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Declaring Racism a Public Health Crisis in the United States: Cure, Poison, or Both?

Lilliann Paine, Patanjali de la Rocha, Antonia P Eyssallenne, Courtni Alexis Andrews, Leanne Loo, Camara Phyllis Jones, Anne Marie Collins, Michelle Morse · 2021

Declaring racism a public health crisis has the potential to shepherd meaningful anti-racism policy forward and bridge long standing divisions between policy-makers, community organizers, healers, and…

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Sonographic Diagnosis of COVID-19: A Review of Image Processing for Lung Ultrasound.

Conor McDermott, Maciej Lacki, Ben Sainsbury, Jessica Henry, Mihail Filippov, Carlos Rossa · 2021

The sustained increase in new cases of COVID-19 across the world and potential for subsequent outbreaks call for new tools to assist health professionals with early diagnosis and patient monitoring. G…

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Assessment of Damping Control Using Maximum Power Point Tracking Methods for Heaving Wave Energy Converters

Bisni Fahad Mon, Addy Wahyudie, Mohammed Abdi Jama, Siddiqul Akbar, Saad Mekhilef, Hussain Shareef, Khalifa Harib, Rachid Errouissi · 2021

There are not many studies conducted in the implementation of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) methods for heaving wave energy converters (WECs). An assessment of damping control using various MPPT…

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The Origins and Future of Sentinel: An Early-Warning System for Pandemic Preemption and Response.

Yolanda Botti-Lodovico, Parvathy Nair, Dolo Nosamiefan, Matthew Stremlau, Stephen Schaffner, Sebastian V Agignoae, John Oke Aiyepada, Fehintola V Ajogbasile, George O Akpede, Foday Alhasan, Kristian G Andersen, Danny A Asogun, Oladele Oluwafemi Ayodeji, Aida S Badiane, Kayla Barnes, Matthew R Bauer, Antoinette Bell-Kareem, Muoebonam Ekene Benard, Ebo Ohomoime Benevolence, Osiemi Blessing, Chloe K Boehm, Matthew L Boisen, Nell G Bond, Luis M Branco, Michael J Butts, Amber Carter, Andres Colubri, Awa B Deme, Katherine C DeRuff, Younousse Diedhiou, Akhilomen Patience Edamhande, Siham Elhamoumi, Emily J Engel, Philomena Eromon, Mosoka Fallah, Onikepe A Folarin, Ben Fry, Robert Garry, Amy Gaye, Michael Gbakie, Sahr M Gevao, Gabrielle Gionet, Adrianne Gladden-Young, Augustine Goba, Jules Francois Gomis, Anise N Happi, Mary Houghton, Chikwe Ihekwuazu, Christopher Ojemiega Iruolagbe, Jonathan Jackson, Simbirie Jalloh, Jeremy Johnson, Lansana Kanneh, Adeyemi Kayode, Molly Kemball, Ojide Chiedozie Kingsley, Veronica Koroma, Dylan Kotliar, Samar Mehta, Hayden C Metsky, Airende Michael, Marzieh Ezzaty Mirhashemi, Kayvon Modjarrad, Mambu Momoh, Cameron A Myhrvold, Okonofua Grace Naregose, Tolla Ndiaye, Mouhamadou Ndiaye, Aliou Ndiaye, Erica Normandin, Ikponmwosa Odia, Judith Uche Oguzie, Sylvanus A Okogbenin, Peter O Okokhere, Johnson Okolie, Idowu B Olawoye, Testimony J Olumade, Paul E Oluniyi, Omigie Omoregie, Daniel J Park, Marietou Faye Paye, Brittany Petros, Anthony A Philippakis, Abechi Priscilla, Alan Ricks, Anne Rimoin, John Demby Sandi, John S Schieffelin, Monica Schreiber, Mame Cheikh Seck, Sameed Siddiqui, Katherine Siddle, Allison R Smither, Mouhamad Sy, Ngayo Sy, Christopher H Tomkins-Tinch, Oyewale Tomori, Chinedu Ugwu, Jessica N Uwanibe, Eghosasere Anthonia Uyigue, Dada Ireti Victoria, Anika Vinze, Megan E Vodzak, Nicole Welch, Haja Isatta Wurie, Daba Zoumarou, Donald S Grant, Daouda Ndiaye, Bronwyn MacInnis, Pardis C Sabeti, Christian Happi · 2021

While investigating a signal of adaptive evolution in humans at the gene LARGE, we encountered an intriguing finding by Dr. Stefan Kunz that the gene plays a critical role in Lassa virus binding and e…

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Corona pandemic: awareness of health care providers in Pakistan.

