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Open AccessFeasibility study of measuring instantaneous angular speed of helical gears with magnetoresistive sensors
The digitalization of industrial processes with e.g. the goal to increase the availability of production processes in general and to support the individualization of many products in particular leads to an inc...
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Open AccessDevelo** Healthcare Team Observations for Patient Safety (HTOPS): senior medical students capture everyday clinical moments
Aviation has used a real-time observation method to advance anonymised feedback to the front-line and improve safe practice. Using an experiential learning method, this pilot study aimed to develop an observat...
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Trade-offs among individual and collective performances related to crop–livestock integration among farms: a case study in southwestern France
Integrating crops and livestock is an agroecological way of farming as it enables maintaining production levels while limiting negative environmental impacts. At the farm scale, crop–livestock systems declined...
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Open AccessA retrospective impact analysis of the WannaCry cyberattack on the NHS
A systematic analysis of Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) data was done to determine the effects of the 2017 WannaCry attack on the National Health Service (NHS) by identifying the missed appointments, death...
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Australia-Asian monsoon in two versions of the UK Met Office Unified Model and their impacts on tropical–extratropical teleconnections
Many climate models have dry biases in tropical monsoon regions, but it is less clear how these errors can affect these model-simulated tropical–extratropical interactions and rainfall teleconnections. In this...
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Open AccessInvestigation of the Atterberg limits and undrained fall-cone shear strength variation with water content of some peat soils
Road construction in peatlands is challenging. The ability to make rapid estimates of the response of construction soils derived from natural peats to changes in water content is useful for pavement and geotec...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Improving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial)
Following the publication of this article [1], the authors reported a number of errors which are given below.
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The path towards high-contrast imaging with the VLTI: the Hi-5 project
The development of high-contrast capabilities has long been recognized as one of the top priorities for the VLTI. As of today, the VLTI routinely achieves contrasts of a few 10− 3 in the near-infrared with PIONIE...
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Space-based infrared interferometry to study exoplanetary atmospheres
The quest for other habitable worlds and the search for life among them are major goals of modern astronomy. One way to make progress towards these goals is to obtain high-quality spectra of a large number of ...
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Open AccessImproving care at scale: process evaluation of a multi-component quality improvement intervention to reduce mortality after emergency abdominal surgery (EPOCH trial)
Improving the quality and safety of perioperative care is a global priority. The Enhanced Peri-Operative Care for High-risk patients (EPOCH) trial was a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial of a quality impr...
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Design and Testing of a New Diatom-Based Index for Heavy Metal Pollution
The Tinto and Odiel river basins (SW Spain) are known worldwide for their unique water characteristics. Such uniqueness is a consequence of their flow through the Iberian Pyrite Belt (an area rich in metal su...
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ALDH1A3 is epigenetically regulated during melanocyte transformation and is a target for melanoma treatment
Despite the promising targeted and immune-based interventions in melanoma treatment, long-lasting responses are limited. Melanoma cells present an aberrant redox state that leads to the production of toxic ald...
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Open AccessThe cacao Criollo genome v2.0: an improved version of the genome for genetic and functional genomic studies
Theobroma cacao L., native to the Amazonian basin of South America, is an economically important fruit tree crop for tropical countries as a source of chocolate. The first draft genome...
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Open AccessAldehyde dehydrogenases inhibition eradicates leukemia stem cells while sparing normal progenitors
The vast majority of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) achieve complete remission (CR) after standard induction chemotherapy. However, the majority subsequently relapse and die of the disease. A leuke...
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An analysis of the transient regime temperature field in wet grinding
In this paper, the Samara–Valencia model for heat transfer in grinding is considered. This model is particularized to the case of wet grinding, assuming a constant heat transfer coefficient on the workpiece su...
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Closed form expression for the surface temperature in wet grinding: application to maximum temperature evaluation
Considering the classical modelling of heat transfer in wet flat grinding [DesRuisseaux and Zerkle, J Heat Transf 92:456–464, 1970], we have calculated a closed-form expression for the surface temperature in the ...
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Autoimmune cytopenias after umbilical cord blood transplantation in adults with hematological malignancies: a single-center experience
We describe incidence, clinical features, serological data, response to therapy and outcome of autoimmune cytopenias (ACs), including autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) and autoimmune thrombocytopenia (AIT) in...
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EBV-associated post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder after umbilical cord blood transplantation in adults with hematological diseases
We analyzed the incidence, clinicopathological features, risk factors and prognosis of patients with EBV-associated post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder (EBV-PTLD) in 288 adults undergoing umbilical co...
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Collaborative Architecture Design for Automated Deployment and Positioning of Beaconing Robots
The rising number of applications involving service robots demands more specific and custom control strategies. Under those special working conditions on-road signaling and beaconing robots are framed. Control...
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Sacral neuromodulation for bowel dysfunction
