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Robert Pienta

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On the parallel simulation of scale-free networks

RS Pienta, RM Fujimoto - Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSIM …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Scale-free networks have received much attention in recent years due to their prevalence in
many important applications such as social networks, biological systems, and the Internet. …

Racial disparities in mitral valve surgery: a statewide analysis

MJ Pienta, PF Theurer, C He, K Zehr, D Drake… - The Journal of Thoracic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Racial disparities in health care have come to the forefront. We hypothesized that
Black race was associated with worse preoperative risk, lower repair rates, and worse …

Convergent evolution, evolving evolvability, and the origins of lethal cancer

KJ Pienta, EU Hammarlund, R Axelrod… - Molecular Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Advances in curative treatment to remove the primary tumor have increased survival of localized
cancers for most solid tumor types, yet cancers that have spread are typically incurable …

[BOOK][B] THE PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF ALKYL DIHALIDES. PART I: GEMINAL DIHALIDES. PART II: 1, 4-DIHALONORBORNANES.

NJ PIENTA - 1978 - search.proquest.com
… I would lik e to thank Roger Young for doing some f la sh photolysis experiments, T ito
Abruna for doing my electrochem istry (and putting up with me in gene ra l), Robert Sheridan at …

Rescuing the right ventricle: A conceptual framework to target new interventions for patients receiving a durable left ventricular assist device

MJ Pienta, PE Noly, AM Janda, PC Tang, A Bitar… - The Journal of thoracic …, 2023 - jtcvs.org
Right heart failure (RHF) is a frequent comorbid condition in patients being evaluated for
durable, left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy. RHF is defined by the incapacity of the …

The current state of preclinical prostate cancer animal models

KJ Pienta, C Abate‐Shen, DB Agus, RM Attar… - The …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Prostate cancer continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in men around the
world. The field of prostate cancer research continues to be hindered by the lack of relevant …

Escherichia coli survival in response to ciprofloxacin antibiotic stress correlates with increased nucleoid length and effective misfolded protein management

…, RH Austin, SR Amend, KJ Pienta - Royal Society Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolution of antibiotic resistance is a fundamental problem in disease management but
is rarely quantified on a single-cell level owing to challenges associated with capturing the …

Poly‐aneuploid cancer cells promote evolvability, generating lethal cancer

KJ Pienta, EU Hammarlund, R Axelrod… - Evolutionary …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Cancer cells utilize the forces of natural selection to evolve evolvability allowing a constant
supply of heritable variation that permits a cancer species to evolutionary track changing …

An Empirical Investigation of The Unintended Consequences of Vulnerability Assessments Leading to Betrayal

D Pienta, JB Thatcher, RT Wright… - Journal of the Association …, 2024 - aisel.aisnet.org
When cybersecurity units conduct vulnerability assessments to evaluate the security of
organizations, they can have unintended consequences for employees. Although cybersecurity …

Activating ESR1 mutations in hormone-resistant metastatic breast cancer

…, S Roychowdhury, KJ Pienta, SY Kim, JS Roberts… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer in women, and over two-thirds of cases express
estrogen receptor-α (ER-α, encoded by ESR1). Through a prospective clinical sequencing …