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Background/Objectives: This study identified early neonatal factors predicting pre-discharge mortality among extremely preterm infants (EPIs) or extremely low birth weight infants (ELBWIs) in China, where data are scarce. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of 211 (92 deaths) neonates born <28 weeks of gestation or with a birth weight <1...
El enfisema es habitual en enfermedades pulmonares intersticiales (EPI), especialmente en fibrosis pulmonar idiopática (FPI). Su coexistencia se denomina "combinación fibrosis-enfisema" (CFPE), presente entre 8-67% en pacientes con FPI. Existe controversia si corresponde a un síndrome o un endotipo clínico en sí. Se caracteriza por enfisema en lóbu...
Introdução: a segurança e a saúde na área de trabalho rural são temas de crescente relevância, pois envolve uma série de riscos ocupacionais específicos. O uso de Equipamentos de Proteção Individual (EPIs) é uma das principais estratégias para mitigar esses riscos, protegendo os trabalhadores de exposições prejudiciais a agrotóxicos, acidentes com...
Background-The main cause of rickets in Ethiopia has been Vitamin D deficiency even though Ethiopia is a subtropical country. So the main objective of this study was accessing the knowledge, attitude, practice and factors affecting sunlight exposure of infants among mothers which is important to alleviate this problem. A cross-sectional institution...
Trabalhar com eletricidade requer um alto nível de instrução, com grande atenção e cuidado para garantir a segurança e a vida, além da saúde. Nesse contexto, é fundamental analisar as situações que representam maior risco e encontrar maneiras de prevenir os acidentes que ocorrem com maior frequência. O tema segurança em instalações elétricas é impo...
Background
Extremely preterm infants (EPIs) often require advanced respiratory support to survive, and one such intervention is the heated, humidified, high-flow nasal cannula (HHHFNC). While the use of this cannula in EPIs has been studied, the relationship between its use and the length of hospital stay is an important yet unexplored research are...
Background: The enhancer–promoter interaction (EPI) is a critical component of gene regulatory networks, playing a significant role in understanding the complexity of gene expression. Traditional EPI prediction methods focus on one-to-one interactions, neglecting more complex one-to-many and many-to-many patterns. To address this gap, we utilize gr...
Objective: Acute infectious diseases such as pneumonia can be brought on by bacteria, viruses, or fungi and harm the lung parenchyma. It continues to be the world's top cause of death for children under five. Immunizations, a balanced diet, and a reduction in environmental stressors can all help with prevention. Early discovery, appropriate care, a...
Background
Quantitative real‐time MRI‐based temperature mapping techniques are hampered by abdominal motion. Intrascan motion can be reduced by rapid acquisition sequences such as 2D echo planar imaging (EPI), and inter‐scan organ displacement can be compensated by image processing such as optical flow (OF) algorithms. However, motion field estimat...
This study aims to determine the effect of different high-pressure processing (HPP) conditions (100 MPa/300 MPa/500 MPa; 2 min/4 min/6 min) on copigmentation, specifically between chlorogenic acid (CA), epicatechin (Epi), gallic acid (GA), malvidin-3-O-galactoside (Mv-3-O-gal), and malvidin-3-O-arabinoside (Mv-3-O-ara), as well as the storage stabi...
O estudo analisa a engenharia de segurança do trabalho em usinas de energia fotovoltaica, considerando os riscos ocupacionais específicos desse setor, com foco na adequação das práticas de segurança às características das usinas. Com a crescente transição para fontes de energia renovável, como a solar, aumentam as demandas por protocolos de seguran...
O presente estudo de caso examinou os riscos e a segurança do trabalho na construção civil, concentrando-se na aplicação da Norma Regulamentadora n. 18 (NR-18), que disciplina as condições de segurança dos canteiros de obras. O problema que motivou a investigação foram os principais obstáculos que dificultaram a utilização eficaz da NR-18. Assim se...
Purpose
This study leverages the echo planar time‐resolved imaging (EPTI) concept in MR fingerprinting (MRF) framework for a new time‐resolved MRF (TRMRF) approach, and explores its capability for fast simultaneous quantification of multiple MR parameters including T1, T2, T2*, proton density, off resonance, and B1⁺.
