Ecological communities are structured by both deterministic and stochastic processes. We investigated phylogenetic patterns at regional and local scales to understand the influences of seasonal processes in shaping the structure of anuran communities in the southern Pantanal wetland, Brazil. We assessed the phylogenetic structure at different scales, using the Net Relatedness Index (NRI), the N...

Stories naturally reveal themselves to us through space and over time. Today's digitally networked society provides a fertile environment for the exploration of narrative forms in new and diverse ways. The Digital Dialogues Symposium provided the setting for a series of experimental approaches to the recording and documenting of an event in time. Using custom designed software, participants col...

To date, the only established model for assessing risk for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) relies on the sero-status of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). By contrast, the risk assessment models proposed here include environmental risk factors, family history of NPC, and information on genetic variants. The models were developed using epidemiological and genetic data from a large case-control study, ...

BACKGROUND Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are at risk for progression to kidney failure. Using data of Canadian CKD patients, Tangri et al. recently developed models to predict the progression of CKD stages 3-5 to kidney failure within 5 years. We validated this kidney failure risk equation (KFRE) in European CKD patients. METHODS We selected non-transplanted patients with CKD sta...

BACKGROUND We evaluated the ability of 23 novel biomarkers representing several pathophysiological pathways to improve the prediction of cardiovascular event (CVE) risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus beyond traditional risk factors. METHODS AND RESULTS We used data from 1002 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus from the Second Manifestations of ARTertial disease (SMART) study and...

BACKGROUND Cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPX) responses are strong predictors of outcomes in patients with heart failure. We recently developed a CPX score that integrated the additive prognostic information from CPX. The purpose of this study was to validate the score in a larger, independent sample of patients. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 2625 patients with heart failure underwent CPX a...

BACKGROUND The value of new biomarkers or imaging tests, when added to a prediction model, is currently evaluated using reclassification measures, such as the net reclassification improvement (NRI). However, these measures only provide an estimate of improved reclassification at population level. We present a straightforward approach to characterize subgroups of reclassified individuals in orde...

The National Resources Inventory (NRI) is a large-scale longitudinal survey conducted to assess trends and conditions of nonfederal land. A key NRI estimate is year-to-year change in acres of developed land, where developed land includes roads and urban areas. In 2003, a digital data collection procedure was implemented replacing a map overlay. Data from an NRI calibration experiment are used t...

PURPOSE The validity of tomotherapy-based simultaneous integrated boost (TOMOSIB) was assessed in terms of acute intestinal/urinary toxicity by comparing with 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) in cases of whole-pelvis radiation therapy (WPRT) for prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-eight consecutive patients who underwent curative WPRT were retrospectively reviewed. Twent...

Individuals differ in their propensity to adopt new technologies, and thus the paper integrates technology readiness index (TRI) 2.0 with technology acceptance model (TAM) by investigating how B2B decision makers’ technology readiness explains perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness of digital services. The study further investigates how perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness imp...