Submissions from 2015
Association between dietary patterns during pregnancy and birth size measures in a diverse population in Southern US, Uriyoán Colón-Ramos, Susan B. Racette, Jody Ganiban, Thuy G. Nguyen, Mehmet Kocak, Kecia N. Carroll, Eszter Völgyi, and Frances A. Tylavsky
Association of functional polymorphisms from brain-derived neurotrophic factor and serotonin-related genes with depressive symptoms after a medical stressor in older adults, Kerri S. Rawson, David Dixon, Petra Nowotny, William M. Ricci, Ellen F. Binder, Thomas Rodebaugh, Leah Wendleton, Peter Dore, and Eric J. Lenze
Association of knowledge, preventive counseling and personal health behaviors on physical activity and consumption of fruits or vegetables in community health workers, Alex A. Florindo, Ross C. Brownson, Gregore I. Mielke, Grace AO Gomes, Diana C. Parra, Fernando V. Siqueira, Felipe Lobelo, Eduardo J. Simoes, Luiz R. Ramos, Mario M. Bracco, and Pedro C. Hallal
Association of lower fractional flow reserve values with higher risk of adverse cardiac events for lesions deferred revascularization among patients with acute coronary syndrome, Shriti Masrani Mehta, Jeremiah P. Depta, Eric Novak, Jayendrakumar S. Patel, Yogesh Patel, David Raymer, Gabrielle Facey, Alan Zajarias, John M. Lasala, Jasvindar Singh, Richard G. Bach, and Howard I. Kurz
Association of SNPs in EGR3 and ARC with schizophrenia supports a biological pathway for schizophrenia risk, Matthew J. Huentelman, Leela Muppana, Jason J. Corneveaux, Valentin Dinu, Jeremy J. Pruzin, Rebecca Reiman, Cassie N. Borish, Matt De Both, Amber Ahmed, Alexandre Todorov, C. Robert Cloninger, Rui Zhang, Jie Ma, and Amelia L. Gallitano
Associations among ancestry, geography and breast cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in Trinidad and Tobago, Wayne A. Warner, Robert L. Morrison, Tammy Y. Lee, Tanisha M. Williams, Shelina Ramnarine, Veronica Roach, Simeon Slovacek, Ravi Maharaj, Nigel Bascombe, Melissa L. Bondy, Matthew J. Ellis, Adetunji T. Toriola, Allana Roach, and Adana A.M. Llanos
Associations between self-referral and health behavior responses to genetic risk information, Kurt D. Christensen, J. Scott Roberts, Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher, Sharon LR Kardia, Colleen M. McBride, Erin Linnenbringer, Robert C. Green, and REVEAL Study Group
Asthma is more severe in older adults, Mario Castro and et al
A survey of attitudes toward clinical trials and genetic disclosure in autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease, Joshua D. Grill, Randall J. Bateman, Virginia Buckles, Angela Oliver, John C. Morris, Colin L. Masters, William E. Klunk, John M. Ringman, and Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer’s Network
ASXL2 regulates glucose, lipid, and skeletal homeostasis, Takashi Izawa, Nidhi Rohatgi, Tomohiro Fukunaga, Qun-Tian Wang, Matthew J. Silva, Michael J. Gardner, Michael L. McDaniel, Nada A. Abumrad, Clay F. Semenkovich, Steven L. Teitelbaum, and Wei Zou
Asymmetric protonation of EmrE, Emma A. Morrison, Anne E. Robinson, Yongjia Liu, and Katherine A. Henzler-Wildman
Asymptomatic stenosis in the cervical and thoracic spines of patients with symptomatic lumbar stenosis, Moon S. Park, Seong-Hwan Moon, Tae-Hwan Kim, Jae K. Oh, Ho D. Lyu, Jae-Hoo Lee, and K. Daniel Riew
A tale of two community networks program centers: Operationalizing and assessing CBPR principles and evaluating partnership outcomes, Cassandra Arroyo-Johnson, Michele L. Allen, Graham A. Colditz, G. Ali Hurtado, Cynthia S. Davey, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, Bettina F. Drake, Maria Veronica Svetaz, Maira Rosas-Lee, and Melody S. Goodman
