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    • Literacy and Learning in Health Care 

      Wolf, Michael S.; Wilson, Elizabeth A.H.; Rapp, David N.; Waite, Katherine R.; Bocchini, Mary V.; Davis, Terry C.; Rudd, Rima E. (American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), 2009)
      The relationship between literacy and health outcomes are well documented in adult medicine, yet specific causal pathways are not entirely clear. Despite an incomplete understanding of the problem, numerous interventions ...

    • Little Evidence for Genetic Susceptibility to Influenza A (H5N1) from Family Clustering Data 

      Pitzer, Virginia E.; Olsen, Sonja J.; Bergstrom, Carl T.; Dowell, Scott F.; Lipsitch, Marc (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007)
      The apparent clustering of human cases of influenza A (H5N1) among blood relatives has been considered as evidence of genetic variation in susceptibility. We show that, by chance alone, a high proportion of clusters are ...

    • Live Coverage of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) 2009 

      Lister, Allyson L.; Datta, Ruchira S.; Krause, Roland; Kuhn, Michael; Roth, Bettina; Schneider, Reinhard; Troyanskaya, Olga; Hofmann, Oliver (Public Library of Science, 2010)

    • Live Coverage of Scientific Conferences Using Web Technologies 

      Lister, Allyson L.; Datta, Ruchira S.; Krause, Roland; Kuhn, Michael; Roth, Bettina; Schneider, Reinhard; Bourne, Philip E.; Hofmann, Oliver Marc (Public Library of Science, 2010)

    • Live Imaging of Mitosomes and Hydrogenosomes by HaloTag Technology 

      Martincová, Eva; Voleman, Luboš; Najdrová, Vladimíra; De Napoli, Maximiliano; Eshar, Shiri; Gualdron, Melisa; Hopp, Christine S.; Sanin, David E.; Tembo, Dumizulu L.; Walker, Dawn; Marcinčiková, Michaela; Tachezy, Jan; Doležal, Pavel; Van Tyne, Daria Natalie (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Hydrogenosomes and mitosomes represent remarkable mitochondrial adaptations in the anaerobic parasitic protists such as Trichomonas vaginalis and Giardia intestinalis, respectively. In order to provide a tool to study these ...

    • Live-cell multiphoton fluorescence correlation spectroscopy with an improved large Stokes shift fluorescent protein 

      Guan, Yinghua; Meurer, Matthias; Raghavan, Sarada; Rebane, Aleksander; Lindquist, Jake R.; Santos, Sofia; Kats, Ilia; Davidson, Michael W.; Mazitschek, Ralph; Hughes, Thomas E.; Drobizhev, Mikhail; Knop, Michael; Shah, Jagesh V. (The American Society for Cell Biology, 2015)
      We report an improved variant of mKeima, a monomeric long Stokes shift red fluorescent protein, hmKeima8.5. The increased intracellular brightness and large Stokes shift (∼180 nm) make it an excellent partner with teal ...

    • Liver transplantation in the critically ill: a multicenter Canadian retrospective cohort study 

      Karvellas, Constantine J; Lescot, Thomas; Goldberg, Peter; Sharpe, Michael D; Ronco, Juan J; Renner, Eberhard L; Vahidy, Hina; Poonja, Zafrina; Chaudhury, Prosanto; Kneteman, Norman M; Selzner, Markus; Cook, Earl F; Bagshaw, Sean M (BioMed Central, 2013)
      Introduction: Critically ill cirrhosis patients awaiting liver transplantation (LT) often receive prioritization for organ allocation. Identification of patients most likely to benefit is essential. The purpose of this ...

    • Living arrangement and coronary heart disease: the JPHC study 

      Ikeda, A.; Iso, H.; Kawachi, I.; Yamagishi, K.; Inoue, M.; Tsugane, S. (, 2008)
      Background: Previous studies have suggested that living in a multi-generational household (a type of family structure prevalent in Japan) confers mixed health benefits and stresses, especially for women who report such ...

    • The living environment and children's fears following the Indonesian tsunami 

      Du, Ye Beverly; Lee, Christopher Thomas; Christina, Desy; Belfer, Myron L.; Betancourt, Theresa Stichick; O, Edward James; Palfrey, Judith S. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
      The tsunami that struck South-east Asia on 26 December 2004 left more than 500,000 people in Aceh, Indonesia, homeless and displaced to temporary barracks and other communities. This study examines the associations between ...

    • Living in proximity of a bar and risky alcohol behaviours: A longitudinal study 

      Halonen, Jaana; Kivimäki, Mika; Virtanen, Marianna; Pentti, Jaana; Subramanian, S. V.; Kawachi, Ichiro; Vahtera, Jussi (, 2013)
      Aims We examined whether distance from home to the nearest bar, i.e. alcohol outlet permitting consumption on the premises, is associated with risky alcohol behaviours. Design Cross-sectional and longitudinal study. Setting ...

    • Local Context Influence, Activity Space, and Foodscape Exposure in Two Canadian Metropolitan Settings: Is Daily Mobility Exposure Associated with Overweight? 

      Lebel, Alexandre; Kestens, Yan; Pampalon, Robert; Thériault, Marius; Daniel, Mark; Subramanian, S.V. Venkata (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
      It has become increasingly common to attribute part of the obesity epidemic to changes in the environment. Identification of a clear and obvious role for contextual risk factors has not yet been demonstrated. The objectives ...

