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    • Evaluation of [11C]metergoline as a PET Radiotracer for 5HTR in Nonhuman Primates 

      Hooker, Jacob M; Kim, Sung Won; Reibel, Achim T.; Alexoff, David; Xu, Youwen; Shea, Colleen (Elsevier BV, 2010)
      Metergoline, a serotonin receptor antagonist, was labeled with carbon-11 in order to evaluate its pharmacokinetics and distribution in non-human primates using positron emission tomography. [11C]Metergoline had moderate ...

    • Evaluation of a Density-Based Rapid Diagnostic Test for Sickle Cell Disease in a Clinical Setting in Zambia 

      Kumar, Ashok A.; Chunda-Liyoka, Catherine; Hennek, Jonathan W.; Mantina, Hamakwa; Lee, S. Y. Ryan; Patton, Matthew R.; Sambo, Pauline; Sinyangwe, Silvester; Kankasa, Chipepo; Chintu, Chifumbe; Brugnara, Carlo; Stossel, Thomas P.; Whitesides, George M. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Although simple and low-cost interventions for sickle cell disease (SCD) exist in many developing countries, child mortality associated with SCD remains high, in part, because of the lack of access to diagnostic tests for ...

    • Evaluation of a questionnaire to assess selected infectious diseases and their risk factors: Findings of a multicenter study 

      Sievers, Claudia; Akmatov, Manas K.; Kreienbrock, Lothar; Hille, Katja; Ahrens, Wolfgang; Günther, Kathrin; Flesch-Janys, Dieter; Obi, Nadia; Michels, Karin B.; Fricke, Julia; Greiser, Karin H.; Kaaks, Rudolf; Peter, Hans-Hartmut; Pessler, Frank; Nieters, Alexandra; Krause, Gérard (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014)
      Background/objectives The risk to die from an infectious disease in Germany has been continuously decreasing over the last century. Since infections are, however, not only causes of death but risk factors for diseases like ...

    • Evaluation of AIRS, IASI, and OMI ozone profile retrievals in the extratropical tropopause region using in situ aircraft measurements 

      Pittman, Jasna V.; Pan, Laura L.; Wei, Jennifer C.; Irion, Fredrick W.; Liu, Xiong; Maddy, Eric S.; Barnet, Christopher D.; Chance, Kelly; Gao, Ru-Shan (American Geophysical Union, 2009)
      We evaluate ozone profile retrievals from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI), and the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) using in situ measurements collected on ...

    • An Evaluation of Air–Sea Flux Products for ENSO Simulation and Prediction 

      Harrison, Matthew; Rosati, Antony; Soden, B. J.; Galanti, Eli; Tziperman, Eli (American Meteorological Society, 2002)
      This paper presents a quantitative methodology for evaluating air–sea fluxes related to ENSO from different atmospheric products. A statistical model of the fluxes from each atmospheric product is coupled to an ocean general ...

    • An Evaluation of Amazon's Grid Computing Services: EC2, S3, and SQS 

      Garfinkel, Simson (2007)
      Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3) and Simple Queue Service (SQS) offer enterprise-class computing, storage and coordination facilities to any organization or individual in the world with ...

    • Evaluation of Artery Visualizations for Heart Disease Diagnosis 

      Borkin, Michelle Anne; Gajos, Krzysztof Z.; Peters, Amanda Elizabeth; Mitsouras, Dimitrios; Melchionna, Simone; Rybicki, Frank John; Feldman, Charles Lawrence; Pfister, Hanspeter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011)
      Heart disease is the number one killer in the United States, and finding indicators of the disease at an early stage is critical for treatment and prevention. In this paper we evaluate visualization techniques that enable ...

    • Evaluation of Filesystem Provenance Visualization Tools 

      Borkin, Michelle Anne; Yeh, Chelsea S.; Boyd, Madelaine; Macko, Peter; Gajos, Krzysztof Z; Seltzer, Margo I.; Pfister, Hanspeter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2013)
      Having effective visualizations of filesystem provenance data is valuable for understanding its complex hierarchical structure. The most common visual representation of provenance data is the node-link diagram. While ...

    • Evaluation of GOME satellite measurements of tropospheric NO 2 and HCHO using regional data from aircraft campaigns in the southeastern United States 

      Martin, R. V.; Parrish, D; Ryerson, T; Nicks, D; Chance, K; Kurosu, T; Jacob, Daniel James; Sturges, E; Fried, A; Wert, B (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)
      We compare tropospheric measurements of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and formaldehyde (HCHO) from the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME) satellite instrument with in situ measurements over eastern Texas and the southeast ...

    • Evaluation of Internet-Based Dengue Query Data: Google Dengue Trends 

      Gluskin, Rebecca Tave; Johansson, Michael A.; Santillana, Mauricio; Brownstein, John S. (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Dengue is a common and growing problem worldwide, with an estimated 70–140 million cases per year. Traditional, healthcare-based, government-implemented dengue surveillance is resource intensive and slow. As global Internet ...

    • Evaluation of Normalization Procedures for Oligonucleotide Array Data Based On Spiked cRNA Controls 

      Hill, Andrew A.; Brown, Eugene L; Whitley, Maryann Z; Tucker-Kellogg, Greg; Hunter, Craig P.; Slonim, Donna K (BioMed Central, 2001)
      Background: Affymetrix oligonucleotide arrays simultaneously measure the abundances of thousands of mRNAs in biological samples. Comparability of array results is necessary for the creation of large-scale gene expression ...

