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Living with COVID: Mask mandate, health emergency order gone but virus remains.
New Jersey’s COVID-19 public health emergency ends Monday, the same day the state lifts the mask mandate for schools and child care centers. The end comes nearly two years after it was implemented to give the state flexibility in its pandemic response. But Gov. Phil...
It’s Time to Get Over ‘COVID Shame’.
Maria Venetis got a breakthrough case of COVID-19 right around New Year’s Eve. When she called friends to cancel plans, she found herself overexplaining how and where she might have caught the virus—until one friend cut her off. “It doesn’t really matter,” Venetis, an...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Neibart's article in the Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology titled, "Outcomes of patients with borderline resectable and resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma treated with neoadjuvant three-week course chemoradiotherapy using capecitabine-based versus...
Professor Yael Niv Is Blending Neuroscience and Psychiatry.
Professor Yael Niv spent much of her career on basic research, content to puzzle over the fundamental principles of human learning, memory, and decision-making without much of an eye to how they could be applied. But that all changed in 2012, when she attended a talk...
As COVID evolves from pandemic to endemic in NJ, how will our lives change?
On March 4, 2020, a 32-year-old physician’s assistant from Fort Lee became the first person in New Jersey diagnosed with a disease that would claim more than 33,000 lives in the state, upend its economy, disrupt the education of millions of its children and sorely...
Are masks key to living with COVID-19?
Seven in 10 Americans believe COVID-19 is here to stay, and we need to “get on with our lives,” according to a Monmouth University Poll released in late January. Still, a topic that persists is masks — many strongly oppose mask mandates, citing them as an infringement...
How can we tweak the vaccines?
The vaccine boosters made by Pfizer and Moderna provide strong protection against serious illness from COVID-19 and hospitalization. But their protection does wane over time, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published earlier this...
New NJACTS Publication
Please read Dr. Yu's article in the Quantitative Finance titled, "Are missing values important for earnings forecasts? A machine learning perspective." Analysts' forecasts are one of the most common and important estimators for firms' future earnings. However, they...