"Michael Douglas" effect

Background: In June 2013, celebrity actor Michael Douglas announced that he had received a diagnosis of throat cancer, which he attributed to the human papillomavirus (HPV). HPV is the most common sexually transmitted disease, however the HPV vaccination rates are lower than other vaccines. Given the health disclosure of Michael Douglas's cancer, we queried whether this event had an effect on public awareness for HPV-related head and neck cancers (HNCs) or its prevention.Methods: Using Google Trends and Twitter, we retrospectively analyzed search trends and Tweets for the keywords throat cancer, oral cancer, hpv vaccine, and human papillomavirus infection. We extracted data and compared it to an expected forecast found using an autoregressive integrated moving algorithm (ARIMA).Results: During the week of disclosure, Google Trends data demonstrated an increase of 62.5% in hpv infection inquiries, 47.0% in hpv vaccine inquiries, 47.0% in oral cancer inquiries, and 81.5% in throat cancer inquiries above the expected. Tweets referencing hpv increased 127.2%; tweets referencing hpv (vaccine OR vaccination) increased 98.8%; tweets referencing hpv awareness increased 778.4%; tweets referencing oral cancer increased 1038.7%; and tweets referencing throat cancer increased 811.7% compared to the rest of 2013.Conclusions: Data from Google Trends and Twitter indicated that Michael Douglas's disclosure of HPV-related HNC resulted in a substantial increase in public awareness and prevention methods for HPV-related HNC. Celebrity health disclosures may thus prove to be a cost-effective strategy to advocate for public health literacy, and positively influence public interest of specific health issues

Book Review: The Douglas Letters: Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas. Edited with an Introduction by Melvin L. Urofsky.

Book review: The Douglas Letters: Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas. Edited with an introduction by Melvin L. Urofsky. Bethesda, Md.: Adler & Adler. 1987. Pp. xxiii, 448. Reviewed by: Michael E. Parrish

Book Review: The Douglas Letters: Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas. Edited with an Introduction by Melvin L. Urofsky.

Book review: The Douglas Letters: Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas. Edited with an introduction by Melvin L. Urofsky. Bethesda, Md.: Adler & Adler. 1987. Pp. xxiii, 448. Reviewed by: Michael E. Parrish

Robust linear quadratic designs with real parameter uncertainty

Includes bibliographical references (leaf [6]).Supported by NASA. NAGW-1335Joel Douglas, Michael Athans

SLIDES: Food for Thought: Water Requirements for Social-Ecological Systems

Presenters: Michael Douglas, University of Western Australia, Charles Darwin University Sue Jackson, Griffith University 35 slide

Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane

Review of: "Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane," by Ian Michael Spurgeon

Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane

Review of: "Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane," by Ian Michael Spurgeon

Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane

Review of: "Man of Douglas, Man of Lincoln: The Political Odyssey of James Henry Lane," by Ian Michael Spurgeon

Equivariant geometric K-homology for compact Lie group actions

Let G be a compact Lie-group, X a compact G-CW-complex. We define equivariant geometric K-homology groups K^G_*(X), using an obvious equivariant version of the (M,E,f)-picture of Baum-Douglas for K-homology. We define explicit natural transformations to and from equivariant K-homology defined via KK-theory (the "official" equivariant K-homology groups) and show that these are isomorphism.Comment: 25 pages. v2: some mistakes corrected, more detail added, Michael Walter as author added. To appear in Abhandlungen aus dem Mathematischen Seminar der Universit\"at Hambur