Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27705, USA Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708, USA Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human G...

Author details Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care, Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA. Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, 411 W. Chapel Hill Street; Suite 500, Durham, NC 27701, USA. Duke University School of Nursing, Durham, NC, USA. Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, NC, USA. Duke Universi...

behalf of Duke University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina Address correspondence to Rachel A. Bowman, PhD, Durham Child Development and Behavioral Health Clinic, Duke University School of Medicine, 402 Tr...

From the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC (M.R.P., E.D.P., D.D., J.M.B., P.S.D.); University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco (R.F.R., R.G.B.); and the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston (H.V.A.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Patel at the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, P.O. Box 17969, Durham, NC 2771...

OBJECTIVE To compare the sensitivity of 3 different criteria-von Reyn, Duke, and modified Duke-in diagnosing infective endocarditis (IE) in children. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective case study in a tertiary pediatric hospital. METHODS AND RESULTS Between 1985 and 2001, 41 episodes of IE were documented in 40 children (median: 7 years old; range: 1 week to 18 years). The diagnosis was based on ec...

Magnetic Susceptibility Anisotropy of the Myocardium Russell Dibb, Luke Xie, and Chunlei Liu Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States, Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Brain Imaging & Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States, Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC,...

In this paper we introduce a new coalitional value in the context of TU games with an a priori system of unions, which it is called the symmetric coalitional Banzhaf value. This value satisfies the property of symmetry in the quotient game, the quotient game property, and it is a coalitional value of Banzhaf. Several characterizations are provided and two political examples illustrate the diffe...

This paper proposes an extension of the Identity model developed by Akerlof and Kranton (2000) that incorporates a beliefs dimension based on the consumption of information. The model is then applied to the process by which consumer-voters consume campaign media and selectively accept information to vote. Based on the assumption that political parties act to maximize their stream of future cont...

A free online tool that visualizes the design of animal experiments and gives critical feedback could save scientists from embarking on poorly designed research, the software's developers hope. Over the past few years, researchers have picked out numerous flaws in the design and reporting of published animal experiments, which, they warn, could lead to bias. In response, hundreds of journals ha...

Existing models show that herding in decisions can cause significant information loss, inferior information aggregation and impaired decision making. However, we show that in a multi-stage decision setting with endogenous information production, herding on the initial decision can actually result in superior aggregate information and improved decisions. This is because the possibility of herdin...