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3. HELP: The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project

Author

Shirley, R., Duncan, K., Varillas, M. C. Campos, Hurley, P. D., Malek, K., Roehlly, Y., Smith, M. W. L., Aussel, H., Bakx, T., Buat, V., Burgarella, D., Christopher, N., Duivenvoorden, S., Eales, S., Efstathiou, A., Solares, E. A. Gonzalez, Griffin, M., Jarvis, M., Faro, B. Lo, Marchetti, L., McCheyne, I., Papadopoulos, A., Penner, K., Pons, E., Prescott, M., Rigby, E., Rottgering, H., Saxena, A., Scudder, J., Vaccari, M., Wang, L., and Oliver, S. J.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We present the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (HELP). This project collates, curates, homogenises, and creates derived data products for most of the premium multi-wavelength extragalactic data sets. The sky boundaries for the first data release cover 1270 deg2 defined by the Herschel SPIRE extragalactic survey fields; notably the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES) and the Herschel Atlas survey (H-ATLAS). Here, we describe the motivation and principal elements in the design of the project. Guiding principles are transparent or "open" methodologies with care for reproducibility and identification of provenance. A key element of the design focuses around the homogenisation of calibration, meta data and the provision of information required to define the selection of the data for statistical analysis. We apply probabilistic methods that extract information directly from the images at long wavelengths, exploiting the prior information available at shorter wavelengths and providing full posterior distributions rather than maximum likelihood estimates and associated uncertainties as in traditional catalogues. With this project definition paper we provide full access to the first data release of HELP; Data Release 1 (DR1), including a monolithic map of the largest SPIRE extragalactic field at 385 deg2 and 18 million measurements of PACS and SPIRE fluxes. We also provide tools to access and analyse the full HELP database. This new data set includes far-infrared photometry, photometric redshifts, and derived physical properties estimated from modelling the spectral energy distributions.

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2021
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4. Characterizing the UV-to-NIR shape of the dust attenuation curve of IR luminous galaxies up to z$\sim$2

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Faro, B. Lo, Buat, V., Roehlly, Y., Álvarez-Márquez, J., Burgarella, D., Silva, L., and Efstathiou, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

In this work we investigate the far-UV to NIR shape of the dust attenuation curve of a sample of IR selected dust obscured (U)LIRGs at z$\sim$2. The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are fitted with CIGALE, a physically-motivated spectral synthesis model based on energy balance. Its flexibility allows us to test a wide range of different analytical prescriptions for the dust attenuation curve, including the well-known Calzetti and Charlot & Fall curves, and modified versions of them. The attenuation curves computed under the assumption of our reference double power-law model are in very good agreement with those derived, in previous works, with radiative transfer (RT) SED fitting. We investigate the position of our galaxies in the IRX-$\beta$ diagram and find this to be consistent with grayer slopes, on average, in the UV. We also find evidence for a flattening of the attenuation curve in the NIR with respect to more classical Calzetti-like recipes. This larger NIR attenuation yields larger derived stellar masses from SED fitting, by a median factor of $\sim$ 1.4 and up to a factor $\sim$10 for the most extreme cases. The star formation rate appears instead to be more dependent on the total amount of attenuation in the galaxy. Our analysis highlights the need for a flexible attenuation curve when reproducing the physical properties of a large variety of objects., Comment: 20 pages, 14 figures

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2017
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5. Dust properties of Lyman break galaxies at $z\sim3$

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Álvarez-Márquez, J., Burgarella, D., Heinis, S., Buat, V., Faro, B. Lo, Béthermin, M., López-Fortín, C. E., Cooray, A., Farrah, D., Hurley, P., Ibar, E., Ilbert, O., Koekemoer, A. M., Lemaux, B. C., Pérez-Fournon, I., Rodighiero, G., Salvato, M., Scott, D., Taniguchi, Y., Vieira, J. D., and Wang, L.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We explore from a statistical point of view the far-infrared (far-IR) and sub-millimeter (sub-mm) properties of a large sample of LBGs (22,000) at z~3 in the COSMOS field. The large number of galaxies allows us to split it in several bins as a function of UV luminosity, UV slope, and stellar mass to better sample their variety. We perform stacking analysis in PACS (100 and 160 um), SPIRE (250, 350 and 500 um) and AzTEC (1.1 mm) images. Our stacking procedure corrects the biases induced by galaxy clustering and incompleteness of our input catalogue in dense regions. We obtain the full IR spectral energy distributions (SED) of subsamples of LBGs and derive the mean IR luminosity as a function of UV luminosity, UV slope, and stellar mass. The average IRX is roughly constant over the UV luminosity range, with a mean of 7.9 (1.8 mag). However, it is correlated with UV slope, and stellar mass. We investigate using a statistically-controlled stacking analysis as a function of (stellar mass, UV slope) the dispersion of the IRX-UVslope and IRX-M* plane. Our results enable us to study the average relation between star-formation rate (SFR) and stellar mass, and we show that our LBG sample lies on the main sequence of star formation at z~3., Comment: Accepted to A&A, 17 Pages, 14 Figures, 2 Tables

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2015
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6. Environment of the submillimeter-bright massive starburst HFLS3 at $z\sim$6.34

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Laporte, N., Pérez-Fournon, I., Calanog, J. A., Cooray, A., Wardlow, J. L., Bock, J., Bridge, C., Burgarella, D., Bussmann, R. S., Cabrera-Lavers, A., Casey, C. M., Clements, D. L., Conley, A., Dannerbauer, H., Farrah, D., Fu, H., Gavazzi, R., González-Solares, E. A., Ivison, R. J., Faro, B. Lo, Ma, B., Magdis, G., Marques-Chaves, R., Martínez-Navajas, P., Oliver, S. J., Osage, W. A., Riechers, D., Rigopoulou, D., Scott, D., Streblyanska, A., and Vieira, J. D.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We describe the search for Lyman-break galaxies (LBGs) near the sub-millimeter bright starburst galaxy HFLS3 at $z$$=$6.34 and a study on the environment of this massive galaxy during the end of reionization.We performed two independent selections of LBGs on images obtained with the \textit{Gran Telescopio Canarias} (GTC) and the \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} (HST) by combining non-detections in bands blueward of the Lyman-break and color selection. A total of 10 objects fulfilling the LBG selection criteria at $z$$>$5.5 were selected over the 4.54 and 55.5 arcmin$^2$ covered by our HST and GTC images, respectively. The photometric redshift, UV luminosity, and the star-formation rate of these sources were estimated with models of their spectral energy distribution. These $z$$\sim$6 candidates have physical properties and number densities in agreement with previous results. The UV luminosity function at $z$$\sim$6 and a Voronoi tessellation analysis of this field shows no strong evidence for an overdensity of relatively bright objects (m$_{F105W}$$<$25.9) associated with \textit{HFLS3}. However, the over-density parameter deduced from this field and the surface density of objects can not excluded definitively the LBG over-density hypothesis. Moreover we identified three faint objects at less than three arcseconds from \textit{HFLS3} with color consistent with those expected for $z$$\sim$6 galaxies. Deeper data are needed to confirm their redshifts and to study their association with \textit{HFLS3} and the galaxy merger that may be responsible for the massive starburst., Comment: 14 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

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2015
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7. Combining Physical galaxy models with radio observations to constrain the SFRs of high-z dusty star forming galaxies

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Faro, B. Lo, Silva, L., Franceschini, A., Miller, N., and Efstathiou, A.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract

We complement our previous analysis of a sample of z~1-2 luminous and ultra-luminous infrared galaxies ((U)LIRGs), by adding deep VLA radio observations at 1.4 GHz to a large data-set from the far-UV to the sub-mm, including Spitzer and Herschel data. Given the relatively small number of (U)LIRGs in our sample with high S/N radio data, and to extend our study to a different family of galaxies, we also include 6 well sampled near IR-selected BzK galaxies at z~1.5. From our analysis based on the radiative transfer spectral synthesis code GRASIL, we find that, while the IR luminosity may be a biased tracer of the star formation rate (SFR) depending on the age of stars dominating the dust heating, the inclusion of the radio flux offers significantly tighter constraints on SFR. Our predicted SFRs are in good agreement with the estimates based on rest-frame radio luminosity and the Bell (2003) calibration. The extensive spectro-photometric coverage of our sample allows us to set important constraints on the SF history of individual objects. For essentially all galaxies we find evidence for a rather continuous SFR and a peak epoch of SF preceding that of the observation by a few Gyrs. This seems to correspond to a formation redshift of z~5-6. We finally show that our physical analysis may affect the interpretation of the SFR-M* diagram, by possibly shifting, with respect to previous works, the position of the most dust obscured objects to higher M* and lower SFRs., Comment: 26 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS on Dec. 4th, 2014

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2014
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8. A quiescent galaxy at the position of the long GRB 050219A

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Rossi, A., Piranomonte, S., Savaglio, S., Palazzi, E., Michałowski, M. J., Klose, S., Hunt, L. K., Amati, L., Elliott, J., Greiner, J., Guidorzi, C., Japelj, J., Kann, D. A., Faro, B. Lo, Guelbenzu, A. Nicuesa, Schulze, S., Vergani, S. D., Arnold, L. A., Covino, S., D'Elia, V., Ferrero, P., Filgas, R., Goldoni, P., Yoldaş, A. Küpcü, Borgne, D. Le, Pian, E., Schady, P., and Stratta, G.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are produced by the collapse of very massive stars. Due to the short lifetime of their progenitors, LGRBs pinpoint star-forming galaxies. We present here a multi-band search for the host galaxy of the long dark GRB 050219A within the enhanced Swift/XRT error circle. We used spectroscopic observations acquired with VLT/X-shooter to determine the redshift and star-formation rate of the putative host galaxy. We compared the results with the optical/IR spectral energy distribution obtained with different facilities. Surprisingly, the host galaxy is a old and quiescent early-type galaxy at z = 0.211 characterised by an unprecedentedly low specific star-formation rate. It is the first LGRB host to be also an early-type post-starburst galaxy. This is further evidence that GRBs can explode in all kind of galaxies, with the only requirement being an episode of star-formation., Comment: 11 pages, 10 figures, 3 tables; accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics

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2014
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9. HELP: the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project

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R Shirley, K Duncan, M C Campos Varillas, P D Hurley, K Małek, Y Roehlly, M W L Smith, H Aussel, T Bakx, V Buat, D Burgarella, N Christopher, S Duivenvoorden, S Eales, A Efstathiou, E A González Solares, M Griffin, M Jarvis, B Lo Faro, L Marchetti, I McCheyne, A Papadopoulos, K Penner, E Pons, M Prescott, E Rigby, H Rottgering, A Saxena, J Scudder, M Vaccari, L Wang, and S J Oliver

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2021
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10. The complex physics of dusty star-forming galaxies at high redshifts as revealed by Herschel and Spitzer

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Faro, B. Lo, Franceschini, A., Vaccari, M., Silva, L., Rodighiero, G., Berta, S., Bock, J., Burgarella, D., Buat, V., Cava, A., Clements, D. L., Cooray, A., Farrah, D., Feltre, A., Solares, E. A. González, Hurley, P., Lutz, D., Magdis, G., Magnelli, B., Marchetti, L., Oliver, S. J., Page, M. J., Popesso, P., Pozzi, F., Rigopoulou, D., Rowan-Robinson, M., Roseboom, I. G., Scott, Douglas, Smith, A. J., Symeonidis, M., Wang, L., and Wuyts, S.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

We combine far-infrared photometry from Herschel (PEP/HERMES) with deep mid-infrared spectroscopy from Spitzer to investigate the nature and the mass assembly history of a sample of 31 Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies at z~1 and 2 selected in GOODS-S with 24 $\mu$m fluxes between 0.2 and 0.5 mJy. We model the data with a self-consistent physical model (GRASIL) which includes a state-of-the-art treatment of dust extinction and reprocessing. We find that all of our galaxies appear to require massive populations of old (>1 Gyr) stars and, at the same time, to host a moderate ongoing activity of SF (SFR < 100 M$_{\odot}$/yr). The bulk of the stars appear to have been formed a few Gyr before the observation in essentially all cases. Only five galaxies of the sample require a recent starburst superimposed on a quiescent star formation history (SFH). We also find discrepancies between our results and those based on optical-only SED fitting for the same objects; by fitting their observed Spectral Energy Distributions with our physical model we find higher extinctions (by $\Delta$A_{V} ~ 0.81 and 1.14) and higher stellar masses (by $\Delta$Log(M*) ~ 0.16 and 0.36 dex) for z~1 and z~2 (U)LIRGs, respectively. The stellar mass difference is larger for the most dust obscured objects. We also find lower SFRs than those computed from L_{IR} using the Kennicutt relation due to the significant contribution to the dust heating by intermediate-age stellar populations through 'cirrus' emission (~73% and ~66% of total L_{IR} for z~1 and z~2 (U)LIRGs, respectively)., Comment: 21 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ

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2012
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11. The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey: HerMES

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HerMES Collaboration, Oliver, S. J., Bock, J., Altieri, B., Amblard, A., Arumugam, V., Aussel, H., Babbedge, T., Beelen, A., Béthermin, M., Blain, A., Boselli, A., Bridge, C., Brisbin, D., Buat, V., Burgarella, D., Castro-Rodríguez, N., Cava, A., Chanial, P., Cirasuolo, M., Clements, D. L., Conley, A., Conversi, L., Cooray, A., Dowell, C. D., Dubois, E. N., Dwek, E., Dye, S., Eales, S., Elbaz, D., Farrah, D., Feltre, A., Ferrero, P., Fiolet, N., Fox, M., Franceschini, A., Gear, W., Giovannoli, E., Glenn, J., Gong, Y., Solares, E. A. González, Griffin, M., Halpern, M., Harwit, M., Hatziminaoglou, E., Heinis, S., Hurley, P., Hwang, H. S., Hyde, A., Ibar, E., Ilbert, O., Isaak, K., Ivison, R. J., Lagache, G., Floc'h, E. Le, Levenson, L., Faro, B. Lo, Lu, N., Madden, S., Maffei, B., Magdis, G., Mainetti, G., Marchetti, L., Marsden, G., Marshall, J., Mortier, A. M. J., Nguyen, H. T., O'Halloran, B., Omont, A., Page, M. J., Panuzzo, P., Papageorgiou, A., Patel, H., Pearson, C. P., Pérez-Fournon, I., Pohlen, M., Rawlings, J. I., Raymond, G., Rigopoulou, D., Riguccini, L., Rizzo, D., Rodighiero, G., Roseboom, I. G., Rowan-Robinson, M., Portal, M. Sánchez, Schulz, B., Scott, Douglas, Seymour, N., Shupe, D. L., Smith, A. J., Stevens, J. A., Symeonidis, M., Trichas, M., Tugwell, K. E., Vaccari, M., Valtchanov, I., Vieira, J. D., Viero, M., Vigroux, L., Wang, L., Ward, R., Wardlow, J., Wright, G., Xu, C. K., and Zemcov, M.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract

The Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey, HerMES, is a legacy program designed to map a set of nested fields totalling ~380 deg^2. Fields range in size from 0.01 to ~20 deg^2, using Herschel-SPIRE (at 250, 350 and 500 \mu m), and Herschel-PACS (at 100 and 160 \mu m), with an additional wider component of 270 deg^2 with SPIRE alone. These bands cover the peak of the redshifted thermal spectral energy distribution from interstellar dust and thus capture the re-processed optical and ultra-violet radiation from star formation that has been absorbed by dust, and are critical for forming a complete multi-wavelength understanding of galaxy formation and evolution. The survey will detect of order 100,000 galaxies at 5\sigma in some of the best studied fields in the sky. Additionally, HerMES is closely coordinated with the PACS Evolutionary Probe survey. Making maximum use of the full spectrum of ancillary data, from radio to X-ray wavelengths, it is designed to: facilitate redshift determination; rapidly identify unusual objects; and understand the relationships between thermal emission from dust and other processes. Scientific questions HerMES will be used to answer include: the total infrared emission of galaxies; the evolution of the luminosity function; the clustering properties of dusty galaxies; and the properties of populations of galaxies which lie below the confusion limit through lensing and statistical techniques. This paper defines the survey observations and data products, outlines the primary scientific goals of the HerMES team, and reviews some of the early results., Comment: 23 pages, 17 figures, 9 Tables, MNRAS accepted

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2012
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15. The role of surgery in relieving calcified shunt site-related pain in patients with functioning VP shunt

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Rehman Ali, Baig, James, Davis, Desiderio, Rodrigues, William B, Lo, Chandrasekaran, Kaliaperumal, and Pasquale, Gallo

Subjects
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Neurology (clinical), General Medicine
Abstract

Shunt calcification is a known late sequela of ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt insertion and is associated with shunt malfunction. However, in some patients, while shunt functionality is preserved despite calcification of the catheters, they experience nociceptive symptoms. In this paper, the authors present their surgical experience in managing patients with a functional VP shunt and experiencing pain secondary to shunt calcification.We analysed outcomes of patients presenting with pain at the level of a calcified shunt who underwent surgical untethering of the calcified catheter from the soft tissues. This procedure was commenced by the senior author in 2015. Patients were collected prospectively from the databases of two institutions. Evidence of shunt calcification was confirmed on neuroimaging.Seven patients, two male and five female, were included. The mean age at untethering was 13.5 years. The mean time interval between primary shunt surgery and symptom onset was 12 years (range 6-16 years). The commonest site of tethering was the neck (50%) followed by abdomen and chest (both 25%). Six patients underwent untethering of the catheter from soft tissues. One patient had removal of a redundant segment of calcified shunt left in situ during a previous revision. All patients experienced pain relief following shunt untethering.Untethering of calcified VP shunt catheters from soft tissue can be considered an effective treatment of shunt site pain and offered to patients presenting with a functional VP shunt.

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2022
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16. Functional hemispherotomy for epilepsy in the very young

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Joshua, Pepper, William B, Lo, Shakti, Agrawal, Rana, Mohamed, Jo, Horton, Selina, Balloo, Sunny, Philip, Ashish, Basnet, Welege Samantha Buddhika, Wimalachandra, Andrew, Lawley, Stefano, Seri, and A Richard, Walsh

Subjects
General Medicine
Abstract

OBJECTIVE Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological disorders in children. Among very young children, one-third are resistant to medical treatment, and lack of effective treatment may result in adverse outcomes. Although functional hemispherotomy is an established treatment for epilepsy, its outcome in the very young child has not been widely reported. In this study the authors investigated seizure and developmental results after hemispherotomy in children younger than 3 years. METHODS The authors reviewed a prospective database of all children younger than 3 years with medically intractable epilepsy who underwent functional hemispherotomy at the authors’ institution during the period between 2012 and 2020. Demographic data, epilepsy history, underlying etiology, operative and transfusion details, and seizure and developmental outcomes were analyzed. RESULTS Twelve patients were included in this study. The mean age (± SD) at seizure onset was 3 ± 2.6 months and at surgery was 1.3 ± 0.77 years, with a mean follow-up of 4 years. Diagnoses included hemimegalencephaly (n = 5), hemidysplasia (n = 2), hypoxic/hemorrhagic (n = 2), traumatic (n = 1), Sturge-Weber syndrome (n = 1), and mild hemispheric structural abnormality with EEG/PET correlates (n = 1). Eleven patients achieved an Engel class I outcome, and 1 patient achieved Engel class IV at last follow-up. No deaths, infections, cerebrovascular events, or unexpected long-term neurological deficits were recorded. All children progressed neurodevelopmentally following surgery, but their developmental levels remained behind their chronological age, with an overall mean composite Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale score of 58 (normal: 86–114, low: < 70). One patient required insertion of a subdural peritoneal shunt, 1 patient required dural repair for a CSF fluid leak, and 1 patient required aspiration of a pseudomeningocele. In 2 patients, both of whom weighed less than 5.7 kg, the first operation was incomplete due to blood loss. CONCLUSIONS Hemispherotomy in children younger than 3 years offers excellent seizure control and an acceptable risk-to-benefit ratio in well-selected patients. Families of children weighing less than 6 kg should be counseled regarding the possibility of staged surgery. Postoperatively, children continue to make appropriate, despite delayed, developmental progress.

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2022
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19. Trends in Time in Range–Related Publications and Clinical Trials: A Bibliometric Review

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Pranav M. Patel, Richard M. Abaniel, Natasha Dogra, Charles B. Lo, Marie A. Frazzitta, and Naunihal S. Virdi

Subjects
Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Internal Medicine
Abstract

OBJECTIVE The goal of this article was to describe trends in publications (including conference abstracts) and clinical trials that report on glycemic time in range (TIR). DATA SOURCES Reviewed databases included but were not limited to MEDLINE and Embase. Clinical trial registries were also sourced. STUDY SELECTION All studies reporting TIR published between 2010 and 2021 were included. Clinical trials reporting TIR that started in or after 2010 were also included. Non-English publications, abstracts, and clinical trials were excluded. Book chapters, nonhuman studies, and studies not reporting TIR were excluded. DATA EXTRACTION Manuscript/abstract category, publication year, study region, interventional versus observational role of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), and clinical trial start and completion dates were captured. Glycemic outcomes reported in publications or trials, including TIR as a primary outcome, A1C, time below range (TBR), and time above range (TAR), were also captured. RESULTS A total of 373 clinical trials, 531 publications, and 620 abstracts were included in the review. The number of trials, publications, and abstracts reporting TIR significantly increased, particularly between 2018 and 2021, during which time the number of clinical trials, publications, and conference abstracts reporting TIR increased by sixfold, 12-fold, and 4.5-fold, respectively. About 35–44% of studies reported TIR as a primary outcome. Approximately 54% of clinical trials, 47% of publications, and 47% of conference abstracts reported the role of CGM to be observational. TBR was reported more often than TAR. CONCLUSION The marked increase in the number of trials, publications, and abstracts reporting TIR highlights the increasing significance and acceptance of TIR as an outcome measure in diabetes management.

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2023
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20. Trends in Time in Range–Related Publications and Clinical Trials: A Bibliometric Review

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Naunihal S. Virdi, Marie A. Frazzitta, Charles B. Lo, Natasha Dogra, Richard M. Abaniel, and Pranav M. Patel

Abstract

Objective. The goal of this article was to describe trends in publications (including conference abstracts) and clinical trials that report on glycemic time in range (TIR). Data sources. Reviewed databases included but were not limited to MEDLINE and Embase. Clinical trial registries were also sourced. Study selection. All studies reporting TIR published between 2010 and 2021 were included. Clinical trials reporting TIR that started in or after 2010 were also included. Non-English publications, abstracts, and clinical trials were excluded. Book chapters, nonhuman studies, and studies not reporting TIR were excluded. Data extraction. Manuscript/abstract category, publication year, study region, interventional versus observational role of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM), and clinical trial start and completion dates were captured. Glycemic outcomes reported in publications or trials, including TIR as a primary outcome, A1C, time below range (TBR), and time above range (TAR), were also captured. Results. A total of 373 clinical trials, 531 publications, and 620 abstracts were included in the review. The number of trials, publications, and abstracts reporting TIR significantly increased, particularly between 2018 and 2021, during which time the number of clinical trials, publications, and conference abstracts reporting TIR increased by sixfold, 12-fold, and 4.5-fold, respectively. About 35–44% of studies reported TIR as a primary outcome. Approximately 54% of clinical trials, 47% of publications, and 47% of conference abstracts reported the role of CGM to be observational. TBR was reported more often than TAR. Conclusion. The marked increase in the number of trials, publications, and abstracts reporting TIR highlights the increasing significance and acceptance of TIR as an outcome measure in diabetes management.