A tumor growth inhibition model based on M-protein levels in subjects with relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma following single-agent carfilzomib use, F. Jonsson, Y. Ou, L. Claret, D. Siegel, S. Jagannath, R. Vij, A. Badros, S. Aggarwal, and R. Bruno
A twin study of breastfeeding with a preliminary genome-wide association scan, Lucia Colodro-Conde, Gu Zhu, Robert A. Power, Anjali Henders, Andrew C. Heath, Pamela A F Madden, Grant W. Montgomery, Sarah Medland, Juan R. Ordoñana, and Nicholas G. Martin
Atypical propylthiouracil-induced ANCA-positive vasculitis: report of a case with unusual clinical and histopathologic findings, Jamie L. Mull, Jason F. Solus, Misha M. Mutizwa, Herbert C. Chiang, Ilana S. Rosman, and Amy Musiek
Automatic analysis (aa): Efficient neuroimaging workflows and parallel processing using Matlab and XML, Rhodri Cusack, Alejandro Vicente-Grabovetsky, Daniel J. Mitchell, Conor J. Wild, Tibor Auer, Annika C. Linke, and Jonathan E. Peelle
Autosomal dominant Alzheimer disease: A unique resource to study CSF biomarker changes in preclinical AD, Suzanne Elizabeth Schindler and Anne M. Fagan
Awareness of the association between obesity and peri-operative risk among newly diagnosed patients with complex atypical hyperplasia and endometrial cancer, Lindsay M. Kuroki, Teri E. Benn, Jonathan L. Dukes, Andrea R. Hagemann, Premal H. Thaker, Matthew A. Powell, David G. Mutch, L. Stewart Massad, and Israel Zighelboim
Behavioral, cognitive, and adaptive development in infants with autism spectrum disorder in the first 2 years of life, Kelly Botteron and et al
Binocular Goggle Augmented Imaging and Navigation System provides real-time fluorescence image guidance for tumor resection and sentinel lymph node mapping, Suman B. Mondal, Shengkui Gao, Nan Zhu, Gail P. Sudlow, Kexian Liang, Avik Som, Walter J. Akers, Ryan C. Fields, Julie Margenthaler, Rongguang Liang, Viktor Gruev, and Samuel Achilefu
Biochemical and biophysical analyses of tight junction permeability made of claudin-16 and claudin-19 dimerization, Yongfeng Gong, Vijayaram Renigunta, Yi Zhou, Abby Sunq, Jinzhi Wang, Jing Yang, Arpana Renigunta, Lane A. Baker, and Jianghui Hou
Biomechanical determination of distal level for fusions across the cervicothoracic junction, Ivan Cheng, Eric B. Sundberg, Alex Iezza, Derek P. Lindsey, and K. Daniel Riew
Bone-immune cell crosstalk: Bone diseases, Giorgio Mori, Patrizia D'Amelio, Roberta Faccio, and Giacomina Brunetti
Border patrol gone awry: Lung NKT cell activation by Francisella tularensis exacerbates tularemia-like disease, Timothy M. Hill, Pavlo Gilchuk, Basak B. Cicek, Maria A. Osina, Kelli L. Boyd, Douglas M. Durrant, Dennis W. Metzger, Kamal M. Khanna, and Sebastian Joyce
BRAF mutation is not predictive of long-term outcome in papillary thyroid carcinoma, Lauren E. Henke, John D. Pfeifer, Changquing Ma, Stephanie M. Perkins, Todd DeWees, Samir El-Mofty, Jeffrey F. Moley, Brian Nussenbaum, Bruce H. Haughey, Thomas J. Baranski, Julie K. Schwarz, and Perry W. Grigsby
Brown-pigmented Mycobacterium mageritense as a cause of prosthetic valve endocarditis and bloodstream infection, Allison R. McMullen, Caline Mattar, Nigar Kirmani, and Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Burden of disease variants in participants of the Long Life Family Study, Meredith Stevenson, Harold Bae, Nicole Schupf, Stacy Andersen, Qunyuan Zhang, Thomas Perls, and Paola Sebastiani
Butyrate and mucosal inflammation: New scientific evidence supports clinical observation, Kelly Cushing, David M. Alvarado, and Matthew A. Ciorba
