Roanoke College

Spanberger leads Earle-Sears by double digits; Jones now trails Miyares

Democrat Abigail Spanberger holds a 10-point lead over Republican Winsome Earle-Sears (51%-41%) in the November election for ...
BMJ Global Health

Diagnostic accuracy of a simplified minimally invasive tissue sampling protocol for stillbirths in low-resource settings

Background Stillbirth rates remain unacceptably high in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Understanding the causes of ...
IEEE

Break the Cold Barrier: An In-Depth Study on FPGA Performance and Design Optimization at Cryogenic Temperature

Abstract: This study explores the potential of Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) within the realm of cryogenic computing, which promises enhanced performance and power efficiency by reducing ...
Duke Pratt School of Engineering

Welcome Your New Lab Mate: Artificial Intelligence

Haozhe “Harry” Wang’s electrical and computer engineering lab at Duke welcomed an unusual new lab member this fall: ...
IEEE

Co-design Framework for High Power, Medium/High Voltage WBG Power Modules: Case Study with 3.3 kV/200 A Wire-Bonded Low-Inductance SiC Half-Bridge Module

Abstract: This paper proposed a co-design framework for high power high voltage wide bandgap (WBG) power module packaging that is generalized to reflect diverse design requirements across device ...
Contract Pharma

From Risk to Resilience: Strengthening Disaster Recovery for Pharma Sample Storage

Disaster recovery is more than contingency planning. Philip Bradley of Astoriom explains why it must be embedded in pharma’s sample storage strategies.
BMJ Open

Randomised controlled trial of VR-based observation meditation with AI coaching (‘Otti’) for stress reduction in university students in the United States: study protocol

Introduction Stress is a major health issue in contemporary society, and mindfulness-based approaches reduce stress and anxiety but face practical barriers to consistent practice; this protocol ...
The BMJ

Community based cohort studies in China: critical insights for shaping the future of population and public health

Dongfeng Gu and colleagues review community based cohort studies in China, finding strategies to improve the quality and scale of these studies in China and beyond Community based cohort studies ...
The Lancet

Breast cancer overall survival, annual risks of death, and survival gap apportionment in sub-Saharan Africa (ABC-DO): 7-year follow-up of a prospective cohort study

Copyright: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. The African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes (ABC-DO) prospective cohort study was done at eight ...
Frontiers

Stress and psychological trauma as predictors of cancer-related fatigue in breast cancer patients (SaFE study)—study protocol of a prospective follow-up study

Introduction: Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a common symptom of cancer and/or its treatment. Most cancer patients are affected during treatment, as well as years thereafter. Around a third of ...
C&EN

Designing a Comparative Proteomics Experiment: Retention-Time Alignment and Imputation Algorithms Affect Statistical Comparisons between Samples

Comparative proteomics experiments reveal biomarkers by using statistical tests to determine proteins expressed with a higher abundance in one sample versus another. However, comparative experiments ...
Scientific American

Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity

Getting a COVID booster could save your life, even if you’ve had multiple prior infections and vaccinations. A study, published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed that last ...