West Virginia University

International Delphi on a medical screening tool for emergency department patients with psychiatric complaints

Abstract Background: Medical screening in the emergency department (ED) is performed to identify underlying medical conditions that may contribute to a patient’s psychiatric presentation and/or require treatment. This process frequently causes disagreement between emergency physi...

Vaccination and Economic Recovery

ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic severely hampered human mobility and disrupted a series of economic activities. In this study, I examine the impacts of vaccine coverage on mobility and several other economic indicators in the US. I construct a novel shift‐share instrument that lev...

Real-World Versus Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Estimates of Pediatric Retinal Detachment Repair Times

Purpose: To compare real-world pediatric retinal detachment (RD) repair times with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) estimates for complex RD surgeries. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was performed of complex pediatric RD perioperative times from pediatric r...

Care of the Sexual or Gender Minority Community Living with Cystic Fibrosis: A Survey of United States and Canadian Multidisciplinary Health Care Providers

PURPOSE: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, or another sexual or gender minority (LGBTQIA+) people face health inequities and commonly report health care avoidance. We examined how multidisciplinary subspecialist providers care for LGBTQIA+ people with...

Prognostic determinants in occult N1 non-small cell lung cancer after anatomical resection

Background: Clinically occult pN1 disease in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) represents postoperative nodal upstaging, but prognostic factors within this subgroup remain incompletely defined. This study evaluated clinicopathological factors associated with disease-free surviva...

Systemic Onset Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (SoJIA) mimicking Incomplete Kawasaki Disease in a 5-year-old

A 5-Year-Old male presented with 9 days of fever, rash, and poorly described muscle/joint pain despite multiple outpatient visits and treatment with antibiotics for presumed streptococcal pharyngitis, and acute otitis media.In the emergency department he appeared ill with cracked...

Temporally Validated Models for Target “Tclin-likeness”

Abstract Identifying which human proteins are likely to become validated drug targets remains a challenge in drug discovery. We build on the “Tclin” concept, which encompasses proteins for which at least one approved drug exerts its mode of action (MoA); these comprise only ∼3% o...

Anticoagulation Treatment Response Among Phenotypic ESUS Clusters: Evidence From CASPR

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate treatment effect heterogeneity across phenotypic clusters of patients with cryptogenic embolic stroke using causal inference methods. Methods From a retrospective, multicenter cohort of patients with cryptogenic embolic stroke, we estimated the trea...

Generalized Nonlinear Bayesian Pulsar Timing with ENTERPRISE

Abstract We use the Bayesian methods in the ENTERPRISE package to examine the fully general parameterization of pulsar timing models in tandem with noise. We investigate four pulsars, PSRs J1600–3053, J2043+1711, J0740+6620, and J1640+2224, through the lens of Bayesian timing. We...

Detection of relativistic orbital deformation from improved timing of PSR J1757−1854

Abstract PSR J1757−1854, a 21.5 ms pulsar is a member of a highly relativistic double neutron star (DNS) system with a tight (4.4 hr), eccentric (e = 0.61) orbit. With extremely large gravitational wave luminosity and one of the fastest orbital decay rates of any known DNS system...

Supplementation of a Bacillus -based DFM mixture on growth performance, methane emissions, microbiome, and metabolome in backgrounding beef heifers

Abstract Direct-fed microbials (DFM) have been used to improve livestock production efficiency and reduce environmental impact. Spore-forming bacteria such as Bacillus spp. present handling and processing advantages for use as a DFM; however, more information is needed about thei...

Large Magnetic Anisotropy in a Coupled Dinuclear FeII Field-Induced Single-Molecule Magnet

Abstract A series of [Me2indM(μ-Cl)(THF)]2 (M = Mn, Fe, Zn) dimers utilizing a novel bulky indoline ligand (Me2indH = 5-methoxy-2,2-dimethyl-3,3-diphenyl-7-diphenylmethylindoline) were synthesized and magnetically characterized. Analysis of the single crystal structure reveals th...

A targeted search for fast radio bursts from magnetars in elliptical galaxies

Abstract Motivated by predictions that globular clusters associated with nearby giant elliptical galaxies are prime environments for detecting fast radio bursts (FRBs) from magnetars, we report on a targeted high-sensitivity search across five local massive elliptical galaxies. W...

Training behavioral health students in the use of artificial intelligence (AI): a framework for graduate education

Purpose Despite widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI), behavioral health practitioners often feel ill-prepared to use the technologies in their clinical services. While, graduate school has been identified as an optimal time to introduce AI-related topics, to date,...

SAGE: An Expert-Annotated South Asian GI Endoscopy Dataset for Multimodal Learning and Hallucination Analysis

Gastrointestinal cancers represent a growing health burden in the South Asian region, driven largely by rapid changes in socio-economic conditions and lifestyle habits. However, early diagnosis remains limited by inadequate equipment, financial resources, and scarce GI expertise....

Anxiety and mood disorders are associated with greater healthcare and procedural utilization in idiopathic intracranial hypertension

Background and purpose Anxiety and mood disorders (AMD) are common in idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), but their association with procedural treatment and healthcare utilization is unclear. We evaluated utilization among patients with AMD documented before or shortly a...

The evolving landscape of remote sensing employment: a data-driven analysis of requirements, skills, and responsibilities in earth observation roles

Remote sensing and Earth observation technologies are expanding rapidly across scientific, commercial, and governmental domains, yet limited empirical research has examined how these roles are defined in practice. This study analyzes 250 public remote sensing job postings across...

Symmetry-based pulsed DNP and EPR sequences

Pulsed microwave irradiation provides more versatile control over spin dynamics than continuous-wave (CW) methods. This study adapts symmetry-based dipolar recoupling sequences, which are originally designed for magic angle spinning (MAS) NMR, to exploit electron-nuclear interact...

A Transparent Method for Medicolegal Decision-Making: The FAIR Framework for Individualized Attribution in Occupational Disease

OBJECTIVE: To present and evaluate Factor Attribution for Integrated Risk (FAIR), a framework for proportional attribution of excess disease risk in occupational medicine. FAIR aligns epidemiologic evidence with medicolegal thresholds (>50%, ≥20%) and distinguishes population-lev...

The Rising Threat of Lead: Trends in Fatalities of California Condors

ABSTRACT Endangered species face threats that change over time, and understanding variation in the importance of threats is valuable for guiding species recovery. The reintroduced population of critically endangered California condors has faced a number of threats over the three...