Exhaust emissions from ships have garnered significant attention because of their impact on global climate change, deterioration air quality, and potential risks to human health. Consequently, it is necessary urgent quantify the gaseous particulate emission factors (EFs) in a local area. In order supplement native EF profile data, an inland cargo ship China was selected for measuring particle p...

Several previous studies have investigated whether the -160C/A epithelial cadherin promoter polymorphism confers an increased risk of diffuse gastric cancer (DGC), but conflicting results have been reported. To explore further the association of this polymorphism with DGC susceptibility, we performed an extensive search of relevant studies and conducted a meta-analysis to obtain a more precise ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the utilisation of paper-based track and trigger (T&T) charts in a UK emergency department (ED). METHODS A single-centre prospective observational cohort study was conducted in the ED of a medium-sized teaching hospital. Charted vital-sign data were collected from adults attending the resuscitation room, majors or observation ward. These data were examined in parallel wi...

Lanthanide metals reduce mixtures of azobenzene and PhEEPh (E = Se or Te) in pyridine to give the bimetallic compounds [(py)2Ln(EPh)(PhNNPh)]2 (E = Se, Ln = Ho (1), Er (2), Tm (3), Yb (4); E = Te, Ln = Ho (5), Er (6), Tm (7), Yb (8)). The structures of [(py)2Er(mu-eta 2-eta 2-PhNNPh)(SePh)](2).2py (2) and [(py)2Ho(mu-eta 2-eta 2-PhNNPh)(TePh)](2).2py (5) have been determined by low-temperature ...

The high mountains stretch over 20.4% of Nepal’s land surface with diverse climatic conditions and associated vegetation types. An understanding tree species forest structural pattern variations across different regions is crucial for mountain ecology. This study strived to carry out a comparative evaluation diversity, main stand variables, canopy cover forests contrasting precipitation in the ...

BACKGROUND Variants in CUBN, the gene encoding cubilin, a proximal tubular transport protein, have been associated with albuminuria and vitamin B12 (B12) deficiency. We hypothesized that low levels of B12 would be associated with albuminuria in a population-based cohort. METHODS We analyzed participants from the Framingham Heart Study (n = 2965, mean age 58 years, 53% female) who provided sam...

Background—The intricacies of stent design, local pharmacology, tissue biology, and rheology preclude an intuitive understanding of drug distribution and deposition from drug-eluting stents (DES). Methods and Results—A coupled computational fluid dynamics and mass transfer model was applied to predict drug deposition for single and overlapping DES. Drug deposition appeared not only beneath regi...

OBJECTIVE Comorbidity between psychiatric disorders is common, but pairwise associations between two disorders may be explained by the presence of other diagnoses that are associated with both disorders or "indirect" comorbidity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Comorbidities of common childhood psychiatric disorders were tested in three community samples of children ages 6-17 (8931 observations of 2965...