Methods
The proposed TRMRF met...
Many type systems have been presented in the literature for variants of the pi-calculus, but none of them are able to handle composite subjects such as those found in the language epi, which features polyadic synchronisation. The purpose of this paper is to address the question of how to type composite subjects in a general fashion. We assess the v...
Abstract
Introduction: There is very little published data
on hospital mortality. Our general objective was to
determine the hospital mortality rate at the Ibrahima
Pierre Ndiaye Neurology Clinic from January to
December 2019.
Methodology: from January 1 to December 31, 2019,
we conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective, and
descriptive study. Our...
Tomato is a major global crop. However, its production is limited by Botrytis cinerea. Due to the toxicity of postharvest pesticide application, alternative control methods such as priming are being investigated.
Plants were treated with β‐aminobutyric acid (BABA) at two developmental stages and resistance against B. cinerea was tested in fruit tis...
Purpose
To overcome the major challenges in diffusion MRI (dMRI) acquisition, including limited SNR, distortion/blurring, and susceptibility to motion artifacts.
Theory and Methods
A novel Romer‐EPTI technique is developed to achieve SNR‐efficient acquisition while providing distortion‐free imaging, minimal spatial blurring, high motion robustness...
Dear Editor, Dementia is a broad term that includes a spectrum of diseases that affect our cognition, thinking ability, and performance of daily activities. According to the World Health Organization, at present, more than 55 million people around the world are suffering from dementia, and over 60% of whom live in countries that have middle to low...
Purpose
To compare image quality and diagnostic performance among SS-EPI diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), multi-shot (MS) EPI DWI, and reduced field-of-view (rFOV) DWI for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC).
Materials and methods
This retrospective study included 73 patients with bladder cancer who underwent multiparametric MRI in our referral...
Objetivo: evaluar la prevalencia de trastornos de ansiedad, depresión y ataques de pánico en pacientes de 20 a 59 años adscritos a una unidad de medicina familiar. Métodos: estudio transversal analítico. Participaron pacientes de 20 a 59 años, adscritos a la Unidad de Medicina Familiar No. 4, que acudieron al módulo prevenimss, de agosto 2023 a nov...
Since the turn of the 21st century, societies worldwide have committed to sustainable development, aiming to meet present needs while safeguarding future generations' aspirations. The concept, first articulated in the Brundtland Report of 1987, emphasizes balancing economic advancement, social equity, and environmental conservation, with the enviro...
Global climate change is exacerbating biological invasions; however, the roles of genomic and epigenomic variations and their interactions in future climate adaptation remain underexplored. Using the model invasive ascidian Botryllus schlosseri across the Northern Hemisphere, we investigated genomic and epigenomic responses to future climates and d...
This study aims to analyze the efforts made by Indonesia in managing the forest environment. The reason is that Indonesia is ranked 164th out of 180 countries regarding environmental performance by The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) with a score of 28.20 points which is categorized as a country with low forest management. This study uses a q...
Four indicators of severe neonatal morbidity (SNM) (intraventricular hemorrhage stages 3–4, retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) stage 3, severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), and/or necrotizing enterocolitis) are well-known to be associated with poor infancy outcome after very preterm birth. Practice changes according to recent guidelines were impl...
RESUMO A biossegurança na prática odontológica é essencial para o controle de infecções cruzadas, garantindo um ambiente seguro tanto para pacientes quanto para profissionais de saúde. Medidas como esterilização rigorosa, uso de equipamentos de proteção individual (EPIs), higienização correta das mãos e desinfecção de superfícies e instrumentos são...
A pandemia de COVID-19, iniciada em 2019, impactou severamente os serviços de saúde bucal, especialmente cirurgias bucomaxilofaciais, devido ao risco elevado de transmissão via aerossóis. Procedimentos eletivos foram suspensos, e novas diretrizes de segurança foram implementadas para proteger pacientes e profissionais. Analisar os impactos da COVID...
Understanding how multicellular organisms reliably orchestrate cell-fate decisions is a central challenge in developmental biology, particularly in early mammalian development, where tissue-level differentiation arises from seemingly cell-autonomous mechanisms. In this study, we present a multi-scale, spatial-stochastic simulation framework for mou...
