Contextualizing functional status with comorbidities in prognosticating post-hospital discharge outcomes: a retrospective cohort study See

Background Discharges from acute episodes of hospitalization are well recognized as periods where individuals are at high risk of poor outcomes including hospital and emergency re-presentation, death, and long-term care facility (...

Association of a Healthy Diet Score with prostate cancer severity in newly diagnosed men: A cross-sectional analysis of RADICAL PC See

Background: Prostate cancer remains the second most common cause of cancer-related death in men in the United States (Siegel et al. 2017). Observational studies of patients with prostate cancer have found associations between diet&#...

An Analysis of Rodent Reservoirs of Plague During the Second Pandemic: Shifting Focus Towards a Multi-host and Multi-mechanism Model of Plague Maintenance and Reintroduction in the Past See

The second pandemic persisted for 500 years throughout Europe and some regions of Africa and Asia and far surpasses the first and third pandemics in terms of temporal and spatial breadth. It is still unclear what mech...

Fabrication and Properties of Polypyrrole Nanocylinders See

Polypyrrole nanocylinders were fabricated by chemically synthesizing polypyrrole within the pores of nanoporous polycarbonate particle track-etched membranes and alumina membranes. The morphology of the nanostructures was characterized by transmission ...