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University of Rhode Island
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About: University of Rhode Island is a education organization based out in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Bay. The organization has 11464 authors who have published 22770 publications receiving 841066 citations. The organization is also known as: URI & Rhode Island College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts.
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TL;DR: The data suggest that individuals in psychiatric treatment for depression can be aided in quitting smoking through use of staged care interventions and that smoking cessation interventions used in the general population can be implemented in psychiatric outpatient settings.
Abstract: Objectives. Using a brief contact control, we tested the efficacy of a staged care intervention to reduce cigarette smoking among psychiatric patients in outpatient treatment for depression.Methods. We conducted a randomized clinical trial that included assessments at baseline and at months 3, 6, 12, and 18. Three hundred twenty-two patients in mental health outpatient treatment who were diagnosed with depression and smoked ≥1 cigarette per day participated. The desire to quit smoking was not a prerequisite for participation. Staged care intervention participants received computerized motivational feedback at baseline and at 3, 6, and 12 months and were offered a 6-session psychological counseling and pharmacological cessation treatment program. Brief contact control participants received a self-help guide and referral list of local smoking-treatment providers.Results. As we hypothesized, abstinence rates among staged care intervention participants exceeded those of brief contact control participants at m...
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on some tactical issues of bundling, such as which types of products should be bundled, what price one can charge for the bundle, and how the price of the bundle should be presented to consumers to improve purchase intent.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used meta-analysis approaches to evaluate the nitrate removal rate of denitrifying woodchip bioreactors and found that hydraulic retention times were significantly lower in beds with <6-h hydraulic retention time than those with ≥6h retention times.
Abstract: Meta-analysis approaches were used in this first quantitative synthesis of denitrifying woodchip bioreactors. Nitrate removal across environmental and design conditions was assessed from 26 published studies, representing 57 separate bioreactor units (i.e., walls, beds, and laboratory columns). Effect size calculations weighted the data based on variance and number of measurements for each bioreactor unit. Nitrate removal rates in bed and column studies were not significantly different, but both were significantly higher than wall studies. In denitrifying beds, wood source did not significantly affect nitrate removal rates. Nitrate removal (mass per volume) was significantly lower in beds with <6-h hydraulic retention times, which argues for ensuring that bed designs incorporate sufficient time for nitrate removal. Rates significantly declined after the first year of bed operation but then stabilized. Nitrogen limitation significantly affected bed nitrate removal. Categorical and linear assessments found significant nitrate removal effects with bed temperature; a of 2.15 was quite similar to other studies. Lessons from this meta-analysis can be incorporated into bed designs, especially extending hydraulic retention times to increase nitrate removal under low temperature and high flow conditions. Additional column studies are warranted for comparative assessments, as are field-based studies for assessing in situ conditions, especially in aging beds, with careful collection and reporting of design and environmental data. Future assessment of these systems might take a holistic view, reviewing nitrate removal in conjunction with other processes, including greenhouse gas and other unfavorable by-product production.
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TL;DR: In this article, the solution structures of organic carbonate solvents (ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate(PC), dimethyl carbonate, DMC, and diethyl carbonate) as electrolyte solutions of LiPF6 were investigated with FTIR and NMR spectroscopy and DFT computational methods.
Abstract: The solution structures of organic carbonate solvents (ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate (PC), dimethyl carbonate (DMC), and diethyl carbonate (DEC)) as electrolyte solutions of LiPF6 were investigated with FTIR and NMR spectroscopy and DFT computational methods. Both coordinated and uncoordinated solvents are observed by IR spectroscopy, allowing the determination of solvent coordination numbers, which a range from 2 to 5. The predominant species in solution changes as a function of LiPF6 concentration. At low salt concentrations ( 2.0 M) the predominant species in solution is the contact ion pair. In mixed solvent systems (PC–DMC, PC–DEC, EC–DMC, or EC–DEC), the mixed solvated cations are observed in the presence of high concentrations of uncoordinated cyclic carbonate despite the much larger dielectric constant of the cyclic carbonates than dielectric constant of linear carbonate.
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TL;DR: Results show the feasibility of using a single nanostructure for image-guided local tumor PTA therapy with photoacoustic molecular imaging, and significantly prolonged the survival of tumor-bearing mice.
Abstract: Advancements in nanotechnology have made it possible to create multifunctional nanostructures that can be used simultaneously to image and treat cancers For example, hollow gold nanospheres (HAuNS) have been shown to generate intense photoacoustic signals and induce efficient photothermal ablation (PTA) therapy In this study, we used photoacoustic tomography, a hybrid imaging modality, to assess the intravenous delivery of HAuNS targeted to integrins that are overexpressed in both glioma and angiogenic blood vessels in a mouse model of glioma Mice were then treated with near-infrared laser, which elevated tumor temperature by 207°C We found that PTA treatment significantly prolonged the survival of tumor-bearing mice Taken together, these results show the feasibility of using a single nanostructure for image-guided local tumor PTA therapy with photoacoustic molecular imaging
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James M. Tiedje | 150 | 688 | 102287 |
Roberto Kolter | 120 | 315 | 52942 |
Robert S. Stern | 120 | 761 | 62834 |
Michael S. Feld | 119 | 552 | 51968 |
William C. Sessa | 117 | 383 | 52208 |
Kenneth H. Mayer | 115 | 1351 | 64698 |
Staffan Kjelleberg | 114 | 425 | 44414 |
Kevin C. Jones | 114 | 744 | 50207 |
David R. Nelson | 110 | 615 | 66627 |
Peter K. Smith | 107 | 855 | 49174 |
Peter M. Groffman | 106 | 457 | 40165 |
Ming Li | 103 | 1669 | 62672 |
Victor Nizet | 102 | 564 | 44193 |
Anil Kumar | 99 | 2124 | 64825 |
James O. Prochaska | 97 | 320 | 73265 |