Review
Infectious Diseases
Luc J. Dubreuil
Summary: Technological improvements and increased awareness have renewed interest and enthusiasm for anaerobes as a cause of infections. Clinicians now consider the antibiotic susceptibility of anaerobes, and accessible methods for testing and treating these infections have improved outcomes.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Neha Verma, Burke Mamlin, Jan Flowers, Soumyadipta Acharya, Alain Labrique, Theresa Cullen
Summary: OpenMRS is an open source medical record system with a global reach, making a positive impact on healthcare delivery efficiency, data quality, and decision-making processes. However, challenges such as technical constraints and inadequate staff training were identified during implementation, highlighting the need for solutions to ensure successful deployments. Continued investment in the development of OpenMRS is necessary to maintain and expand its impact.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INFORMATICS
(2021)
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Carlo Patrono
Summary: This passage describes the significant impact of Sir John Vane's publication on the pharmacological effects of aspirin and similar drugs, as well as the subsequent discovery of the platelet arachidonic acid metabolism pathway. It also emphasizes the importance of low-dose aspirin as an antiplatelet drug.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Michael A. Wulder, David P. Roy, Volker C. Radeloff, Thomas R. Loveland, Martha C. Anderson, David M. Johnson, Sean Healey, Zhe Zhu, Theodore A. Scambos, Nima Pahlevan, Matthew Hansen, Noel Gorelick, Christopher J. Crawford, Jeffrey G. Masek, Txomin Hermosilla, Joanne C. White, Alan S. Belward, Crystal Schaaf, Curtis E. Woodcock, Justin L. Huntington, Leo Lymburner, Patrick Hostert, Feng Gao, Alexei Lyapustin, Jean-Francois Pekel, Peter Strobl, Bruce D. Cook
Summary: Since 1972, the Landsat program has provided 50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations, playing a crucial role in scientific and technical advancements. The program's early years brought technological breakthroughs and established a template for global Earth observation missions. The knowledge gained from Landsat has been recognized for its economic and scientific value, leading to continuous improvement and increased usage through the introduction of free and open access to data.
REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Economics
Paola Subacchi, David Vines
Summary: This paper provides an overview of the Bretton Woods system and its collapse, as well as the emergence of the current global non-system. It discusses how the objectives set by John Maynard Keynes for a well-functioning international economic system are now pursued in a different manner. The paper also examines long-term challenges facing the non-system, such as the global demographic transition, productivity growth slowdown, and the need for renewable energy investment. Additionally, it explores policy issues related to international capital flows and the potential need for a sovereign debt reconstruction mechanism, and analyzes the impact of the European Monetary Union and China's rise on the global landscape. The importance of leadership in the global non-system is also emphasized.
OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Lisa I. Iezzoni, Michael M. McKee, Michelle A. Meade, Megan A. Morris, Elizabeth Pendo
Summary: Despite the existence of laws prohibiting discrimination against disabled Americans in healthcare, they still face disparities in health and healthcare. This article examines disability inequities in six areas and suggests the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a solution to improve their health and dignity and support their full participation in the community.
Article
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Jean Jacques Noubiap, Dominic Millenaar, Dike Ojji, Q. Eileen Wafford, Christian Ukena, Michael Boehm, Karen Sliwa, Mark D. Huffman, Felix Mahfoud
Summary: This study analyzed the quantity and impact of cardiovascular research in Africa, as well as the determinants and patterns of research collaboration. It found that despite progress, the output of cardiovascular research from African authors remains low. Therefore, urgent measures are needed to improve the quantity and quality of cardiovascular research in Africa, including increased investments, human resource training, improved infrastructures, and expanded collaborative research networks, particularly within Africa.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION
(2023)
Article
Economics
David R. Johnson, Nathan B. Geldner, Jing Liu, Uris Lantz Baldos, Thomas Hertel
Summary: Biobased energy, particularly corn-based ethanol and other renewable fuels, is an important component of energy policies in the US. However, corn ethanol fails to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum fuels and has various negative impacts such as nitrogen leaching, higher food prices, water scarcity, and indirect land use change. Using a partial equilibrium model, this paper analyzes the potential of reducing US demand for corn as a biobased energy feedstock to mitigate negative effects on land use, nitrogen leaching, and crop production from 2020 to 2050. The study suggests that a reduction of 24% in demand can maintain the levels of land use and nitrogen leaching below those of 2020 until 2025, and a reduction of 41% can do so until 2030. The results are similar across major watersheds with intensive corn and soy farming.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Oldrich Coufal
Summary: In 1873, J.C. Maxwell derived relations for current density and current in a solitary long cylindrical conductor supplied with variable current. The skin effect, which refers to the increase of current density towards the conductor surface, and the proximity effect, which is the dependence of current density on the proximity of other conductors, are two phenomena closely related to each other. Understanding the current density in conductors, especially in a group of conductors, is of fundamental significance for analyzing and describing these phenomena.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Janet M. Turan, Michael J. Vinikoor, Austin Y. Su, Mauricio Rangel-Gomez, Annika Sweetland, Ruth Verhey, Dixon Chibanda, Robert Paulino-Ramirez, Chynere Best, Caroline Masquillier, Josefien van Olmen, Paul Gaist, Brandon A. Kohrt
Summary: There have been major advances in promoting mental health and well-being in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) over the past two decades. Now, high-income countries (HIC) are also looking to adopt similar strategies. It is crucial for projects in different global settings to learn from one another to overcome shared challenges.
