MS Research Roundup: November 11, 2014

National Diabetes Month — November 2014

Rui Li, PhD1, Sundar S. Shrestha, PhD1, Ruth Lipman, PhD2, Nilka R. Burrows, MPH1, Leslie E. Kolb, MBA2, Stephanie Rutledge, PhD1 (Author affiliations at end of text) Diabetes is a complex chronic disease that requires active involvement of patients in its management (1). Diabetes selfmanagement education and training (DSMT), “the ongoing process of facilitating the knowledge, skill, and abilit...

Math G9905 Research Seminar in Number Theory (fall 2014) Lecture 11 (november 25, 2014) Michael Woodbury an Adelic Kuznetsov Trace Formula for Gl(4)

An important tool in analytic number theory for GL(2)-type questions is Kuznetsov’s trace formula. Recently, in work of Blomer and of Goldfeld/Kontorovich, generalizations of this to GL(3) have been given which are useful for number theoretic applications. In my talks I will discuss joint work with Dorian Goldfeld in which we further generalize the said GL(3) results to GL(4). I will discuss so...

Ebola Virus Outbreak Investigation, Sierra Leone, September 28–November 11, 2014

During 2014-2015, an outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) swept across parts of West Africa. The China Mobile Laboratory Testing Team was dispatched to support response efforts; during September 28-November 11, 2014, they conducted PCR testing on samples from 1,635 suspected EVD patients. Of those patients, 50.4% were positive, of whom 84.6% lived within a 3-km zone along main roads connecting...

Abstracts from Rambam Research Day, December 11, 2014

National Epilepsy Awareness Month — November 2014

November is National Epilepsy Awareness Month. Epilepsy is a brain disorder characterized by recurrent seizures and affects an estimated 2.3 million adults and 450,000 children in the United States (1,2). Eighty-seven percent of parents of children with epilepsy have reported needing care coordination, and of these, 45% had unmet needs (3). Community-based care coordination can improve outcomes...