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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Taewoo Kim
This paper analyzes the motivations of the British biochemist Joseph Needham for participating in 'the International Scientific Commission for the Investigation of the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China (ISC)' and his major roles within it during the Korean War. Needham stayed in China for four years starting in 1942 as a scientific counselor and director of the British Scientific Mission in China, which enabled him to interact with many Chinese scientists and politicians. Surprisingly, during this period (1944), Needham conducted an investigation into the Japanese military's use of bacterial warfare...
December 2024: Ŭi Sahak
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vinciya Pandian, Sai Phani Sree Cherukuri, Mounica Koneru, Vidyadhari Karne, Farbod Zahedi Tajrishi, Swetha Aloori, Pooja Kota, Victor Dinglas, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Lee Akst, Alexander T Hillel, Dale M Needham, Martin B Brodsky
AIMS: The Post-extubation Assessment of Laryngeal Symptoms and Severity (PALSS) study systematically evaluates patient symptoms related to endotracheal intubation with mechanical ventilation, assesses laryngeal injury and voice function after extubation, and develops a screening tool to identify patients with clinically important, post-extubation laryngeal injury. DESIGN: Single-center, prospective observational cohort study conducted in 6 intensive care units (ICU)...
2024: ORL-head and Neck Nursing: Official Journal of the Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Nurses
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Keyan Abdul-Aziz Mutlaq, Vincent Omollo Nyangaresi, Mohd Adib Omar, Zaid Ameen Abduljabbar, Iman Qays Abduljaleel, Junchao Ma, Mustafa A Al Sibahee
The incorporation of information and communication technologies in the power grids has greatly enhanced efficiency in the management of demand-responses. In addition, smart grids have seen considerable minimization in energy consumption and enhancement in power supply quality. However, the transmission of control and consumption information over open public communication channels renders the transmitted messages vulnerable to numerous security and privacy violations. Although many authentication and key agreement protocols have been developed to counter these issues, the achievement of ideal security and privacy levels at optimal performance still remains an uphill task...
2024: PloS One
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
A S Musa, J Kundankumar, T Needham, R Kotrba, V Ny, J Consolacion, F Ceacero
Large herbivores are subject to handling and social stress in captivity. These may affect blood biochemical values, which motivated this research. Twelve healthy common eland (Taurotragus oryx) were monitored for 12 months. The animals were handled monthly, and blood samples were collected. Samples from every second month were analysed for 14 blood biochemical parameters. Temperament throughout the handling, as the summation of various behavioural responses, was calculated as a proxy of the stress generated during handling...
January 23, 2024: Veterinary Research Communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Neslihan Bisgin, Halil Bisgin, Daniel Hummel, Jon Zelner, Belinda L Needham
The Flint Water Crisis (FWC) was an avoidable public health disaster that has profoundly affected the city's residents, a majority of whom are Black. Although many scholars and journalists have called attention to the role of racism in the water crisis, little is known about the extent to which the public attributed the FWC to racism as it was unfolding. In this study, we used natural language processing to analyze nearly six million Flint-related tweets posted between April 1, 2014, and June 1, 2016. We found that key developments in the FWC corresponded to increases in the number and percentage of tweets that mentioned terms related to race and racism...
April 2023: Journal of computational social science
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Wenfeng Huang
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), protocols with authentication and key agreement functions can enhance the security of the interaction between users and sensor nodes, guaranteeing the security of user access and sensor node information. Existing schemes have various security vulnerabilities and are susceptible to security attacks (e.g., masquerading user, password guessing, internal privilege, and MITT attacks), so they cannot meet the anonymity requirements or achieve forward security. To effectively improve the security performance of WSNs, an elliptic curve cryptography (ECC)-based three-factor authentication and key agreement scheme for WSNs is proposed...
January 20, 2024: Scientific Reports
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Emily McLeish, Nataliya Slater, Frank L Mastaglia, Merrilee Needham, Jerome D Coudert
Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIMs) are a heterogeneous group of muscle disorders including adult and juvenile dermatomyositis, polymyositis, immune-mediated necrotising myopathy and sporadic inclusion body myositis, all of which present with variable symptoms and disease progression. The identification of effective biomarkers for IIMs has been challenging due to the heterogeneity between IIMs and within IIM subgroups, but recent advances in machine learning (ML) techniques have shown promises in identifying novel biomarkers...
