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The Power of Plain Talk: Exploring One Program's Influence on the Adolescent Reproductive Health Field [PDF]

, 2006
Launched by the Annie E. Casey Foundation in the early 1990s, Plain Talk is a community-based initiative that seeks to reduce the incidence of teen pregnancy and STDs by improving adult/teen communication about sex.
Geri Summerville, Karen Canova
core  

Reproductive Health and the Millennium Development Goals I: The Missing Link [PDF]

, 2004
When the General Assembly adopted the Millennium Declaration in 2000 and, a year later, the Millennium Development Goals, an explicit commitment to the reproductive rights of women was nowhere to be ...
Barbara Crossette
core  

Distributed Detection via Bayesian Updates and Consensus [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
In this paper, we discuss a class of distributed detection algorithms which can be viewed as implementations of Bayes' law in distributed settings. Some of the algorithms are proposed in the literature most recently, and others are first developed in this paper.
arxiv  

Minimum-Energy Distributed Consensus of Uncertain Agents [PDF]

arXiv, 2014
This paper presents a consensus algorithm for a multi-agent system where each agent has access to its imperfect own state and neighboring state measurements. The measurements are subject to deterministic disturbances and the proposed algorithm provides a minimum-energy estimate of the measured states which is instrumental in achieving consensus by the ...
arxiv  

Comparative Analysis of Circulating and Synovial Immune Cells in Early Untreated Rheumatoid Arthritis and their relationship with molecular pathology and disease outcomes

Arthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Objectives To assess the relationship of circulating and synovial immune cells with synovial molecular pathology and disease outcomes in early Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). Methods Early (<12 months) treatment‐naïve RA patients (n=144) from the Pathobiology of Early Arthritis Cohort (PEAC) were included in this posthoc analysis.
Felice Rivellese, Elena Pontarini, Liliane Fossati‐Jimack, Rita A. Moura, Vasco C. Romão, João Eurico Fonseca, Alessandra Nerviani, Cankut Çubuk, Katriona Goldmann, Giovanni Giorli, Myles Lewis, Michele Bombardieri, Costantino Pitzalis, Pathobiology of Early Arthritis Cohort (PEAC) investigators   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Who\u27s your expert? Use of an expert opinion survey to inform development of American Psychiatric Association practice guidelines. [PDF]

, 2014
OBJECTIVE: For many clinical questions in psychiatry, high-quality evidence is lacking. Credible practice guidelines for such questions depend on transparent, reproducible, and valid methods for assessing expert opinion.
Fochtmann, Laura J., Kunkle, Robert, Nininger, James E., Plovnick, Robert, Reid, Sara M., Silverman, Joel J., Vergare, Michael J., Yager, Joel   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Arbiters of Ambivalence: Challenges of Using LLMs in No-Consensus Tasks [PDF]

arXiv
The increasing use of LLMs as substitutes for humans in ``aligning'' LLMs has raised questions about their ability to replicate human judgments and preferences, especially in ambivalent scenarios where humans disagree. This study examines the biases and limitations of LLMs in three roles: answer generator, judge, and debater.
arxiv  

Expert Perspectives on a Clinical Challenge: Hematologic Malignancies and Vasculitis

Arthritis &Rheumatology, Accepted Article.
Systemic vasculitis describes a collection of rare diseases each caused by inflammation of blood vessel walls that can cause severe systemic complications [[3, 4]](#ref‐0003). The pattern of vascular inflammation and resultant damage is frequently variable and may be mimicked, or directly triggered, by infection or malignancy.
Michelle L. Robinette, Hetty E. Carraway
wiley   +1 more source

Medical students' initial experiences of the dissection room and interaction with body donors: A qualitative study of professional identity formation, educational benefits, and the experience of Pasifika students

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The first experience of medical students in the dissecting room (DR) likely influences professional identity formation (PIF). Sparse data exist exploring how exposure to the DR and body donors without undertaking dissection influences PIF, or how culture may influence this experience.
Jacob Madgwick, Lynley Anderson, Jon Cornwall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Echoes of Disagreement: Measuring Disparity in Social Consensus [PDF]

arXiv
Public discourse and opinions stem from multiple social groups. Each group has beliefs about a topic (such as vaccination, abortion, gay marriage, etc.), and opinions are exchanged and blended to produce consensus. A particular measure of interest corresponds to measuring the influence of each group on the consensus and the disparity between groups on ...
arxiv