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Tevis DB Jacobs

Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Mechanical Engineering and …
Verified email at pitt.edu
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[HTML][HTML] Dietary carbohydrate restriction in type 2 diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome: time for a critical appraisal

…, RD Feinman, EJ Fine, A Gleed, DB Jacobs… - Nutrition & …, 2008 - Springer
Current nutritional approaches to metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes generally rely on
reductions in dietary fat. The success of such approaches has been limited and therapy …

Large-scale purification of high activity Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase

BK Burgess, DB Jacobs, EI Stiefel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 1980 - Elsevier
A large scale, rapid, high-yield purification procedure for Azotobacter vinelandii nitrogenase
proteins has been developed. Yields of approx. 600 mg of the FeMo protein (Av1) and …

Mobility-dependent charge injection into an organic semiconductor

Y Shen, MW Klein, DB Jacobs, JC Scott, GG Malliaras - Physical review letters, 2001 - APS
Measurements of charge injection from indium tin oxide (ITO) into the organic semiconductor,
tetraphenyl diamine doped polycarbonate (PC: TPD), were carried out. The current …

[HTML][HTML] Aligning quality measures across CMS—the universal foundation

DB Jacobs, M Schreiber, M Seshamani… - … England Journal of …, 2023 - Mass Medical Soc
Aligning Quality Measures across CMS Given the tension between measuring all important
aspects of quality and reducing measure proliferation, CMS is proposing a move toward a …

Quantitative characterization of surface topography using spectral analysis

TDB Jacobs, T Junge, L Pastewka - … Topography: Metrology and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Roughness determines many functional properties of surfaces, such as adhesion, friction,
and (thermal and electrical) contact conductance. Recent analytical models and simulations …

Modification of indium tin oxide for improved hole injection in organic light emitting diodes

Y Shen, DB Jacobs, GG Malliaras, G Koley… - Advanced …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The efficiency of multi‐layer OLEDs using indium tin oxide (ITO) and triphenyldiamine is
limited by the hole injection rate, or the quality of the contact between the two components, …

Adequacy of outpatient specialty care access in marketplace plans under the Affordable Care Act

SC Dorner, DB Jacobs, BD Sommers - Jama, 2015 - jamanetwork.com
Methods| We examined physician networks in 34 states offering plans through the federal
marketplace during 2015 open enrollment using the rating area (geographic unit for …

Winning the super “buzz” bowl: How biometrically-based emotional engagement correlates with online views and comments for super bowl advertisements

CJ Siefert, R Kothuri, DB Jacobs… - Journal of …, 2009 - journalofadvertisingresearch.com
Super Bowl advertisements have become almost as famous as the game itself. Between
production costs and the price of air time, companies who advertise in the Super Bowl do so at …

On the application of transition state theory to atomic-scale wear

TDB Jacobs, B Gotsmann, MA Lantz, RW Carpick - Tribology Letters, 2010 - Springer
The atomic force microscope (AFM) tip is often used as a model of a single sliding asperity
in order to study nanotribological phenomena including friction, adhesion, and wear. In …

Using drugs to discriminate—adverse selection in the insurance marketplace

DB Jacobs, BD Sommers - New England Journal of Medicine, 2015 - Mass Medical Soc
Eliminating discrimination on the basis of preexisting conditions is a key feature of the
Affordable Care Act. But insurers may be resorting to other tactics to dissuade high-cost …