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Blood-Based Biomarkers: A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

Description: This article describes the first-ever multiethnic referent sample that spans community-based and clinic-based populations for implementation of an Alzheimer's disease blood screen.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Edwards, Melissa; Johnson, Leigh A.; Hall, James R.; Villarreal, Alcibiades E.; Britton, Gabrielle B. et al.
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A blood screening test for Alzheimer's disease

Description: Article describes study examining the positive and negative predictive values of an Alzheimer's disease (AD) blood test if implemented in primary care.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: O'Bryant, Sid E.; Edwards, Melissa; Johnson, Leigh A.; Hall, James R.; Villarreal, Alcibiades E.; Britton, Gabrielle B. et al.
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The Chandra Deep Field-South Survey: 7 Ms Source Catalogs

Description: This article presents X-ray source catalogs for the ≈7 Ms exposure of the Chandra Deep Field-South (CF-S), which covers a total area of 484.2 arcmin².
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Luo, Bin; Brandt, William Nielsen; Xue, Yongquan; Lehmer, Bret; Alexander, David M.; Bauer, Franz E. et al.
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Health and Climate Change: policy responses to protect public health

Description: This article summarizes key messages from the 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change, accompanied by ten underlying recommendations to accelerate action in the next 5 years.
Date: June 22, 2015
Creator: Watts, Nick; Adger, W. Neil; Agnolucci, Paolo; Blackstock, Jason; Byass, Peter; Cai, Wenjia et al.
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Buruli Ulcer Disease and Its Association with Land Cover in Southwestern Ghana

Description: This article presents the first analysis of Buruli ulcer at the village level in southwestern Ghana, where prevalence rates are among the highest globally, and explores fine and medium-scale associations with land cover by comparing patterns both within Buruli ulcer clusters and surrounding landscapes.
Date: June 19, 2015
Creator: Wu, Jianyong; Tschakert, Petra; Klutse, Erasmus; Ferring, David; Ricciardi, Vincent; Hausermann, Heidi et al.
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Artificially Structured Boundary as a Charged Particle Beam Deflector Shield

Description: This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings studies the possibility of using a planar artificially structured boundary as a charged particle beam deflector shield via classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Hedlof, R. M. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
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Ion Beam Analysis of Microcrystalline Quartz Artifacts from the Reed Mound Site, Delaware County, Oklahoma

Description: This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings evaluates the potential of particle induced X-ray emission spectrometry as a tool for future Ozarks chert provenance studies based on its ability to facilitate discrimination of Ozarks chert materials from different geological formations and identification of discrete groups of artifacts from the same geological formation.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Younger-Mertz, S. B.; Manuel, J. E.; Reinert, Tilo; Szilasi, S. Z.; Hammerstedt, S. W. & Glass, Gary A.
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Magnetic Control of a Charge-Neutralized Ion Beam

Description: This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings presents a scheme for controlling charge-neutralized beams using a distortion of a magnetic guide field via the presence of two current carrying wires.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Phillips, R. E. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
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Particle Transport along Magnetic Null Lines as Sputter or Antihydrogen Source

Description: This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings investigates particle transport along null magnetic lines using classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulations, described as a traveling wave and through diffusion equations.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Lane, Ryan A. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
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Radial Expansion of a Low Energy Positron Beam Passing Through a Cold Electron Plasma within a Uniform Magnetic Field

Description: This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings studies the radial expansion of a low energy positron beam passing through a cold electron plasma within a uniform magnetic field using a classical trajectory Monte Carlo simulation.
Date: June 18, 2015
Creator: Aguirre, F. F. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
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Change in Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status and Weight Gain: Dallas Heart Study

Description: This article examines the longitudinal relationship between moving to more socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods and weight gain as a cardiovascular risk factor.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M.; Cooper-McCann, Rebecca; Ayers, Colby; Berrigan, David; Lian, Min; McClurkin, Michael et al.
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Groundwater Quality in the Barnett Shale Region

Description: This article presents an analysis of 550 groundwater samples collected from private and public supply water wells drawing from aquifers overlying the Barnett shale formation of Texas.
Date: June 16, 2015
Creator: Hildenbrand, Zacariah Louis; Carlton Jr., Doug D.; Fontenot, Brian; Meik, Jesse M.; Walton, Jayme; Taylor, Josh et al.
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From neural and social cooperation to the global emergence of cognition

Description: This article elaborates on a discussion of the emergence of intelligence via criticality as a consequence of locality breakdown, by using criticality for the foundation of a novel generation of game theory making the local interaction between players yield long-range effects.
Date: June 16, 2015
Creator: Grigolini, Paolo; Piccinni, Nicola; Svenkeson, Adam; Pramukkul, Pensri; Lambert, David & West, Bruce J.
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Multiple Aperture-Based Antihydrogen Parallel Plate Gravity Experiment

Description: This paper from the 23rd Conference on Application of Accelerators in Research and Industry conference proceedings describes an experiment that could be carried out at the CERN Antiproton Decelerator facility to determine the direction of acceleration of antihydrogen in the earth's gravitational field.
Date: June 8, 2015
Creator: Treacher, A. H.; Hedlof, R. M. & Ordonez, Carlos A.
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