Caenorhabditis elegans glp-4 encodes a valyl aminoacyl tRNA synthetase, Suchita Rastogi, Ben Borgo, Nanette Pazdernik, Paul Fox, Elaine R. Mardis, Yuji Kohara, Jim Havranek, and Tim Schedl
Cancer Genomics, Elaine Mardis
CarD stabilizes mycobacterial open complexes via a two-tiered kinetic mechanism, Jayan Rammohan, Ana Ruiz Manzano, Ashley L. Garner, Christina L. Stallings, and Eric A. Galburt
CARMIL2 is a novel molecular connection between vimentin and actin essential for cell migration and invadopodia formation, Hunter M. Lanier, Taekyung Kim, and John A. Cooper
Carpal tunnel syndrome and computer exposure at work in two large complementary cohorts, Z. Mediouni, J. Bodin, Ann Marie Dale, E. Herquelot, M. Carton, A. Leclerc, N. Fouquet, C. Dumontier, Y. Roquelaure, Bradley A. Evanoff, and A. Descatha
Case report: A case of diabetic ketoacidosis following chikungunya virus infection, Illya Tolokh, Timothy Laux, and Daniel Kim
Case report: brown fat accumulation of Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin in a lung perfusion study in a patient with multiple lung arteriovenous malformations and right-to-left shunting, Wael Marashdeh and Richard L. Wahl
Case report: Typhoid fever complicated by hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis and rhabdomyolysis, Lemuel R. Non, Rupa Patel, Amir Esmaeeli, and Vladimir Despotovic
CCR5 limits cortical viral loads during West Nile virus infection of the central nervous system, Douglas M. Durrant, Brian P. Daniels, TracyJo Pasieka, Denise Dorsey, and Robyn S. Klein
CD4+ and CD8+ T cells have opposing roles in breast cancer progression and outcome, Yi Huang, Chunling Ma, Qunyuan Zhang, Jian Ye, Fang Wang, Yanping Zhang, Pamela Hunborg, Mark A. Varvares, Daniel F. Hoft, Eddy C. Hsueh, and Guangyong Peng
Ceftolozane-tazobactam activity against phylogenetically diverse Clostridium difficile strains, Mark D. Gonzalez, Meghan A. Wallace, Tiffany Hink, Erik R. Dubberke, and Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Central venous catheterization: Are we using ultrasound guidance?, Srikar Adhikari, Daniel Theodoro, Christopher Raio, Mathew Nelson, Matthew Lyon, Stephen Leech, Saadia Akhtar, and Uwe Stolz
Cerebrospinal fluid levels of amyloid precursor protein are associated with ventricular size in post-hemorrhagic hydrocephalus of prematurity, Diego M. Morales, Richard Holubkov, Terri E. Inder, Haejun C. Ahn, Deanna Mercer, Rakesh Rao, James P. McAllister II, David M. Holtzman, and David D. Limbrick Jr.
Cerebrospinal fluid VILIP-1 and YKL-40, candidate biomarkers to diagnose, predict and monitor Alzheimer’s disease in a memory clinic cohort, Maartje I. Kester, Charlotte E. Teunissen, Courtney Sutphen, Elizabeth M. Herries, Jack H. Ladenson, Chengjie Xiong, Philip Sheltens, Wiesje M. van der Flier, John C. Morris, David M. Holtzman, and Anne M. Fagan
Changes in knowledge of cervical cancer following introduction of human papillomavirus vaccine among women at high risk for cervical cancer, L. Stewart Massad, Charlesnika T. Evans, Kathleen M. Weber, Gypsyamber D'Souza, Nancy A. Hessol, Rodney L. Wright, Christine Colie, Howard D. Strickler, and Tracey E. Wilson
Characteristics of de novo structural changes in the human genome, Michael C. Wendl and et al
Characteristics of tumor infiltrating lymphocyte and circulating lymphocyte repertoires in pancreatic cancer by the sequencing of T cell receptors, Xueli Bai, Qi Zhang, Song Wu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Mingbang Wang, Fusheng He, Tao Wei, Jiaqi Yang, Yu Lou, Zhiming Cai, and Tingbo Liang
