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eamarais/erc-uptrop: tropomi-ut-no2-1.0.0
No full textInitial release version 1.0.0.
Python code documentation: https://maraisresearchgroup.co.uk/erc-uptrop/
Release includes python code to retrieve NO2 concentrations in the upper troposphere using cloud-slicing. Also included is code to validate TROPOMI with ground-based observations from Pandora and MAX-DOAS, conduct a synthetic cloud-slicing experiment with output from the GEOS-Chem model, and compare two distinct TROPOMI cloud products used in the cloud-slicing retrieval.Code author contributions include initial scientific code development by Eloise Marais and substantial improvements to the code architecture by research software engineer John Roberts
Correction to:Girls get by with a little help from their friends: gender differences in protective effects of social support for psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents (Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, (2018), 10.1007/s00127-018-1599-6)
No full textThe article Girls get by with a little help from their friends: gender differences in protective effects of social support for psychotic phenomena amongst poly-victimised adolescents, written by Eloise Crush, Louise Arseneault and Helen L. Fisher, was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on 25 September 2018 without open access. With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on 2 September 2018 to</p
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Life History of Ralph W. Spitzer
No full textA detailed biographical sketch of Ralph W. Spitzer (b. 1918), a graduate student of Linus Pauling's and promising academic who joined the Oregon State College chemistry department in 1946. Promoted to Assistant Professor in 1947, Spitzer was nonetheless fired from the OSC faculty in 1949 by President August L. Strand, almost certainly because of progressive political views espoused by Spitzer and his wife Teresa. Spitzer eventually matriculated to Canada where he earned an M.D. specializing in chemical pathology and co-founded a successful diagnostic laboratory firm, C.J. Coady Associates.
The paper is based upon a series of oral history interviews conducted by the author with Ralph Spitzer, his daughter Eloise Spitzer, and his wife Hisako Kurotaki
The Use of Author Conflict-of-Interest Disclosures by Medical Students and Residents While Searching for Internet-Based Prescribing Information
No full textAn ever increasing number of biomedical researchers and physicians are engaged in financial relationships with the pharmaceutical industry. One of the policies that has been most widely used to manage author conflicts of interest (COI) in academic literature has been the COI disclosure statement. It is assumed that such disclosures allow the reader to consider the authors potential for bias while evaluating a source. This study explored how medical students and residents use conflict-of-interest statements during internet-based searches for prescribing information, in the context of their overall information search behaviors. Methods: The sample consisted of 20 medical students and 5 internal medicine residents at an academic medical center. The subjects were given written clinical scenarios in which they were instructed to make a prescribing decision regarding a novel drug by searching the internet for relevant information (each case lasted 10-15 minutes.) Different levels of promptsthat encouraged subjects to consider author conflicts of interest during their information searchwere given to the subject groups: no prompting (Open), an author disclosure-containing article (Guided), and explicit instructions (COI Instruction.) The subjects were instructed to think aloud during all cases, and both computer screen activity and verbal comments were recorded with Morae software. Frequency of exposure to COI-containing sources and viewing of disclosure statements was analyzed, and thematic analysis was performed on the verbal transcripts. Results: None (0%) of the subjects spontaneously searched for or read author COI information, and subjects largely relied on abstract-level sources, of which the majority (77% overall) had corresponding author COIs disclosed in the full-text articles (22% of the abstracts had inaccessible author COI information.) When explicitly prompted to find and read COI disclosures, most medical students still failed to access full-text articles and locate the statements (disclosures were accessed in 27% of cases), while the majority of residents (in 60% of cases) successfully found the disclosures. The think aloud transcripts suggest that when subjects actually read the author disclosure statements, they express an impulse to discount or scrutinize the information more closely. Conclusions: Reading author COI disclosures is likely not part of the routine information search behavior of medical students and residents. If author disclosure statements will continue to be the mainstay of COI management, educational interventions should be implemented to train medical students and residents to more regularly read author COI disclosures and incorporate this information into their source evaluation. Journals should consider placing disclosure statements in a more prominent, accessible location in the article
A descriptive study of the communications behavior of a selected group of students at Sumter County High School, Americus, Georgia, 1967
No full textA study of part-time employment of youth under eighteen years of age enrolled in the Booker T. Washington high school of Atlanta, Georgia as of December, 1944 and January, 1945, 1945
No full textA study of the Flanner House plan of urban housing development in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, 1948
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