Publications, Presentations, Reports and Manuscripts


Nicholas G. Smedira, MD, Eugene H. Blackstone, MD, John Ehrlinger, PhD, Lucy Thuita, MS, Christopher D. Pierce, PhD, Nader Moazami, MD, and Randall C. Starling, MD, MPH
2015 Current risks of HeartMate II pump thrombosis: Non-parametric analysis of Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support data. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation Vol 34, No 12:1527-1534.

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Pierce, Christopher D., David Booth, Chimezie Ogbuji, Chris Deaton, Eugene Blackstone and Doug Lenat
2012 SemanticDB: A Semantic Web Infrastructure for Clinical Research and Quality Reporting. Current Bioinformatics 7(3):267-277.

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Booth, David and Christopher Pierce
2011 RDF Data Pipelines for Semantic Data Federation. 7th Annual Semantic Technology Conference, San Francisco, Ca. March 8.

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Pierce, Christopher
2010 Healthcare Quality Reporting with Semantic Technologies. Cleveland Clinic Medical Informatics Grand Rounds, Cleveland Oh. August 20.

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Pierce, Christopher D., David Booth, Chris Deaton and Chimezie Ogbuji
2010 Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records through Semantic Technologies: The Cleveland Clinic Experience. 6th Annual Semantic Technology Conference, San Francisco, Ca. June 25.

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Pierce, Christopher, David Booth and Chris Deaton
2010 Making Meaningful Use of Electronic Medical Records at Cleveland Clinic. Cambridge Semantic Web Interest Group Meeting, Cambridge, Ma. May 11.

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Ogbuji, Chimezie, Christopher Pierce and Chris Deaton
2009 Semantic Web Technologies as a Framework for Clinical Informatics. 5th Annual Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, Ca. June 16.

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Pierce, Christopher, Chris Deaton, Brian Beck and Chimezie Ogbuji
2009 A Semantic Approach to Health Care Quality Reporting. 5th Annual Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, Ca. June 15.

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Ramenofsky, Ann F., Fraser D. Neiman and Christopher D. Pierce
2008 Measuring Time, Population, and Residential Mobility from the Surface at San Marcos Pueblo, North Central New Mexico. American Antiquity Volume 74, Number 3, pp. 505-530

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Ogbuji, Chimezie, Eugene Blackstone, Chris Pierce
2007 Case Study: A Semantic Web Content Repository for Clinical Research. W3C Semantic Web Use Cases and Case Studies. Available at: http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/ClevelandClinic/.


Pierce, Christopher and Chimezie Ogbuji
2007 An Application of Semantic Technologies to Computerized Patient Medical Records. Invited presentation, 3rd Annual World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress, Washington, D.C. December 10.


Pierce, Christopher and Chimezie Ogbuji
2007 Semantic Integration of Clinical Data for Outcomes Research and Reporting. Clinical Research Informatics Expo, American Medical Informatics Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Il. November 10-14.


Pierce, Christopher, Chimezie Ogbuji, Sivaram Arabandi and John Clark
2007 Semantic Technology and Computer-Based Patient Records. 3rd Annual Semantic Technology Conference, San Jose, CA. May 23.


Roselli, Eric E., Sudish C. Murthy, Thomas W. Rice, Penny L. Houghtaling, Christopher D. Pierce, Daniel P. Karchmer and Eugene H. Blackstone
2005 Atrial Fibrillation Complicating Lung Cancer Resection. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 130:438-444.

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Pierce, Christopher
2005 Reverse Engineering the Ceramic Cooking Pot: Cost and Performance Properties of Plain and Textured Vessels. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 12(2): 117-157.

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Pierce, Christopher
2005 The Development of Corrugated Pottery in Southwestern Colorado. Kiva 71(1): 79-100.

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Kim, Kwhanmien, Thomas W. Rice, Sudish C. Murthy, Malcolm M. DeCamp, Christopher D. Pierce, Daniel P. Karchmer, Lisa A. Rybicki and Eugene H. Blackstone
2004 Combined Bronchoscopy, Mediastinoscopy, and Thoracotomy for Lung Cancer: Who Benefits? Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 127:850-856.

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Sabik, J. F., J. A. Holmes, A. Boone, J. Feng, C. Pierce, T. G. Santoscoy, E. H. Blackstone
2003 Effectiveness of Blake vs. Standard Drains for Pleural Cavity Drainage in Cardiac Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial, Final Report. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH.