    • Evaluation of space-based constraints on global nitrogen oxide emissions with regional aircraft measurements over and downwind of eastern North America 

      Martin, Randall V.; Sioris, Christopher E.; Chance, Kelly; Ryerson, Thomas B.; Bertram, Timothy H.; Wooldridge, Paul J.; Cohen, Ronald C.; Neuman, J. Andy; Swanson, Aaron; Flocke, Frank M. (American Geophysical Union, 2006)

    • Evaluation of the airborne quantum cascade laser spectrometer (QCLS) measurements of the carbon and greenhouse gas suite – CO2, CH4, N2O, and CO – during the CalNex and HIPPO campaigns 

      Santoni, G; Daube, Bruce C.; Kort, E. A.; Jiménez, R.; Park, Sunyoung; Pittman, J. V.; Gottlieb, Elaine Webster; Xiang, Bin; Zahniser, M. S.; Nelson, D. D.; McManus, J. B.; Peischl, J.; Ryerson, T. B.; Holloway, J. S.; Andrews, A. E.; Sweeney, C.; Hall, B.; Hintsa, E. J.; Moore, F. L.; Elkins, J. W.; Hurst, D. F.; Stephens, B. B.; Bent, J.; Wofsy, Steven Charles (Copernicus GmbH, 2014)
      We present an evaluation of aircraft observations of the carbon and greenhouse gases CO2, CH4, N2O, and CO using a direct-absorption pulsed quantum cascade laser spectrometer (QCLS) operated during the HIPPO and CalNex ...

    • Evaluation of the Brief Problem Checklist: Child and caregiver interviews to measure clinical progress. 

      Chorpita, Bruce F.; Reise, Steven; Weisz, John R; Grubbs, Kathleen; Becker, Kimberly D.; Krull, Jennifer L. (American Psychological Association (APA), 2010)
      Objective: To support ongoing monitoring of child response during treatment, we sought to develop a brief, easily administered, clinically relevant, and psychometrically sound measure. Method: We first developed child and ...

    • Evaluation of the Potential Impact of Ebola Virus Genomic Drift on the Efficacy of Sequence-Based Candidate Therapeutics 

      Kugelman, Jeffrey R.; Sanchez-Lockhart, Mariano; Andersen, Kristian G.; Gire, Stephen; Park, Daniel J.; Sealfon, Rachel; Lin, Aaron E.; Wohl, Shirlee; Sabeti, Pardis C.; Kuhn, Jens H.; Palacios, Gustavo F. (American Society of Microbiology, 2015)
      ABSTRACT Until recently, Ebola virus (EBOV) was a rarely encountered human pathogen that caused disease among small populations with extraordinarily high lethality. At the end of 2013, EBOV initiated an unprecedented disease ...

    • Evaluation of the Serotonergic Genes htr1A, htr1B, htr2A, and slc6A4 in Aggressive Behavior of Golden Retriever Dogs 

      van den Berg, L.; Vos-Loohuis, M.; Schilder, M. B. H.; van Oost, B. A.; Hazewinkel, H. A. W.; Wade, C. M.; Karlsson, Elinor Kathryn; Lindblad-Toh, K.; Liinamo, A. E.; Leegwater, P. A. J. (Springer US, 2007)
      Aggressive behavior displays a high heritability in our study group of Golden Retriever dogs. Alterations in brain serotonin metabolism have been described in aggressive dogs before. Here, we evaluate whether four genes ...

    • Evaluation of voltage stacking for near-threshold multicore computing 

      Lee, Sae Kyu; Brooks, David M.; Wei, Gu-Yeon (ACM, 2012)
      This paper evaluates voltage stacking in the context of near-threshold multicore computing. Key attributes of voltage stacking are investigated using results from a test-chip prototype built in 150nm FDSOI CMOS. By "stacking" ...

    • Evaluation of wetland methane emissions across North America using atmospheric data and inverse modeling 

      Miller, Scot M.; Commane, Roisin; Melton, Joe R.; Andrews, Arlyn E.; Benmergui, Joshua; Dlugokencky, Edward J.; Janssens-Maenhout, Greet; Michalak, Anna M.; Sweeney, Colm; Worthy, Doug E. J. (European Geosciences Union, 2016)
      Existing estimates of methane (CH4) fluxes from North American wetlands vary widely in both magnitude and distribution. In light of these differences, this study uses atmospheric CH4 observations from the US and Canada to ...

    • Evanescent-wave bonding between optical waveguides 

      Povinelli, Michelle L.; Lončar, Marko; Ibanescu, Mihai; Smythe, Elizabeth J.; Johnson, Steven G.; Capasso, Federico; Joannopoulos, John D. (Optical Society of America, 2005)
      Forces arising from overlap between the guided waves of parallel, microphotonic waveguides are calculated. Both attractive and repulsive forces, determined by the choice of relative input phase, are found. Using realistic ...

    • Evaporation and accretion of extrasolar comets following white dwarf kicks 

      Stone, Nicholas; Metzger, Brian D.; Loeb, Abraham (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      Several lines of observational evidence suggest that white dwarfs receive small birth kicks due to anisotropic mass-loss. If other stars possess extrasolar analogues to the Solar Oort cloud, the orbits of comets in such ...