Characterization of herpes simplex virus 2 primary microRNA transcript regulation, Shuang Tang, Marta Bosch-Marce, Amita Patel, Todd P. Margolis, and Philip R. Krause
Chemical-free inactivated whole influenza virus vaccine prepared by ultrashort pulsed laser treatment, Shaw-Wei David Tsen, Nisha Donthi, Victor La, Wen-Han Hsieh, Yen-Der Li, Jayne Knoff, Alexander Chen, Tzyy-Choou Wu, Chien-Fu Hung, Samuel Achilefu, and Kong-Thon Tsen
Chemohormonal therapy in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, Joel Picus and et al
Chloride–hydrogen antiporters ClC‐3 and ClC‐5 drive osteoblast mineralization and regulate fine‐structure bone patterning in vitro, Quitterie C. Larrouture, Deborah J. Nelson, Lisa J. Robinson, Li Liu, Irina Tourkova, Paul H. Schlesinger, and Harry C. Blair
Chronic optogenetic activation augments Aβ pathology in a mouse model of Alzheimer disease, Kaoru Yamamoto, Zen-ichi Tanei, Tadafumi Hashimoto, Tomoko Wakabayashi, Hiroyuki Okuno, Yasushi Naka, Ofer Yizher, Lief E. Fenno, Masashi Fukayama, Haruhiko Bito, John R. Cirrito, David M. Holtzman, Karl Deisseroth, and Takeshi Iwatsubo
Ciliated hepatic foregut cyst: A report of 6 cases and a review of the English literature, Katherine C. Bishop, Carmen M. Perrino, Marianna B. Ruzinova, and Elizabeth M. Brunt
Circadian and light-driven regulation of rod dark adaptation, Yunlu Xue, Susan Q. Shen, Joseph C. Corbo, and Vladimir J. Kefalov
Circadian clock disruption in neurodegenerative diseases: Cause and effect?, Erik S. Musiek
Citrulline protects Streptococcus pyogenes from acid stress using the arginine deiminase pathway and the F1Fo-ATPase, Zachary T. Cusumano and Michael G. Caparon
Clinical applications of next generation sequencing in cancer: From panels, to exomes, to genomes, Tony Shen, Stefan Hans Pajaro-Van de Stadt, Nai Chien Yeat, and Jimmy C.-H. Lin
Clinical effectiveness of a sedation protocol minimizing benzodiazepine infusions and favoring early dexmedetomidine: A before-after study, Lee P. Skrupky, Anne M. Drewry, Brian Wessman, R. Ryan Field, Richard E. Fagley, Linda Varghese, Angela Lieu, Joshua Olatunde, Scott T. Micek, Marin H. Kollef, and Walter A. Boyle
Clinical implications of having reduced mid forced expiratory flow rates (FEF25-75), independently of FEV1, in adult patients with asthma, Mario Castro and et al.
Clinically early-stage CSPα mutation carrier exhibits remarkable terminal stage neuronal pathology with minimal evidence of synaptic loss, Bruno A. Benitez, Nigel J. Cairns, Robert E. Schmidt, John C. Morris, Joanne B. Norton, Carlos Cruchaga, and Mark S. Sands
Clinical strategies to enhance nerve regeneration, Thomas H. Tung
Clinicopathological and targeted exome gene features of a patient with metastatic acinic cell carcinoma of the parotid gland harboring an ARID2 nonsense mutation and CDKN2A/B deletion, Wayne A. Warner, Deborah J. Wong, Fernando Palma-Diaz, Terry Y. Shibuya, and Jamil Momand
Clostridium difficile infection among veterans health administration patients, Yinong Young-Xu, Jennifer L. Kuntz, Dale N. Gerding, Julia Neily, Peter Mills, Erik R. Dubberke, Margaret A. Olsen, Ciarán P. Kelly, and Cédric Mahé
Clostridium difficile infection in the United States: A national study assessing preventive practices used and perceptions of practice evidence, Sanjay Saint, Karen E. Fowler, Sarah L. Krein, David Ratz, Scott A. Flanders, Erik R. Dubberke, and M. Todd Greene
Cochlear progenitor number is controlled through mesenchymal FGF receptor signaling, Sung-Ho Huh, Mark E. Warchol, and David M. Ornitz
Coenzyme Q10 restores oocyte mitochondrial function and fertility during reproductive aging, Maggie Chi, Kelle H. Moley, and et al
