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University of Colorado Colorado Springs

EducationColorado Springs, Colorado, United States
About: University of Colorado Colorado Springs is a education organization based out in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 6664 authors who have published 10872 publications receiving 323416 citations. The organization is also known as: UCCS & University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.


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TL;DR: This article investigated the importance of lost resources, coping self-efficacy, and coping behavior as important variables in acute disaster reaction and medium range disaster recovery following Hurricane Andrew and found that these variables together provided the best fitted causal model for describing psychological reactions to the hurricane over time.
Abstract: Disaster research has increasingly examined how personal characteristics mediate emotional recovery following disaster exposure. We investigated the importance of lost resources, coping self-efficacy, and coping behavior as important variables in acute disaster reaction and medium range disaster recovery following Hurricane Andrew. One hundred and eighty participants living in southern Dade county completed the initial phase of the study (1–4 months post-hurricane), with 135 individuals completing the second wave (8–12 months post-hurricane). Results confirmed that lost resources, coping self-efficacy, and coping behavior are important in understanding psychological reactivity following a natural disaster. These variables together provided the best fitted causal model for describing psychological reactions to the hurricane over time. Results are discussed in relation to how coping self-efficacy may serve as an important intra-personal factor that mediates how lost resources are managed and how ef...

214 citations

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TL;DR: This paper found that incidental reminders of one's mortality increase the need to believe that others share one's worldview and that cultural worldviews function to provide protection against anxiety concerning human vulnerability and mortality and that their effectiveness as buffers against such anxiety is maintained through a process of consensual validation.
Abstract: Terror management theory posits that cultural worldviews function to provide protection against anxiety concerning human vulnerability and mortality and that their effectiveness as buffers against such anxiety is maintained through a process of consensual validation Two field experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that incidental reminders of one's mortality increase the need to believe that others share one's worldview In both studies, passersby on city streets were asked to estimate the extent of social consensus for culturally relevant attitudes, 100 m before passing a funeral home, 100 m after passing a funeral home, or directly in front of a funeral home In the first study, conducted in Germany, subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of Germans who shared their opinions about a proposal to change the German constitution to restrict the immigration of foreigners, in the second study, conducted in the United States, subjects were asked to estimate the percentage of Americans who shar...

214 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the properties of non-reciprocity of surface plasmons, polaritons, phonons and magnons are investigated for a variety of excitations and structures.

212 citations

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TL;DR: Excimer laser-assisted angioplasty for CLI offers high technical success and limb salvage rates in patients unfit for traditional surgical revascularization, according to a prospective registry at 14 sites in the US and Germany.
Abstract: Purpose:To evaluate the effectiveness of laser-assisted angioplasty for patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) who were poor candidates for surgical revascularization.Methods:A prospective registry at 14 sites in the US and Germany enrolled 145 patients with 155 critically ischemic limbs; the patients were poor candidates for bypass surgery owing to inadequate target vessel or saphenous vein, prohibitive cardiac disease, or significant comorbidities (ASA class 4). Additional comorbid risk factors included diabetes in 66%, hypertension in 83%, previous stroke in 21%, and myocardial infarction in 23%. Endovascular treatment included guidewire traversal and excimer laser angioplasty followed by balloon angioplasty with optional stenting.Results:Occlusions were present in 92% of limbs. A mean of 2.7±1.4 lesions were treated per limb; the total median treatment length was 11 cm (mean 16.2, range 0.2–123). Stents were implanted in 45% of limbs. Procedural success, defined as <50% residual stenosis in all tr...

211 citations

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TL;DR: A new statistical predictor based upon the Weibull distribution is developed, which produces accurate results on a per instance recognition basis across different recognition problems.
Abstract: In this paper, we define meta-recognition, a performance prediction method for recognition algorithms, and examine the theoretical basis for its postrecognition score analysis form through the use of the statistical extreme value theory (EVT). The ability to predict the performance of a recognition system based on its outputs for each match instance is desirable for a number of important reasons, including automatic threshold selection for determining matches and nonmatches, and automatic algorithm selection or weighting for multi-algorithm fusion. The emerging body of literature on postrecognition score analysis has been largely constrained to biometrics, where the analysis has been shown to successfully complement or replace image quality metrics as a predictor. We develop a new statistical predictor based upon the Weibull distribution, which produces accurate results on a per instance recognition basis across different recognition problems. Experimental results are provided for two different face recognition algorithms, a fingerprint recognition algorithm, a SIFT-based object recognition system, and a content-based image retrieval system.

211 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Jeff Greenberg10554243600
James F. Scott9971458515
Martin Wikelski8942025821
Neil W. Kowall8927934943
Ananth Dodabalapur8539427246
Tom Pyszczynski8224630590
Patrick S. Kamath7846631281
Connie M. Weaver7747330985
Alejandro Lucia7568023967
Michael J. McKenna7035616227
Timothy J. Craig6945818340
Sheldon Solomon6715023916
Michael H. Stone6537016355
Christopher J. Gostout6533413593
Edward T. Ryan6030311822
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202325
202246
2021568
2020543
2019479
2018454