Journal ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.) · September 2025
Species population sizes fluctuate over time, and these temporal dynamics play a key role in governing the maintenance of biodiversity. Although modeling approaches have been developed to characterize fluctuations in species abundances, the data required t ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Transplant · June 2025
Disparities in access to the organ transplant waitlist are well-documented, but research into modifiable factors has been limited due to a lack of access to organized prewaitlisting data. This study aimed to develop a natural language processing (NLP) algo ...
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Journal ArticlePLoS One · 2025
OBJECTIVES: Linking neighborhood- and patient-level data provides valuable information about the influence of upstream social determinants of health (SDOH). However, sharing of these data across health systems presents challenges. We set out to develop a p ...
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Journal ArticleKidney360 · January 1, 2024
KEY POINTS: Incidence of ESKD in the first year after primary organ transplant ranges from 2.4% to 3.6% and from 1.4% to 1.8% in the second year post-transplant. National data sources do not currently collect sufficiently reliable follow-up data to identif ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Netw Open · December 1, 2023
IMPORTANCE: It is unclear whether center-level factors are associated with racial equity in living donor kidney transplant (LDKT). OBJECTIVE: To evaluate center-level factors and racial equity in LDKT during an 11-year time period. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PAR ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Netw Open · December 1, 2023
IMPORTANCE: Studies elucidating determinants of residential neighborhood-level health inequities are needed. OBJECTIVE: To quantify associations of structural racism indicators with neighborhood prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetes, and hyp ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Transplant · March 2023
The choice of deprivation index can influence conclusions drawn regarding the extent of deprivation within a community and the identification of the most deprived communities in the United States. This study aimed to determine the degree of correlation amo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Am Acad Orthop Surg · October 1, 2022
INTRODUCTION: Recent advances in preoperative 3D templating software allow surgeons to plan implant size and position for stemless total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA). Whether these preoperative plans accurately reflect intraoperative decisions is yet unknow ...
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Journal ArticleJAMA Netw Open · September 1, 2022
IMPORTANCE: System and center-level interventions to improve health equity in organ transplantation benefit from robust characterization of the referral population served by each transplant center. Transplant referral regions (TRRs) define geographic catch ...
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Journal ArticlePlant disease · December 2020
During the 2019 growing season, cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) plants in North Carolina were observed to have virus-like symptoms including leaf rugosity, leaf curling, and shortened upper internodes, consistent with cotton leafroll dwarf disease (CLRDD) a ...
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Journal ArticlePlant disease · April 2020
In the 2017 and 2018 growing seasons (between May and October), several cultivars of industrial hemp plants grown for flowers in greenhouse production from four North Carolina counties showed symptoms of an angular leaf spot on leaves, stems, and flower pa ...
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Journal ArticleMicrobial ecology · April 2020
Abiotic and biotic drivers of co-occurring fungal functional guilds across regional-scale environmental gradients remain poorly understood. We characterized fungal communities using Illumina sequencing from soil cores collected across three Neotropical rai ...
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Journal ArticlePlant Health Progress · January 1, 2020
Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) has recently been reintroduced as an agricultural commodity in the United States, and, through state-led pilot programs, growers and researchers have been investigating production strategies. Diseases and disor ...
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Journal ArticlePlant disease · June 2019
In the 2017 and 2018 growing seasons (between May and October), industrial hemp plants of several cultivars including those grown for fiber, seed, and flower from numerous counties in North Carolina showed foliar, stem, and floral blight symptoms. Plants w ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Ecology. · May 2017
Fungi play critical roles in ecosystem processes and interact with plant communities in mutualistic, pathogenic, and commensal ways. Fungal communities are thought to depend on both associated tree communities and soil properties. However, the relative imp ...
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