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Stony Brook University
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About: Stony Brook University is a education organization based out in Stony Brook, New York, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 32534 authors who have published 68218 publications receiving 3035131 citations. The organization is also known as: State University of New York at Stony Brook & SUNY Stony Brook.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Quantum chromodynamics, Large Hadron Collider, Context (language use)
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TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized controlled trial was conducted to determine if writing about stressful life experiences affects disease status in patients with asthma or rheumatoid arthritis using standardized quantitative outcome measures.
Abstract: ContextNonpharmacological treatments with little
patient cost or risk are useful supplements to pharmacotherapy in the
treatment of patients with chronic illness. Research has demonstrated
that writing about emotionally traumatic experiences has a surprisingly
beneficial effect on symptom reports, well-being, and health care use
in healthy individuals.ObjectiveTo determine if writing about stressful life experiences
affects disease status in patients with asthma or rheumatoid
arthritis using standardized quantitative outcome measures.DesignRandomized controlled trial conducted between October 1996
and December 1997.SettingOutpatient community residents drawn from
private and institutional practice.PatientsVolunteer sample of 112 patients with asthma
(n=61) or rheumatoid arthritis (n=51)
received the intervention; 107 completed the study, 58 in the asthma
group and 49 in the rheumatoid arthritis group.InterventionPatients were assigned to write either about the most
stressful event of their lives (n=71; 39 asthma, 32
rheumatoid arthritis) or about emotionally neutral topics
(n=41; 22 asthma, 19 rheumatoid arthritis) (the control
intervention).Main Outcome MeasuresAsthma patients were evaluated with
spirometry and rheumatoid arthritis patients were clinically examined
by a rheumatologist. Assessments were conducted at baseline and at 2
weeks and 2 months and 4 months after writing and were done blind to
experimental condition.ResultsOf evaluable patients 4 months after treatment, asthma
patients in the experimental group showed improvements in lung function
(the mean percentage of predicted forced expiratory volume in 1 second
[FEV1] improved from 63.9% at baseline to 76.3% at the
4-month follow-up; P<.001), whereas control group patients
showed no change. Rheumatoid arthritis patients in the experimental
group showed improvements in overall disease activity (a mean reduction
in disease severity from 1.65 to 1.19 [28%] on a scale of 0
[asymptomatic] to 4 [very severe] at the 4-month follow-up;
P=.001), whereas control group patients did
not change. Combining all completing patients, 33 (47.1%) of 70
experimental patients had clinically relevant improvement, whereas 9
(24.3%) of 37 control patients had improvement
(P=.001).ConclusionPatients with mild to moderately severe asthma or
rheumatoid arthritis who wrote about stressful life experiences had
clinically relevant changes in health status at 4 months compared with
those in the control group. These gains were beyond those attributable
to the standard medical care that all participants were receiving. It
remains unknown whether these health improvements will persist beyond 4
months or whether this exercise will prove effective with other
diseases.
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TL;DR: Detergent insolubility is an invaluable tool for studying cellular rafts and characterizing their composition and can depend on lipid composition, detergent and temperature.
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TL;DR: A novel systematic method is proposed for accurate and quick calibration of a 3-D shape measurement system based on a structured light technique to enable the projector to "capture" images like a camera, thus making the calibration ofA projector the same as that of a camera.
Abstract: System calibration, which usually involves complicated and time-consuming procedures, is crucial for any 3-D shape measurement system. In this work, a novel systematic method is proposed for accurate and quick calibration of a 3-D shape measurement system we developed based on a structured light technique. The key concept is to enable the projector to "capture" images like a camera, thus making the calibration of a projector the same as that of a camera. With this new concept, the calibration of structured light systems becomes essentially the same as the calibration of traditional stereovision systems, which is well estab- lished. The calibration method is fast, robust, and accurate. It signifi- cantly simplifies the calibration and recalibration procedures of struc- tured light systems. This work describes the principle of the proposed method and presents some experimental results that demonstrate its performance. © 2006 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
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TL;DR: With the EOS fixed from SPS data, predictions at RHIC are quantified where the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) pressure is expected to drive additional radial and elliptic flows and the strong elliptic flow observed in the first RHIC measurements does not conclusively signal this nascent QGP pressure.
Abstract: Radial and elliptic flow in noncentral heavy-ion collisions can constrain the effective equation of state (EOS) of the excited nuclear matter. To this end, a model combining relativistic hydrodynamics and a hadronic transport code [Sorge, Phys. Rev. C 52, 3291 (1995)] is developed. For an EOS with a first-order phase transition, the model reproduces both the radial and elliptic flow data at the SPS. With the EOS fixed from SPS data, we quantify predictions at RHIC where the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) pressure is expected to drive additional radial and elliptic flows. Currently, the strong elliptic flow observed in the first RHIC measurements does not conclusively signal this nascent QGP pressure.
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Zhong Lin Wang | 245 | 2529 | 259003 |
Dennis W. Dickson | 191 | 1243 | 148488 |
Hyun-Chul Kim | 176 | 4076 | 183227 |
David Baker | 173 | 1226 | 109377 |
J. N. Butler | 172 | 2525 | 175561 |
Roderick T. Bronson | 169 | 679 | 107702 |
Nora D. Volkow | 165 | 958 | 107463 |
Jovan Milosevic | 152 | 1433 | 106802 |
Thomas E. Starzl | 150 | 1625 | 91704 |
Paolo Boffetta | 148 | 1455 | 93876 |
Jacques Banchereau | 143 | 634 | 99261 |
Larry R. Squire | 143 | 472 | 85306 |
John D. E. Gabrieli | 142 | 480 | 68254 |
Alexander Milov | 142 | 1143 | 93374 |
Meenakshi Narain | 142 | 1805 | 147741 |