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Blue Skies: Education in Second Life [PDF]

, 2008
This article examines the educational possibilities of the online environment of Second Life, by Linden Labs. Second Life’s economic growth has attracted the attention of corporations, non-profit organizations and government entities.
Poole, Matthew
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth With Childhood‐Onset Lupus: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Our objective was to determine the feasibility and acceptability of the Treatment and Education Approach for Childhood‐Onset Lupus (TEACH), a six‐session cognitive behavioral intervention addressing depressive, fatigue, and pain symptoms, delivered remotely to individual youth with lupus by a trained interventionist.
Natoshia R. Cunningham, Thea Senger‐Carpenter, Jocelyn Zuckerman, Michelle Adler, Mallet R. Reid, Ashley Danguecan, Luana Flores Pereira, Sarah I. Mossad, Samantha L. Ely, Khalid Abulaban, Elizabeth A. Kessler, Natalie Rosenwasser, Tamar B. Rubinstein, Ekemini A. Ogbu, Emily A. Smitherman, Alaina Miller, Taylor Abounader, Elizabeth Ross, Livie Timmerman, Dhriti Sharma, Jennifer N. Stinson, Stacy Allen, Kabita Nanda, Tala El Tal, Deborah M. Levy, Linda T. Hiraki, Hermine I. Brunner, Mathew Reeves, Steven J. Pierce, Andrea Knight   +29 more
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Online Robot Introspection via Wrench-based Action Grammars

, 2017
Robotic failure is all too common in unstructured robot tasks. Despite well-designed controllers, robots often fail due to unexpected events. How do robots measure unexpected events? Many do not.
Du, Yunlong, Harada, Kensuke, Huang, Zhengjie, Kuang, Wenwei, Lin, Hongbin, Luo, Shuangqi, Rojas, Juan, Zhu, Dingqiao   +7 more
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An optimization model for metabolic pathways [PDF]

, 2009
This article is available open access through the publisher’s website through the link below. Copyright @ The Author 2009.Motivation: Different mathematical methods have emerged in the post-genomic era to determine metabolic pathways.
Arita, Arita, Beasley, Croes, Croes, de Figueiredo, F. J. Planes, Ihmels, J. E. Beasley, Jeong, Keseler, Kharchenko, Klamt, Küffner, Ma, Meléndez-Hevia, Meléndez-Hevia, Meléndez-Hevia, Nelson, Palsson, Planes, Planes, Rahman, Reed, Schuster, Schuster, Schuster, Urbanczik, Wagner   +28 more
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Formal and informal social care in people with Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal diseases: a cross‐sectional multicentre survey

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Introduction Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases(RMDs) are leading causes of physical disability, necessitating support with activities of daily living(ADLs). This study describes social care received by patients with RMDs in two disperate regions of England: Salford(urban) and Norfolk(rural).
Mehreen Somro, Karen Durrant, William G Dixon, John McBeth, Alex MacGregor, Max Yates, Jenny H Humphreys   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Potential of Laser Shock Peening Compared with Cold Expansion for Improving Fatigue Resistance of Riveted Lap Joints of Aerospace Grade 7175 Al Alloy

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This study investigates laser shock peening for enhancing fatigue performance of riveted aerospace aluminum joints. A comparative approach with cold expansion combines fatigue testing and synchrotron X‐ray methods. Integrating mechanical testing with residual stress and strain characterization provides insights into how different treatments affect the ...
Ogün Baris Tapar, David Osman Busse, Maximilian Sprengel, Domenico Furfari, Marc‐André Nielsen, Guilherme Abreu Faria, Jérémy Epp   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contact Patterns in a High School: A Comparison between Data Collected Using Wearable Sensors, Contact Diaries and Friendship Surveys. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Given their importance in shaping social networks and determining how information or transmissible diseases propagate in a population, interactions between individuals are the subject of many data collection efforts.
Rossana Mastrandrea, Julie Fournet, Alain Barrat   +2 more
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TFBSTools: an R/bioconductor package for transcription factor binding site analysis. [PDF]

, 2016
Summary: The ability to efficiently investigate transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) genome-wide is central to computational studies of gene regulation.
Lenhard, B, Tan, G
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Is Young's Modulus a Critical Coating Property Determining Fouling‐Release Performance of Marine Coatings?

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
The release of foulers from protective marine coatings is determined by several interrelated material properties, including the strength of Young's modulus, the flexibility of chain segments, the surface free energy, and the magnitude of hydrodynamic stress.
Johann C. Schaal, Andreas Brinkmann, Andreas Hartwig   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A surveillance system to reduce transmission of pandemic H1N1 (2009) influenza in a 2600-bed medical center. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BACKGROUND: Concerns have been raised about how the transmission of emerging infectious diseases from patients to healthcare workers (HCWs) and vice versa could be recognized and prevented in a timely manner.
Tsui-Ping Chu, Chung-Chen Li, Lin Wang, Li-Wen Hsu, Hock-Liew Eng, Huey-Ling You, Jien-Wei Liu, Chi-Chen Wei, Ling-Sai Chang, Ing-Kit Lee, Kuender D Yang   +10 more
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