Scholars@Duke
Beth Blackwood

Selected Publications

Machine learning in the diagnosis, management, and care of patients with low back pain: a scoping review of the literature and future directions.

Journal Article Spine J · September 25, 2024 BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Low back pain (LBP) remains the leading cause of disability globally. In recent years, machine learning (ML) has emerged as a potentially useful tool to aid the diagnosis, management, and prognostication of LBP. PURPOSE: In this review, ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Chiropractic and Spinal Manipulation: A Review of Research Trends, Evidence Gaps, and Guideline Recommendations.

Journal Article J Clin Med · September 24, 2024 Chiropractors diagnose and manage musculoskeletal disorders, commonly using spinal manipulative therapy (SMT). Over the past half-century, the chiropractic profession has seen increased utilization in the United States following Medicare authorization for ... Full text Link to item Cite

Prevalence of obesity in religious clergy in the United States: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Journal Article Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · July 2024 ObjectiveThis systematic review aims to summarize the current body of evidence concerning the prevalence of obesity among clergy (i.e., the officially designated leaders of a religious group) in the United States.MethodFrom November 2022 ... Full text Cite

Low-Fat Research Data Management

Chapter · December 5, 2022 The Data Literacy Cookbook includes a variety of approaches to and lesson plans for teaching data literacy, from simple activities to self-paced learning modules to for-credit and discipline-specific courses. ... Cite

Virtual Undergraduate Internships: One COVID-19 Side Effect THat Academic Libraries Should Keep

Journal Article Portal · January 1, 2022 In spring 2020, the California State University System and its 23 campuses became the first in the United States to commit to a year of remote instruction due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Remote instruction separated the system’s librarians from their users, ... Full text Cite

Outside the R1: Equitable data management at the undergraduate level

Journal Article IASSIST Quarterly · September 26, 2021 Universities within the California State University System are given the mandate to teach the students of the state, as is the case with many regional, public universities. This mandate places teaching first; however, research and scholarship are s ... Full text Cite

More Data, Less Dewey: Modernizing a For-Credit, Library Course to Support Data and Algorithmic Literacy for Undergrads

Chapter · July 21, 2021 Offering readers a roadmap for effectively teaching data literacy at the undergraduate level, this volume explores such topics as the potential for large-scale library/faculty partnerships to incorporate data literacy instruction across the ... ... Cite

Fostering institutional awareness for copyright: Some practical strategies

Journal Article The Journal of Academic Librarianship · September 2020 Full text Cite

STL Data Curation Primer

Internet Publication · January 17, 2020 An STL file stores information about 3D models. It is commonly used for printing 3D objects. The STL format approximates 3D surfaces of a solid model with oriented triangles (facets) of different size and shape (aspect ratio) in order to achieve a represen ... Link to item Cite