O Brasil ocupa uma posição de destaque no mercado mundial de folhas de fumo, sendo o segundo maior produtor e maior exportador desta commodity. A fumicultura é integrada ao complexo agro-industrial do fumo, composto basicamente por empresas transnacionais, sendo o vínculo entre produtor e capital estabelecido pelo Sistema Integrado de Produção de F...
Background: The novel bacterial topoisomerase inhibitors (NBTIs) developed in our laboratory show potent on-target enzyme inhibition but suffer from low activity against Gram-negative bacteria. Methods: With the aim of improving the antibacterial activity of our compounds against Gram-negative bacteria, we tested them in combination with different...
With global warming driving an increase in extreme precipitation, the ensuing disasters present an unsustainable scenario for humanity. Consequently, understanding the characteristics of extreme precipitation has become paramount. Analyzing observational data from 1961 to 2020 across 29 meteorological stations in Heilongjiang Province, China, we em...
Background
Dietary fat malabsorption contributes to poor nutritional status in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI). Prescribing gastric acid-reducing agents such as proton-pump inhibitors (PPI) as an adjunct to pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT) to improve dietary fat absorption has been accepted...
This study explores the propagation characteristics of ion-acoustic periodic, soliton, and breather waves in electron-positron-ion (EPI) plasma with a relativistic positron beam. The Korteweg–de Vries (KdV) equation is obtained by applying the traditional reductive perturbation method (RPM) to the fundamental set of fluid equations. When the KdV mo...
Mouse preimplantation development harbors a series of molecular events that include zygotic genome activation (ZGA) and cell lineage specification which concurrent with totipotency to pluripotency transition. The establishment of pluripotency is a continuous process involving two cell lineage specification events, the generation of inner cell mass...
Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) is a significant complication of bariatric surgery, but its frequency and outcomes are not well-studied. If EPI is not diagnosed, it can result in nutritional deficiencies, dehydration, and acute kidney damage. Our patient, a 47-year-old woman, underwent Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery due to morbid o...
Purpose
This study by the EANM radiobiology working group aims to analyze the efficacy and toxicity of targeted radionuclide therapy (TRT) using radiopharmaceuticals approved by the EMA and FDA for neuroendocrine tumors and prostate cancer. It seeks to understand the correlation between physical parameters such as absorbed dose and TRT outcomes, al...
This paper refers to definition, explanation and implementation of environmental standard-environmental performance evaluation-ISO 14031. Environmental Standards, so called ISO 14000, are a series of international standards designed to meet the needs of governments, industry or business. ISO 14000 refers to standards such as environmental managemen...
Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI) is a condition in which the amount of secreted pancreatic enzymes is insufficient to maintain normal digestion. EPI is a frequent complication of pancreatic or other malignancies. The presence of EPI in a cancer patient may be suggested by symptoms of maldigestion, malabsorption, and alteration of nutritional...
Purpose
Evaluate the use of both single‐echo gradient recalled echo (SE‐GRE) and EPI approaches to creating temperature maps on a mid‐field head‐only scanner, both in vivo and on a tissue mimicking gel.
Methods
Three 2D protocols were investigated (an SE‐GRE, single‐shot EPI, and an averaged single‐shot EPI). The protocols used either a gradient r...
Individuals with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) may experience paradoxical kinesia (PK), the ability to temporarily overcome bradykinesia and display relatively normal motor functioning. This occurs despite the known detrimental impact of PD on the closed loop circuit (CLC) motor network through the dorsal putamen and basal ganglia. Anatomical evidence s...
Introdução: a onicomicose é a micose que acomete as unhas e é causada por fungos que crescem, se mantêm vivos e em atividade. Pode provocar desconforto e alterar a forma da unha. Objetivo: Fazer um relato de caso de um paciente portador do vírus do HIV co-infectado em ambiente de internação por infecção ungueal por onicomicose. Metodologia: Estudo...
Background: Routine childhood immunization remains a highly cost-effective public health intervention. Global immunization efforts have increased the coverage of proxy antigens in recent decades. However, annual reports indicated a progressive decline in immunization coverage in Yaounde. In addition, data management issues related to Expanded Progr...