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2023
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22. Adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes following in‐utero exposure to oxcarbazepine: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

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Farwa Athar, Muhammad Ehsan, Minaam Farooq, Kevin B. Lo, Huzaifa A. Cheema, Shahzaib Ahmad, Aiman Naveed, and Mohammad Umer

Subjects
Pregnancy Complications, Pharmacology, Observational Studies as Topic, Epilepsy, Pregnancy, Humans, Oxcarbazepine, Anticonvulsants, Female, Pharmacology (medical), Lamotrigine
Abstract

Aim: This systematic review aims to assess the safety profile of oxcarbazepine during pregnancy. Methods: Observational studies that included women who took oxcarbazepine anytime during pregnancy were included in our systematic review. The review did not include non-English articles, reviews, meta-analyses, case reports, and animal studies. Different online sources such as MEDLINE, Cochrane library, Virtual Health library etc. were searched for published and unpublished literature. Assessment of risk of bias of observational studies was done using the Newcastle-Ottawa Scale. The meta-analyses were performed using a random-effect model. GRADE was used for the evaluation of the quality of evidence for the primary outcomes. Results: We included 19 cohort studies with a total number of 5,071,137 patients, of which 2,450 were exposed to oxcarbazepine either as monotherapy or polytherapy. The summary odds ratio (OR) was 1.69 (95% CI, 0.95-2.98) for congenital malformations following in-utero exposure to oxcarbazepine as compared to the control group of unexposed patients [seven studies (n=625)], and was 1.19 (95% CI, 0.67-2.12) when compared to those following lamotrigine (LTG) exposure during pregnancy [3 studies (n=591)]. In total, three studies (n=770) reported the association between in-utero oxcarbazepine exposure and fetal/perinatal deaths. The meta-analysis yielded a summary OR of 3.11 (95% CI, 0.57-16.97). Significance: Our systematic review will help healthcare providers and guideline developers regarding the treatment of epilepsy and other neurological disorders during pregnancy. More cohort studies with a higher sample size concerning oxcarbazepine use in pregnant patients are required to truly assess the in-utero safety profile of the drug.

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2022
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23. Casemix, management, and mortality of patients receiving emergency neurosurgery for traumatic brain injury in the Global Neurotrauma Outcomes Study: a prospective observational cohort study

