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Michael J. Smith
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Open AccessComparison of bivalent and monovalent SARS-CoV-2 variant vaccines: the phase 2 randomized open-label COVAIL trial
Vaccine protection against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection wanes over time, requiring updated boosters. In a phase 2, open-label, randomized clinical trial with sequentia...
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Health Effects of Policing in Hospitals: a Narrative Review
Law enforcement activity, in the form of outside agencies or hospital security forces, is increasingly common in American healthcare. Little is known about the potential effects of this prevalent, modifiable e...
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Outpatient Pediatric Antibiotic Use: a Systematic Review
The majority of pediatric antibiotic use occurs in outpatients. However, the optimal strategies for antimicrobial stewardship in this setting are unknown. We sought to identify studies relevant to pediatric ou...
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Parent Perspectives of Support Received from Physicians and/or Genetic Counselors Following a Decision to Continue a Pregnancy with a Prenatal Diagnosis of Trisomy 13/18
Families that choose to continue a pregnancy with a prenatal diagnosis of Trisomy 13/18 are a minority that present unique challenges for those in charge of their care. This study investigated the extent to wh...
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Attitudes Toward Discussing Approved and Investigational Treatments for Cystic Fibrosis in Prenatal Genetic Counseling Practice
This project aimed to explore the attitudes of prenatal genetic counselors toward discussion of novel approved and experimental CF treatments in the prenatal setting, and to assess how knowledge of genotype-sp...
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A single panmictic population of endemic red crabs, Gecarcoidea natalis, on Christmas Island with high levels of genetic diversity
The red crab, Gecarcoidea natalis, is endemic to Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean and largely responsible for sha** the unique ecosystem found throughout the island’s rainforests. However, the introduction ...
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Assessment of Health-Related Quality of Life Among Primary Caregivers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
The impact of caring for a child with autism on caregivers’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is not fully understood. The objective of this study was to compare the HRQOL scores of caregivers of children...
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Estimation of a Valuation Function for a Diabetes Mellitus-Specific Preference-Based Measure of Health
Background: Preference-based measures of health (PBMH) provide ‘preference’ or ‘utility’ weights that enable the calculation of QALYs for the economic evaluations of interventions. The Diabetes U...
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Learning to trust in the competence and commitment of agents
For agents to collaborate in open multi-agent systems, each agent must trust in the other agents’ ability to complete tasks and willingness to cooperate. Agents need to decide between cooperative and opportuni...
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Wetlands as landscape units: spatial patterns in salinity and water chemistry
Athalassic wetlands play a pivotal role in sediment and nutrient cycling and retention at the catchment level and are important ecosystems for local and regional biodiversity. Yet, the management of wetlands o...
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Benthic Metabolism as an Indicator of Stream Ecosystem Health
We tested direct and indirect measures of benthic metabolism as indicators of stream ecosystem health across a known agricultural land-use disturbance gradient in southeast Queensland, Australia. Gross primary...
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High-quality male field crickets invest heavily in sexual display but die young
Only high-quality males can bear the costs of an extreme sexual display1,2,3,4. As a consequence, such males are not only more attractive, but they often live longer than average5. Recent theory predicts, however...
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Open AccessPractice patterns of naturopathic physicians: results from a random survey of licensed practitioners in two US States
Despite the growing use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by consumers in the U.S., little is known about the practice of CAM providers. The objective of this study was to describe and compare th...
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An experimental examination of female preference patterns for components of the male advertisement call in the quacking frog, Crinia georgiana
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An experimental examination of female preference patterns for components of the male advertisement call in the quacking frog, Crinia georgiana
Even though females prefer particular components of a male display, their preferences may not be expressed during mate choice. Here, we quantified female preference patterns in the frog Crinia georgiana for call ...
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Call structure may affect male mating success in the quacking frog Crinia georgiana (Anura: Myobatrachidae)
We investigated the relationship between mating success, male size and variation in the advertisement call in the frog Crinia georgiana under field conditions. Mating success in 91 males was determined by followi...
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Highly Variable Microsatellites in the California Market Squid Loligo opalescens
Attempts to study the genetic population structure of cephalopods are impeded by the low levels of genetic variation in these species. We have developed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers for six hyperva...
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Postglacial changes in chironomid communities and inferred climate near treeline at Mount Stoyoma, Cascade Mountains, southwestern British Columbia, Canada
Analysis of the distributions of chironomid (midge) and other dipteran subfossils from two high elevation lake sediment cores in the Cascade Mountains reveals changes in midge communities and inferred climate ...
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Effects of hypoxemia on the electroretinogram in diabetics
Purpose: To identify any relationship between retinal dependence on oxygen and the presence or absence of retinopathy in a group of patients with the same duration of diabetes, based on the proposal that diabe...
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The phylogeny of echinoderm classes based on mitochondrial gene arrangements
Previous analyses have demonstrated that, among the echinoderms, the sea star (class: Asteroidea) mitochondrial genome contains a large inversion in comparison to the mitochondrial DNA of sea urchins (class: E...
