Evaluation of postural stability in children: current theories and assessment tools

SL Westcott, LP Lowes, PK Richardson - Physical therapy, 1997 - academic.oup.com
… [Westcott SL, Lowes LP, Richardson PK. Evaluation of postural stability in children: … Sarah
L Westcott … 74 Lowes LP, Westcott SL. Relationship of force output and range of motion to …

Introducing mothur: open-source, platform-independent, community-supported software for describing and comparing microbial communities

PD Schloss, SL Westcott, T Ryabin… - Applied and …, 2009 - Am Soc Microbiol
mothur aims to be a comprehensive software package that allows users to use a single piece
of software to analyze community sequence data. It builds upon previous tools to provide a …

Development of a dual-index sequencing strategy and curation pipeline for analyzing amplicon sequence data on the MiSeq Illumina sequencing platform

JJ Kozich, SL Westcott, NT Baxter… - Applied and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Rapid advances in sequencing technology have changed the experimental landscape of
microbial ecology. In the last 10 years, the field has moved from sequencing hundreds of 16S …

Nanoengineering of optical resonances

SJ Oldenburg, RD Averitt, SL Westcott… - Chemical Physics Letters, 1998 - Elsevier
Metal nanoshells, consisting of a dielectric core with a metallic shell of nanometer thickness,
are a new, composite nanoparticle whose optical resonance can be “designed in” in a …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing the effects of PCR amplification and sequencing artifacts on 16S rRNA-based studies

PD Schloss, D Gevers, SL Westcott - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
The advent of next generation sequencing has coincided with a growth in interest in using
these approaches to better understand the role of the structure and function of the microbial …

Temperature‐sensitive polymer–nanoshell composites for photothermally modulated drug delivery

SR Sershen, SL Westcott, NJ Halas… - Journal of Biomedical …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Composites of thermally sensitive hydrogels and optically active nanoparticles have been
developed for the purpose of photothermally modulated drug delivery. Copolymers of N‐…

Postural control in children: implications for pediatric practice

SL Westcott, P Burtner - Physical & occupational therapy in …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
… to examine postural control (Westcott, Richardson, & Lowes, 1997) and many prominent
intervention methods emphasize the facilitation of postural control (Westcott, 2001). Postural …

Formation and adsorption of clusters of gold nanoparticles onto functionalized silica nanoparticle surfaces

SL Westcott, SJ Oldenburg, TR Lee, NJ Halas - Langmuir, 1998 - ACS Publications
This paper reports a systematic investigation of the growth and attachment of small gold
nanoparticles to the functionalized surfaces of larger silica nanoparticles. Dilution of the gold …

Linear optical properties of gold nanoshells

RD Averitt, SL Westcott, NJ Halas - JOSA B, 1999 - opg.optica.org
A metal nanoshell consists of a nanometer-scale dielectric core surrounded by a thin
metallic shell. The plasmon resonance of metal nanoshells displays a geometric tunability …

Assessing and improving methods used in operational taxonomic unit-based approaches for 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis

PD Schloss, SL Westcott - Applied and environmental …, 2011 - Am Soc Microbiol
In spite of technical advances that have provided increases in orders of magnitude in
sequencing coverage, microbial ecologists still grapple with how to interpret the genetic diversity …