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David Clark, Alexis Joannides, Amos Olufemi Adeleye, Abdul Hafid Bajamal, Tom Bashford, Hagos Biluts, Karol Budohoski, Ari Ercole, Rocío Fernández-Méndez, Anthony Figaji, Deepak Kumar Gupta, Roger Härtl, Corrado Iaccarino, Tariq Khan, Tsegazeab Laeke, Andrés Rubiano, Hamisi K Shabani, Kachinga Sichizya, Manoj Tewari, Abenezer Tirsit, Myat Thu, Manjul Tripathi, Rikin Trivedi, Bhagavatula Indira Devi, Franco Servadei, David Menon, Angelos Kolias, Peter Hutchinson, Ghayur Abbas, Omar Ibrahim Abdallah, Ahmed Abdel-Lateef, Khalif Abdifatah, Awfa Abdullateef, Ruvini Abeygunaratne, Mostafa Aboellil, Abass Adam, Robert Adams, Amos Adeleye, Augustine Adeolu, Novan Krisno Adji, Nur Afianti, Sudarsan Agarwal, Ifeanyi Kene Aghadi, Paúl Martín Méndez Aguilar, Syeda Rida Ahmad, Daniyal Ahmed, Nafees Ahmed, Haider Aizaz, Yunus Kuntawi Aji, Alex Alamri, Augusto Jacinto Mussindo Alberto, Luis Alcocer Alcocer, Lesly Gonzales Alfaro, Amro Al-Habib, Ahmad Alhourani, Syed Muhammad Rafay Ali, Fahad Alkherayf, Ahmed AlMenabbawy, Aliyah Alshareef, Muhammad Adil s/o Aminullah, Madeha Amjad, Robson Luis Oliveira de Amorim, Sathiaprabhu Anbazhagan, Almir Andrade, Waleed Antar, Theophilus T.K. Anyomih, Salah Aoun, Tedy Apriawan, Daniele Armocida, Paul Arnold, Miguel Arraez, Temesgen Assefa, Andres Asser, S.P. Athiththan, Deepal Attanayake, Maung Maung Aung, Allan Avi, Victor Enrique Antolinez Ayala, Mohammed Azab, Gaousul Azam, Mohd Azharuddin, Olukemi Badejo, Mohamed Badran, Azam Ali Baig, Rehman Ali Baig, Ankur Bajaj, Paul Baker, Renu Bala, Artur Balasa, Ross Balchin, James Balogun, Vin Shen Ban, Bharath Kumar Reddy Bandi, Soham Bandyopadhyay, Matthew Bank, Ernest Barthelemy, Mohammed Talha Bashir, Luciano Silveira Basso, Surajit Basu, Auricelio Batista, Marlies Bauer, Devi Bavishi, Abi Beane, Shmuel Bejell, Anteneh Belachew, Antonio Belli, Amani Belouaer, Najia El Abbadi Bendahane, Okanga Benjamin, Youssef Benslimane, Chaymae Benyaiche, Claudio Bernucci, Luigi Valentino Berra, Arnold Bhebe, Alexios Bimpis, Diana Blanaru, Jean Claude Bonfim, Luis A B Borba, Alp Ozgun Borcek, Erika Borotto, Ahmad Elmabri Mohammad Bouhuwaish, Facundo Bourilhon, Gioia Brachini, Joshua Breedon, Maximilian Broger, Giacoma Maria Floriana Brunetto, Placido Bruzzaniti, Natalia Budohoska, Hira Burhan, Maximiliano Luis Calatroni, Catherine Camargo, Pier Francesco Cappai, Salvatore Massimiliano Cardali, Ana M Castaño-Leon, David Cederberg, Mikel Celaya, Marco Cenzato, Lakshmi Madhavi Challa, Dhanny Charest, Bipin Chaurasia, Rabah Chenna, Iype Cherian, Juliana Henry Ching'o, Tejas Chotai, Ajay Choudhary, Nabeel Choudhary, Florence Choumin, Tomislav Cigic, Juan Ciro, Carlo Conti, Antônio Carlos de Souza Corrêa, Giulia Cossu, Maíra Piani Couto, Aurora Cruz, Divya D'Silva, Giuseppe Antonio D'Aliberti, Lamin Dampha, Roy Thomas Daniel, Andrew Dapaah, Aneela Darbar, Gabriel Dascalu, Happy Amos Dauda, Owain Davies, Andrea Delgado-Babiano, Markus Dengl, Marko Despotovic, Indira Devi, Celeste Dias, Mohamed Dirar, Melina Dissanayake, Hananiah Djimbaye, Simon Dockrell, Ali Dolachee, Julija Dolgopolova, Muge Dolgun, Abdalrouf Dow, Davide Drusiani, Artjom Dugan, Dinh Tuan Duong, Trung Kien Duong, Tomasz Dziedzic, Ali Ebrahim, Nizar El Fatemi, Antonios El El Helou, Rachid El El Maaqili, Brahim El El Mostarchid, Abdessamad El El Ouahabi, Mohammad Elbaroody, Ahmed El-Fiki, Ahmed El-Garci, Nasser M.F. El-Ghandour, Muhammed Elhadi, Vanessa Elleder, Safa Elrais, Mohamed El-shazly, Mohamed Elshenawy, Hesham Elshitany, Omar El-Sobky, Marwa Emhamed, Basil Enicker, Onur Erdogan, Sebastian Ertl, Ignatius Esene, Omar Ocampo Espinosa, Tarig Fadalla, Mohammed Fadelalla, Rodrigo Moreira Faleiro, Nida Fatima, Charbel Fawaz, Assefa Fentaw, Carla Eiriz Fernandez, Ana Ferreira, Francesco Ferri, Tony Figaji, Emerson L B Filho, Loic Fin, Benjamin Fisher, Fitra Fitra, Alexis Palpan Flores, Ioan Stefan Florian, Vincenzo Fontana, Lauren Ford, Daniel Fountain, Jose Maria Roda Frade, Antonio Fratto, Christian Freyschlag, Aranzazu Sánchez Gabin, Clare Gallagher, Mario Ganau, Maria Luisa Gandia-Gonzalez, Andoni Garcia, Borja Hernandez Garcia, Sanjeewa Garusinghe, Biniam Gebreegziabher, Adrian Gelb, Jerome St George, Antonino Francesco Germanò, Ilaria Ghetti, Prajwal Ghimire, Alessandro Giammarusti, Jose Luis Gil, Panagiota Gkolia, Yoseph Godebo, Prakash Rao Gollapudi, Jagos Golubovic, Jeremias Fernando Gomes, Javier Gonzales, William Gormley, Alexander Gots, Giulia Letizia Gribaudi, Dylan Griswold, Paolo Gritti, Ruan Grobler, Rudy Gunawan, Birhanu Hailemichael, Elmehdi Hakkou, Mark Haley, Alhafidz Hamdan, Ali Hammed, Waeel Hamouda, Nurul Ashikin Hamzah, Nyein Latt Han, Sahin Hanalioglu, Rashan Haniffa, Martin Hanko, John Hanrahan, Timothy Hardcastle, Fahd Derkaoui Hassani, Volkmar Heidecke, Eirik Helseth, Miguel Ángel Hernández-Hernández, Zachary Hickman, Le Minh Chau Hoang, Alexa Hollinger, Lenka Horakova, Kismet Hossain-Ibrahim, Boru Hou, Samer Hoz, Janine Hsu, Martin Hunn, Madiha Hussain, Giorgia Iacopino, Mylena Miki Lopes Ideta, Irene Iglesias, Ali Ilunga, Nafiz Imtiaz, Rafiza Islam, Serge Ivashchenko, Karim Izirouel, Mohamed Sobhi Jabal, Soubhi Jabal, John Nute Jabang, Aimun Jamjoom, Irfan Jan, Landing BM Jarju, Saad Javed, Bojan Jelaca, Sukhdeep Singh Jhawar, Ting Ting Jiang, Fernando Jimenez, Jorge Jiris, Ron Jithoo, Walt Johnson, Mathew Joseph, Rameshman Joshi, Eija Junttila, Mubashir Jusabani, Stephen Akau Kache, Satyavara Prasad Kadali, Gabriela F Kalkmann, Usman Kamboh, Hitham Kandel, Ahmet Kamil Karakus, Mengistu Kassa, Ari Katila, Yoko Kato, Martin Keba, Kristy Kehoe, Huseyin Hayri Kertmen, Soha Khafaji, Monty Khajanchi, Mohammed Khan, Muhammad Mukhtar Khan, Sohail Daud Khan, Ahtesham Khizar, Amir Khriesh, Sara Kierońska, Paul Kisanga, Boniface Kivevele, Kacper Koczyk, Anna-Lucia Koerling, Danielle Koffenberger, Kennet Kõiv, Leho Kõiv, Branislav Kolarovszki, Marton König, Dilek Könü-Leblebicioglu, Santhoshi Devi Koppala, Tommi Korhonen, Boguslaw Kostkiewicz, Kacper Kostyra, Srinivas Kotakadira, Arjun Reddy Kotha, Madhu Narayana Rao Kottakki, Nenad Krajcinovic, Michal Krakowiak, Andreas Kramer, Selvamuthukumaran Krishnamoorthy, Ashok Kumar, Pankaj Kumar, Pradhumna Kumar, Nilaksha Kumarasinghe, Gowtham Kuncha, Raja K. Kutty, Ghazwan Lafta, Simon Lammy, Pierfrancesco Lapolla, Jacopo Lardani, Nebojsa Lasica, Giancarlo Lastrucci, Yoann Launey, Laura Lavalle, Tim Lawrence, Albert Lazaro, Vitalii Lebed, Ville Leinonen, Lawrence Lemeri, Leon Levi, Jia Yi Lim, Xiao Yi Lim, Jorge Linares-Torres, Laura Lippa, Lurdes Lisboa, Jinfang Liu, Ziyuan Liu, William B Lo, Jan Lodin, Federico Loi, Daniella Londono, Pedro Antonio Gomez Lopez, Cristina Barceló López, Madeleine De Lotbiniere-Bassett, Rihards Lulens, Facundo Hector Luna, Teemu Luoto, Vijaya Sekhar M.V., Ndyebo Mabovula, Matthew MacAllister, Alcina Americo Macie, Rodolfo Maduri, Moufid Mahfoud, Ashraf Mahmood, Fathia Mahmoud, Dominic Mahoney, Wissam Makhlouf, George Malcolm, Adefolarin Malomo, Toluyemi Malomo, Manoranjitha Kumari Mani, Tomás Gazzinelli Marçal, Jacopo Marchello, Nicolò Marchesini, Franz Marhold, Niklas Marklund, Rubén Martín-Láez, Vickneswaran Mathaneswaran, David José Mato-Mañas, Helen Maye, Aaron Lawson McLean, Catherine McMahon, Saniya Mediratta, Mehreen Mehboob, Alisson Meneses, Nesrine Mentri, Hagos Mersha, Ana Milena Mesa, Cristy Meyer, Christopher Millward, Salomao Amone Mimbir, Andrea Mingoli, Parashruram Mishra, Tejesh Mishra, Basant Misra, Siddharth Mittal, Imran Mohammed, Ioana Moldovan, Masechaba Molefe, Alexis Moles, Preston Moodley, Mario Augusto Narváez Morales, Lucy Morgan, German Del Castillo Morillo, Wahab Moustafa, Nikolaos Moustakis, Salma Mrichi, Satya Shiva Munjal, Abdul-Jalilu Mohammed Muntaka, Denver Naicker, Paulo E H Nakashima, Pratap Kumar Nandigama, Samantha Nash, Ionut Negoi, Valetina Negoita, Samundra Neupane, Manh Hung Nguyen, Fajar Herbowo Niantiarno, Abbi Noble, Mohd Arman Muhamad Nor, Blazej Nowak, Andrei Oancea, Frazer O'Brien, Oghenekevwe Okere, Sandra Olaya, Leandro Oliveira, Louise Makarem Oliveira, Fatma Omar, Okezi Ononeme, René Opšenák, Simone Orlandini, Alrobah Osama, Dorcas Osei-Poku, Haytham Osman, Alvaro Otero, Malte Ottenhausen, Shuli Otzri, Oumaima Outani, Emmanuel Abem Owusu, Kevin Owusu-Agyemang, Ahmad Ozair, Baris Ozoner, Elli Paal, Mauro Sérgio Paiva, Wellingson Paiva, Sharad Pandey, Gastone Pansini, Luigi Pansini, Tobias Pantel, Nikolaos Pantelas, Konstantinos Papadopoulos, Vladimir Papic, Kee Park, Nick Park, Eric Homero Albuquerque Paschoal, Mylla Christie de Oliveira Paschoalino, Rajesh Pathi, Anilkumar Peethambaran, Thiago Andrade Pereira, Irene Panero Perez, Claudio José Piqueras Pérez, Tamilanandh Periyasamy, Stefano Peron, Michael Phillips, Sofía Sotos Picazo, Ertugrul Pinar, Daniel Pinggera, Rory Piper, Pathmanesan Pirakash, Branko Popadic, Jussi P. Posti, Rajmohan Bhanu Prabhakar, Sivanesalingam Pradeepan, Manjunath Prasad, Paola Calvachi Prieto, Ron Prince, Andrea Prontera, Eva Provaznikova, Danilo Quadros, Nezly Jadid Romero Quintero, Mahmood Qureshi, Happiness Rabiel, Gabriel Rada, Sivagnanam Ragavan, Jueria Rahman, Omar Ramadhan, Padma Ramaswamy, Sakina Rashid, Jagath Rathugamage, Tõnu Rätsep, Minna Rauhala, Asif Raza, Naga Raju Reddycherla, Linus Reen, Mohamed Refaat, Luca Regli, Haijun Ren, Antonio Ria, Thales Francisco Ribeiro, Alessandro Ricci, Romana Richterová, Florian Ringel, Faith Robertson, Catarina Mayrink Siqueira Cabral Rocha, Juvenal de Souza Rogério, Adan Anibal Romano, Sally Rothemeyer, Gail Rousseau Gail Rousseau, Ranette Roza, Kevin David Farelo Rueda, Raiza Ruiz, Malin Rundgren, Radoslaw Rzeplinski, Raj S.Chandran, Ramesh Andi Sadayandi, William Sage, André Norbert Josef Sagerer, Mustafa Sakar, Mohcine Salami, Danjuma Sale, Youssuf Saleh, Cristina Sánchez-Viguera, Saning'o Sandila, Ahmet Metin Sanli, Laura Santi, Antonio Santoro, Aieska Kellen Dantas Dos Santos, Samir Cezimbra dos Santos, Borja Sanz, Shabal Sapkota, Gopalakrishnan Sasidharan, Ibrahim Sasillo, Rajeev Satoskar, Ali Caner Sayar, Vignesh Sayee, Florian Scheichel, Felipe Lourenzon Schiavo, Alexander Schupper, Andreas Schwarz, Teresa Scott, Esther Seeberger, Claudionor Nogueira Costa Segundo, Anwar Sadat Seidu, Antonio Selfa, Nazan Has Selmi, Claudiya Selvarajah, Necmiye Şengel, Martin Seule, Luiz Severo, Purva Shah, Muhammad Shahzad, Thobekile Shangase, Mayur Sharma, Ehab Shiban, Emnet Shimber, Temitayo Shokunbi, Kaynat Siddiqui, Emily Sieg, Martin Siegemund, Shahidur Rahman Sikder, Ana Cristina Veiga Silva, Ana Silva, Pedro Alberto Silva, Deepinder Singh, Carly Skadden, Josef Skola, Eirini Skouteli, Pawel Słoniewski, Brandon Smith, Guirish Solanki, Davi Fontoura Solla, Davi Solla, Ozcan Sonmez, Müge Sönmez, Wai Cheong Soon, Roberto Stefini, Martin Nikolaus Stienen, Bogdan Stoica, Matthew Stovell, Maria Natalia Suarez, Alaa Sulaiman, Mazin Suliman, Adi Sulistyanto, Şeniz Sulubulut, Sandra Sungailaite, Madlen Surbeck, Tomasz Szmuda, Graziano Taddei, Abraham Tadele, Ahmed Saleh Ahmed Taher, Riikka Takala, Krishna Murthy Talari, Bih Huei Tan, Leonardo Tariciotti, Murad Tarmohamed, Oumayma Taroua, Emiliano Tatti, Olli Tenovuo, Sami Tetri, Poojan Thakkar, Nqobile Thango, Satish Kumar Thatikonda, Tuomo Thesleff, Claudius Thomé, Owen Thornton, Shelly Timmons, Eva Ercilio Timoteo, Campbell Tingate, Souhil Tliba, Christos Tolias, Emma Toman, Ivan Torres, Luis Torres, Youness Touissi, Musa Touray, Maria Pia Tropeano, Georgios Tsermoulas, Christos Tsitsipanis, Mehmet Erhan Turkoglu, Özhan Merzuk Uçkun, Jamie Ullman, Gheorghe Ungureanu, Sarah Urasa, Obaid Ur-Rehman, Muhammed Uysal, Antonios Vakis, Egils Valeinis, Vaishali Valluru, Debby Vannoy, Pablo Vargas, Phillipos Varotsis, Rahul Varshney, Atul Vats, Damjan Veljanoski, Sara Venturini, Abhijit Verma, Clara Villa, Genaro Villa, Sofia Villar, Erin Villard, Antonio Viruez, Stefanos Voglis, Petar Vulekovic, Saman Wadanamby, Katherine Wagner, Rebecca Walshe, Jan Walter, Marriam Waseem, Tony Whitworth, Ruwani Wijeyekoon, Adam Williams, Mark Wilson, Sein Win, Achmad Wahib Wahju Winarso, Abraão Wagner Pessoa Ximenes, Anurag Yadav, Dipak Yadav, Kamal Makram Yakoub, Ali Yalcinkaya, Guizhong Yan, Eesha Yaqoob, Carlos Yepes, Ayfer Nazmiye Yılmaz, Betelehem Yishak, Farhat Basheer Yousuf, Muhammad Zamzuri Zahari, Hussein Zakaria, Diego Zambonin, Luca Zavatto, Bassel Zebian, Anna Maria Zeitlberger, Furong Zhang, Fengwei Zheng, and Michal Ziga

