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Data Extraction and Management in Networks of Observational Health Care Databases for Scientific Research: A Comparison of EU-ADR, OMOP, Mini-Sentinel and MATRICE Strategies
(AcademyHealth, 2016)Introduction: We see increased use of existing observational data in order to achieve fast and transparent production of empirical evidence in health care research. Multiple databases are often used to increase power, to ... -
Data on Medicare eligibility and cancer screening utilization
(Elsevier, 2016)Health insurance is associated with increased utilization of cancer screening services. Data on breast, prostate and colorectal cancer screening were abstracted from the 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor and Surveillance System. ... -
A Data-Driven Design Evaluation Tool for Handheld Device Soft Keyboards
(Public Library of Science, 2014)Thumb interaction is a primary technique used to operate small handheld devices such as smartphones. Despite the different techniques involved in operating a handheld device compared to a personal computer, the keyboard ... -
Data-Driven Normalization Strategies for High-Throughput Quantitative RT-PCR
(BioMed Central, 2009)Background: High-throughput real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a widely used technique in experiments where expression patterns of genes are to be profiled. Current stage ... -
Database improvements for motor vehicle/bicycle crash analysis
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)Background: Bicycling is healthy but needs to be safer for more to bike. Police crash templates are designed for reporting crashes between motor vehicles, but not between vehicles/bicycles. If written/drawn bicycle-crash-scene ... -
A database of human exposomes and phenomes from the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016)The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is a population survey implemented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to monitor the health of the United States whose data is publicly ... -
Days out of role due to mental and physical illness in the South African stress and health study
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014)Background: Both mental and physical disorders can result in role limitation, such as ‘days out of role’, which have an important impact on national productivity losses. This paper analyses data from the South African ... -
DDI-CPI, a server that predicts drug–drug interactions through implementing the chemical–protein interactome
(Oxford University Press, 2014)Drug–drug interactions (DDIs) may cause serious side-effects that draw great attention from both academia and industry. Since some DDIs are mediated by unexpected drug–human protein interactions, it is reasonable to analyze ... -
Dealing with tobacco use and dependence within primary health care: time for action
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Deciphering Multiplicity of HIV-1C Infection: Transmission of Closely Related Multiple Viral Lineages
(Public Library of Science, 2016)BackgroundA single viral variant is transmitted in the majority of HIV infections. However, about 20% of heterosexually transmitted HIV infections are caused by multiple viral variants. Detection of transmitted HIV variants ... -
Decision maker priorities for providing antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected South Africans: A qualitative assessment
(Informa UK Limited, 2012)In resource-limited settings, successful HIV treatment scale-up has been tempered by reports of funding shortfalls. We aimed to determine the priorities, including ethical considerations, of decision makers for HIV ... -
Declines in the Lethality of Suicide Attempts Explain the Decline in Suicide Deaths in Australia
(Public Library of Science, 2012)Background: To investigate the epidemiology of a steep decrease in the incidence of suicide deaths in Australia. Methods: National data on suicide deaths and deliberate self-harm for the period 1994–2007 were obtained from ... -
Decoding Human Regulatory Circuits
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004)Clusters of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) which direct gene expression constitute cis-regulatory modules (CRMs). We present a novel algorithm, based on Gibbs sampling, which locates, de novo, the cis features ... -
Decomposition of Gene Expression State Space Trajectories
(Public Library of Science, 2009)Representing and analyzing complex networks remains a roadblock to creating dynamic network models of biological processes and pathways. The study of cell fate transitions can reveal much about the transcriptional regulatory ... -
Decreased PM10 Exposure Attenuates Age-Related Lung Function Decline: Genetic Variants in p53, p21, and CCND1 Modify This Effect
(National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, 2009)Background: Decreasing exposure to airborne particulates was previously associated with reduced age-related decline in lung function. However, whether the benefit from improved air quality depends on genetic background is ... -
Decreased Sex Ratio Following Maternal Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls from Contaminated Great Lakes Sport-Caught Fish: A Retrospective Cohort Study.
(BioMed Central, 2003)Background: Fish from the Great Lakes are contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, which have been found to have several adverse reproductive effects. Several environmental contaminants have been found to alter the sex ... -
Deep targeted sequencing of 12 breast cancer susceptibility regions in 4611 women across four different ethnicities
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background: Although genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified thousands of disease susceptibility regions, the underlying causal mechanism in these regions is not fully known. It is likely that the GWAS ... -
Default Mode Connectivity in Youth With Perinatally Acquired HIV
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2015)Abstract Youth with perinatally acquired human immunodeficiency virus (PHIV+) survive longer with combination antiretroviral therapy, but remain at risk for poor cognitive outcomes. We evaluated whether markers of HIV ... -
Deficient biological motion perception in schizophrenia: results from a motion noise paradigm
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2013)Background:: Schizophrenia patients exhibit deficient processing of perceptual and cognitive information. However, it is not well-understood how basic perceptual deficits contribute to higher level cognitive problems in ... -
Defining an Informativeness Metric for Clustering Gene Expression Data
(Oxford University Press, 2011)Motivation: Unsupervised ‘cluster’ analysis is an invaluable tool for exploratory microarray data analysis, as it organizes the data into groups of genes or samples in which the elements share common patterns. Once the ...