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Using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) to improve access to blood in low‐ and middle‐income countries: Current challenges and opportunities

Vox Sanguinis, EarlyView.
Abstract Blood transfusion is life‐saving for patients in emergencies, but low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) often face a severe shortage of banked blood. Establishing blood banks in rural areas presents substantial logistical and economic challenges for many LMICs.
Suvro Sankha Datta, Ritwick Mondal, Shramana Deb, Giuseppe Tortora, Angela Pirri   +4 more
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Cognitive responses to hypobaric hypoxia: implications for aviation training

Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2014
Christopher Neuhaus,1,2 Jochen Hinkelbein2,31Department of Anesthesiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, 2Emergency Medicine and Air Rescue Working Group, German Society of Aviation and Space ...
Neuhaus C, Hinkelbein J
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Thousand Aviator Study - Nonvestibular Contributions to Postural Equilibrium Functions [PDF]

Psychomotor performance and postural equilibrium functioning defined by quantitative ataxia test battery, and relation to pilot selection and ...
Fregly, A. R., Graybiel, A., Mitchell, R. E., Oberman, A.   +3 more
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“We Have Come to Offer Something Which (They) Were Not Even Looking for”: U.S. Christian Conservative Evangelical Faith Missions in the Ecuadorian Upper Amazon

The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
Diego Mauricio Cortés
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Women in space: A review of known physiological adaptations and health perspectives

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Exposure to the spaceflight environment causes adaptations in most human physiological systems, many of which are thought to affect women differently from men. Since only 11.5% of astronauts worldwide have been female, these issues are largely understudied.
Millie Hughes‐Fulford, Danielle J. Carroll, Heather C. M. Allaway, Bonnie J. Dunbar, Aenor J. Sawyer   +4 more
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Perception-action relationships reconsidered in light of spatial display instruments [PDF]

Spatial display instruments convey information about both the identity and the location of objects in order to assist surgeons, astronauts, pilots, blind individuals, and others in identification, remote manipulations, navigation, and obstacle avoidance.
Shebilske, Wayne L.
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50% body weight loading reduces stature increases and lumbar disc expansion from 4 h hyper‐buoyancy floatation versus 15 min sitting upright

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Microgravity is associated with stature increases, back pain and post‐flight intervertebral disc (IVD) herniation. This study aims to determine whether 30 s seated 50% body weight (BW) axial loading is comparable to 15 min sitting upright in 1 g upon changes in stature, anterior lumbar IVD height (via ultrasound), passive vertebral stiffness ...
David Marcos‐Lorenzo, Christina Lysandrou, Laura Sudres, Alfonso Gil‐Martinez, Jaap Swanenburg, James Edward Clark, David Andrew Green   +6 more
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Editorial for Vol. 34, No. 4

Hanggong uju uihakoeji
This issue features three papers in aerospace medicine, including one original article and two reviews, focusing on cardiovascular health, vestibular illusions, and diabetes management in aviation.
Juwon Lim
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The competences of command cadre of the airport fire service on the example of safety assurance of Warsaw Okęcie Airport [PDF]

, 2012
The globalization process in almost all spheres of our life causes a possibility of making equal living standards in all countries of the world.
Jesionek, Anna Maria
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The contribution of native aviation and space medicine into the medical and biological providing of the first manned space flight

Сеченовский вестник, 2011
The aim of this research is to estimate the contribution of aviation and space medicine in medical-biological preparation for the first Yu.A. Gagarin’s space flight and its significance in medical higher education.
I. V. Bukhtiyarov, M. N. Khomenko, I. V. Ivanov, A. I. Ivanov, S. L. Dzhergeniya, L. V. Zueva, N. I. Olenev, M. V. Polyakov, A. A. Shishov, E. V. Zharov   +9 more
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