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Textile Masks and Surface Covers—A Spray Simulation Method and a “Universal Droplet Reduction Model” Against Respiratory Pandemics
The main form of COVID-19 transmission is via "oral-respiratory droplet contamination" (droplet: very small drop of liquid) produced when individuals talk, sneeze, or cough. In ...
Clinical Experience with Goal Attainment Scaling in Geriatric Care
Objectives: This article presents a qualitative evaluation of the utility of Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS) in geriatric care. GASis an individualized outcome measure particularl...
Women recovering from first‐time myocardial infarction (MI): a feminist qualitative study
Women recovering from first‐time myocardial infarction (MI): a feminist qualitative study Although myocardial infarction (MI) is a leading cause of death and disablement for wom...
Nebulised sodium cromoglycate in recurrently wheezy preschool children.
A double blind crossover study of nebulised sodium cromoglycate in 27 asthmatic preschool children was carried out over a one year period. All subjects had sufficiently severe a...
Ethnic differences in prevalence of asthma symptoms and bronchial hyperresponsiveness in New Zealand schoolchildren.
Maoris and Pacific Islanders in New Zealand have a higher asthma mortality and hospital admission rates than Europeans. To determine whether difference in asthma prevalence is t...
Management Succession and Administrative Style
This study of management succession is the second of two articles dealing with the events that occurred at a state mental hospital following a change of superintendents. In the ...
Colored de Bruijn Graphs and the Genome Halving Problem
Breakpoint graph analysis is a key algorithmic technique in studies of genome rearrangements. However, breakpoint graphs are defined only for genomes without duplicated genes, t...
Characteristics of Indigenous primary health care models of service delivery: a scoping review protocol
Indigenous populations in colonized countries experience worse health outcomes relative to their non-Indigenous counterparts. In Australia, in the period 2010 to 2012 the estima...
Feature selection for multiclass discrimination via mixed-integer linear programming
We reformulate branch-and-bound feature selection employing L/sub /spl infin// or particular L/sub p/ metrics, as mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) problems, affording con...
Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis in Children
ABSTRACT Background: Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis occurs commonly in adults with obesity or diabetes mellitus. There are only a few reports of this condition in children. Method...