Canadian Spine Society1. 01: Do lumbar decompression and fusion patients recall their preoperative status? Recall bias in patient-reported outcomes1. 02: Trends …

…, R Lipson, VK Noonan, BK Kwon, PB Mills, J Shum… - 2016 - canjsurg.ca
Background: To characterize the accuracy of patient recall of preoperative symptoms in a
cohort of lumbar spine surgery patients. Methods: We analyzed consecutive patients …

Educational data scientists: a scarce breed

…, M Hawksey, RSJD Baker, N Jeffery… - Proceedings of the third …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
The Educational Data Scientist is currently a poorly understood, rarely sighted breed. Reports
vary: some are known to be largely nocturnal, solitary creatures, while others have been …

Emerging drug therapies for frailty

CA Jeffery, DWC Shum, RE Hubbard - Maturitas, 2013 - Elsevier
The metaphor of a frail older person as a car running out of petrol seems to have resonance
in the lay media. Though it may be an over simplistic representation of a complex and …

Everyday cognitive functioning and global cognitive performance are differentially associated with physical frailty and chronological age in older Chinese men and …

T Liu, GHY Wong, H Luo, JYM Tang, J Xu… - Aging & Mental …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: Intact cognition is a key determinant of quality of life. Here, we investigated the
relative contribution of age and physical frailty to global and everyday cognition in older adults…

[PDF][PDF] Attenuated humoral responses in HIV after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination linked to B cell defects and altered immune profiles

…, J Kopycinski, D Jankovic, A Jeffery-Smith… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
We assessed a cohort of people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) (n = 110)
and HIV negative controls (n = 64) after 1, 2 or 3 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses. At all …

Modelling bacterial behaviour close to a no-slip plane boundary: the influence of bacterial geometry

H Shum, EA Gaffney, DJ Smith - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We describe a boundary-element method used to model the hydrodynamics of a bacterium
propelled by a single helical flagellum. Using this model, we optimize the power efficiency of …

[HTML][HTML] Beautiful Days in the Neighborhood: Land–Atmosphere Interactions as Drivers of Forest Expansion

GEM Shum, MM Laguë, SS Rushley… - Earth …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
We explore the possible role of plant–atmosphere feedbacks in accelerating forest expansion
using a simple example of forest establishment. We use an unconventional experimental …

Ocean bays surrounded by desert land could support photosynthetic life on Snowball Earth

GEM Shum, MM Laguë, ALS Swann, C Bitz… - 2024 - advance.sagepub.com
Photosynthetic eukaryotic algae survived the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth events, indicating
that liquid-water refugia existed somewhere on the surface. We examine the potential for …

Hypertension management in the oldest old: Findings from a large long‐term care facility

S Schwinn, R McKay, S Dinkel… - Journal of the …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background The rate of population growth in the oldest old, those over 80 years of age, is
unmatched in any other age group in the United States. In 2012, persons older than 80 …

[HTML][HTML] Neonatal GABAergic transmission primes vestibular gating of output for adult spatial navigation

…, MH Cheung, W Chen, CW Ma, DKY Shum… - Cellular and Molecular …, 2024 - Springer
GABAergic interneurons are poised with the capacity to shape circuit output via inhibitory
gating. How early in the development of medial vestibular nucleus (MVN) are GABAergic …