Publications by authors named "Tim Slattery"

Purpose: Currently, there are no robust biomarkers that predict immunotherapy outcomes in metastatic melanoma. We sought to build multivariable predictive models for response and survival to anti-programmed cell death protein 1 (anti-PD-1) monotherapy or in combination with anticytotoxic T-cell lymphocyte-4 (ipilimumab [IPI]; anti-PD-1 ± IPI) by including routine clinical data available at the point of treatment initiation.

Methods: One thousand six hundred forty-four patients with metastatic melanoma treated with anti-PD-1 ± IPI at 16 centers from Australia, the United States, and Europe were included.

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  • * Out of those tested, 118 had COVID-19, with 94 showing symptoms and only 2 fatalities, revealing high levels of S1-reactive and neutralizing antibodies against the virus.
  • * Immune responses varied, particularly with hematological cancer patients showing unique challenges but still managing clinical recovery, highlighting the need for more research on immune durability against different SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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  • * A high percentage (83%) of patients developed S1-reactive antibodies, but neutralizing antibody levels against virus variants (Alpha, Beta, Delta) were significantly lower, despite stable levels over time.
  • * The study indicated that while most patients had detectable SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells and antibody responses, those with blood cancers exhibited weaker immune responses linked to their specific conditions and treatments, yet they still showed some compensatory immune activity.
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Interval recognition is an important part of ear training-the key aspect of music education. Once trained, the musician can identify pitches, melodies, chords, and rhythms by listening to music segments. In a conventional setting, the tutor would teach a trainee the intervals using a musical instrument, typically a piano.

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In prevailing approaches to human sentence comprehension, the outcome of the word recognition process is assumed to be a categorical representation with no residual uncertainty. Yet perception is inevitably uncertain, and a system making optimal use of available information might retain this uncertainty and interactively recruit grammatical analysis and subsequent perceptual input to help resolve it. To test for the possibility of such an interaction, we tracked readers' eye movements as they read sentences constructed to vary in (i) whether an early word had near neighbors of a different grammatical category, and (ii) how strongly another word further downstream cohered grammatically with these potential near neighbors.

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