BACKGROUND: Active surveillance (AS) represents a treatment option for renal masses in
patients who are not surgical candidates either because of existing comorbidities or patient …

Objectives: In select burn intensive care units, high-frequency percussive ventilation is
preferentially used to provide mechanical ventilation in support of patients with acute lung injury, …

This paper describes NASA World Wind, its technical architecture and performance, and its
emerging use for mission operations. World Wind is a geographic information system that …

In this paper, we present the current state of a failure mode taxonomy, and discuss its potential
to explore the failure mode space of aerospace applications. More fundamentally, we …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between lymph node dissection (LND) and
survival among patients undergoing nephroureterectomy for upper urinary tract urothelial cell …

Markets and communities are two modalities of knowledge exchange between firms; and this
study concludes with a model that addresses the tension between the two modalities. The …

Introduction Anemia is a common problem in critically ill patients. The etiology of anemia of
critical illness is often determined to be multifactorial in the clinical setting, but the …

BACKGROUND Carboxypeptidase‐D (CPD) cleaves C‐terminal arginine for conversion to
nitric oxide (NO) by nitric oxide synthase (NOS). Prolactin (PRL) and androgens stimulate …

This study was done to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of individualized, problem-solving
counseling provided by baccalaureate nurses over the telephone to prevent the onset …

OBJECTIVES: To determine whether there is a gap between what patients know about early-stage
prostate cancer and what they need to know to make treatment decisions, and …