BACKGROUND The extent to which A(H1N1)pdm09 influenza vaccines prevented hospital admissions with pneumonia and influenza (P&I) during the 2009 pandemic remains poorly understood. We evaluated the effectiveness of the A(H1N1)pdm09 and seasonal influenza vaccines (TIV) used during the 2009 mass vaccination campaign in Manitoba (Canada) in preventing P&I hospitalization. METHODS A population-ba...

Background: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) pose a significant burden to healthcare providers with frequent exacerbations necessitating hospital admission. Randomised controlled data exist supporting the use of acute non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in patients with exacerbations of COPD with mild to moderate acidosis. The use of NIV is also described in chronic stable ...

Relevance. At the beginning of pandemic, there was regional variability in incidence rates not only for COVID-19, but also other acute respiratory infections upper and lower tract (ARIs). The first cases COVID-19 Irkutsk region were detected two months later than Russia, at epidemic, disease slowly spread among local population. A retrospective analysis ARIs monitoring is necessary to improve e...

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Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below e¢ cient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should a¤ect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge protections by U.S. sta...

Recent research has shown that across several countries there is an ongoing decline in marriages arranged by the parents of the spouses (AM). This transition has been associated with industrialization, higher human capital investment, incorporation of younger cohorts into paid jobs, urbanization and the dissolution of extended households prominent features of the modernization process. This pap...

Diversity of parvovirus 4–like viruses in humans, chimpanzees, and monkeys in hunter–prey relationships. genomic characterization of a novel ovine partetravirus and a new genotype of bovine partetravirus. PLoS ONE. To the Editor: Conducting influenza surveillance in hospitals is imperative to detect outbreaks, inform infection control policy, and allocate resources (1). Hospital administrative ...

The Panax ginseng TIP gene PgTIP1 was previously demonstrated to have high water channel activity by its heterologous expression in Xenopus laevis oocytes and in yeast; it also plays a significant role in growth of PgTIP1-transgenic Arabidopsis plants under favorable conditions and has enhanced tolerance toward salt and drought treatment. In this work, we first investigated the physiological ef...

The notion of Abelian complexity of infinite words was recently used by the three last authors to investigate various Abelian properties of words. In particular, using van der Waerden’s theorem, they proved that if a word avoids Abelian k-powers for some integer k, then its Abelian complexity is unbounded. This suggests the following question: How frequently do Abelian k-powers occur in a word ...

We test for differences across the two most recent NHANES survey periods (1988–1994 and 1999– 2004) in self-perception of weight status. We find that the probability of self-classifying as overweight is significantly lower on average in the more recent survey, for both men and women, controlling for objective weight status and other factors. Among women, the decline in the tendency to self-clas...