Pierce, Christopher, Donna M. Glowacki, and Margaret M. Thurs
2002 Measuring Community Interaction: Pueblo III Pottery Production and Distribution in the Central Mesa Verde Region. In Seeking the Center Place: Archaeology and Ancient Communities in the Mesa Verde Region, edited by M. D. Varien and R. H. Wilshusen, pp. 185–202. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.

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Pierce, Christopher and Ann Ramenofsky
2000 Report on Archaeological Research Conducted at Pueblo San Marcos (LA98) during 1999 by the University of New Mexico. Ms. on file, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM.


Ramenofsky, Ann and Christopher Pierce
1999 A Summary Report on Archaeological Mapping at Pueblo San Marcos (LA98), 1997 & 1998. Ms. on file, Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM.

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Pierce, Christopher
1999 Explaining corrugated pottery in the American Southwest: an evolutionary approach. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wa.

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Pierce, Christopher, Mark D. Varien, John C. Driver, G. T. Gross and Joseph W. Keleher
1999 Artifacts. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: Site Testing, edited by M. D. Varien, Chapter 15. CD-ROM, Vers. 1.0. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Distributed by University of Arizona Press and available at: http://www.crowcanyon.org/sitetesting.


Pierce, Christopher and Joseph W. Keleher
1999 Cores and Debitage. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: Site Testing, edited by M. D. Varien, section in Chapter 15. Distributed by University of Arizona Press and available at: http://www.crowcanyon.org/sitetesting.


Pierce, Christopher and Mark D. Varien
1999 Pottery. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: Site Testing, edited by M. D. Varien, section in Chapter 15. CD-ROM, Vers. 1.0. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. Distributed by University of Arizona Press and available at: http://www.crowcanyon.org/sitetesting.


Pierce, Christopher
1999 Stone Tools and Manufacturing Debris. In The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: Site Testing Program, edited by M. D. Varien. Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Co. Distributed by University of Arizona Press and available at: http://www.crowcanyon.org/sitetesting.


Pierce, Christopher
1998 Theory, Measurement, and Explanation: Variable Shapes in Poverty Point Objects. In Unit Issues in Archaeology, edited by Ann F. Ramenofsky and Anastasia Steffen, pp.163-190. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.


Pierce, Christopher, Karen Adams and Joe Stewart
1998 Determining the Fuel Constituents of Ancient Hearth Ash via ICP-AES Analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science 25:493-503.

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Pierce, Christopher
1998 Toward Explaining Complex Patterns of Human Cooperation and Conflict. Invited presentation to workshop on "Modeling Complexity in Social Systems," Colorado Center for Chaos and Complexity, University of Colorado, Boulder.


Pierce, Christopher
1998 Explaining the Rise and Fall of Corrugated Cooking Pots in the American Southwest. Invited presentation, 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, Wa.


Penman, S., A. Ramenofsky, C. Pierce, D. Vaughan, and E. Welker
1998 Will the Real San Marcos Pueblo Please Stand Up? An Examination of Bias and Error in Archaeological Site Maps. 63rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Seattle, Wa.

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Pierce, Christopher and Ann Ramenofsky
1998 Investigating Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation during the Contact Period in New Mexico. Invited presentation, Sixth Biennial Southwest Symposium, Hermosillo, Mexico.


Pierce, Christopher
1996 Why Corrugated Pottery? A Functional and Historical Analysis of the Change from Smooth to Corrugated Cooking Pots in the American Southwest. 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, La.


Thurs, Margaret, Donna Glowacki and Christopher Pierce
1996 Pottery Production in the Sand Canyon Locality. 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, La.


Pierce, Christopher, Donna Glowacki and Margaret Thurs
1996 Pottery Production and Distribution in the Sand Canyon Locality. Fifth Biennial Southwest Symposium, Tempe, Az.


Pierce, Christopher
1995 Recent Research on Pueblo III Pottery Production and Distribution in the Mesa Verde Region. Southwestern Pottery Workshop, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Co.


Pierce, Christopher
1995 Why Corrugated Pottery? Uniting History and Function through an Evolutionary Approach to Explaining Technological Change. Invited presentation, Durango Conference on Southwest Archaeology, Durango, Co.


