Deborah H. Gruenfeld (2020). Acting with Power. New York: Currency/Penguin Random House

Powassan Meningoencephalitis, New York, New York, USA

Disease caused by Powassan virus (POWV), a tick-borne flavivirus, ranges from asymptomatic to severe neurologic compromise and death. Two cases of POWV meningoencephalitis in New York, USA, highlight diagnostic techniques, neurologic outcomes, and the effect of POWV on communities to which it is endemic.

Aerospace Sciences Meeting New York, New York

Failure Analysis of the New York City Power Grid

As U.S. power grid transforms itself into Smart Grid, it has become less reliable in the past years. Power grid failures lead to huge financial cost and affect people’s life. Using a statistical analysis and holistic approach, this paper analyzes the New York City power grid failures: failure patterns and climatic effects. Our findings include: higher peak electrical load increases likelihood o...

The New F - Tag 315 Deborah

In this issue, Johnson and Ouslander tackle one of the most costly, enduring, and vexing problems in long-term care: urinary incontinence (UI) management. Since 1988 when a consensus statement on the state of the science was drafted by an interdisciplinary expert panel (National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference on UI) and in 1996, when the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AH...

Deborah McCollister