UMCCTS Newsletter, March 2021
This is the March 2021 issue of the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science Newsletter containing news and events of interest.
This is the March 2021 issue of the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science Newsletter containing news and events of interest.
Objective: Investigate how different groups of depositors vary in their use of optional data curation features that provide support for FAIR research data in the Harvard Dataverse repository. Methods: A numerical score based upon the presence or absence of characteristics associated with the use of optional features was assigned to each of the 29,2...
A range of regulatory pressures emanating from funding agencies and scholarly journals increasingly encourage researchers to engage in formal data sharing practices. As academic libraries continue to refine their role in supporting researchers in this data sharing space, one particular challenge has been finding new ways to meaningfully engage with...
Objectives: Compare journal coverage of abstract and indexing tools commonly used within academic science and engineering research. Methods: Title lists of Compendex, Inspec, Reaxys, SciFinder, and Web of Science were provided by their respective publishers. These lists were imported into Excel and the overlap of the ISSN/EISSNs and journal titles ...
As mass COVID-19 vaccination is underway, radiologists are encountering transient FDG uptake in normal or enlarged axillary, supraclavicular, and cervical lymph nodes after ipsilateral deltoid vaccination. This phenomenon may confound interpretation in oncology patients undergoing FDG PET/CT. In this article, we present our institutional approach f...
Myosin molecules in the relaxed thick filaments of striated muscle have a helical arrangement in which the heads of each molecule interact with each other, forming the interacting-heads motif (IHM). In relaxed mammalian skeletal muscle, this helical ordering occurs only at temperatures > 20 degrees C and is disrupted when temperature is decreased. ...
This guide is based on multiple presentations we have given to doctoral students about the use of qualitative description (QD) and our own work using QD over the past 21 years. We were motivated to make this guide widely available due to the lack of adequate resources (manuscripts and textbooks) that cover QD. It is our hope that others will be ope...
Published in Digital Biomarkers
We conducted a pilot study using a passive radio-wave-based home monitor in individuals with Parkinson disease (PD) with a focus on gait, home activity, and time in bed. We enrolled 7 ambulatory individuals to have the device installed in the bedroom of their homes over 8 weeks and performed standard PD assessments at baseline. We evaluated the abi...
This is a lecture in the PEER Liberia Infectious Disease Lecture Series. This presentation provides an overview of: prevention and control of vaccine preventable diseases; global impact of vaccines - successes and challenges; and vaccine fundamentals - basic immunology, introduction to vaccinology.
Practice points for clinicians developed by the American College of Physicians addressing these questions: What are the effectiveness and harms of remdesivir in hospitalized patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)? Do effectiveness and harms in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 vary by symptom duration, disease severity, and treatment d...