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Burning bright or burning out?
Ophthalmology is a rapidly evolving field: Therapeutic models are constantly evolving and so are the drugs used. Striking examples of this would be the treatment of choice for age-related macular degeneration. A decade or so ago the treatment would have been different from what is advised today; refractive surgery too is another subspecialty where one ...
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Spontaneous Neutrophil Migration Patterns during Sepsis after Major Burns
Finely tuned to respond quickly to infections, neutrophils have amazing abilities to migrate fast and efficiently towards sites of infection and inflammation.
Caroline N. Jones+13 more
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Dressings for superficial and partial thickness burns.
BACKGROUND An acute burn wound is a complex and evolving injury. Extensive burns produce systemic consequences, in addition to local tissue damage. Treatment of partial thickness burn wounds is directed towards promoting healing and a wide variety of ...
J. Wasiak+3 more
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Background: Statistics on the trends of burn injuries in Ghana, Africa, and the world at large indicate unacceptable number of lives lost through burns.
Lily Yarney+2 more
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Resource Burning for Permissionless Systems [PDF]
Proof-of-work puzzles and CAPTCHAS consume enormous amounts of energy and time. These techniques are examples of resource burning: verifiable consumption of resources solely to convey information. Can these costs be eliminated? It seems unlikely since resource burning shares similarities with "money burning" and "costly signaling", which are ...
arxiv
Colonisation with Pseudomonas aeruginosa considerably increases the mortality rate in burns, due to its common resistance to antibiotic treatment. Simple dressings consisting of gauze soaked in acetic acid have been proven as effective in eradicating ...
Federica D'Asta+4 more
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Hypergraph burning, matchings, and zero forcing [PDF]
Lazy burning is a recently introduced variation of burning where only one set of vertices is chosen to burn in the first round. In hypergraphs, lazy burning spreads when all but one vertex in a hyperedge is burned. The lazy burning number is the minimum number of initially burned vertices that eventually burns all vertices.
arxiv
Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency and size of wildfires. Wildfire burns can influence wildlife space use, but prior to understanding the relationship between wildlife and burns, the extent of wildfires and the regrowth of burned areas
Matthew A. Mumma+3 more
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Introduction. Burns patients are vulnerable to hyperthermia due to sepsis and SIRS and to hypothermia due to heat loss during excision surgery. Both states are associated with increased morbidity and mortality.
David Williams+5 more
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