Amy Case

United States Solvitur Consulting

Funding

Commented on Million Dollar Bike Ride Pilot Grant Program
It is unfortunate that individuals and small businesses are not eligible to apply for this grant.

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Commented on Losartan Improves Memory, Neurogenesis and Cell Motility in Transgenic Alzheimer’s Mice
I wonder when results from human trials will be available.

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Commented on NABGRF Request for Proposals
This is very interesting--they will even fund health benefits research. However, the web site does not indicate whether funding will be available for 2022.

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Commented on COVID-19-Related Stroke
I had never heard that stroke was a known complication of CoVID-19 (and I'm following the pandemic pretty closely), but my neighbor is currently in the hospital with nearly continuous TIAs, and now bleeding associated with the anti-coagulants. Evidently the biological mechanism is "sepsis-induced coagulopathy.” Very scary!

Journal

Commented on CESKA A SLOVENSKA NEUROLOGIE A NEUROCHIRURGIE
Wow! To access this journal's web page, you have to get by a screen that says "Are you a medical professional? I am a health care professional authorized to prescribe or distribute medications or medical devices and therefore fulfilling the conditions laid out under the provisions Section 2a, 5b of the Act no. 40/1995 Coll., on the regulation of advertising, as amended." Then you have to confirm that you are a medical professional and one that says that you are aware of the risks of accessing the site "by a person who is not a medical professional." What's that about?

Funding

Commented on Specialty Crop Block Grant
I am curious as to whether other states have a similar funding stream.

Journal

Commented on JOURNAL OF FOOD PROCESSING AND PRESERVATION
I like that this journal requires that its abstracts have a section "Novelty Impact Statement" or "Practical Applications." It's surprising how many investigators have a very hard time articulating the "real world" implications of their studies.

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Commented on Trapped between an insurrection and a strike
No real abstract present.

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Commented on P92 Controlling for Confounding Factors in a Multi-Component Farmers’ Market Intervention
This is the kind of methodological research that needs to be done in order to better understand the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of large-scale, population-based research.

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Commented on Promoting farmers market via information nudges and coupons: A randomized control trial
Randomized controlled trials may be challenging to do in social science research, but they are clearly not impossible. This is an excellent example.

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Commented on MP37-17 CHANGING PATTERNS AND PREDICTORS OF SALVAGE RADIATION THERAPY USE OVER TIME IN PATIENTS TREATED FOR POST-PROSTATECTOMY BIOCHEMICAL RECURRENCE
A nicely written, accessible abstract confirming the current practice of routinely advising early stage radiation therapy for biochemical recurrence.

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Commented on 20 Years of the Evidence Base on What Works to Prevent Child Marriage: A Systematic Review
It is promising to see a systematic review on a difficult social problem. Well-done!

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Commented on Observational study on effect of lock down due to COVID 19 on HBA1c levels in patients with diabetes: Experience from Central India
It is unfortunate that the abstract does not provide any hypotheses for why the lockdown was associated with higher A1C results.