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From Abstainers to Dependent Drinkers: alcohol consumption patterns and risk factors among Portuguese university students

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By Brandon Ko, Courtney KE, Stuart EA, López-Caneda E
| PeerJ
The current study aimed to provide a comprehensive and detailed description of alcohol consumption patterns among Portuguese university students, with a particular focus on adolescents and young adults. It explored predominant drinking patterns, associated characteristics and predictors, levels of craving, and concurrent substance use.
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"Neuroinvasive Onchocerca lupi Infection in a Ten-Year-Old Girl" by Dorothy Bowers Wu, Brandon Ko et al.

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By Brandon Ko, Gloria Hernandez, Dorothy Bowers Wu, James Botros
| The University of New Mexico - UNM
Abstract The nematode Onchocerca lupi is an emerging human pathogen. Though its life cycle is not well studied, it likely infects humans after a bite from a black fly vector, which in turn acquires infective microfilariae from an infected canid. These microfilariae mature into an infective larval stage within the fly. Among six reported cases in the United States, five involved children, and all occurred in the southwest. In this report, we present a case of O.
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Cognitive behavioral therapy versus general health education for smoking cessation: A randomized controlled trial among diverse treatment seekers

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By Lee DJ, Brandon Ko, Webb Hooper M, Simmons VN
| ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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HTML Data Cleaning in Python for NLP

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By Brandon Ko
| Towards Data Science
How to thoroughly clean a dataset composed of scraped HTML websites Photo by Clément H The most important step of any data-driven project is obtaining quality data. Without these preprocessing steps, the results of a project can easily be biased or completely misunderstood. Here, we will focus on cleaning data that is composed of scraped web pages. There are many tools to scrape the web.
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