Pierce, Christopher, Karan Adams and Joe Stewart
1994 Determining the Taxonomic Identity of Trees and Shrubs Present in Prehistoric Hearth Ash Via ICP-AES Analysis. 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Anaheim, Ca.


Pierce, Christopher
1994 Summary of the 1994 Southwest Pottery Workshop Held at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center. Pottery Southwest 21(2): 8-9.


Pierce, Christopher
1994 Variation in Direct Evidence of Pottery Production among Pueblo III Settlements in the Sand Canyon Locality. Pecos Conference, Mesa Verde National Park, Co.


Pierce, Christopher
1993 Evolutionary Theory and the Explanation of Formal Variation: An Application to Poverty Point Objects from the Lower Mississippi Valley. Unpublished MA paper, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle.


Pierce, Christopher
1992 Effects of Pocket Gopher Burrowing on Archaeological Deposits: A Simulation Approach. Geoarchaeology 7(3): 185-208.

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Pierce, Christopher
1991 Distinguishing Style and Function in Poverty Point Objects. 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, New Orleans, La.


Pierce, Christopher
1989 Report on 1989 Archaeological Investigations of the Buffalo Slough Tract, Dunklin County, Missouri. Submitted to R. C. Dunnell for the Little River Lowlands Project, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle.


Pierce, Christopher
1989 A Critique of Middle-Range Theory in Archaeology. Available at http://clevelandclinic.academia.edu/ChristopherPierce/Papers/1728686/A_Critique_of_Middle-Range_Theory_In_Archaeology and http://www.archive.org/details/ACritiqueOfMiddle-rangeTheoryInArchaeology

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Livingston, Stephanie and Christopher Pierce
1989 Prehistoric Archaeology of the West Sinter Quarry, Cortez Mountains, Nevada. Technical Report No. 61. Quaternary Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nv.


Durand, Stephen, Christopher Pierce and Stephanie Livingston
1989 The West Sinter Quarry Pits. In Prehistoric Archaeology of the West Sinter Quarry, Cortez Mountains, Nevada, by S. D. Livingston and C. Pierce, pp. 85-106. Technical Report No. 61. Quaternary Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nv.


Chapin, Nicholas, Christopher Pierce and Stephanie Livingston
1989 The West Sinter Rockshelter. In Prehistoric Archaeology of the West Sinter Quarry, Cortez Mountains, Nevada, by S. D. Livingston and C. Pierce, pp. 107-120. Technical Report No. 61. Quaternary Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nv.


Pierce, Christopher
1989 Exploring Functional Variation in Fire-Altered Rocks. 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Ga.

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Pierce, Christopher
1988 Southwestern Archaic and the Oshara Tradition Type Sites: A Progress Report. Submitted to the L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation, Oakland, Ca.


Pierce, Christopher
1988 Functional Analysis of Fire-Altered Rock Features. Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting, Redding, Ca.


Pierce, Christopher
1988 California's Milling Stone Horizon: Of Mice or Men? 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Phoenix, Az.


Irwin-Williams, Cynthia, Christopher Pierce, Stephen Durand and Pat Hicks
1988 The Density Dependent Method: Measuring the Archaeological Record in the Northern Southwest. American Archeology 7(1):38-48.

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Pierce, Christopher and Stephen Durand
1988 Prehistoric Land-Use and Spatial Patterning in the Mesilla Bolson. In Archaeological Resources of the Santa Teresa Study Area, South-Central New Mexico, edited by J. C. Ravesloot, pp. 235-252. Arizona State Museum, Tucson.


Pierce, Christopher
1988 A Functional Classification of Fire-Altered Rock Features from CA-SBr-5381. In The Archaeology of Tiefort Basin, Fort Irwin, San Bernardino County, California, by K. McGuire and M. Hall. Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Davis, Ca.


Pierce, Christopher and Nicholas Chapin
1987 Archaeological Investigations for the West Sinter Project, Southern Cortez Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada. Technical Report No. 54. Social Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nv.


Pierce, Christopher
1987 A Cultural Resources Survey of Three Mineral Exploration Areas in the Cortez Mountains, Eureka County, Nevada. Cultural Resources Report 87-5. Social Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nv.


Pierce, Christopher
1987 A Cultural Resources Survey of the Trinity Silver Project, Pershing County, Nevada. Cultural Resources Report 87-4. Social Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno.


Pierce, Christopher
1987 Archaeological Survey of Access Roads along Portions of a Transmission Line from Dixie Valley, Nevada to Bishop, California. Cultural Resources Report 87-3. Social Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nv.


