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Lee Samuel Finn

Adjunct Professor of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
Verified email at gwastro.org
Cited by 52492

LIGO: the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory

…, Y Fan, D Fazi, H Fehrmenn, LS Finn… - Reports on Progress …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and
study gravitational waves (GWs) of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of GWs holds the …

[HTML][HTML] Therapy for metastatic melanoma: the past, present, and future

L Finn, SN Markovic, RW Joseph - BMC medicine, 2012 - Springer
Metastatic melanoma is the most aggressive form of skin cancer with a median overall survival
of less than one year. Advancements in our understanding of how melanoma evades the …

[PDF][PDF] Estimation of the clinically diagnosed proportion of sleep apnea syndrome in middle-aged men and women

T Young, L Evans, L Finn, M Palta - Sleep, 1997 - scholar.archive.org
The proportion of sleep apnea syndrome (SAS) in the general adult population that goes
undiagnosed was estimated from a sample of 4,925 employed adults. Questionnaire data on …

Sleep disordered breathing and mortality: eighteen-year follow-up of the Wisconsin sleep cohort

T Young, L Finn, PE Peppard, M Szklo-Coxe, D Austin… - Sleep, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Background: Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a treatable but markedly under-diagnosed
condition of frequent breathing pauses during sleep. SDB is linked to incident …

Predictors of sleep-disordered breathing in community-dwelling adults: the Sleep Heart Health Study

…, DJ Gottlieb, JA Walsleben, L Finn… - Archives of internal …, 2002 - jamanetwork.com
Background Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is common, but largely undiagnosed in the
general population. Information on demographic patterns of SDB occurrence and its …

Population-based study of sleep-disordered breathing as a risk factor for hypertension

…, P Peppard, M Palta, KM Hla, L Finn… - Archives of internal …, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
Background: Clinical observations have linked sleepdisordered breathing, a condition of
repeated apneas and hypopneas during sleep, with hypertension but evidence for an …

Association of sleep-disordered breathing and the occurrence of stroke

M Arzt, T Young, L Finn, JB Skatrud… - American journal of …, 2005 - atsjournals.org
… Dyugovskaya L, Lavie P, Lavie L. Increased adhesion molecules expression and production
of reactive oxygen species in leukocytes of sleep apnea patients. Am J Respir Crit Care …

The international pulsar timing array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

…, G Desvignes, RD Ferdman, L Finn… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The International Pulsar Timing Array project combines observations of pulsars from both
northern and southern hemisphere observatories with the main aim of detecting ultra-low …

Epidemiology of restless legs symptoms in adults

B Phillips, T Young, L Finn, K Asher… - Archives of internal …, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
Background Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a disorder characterized by sleep-disrupting
unpleasant leg sensations, often accompanied by daytime behavioral problems. Treatment …

Sleep-disordered breathing and motor vehicle accidents in a population-based sample of employed adults

T Young, J Blustein, L Finn, M Palta - Sleep, 1997 - academic.oup.com
Studies have consistently shown that sleep apnea patients have high accident rates, but the
generalizability of the association beyond clinic populations has been questioned. The goal …