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Drexel University
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About: Drexel University is a education organization based out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 26770 authors who have published 51438 publications receiving 1949443 citations. The organization is also known as: Drexel & Drexel Institute.
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TL;DR: This study describes a free-simulation experiment that compares the degree and relative importance of customer trust in an e-vendor vis-a-vis TAM constructs of the website, between potential and repeat customers, and finds that repeat customers trusted the e-Vendor more, perceived the website to be more useful and easier to use, and were more inclined to purchase from it.
Abstract: An e-vendor's website inseparably embodies an interaction with the vendor and an interaction with the IT website interface. Accordingly, research has shown two sets of unrelated usage antecedents by customers: (1) customer trust in the e-vendor and (2) customer assessments of the IT itself, specifically the perceived usefulness and perceived ease-of-use of the website as depicted in the technology acceptance model (TAM). Research suggests, however, that the degree and impact of trust, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use change with experience. Using existing, validated scales, this study describes a free-simulation experiment that compares the degree and relative importance of customer trust in an e-vendor vis-a-vis TAM constructs of the website, between potential (i.e., new) customers and repeat (i.e., experienced) ones. The study found that repeat customers trusted the e-vendor more, perceived the website to be more useful and easier to use, and were more inclined to purchase from it. The data also show that while repeat customers' purchase intentions were influenced by both their trust in the e-vendor and their perception that the website was useful, potential customers were not influenced by perceived usefulness, but only by their trust in the e-vendor. Implications of this apparent trust-barrier and guidelines for practice are discussed.
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TL;DR: Direct detection of biofilms on MEM biopsy specimens from children with OME and recurrent OM supports the hypothesis that these chronic middle-ear disorders are biofilm-related.
Abstract: ContextChronic otitis media (OM) is a common pediatric infectious disease. Previous studies demonstrating that metabolically active bacteria exist in culture-negative pediatric middle-ear effusions and that experimental infection with Haemophilus influenzae in the chinchilla model of otitis media results in the formation of adherent mucosal biofilms suggest that chronic OM may result from a mucosal biofilm infection.ObjectiveTo test the hypothesis that chronic OM in humans is biofilm-related.Design, Setting, and PatientsMiddle-ear mucosa (MEM) biopsy specimens were obtained from 26 children (mean age, 2.5 [range, 0.5-14] years) undergoing tympanostomy tube placement for treatment of otitis media with effusion (OME) and recurrent OM and were analyzed using microbiological culture, polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based diagnostics, direct microscopic examination, fluorescence in situ hybridization, and immunostaining. Uninfected (control) MEM specimens were obtained from 3 children and 5 adults undergoing cochlear implantation. Patients were enrolled between February 2004 and April 2005 from a single US tertiary referral otolaryngology practice.Main Outcome MeasuresConfocal laser scanning microscopic (CLSM) images were obtained from MEM biopsy specimens and were evaluated for biofilm morphology using generic stains and species-specific probes for H influenzae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Moraxella catarrhalis. Effusions, when present, were evaluated by PCR and culture for evidence of pathogen-specific nucleic acid sequences and bacterial growth, respectively.ResultsOf the 26 children undergoing tympanostomy tube placement, 13 (50%) had OME, 20 (77%) had recurrent OM, and 7 (27%) had both diagnoses; 27 of 52 (52%) of the ears had effusions, 24 of 24 effusions were PCR-positive for at least 1 OM pathogen, and 6 (22%) of 27 effusions were culture-positive for any pathogen. Mucosal biofilms were visualized by CLSM on 46 (92%) of 50 MEM specimens from children with OME and recurrent OM using generic and pathogen-specific probes. Biofilms were not observed on 8 control MEM specimens obtained from the patients undergoing cochlear implantation.ConclusionDirect detection of biofilms on MEM biopsy specimens from children with OME and recurrent OM supports the hypothesis that these chronic middle-ear disorders are biofilm-related.
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Smith College1, Boston University2, University of California, San Diego3, University of Savoy4, University of Illinois at Chicago5, University of New Brunswick6, Claude Bernard University Lyon 17, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai8, University of Amsterdam9, University of Pennsylvania10, University of Newcastle11, Drexel University12, Laval University13, Duke University14, Fordham University15, McGill University16, University of Waterloo17, University of British Columbia18, University of Bath19, University of Padua20, University of Florence21, University of Michigan22
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the progress of an international group of investigators who have commenced a coordinated effort to develop a standardized set of cognitive measures for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne1, Paris Diderot University2, University of California, Irvine3, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory4, Brookhaven National Laboratory5, Max Planck Society6, University of Portsmouth7, New Mexico State University8, University of Utah9, Harvard University10, University of Barcelona11, Aix-Marseille University12, University of Wyoming13, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University14, Carnegie Mellon University15, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris16, Drexel University17, Sejong University18, Pennsylvania State University19, Ohio State University20, University of Chicago21
TL;DR: In this paper, a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the flux-correlation function of the Ly forest of high-redshift quasars with a statistical significance of five standard deviations was reported.
Abstract: We report a detection of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature in the flux-correlation function of the Ly forest of high-redshift quasars with a statistical significance of five standard deviations The study uses 137,562 quasars in the redshift range 2:1 z 3:5 from the Data Release 11 (DR11) of the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) of SDSS-III This sample contains three times the number of quasars used in previous studies The measured position of the BAO peak determines the angular distance, DA(z = 2:34) and expansion rate, H(z = 2:34), both on a scale set by the sound horizon at the drag epoch, rd We find DA=rd =
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TL;DR: In this article, a multiple-perspective co-citation analysis method is introduced for characterizing and interpreting the structure and dynamics of cocitation clusters, which facilitates analytic and sense-making tasks by integrating network visualization, spectral clustering, automatic cluster labeling, and text summarization.
Abstract: A multiple-perspective co-citation analysis method is introduced for characterizing and interpreting the structure and dynamics of co-citation clusters. The method facilitates analytic and sense making tasks by integrating network visualization, spectral clustering, automatic cluster labeling, and text summarization. Co-citation networks are decomposed into co-citation clusters. The interpretation of these clusters is augmented by automatic cluster labeling and summarization. The method focuses on the interrelations between a co-citation cluster's members and their citers. The generic method is applied to a three-part analysis of the field of Information Science as defined by 12 journals published between 1996 and 2008: 1) a comparative author co-citation analysis (ACA), 2) a progressive ACA of a time series of co-citation networks, and 3) a progressive document co-citation analysis (DCA). Results show that the multiple- perspective method increases the interpretability and accountability of both ACA and DCA networks.
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John Q. Trojanowski | 226 | 1467 | 213948 |
Peter Libby | 211 | 932 | 182724 |
Virginia M.-Y. Lee | 194 | 993 | 148820 |
Yury Gogotsi | 171 | 956 | 144520 |
Dennis R. Burton | 164 | 683 | 90959 |
M.-Marsel Mesulam | 150 | 558 | 90772 |
Edward G. Lakatta | 146 | 858 | 88637 |
Gordon T. Richards | 144 | 613 | 110666 |
David Price | 138 | 1687 | 93535 |
Joseph Sodroski | 138 | 542 | 77070 |
Hannu Kurki-Suonio | 138 | 433 | 99607 |
Jun Lu | 135 | 1526 | 99767 |
Stephen F. Badylak | 133 | 530 | 57083 |
Michael E. Thase | 131 | 923 | 75995 |
Edna B. Foa | 129 | 588 | 73034 |