Browsing Destination Area: Data and Decisions (D&D) by Title
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Data Mining and Gap Analysis for Weather Responsive Traffic Management Program
(United States. Federal Highway Administration, 2010)Weather causes a variety of impacts on the transportation system. An Oak Ridge National Laboratory study estimated the delay experienced by American drivers due to snow, ice, and fog in 1999 at 46 million hours. While ... -
Data Mining to Improve Planning for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety
(SAFE-D: Safety Through Disruption National University Transportation Center, 2019-11)Between 2009 and 2016, the number of pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities saw a marked trend upward. Taken together, the overall percentage of pedestrian and bicycle crashes now accounts for 18% of total roadway fatalities, ... -
Data sharing practices, information exchange behaviors, and knowledge discovery dynamics: a study of natural resources and environmental scientists
(SpringerOpen, 2017-02-06)Background: This paper presents a deep-dive examination of the cross-boundary data practices of natural resources and environmental scientists in the context of Virginia Tech’s institutional visioning and strategic development ... -
Data-driven statistical modeling of the emergent behavior of biohybrid microrobots
(2020-03-01)Multi-agent biohybrid microrobotic systems, owing to their small size and distributed nature, offer powerful solutions to challenges in biomedicine, bioremediation, and biosensing. Synthetic biology enables programmed ... -
Decision support for long-range, community-based planning to mitigate against and recover from potential multiple disasters
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2016-07-01)This paper discusses a new mathematical model for community-driven disaster planning that is intended to help decision makers exploit the synergies resulting from simultaneously considering actions focusing on mitigation ... -
DeepMicro: deep representation learning for disease prediction based on microbiome data
(Nature Research, 2020)Human microbiota plays a key role in human health and growing evidence supports the potential use of microbiome as a predictor of various diseases. However, the high-dimensionality of microbiome data, often in the order ... -
Describing the Relationship between Cat Bites and Human Depression Using Data from an Electronic Health Record
(PLOS, 2013-08-01)Data mining approaches have been increasingly applied to the electronic health record and have led to the discovery of numerous clinical associations. Recent data mining studies have suggested a potential association between ... -
Designing for Schadenfreude (or, how to express well-being and see if youʼre boring people)
(ACM, 2010)This position paper presents two studies of content not normally expressed in status updates—well-being and status feedback—and considers how they may be processed, valued and used for potential quality-of-life benefits ... -
Dietary biomarkers: advances, limitations and future directions
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Dietary Supplementation of Chinese Ginseng Prevents Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome in High-Fat Diet-Fed Mice
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2014-12-01)Obesity and diabetes are growing health problems worldwide. In this study, dietary provision of Chinese ginseng (0.5 g/kg diet) prevented body weight gain in high-fat (HF) diet-fed mice. Dietary ginseng supplementation ... -
Early Skeletal Muscle Adaptations to Short-Term High-Fat Diet in Humans Before Changes in Insulin Sensitivity
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Economic and Social Impact of Influenza Mitigation Strategies by Demographic Class
(Elsevier, 2011-03-01)Background—We aim to determine the economic and social impact of typical interventions proposed by the public health officials and preventive behavioral changes adopted by the private citizens in the event of a “flu-like” ... -
Economic Evaluation of Quality Improvement Interventions Designed to Prevent Hospital Readmission A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
(AMA, 2017-05-30)IMPORTANCE Quality improvement (QI) interventions can reduce hospital readmission, but little is known about their economic value. OBJECTIVE To systematically review economic evaluations of QI interventions designed ... -
Effect of modelling slum populations on influenza spread in Delhi
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Effectiveness of a Worksite-Based Weight Loss Randomized Controlled Trial: The Worksite Study
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Effects of a behavioral and health literacy intervention to reduce sugar-sweetened beverages: a randomized-controlled trial
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Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Cancer Risk
(AMA, 2006-04)Context: Omega-3 fatty acids are purported to reduce the risk of cancer. Studies have reported mixed results. Objective: To synthesize published and unpublished evidence to determine estimates of the effect of omega-3 ... -
Efficacy and Safety of Ephedra and Ephedrine for Weight Loss and Athletic Performance: A Meta-analysis
(AMA, 2003-03-26)CONTEXT: Ephedra and ephedrine sometimes are used for weight loss or enhanced athletic performance, but the efficacy and safety of these compounds are uncertain. OBJECTIVE: To assess the efficacy and safety of ephedra ... -
Empirical study using network of semantically related associations in bridging the knowledge gap
(2014-11-27)Background The data overload has created a new set of challenges in finding meaningful and relevant information with minimal cognitive effort. However designing robust and scalable knowledge discovery systems remains a ... -
Enhancing big data in the social sciences with crowdsourcing: Data augmentation practices, techniques, and opportunities
(2020-06-10)Proponents of big data claim it will fuel a social research revolution, but skeptics challenge its reliability and decontextualization. The largest subset of big data is not designed for social research. Data augmentatio ...
