts
(PLOS, 2012-01-03)Background There are now a multitude of articles published in a diversity of journals providing information about genes, proteins, pathways, and diseases. Each article investigates subsets of a biological process, but to ... -
Control of mitochondrial metabolism and systemic energy homeostasis by microRNAs 378 and 378*
(NAS, 2012-09-18)Obesity and metabolic syndrome are associated with mitochondrial dysfunction and deranged regulation of metabolic genes. Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1β (PGC-1β) is a transcriptional coactivator ... -
Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network (CTRnet)
(2009-09-14)This poster provides an overview of the Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network (CTRnet). The objectives of CTRnet are to build a digital library and preserve information (in various formats like HTML, images, videos, etc.) ... -
Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network Digital Library (CTRnet)
(2013-01-10)This presentation outlines the goals of the Crisis, Tragedy and Recovery Network (CTRnet) project. These goals include researching the problems of integrating content, community, services related to crisis, tragedies, and ... -
Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network Digital Library (CTRnet) + Web Archiving in Qatar and VT
(2013-07-01)This presentation describes the Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network's digital library development and web archiving activities in Qatar and Virginia Tech. The presentation covers project goals, archiving tasks, dissemination ... -
Cross-scale Perspectives: Integrating Long-term and High-frequency Data into Our Understanding of Communities and Ecosystems
(Ecological Society of America, 2016-01)Ecologists are amassing extensive data sets that include both long-term records documenting trends and variability in natural systems on inter-annual to decadal time scales and sensor-based measurements on minute to subhourly ... -
CrowdLayout: Crowdsourced Design and Evaluation of Biological Network Visualizations
(ACM, 2018-04)Biologists often perform experiments whose results generate large quantities of data, such as interactions between molecules in a cell, that are best represented as networks (graphs). To visualize these networks and ...
