Background. Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a primary cause of infant sepsis and meningitis. As maternal anti-capsular (GBS) antibody is protective, maternal immunization could protect newborns. Here, the safety and immunogenicity of various doses, schedules and adjuvants of a trivalent GBS glycoconjugate vaccine (Novartis) were evaluated in non-pregnant women (clinicaltrials.gov NCT01150123). M...

We propose an unsupervised bootstrapping method to generate a new type of affect knowledge base: the sentiment expectation of nouns (e.g., “high salary” is desirable while “high price” is usually undesirable, because people have opposite sentiment expectation towards “salary” and “price”). A bootstrapping framework is designed to retrieve patterns that might be used to express complaints from t...

The Special Committee on Merit Equity was constituted by the UCSC academic senate to determine whether there was evidence that salary inequities exist for women and minority faculty members on campus. To answer this question, the committee examined personnel records on senate faculty who were on campus in July 1997, including data on starting step, salary, and progress through the ranks. Becaus...

A robust finding in all studies is that citations are a positive and significant determinant of earnings over almost all of the observed range of citation levels. The marginal value of a citation (when the level of citations is zero) varies between $50 and SJ .300. Some differences in marginal values may be due to differences in citation practices among disciplines while others may be due to di...