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casemix, management, mortality, emergency neurosurgery, traumatic brain injury, prospective observational cohort study, Neurology (clinical)
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© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 licenseBackground: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is increasingly recognised as being responsible for a substantial proportion of the global burden of disease. Neurosurgical interventions are an important aspect of care for patients with TBI, but there is little epidemiological data available on this patient population. We aimed to characterise differences in casemix, management, and mortality of patients receiving emergency neurosurgery for TBI across different levels of human development. Methods: We did a prospective observational cohort study of consecutive patients with TBI undergoing emergency neurosurgery, in a convenience sample of hospitals identified by open invitation, through international and regional scientific societies and meetings, individual contacts, and social media. Patients receiving emergency neurosurgery for TBI in each hospital's 30-day study period were all eligible for inclusion, with the exception of patients undergoing insertion of an intracranial pressure monitor only, ventriculostomy placement only, or a procedure for drainage of a chronic subdural haematoma. The primary outcome was mortality at 14 days postoperatively (or last point of observation if the patient was discharged before this time point). Countries were stratified according to their Human Development Index (HDI)—a composite of life expectancy, education, and income measures—into very high HDI, high HDI, medium HDI, and low HDI tiers. Mixed effects logistic regression was used to examine the effect of HDI on mortality while accounting for and quantifying between-hospital and between-country variation. Findings: Our study included 1635 records from 159 hospitals in 57 countries, collected between Nov 1, 2018, and Jan 31, 2020. 328 (20%) records were from countries in the very high HDI tier, 539 (33%) from countries in the high HDI tier, 614 (38%) from countries in the medium HDI tier, and 154 (9%) from countries in the low HDI tier. The median age was 35 years (IQR 24–51), with the oldest patients in the very high HDI tier (median 54 years, IQR 34–69) and the youngest in the low HDI tier (median 28 years, IQR 20–38). The most common procedures were elevation of a depressed skull fracture in the low HDI tier (69 [45%]), evacuation of a supratentorial extradural haematoma in the medium HDI tier (189 [31%]) and high HDI tier (173 [32%]), and evacuation of a supratentorial acute subdural haematoma in the very high HDI tier (155 [47%]). Median time from injury to surgery was 13 h (IQR 6–32). Overall mortality was 18% (299 of 1635). After adjustment for casemix, the odds of mortality were greater in the medium HDI tier (odds ratio [OR] 2·84, 95% CI 1·55–5·2) and high HDI tier (2·26, 1·23–4·15), but not the low HDI tier (1·66, 0·61–4·46), relative to the very high HDI tier. There was significant between-hospital variation in mortality (median OR 2·04, 95% CI 1·17–2·49). Interpretation: Patients receiving emergency neurosurgery for TBI differed considerably in their admission characteristics and management across human development settings. Level of human development was associated with mortality. Substantial opportunities to improve care globally were identified, including reducing delays to surgery. Between-hospital variation in mortality suggests changes at an institutional level could influence outcome and comparative effectiveness research could identify best practices. Funding: National Institute for Health Research Global Health Research Group.

