A5051551780- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Network Traffic and Congestion Control
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting
- Network Security and Intrusion Detection
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Software-Defined Networks and 5G
- Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
- Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Advanced Electrical Measurement Techniques
- Fire Detection and Safety Systems
Maine Medical Center
2015-2018
Maine Medical Center Research Institute
2015-2018
University of Florida
2013-2015
Auburn University
2015
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
2011
Swinburne University of Technology
2007-2008
The article introduces Programs for Injury Categorization, using the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and R statistical software (ICDPIC-R). Starting with ICD-8, methods have been described to map injury diagnosis codes severity scores, especially Abbreviated Scale (AIS) Severity Score (ISS). ICDPIC was originally developed this purpose Stata, ICDPIC-R is an open-access update that accepts both ICD-9 ICD-10 codes.Data were obtained from National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB),...
Communicating scientific uncertainty about public health threats is ethically desirable but challenging due to its tendency promote avoidance of choice options with unknown probabilities—a phenomenon known as "ambiguity aversion." This study examined this phenomenon's potential magnitude, responses different communication strategies, and mechanisms. In a factorial experiment, 2701 adult laypersons in Spain read one three versions hypothetical newspaper article describing pandemic...
The Health-Analytics Data to Evidence Suite (HADES) is an open-source software collection developed by Observational Health Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI). It executes directly against healthcare data such as electronic health records administrative claims, that have been converted the Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) Common Model. Using advanced analytics, HADES performs characterization, population-level causal effect estimation, patient-level prediction, potentially across a...
Ambrosia beetles frequently invade non-native regions but are typically of no concern because most species live in dead trees and culture nonpathogenic symbiotic fungal gardens. Recently, however, several ambrosia beetle—fungus complexes have invaded killed large numbers host trees. Such tree-killing invasions occurred unexpectedly, the mechanism ecological switch from to has been left unexplained, or termed an "evolutionary mismatch." We demonstrate that mismatch hypothesis is not supported...
Laurel wilt is caused by the fungus Raffaelea lauricola T.C. Harr., Fraedrich and Aghayeva, a nutritional symbiont of its vector redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus Eichhoff. Both are native to Asia but appeared in Georgia early 2000s. has since spread much southeastern United States killing >300 million host trees Lauraceae plant family. The aims this research were elucidate genetic structure populations R. lauricola, examine reproductive strategy, determine how often pathogen...
Abstract Purpose Real‐world data (RWD) offers a valuable resource for generating population‐level disease epidemiology metrics. We aimed to develop well‐tested and user‐friendly R package compute incidence rates prevalence in mapped the observational medical outcomes partnership (OMOP) common model (CDM). Materials Methods created IncidencePrevalence, an support analysis of point‐ period‐prevalence OMOP‐formatted data. On top unit testing, we assessed face validity package. To do so,...
Raffaelea (Ophiostomatales) is a genus of more than 20 ophiostomatoid fungi commonly occurring in symbioses with wood-boring ambrosia beetles. We examined beetles and plant hosts the USA Taiwan for presence these mycosymbionts found 22 isolates representing known undescribed lineages Raffaelea. From 28S rDNA β-tubulin sequences, we generated molecular phylogeny Ophiostomatales observed morphological features seven cultures s. lat. analyses, describe five new species lat.: R. aguacate,...
Exotic diseases and pests of trees have caused continental-scale disturbances in forest ecosystems industries, their invasions are considered largely unpredictable. We tested the concept preinvasion assessment not yet invasive organisms, which enables empirical risk potential invasion impact. Our example assesses fungi associated with Old World bark ambrosia beetles to impact North American trees. selected 55 Asian European scolytine beetle species using host use, economic, regulatory...
In September 2010, live oak (Quercus virginiana Mill.) trees in an Alachua County, FL, shopping center parking lot were observed with shoot dieback and cankers on small branches. Isolations made from canker margins by surface sterilizing tissue 2.5% sodium hypochlorite plating potato dextrose agar (PDA) incubating at 23°C. Fungi morphologically similar to Diplodia quercivora Linaldeddu & A.J.L. Phillips (mycelium initially velvety white later turning pale dark olivaceous grayish reverse)...
Bay laurel (Laurus nobilis L.) is an economically important evergreen tree of the family Lauraceae. It native to Asia Minor and Balkans was introduced into United States for its ornamental culinary uses (4). In September 2013, a 6-m-tall bay in Gainesville, FL, attracted our attention because it had wilted leaves, discolored sapwood, ambrosia beetle entrance holes, all symptoms wilt. addition, growing close avocado that succumbed disease months earlier. effort determine whether wilt pathogen...
This study describes the feeding habits of plaice Pleuronectes platessa and dab Limanda limanda during early juvenile development relates differences between nursery grounds sampling years to spatial temporal variabilities in macrobenthic prey availability. The main taxa both species were copepods, bivalves, amphipods, polychaetes oligochaetes size-related variation diet was found. Despite considerable similarity items, food composition two observed variability confirmed their opportunistic...
This article contains all poster abstracts from the “Forest Monitoring Science” track of 2014 Society American Foresters National Convention, held October 8-11 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
This document discusses the potential damage to ornamental plants when metsulfuron-methyl-containing herbicides are applied turfgrass. It highlights herbicide’s effectiveness in controlling broadleaf weeds but warns of its adverse effects on non-target species. The article provides guidelines for minimizing damage, including proper application techniques and timing. also emphasizes importance understanding properties susceptibility various avoid unintended harm. Original publication date April 2016.