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Implementation of a Novel Wilderness Medicine Simulation Course for Medical Students [PDF]

open access: yesMedEdPORTAL
Introduction Wilderness medicine is a growing field focused on delivering quality medical care in austere environments. Simulation-based education has proven effective in emergency and wilderness medicine, particularly in graduate medical education.
Katherine A. Sprengel   +3 more
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Does Caregiver Engagement Predict Outcomes of Adolescent Wilderness Therapy? [PDF]

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Existing research shows some links between wilderness therapy outcomes and familial functioning. However, wilderness therapy programs do not agree on what kind of caregiver involvement is required to improve adolescent program outcomes, nor has research ...
Joanna E. Bettmann   +3 more
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Analytic and Clinical Validation of a Pan-Cancer NGS Liquid Biopsy Test for the Detection of Copy Number Amplifications, Fusions and Exon Skipping Variants

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2022
Liquid biopsies are an integral part of the diagnosis of cancer. Here, we have extended previous validation studies of a new targeted NGS panel to include the detection of copy number amplifications (CNAs), fusions, and exon skipping variants.
Audrey Audetat   +10 more
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Classifying, inventorying, and mapping mature and old-growth forests in the United States

open access: yesFrontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
Because of its importance to both carbon storage and biodiversity, old forest has regained currency as a focus of forest management and policy. However, absence of a systematic approach to classifying stages of forest development across all forest types ...
Kevin Barnett   +2 more
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Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing of Liquid Biopsy Samples from Patients with NSCLC

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2021
Liquid biopsy tests have become an integral part of the molecular diagnosis of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We describe a new test panel that uses very low input (20 ng) of cell-free nucleic acids extracted from human plasma, which ...
Hestia Mellert   +5 more
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Mind the GAP—But make it better: Improving the U.S. Gap Analysis Project's protected‐area classification system to better reflect biodiversity conservation

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2023
Protected areas are foundational to the conservation of biological diversity, and many scientists have called for increased protections in the face of the current extinction and climate‐change crises.
Matthew S. Dietz   +2 more
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Exact Shapley values for local and model-true explanations of decision tree ensembles

open access: yesMachine Learning with Applications, 2022
Additive feature explanations using Shapley values have become popular for providing transparency into the relative importance of each feature to an individual prediction of a machine learning model. While Shapley values provide a unique additive feature
Thomas W. Campbell   +3 more
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The importance of U.S. national forest roadless areas for vulnerable wildlife species

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2021
Inventoried roadless areas (IRAs) in national forests in the contiguous United States (CONUS) are public lands that are ecologically intact and could be prime candidates for addition to the protected-area system, thereby contributing to the goal of ...
Matthew S. Dietz   +3 more
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Design and Characterization of a Novel Blood Collection and Transportation Device for Proteomic Applications

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2020
A major hurdle for blood-based proteomic diagnostics is efficient transport of specimens from the collection site to the testing laboratory. Dried blood spots have shown utility for diagnostic applications, specifically those where red blood cell ...
Nathan K. Kaiser   +4 more
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Wilderness medicine [PDF]

open access: yesWorld Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2014
Human activity in wilderness areas has increased globally in recent decades, leading to increased risk of injury and illness. Wilderness medicine has developed in response to both need and interest.The field of wilderness medicine encompasses many areas of interest.
Douglas G, Sward, Brad L, Bennett
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