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2022
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24. The role of laboratory medicine in a value-based healthcare system: the example of heart failure patient management in the Italian context.

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PECORARO, V., FASANO, T., ASPROMONTE, N., BAROCCI, S., BARTOLUCCI, D., CLERICO, A., GALLUCCI, F., GNERRE, P., SASSO, B. LO, MARIOTTINI, A., MEDEA, G., PERRONE, M. A., RUSCIO, M., SCIACOVELLI, L., TRENTI, T., CHIANI, V., PAOLINI, D., and BANFI, G.

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OBJECTIVE: As of today, healthcare systems worldwide face severe challenges that undermine their sustainability. The value-based healthcare (VBHC) approach has been proposed as a strategic and methodological framework to ensure the delivery of the best patient outcomes with economic efficiency. Through the illustrative example of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) for heart failure (HF) patient management in the context of the Italian National Healthcare system, this article explores the role that in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) can play in enabling value-based care models. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: 14 healthcare professionals representing the relevant professional figures involved in HF patient management met to revise the current HF patient journey and design a new care pathway that, leveraging on BNP/NT-proBNP, reflects the VBHC principles. RESULTS: The literature recognizes the dosage of BNP/NT-proBNP as the gold standard for diagnosing HF. However, as of today, these IVDs are not employed at their full potential regarding HF patient management. A new patient journey is proposed so that patients are diagnosed early and properly monitored in the aftermath of hospitalization, improving outcomes at contained costs. CONCLUSIONS: As testified by the example of HF patient management in Italy, laboratory medicine can represent a lever for adopting value-based care models. Still, large-scale adoption of VBHC will call for structural reforms that revise how healthcare delivery is organized, measured, and reimbursed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023

25. Eddy covariance with slow-response greenhouse gas analysers on tall towers: bridging atmospheric and ecosystem greenhouse gas networks

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P. H. Herig Coimbra, B. Loubet, O. Laurent, L. Bignotti, M. Lozano, and M. Ramonet

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Environmental engineering, TA170-171, Earthwork. Foundations, TA715-787
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Greenhouse gas monitoring is important to ensure climate goals are being achieved. This study unveils the potential of using atmospheric tall towers in direct flux measurements, bridging the gap between atmospheric and ecosystem monitoring networks. The ICOS Cities (PAUL) project aims to monitor CO2 emissions in urban areas, where concentrated emissions make them key targets for climate change mitigation. This study explores the synergy between ICOS atmospheric and ecosystem networks by utilizing slow-response analysers (∼ 3 s) on tall atmospheric towers for ecosystem studies using the eddy covariance method. A standard setup with an ultrasonic anemometer and an infrared (IR) fast-response CO2 analyser was installed and compared with measurements from an existing cavity ring-down spectroscopy (CRDS) analyser measuring CO2, CO, and CH4. Deployed on the 100 m Saclay tower near Paris, covering a 43.9 km2 80 % footprint with heavy traffic roads, a nearby heating plant, and a forest, the setup addressed technical challenges and height-induced complexities. Corrections for flux attenuation by high-frequency losses were limited to < 20 % on average for all stabilities and around 11 % for unstable conditions. Elevated mean fluxes for CO2 (10 µmolm-2s-1) and CH4 (200 µmolm-2s-1) were observed from the heating plant wind direction during December and January. Conversely, the forest direction exhibited the strongest sink among all wind directions, with −4 µmolm-2s-1 during July and August. Storage and vertical advection were estimated using the routine three-level profile measurements done in ICOS atmospheric towers. Storage term was of the same magnitude as turbulent flux, increasing at night and de-stocking during the first half of the day. Vertical advection averaged zero on a monthly basis. These results demonstrate the feasibility and versatility of utilizing atmospheric towers for urban emission monitoring, offering valuable insights for emission monitoring strategies worldwide.

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2024
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26. Cancer Treatment During COVID-19: Resilience of Individuals With Advanced Non–Small Cell Lung Cancer Versus Community Controls

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Nicole A, Arrato, Stephen B, Lo, Clarence A, Coker, Jonathan J, Covarrubias, Tessa R, Blevins, Sarah A, Reisinger, Carolyn J, Presley, Peter G, Shields, and Barbara L, Andersen

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Cohort Studies, Lung Neoplasms, Oncology, Depression, SARS-CoV-2, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, COVID-19, Humans, Anxiety, Pandemics
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Background: Among all patients with cancer, those with advanced non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) experience the most distress. Although new therapies are improving survival, it is unknown whether receiving immunotherapy or targeted therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic increases patients’ psychological vulnerability. To meet clinical needs, knowledge of patients’ COVID-19 perceptions and safety behaviors is essential. Thus, this study compared patients’ psychological responses at diagnosis and during COVID-19 and compared patients with similar individuals without cancer during the same period. Patients and Methods: Patients with advanced NSCLC enrolled at diagnosis for cohort study participated (ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT03199651). Those with follow-ups from April 28, 2020, through July 14, 2020 (n=76), were assessed again including COVID-19 measures. Simultaneously, community controls with similar sociodemographics and smoking histories were solicited (n=67). Measures were COVID-19 perceptions (Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire), social distancing, and depressive (Patient Health Questionnaire-9) and anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7) symptoms. First, analyses evaluated differences in the psychological responses of patients with NSCLC at diagnosis and during COVID-19. Second, patients and controls were contrasted on COVID-19 perceptions, social distancing, and psychological symptoms. Results: The depressive and anxious symptoms of patients with NSCLC were greater at diagnosis (PPP>.406). Notably, controls anticipated the COVID threat would last longer, practiced more social distancing, were more concerned about family (P<.04), and reported worse psychological symptoms (PConclusions: Despite multiple health stressors, patients with NSCLC demonstrated resilience when receiving cancer treatment during COVID-19. Nonetheless, this population remains psychologically vulnerable, requiring support at diagnosis and thereafter.

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2022
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27. Tectal Plate Gliomas Masquerading as Idiopathic Aqueduct Stenosis

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Fardad T, Afshari, Martin, English, and William B, Lo

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Treatment Outcome, Cerebral Aqueduct, Brain Stem Neoplasms, Humans, Surgery, Constriction, Pathologic, Glioma, Neurology (clinical), Child, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Hydrocephalus, Third Ventricle, Ventriculostomy
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Aqueduct stenosis is a recognized cause of obstructive hydrocephalus in children and can be treated effectively with endoscopic third ventriculostomy. Preoperative magnetic resonance imaging is often diagnostic of the cause of aqueduct stenosis. We describe 2 pediatric cases with obstructive hydrocephalus secondary to a working diagnosis of idiopathic aqueduct stenosis. Following successful endoscopic third ventriculostomy, repeat magnetic resonance brain imaging revealed tectal plate glioma as the primary cause of obstruction. We believe these 2 reported cases demonstrate a previously unreported phenomenon whereby concealed tectal gliomas presenting with hydrocephalus are only unmasked following relief of hydrocephalus and decompression and normalization of the ventricular system. We aim to raise awareness about this unusual phenomenon and recommend routine postoperative interval imaging following endoscopic third ventriculostomy to avoid missing underlying pathology masquerading as aqueduct stenosis.

