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Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia in immunosuppressed patients: a multicenter, retrospective cohort study
Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) causes significant morbidity and mortality. We assessed the disease severity and clinical outcomes of SAB in patients with pre-existing immunosuppre...
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Clinicians should use likelihood ratios when comparing tests
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Clinical prediction rules in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia demonstrate the usefulness of reporting likelihood ratios in infectious diseases
Infectious diseases specialists often use diagnostic tests to assess the probability of a disease based on knowledge of the diagnostic properties. It has become standard for published studies on diagnostic tes...
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How do radiologists evaluate osteonecrosis?
Management of patients with osteonecrosis of the hip remains controversial and challenging. Because the prognosis and treatment are determined in large part by the stage and extent of the disease, it is import...
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ICU research coordinator activities: a time-in-motion multicenter study
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Autistic disorder versus other pervasive developmental disorders in young children: same or different?
Eighteen preschool children diagnosed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Third Edition Revised (DSM III-R) as having Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specifie...
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Ionization equilibrium and EOS of a low-temperature hydrogen plasma in weak magnetic fields
The influence of a constant uniform magnetic field on the ionization equilibrium and the thermodynamic properties of a nondegenerate partially ionized hydrogen plasma is studied for weak magnetic fields. Using...
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Retrovirus-mediated transduction of primary ZAP-70-deficient human T cells results in the selective growth advantage of gene-corrected cells: implications for gene therapy
Humans lacking the ZAP-70 protein tyrosine kinase present with an absence of CD8+ T cells and defective CD4+ T cells in the periphery. This severe combined immunodeficiency is fatal unless treated by allogeneic b...
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The impact of eligibility criteria on enrollment in ICU sepsis clinical trials
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Consistency in the ratings of behaviors of communicatively impaired autistic and non-autistic preschool children
Typically, children with disabilities are evaluated clinically by a number of professionals with different backgrounds whose task is to provide a diagnosis and an intervention plan. This study was carried out...
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The screen log: a tool for monitoring critical care clinical research activity
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Equilibrium Properties of Weakly Coupled Magnetized Plasmas
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Prospective Technologies for Hydrogen Production
A study is presented assessing the technology and economics of hydrogen production by advanced processes. The advanced processes include 1) high temperature electrolysis of steam, 2) coal gasification and elec...
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Technologies for Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil Fuel Fired Installations
All mitigation scenarios proposed to date either tend so slow down the rate of atmospheric CO2 emissions or level out the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. A unique system has been devised which offers a metho...
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Geochemical constraints on source region of Cretaceous/Tertiary impact glasses
THE 50-cm-thick Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary layer at Beloc in Haiti contains spherules of silicic black glass, 1–8 mm in diameter, which have been attributed to impact fusion of continental crust1. Calcic yellow...
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Catalytic thermal reactions of cumene over sepiolite and palygorskite
The catalytic activity of sepiolite and palygorskite in cracking and disproportionation reactions of cumene was studied. The formation of benzene, diisopropylbenzene and propylene characterizes Brönsted acid s...
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Effectiveness and Side-Effects of Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Therapy in 66 Patients with Sleep Apnea
Since upper airway obstruction has been recognized as the crucial factor in the development of obstructive sleep apnea, tracheostomy — first reported as a therapeutical measure by Kuhlo et al. in 1969 — is reg...
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Some mineralogical applications of synchrotron radiation
Synchrotron radiation offers several advantages over the conventional X-ray sources, among which the most important are its high intensity, broad spectral range and natural collimation. Among the numerous tech...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Preparation and Properties of Rare Earth Hexafluoroacetylacetonates
Reports on the preparation of metal hexafluoroacetylacetonates (hfaa) have recently been published in which these chelates were proposed as a possible means for the separation of metal cations (1, 2). The work...