Background: Routine childhood immunization remains a highly cost-effective public health intervention. Global immunization efforts have increased the coverage of proxy antigens in recent decades. However, annual reports indicated a progressive decline in immunization coverage in Yaounde. In addition, data management issues related to Expanded Progr...
Introduction and Objective: Unlike other LA users, most Elekta users use a 2D Array or other external devices for Patient specific QA purpose. In India, we experimented with a third-party portal dosimetry system called EPI Beam from DosiSoft, France, for PSQA. EPI (Electronic Portal Imaging) Beam Portal Dosimetry is a method used to verify the dose...
G protein-coupled estrogen receptor 1 (GPER-1) has gained recognition for its role in conferring cardioprotection. However, the extent to which GPER-1 exerts equally important effects in both sexes remains unclear. The study found similar expressions of GPER-1 in rat heart apex in both sexes. In male rats, administering epinephrine (Epi) at a dose...
El nivel de dominio de la lengua extranjera en los ecuatorianos es deficiente a nivel mundial, dado así que el Informe del Índice de Competencia en inglés (EF EPI) del 2023, posesiona a Ecuador en el puesto número 80 de 113 países evaluados. Para optimizar esta situación de nivel del dominio de Ingles es necesario variar las metodologías, especialm...
Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) plans are distributed across 2% of the Brazilian Legal Amazon (BLA) territory. Although these enterprises are authorized through the national system (Sinaflor), there is a lack of a computational platform capable of processing, analyzing, and correlating monitoring data from remote sensing techniques with the pro...
O Brasil encontra-se hoje como um dos maiores consumidores de agrotóxicos do mundo devido à vasta expansão da agricultura. Nesse contexto, o estado do Maranhão se destaca como um grande produtor agrícola, tendo sua economia calcada no cultivo de lavouras de soja, arroz, cana-de-açúcar e outras leguminosas. O trabalho em questão identificou de forma...
Environmental protection with adaptation and resilience capacity building to climate change is one of the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development goals and one pillar of the integrated and interlinked dimensions of the development. The aim of the study is to compare some indicators of EPI and environmental pollution related health impacts of Mongol...
Due to the increasing rate of urbanization, in many towns of Himachal Pradesh in India, the building energy-footprint is increasing day by day. Hence, in this present study Energy Performance Index (EPI) of the traditional rural and modern urban houses located in and around Mandi – Sundernagar towns at Himachal Pradesh, India, having composite clim...
Purpose
To address key issues of low SNR and image distortions in prostate diffusion MRI (dMRI) by means of using strong gradients, single‐shot spiral readouts and an expanded encoding model for image reconstruction.
Methods
Diffusion‐weighted spin echo imaging with EPI and spiral readouts is performed on a whole‐body system equipped with strong g...
Strigolactones (SLs) are a new generation plant hormone that play a significant role in regulating various aspects of growth promotion and physiological processes in plants. SLs influence the rhizospheric microbiome that promotes symbiotic relationships with plants and microbes. The application of epi-(-)-strigolactone GR24 has emerged as a promisi...
The epileptogenic network in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) contains structures of the primary and secondary olfactory cortex such as the piriform and entorhinal cortex, the amygdala, and the hippocampus. Olfactory auras and olfactory dysfunction are relevant symptoms of TLE. This study aims to characterize olfactory function in TLE using olfactory t...
Early detection of fetal intracranial hemorrhage and infarct during pregnancy is crucial for preventing lethal and debilitating complications in neonatal life. Every radiologist must be aware of the imaging features of these conditions to refer patients to specialists. Sonographic and MRI features of fetal intracranial hemorrhage and infarct have b...
Background & Aims
MRI guidance offers better lesion targeting for microwave ablation of liver lesions with higher soft-tissue contrast, as well as the possibility of real-time thermometry. This study aims to evaluate the correlation of real-time MR thermometry-predicted lesion volume with the ablation zone in postprocedural first-day images.
Mater...
Over the past few decades, the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on neonates and very young children has increased dramatically in research and clinical settings. However, the specific characteristics of this population and the MRI standards largely derived from adult studies, pose serious practical challenges. The current study a...
The contributions of genetic interactions to natural trait variation are challenging to estimate experimentally, as current approaches for detecting epistasis are often underpowered. Powerful mapping approaches such as bulk segregant analysis, wherein individuals with extreme phenotypes are pooled for genotyping, obscure epistasis by averaging over...
