HPV is prevalent among U.S. adults and is linked to several types of cancers. One preventive measure for such cancers and other HPV-associated health conditions …
Objective: To examine associations between level of self-determination and hospitalization among community-dwelling older adults. Background: Self-determination, as a theoretical construct, describes one’s ability to exercise …
Immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) show great promise as more efficacious treatments for various cancers compared to current methods like chemotherapy. However, preclinical …
Background: Obesity is a serious and common health problem in the U.S. that affects 18.5% of children. Thirty percent of Rhode Island youth ages 2-17 …
Mechanical integrity of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) plays an important role in determining the long-term reliability and performance of advanced high capacity anode materials. Failure …
Reinforcement learning defines the problem facing agents that learn to make good decisions through action and observation alone. To be effective problem solvers, such agents …
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have become the primary form of medical data-keeping across the United States. Federal law restricts the sharing of any EHR data …
Automation has been rapidly changing the research performed in the scientific community. With more high-throughput technologies available to both academic and industrial scientists, improvements to …
The term social infrastructure may be unfamiliar to many, but it plays a crucial role in bringing people together, countering isolation, and building social capital. …
Our daily experience can be thought of as a sequence of acquiring perceptual input to make decisions, then planning and executing appropriate actions. Hence, examining …
ONC201 is a novel, orally bioavailable small molecule that is the founding member of the imipridone class and is currently in clinical trials for various …
This dissertation investigates an old and fundamental question in evolutionary biology: how is adaptation maintained in highly heterogeneous environments? Adaptation in variable environments poses a …
Provider profiling is used to gauge the level of care that is being offered across providers. The extensive repercussions of provider profiling on the health …
Background: The fungal pathogen C. parapsilosis is increasingly recognized as a significant element of yeast bloodstream infection within microbiology, so further experimentation and study regarding …
While information systems are often associated with microelectronic devices, every physical process can be interpreted as an exchange of information. With the slowing of Moore's …
Thermal infrared spectroscopic measurements record not only compositional information about the properties of a target but also information about the environmental conditions in which the …
In 1930, American photographer Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) traveled to the Soviet Union on her first trip abroad. Her auspicious visit occurred during a moment of …