User profiles for M. Conover

MR Conover

- Verified email at usu.edu - Cited by 10400

Michael Conover

- Verified email at indiana.edu - Cited by 5866

Mitchell M. Conover

- Verified email at email.unc.edu - Cited by 1827

Political polarization on twitter

M Conover, J Ratkiewicz, M Francisco… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - ojs.aaai.org
In this study we investigate how social media shape the networked public sphere and facilitate
communication between communities with different political orientations. We examine two …

Lifetime risk of stress urinary incontinence or pelvic organ prolapse surgery

JM Wu, CA Matthews, MM Conover, V Pate… - Obstetrics & …, 2014 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: To estimate the lifetime risk of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) surgery, pelvic
organ prolapse (POP) surgery, or both using current, population-based surgical rates from …

[BOOK][B] Resolving human-wildlife conflicts: the science of wildlife damage management

MR Conover - 2001 - taylorfrancis.com
As more and more people crowd onto less and less land, incidences of human-wildlife conflicts
will only increase. A comprehensive overview of this emerging field, Resolving Human-…

[HTML][HTML] Assembly and Development of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Matrix

L Ma, M Conover, H Lu, MR Parsek, K Bayles… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Virtually all cells living in multicellular structures such as tissues and organs are encased in
an extracellular matrix. One of the most important features of a biofilm is the extracellular …

Review of human injuries, illnesses, and economic losses caused by wildlife in the United States

MR Conover, WC Pitt, KK Kessler, TJ DuBow… - Wildlife society …, 1995 - JSTOR
Conover (unpublished) surveyed 1,000 households randomly selected from the 100 largest
metropolitan centers in the US Over half the respondents (57%) reported that they or their …

Detecting and tracking political abuse in social media

J Ratkiewicz, M Conover, M Meiss… - Proceedings of the …, 2011 - ojs.aaai.org
We study astroturf political campaigns on microblogging platforms: politically-motivated
individuals and organizations that use multiple centrally-controlled accounts to create the …

Predicting the political alignment of twitter users

MD Conover, B Gonçalves, J Ratkiewicz… - 2011 IEEE third …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The widespread adoption of social media for political communication creates unprecedented
opportunities to monitor the opinions of large numbers of politically active individuals in …

Role of preoperative cessation of smoking and other factors in postoperative pulmonary complications: a blinded prospective study of coronary artery bypass patients

…, ME WARNER, RL LENNON, MANN CONOVER… - Mayo Clinic …, 1989 - Elsevier
The association between preoperative smoking cessation and postoperative pulmonary
morbidity was studied prospectively in 200 consecutive patients undergoing an elective …

Truthy: mapping the spread of astroturf in microblog streams

J Ratkiewicz, M Conover, M Meiss… - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Online social media are complementing and in some cases replacing person-to-person
social interaction and redefining the diffusion of information. In particular, microblogs have …

Valkyrie: Nasa's first bipedal humanoid robot

…, B Howard, L Niu, A Lee, M Conover… - Journal of Field …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… Valkyrie stands 1.87 m tall, weighs 129 kg, and approximates a human range of motion.
Drawing heavily from lessons learned from past NASA robots (Ambrose et al., 2000; Bridgwater …