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Open AccessEarly Intravenous Beta-Blockade with Esmolol in Adults with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A Phase 2a Intervention Design Study
Targeted beta-blockade after severe traumatic brain injury may reduce secondary brain injury by attenuating the sympathoadrenal response. The potential role and optimal dosage for esmolol, a selective, short-a...
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Open AccessImproving motion management in radiation therapy: findings from a workshop and survey in Australia and New Zealand
Motion management has become an integral part of radiation therapy. Multiple approaches to motion management have been reported in the literature. To allow the sharing of experiences on current practice and em...
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Open AccessEarly Intravenous Beta-Blockade with Esmolol in Adults with Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (EBB-TBI): Protocol for a Phase 2a Intervention Design Study
Traumatic brain injury is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Interventions that mitigate secondary brain injury have the potential to improve outcomes for patients and reduce the impact on comm...
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Airborne respiratory aerosol transport and deposition in a two-person office using a novel diffusion-based numerical model
The COVID-19 pandemic was caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronaviruses transmitted mainly through exposure to airborne respiratory droplets and aerosols carrying the virus.
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Consider the Bigger Picture: The Effect of Multimodal Sensory Integration on Fish Passage Behaviour
Fish passes are an important tool for minimizing the negative impacts of instream infrastructure on ecologically and economically important fish species. However, their efficacy is not perfect, and fish do not...
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Open AccessStudy protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the use of melanoma surveillance photography to the Improve early detection of MelanomA in ultra-hiGh and high-risk patiEnts (the IMAGE trial)
Melanoma surveillance photography (MSP) is a comprehensive surveillance method that comprises two- or three-dimensional total body photography with tagged digital dermoscopy, performed at prescribed intervals....
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Open AccessThe Many Lives of Darwin’s Letters
The Correspondence of Charles Darwin will be completed in 2022. This essay looks briefly at the history of editing Darwin and compares the modern edition with the Victorian practice of narrating an exemplary life...
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Open AccessCurrent status of intra-cranial stereotactic radiotherapy and stereotactic radiosurgery in Australia and New Zealand: key considerations from a workshop and surveys
Recently, there has been increased interest worldwide in the use of conventional linear accelerator (linac)-based systems for delivery of stereotactic radiosurgery/radiotherapy (SRS/SRT) contrasting with histo...
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St Georg Sled medial unicompartmental arthroplasty: survivorship analysis and function at 20 years follow up
The peri-operative and short-term benefits of unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) are well supported in the literature. However, there remains concern regarding the higher revision rate when compared with...
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Design Thinking Between the Han and Sui Dynasties
During the period of turbulence following the downfall of the Han dynasty, amounting to around 360 years, a new element was added to long-standing Chinese ideologies—Buddhism. This led to something of a return...
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The Risk of Disclosure When Reporting Commonly Used Univariate Statistics
When basic or descriptive summary statistics are reported, it may be possible that the entire sample of observations is inadvertently disclosed, or that members within a sample will be able to work out respons...
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Introduction—The Distinctive History of Chinese Design
There is a continuity in the history of China that is lacking in other parts of the world. Dynasties have risen and fallen, and there have been periods of major conflict and disunity. But certain elements of a...
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Design Ideas Before the Qin Dynasty
Dynastic rule in China before the unification brought about by the Qin emperors (221–206 BCE) was unstable and conflict-ridden. But out of this early period emerged the ideas and philosophies that dominated th...
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Design Thinking Under the Song and Yuan Dynasties
The Song era is often seen as offering a pinnacle of design excellence. This can be attributed to two apparently competing trends. Firstly, a reaction against the extravagance of late-Tang design was encourage...
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Design Thinking Under the Qing Dynasty
The Qing were the last dynasty of pre-modern China before the overthrow of the Imperial system in 1910/11. They ruled a country undergoing significant change, particularly in the selective adoption of innovati...
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Ideas on Design in the Qin and Han Dynasties
The legacy of the short-lived Qin dynasty was the unification of formerly warring petty states under authoritarian leadership. The legacy of the succeeding, and much longer-lived, Han dynasty was the creation ...
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Design Thinking Under the Sui and Tang Dynasties
The Sui reunified China, whilst the Tang extended the territory they controlled, particularly to the west of a state that had previously been centred on the Huang He and Yangtze basins. This expansion brought ...
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Design Thinking Under the Ming Dynasty
The years of the Ming dynasty involved a number of transitions and apparent inconsistencies. Initial autocratic Neo-Confucian ideologies supporting Imperial rule gradually gave way to gentler backward-looking ...
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Open Access‘Dove Confident Me Indonesia: Single Session’: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial to evaluate a school-based body image intervention among Indonesian adolescents
Due to the prevalence and associated adverse health consequences of negative body image among adolescents globally, there is a need to develop acceptable, effective, and scalable interventions. School-based bo...