Cognitive and action-based aspects of developing decisions in parietal cortex, Jan Kubanek and Eric Mooshagian
Colorectal cancer: Advances in prevention and early detection, Anne Miles, Franzel van Duijnhoven, Amy McQueen, and Raymond Oliphant
Combined ablation and radiation therapy of spinal metastases: A novel multimodality treatment approach, Taylor J. Greenwood, Adam Wallace, Michael V. Friedman, Travis J. Hillen, Clifford G. Robinson, and Jack W. Jennings
Combined epiretinal and internal limiting membrane peeling facilitated by high dilution indocyanine green negative staining, Mark M. Kaehr and Rajendra S. Apte
Comparative genomic analysis of Leishmania (Viannia) peruviana and Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis, Hugo O. Valdivia, Joao L. Reis-Cunha, Gabriela F. Rodrigues-Luiz, Rodrigo P. Baptista, G. Christian Baldeviano, Robert V. Gerbasi, Deborah E. Dobson, Francine Pratlong, Patrick Bastien, Andres G. Lescano, Stephen M. Beverley, and Daniella C. Bartholomeu
Comparing expert reported outcomes to national surgical quality improvement program risk calculator-predicted outcomes: Do reporting standards differ?, B. A. Knight, Aaron M. Protretzke, Jeffrey A. Larson, and Sam B. Bhayani
Comparing interventions and exploring neural mechanisms of exercise in Parkinson disease: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial, Gammon M. Earhart, Ryan P. Duncan, John L. Huang, Joel S. Perlmutter, and Kristen A. Pickett
Comparison of chromogenic media for recovery of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae (CPE) and evaluation of CPE prevalence at a tertiary care academic medical center, Morgan A. Pence, Tiffany Hink, and Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Comparison of sample preparation methods, instrumentation platforms, and contemporary commercial databases for identification of clinically relevant mycobacteria by matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization - Time of flight mass spectrometry, Craig B. Wilen, Allison R. McMullen, and Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Comparison of the next-generation Xpert MRSA/SA BC assay and the GeneOhm StaphSR assay to routine culture for identification of Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus in positive-blood-culture broths, Blake W. Buchan, Stephen Allen, Carey-Ann D. Burnham, Erin McElvania TeKippe, Thomas Davis, Michael Levi, Donna Mayne, Preeti Pancholi, Ryan F. Relich, Richard Thomson, and Nathan A. Ledeboer
Complement in the homeostatic and ischemic brain, Ali Alawieh, Andrew Elvington, and Stephen Tomlinson
Complement regulator CD46: Genetic variants and disease associations, M. Kathryn Liszewski and John P. Atkinson
Complete genome sequences of emm6 Streptococcus pyogenes JRS4 and parental strain D471, Gary C. Port, Elyse Paluscio, and Michael G. Caparon
Complete genome sequences of two Helicobacter pylori strains from a Canadian Arctic Aboriginal community, Dangeruta Kersulyte, M. Teresita Bertoli, Sravya Tamma, Monika Keelan, Rachel Munday, Janis Geary, Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Karen J. Goodman, and Douglas E. Berg
Comprehensive bioimaging with fluorinated nanoparticles using breathable liquids, Gary J. Patti and et al
Comprehensive functional characterization of murine infantile Batten disease including Parkinson-like behavior and dopaminergic markers, Joshua T. Dearborn, Steven K. Harmon, Stephen C. Fowler, Karen L. O'Malley, George T. Taylor, Mark S. Sands, and David F. Wozniak
Concomitant Cox-Maze IV techniques during mitral valve surgery, Christopher P. Lawrance, Matthew C. Henn, and Ralph J. Damiano Jr.