Çevre üzerinde alınan ve alınacak önlemler konusunda toplum baskısı son yıllarda özellikle gelişmiş ve gelişmekte olan ülkelerde gittikçe artmaktadır. Devletler ve organizasyonlar insanlar üzerinde ekonomik ve sosyal özellikli faaliyetlere önem verdikleri gibi çevre üzerinden de gösterdikleri performanslara göre değerlendirilmektedir. Çevre özelind...
Vaccines to Prevent or Treatment to Recover; Immunisation adherence and compliance in children 0-18 Months. Purpose: This study aims to analyse routine immunisation adherence and compliance among 323 mothers and caregivers of children aged 0-18 months at Pager 1. Determine the provider and parent adherence and compliance factors. 2. Find out how pr...
Background: Pediatric hepatitis B virus (HBV) serostatus remains variably characterized, hardly determined at times, or documented as part of national monitoring of the Extended Programs for Immunization (EPI). Methods: We cross-sectionally characterized the seroprevalence of HBV vaccine and/or infection status among 501 and 288 children <5 and 15–...
Objectives: Vaccine stockouts at the national level has been recognized as a critical challenge in ensuring sustained and equitable immunization coverage. These stockouts often arise from inherent issues within countries, including delays in government funding, suboptimal forecasting and stock management practices, and inefficiencies in the procure...
This study investigates the impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption, governance quality, and economic growth on environmental sustainability across frontier, emerging, and developed economies from 2001 to 2021. The Environmental Performance Index (EPI) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are environmental sustainability measur...
Objective: Our goal was to characterize a large group of children presenting to the emergency department (ED) with acute anaphylaxis, treated with intramuscular epinephrine (IM EPI) and a corticosteroid (CS), and to determine the impact of pharmacologic intervention on the rate and timing of biphasic reactions (BPR). Methods: We reviewed consecutiv...
La publicación Cosechar la palabra para sembrar la vida: economías populares, educación y cultura, una mirada desde el Sur Global, se deriva de la investigación: La educación lectora y su vinculación con las economías campesinas, familiares y comunitarias (ecfc): una mirada a través de contextos culturales (bibliotecas) y escolares (escuelas rurale...
Background
The burden of malaria in Kenya was showing a declining trend, but appears to have reached a plateau in recent years. This study estimated changes in the geographical distribution of malaria parasite risk in the country between the years 2015 and 2020, and quantified the contribution of malaria control interventions and climatic/ environm...
Purpose
To develop a 3D distortion‐free reduced‐FOV diffusion‐prepared gradient‐echo sequence and demonstrate its application in vivo for diffusion imaging of the spinal cord in healthy volunteers.
Methods
A 3D multi‐shot reduced‐FOV diffusion‐prepared gradient‐echo acquisition is achieved using a slice‐selective tip‐down pulse in the phase‐encodi...
The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies A. baumannii as one of the most resistant pathogens. Over the past few years, there has been a significant rise in its resistance to a wide array of antibiotics. Multidrug resistance is attributed to several mechanisms, with efflux pumps being the most notable. Recently, the development of new treatmen...
In the monosomy 1p36 deletion syndrome, the role of DNA methylation in the genomic stability of the 1p36 region remains elusive. We hypothesize that changes in the methylation pattern at the 1p36 breakpoint hotspot region influenced the chro-mosomal breakage leading to terminal deletions. From the monosomy 1p36 material collection, four cases with...
Background
A Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) Epidemiology Collaboration (EPI) formula not including a Black race coefficient has been recently developed and is now recommended in the US. The new (2021) equation was shown to yield higher estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) values than the old (2009) one in a non-Black general population sample,...
Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most prevalent and deadly cancers among men, particularly affecting men of African descent and contributing significantly to cancer-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. The disease varies widely, from slow-developing forms to highly aggressive or potentially fatal variants. Accurate risk stratification is c...
This case report presents a comprehensive evaluation of the complex balance of therapeutic benefits and potential risks associated with the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) modulator elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor (ETI) therapy in managing an eight-year-old male with cystic fibrosis (CF) and exocrine pancreatic insuffici...