Publications by authors named "W Joel Schneider"
Understanding the movements of highly mobile animals is challenging because of the many factors they must consider in their decision-making. Many seabirds, for example, are adapted to use winds to travel long distances at low energetic cost but also potentially benefit from targeting specific foraging hotspots. To investigate how an animal makes foraging decisions, given the inevitable trade-off between these factors, we tracked over 600 foraging trips of breeding Manx shearwaters (Puffinus puffinus; N = 218 individuals) using GPS accelerometers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: There are hardly any data on the extent to which nursing home residents are provided with palliative homecare. We want to add evidence by comparing nursing home residents (who had been living in a nursing home for at least one year) and nursing-care-dependent community dwellers in terms of utilization and quality of palliative homecare.
Methods: We conducted a population-based study with nationwide claims data from deceased beneficiaries of a large German health insurance provider.
White matter alterations are increasingly implicated in neurological diseases and their progression. International-scale studies use diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) to qualitatively identify changes in white matter microstructure and connectivity. Yet, quantitative analysis of DW-MRI data is hindered by inconsistencies stemming from varying acquisition protocols.
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- The study aimed to evaluate the growth rates of leftover vestibular schwannoma tumors after surgeries, and to create a staging system to predict the risk of this growth.
- It involved a review of 56 patients who had undergone surgical resection between 2011 and 2023, finding that about 80% of residual tumors remained stable or shrank, while risk factors for growth included younger age and larger tumor sizes.
- The proposed staging system (ATR) categorized tumors primarily into stages II and III, suggesting that initial monitoring after surgery could be effective for managing these patients, along with the need for long-term follow-up.