November 22, 2023: Briefings in Bioinformatics
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mary Conway Keller, Andrew Needham, Elizabeth Holden, Karina Engelke, Kelly Foy, Leigh Hart, Katherine Hinderer
Background: Increased childhood cancer survival rates have spurred a new body of research pertaining to the cancer-survivorship continuum. Literature suggests a lack of research and guidelines for care at the end of treatment (EOT). To improve the transition to survivorship and determine any posttreatment challenges, this study explored the experiences of childhood cancer survivors (CCSs), parents/caregivers, and pediatric oncology health care professionals (HCPs) at EOT. Method: This study employed a mixed methods design...
January 18, 2024: J Pediatr Hematol Oncol Nurs
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V T Vaiciurgis, A Clancy, K E Charlton, A Stefoska-Needham, E J Beck
OBJECTIVE: Diet quality is significantly impacted by social and environmental factors. People experiencing socioeconomic disadvantage face inequitable barriers to accessing nutritious foods and health services, resulting in significant health disparities. This study aimed to explore the barriers faced by organisations that provide food support to people experiencing disadvantage as well as to identify potential strategies to enhance this support for improved wellbeing of clients. DESIGN: Semi-structured interviews using an exploratory approach and inductive thematic analysis...
January 15, 2024: Public Health Nutrition
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Consumer acceptance and quality of game meat "droëwors" sausages with different levels of added fat.
Daniel Bureš, Tersia Needham, Luděk Bartoň, Nicole Lebedová, Radim Kotrba, Dalibor Řehák, Iva Kučerová, Pavel Klouček, Louwrens C Hoffman
Droëwors (dried sausage) is a unique dried meat product from South Africa, which is not smoked, fermented, nor is nitrite used in its production. The objective of the study was to compare the quality parameters and consumer acceptance of common eland meat droëwors with different quantities of added beef fat. Three treatments containing either 10, 15, or 20% (by weight) added beef fat were compared regarding chemical composition, fatty acid profiles, and sensory properties. Increasing the amount of fat in the dried product resulted in a significant decrease in the protein and ash percentages...
January 3, 2024: Meat Science
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Didem Saygin, Victoria Werth, Julie J Paik, Jin Kyun Park, Merrilee Needham, Ingrid E Lundberg, Lisa Christopher-Stine
With improved understanding of disease pathogenesis and availability of outcome measures, there has been a remarkable increase in the number of therapeutic clinical trials in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (myositis) over the last three years reaching as many as five trials per site. These trials share similar design and inclusion/exclusion criteria resulting in a competitive clinical trial landscape in myositis. While these are exciting times for the myositis field, we have a number of concerns about the design and conduct of the myositis trials...
January 12, 2024: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
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Christopher L Chapman, Sadie M Holt, Cameron T O'Connell, Shaun C Brazelton, Hannah N Medved, William A B Howells, Emma L Reed, Karen Wiedenfeld Needham, John R Halliwill, Christopher T Minson
Insufficient hydration is prevalent amongst free living adults. This study investigated whether hypohydration alters 1) renal functional reserve, 2) the renal hemodynamic response to the exercise pressor reflex, and 3) urine concentrating ability during oral protein loading. In a block-randomized crossover design, 22 healthy young adults (11 females and 11 males) underwent 24 h fluid deprivation (Hypohydrated) or 24 h normal fluid consumption (Euhydrated). Renal functional reserve was assessed by oral protein loading...
January 11, 2024: Journal of Applied Physiology
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Thoniso Chitambala, Veit Ny, Francisco Ceacero, Luděk Bartoň, Daniel Bureš, Radim Kotrba, Tersia Needham
Forty-four fallow deer bucks (10 months old; 22.9 ± 2.4 kg) were utilized to investigate the effects of immunocastration and amino acid supplementation on testes development. Immunocastrated bucks were administered Improvac® at weeks 1, 8, and 20 of this study (control group: intact males). Starting at week 8, half of each sex received rumen-protected lysine and methionine (3:1) supplementation. At slaughter (week 37/39), body size, internal fat deposits, antler size parameters, testes weight, testes surface color, cauda epididymal sperm viability and morphology, and seminiferous tubule circumference and epithelium thickness were determined...
December 28, 2023: Animals: An Open Access Journal From MDPI
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Belinda Yau, Sheyda Naghiloo, Alexis Diaz-Vegas, Austin V Carr, Julian Van Gerwen, Elise J Needham, Dillon Jevon, Sing-Young Chen, Kyle L Hoehn, Amanda E Brandon, Laurence Macia, Gregory J Cooney, Michael R Shortreed, Lloyd M Smith, Mark P Keller, Peter Thorn, Mark Larance, David E James, Sean J Humphrey, Melkam A Kebede
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January 19, 2024: IScience
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
D Saygin, D DiRenzo, J Raaphorst, I de Groot, C O Bingham, I E Lundberg, M Regardt, C Sarver, M de Visser, L J Maxwell, D Beaton, J Y Kim, M Needham, H Alexanderson, L Christopher-Stine, C A Mecoli, J K Park
BACKGROUND: A series of qualitative studies conducted by the OMERACT Myositis Working Group identified pain interference, fatigue, and physical function as highly important life impact domains for adults with idiopathic inflammatory myositis (IIM). In this study, our goal was to assess the responsiveness and minimal important difference of PROMIS pain interference (6a), fatigue (7a), and physical function (8b). METHODS: Adults with IIM from USA, Netherlands, Korea, Sweden, and Australia with two "clinical" visits were enrolled in this prospective study...
