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Beyond autonomy : the self and life of social agents

, 2019
Agents have gained popularity nowadays as virtual assistants and companions of their human users supporting daily activities in many aspects of personal life.
Tan, Ah-Hwee, Subagdja, Budhitama
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Impact of a change of bronchodilator medications in a hospital drug formulary on intra- and out-of-hospital drug prescriptions: interrupted time series design with comparison group

Implementation Science, 2020
Background Hospital drug formularies are reduced lists of drugs designed to optimise inpatient care. Adherence to the drugs included in such formularies is not always 100% but is generally very high. Little research has targeted the impact of a change in
Raquel Vázquez-Mourelle, Eduardo Carracedo-Martínez, Adolfo Figueiras   +2 more
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Effect of foot immersion and neck cooling on renal, intestinal, immune and inflammatory markers in older adults exposed to extreme heat

Experimental Physiology, EarlyView.
Abstract Older adults with reduced thermoregulatory capabilities are increasingly at risk of heat‐related pathophysiological outcomes (e.g., acute kidney injury, heatstroke) due to increasingly frequent, prolonged and intense heatwaves. Foot immersion and neck cooling have been proposed as practical, non‐electrical cooling strategies for protecting ...
Thomas McCarthy, Ben J. Lee, James J. McCormick, Kelli E. King, Emma R. McCourt, Luana C. Main, Robert D. Meade, Glen P. Kenny   +7 more
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Assessing two spirometric criteria of pre-bronchodilator and post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC ratio in detecting air flow obstruction [PDF]

, 2011
OBJECTIVES: To assess the Pre-bronchodilator criteria and the Post-bronchodilator criteria of FEV1/FVC ratio in diagnosing Airflow obstruction. METHODS: An observational study was conducted from 1988 to 2006 at the Aga Khan University Hospital Patients ...
Irfan, Muhammad, Syed, Beenish, Khan, Javaid, Haque, Ahmed Suleman, Awan, Safia, Waheed, Zeeshan, Siddiqui, Najmul Hasan   +6 more
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Bronchodilator response cut-off points and FEV 0.75 reference values for spirometry in preschoolers

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia
Objective: To determine the cut-off points for FEV1, FEV0.75, FEV0.5, and FEF25-75% bronchodilator responses in healthy preschool children and to generate reference values for FEV0.75.
Edjane Figueiredo Burity, Carlos Alberto de Castro Pereira, Marcus Herbert Jones, Larissa Bouwman Sayão, Armèle Dornelas de Andrade, Murilo Carlos Amorim de Britto   +5 more
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Patient-Reported Burden of Illness in a Prevalent COPD Population Treated with Long-Acting Muscarinic Antagonist Monotherapy: A Claims-Linked Patient Survey Study

Pulmonary Therapy, 2019
Introduction Symptom burden in inadequately controlled chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) considerably impacts quality of life, healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) and associated costs.
Beth Hahn, Richard H. Stanford, Alyssa Goolsby Hunter, Breanna Essoi, John White, Riju Ray   +5 more
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Cutaneous‐only hypersensitivity reaction presumed due to intravenous administration of atracurium in a dog

Veterinary Record Case Reports, Volume 14, Issue 4, November 2026.
Summary There are limited case reports of hypersensitivity reactions to neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs) in veterinary species, and none describe cutaneous‐only signs. This case report describes a Grade 1 cutaneous‐only hypersensitivity reaction to atracurium in a 7‐year‐old dog undergoing general anaesthesia for cataract surgery with bilateral ...
Kar Yee Phoon, Rob Ward
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Bronchodilator reversibility in patients with COPD revisited: short-term reproducibility

, 2016
Steven Pascoe,1 Wei Wu,2 Chang-Qing Zhu,3 Dave Singh4 1GSK, Respiratory Medicines Development Center, 2PAREXEL International, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA; 3GSK, Clinical Statistics (Respiratory), Middlesex, UK; 4Medicines Evaluation Unit, University
Pascoe S, Zhu CQ, Wu W, Singh D
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The dynamic selection of coordination mechanisms

, 2004
This paper presents and evaluates a decision making framework that enables autonomous agents to dynamically select the mechanism they employ in order to coordinate their inter-related activities. Adopting this framework means coordination mechanisms move
Jennings, N. R., Excelente-Toledo, CB, Excelente-Toledo, C.B., Jennings, NR   +3 more
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Role of combined indacaterol and glycopyrronium bromide (QVA149) for the treatment of COPD in Japan

International Journal of COPD, 2015
Nobuyuki Horita, Takeshi Kaneko Department of Pulmonology, Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama, Japan Abstract: Once-daily dual-bronchodilator therapy with combined indacaterol and glycopyrronium bromide in one device ...
Horita N, Kaneko T
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