Publications

Cancer Statistics, 2008

Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the number of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data on...

Introduction to Fourier optics

The fourth edition of this respected text considerably expands the original and reflects the tremendous advances made in the discipline since 1968. All material has been thoroug...

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines Derived from Human Somatic Cells

Somatic cell nuclear transfer allows trans-acting factors present in the mammalian oocyte to reprogram somatic cell nuclei to an undifferentiated state. We show that four factor...

Immediate Psychological Responses and Associated Factors during the Initial Stage of the 2019 Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Epidemic among the General Population in China

Background: The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic is a public health emergency of international concern and poses a challenge to psychological resilience. Research da...

Coding Algorithms for Defining Comorbidities in ICD-9-CM and ICD-10 Administrative Data

These newly developed ICD-10 and ICD-9-CM comorbidity coding algorithms produce similar estimates of comorbidity prevalence in administrative data, and may outperform existing I...

GLOBAL STRATEGY FOR ASTHMA MANAGEMENT AND PREVENTION

Analysis of protein-coding genetic variation in 60,706 humans

Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 as Compared with SARS-CoV-1

Aerosol and Surface Stability of SARS-CoV-2 In this research letter, investigators report on the stability of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV-1 under experimental conditions. The viabil...

Consensus and Cooperation in Networked Multi-Agent Systems

<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> This paper provides a theoretical framework for analysis of consensus algorithms...

Age-specific relevance of usual blood pressure to vascular mortality: a meta-analysis of individual data for one million adults in 61 prospective studies

COVID-19: consider cytokine storm syndromes and immunosuppression

Amazon's Mechanical Turk

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a relatively new website that contains the major elements required to conduct research: an integrated participant compensation system; a larg...