December 9, 2023: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sieun Ju, Yohan Park
A paradigm that combines cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) allows for more impressive services to be provided to users while addressing storage and computational resource issues in the IoT environments. This cloud-based IoT environment has been used in various industries, including public services, for quite some time, and has been researched in academia. However, various security issues can arise during the communication between IoT devices and cloud servers, because communication between devices occurs in open channels...
December 11, 2023: Sensors
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Benedict D Michael, Cordelia Dunai, Edward J Needham, Kukatharmini Tharmaratnam, Robyn Williams, Yun Huang, Sarah A Boardman, Jordan J Clark, Parul Sharma, Krishanthi Subramaniam, Greta K Wood, Ceryce Collie, Richard Digby, Alexander Ren, Emma Norton, Maya Leibowitz, Soraya Ebrahimi, Andrew Fower, Hannah Fox, Esteban Tato, Mark A Ellul, Geraint Sunderland, Marie Held, Claire Hetherington, Franklyn N Egbe, Alish Palmos, Kathy Stirrups, Alexander Grundmann, Anne-Cecile Chiollaz, Jean-Charles Sanchez, James P Stewart, Michael Griffiths, Tom Solomon, Gerome Breen, Alasdair J Coles, Nathalie Kingston, John R Bradley, Patrick F Chinnery, Jonathan Cavanagh, Sarosh R Irani, Angela Vincent, J Kenneth Baillie, Peter J Openshaw, Malcolm G Semple, Leonie S Taams, David K Menon
To understand neurological complications of COVID-19 better both acutely and for recovery, we measured markers of brain injury, inflammatory mediators, and autoantibodies in 203 hospitalised participants; 111 with acute sera (1-11 days post-admission) and 92 convalescent sera (56 with COVID-19-associated neurological diagnoses). Here we show that compared to 60 uninfected controls, tTau, GFAP, NfL, and UCH-L1 are increased with COVID-19 infection at acute timepoints and NfL and GFAP are significantly higher in participants with neurological complications...
December 22, 2023: Nature Communications
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Martin B Brodsky, Lisa Aronson Friedman, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Vinciya Pandian, Anne E Vertigan, Dale M Needham, Kitty S Chan
BACKGROUND: The Newcastle Laryngeal Hypersensitivity Questionnaire (LHQ) was developed to measure abnormal laryngeal sensation and was originally validated in a patient sample from otolaryngologic and respiratory outpatient clinics. Modification is needed for patients who are mechanically ventilated via an endotracheal tube or a tracheostomy tube. OBJECTIVES: We sought to adapt and preliminarily validate a modified version of the LHQ appropriate for nurses and other clinicians to administer in acute hospital settings called the LHQ-Acute (LHQ-A)...
December 21, 2023: Australian Critical Care: Official Journal of the Confederation of Australian Critical Care Nurses
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katherine Tubby, Jack Forster, Martin Mullett, Robert Needham, Olivia Smith, James Snowden, Shelagh McCartan
The international plant trade results in the accidental movement of invasive pests and pathogens, and has contributed significantly to recent range expansion of pathogens including Dothistroma septosporum. Seeds are usually thought to present a lower biosecurity risk than plants, but the importation of Pinus contorta seeds from North America to Britain in the mid-1900s, and similarities between British and Canadian D. septosporum populations suggests seeds could be a pathway. Dothistroma septosporum has not been isolated from seeds, but inadequately cleaned seed material could contain infected needle fragments...
December 13, 2023: Journal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anita Stefoska-Needham, Christopher M Weber, Eleanor J Beck, Joel C Craddock, Lauren A Houston
AIM: Male dietitians are under-represented in the global dietetics workforce, including in Australia. This study explores Australian males' experiences as dietitians in the Australian workforce, with the aim to identify influences that initially attracted them to dietetics, as well as barriers that may affect their decision to stay in or leave the profession. METHODS: A cross-sectional, semi-quantitative web-based survey was distributed to male dietitians using purposive, snowball sampling...
December 19, 2023: Nutrition & Dietetics: the Journal of the Dietitians Association of Australia
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