Neil Morte

United States Georgia Southern University

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Commented on Cost-effectiveness of a Digital Health Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction Recovery
A cost benefit where benefit is very clear. This is certainly how we should analyze an intervention and if the benefit is there financially and for health outcomes, very effective.

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Commented on Promoting stroke awareness through short movies and film festivals
Movies and shows are amazing mediums to promote causes especially health. Informative, raising awareness to think about our lives and what we can consider for our own health.

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Commented on What is new in computer vision and artificial intelligence in medical image analysis applications
I was curious as it relates to sensitivity and specificity with machine and deep learning for skin lesions. Showing what deep learning serves as a solution, I wonder how accurate decisions are for other conditions.

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Commented on Revisiting the 2014-15 Disneyland measles outbreak and its influence on pediatric vaccinations
I lived in California most of my life and I remember this was huge back then. I did not realize it has been that many years. But it is outbreaks like this that seems to have a more positive impact when it comes to the discussion of vaccination. It is certainly different than how it is today. But the measles vaccine was created in the early 1960's so that certainly makes a difference in confidence.

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Commented on Clinical consequences of COVID-19 lockdown in patients with COPD: results of a pre-post study in Spain
Curious as to how things have/will fluctuate when in lockdown and not. Less exposure to the outside world and any exacerbation such as pollution and other particles is nothing but beneficial.

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Commented on Experience of isolation and quarantine hotels for COVID-19 in Hawaii
This approach is very comprehensive and thinks about the population, capacity, and effects on more than the physical effects of the spread.

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Commented on A new year, but familiar challenges from COVID-19 in the USA
This is very interesting as we see progress, but also setbacks and how we have come so far, but still a lot to address.

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Commented on A Large‐Scale Experiment to Evaluate Control of Invasive Muskrats
Is the muskrat invasive in other areas of the world where control efforts are taking place or being planned?

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Commented on Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
For this year: Application due January 13, 2022 Expected notification date August 31, 2022 Project start date September 1, 2022 Up to 18 months period of performance

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Commented on Predicting Grocery Store Visits During the Early Outbreak of COVID-19 with Machine Learning
We saw the chaos at the beginning. It makes sense a larger household had to shop more frequently especially when resources were used up quicker during lockdown. Definitely online shopping increased as you would see more workers gather items for people to pick up or get delivered. From a consumer perspective, seems like things are normal, but there is a wider variety of ways we go about it now in terms of frequency, what we buy, how much we buy, and precautions we take as we shop.

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Commented on Ten-Year Mortality and Cardiovascular Morbidity in the Finnish Diabetes Prevention Study—Secondary Analysis of the Randomized Trial
Well done study. Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) should be stated what it stands for in the abstract. Effective discussion of results regarding statistical power and differences between groups. Displays what can be done for further research.

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Commented on Transformational Project Award
Late January and March, there are short webinars to discuss more awards!

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Commented on Prediction of Offensive Possession Ends in Elite Basketball Teams
Analytics have become a huge addition to sports and definitely has space for growth in situational and strategic play. It can also be deterrent when relied upon too heavily as randomness or heterogeneous events take place.

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Commented on Influence of Fatigue on Some Kinematic Parameters of Basketball Passing
As a basketball player, it was important to run things at game speed and when that fatigue sets in, we are ready for that. Fatigue definitely has an influence on technique, but that effort compensates for some of that.

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Commented on Veterinary allergy information has lower health readability than human allergy information: a comparative analysis of allergy education materials for pets and people
Readability is critical. Just as we learn about our own health, layperson language is so important for understanding ideas that have complexity to be understood easier.