Pierce, Christopher
1987 A Cultural Resources Reconnaissance of the Sagewood Estates Subdivision, Southern Washoe County, Nevada. Cultural Resources Report 87-1. Social Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nv.


Pierce, Christopher
1986 Analysis of Sites Excavated by the Anasazi Origins Project, 1965 to 1969: A Progress Report on BNS 8205746. Submitted to the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.


Irwin-Williams, Cynthia, Christopher Pierce and Stephen Durand
1985 Archaeological Units and Human Activities in the Southwest Archaic. 50th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, Co.


Pierce, Christopher
1984 Analysis of Cooking Stones from a Late Period Chumash Village. 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, Or.


Pierce, Christopher and Stephen Durand
1984 Analysis of Regional Survey Data. In The Oshara Tradition: Archaic Hunter- Gatherer Adaptation in the Northern Southwest: Progress Report, Phase I. Submitted to the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.


Pierce, Christopher
1983 The Cooking Stones of Talepop: Evidence of Status Related Differentiation in Chumash Subsistence. Society for California Archaeology Annual Meeting, San Diego, Ca.


Pierce, Christopher and Stephen Durand
1983 Regional Survey. In Hunter-Gatherer Culture Change and the Development of Sedentism in the Southwest U.S., Phase I 1981-1983: Progress Report. Submitted to the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.


Pierce, Christopher
1982 Cultural Resources Reconnaissance of Two Linear Miles of Water Line Right-of-Way near Nixon, Nevada. Cultural Resources Report 82-1. Social Sciences Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nv.


Pierce, Christopher and Cynthia Irwin-Williams
1982 Archaeology Field Investigations: Regional Survey. In Supplementary Information on Phase I Development: Progress Report on Project Activities in 1982. Submitted to the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.


Pierce, Christopher
1982 Data Recovery Procedures for Excavations. In Archaeological Investigations at Talepop (LAN-229), compiled by C. D. King, pp. 2.6-2.22. Office of Public Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara.


Pierce, Christopher
1982 Stratigraphy, Features, and Site Formation. In Archaeological Investigations at Talepop (LAN-229), compiled by C. D. King, pp. 5.1-5.87. Office of Public Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara.


Pierce, Christopher, Eric Clingen and Lynn Gamble
1982 Petrology of Chipped Stone Artifacts. In Archaeological Investigations at Talepop (LAN-229), compiled by C. D. King, pp. 7.1-7.8. Office of Public Archaeology, University of California, Santa Barbara.


Pierce, Christopher
1982 Processes of Site Formation at Talepop (Ca-LAn-229). Southwestern Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Sacramento, Ca.


Pierce, Christopher
1982 An Analysis of Surface Artifact Assemblages in the Arroyo Cuervo Region, New Mexico. Pecos Conference, Pecos National Monument, NM.


Pierce, Christopher
1980 Analysis of Shellfish Remains. In: Investigations of the Escalante Site Ca-SCl-314. Ms. on file, Department of Anthropology, San Jose State University, San Jose, Ca.


Hammett, Julia and Christopher Pierce
1979 Assessment of Cultural Resources at Lands of Hellett et al: San Jose, California. Ms. on file, Archaeological Regional Research Center and Clearinghouse, Cabrillo College, Aptos, Ca.


Dallas, Herb and Christopher Pierce
1979 Identifying Archaeological Features through Soil pH Analysis at Ca-SCl-300. In: The Archaeology of North 1st Street, edited by R. Cartier. Occasional Papers of Archaeological Resource Management, San Jose, Ca.


Pierce, Christopher
1978 The Soil Chemistry of Ca-SCr-168. In: Secondary, Subsurface Archaeological Evaluation of Ca-SCr-168, edited by R. Cartier. Occasional Papers of Archaeological Resource Management, San Jose, Ca.


Pierce, Christopher and Joseph Winter
1977 Hov 652 - 5MT4093. In: Hovenweep 1976: Archaeological Report No. 3, by J. C. Winter, pp. 57-61. San Jose State University, San Jose, Ca.


Pierce, Christopher and Bradley Noisat
1976 Water Control Experimentation. In Hovenweep 1975: Archaeological Report No. 2, by J. C. Winter, pp. 191-196. San Jose State University, San Jose, Ca.