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Open AccessThe MUSCAT Readout Electronics Backend: Design and Pre-deployment Performance
MUSCAT is a new large-format 1.1 mm continuum camera for local and extra-galactic astronomy currently being installed at the 50 m Large Millimetre Telescope Alfonso Serrano, LMT. The focal plane is populated w...
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Open AccessLearning from text and video blogs: comprehension effects on secondary school students
Informational video blogs are a popular method of communication among students that may be fruitful educational tools, but their potential benefits and risks remain unclear. Streaming videos created by YouTubers ...
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External cranial expansion as treatment of intracranial hypertension. Technical note
Intracranial hypertension may be idiopathic or due to multiple etiologies. Some bone dysplasias and chronic shunt overdrainage syndrome may sometimes lead to intracranial hypertension associated with craniocer...
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Evaluation of the Curriculum in Higher Education: Application Experience
This article presents the experience of evaluating the curriculum of an Ecuadorian Higher Technological Institute in the formulation and implementation of a system for monitoring the application of the curricu...
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Olive-Oil Waste for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater
Spain is the world’s largest olive growing country. Olive oil is considered a very healthy product, particularly in Mediterranean areas. Olive oil is produced from the olive that is the fruit of the olive tree...
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Open AccessHealth care providers’ weight management practices for adolescent obesity and alignment with clinical practice guidelines: a multi-centre, qualitative study
Clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) include evidence-based recommendations for managing obesity in adolescents. However, information on how health care providers (HCPs) implement these recommendations in day-t...
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TLI in pediatric patients
Hematopoietic progenitor cell transplantation (HSCT) is a procedure used in different hematological diseases as part of the curative treatment, so the investigators propose a system of conditioning of reduced ...
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Characteristics of Cree** Discharges Along Epoxy Surface in Fluoronitrile/CO2 Gas Mixture Under Lightning Impulse
This paper deals with cree** discharges propagating over solid insulator samples in presence of a fluoronitrile mixture consisting of 10% of fluoronitrile and 90% of CO2, under positive and negative standard li...
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Influence of Limestone Content and PSD of Components on Properties of Clinker-Calcined Clay-Limestone Cements Produced by Intergrinding
This paper looks at the study of intergrinding for the production of ternary cement based on clinker, calcined clay, limestone and gypsum with 50% of clinker substitution (LC3). The impact of grinding time on ...
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Open AccessEnd-user perspectives to inform policy and program decisions: a qualitative and quantitative content analysis of lifestyle treatment recommendations by adolescents with obesity
Lifestyle modifications represent the first line of treatment in obesity management; however, many adolescents with obesity do not meet lifestyle recommendations. Given that adolescents are rarely consulted du...
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To answer questions from text, one has to understand what the question is asking: differential effects of question aids as a function of comprehension skill
The present study investigates the effectiveness of question paraphrases in supporting students’ understanding of a specific task. Secondary school students (i.e., eighth grade) read two texts and answered sev...
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Open AccessCross-Sectional Characterization of Albumin Glycation State in Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma from Alzheimer’s Disease Patients
We determined albumin post-translational modifications (PTMs) by mass spectrometry (MS) in plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from 31 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients (with 27 samples of paired plasma-CSF f...
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The kinetics of torque teno virus plasma DNA load shortly after engraftment predicts the risk of high-level CMV DNAemia in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients
Monitoring Torque teno virus (TTV) DNA load helps to estimate the risk of opportunistic infections in solid organ transplant recipients. We investigated whether the early kinetic pattern of plasma TTV DNA load...
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Influence Grinding Procedure, Limestone Content and PSD of Components on Properties of Clinker-Calcined Clay-Limestone Cements Produced by Intergrinding
This paper looks at the study of intergrinding for the production of ternary cement based on clinker, calcined clay, limestone and gypsum with 50% of clinker substitution (LC3). The impact of grinding time on cl...
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Molecular Intervention with Plasma-Rich Growth Factors to Enhance Muscle Perfusion and Tissue Remodeling in Ischemic Diseases
Ischemic diseases remain the first cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Current standard approaches based on drug-therapy or surgery have a palliative but not a repairing effect, which leads to chronifi...
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Optimal comparison of the p-norms of Dirichlet polynomials
Let 1 ≤ p < q < ∞. We show that $$\sup \frac{{{{\left\| D \right\|}_{{H_q}}}}}{{{{\left\| D \right\|}_{{H_q}}}}} = \exp \left( {\frac{...
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Open AccessIn-hospital prognosis and long-term mortality of STEMI in a reperfusion network. “Head to head” analisys: invasive reperfusion vs optimal medical therapy
ST Segment Elevation Acute myocardial infarction (STEMI) preferred treatment is culprit artery reperfusion with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). We ought to analyze the benefit of early reper...
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Open Access37th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (part 3 of 3)
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A Bourgain-like property of Banach spaces with no copies of \(c_0\)
We give a characterization of the existence of copies of \(c_{0}\) ...
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Technical Aspects for the Evaluation of Circulating Nucleic Acids (CNAs): Circulating Tumor DNA (ctDNA) and Circulating MicroRNAs
Circulating nucleic acids (CNAs), for example, circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) and circulating microRNA (miRNA), represent promising biomarkers in several diseases including cancer. They can be isolated from man...
