Title of Dissertation: CONTENT-BASED INSTRUCTION IN THE CONTEXT OF CHINESE IMMERSION: AN EXPLORATION OF CORRECTIVE FEEDBACK Qin Yao, Doctor of Philosophy, 2016 Dissertation directed by: Professor, Jeff MacSwan, Ph.D., Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership Immersion education encourages students to learn a new language by actually using the language, and has become a popular...

Much of the improvement in the survival of individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF) is due to advancements in antimicrobial treatments. New aerosolized antibiotic formulations have recently been introduced (such as inhaled aztreonam), and others are in development (inhaled levofloxacin and liposomal amikacin). Licensed dry powder formulations include tobramycin inhalation powder and dry powder col...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of the STARBRIGHT Fitting Cystic Fibrosis Into Your Life Everyday CD-ROM. Data were analyzed to evaluate the effectiveness of the program as an educational tool for children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CF). METHODS Forty-seven children and adolescents with CF between the ages of 7 and 17 years were enrolled in the study. Participants completed...

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is the most popular choice when implementing personalized recommender systems. A classical approach to CF is based on K-nearest-neighborhood (KNN) model, where the precondition for making recommendations is the KNN construction for involved entities. However, when building KNN sets, there exits the dilemma to decide the value of K --a small value will lead to poor r...

Poster # 285 INTRODUCTION RESULTS 2011 NACFC, Anaheim, CA Prabhavathi Fernandes, Ph.D. 6340 Quadrangle Drive, Suite 100 Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27517 [email protected] The potential clinical impact of MRSA in the pathogenesis of CF is gaining increased attention. Studies have shown that pulmonary function declines with MRSA infection and the mortality rate is increased among MRSA-...

To cite: Stevens DP, Marshall BC. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23:i1–i2. From 2002 to 2012, the median predicted survival age for people with cystic fibrosis (CF) increased nearly 10 years— from 31.3 years to 41.1 years. 2 Strategic efforts to improve care for CF marked this remarkable era. These efforts were supported by expert leadership among CF healthcare improvement professionals and resources from t...

We propose a compress-forward (CF) strategy for relaying over parallel Gaussian channels. The proposed CF strategy compresses received signals at the relay under a constraint on the product of their allowable distortions and forwards them to the destination over all subchannels. Power allocation over all subchannels at both the source and the relay and bit allocation for compressing received si...

BACKGROUND Advances in the care of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) have improved pulmonary outcomes and survival. In addition, rapid developments regarding the underlying genetic and molecular basis of the disease have led to numerous novel targets for treatment. However, clinical and basic scientific research focusing on therapeutic strategies for CF-associated chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) ...

Strict segregation and eradication policies have led to a declining prevalence of chronic P. aeruginosa infection, with only 30% of CF adolescents having chronic infection when they transition to adult services [4]. Adult CF physicians increasingly manage new P. aeruginosa cultures in adults without robust evidence to guide decision-making. We evaluated the success of our eradication and suppre...

Novel therapies to target lung inflammation are predicted to improve the lives of people with cystic fibrosis (CF) but specific antiinflammatory targets have not been identified. The goal of this study was to establish whether TLR5 signaling is the key molecular pathway mediating lung inflammation in CF, and to determine whether strategies to inhibit TLR5 can reduce the damaging inflammatory re...