    • Local Population Characteristics and Hemoglobin A1c Testing Rates among Diabetic Medicare Beneficiaries 

      Yasaitis, Laura C.; Bubolz, Thomas; Skinner, Jonathan S.; Chandra, Amitabh (Public Library of Science, 2014)
      Background: Proposed payment reforms in the US healthcare system would hold providers accountable for the care delivered to an assigned patient population. Annual hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) tests are recommended for all ...

    • ‘Location, Location, Location’: a spatial approach for rare variant analysis and an application to a study on non-syndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate 

      Fier, Heide; Won, Sungho; Prokopenko, Dmitry; AlChawa, Taofik; Ludwig, Kerstin U.; Fimmers, Rolf; Silverman, Edwin K.; Pagano, Marcello; Mangold, Elisabeth; Lange, Christoph (Oxford University Press, 2012)
      Motivation: For the analysis of rare variants in sequence data, numerous approaches have been suggested. Fixed and flexible threshold approaches collapse the rare variant information of a genomic region into a test statistic ...

    • Long Term Association between Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Mortality in a Cohort of 4379 Men 

      Meyer, Haakon E.; Støer, Nathalie C.; Samuelsen, Sven O.; Blomhoff, Rune; Robsahm, Trude E.; Brustad, Magritt; Giovannucci, Edward L.; Bjørge, Tone (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Objective: A number of observational studies have shown an inverse association between circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D and total mortality, but a reverse J-shaped association has also been reported. In a large nested ...

    • Long term mental health outcomes of Finnish children evacuated to Swedish families during the second world war and their non-evacuated siblings: cohort study 

      Santavirta, Torsten; Santavirta, Nina; Betancourt, Theresa S; Gilman, Stephen E (BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2015)
      Objectives: To compare the risks of admission to hospital for any type of psychiatric disorder and for four specific psychiatric disorders among adults who as children were evacuated to Swedish foster families during the ...

    • Long working hours and cancer risk: a multi-cohort study 

      Heikkila, Katriina; Nyberg, Solja T; Madsen, Ida E H; de Vroome, Ernest; Alfredsson, Lars; Bjorner, Jacob J; Borritz, Marianne; Burr, Hermann; Erbel, Raimund; Ferrie, Jane E; Fransson, Eleonor I; Geuskens, Goedele A; Hooftman, Wendela E; Houtman, Irene L; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; Knutsson, Anders; Koskenvuo, Markku; Lunau, Thorsten; Nielsen, Martin L; Nordin, Maria; Oksanen, Tuula; Pejtersen, Jan H; Pentti, Jaana; Shipley, Martin J; Steptoe, Andrew; Suominen, Sakari B; Theorell, Töres; Vahtera, Jussi; Westerholm, Peter J M; Westerlund, Hugo; Dragano, Nico; Rugulies, Reiner; Kawachi, Ichiro; Batty, G David; Singh-Manoux, Archana; Virtanen, Marianna; Kivimäki, Mika (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      Background: Working longer than the maximum recommended hours is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, but the relationship of excess working hours with incident cancer is unclear. Methods: This ...

    • Long working hours, socioeconomic status, and the risk of incident type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of published and unpublished data from 222 120 individuals 

      Kivimäki, Mika; Virtanen, Marianna; Kawachi, Ichiro; Nyberg, Solja T.; Alfredsson, Lars; Batty, G. David; Bjorner, Jakob B.; Borritz, Marianne; Brunner, Eric J.; Burr, Hermann; Dragano, Nico; Ferrie, Jane E.; Fransson, Eleonor I.; Hamer, Mark; Heikkilä, Katriina; Knutsson, Anders; Koskenvuo, Markku; Madsen, Ida E. H.; Nielsen, Martin L.; Nordin, Maria; Oksanen, Tuula; Pejtersen, Jan H.; Pentti, Jaana; Rugulies, Reiner; Salo, Paula; Siegrist, Johannes; Steptoe, Andrew; Suominen, Sakari; Theorell, Töres; Vahtera, Jussi; Westerholm, Peter J. M.; Westerlund, Hugo; Singh-Manoux, Archana; Jokela, Markus (2015)

    • Long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, fish intake, and the risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus 

      Kaushik, Manas; Mozaffarian, Dariush; Spiegelman, Donna; Manson, JoAnn E.; Willett, Walter C.::94559ea206eef8a8844fc5b80654fa5b::600; Hu, Frank B. (Oxford University Press, 2009)
      Background: Diet is a key component of a healthy lifestyle in the prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). The role of long-chain omega-3 (n-3) fatty acids (LCFAs) in the development of T2DM remains unresolved. ...

    • Long-lived force patterns and deformation waves at repulsive epithelial boundaries 

      Rodríguez-Franco, Pilar; Brugués, Agustí; Marín-Llauradó, Ariadna; Conte, Vito; Solanas, Guiomar; Batlle, Eduard; Fredberg, Jeffrey; Roca-Cusachs, Pere; Sunyer, Raimon; Trepat, Xavier (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017-09-11)

    • Long-Range HIV Genotyping Using Viral RNA and Proviral DNA for Analysis of HIV Drug Resistance and HIV Clustering 

      Novitsky, Vladimir A.; Zahralban-Steele, Melissa; McLane, Mary Frances; Moyo, Sikhulile; van Widenfelt, Erik; Gaseitsiwe, Simani; Makhema, Joseph Moeketsi; Essex, Myron Elmer (American Society for Microbiology, 2015)
      The goal of the study was to improve the methodology of HIV genotyping for analysis of HIV drug resistance and HIV clustering. Using the protocol of Gall et al. (A. Gall, B. Ferns, C. Morris, S. Watson, M. Cotten, M. ...