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Impact of gastroesophageal reflux on longitudinal lung function and quantitative computed tomography in the COPDGene cohort

Respiratory Research, 2020
Rationale Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common comorbidity in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and has been associated with increased risk of acute exacerbations, hospitalization, emergency room visits, costs, and quality-of ...
Arianne K. Baldomero, Chris H. Wendt, Ashley Petersen, Nathaniel T. Gaeckle, MeiLan K. Han, Ken M. Kunisaki, for the COPDGene Investigators   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Outcomes of Live Virus Vaccination in Patients With Vascular Anomalies Being Treated With Sirolimus

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Live vaccination in patients with vascular anomalies (VA) receiving sirolimus remains controversial due to immunosuppressive effects and theoretical risks. Procedure This single‐center retrospective study included patients with VA less than 4 years old at the start of sirolimus therapy who were incompletely vaccinated.
Svatava Merkle, Kiersten Ricci, Kelly Blache, Rebecca A. Marsh, Adrienne M. Hammill, Elissa Engel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disruption of Early Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Signaling Prevents Classical Activation of Dendritic Cells in Lung-Associated Lymph Nodes and Development of Protective Immunity against Cryptococcal Infection

mBio, 2016
Anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (anti-TNF-α) therapies have been increasingly used to treat inflammatory diseases and are associated with increased risk of invasive fungal infections, including Cryptococcus neoformans infection.
Jintao Xu, Alison J. Eastman, Adam Flaczyk, Lori M. Neal, Guolei Zhao, Jacob Carolan, Antoni N. Malachowski, Valerie R. Stolberg, Mohammed Yosri, Stephen W. Chensue, Jeffrey L. Curtis, John J. Osterholzer, Michal A. Olszewski   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Neurovirulent cytokines increase neuronal excitability in a model of coronavirus-induced neuroinflammation

Intensive Care Medicine Experimental, 2023
Background Neurological manifestations of severe coronavirus infections, including SARS-CoV-2, are wide-ranging and may persist following virus clearance.
Salil R. Rajayer, Stephen M. Smith
doaj   +1 more source

Guideline-discordant inhaler regimens after COPD hospitalization: associations with rurality, drive time to care, and fragmented care – a United States cohort studyResearch in context

The Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2023
Summary: Background: Many patients receive guideline-discordant inhaler regimens after chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) hospitalization.
Arianne K. Baldomero, Ken M. Kunisaki, Chris H. Wendt, Carrie Henning-Smith, Hildi J. Hagedorn, Ann Bangerter, R. Adams Dudley   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Critical fragility in sociotechnical systems

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Sociotechnical systems, where technological and human elements interact in a goal-oriented manner, provide important functional support to our societies. Here, we draw attention to the underappreciated concept of timeliness—i.e., system elements being available at the right place at the right time—that has been ubiquitously and integrally adopted as a ...
José Moran, Frank P. Pijpers, Utz Weitzel, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Debabrata Panja   +4 more
openaire   +6 more sources

The McCoy-Wu Model in the Mean-field Approximation

, 1998
We consider a system with randomly layered ferromagnetic bonds (McCoy-Wu model) and study its critical properties in the frame of mean-field theory. In the low-temperature phase there is an average spontaneous magnetization in the system, which vanishes ...
Berche P E, Bertrand Berche, Binder K, Ferenc Iglói, Fisher M E, Gábor Palágyi, Iglói F, Ikegami T, Karevski D, Pich C, Pierre Emmanuel Berche, Rieger H, Sinai Ja G   +12 more
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Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Infrastructure Systems [PDF]

International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, 2011
A system security analysis and system modelling framework tool is proposed adopting an associated conceptual methodology as the basis for assessing security and conceptually modelling a critical infrastructure system incident. The intent is to identify potential system security issues and gain operational insights that will contribute to improving ...
openaire   +1 more source

Energy transfer between colloids via critical interactions [PDF]

, 2017
We report the observation of a temperature-controlled synchronization of two Brownian-particles in a binary mixture close to the critical point of the demixing transition.
Ciliberto, Sergio, Devailly, Clemence, Martínez, Ignacio A., Petrosyan, Artyom   +3 more
core   +4 more sources