Sadia Minhas, Rabia Mushtaq Chaudhry, Aneequa Sajjad, Iram Manzoor, Atika Masood, Muhammad Kashif · 2020

Corona pandemic has resulted in a high mortality rate among health care professionals. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and practices of health care providers during this pandemic…

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Minimum displacement thresholds for binocular three-dimensional motion.

 · 1970

Thresholds for the detection of motion in depth in the median plane of the head are substantially poorer than those for motion in the frontoparallel plane. This suggests the existence of two independe…

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Estimating respiratory rate from FBG optical sensors by using signal quality measurement.

 · 1970

Non-intrusiveness is one of the advantages of in-bed optical sensor device for monitoring vital signs, including heart rate and respiratory rate. Estimating respiratory rate reliably using such sensor…

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Quantitative cerebral MR perfusion imaging: preliminary results in stroke.

 · 1970

PURPOSE: To evaluate quantitative cerebral blood flow (qCBF) with traditional time-based measurements or metrics of cerebral perfusion: time to peak (Tmax) and mean transit time (MTT) in stroke patien…

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Electrophysiological mechanisms of spontaneous termination of sustained monomorphic reentrant ventricular tachycardia in the canine postinfarction heart.

 · 1970

BACKGROUND: The electrophysiological mechanisms of spontaneous termination of sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia (SMVT), in the postinfarction heart, generally considered secondary to a ree…

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Comparative Effects of Different Assistance Force During Robot-Assisted Gait Training on Locomotor Functions in Patients With Subacute Stroke: An Assessor-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to compare the effects of progressive reducing assistance force versus full assistance force controlled robot-assisted gait training combined with conventional phys…

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Short-term repeatability of parameters extracted from radial displacement of muscle belly.

 · 1970

The aim of this study is to analyse the short-term repeatability of the parameters extracted from radial muscle belly response on a stimulation pulse. The method uses a prefixed tension of a displacem…

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How much does heterosexual commercial sex contribute to India's HIV epidemic?

 · 1970

Through a search, we identified five models of India's HIV epidemic, all of which articulate the hypothesis that heterosexual commercial sex drives India's HIV epidemic. All five models assume more fe…

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MRI of the lumbar spine at 7 Tesla in healthy volunteers and a patient with congenital malformations.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate sequences that are established at lower magnetic field strengths for lumbar spine imaging at 7 Tesla (7 T) MR imaging.MATERIALS AND METHODS: The lumbar…

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Modeling and design of a cone-beam CT head scanner using task-based imaging performance optimization.

 · 1970

Detection of acute intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is important for diagnosis and treatment of traumatic brain injury, stroke, postoperative bleeding, and other head and neck injuries. This paper detail…

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Care of the HIV-exposed child--to breast feed or not?

 · 1970

Breast milk is the best form of nutrition for infants. However, it places infants born to HIV infected women at risk of acquiring HIV infection. Total avoidance of breastfeeding is the only way of com…

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Apparent mass of the standing human body when using a whole-body vibration training machine: Effect of knee angle and input frequency.

 · 1970

Several studies have investigated the transmission of vibration from the vibrating plate of a whole-body vibration training machine (WBVTM) to different locations on the human body. No known work has …

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Effects of age on ventricular-vascular coupling.

 · 1970

The effects of age on the interrelation between the physical properties of the arterial tree (aortic input impedance) and left ventricular performance (cardiac output) were studied in 45 subjects, age…

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Surgeon-tool force/torque signatures--evaluation of surgical skills in minimally invasive surgery.

 · 1970

The best method of training for laparoscopic surgical skills is controversial. Some advocate observation in the operating room, while others promote animal and simulated models or a combination of sur…

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Thermal dosimetry of spinal cord heating in the mouse.

 · 1970

Three systems for the localized heating of the spinal cord of the mouse have been evaluated by measuring the temperatures in the spinal canal (Tsp); at a reference location dorsal to the spine (Tdo), …

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Quantitative characterization of the relief of body surface potential distribution.

 · 1970

The body surface distribution of the cardiac electric field is best represented as reliefs of positive and negative potentials, or their time integrals. The objective of this study was to design a met…

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