Confirmatory test of two factors and four subtypes of bipolar disorder based on lifetime psychiatric co-morbidity, A. L. Glowinski and et al
Congenital acute myeloid leukemia with unique translocation t(11;19)(q23;p13.3), Chester K. Yarbrough, S. Kathleen Bandt, Kyle Hurth, Jennifer A. Wambach, Rakesh Rao, Shashikant Kulkarni, Francis V. White, John L. Frater, and Jeffrey R. Leonard
Conservation and immunogenicity of novel antigens in diverse isolates of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, Qingwei Luo, Firdausi Qadri, Rita Kansal, David A. Rasko, Alaullah Sheikh, and James M. Fleckenstein
Construction and evaluation of novel rhesus monkey adenovirus vaccine vectors, Peter Abbink, Lori F. Maxfield, David Ng'ang'a, Erica N. Borducchi, M Justin Iampletro, Christine A. Bricault, Jeffrey E. Teigler, Stephen Blackmore, Lily Parenteau, Kshitij Wagh, Scott A. Handley, Guoyan Zhao, Herbert W. Virgin, Bette Korber, and Dan H. Barouch
Converging evidence for the neuroanatomic basis of combinatorial semantics in the angular gyrus, Amy R. Price, Michael F. Bonner, Jonathan E. Peelle, and Murray Grossman
Cooperation between Noncanonical Ras Network Mutations, Edward C. Stites, Paul C. Trampont, Lisa B. Haney, Scott F. Walk, and Kodi S. Ravichandran
Coronary computed tomography angiography of spontaneous coronary artery dissection: A case report and review of the literature, Stephanie C. Torres-Ayala, Jose Maldonado, J. Scott Bolton, and Sanjeev Bhalla
Correlation between psychological stress levels and the severity of overactive bladder symptoms, Henry Lai, Vivien Gardner, Joel Vetter, and Gerald L. Andriole
Correlation of foraminal area and response to cervical nerve root injections, Wilson Z. Ray, Syed Akbari, Lubdha M. Shah, and Erica Bisson
Cortical alpha activity predicts the confidence in an impending action, Jan Kubanek, N. Jeremy Hill, Lawrence H. Snyder, and Gerwin Schalk
Corticosterone enhances the potency of ethanol against hippocampal long-term potentiation via local neurosteroid synthesis, Yukitoshi Izumi, Kazuko A. O'Dell, and Charles F. Zorumski
CPI motif interaction is necessary for capping protein function in cells, Marc Edwards, Patrick McConnell, Dorothy A. Schafer, and John A. Cooper
CRALBP supports the mammalian retinal visual cycle and cone vision, Yunlu Xue, Susan Q. Shen, Jonathan Jui, Alan C. Rupp, Leah C. Byrne, Samer Hattar, John G. Flannery, Joseph C. Corbo, and Vladimir J. Kefalov
Criteria for reducing unnecessary testing for herpes simplex virus, varicella-zoster virus, cytomegalovirus, and enterovirus in cerebrospinal fluid samples from adults, Craig B. Wilen, Cynthia L. Monaco, Joan Hoppe-Bauer, Ronald Jackups Jr., Robert C. Bucelli, and Carey-Ann D. Burnham
Cross-reactivity of filariais ICT cards in areas of contrasting endemicity of Loa loa and Mansonella perstans in Cameroon: Implications for shrinking of the lymphatic filariasis map in the central African region, Samuel Wanji, Nathalie Amvongo-Adjia, Benjamin Koudou, Abdel Jelil Njouendou, Patrick W. Chounna Ndongmo, Jonas A. Kengne-Ouafo, Fabrice R. Datchoua-Poutcheu, Bridget Adzemye Fovennso, Dizzle Bita Tayong, Fanny Fri Fombad, Peter U. Fischer, Peter I. Enyong, and Moses Bockarie
Cutaneous metastasis from penile squamous cell carcinoma resembling carcinoma en cuirasse, Kimberly L. Brady, Glynis A. Scott, and Elaine S. Gilmore
Cyclotron production of high–specific activity 55Co and in vivo evaluation of the stability of 55Co metal-chelate-peptide complexes, Tara Mastren, Bernadette V. Marquez, Deborah E. Sultan, Elizabeth Bollinger, Paul Eisenbeis, Tom Voller, and Suzanne E. Lapi
Cytosolic phospholipase A 2 plays a crucial role in ROS/NO signaling during microglial activation through the lipoxygenase pathway, Dennis Y. Chuang, Agnes Simonyi, Paul T. Kotzbauer, Zezong Gu, and Grace Y. Sun