KU Scholarly Papers Funded by the KU Open Access Fund: Recent submissions
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Healthcare reform in the United States and China: pharmaceutical market implications
(Biomed Central, 2014-07-14)Objectives The United States and China are broadening health insurance coverage and increasing spending on pharmaceuticals, in contrast to other major economies that are reducing health spending and implementing a variety ... -
Extramedullary progression of multiple myeloma despite concomitant medullary response to multiple combination therapies and autologous transplant: a case report
(Biomed Central, 2014-09-08)Introduction Extramedullary myeloma that occurs during the clinical course of multiple myeloma is rare but is an independent poor prognostic factor with mortality of 73% and median survival of 12 months despite aggressive ... -
The Acute Side Effects of Bright Light Therapy: A Placebo-Controlled Investigation
(Public Library of Science, 2013-09-24)Despite the emergence of numerous clinical and non-clinical applications of bright light therapy (LT) in recent decades, the prevalence and severity of LT side effects have not yet been fully explicated. A few adverse LT ... -
The Impact of Word Study Intervention on Adult English Learners’ Spelling and Reading
(Academy Publisher, 2014-03-01)The purpose of this study was to document the impact of an instructional approach, Word Study, on adults’ spelling and reading. Forty-nine adults enrolled in ESL classes at a community-based site in the United States from ... -
Inflammatory response following neutrophil recovery postchemotherapy in acute myeloid leukemia cases without evidence of infection: role of homing of neutrophils
(Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2014-03-10)Neutropenic sepsis is a common clinical entity occurring in postchemotherapy patients. Infection may not be the cause of fever in such patients after neutrophil-count recovery. Herein, we present two patients who developed ... -
Time rather than sleep appears to enhance off-line learning and transfer of learning of an implicit continuous task
(Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2014-03-05)There is increasing evidence that sleep promotes off-line enhancement of a variety of explicitly learned motor tasks in young adults. However, whether sleep promotes off-line consolidation of implicitly learned motor tasks ... -
Minimal regularity conditions for the end-point estimate of bilinear Calderón-Zygmund operators
(American Mathematical Society, 2014-01-09)Minimal regularity conditions on the kernels of bilinear operators are identified and shown to be sufficient for the existence of end-point estimates within the context of the bilinear Calderón-Zygmund theory. -
Is there an increased risk of hip fracture in multiple sclerosis? Analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample
(Dove Press, 2014-02-13)Impaired ambulation, frequent falls, and prolonged immobilization combined with the high rate of vitamin D deficiency in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) could lead to an increased risk of hip fracture. -
Therapeutic potentials of naringin on polymethylmethacrylate induced osteoclastogenesis and osteolysis, in vitro and in vivo assessments
(Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2013-12-10)Wear debris associated periprosthetic osteolysis represents a major pathological process associated with the aseptic loosening of joint prostheses. Naringin is a major flavonoid identified in grapefruit. Studies have shown ... -
Genomic aggregation effects and Simpson's paradox
(Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2014-01-08)Genomic studies have become commonplace, with thousands of gene expressions typically collected on single or multiple platforms and analyzed. Unaccounted time-ordered or epigenetic aspects of genetic expression may lead ... -
Rheostats and Toggle Switches for Modulating Protein Function
(Public Library of Science, 2013-12-30)The millions of protein sequences generated by genomics are expected to transform protein engineering and personalized medicine. To achieve these goals, tools for predicting outcomes of amino acid changes must be improved. ... -
Differential Effects of β-catenin and NF-κB Interplay in the Regulation of Cell Proliferation, Inflammation and Tumorigenesis in Response to Bacterial Infection
(Public Library of Science, 2013-11-21)Both β-catenin and NF-κB have been implicated in our laboratory as candidate factors in driving proliferation in an in vivo model of Citrobacter rodentium (CR)-induced colonic crypt hyper-proliferation and hyperplasia. ... -
Speaker Sex Influences Processing of Grammatical Gender
(Public Library of Science, 2013-11-13)Spoken words carry linguistic and indexical information to listeners. Abstractionist models of spoken word recognition suggest that indexical information is stripped away in a process called normalization to allow processing ... -
Machines vs. Ensembles: Effective MAPK Signaling through Heterogeneous Sets of Protein Complexes
(Public Library of Science, 2013-10-10)Despite the importance of intracellular signaling networks, there is currently no consensus regarding the fundamental nature of the protein complexes such networks employ. One prominent view involves stable signaling ... -
Symmetry-Defying Iron Pyrite (FeS2) Nanocrystals through Oriented Attachment
(Nature Publishing Group, 2013-06-28)Iron pyrite (fool's gold, FeS2) is a promising earth abundant and environmentally benign semiconductor material that shows promise as a strong and broad absorber for photovoltaics and high energy density cathode material ... -
Community structure in the phonological network
(Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2013-08-27)Community structure, which refers to the presence of densely connected groups within a larger network, is a common feature of several real-world networks from a variety of domains such as the human brain, social networks ... -
Impact of admission blood glucose level on outcomes in community-acquired pneumonia in older adults
(Dove Medical Press Ltd, 2013-05-06)Background: Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults. Although diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for pneumonia, the clinical impact of blood glucose level at the time ... -
Impact of a modified data capture period on Liu comorbidity index scores in Medicare enrollees initiating chronic dialysis
(BioMed Central, 2013-01-27)Background: The Liu Comorbidity Index uses the United States Renal Data System (USRDS) to quantify comorbidity in chronic dialysis patients, capturing baseline comorbidities from days 91 through 270 after dialysis initiation. ... -
Source-to-Source Refactoring and Elimination of Global Variables in C Programs
(Scientific Research, 2013-05-01)A global variable in C/C++ is one that is declared outside a function, and whose scope extends the lifetime of the entire program. Global variables cause problems for program dependability, maintainability, ... -
Complex-optical-field lidar system for range and vector velocity measurement
(Optics Society of America, 2012-11-01)A coherent lidar system based on the measurement of complex optical field is demonstrated for the first time. An electro-optic in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) modulator is used in the lidar transmitter to realize carrier-suppressed ...