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Should patients with acute DVT limit activity?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2010)
Ambulation, combined with compression of the affected extremity, appears to be safe for medically stable patients with deep venous thromboses (DVT) (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, consistent randomized controlled ...
Should you test or treat partners of patients with gonorrhea, chlamydia, or trichomoniasis?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2010)
Empiric treatment of partners of female or heterosexual male patients diagnosed with gonorrhea or chlamydia using expedited partner therapy (having the index patient deliver therapy to the partner) decreases the risk of ...
What's the best treatment for pyogenic granuloma?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2010)
Simple surgical excision is associated with a low risk of recurrence, but often leaves a visible scar. Curettage or shave excision, with cautery, is more likely to succeed in 1 session than cryotherapy; both may leave a ...
What's the best way to motivate patients to exercise?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2010)
There is no single best strategy to motivate patients to exercise, given the lack of data from rigorous comparison studies. There are, however, several interventions for adults that are effective. They include: writing a ...
How accurate is an MRI at diagnosing injured knee ligaments?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2010)
MRI is highly accurate in diagnosing injury to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) (strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, prospective blinded cohort studies) and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) (SOR: B, limited number ...
Experiences in Patenting, Licensing and Commercialization of Radiopharmaceuticals
(2010-02)
This presentation will highlight successful efforts in working with the UM Office of Patents and Licensing to patent, license and commercialize radiopharmaceuticals for medical applications that emerged from collaborative ...
High-throughput genomics and the Sword of Damocles
(2010-03)
Next-generation sequencing and high-throughput assaying technologies have dichotomized entire research communities into those individuals who have rapidly evolved in response to the technological selection pressure and ...
Early Cancer Screening with Pteridines as Biomarkers
(2010-03)
Early detection and treatment of cancers continue to be the best line of defense to prevent fatalities as a result of developing cancer. Several tests have been developed, such as mammograms for breast cancer and colonoscopies ...
Modern Tools for Noninvasive Analysis of Brainwaves: Applications in Assistive Technologies and Medical Diagnostics
(2010-03)
Digital signal processing is arguably one of the most important segments of any modern medical equipment. Recent advances in intelligence signal processing have married machine learning methods to traditional signal analysis ...
Green building
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
"Thinking Green" is the new buzzword of the twenty-first century. There are the green IBM commercials that demonstrate a substantial amount of money saved if a business, "goes green" the Mac commercial with the new energy ...
Was the need to produce pesticides higher than need to protect civilians?
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Your blood turns cold. Your eyes become blind. Panic hits and all of a sudden air won't enter your lungs quite as easily. In the dead of the night of December 3rd, a noise resembling the pain of thousands of people was ...
Forests and greenhouse gases: a science primer
(2010)
Professor Stephen Pallardy of the Forestry department at the University of Missouri-Columbia delivers a summary lecture on the topic of greenhouse gases, forest growth, and global climate change from the perspective of a ...
Does lowering a fever >101F in children improve clinical outcomes?
(Family Physicians Inquiries Network, 2010)
Treating fever significantly increases comfort, activity, feeding, and fluid intake and decreases the patient's temperature compared with placebo (strength of recommendation (SOR): A, multiple randomized controlled trials ...
Side jumps in the spin Hall effect: Construction of the Boltzmann collision integral
(American Physical Society, 2010)
We present a systematic derivation of the side-jump contribution to the spin Hall current in systems without band-structure spin-orbit interactions, focusing on the construction of the collision integral for the Boltzmann ...
Gauge-invariant formulation of spin-current density-functional theory
(American Physical Society, 2010)
Spin-currents and non-Abelian gauge potentials in electronic systems can be treated by spin-current density-functional theory, whose main input is the exchange-correlation (xc) energy expressed as a functional of spin-currents. ...
Beating of Friedel oscillations induced by spin-orbit interaction
(American Physical Society, 2010)
By exploiting our recently derived exact formula for the Lindhard polarization function in the presence of Bychkov-Rashba (BR) and Dresselhaus (D) spin-orbit interaction (SOI), we show that the interplay of different SOI ...
On the relation between the scalar and tensor exchange-correlation kernels of the time-dependent density-functional theory
(arXiv, 2010)
The scalar $f_{xc}$ and tensor $\hat{f}_{xc}$ exchange-correlation (xc) kernels are key ingredients of the time-dependent density functional theory and the time-dependent current density functional theory, respectively. ...
Gastrointestinal disease and diet
(Rhetoric and Composition Program, University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Despite the large number of people affected by digestive diseases, gastroenterologists maintain a less than optimal course of treatment. The medical community has largely ignored the role that diet plays in treating and ...