Publications

Latent and Sensible Heat Flux Anomalies over the Northern Oceans: The Connection to Monthly Atmospheric Circulation

The influence of the atmospheric circulation on monthly anomalies of ocean surface latent and sensible heat fluxes is explored. The fluxes are estimated using bulk formulas appl...

Genome-wide patterns of population structure and admixture in West Africans and African Americans

Quantifying patterns of population structure in Africans and African Americans illuminates the history of human populations and is critical for undertaking medical genomic studi...

Comorbidities, complications, and coding bias. Does the number of diagnosis codes matter in predicting in-hospital mortality?

Bias against coding of chronic or comorbid conditions on the computerized discharge abstracts of patients who die best explains these results. Efforts to improve diagnosis codin...

Finite-Mixture Structural Equation Models for Response-Based Segmentation and Unobserved Heterogeneity

Two endemic problems face researchers in the social sciences (e.g., Marketing, Economics, Psychology, and Finance): unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in data. Struc...

The 1995 Kikwit Ebola outbreak: lessons hospitals and physicians can apply to future viral epidemics

Clinical Presentation and Outcome in a Contemporary Cohort of Patients With Acute Myocarditis

Background: There is controversy about the outcome of patients with acute myocarditis (AM), and data are lacking on how patients admitted with suspected AM are managed. We repor...

Improved Outcomes in Hypertension After Physician Tutorials

Physicians working at the General Medical Clinic of the Johns Hopkins Hospital entered into tutorials to improve their effectiveness as managers and educators of patients with e...

The North Atlantic atmosphere-sea surface 14C gradient during the Younger Dryas climatic event

Genetic comparisons reveal the same unknown bacterial lineages in Atlantic and Pacific bacterioplankton communities

The phylogenetic diversity of oligotrophic bacterioplankton communities was compared with 16S ribosomal RNA genes cloned from natural populations. The data reported here extend ...

Comparative and kinetic analysis of viral shedding and immunological responses in MERS patients representing a broad spectrum of disease severity

Abstract Despite the ongoing spread of MERS, there is limited knowledge of the factors affecting its severity and outcomes. We analyzed clinical data and specimens from fourteen...

Plate tectonics and the evolution of the British Isles

This paper is an essay on the rationalism and difficulties of the geological corollaries of plate tectonics, with illustrations particularly from the geological history of the B...

Before–after study of a standardized hospital order set for the management of septic shock*

Our study found that the implementation of a standardized order set for the management of septic shock in the emergency department was associated with statistically more rigorou...