Navigating Autonomy: A Mid-Career Reflection on Life in Academia
The Contradictions of Conservation: Fighting Erosion in Mao-Era China, 1953–66
Abstract Based on local archival documents and fieldwork conducted in Shaanxi Province’s Baishui County, this article examines how large-scale water and soil conservation campaigns launched in Northwest China’s Loess Plateau region during the Mao era (1949–76) affected agrarian environments and how rural communities experienced and responded to the...
Simple unity among the fundamental equations of science.
The Price equation describes the change in populations. Change concerns some value, such as biological fitness, information or physical work. The Price equation reveals universal aspects for the nature of change, independently of the meaning ascribed to values. By understanding those universal aspects, we can see more clearly why fundamental mathem...
Improving Incidental Finding Documentation in Trauma Patients Amidst Poor Access to Follow-up Care.
BACKGROUND:Incidental findings (IFs) are common among injured patients and create a complex problem with no standardized solution. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This is a retrospective review of adult trauma patients admitted to a level I trauma center from January to May 2017. IFs from abdominal, chest, and neck imaging were categorized based on previousl...
State-of-the-art on research and applications of machine learning in the building life cycle
© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Fueled by big data, powerful and affordable computing resources, and advanced algorithms, machine learning has been explored and applied to buildings research for the past decades and has demonstrated its potential to enhance building performance. This study systematically surveyed how machine learning has been applied at diffe...
Differences in nicotine intake and effects from electronic and combustible cigarettes among dual users.
AIM:To describe systemic nicotine exposure and subjective effects of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) in people who use both e-cigarettes and cigarettes (dual users), including within-subject comparisons of e-cigarette and cigarette use. DESIGN:Two-arm, counterbalanced cross-over study. Participants used their usual brand of e-cigarette or ciga...
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Enhancing engagement in evidence-based tobacco cessation treatment for smokers with mental illness: A pilot randomized t...
OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of a brief telephone-delivered Motivational Interviewing (MI)-based intervention to facilitate engagement in evidence-based cessation treatment for Veterans with mental illness referred to smoking cessation treatment. METHODS:86 military Veteran smokers with mental illness were recruited from a tobacco cessation c...
Keep Your Hands Up
Meet Rick Welliver. He's a good guy, trying to do his best. He's a retired boxer. Let's take a ride with him.
Optimal germination timing in unpredictable environments: the importance of dormancy for both among- and within-season v...
For organisms living in unpredictable environments, timing important life-history events is challenging. One way to deal with uncertainty is to spread the emergence of offspring across multiple years via dormancy. However, timing of emergence is not only important among years, but also within each growing season. Here, we study the evolutionary int...