Article
Environmental Studies
Elisa Cordeiro Bastos, Aline Rossales Sengik, Jorge Tello-Gamarra
Summary: This study provides a bibliometric overview of university-industry collaboration (UIC) publications from 1969 to 2018, identifying three main results: a complete panorama of UIC research over the past fifty years, the division of UIC research trajectory into four generations, and the identification of eight research trends within the UIC context.
SCIENCE AND PUBLIC POLICY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Matthew Dietrich, Gabriel M. Filippelli
Summary: Although slow and challenging, lead (Pb) emissions and sources in the United States (U.S.) have significantly decreased over the past few decades. While most U.S. children born in the last two decades have lower Pb exposure, disparities still exist among different demographic groups.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Amelia K. Adcock, Lee H. Schwamm, Eric E. Smith, Gregg C. Fonarow, Mathew J. Reeves, Haolin Xu, Roland A. Matsouaka, Ying Xian, Jeffrey L. Saver
Summary: The study investigates the trends in endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) use, outcomes, and disparities among patients aged 80 years and older compared to younger patients with acute ischemic stroke. The use of EVT increased among elderly patients from 2012 to 2019, although it remained lower than in younger patients. Older patients had worse functional outcomes at discharge, but the risk of symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage was not increased.
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Tong Bai, Hongming Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Chao Xu, Maged Elkashlan, Arumugam Nallanathan, Lajos Hanzo
Summary: This article provides a review of noise modeling and mitigation techniques in power line communications (PLC), including the development of noise models, classification of mitigation schemes, and a literature review of joint noise mitigation and channel estimation solutions. Future research directions are also outlined.
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS
(2021)
Article
History
Itai Shapira
Summary: The article analyzes the failure of Israeli intelligence during the Yom Kippur War and highlights important lessons that can be learned from this event. These lessons include the need for strategic intelligence to focus on identifying changes, the importance of explicit analytical methodology, the integration of assessment of adversary intentions and capabilities, the risk of over-reliance on raw information, and the importance of a culture encouraging contrarian thinking.
INTELLIGENCE AND NATIONAL SECURITY
(2023)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Paul K. Drain, King K. Holmes, Kelley M. Skeff, Thomas L. Hall, Pierce Gardner
Review
Education, Scientific Disciplines
William A. Cherniak, Paul K. Drain, Timothy F. Brewer
Letter
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Paul K. Drain, Joseph J. Rhatigan
Article
Immunology
Nan Li, Donna Spiegelman, Paul Drain, Ramadhani S. Mwiru, Ferdinand Mugusi, Guerino Chalamilla, Wafaie W. Fawzi
Article
Infectious Diseases
Paul K. Drain, Elena Losina, Sharon M. Coleman, Janet Giddy, Douglas Ross, Jeffrey N. Katz, Rochelle P. Walensky, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Ingrid V. Bassett
BMC INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2014)
Article
Immunology
Paul K. Drain, Anisa Mosam, Lilishia Gounder, Bernadett Gosnell, Thandekile Manzini, Mahomed-Yunus S. Moosa
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STD & AIDS
(2014)
Article
Infectious Diseases
P. K. Drain, L. Mayeza, P. Bartman, R. Hurtado, P. Moodley, S. Varghese, G. Maartens, G. G. Alvarez, D. Wilson
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE
(2014)
Review
Infectious Diseases
Paul K. Drain, Emily P. Hyle, Farzad Noubary, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Douglas Wilson, William R. Bishai, William Rodriguez, Ingrid V. Bassett
LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES
(2014)
News Item
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Paul K. Drain, Marion Robine, King K. Holmes, Ingrid V. Bassett
NATURE REVIEWS DRUG DISCOVERY
(2014)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Paul K. Drain, Elena Losina, Gary Parker, Janet Giddy, Douglas Ross, Jeffrey N. Katz, Sharon M. Coleman, Laura M. Bogart, Kenneth A. Freedberg, Rochelle P. Walensky, Ingrid V. Bassett
Letter
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Paul K. Drain, Michele Barry
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Martial L. Ndeffo Mbah, Eric M. Poolman, Paul K. Drain, Megan P. Coffee, Marieke J. van der Werf, Alison P. Galvani
TROPICAL MEDICINE & INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
(2013)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Paul K. Drain, Ting Hong, Meighan Krows, Sabina Govere, Hilary Thulare, Carole L. Wallis, Bernadett Gosnell, Mahomed-Yunus Moosa, Ingrid Bassett, Connie Celum
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2019)
Editorial Material
Infectious Diseases
Nondumiso Mthembu, Jienchi Dorward, Nivashnee Naicker, Farzana Osman, Siphesihle Gumede, Yukteshwar Sookrajh, Paul Drain, Nigel Garrett
SOUTHERN AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HIV MEDICINE
(2020)
