HoehneaTillandsia usneoides is an epiphytic bromeliad that has been used as a universal bioindicator. The species accumulates metals and presents foliar scale variations when exposed to air pollutants.
Patrícia Giampaoli +5 more
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MRCS: matrix recovery-based communication-efficient compressive sampling on temporal-spatial data of dynamic-scale sparsity in large-scale environmental IoT networks [PDF]
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2019 Abstract In the past few years, a large variety of IoT applications has been witnessed by fast proliferation of IoT devices (e.g., environment surveillance devices, wearable devices, city-wide NB-IoT devices). However, launching data collection from these mass IoT devices raises a challenge due to limited computation, storage, bandwidth, and energy ...
Zhonghu Xu +6 more
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A pilot clinical study on the Traditional Korean Medicine treatment of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Journal of Pharmacopuncture, 2009 Objectives : This study was to investigate the effect of Oriental medical treatment on ALS. Methods : We investigated 12 ALS patients which were admitted to Gwang-Ju O.M. hospital from Oct. 14, 2008 to Nov. 14, 2008.
Kim Sung-chul +5 more
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Egyptian Journal of Chest Disease and Tuberculosis, 2014 Objectives: Chronic lung diseases lead to impairment of daily activities, work and quality of life. The aim of this work was to assess the quality of life, depression and anxiety in Egyptian patients with chronic lung diseases. Patients and methods: This
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Performance Analysis and Scaling Law of MRC/MRT Relaying with CSI Error in Massive MIMO Systems
CoRR, 2016 This work provides a comprehensive scaling law and performance analysis for multi-user massive MIMO relay networks, where the relay is equipped with massive antennas and uses MRC/MRT for low-complexity processing. CSI error is considered. First, a sum-rate lower bound is derived which manifests the effect of system parameters including the numbers of ...
Qian Wang 0008, Yindi Jing
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Applied Sciences, 2020 Rock slopes involved in extensive landslide processes are often characterized by complex morphodynamics acting at different scales of space and time, responsible for different evolutionary scenarios.
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Randomized controlled trial of pulmonary rehabilitation in severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, stratified with the MRC dyspnoea scale [PDF]
European Respiratory Journal, 1998 This study tested the hypothesis that severity of respiratory disability may affect the outcome of pulmonary rehabilitation. In this randomized, controlled study, 126 patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were stratified for dyspnoea using the Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea score into MRC3/4 (Moderate) (n=66) and MRC 5 ...
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Feasibility of gadoxetate disodium enhanced 3D T1 MR cholangiography (MRC) with a specific inversion recovery prepulse for the assessment of the hepatobiliary system. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 AIM:To compare the potential of a gadoxetate disodium enhanced navigator-triggered 3D T1 magnetic-resonance cholangiography (MRC) sequence with a specific inversion recovery prepulse to T2-weighted MRCP for assessment of the hepatobiliary system ...
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Cytotoxicity of Quillaja saponaria Saponins towards Lung Cells Is Higher for Cholesterol-Rich Cells
Biophysica, 2021 The purpose of the study was to compare cytotoxicity of two Quillaja saponaria bark saponin (QBS) mixtures against two lung cell lines: normal MRC-5 fibroblast cell line and tumor A-549 epithelial cells of lungs’ alveoli.
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Prevalence of Frailty and Evaluation of Associated Variables Among COPD Patients
International Journal of COPD, 2020 Lara de Souza Dias,1 Anna Carolina Galvão Ferreira,1 José Laerte Rodrigues da Silva Junior,2 Marcus Barreto Conte,3 Marcelo Fouad Rabahi1 1Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brasil ...
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