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Cost-effectiveness of dabigatran compared with warfarin for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
(American College of Physicians, 2011)Background: Warfarin reduces the risk for ischemic stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) but increases the risk for hemorrhage. Dabigatran is a fixed-dose, oral direct thrombin inhibitor with similar or reduced ... -
Cost-effectiveness of screening BRCA1/2 mutation carriers with breast magnetic resonance imaging
(American Medical Association, 2006)Context: Women with inherited BRCA1/2 mutations are at high risk for breast cancer, which mammography often misses. Screening with contrast-enhanced breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detects cancer earlier but increases ... -
The cost-effectiveness of therapy with teriparatide and alendronate in women with severe osteoporosis
(American Medical Association, 2006)Background Teriparatide is a promising new agent for the treatment of osteoporosis. Methods The objective of this study was to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of teriparatide-based strategies compared with alendronate ... -
Costs and benefits of prenatal screening for cystic fibrosis
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Costs and health consequences of cholesterol screening for asymptomatic older Americans
(American Medical Association, 1991)To predict the consequences of cholesterol screening among elderly Americans who do not have symptoms of heart disease, we explore the cost implications of a cholesterol screening program, evaluate evidence linking ... -
The costs of decedents in the medicare program: implications for payments to medicare+choice plans
(Wiley Blackwell, 2004)Objective. To discuss and quantify the incentives that Medicare managed care plans have to avoid (through selective enrollment or disenrollment) people who are at risk for very high costs, focusing on Medicare beneficiaries ... -
A crash course in the mathematics of infinite sets
(St. John's College, 1998) -
Creating an intellectual commons through open access
(MIT Press, 2006)Open-access (OA) literature is online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. The low-hanging fruit for OA is literature that authors consent to distribute without payment, or for which they ... -
Creek People
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A Cretan Odyssey, Part 1
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-17)The concept of “the Cretan Odyssey”—or, better, “a Cretan Odyssey”—is reflected in the “lying tales” of Odysseus in the Odyssey. These tales give the medium of Homeric poetry an opportunity to open windows into an Odyssey ... -
A Cretan Odyssey, Part 2
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-24)In the posting for 2015.09.17, I showed what can be reconstructed as a Minoan Mycenaean version of Ariadne. Here in the posting for 2015.09.24, I now turn to later versions, as reflected especially in the visual arts of ... -
Cross-Border Data Access Reform: A Primer on the Proposed U.S.-U.K. Agreement
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Crown Jewel of the Fleet: Design, Construction, and Use of the Seagoing Balsa of the Pre-Columbian Andean Coast
(International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology, 2012)The seaworthiness of the balsa sailing raft, and the seafaring aptitude of those who built and sailed it, has been the subject of critically biased, often conflicting accounts over the nearly five centuries since contact. ... -
Crying at sunset on the eve of the Olympics
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-08-28)What we see here in the photograph I show for the cover of Classical Inquiries 2020.08.28 is a sunset at Olympia, site of the ancient Olympics. Backgrounded by the sunset and facing the camera stand three of a group of ... -
Culture Change and Digital Technology: The NYPD under Commissioner William Bratton, 2014-2016.
(Berkman Klein for Internet & Society, 2016-09-12) -
Current approaches to cervical-cancer screening
(Massachusetts Medical Society, 2001) -
Data as assemblage
(Emerald, 2022-03-03)Purpose A definition of data called data as assemblage is presented. The definition accommodates different forms and meanings of data; emphasizes data subjects and data workers; and reflects the sociotechnical aspects of ... -
David Lynch's Visualizations and Greek poetry, Part One: "James's song" and Song 31 of Sappho
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-09-21)