Federico da Montefeltro (1422-1482), the Duke of Urbino, was a well-known historical figure during the Italian Renaissance. He is the subject of a famous painting by Piero della Francesca (1416-1492), which displays the Duke from the left and highlights his oddly shaped nose. The Duke is known to have lost his right eye due to an injury sustained during a jousting tournament, which is why the p...

Emma H. Allott, Lauren E. Howard, Hai-Jun Song, Katharine N. Sourbeer, Bridget F. Koontz, Joseph K. Salama, Stephen J. Freedland 1 Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 2 Cancer Prevention, Detection and Control Program, Duke Cancer Institute, Durham, NC 3 Division of Urology, Veterans Affairs Medical Center Durham, NC 4 Department of Biostat...

The Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Western Kenya: An Echocardiographic Study by Thomas Holland Duke Global Health Institute Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Christopher Woods, Supervisor ___________________________ G. Ralph Corey ___________________________ Nathan Thielman An abstract of a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the...

Gastroduodenal motility has been described in several avian species. In domestic turkeys (Melagridis gallapavo; Duke et al. 1972, Dziuk and Duke 1972), chickens (Gallus gallus; Roche et al. 1971), Cedar Waxwings (Bombycilla cedorum; Levey and Duke 1993), and Leach's Storm-Petrels (Oceanodroma leuchoroa; Duke et al. 1989), the sequence begins with contraction of the pair of thin muscles of the m...

Is all motivation good for learning? Dissociable influences of approach and avoidance motivation in declarative memory Vishnu P. Murty, Kevin S. LaBar, Derek A. Hamilton, and R. Alison Adcock Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA; Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke Univ...

From Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, N.C. (G.D.S.); the Department of Health Research and Policy, School of Medicine (M.A.H.), and the Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research, Department of Medicine (M.A.H., D.K.O.), Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.; and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, Calif. (D.K.O.). Address reprint requests ...

a Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA b Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA c Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA d Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA e Department of Population He...

Using Hyperpolarized Xe MRI to Quantify Differences in Regional Ventilation in Older Versus Younger Asthmatics Mu He, Suryanarayanan Sivaram Kaushik, Scott Haile Robertson, Matthew S Freeman, Rohan S Virgincar, Holman Page McAdams, Denise Beaver, Monica Kraft, and Bastiaan Driehuys Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, United States, Department of Biomedical...

150. Harvesting the Low Hanging Fruit: A Benchmarking Tool for Implementation of Intravenous to Oral Antibiotic Switch Programs in 14 Southeastern Community Hospitals Bronwen Garner, MD MPH; Yuliya Lokhnygina, MS, PhD; Elizabeth Dodds-Ashley, PharmD, MHS; Melissa Johnson, PharmD, MHS; Richard H. Drew, PharmD, MS, BCPS, FCCP; Angelina Davis, PharmD, MS; Daniel J. Sexton, MD, FIDSA, FSHEA; Deveri...