Publications by authors named "Heather Coates"

An adult female Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis) was euthanized because of a large mandibular mass. Histopathology revealed an ameloblastic fibro-odontoma, a rare odontogenic neoplasia.

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While research metrics may seem well established in the scholarly landscape, it can be challenging to understand how they should be used and how they are calculated. The Metrics Toolkit is an online evidence-based resource for researchers, librarians, evaluators, and administrators in their work to demonstrate or assess the impact of research.

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Background: Proper implementation of evidence-based interventions is necessary for their full impact to be realized. However, the majority of research to date has overlooked facilitators and barriers existing outside the boundaries of the implementing organization(s). Better understanding and measurement of the external implementation context would be particularly beneficial in light of complex health interventions that extend into and interact with the larger environment they are embedded within.

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Autism is one of three developmental disorders in the group known as the autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). This spectrum of disorders has an estimated prevalence of one in 150 children. Increased awareness and diagnosis has led to an explosion of information available about the disorder.

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Understanding and leveraging user search behavior is increasingly becoming a key component towards improving web sites functionality for the health care consumer and provider. In this study we propose to leverage user search behavior to design user-tailored browsing interfaces to better support locating information in healthcare websites at the point-of-need.

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