Publications by authors named "K Joanne Baldwin"
Urbanization impacts the structure and viability of wildlife populations. Some habitat generalists, such as bobcats (Lynx rufus), maintain populations at the intersection of wild and urban habitats (wildland urban interface, WUI), but impacts of urbanization on bobcat social structure are not well understood. Although commonly thought to establish exclusive home ranges among females, instances of mother-daughter home range sharing have been documented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a classification system that describes the injury pattern of pediatric medial humeral condyle fractures and provide treatment guidelines.
Methods: Patients less than 18 years old with medial humeral condyle fractures from 2012 to 2022 were identified. A classification system was developed based on fracture pattern and putative mechanism of injury.
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- The study examines the effectiveness of anaerobic cultures in diagnosing pediatric septic arthritis, aiming to see how often these cultures yield relevant pathogens compared to aerobic cultures.* -
- Out of 470 cases reviewed over 14 years, only 3 cases (0.6%) showed positive results for anaerobic organisms, all of which were also detectable by aerobic methods.* -
- The findings suggest that routine anaerobic cultures may be unnecessary in pediatric septic arthritis as they rarely provide unique diagnostic value, potentially missing just 3 cases over a long period.*
In non-Hermitian open quantum systems, such as polariton condensates, the local tailoring of gains and losses opens up an interesting possibility to realize functional optical elements. Here, we demonstrate that deliberately introducing losses via a photonic defect, realized by reducing the quality factor of a DBR mirror locally within an ultrahigh-quality microcavity, may be utilized to create directed polariton currents towards the defect. We discuss the role of polariton-polariton interactions in the process and how to tailor the effective decay time of a polariton condensate by coupling it to the defect.
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- * A survey gathered insights from members of various orthopedic organizations, with a response rate of 26%, asking them to rank important factors in radiographic assessment during different visits for AIS.
- * The results showed that the Cobb angle was deemed the most critical radiographic measure, with a preference for certain X-ray positioning; key indicators for preoperative visits included sagittal contour and skeletal maturity assessments, with most respondents favoring bending films for flexibility studies.