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Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, 2021 Background Wound healing can result in various outcomes, including hypertrophic scar (HTS). Pigs serve as models to study wound healing as their skin shares physiologic similarity with humans.
Colton H. Funkhouser +5 more
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Evaluating the Biocompatibility of an Injectable Wound Matrix in a Murine Model
Gels, 2022 (1) Background: Developing a high-quality, injectable biomaterial that is labor-saving, cost-efficient, and patient-ready is highly desirable. Our research group has previously developed a collagen-based injectable scaffold for the treatment of a variety
Hatem Alnojeidi +2 more
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Life, 2022 Objective: A quality improvement study to assess catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rate post-implementation of a bladder catheter with integrated active drain line urine clearance and automated intra-abdominal pressure monitoring in a ...
Patrick Brockway +5 more
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Influence of temperament on the professionalism of firefighters [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The article discusses the features of temperament and its indicators in firefighters of different groups of professionalism. Temperament is understood in accordance with the formal-dynamic concept of V. M.
Belousova A, Osipov A, Ermak V
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Respiratory symptoms in firefighters [PDF]
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2011 AbstractBackgroundThe aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and risk factors associated with respiratory symptoms in common firefighters in the Netherlands.MethodsA total of 1,330 firefighters from the municipal fire brigades of three provinces of the Netherlands were included in the study.
Greven, F. +3 more
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Firefighting as a Strategic Game [PDF]
Internet Mathematics, 2015 The Firefighter Problem was proposed in 1995 as a deterministic discrete-time model for the spread and containment of a fire. The problem is defined on an undirected finite graph G = (V, E), where fire breaks out initially at f nodes. In each subsequent time-step, two actions occur: a certain number b of firefighters are placed on nonburning nodes ...
Álvarez Faura, M. del Carme +2 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are an important global issue, leading to poor patient outcomes. A potential route of transmission of HAIs is through contact with hospital privacy curtains.
Kianna Cadogan +9 more
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Lung cancer survival among Florida male firefighters
Frontiers in Oncology, 2023 IntroductionLung cancer is a leading cause of cancer incidence and death in the United States. Although most firefighters are fit and do not smoke, they are exposed to many known carcinogens during and in the aftermath of firefighting activities ...
Tulay Koru-Sengul +16 more
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, 2014 The Firefighter Problem was proposed in 1995 [16] as a deterministic discrete-time model for the spread (and containment) of a fire. Its applications reach from real fires to the spreading of diseases and the containment of floods. Furthermore, it can be used to model the spread of computer viruses or viral marketing in communication networks.
Álvarez Faura, M. del Carme +2 more
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Mortality due to malignant and non-malignant diseases in Korean professional emergency responders. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 This study was conducted to estimate the cause-specific mortality in male emergency responders (ER), compare with that of Korean men. Mortality was also compared between more experienced firefighters (i.e., firefighters employed ≥ 20 years and ...
Yeon-Soon Ahn, Kyoung Sook Jeong
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