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Continuous positive airway pressure for children with undifferentiated respiratory distress in Ghana: an open-label, cluster, crossover trial

Dr Patrick T Wilson, MD, Frank Baiden, PhD, Joshua C Brooks, MPH, Marilyn C Morris, MD et al. • The Lancet Global Health (2017)

Background: In low-income and middle-income countries, invasive mechanical ventilation is often not available for children at risk of death from respiratory failure. We aimed to determine if continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), a for...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(17)30145-6

Plasma Exchange for ANCA-Associated Vasculitis: An International Survey of Patient PreferencesPlain Language Summary

David Collister, Mark Farrar, Lesha Farrar, Paul Brown et al. • Kidney Medicine (2023)

Rationale & Objective: We sought to elicit patient preferences regarding the use of plasma exchange in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) and its tradeoffs of risk of kidney failure and risk of serious infec...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.xkme.2022.100595

Highly Purified versus Filtered Crude Collagenase: Comparable Human Islet Isolation Outcomes

Yong Wang, Daniel Paushter, Shusen Wang, Barbara Barbaro et al. • Cell Transplantation (2011)

This study was designed to retrospectively compare the impact of crude Sigma V collagenase (Sigma V, n = 52) with high-purified Serva NB1 collagenase (Serva NB1, n = 42) on human islet isolation outcomes. A three-step filtration was applied...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3727/096368911X564994

Epidemiology of Bladder Cancer

Kalyan Saginala, Adam A. Barsouk, John Sukumar Aluru, Prashanth Rawla et al. • Medical Sciences (2020)

Based on the latest GLOBOCAN data, bladder cancer accounts for 3% of global cancer diagnoses and is especially prevalent in the developed world. In the United States, bladder cancer is the sixth most incident neoplasm. A total of 90% of bla...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/medsci8010015 PMC: 7151633

Epidemiology of Nosocomial Pneumonia

Donald Edward Craven, Kathleen A. Steger • CHEST Journal (1995)

"Keep an open mind toward pneumonia. Our grandchildren will be interested and are likely to have as many differences of opinion.. as we have." William Osier, circa 1900 As Osier predicted nearly a century ago, controversies ^* * persist ove...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1378/chest.108.2_supplement.1s

The epidemiology of theileriosis in Africa

R. A. I. Norval, Brian D. Perry, Alan S. Young • CGSPace A Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research) (1992)

The title of this book does not adequately reflect the comprehensive treatment of a complex and important parasitic disease of domestic cattle. Despite the passing of 100 years, East Coast fever (ECF) remains an economically and environment...

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Research Progress of Citrus Melanose

Feng HUANG, Aitian PENG, Xiaobing SONG, Yiping CUI et al. • Guangdong nongye kexue (2024)

Citrus melanose consists of a series of plant diseases caused by the fungal species of the genus Diaporthe. It has been reported with over 30 Diaporthe species on citrus, including several important fungal pathogens, endophytes, saprophytes...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.16768/j.issn.1004-874X.2024.06.003

Allodynia is more frequent in the individuals with more intense attacks of headache and in women

Gêssyca Adryene de Menezes Silva, Simone de Siqueira Bringel, Hugo André de Lima Martins, Rosana Christine Cavalcanti Ximenes et al. • Headache Medicine (2012)

Objective: Identifying the presence of allodynia in students with primary headache in a college. Method: It was evaluated 378 students (273 women) aged between 18 and 45 years (22 ± 5 years). A questionnaire was used on the clinical charact...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.48208/HeadacheMed.2012.17

Herbal Medicines in African Traditional Medicine

Josephine Ozioma Ezekwesili-Ofili, Okaka Antoinette Nwamaka Chinwe • IntechOpen eBooks (2019)

African traditional medicine is a form of holistic health care system organized into three levels of specialty, namely divination, spiritualism, and herbalism. The traditional healer provides health care services based on culture, religious...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.80348

Enhancing vocational training in corrections: A type 1 hybrid randomized controlled trial protocol for evaluating virtual reality job interview training among returning citizens preparing for community re-entry

Matthew J. Smith, Jamie A. Mitchell, Shannon Blajeski, Brittani Parham et al. • Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications (2020)

The Michigan Department of Corrections operates the Vocational Villages, which are skilled trades training programs set within prisons that include an immersive educational community using virtual reality, robotics, and other technologies t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.conctc.2020.100604

Decentralized Cooperative Localization Approach for Autonomous Multirobot Systems

Thumeera R. Wanasinghe, George K. I. Mann, Raymond G. Gosine • Journal of Robotics (2016)

This study proposes the use of a split covariance intersection algorithm (Split-CI) for decentralized multirobot cooperative localization. In the proposed method, each robot maintains a local cubature Kalman filter to estimate its own pose ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2016/2560573

Exploring a Novel Material and Approach in 3D-Printed Wrist-Hand Orthoses

Diana Popescu, Mariana Cristiana Iacob, Cristian Tarbă, Dan Lăptoiu et al. • Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (2024)

This article proposes the integration of two novel aspects into the production of 3D-printed customized wrist-hand orthoses. One aspect involves the material, particularly Colorfabb varioShore thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) filament with ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/jmmp8010029

Robotics and Control

G. H. Ryder, M. D. Bennett • Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks (1990)

As equipment and systems become more complex and sophisticated, the problems of operation and control by humans have become more difficult. Modern industrial processes and production techniques often require continuous vigilance of machine ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21112-8_16

Marine Robots Mapping the Present and the Past: Unraveling the Secrets of the Deep

Nadir Kapetanović, Antonio Vasilijević, Đula Nađ, Krunoslav Zubčić et al. • Remote Sensing (2020)

Underwater cultural heritage sites are subject to constant change, whether due to natural forces such as sediments, waves, currents or human intervention. Until a few decades ago, the documentation and research of these sites was mostly don...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/rs12233902

LPMP: A Bio-Inspired Model for Visual Localization in Challenging Environments

Sylvain Colomer, Sylvain Colomer, Nicolas Cuperlier, Guillaume Bresson et al. • Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2022)

Autonomous vehicles require precise and reliable self-localization to cope with dynamic environments. The field of visual place recognition (VPR) aims to solve this challenge by relying on the visual modality to recognize a place despite ch...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2021.703811

Dentists’ perception and use of AI and robotics in the care of persons with disabilities

Najla A. Barnawi, Fay A. AlAmmar, Sultan A. Aldabeis, Salma M. Alahmar et al. • Scientific Reports (2025)

Abstract Despite the growing role of AI and robotics in healthcare, little is known about their integration into dental care for persons with disabilities (PWDs) in Saudi Arabia. This study aimed to assess dentists’ perceptions and attitude...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-10988-x

Data-Driven Clustering Analysis for Representative Electric Vehicle Charging Profile in South Korea

Kangsan Kim, Geumbee Kim, Jiwon Yoo, Jungeun Heo et al. • Sensors (2024)

As the penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) increases, an understanding of EV operation characteristics becomes crucial in various aspects, e.g., grid stability and battery degradation. This can be achieved through analyzing large amounts...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s24216800

The advisor robot

Aaron Powers, Sara B. Kiesler • ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (2006)

Humanoid robots offer many physical design choices such as voice frequency and head dimensions. We used hierarchical statistical mediation analysis to trace differences in people's mental model of robots from these choices. In an experiment...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/1121241.1121280