Cancer Mortality in the United States by Education Level and Race
Cancer death rates vary considerably by level of education. Identifying groups at high risk of death from cancer by level of education as well as by race may be useful in target...
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Globalization, coca‐colonization and the chronic disease epidemic: can the Doomsday scenario be averted?
Abstract . Zimmet P (International Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia). Globalization, coca‐colonization and the chronic disease epidemic: can the Doomsday scenario be ave...
Randomized Adjuvant Chemotherapy Trial in High-Risk, Lymph Node-Negative Breast Cancer Patients Identified by Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator and Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor Type 1
Using uPA and PAI-1, we have been able to classify about half of the patients with lymph node-negative breast cancer as low risk, for whom adjuvant chemotherapy may be avoided, ...
The Familial Transmission of Bipolar Illness
As part of the National Institute of Mental Health Collaborative Program on the Psychobiology of Depression study, data were collected on 2225 first-degree relatives of 612 prob...
Hormone Therapy Failure in Human Prostate Cancer: Analysis by Complementary DNA and Tissue Microarrays
The combination of cDNA and tissue microarray technologies enables rapid identification of genes associated with progression of prostate cancer to the hormone-refractory state a...
Teaching thinking skills.
A course was developed to teach cognitive skills that apply to learning and intellectual performance independently of subject matter, stressing observation and classification, r...
Probabilistic and Bottle-Neck Features for LVCSR of Meetings
In recent years, probabilistic features became an integral part of state-of-the-are LVCSR systems. In this work, we are exploring the possibility of obtaining the features direc...
ArrayExpress update--an archive of microarray and high-throughput sequencing-based functional genomics experiments
The ArrayExpress Archive (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress) is one of the three international public repositories of functional genomics data supporting publications. It includ...
Baseline Characteristics of Participants in the Randomized National Lung Screening Trial
The NLST cohort has a distribution of sex and pack-year history that is similar to the component of the general US population that meets the major NLST eligibility criteria; how...