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2022
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28. Patient Characteristics Associated with Seizure Freedom after Vagus Nerve Stimulation in Pediatric Intractable Epilepsy: An Analysis of 'Super-Responders'

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Han Yan, George M. Ibrahim, Hiroshi Otsubo, Ivanna Yau, Cristina Go, James T. Rutka, David Hazon, Goichiro Tamura, Kerry A. Vaughan, Elizabeth J. Donner, William G.B. Singleton, and William B. Lo

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Response to therapy, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Intractable epilepsy, Patient characteristics, Mean age, Seizure freedom, medicine.disease, Epilepsy, Anesthesia, parasitic diseases, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cohort, Medicine, Neurology (clinical), business, Vagus nerve stimulation
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Clinical responses to vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy for intractable epilepsy can be unpredictable, and factors that predict response to therapy are elusive. Minority of children undergoing VNS achieve seizure freedom. The current study aimed to characterize this exceptional patient population, defined as “super-responders” (SRs). Retrospective data were collected from 150 children who underwent VNS at a single pediatric institution. The patients' mean age at VNS device implantation was 12.0 years (range, 3.09–17.9 years). Ten SRs (6.7%) were identified who achieved and maintained seizure freedom for longer than 1 year following implantation. The interval between epilepsy onset and VNS device implantation was significantly shorter in SRs than in the other children (mean epilepsy duration 5.72 vs. 8.44 years, respectively; p = 0.032). SRs also had a significantly shorter proportion of life with epilepsy compared with the other children (mean ratio of epilepsy duration to age at implantation 0.52 vs. 0.71, respectively; p = 0.023). SRs reported their seizure freedom relatively early (six patients within 6 months and all patients within 12 months after implantation) at relatively low device settings (mean output current 0.81 mA at their last follow-up). Compared with conventional models, responsive VNS models with autostimulation features did not increase the ratio of SRs. No other clinical or imaging characteristic difference between SRs and the other children was found in this cohort. The current study showed a significant association between shorter epilepsy duration and shorter proportion of life with epilepsy and seizure freedom after VNS.

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2021
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29. Optic Nerve Germinoma and Transient Spontaneous Regression—More Than Meets the Eye

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Sally L. Painter, Richard Gagen, William B. Lo, Claire Geurten, Bryony Carr, Kim Neuling, Claire Bowen, Heather Stirling, Jerald Williams, Miriam Pavon-Mengual, and Martin English

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medicine.medical_specialty, Germinoma, business.industry, Hematology, medicine.disease, Lesion, Oncology, Glioma, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Intracranial Germinoma, medicine, Optic nerve, Germ cell tumors, Radiology, medicine.symptom, business, Confusion
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Infiltration of the optic pathway by germ cell tumors is exceptional and can lead to confusion with glioma or inflammatory conditions. We present the case of a 14-year-old girl with an optic nerve germinoma extending to the hypothalamus and manifesting as panhypopituitarism and visual loss. The patient experienced spontaneous regression of the lesion followed by secondary deterioration requiring treatment. Four other cases of spontaneously regressing intracranial germinoma followed by regrowth have been reported in the literature. This report highlights the importance of clinical and radiologic monitoring of intracranial germinoma, even in the event of initial spontaneous improvement.

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2021
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30. Pediatric stereo-electroencephalography: effects of robot assistance and other variables on seizure outcome and complications

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Welege Samantha Buddhika Wimalachandra, Peter Bill, Sunny Philip, Ioannis Mavridis, Stefano Seri, William B. Lo, Shakti Agrawal, Andrew Lawley, A. Richard Walsh, Darren Martin-Lamb, Caroline Scott, and Bryony Carr

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Male, Drug Resistant Epilepsy, medicine.medical_specialty, Robot assistance, Adolescent, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Electroencephalography, Neurosurgical Procedures, Stereoelectroencephalography, Stereotaxic Techniques, Postoperative Complications, Robotic Surgical Procedures, Seizures, medicine, Humans, Epilepsy surgery, Child, Survival analysis, Retrospective Studies, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Seizure outcome, Mean age, General Medicine, Survival Analysis, Surgical risk, Electrodes, Implanted, Surgery, Treatment Outcome, Child, Preschool, Female, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, business
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OBJECTIVE The safety of stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) has been investigated; however, most studies have not differentiated pediatric and adult populations, which have different anatomy and physiology. The purpose of this study was to assess SEEG safety in the pediatric setting, focusing on surgical complications and the identification of patient and surgical risk factors, if any. The authors also aimed to determine whether robot assistance in SEEG was associated with a change in practice, surgical parameters, and clinical outcomes. METHODS The authors retrospectively studied all SEEG cases performed in their department from December 2014 to March 2020. They analyzed both demographic and surgical variables and noted the types of surgery-related complications and their management. They also studied the clinical outcomes of a subset of the patients in relation to robot-assisted and non–robot-assisted SEEG. RESULTS Sixty-three children had undergone 64 SEEG procedures. Girls were on average 3 years younger than the boys (mean age 11.1 vs 14.1 years, p < 0.01). The overall complication rate was 6.3%, and the complication rate for patients with left-sided electrodes was higher than that for patients with right-sided electrodes (11.1% vs 3.3%), although the difference between the two groups was not statistically significant. The duration of recording was positively correlated to the number of implanted electrodes (r = 0.296, p < 0.05). Robot assistance was associated with a higher number of implanted electrodes (mean 12.6 vs 7.6 electrodes, p < 0.0001). Robot-assisted implantations were more accurate, with a mean error of 1.51 mm at the target compared to 2.98 mm in nonrobot implantations (p < 0.001). Clinical outcomes were assessed in the first 32 patients treated (16 in the nonrobot group and 16 in the robot group), 23 of whom proceeded to further resective surgery. The children who had undergone robot-assisted SEEG had better eventual seizure control following subsequent epilepsy surgery. Of the children who had undergone resective epilepsy surgery, 42% (5/12) in the nonrobot group and 82% (9/11) in the robot group obtained an Engel class IA outcome at 1 year (χ2 = 3.885, p = 0.049). Based on Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, the robot group had a higher seizure-free rate than the nonrobot group at 30 months postoperation (7/11 vs 2/12, p = 0.063). Two complications, whose causes were attributed to the implantation and head-bandaging steps, required surgical intervention. All complications were either transient or reversible. CONCLUSIONS This is the largest single-center, exclusively pediatric SEEG series that includes robot assistance so far. SEEG complications are uncommon and usually transient or treatable. Robot assistance enabled implantation of more electrodes and improved epilepsy surgery outcomes, as compared to those in the non–robot-assisted cases.

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31. Disease course and treatment outcomes of Crohn's disease patients with early or late surgery – A Danish nationwide cohort study from 1997 to 2015

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M.Z. Sarikaya, M. Zhao, B. Lo, F. Bendtsen, and J. Burisch

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Hepatology, IBD, Gastroenterology, Surgery, Crohn
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Background: Studies on early surgery among Crohn's disease patients are few and focus on ileocolonic resections. Aim: The aim of this nationwide cohort study was to investigate the disease course in all Crohn's disease patients who underwent early and late major abdominal surgery. Methods: In a Danish nationwide cohort of Crohn's disease patients from 1997 to 2015 we included 493 patients (group 1) resected within 29 days, 472 patients (group 2) resected between 30 and 180 days, and 1,518 patients (group 3) resected after 180 days of diagnosis. Re-operation, hospitalisations and medications were analysed. Results: The cumulative risk of re-operation was lower among patients from group 1 (five-year risk: 16.5% vs. group 2: 18.2% and group 3: 21.2%, p = 0.004). Fewer patients from group 2 and 3 required hospitalisations (269 (56.5%) and 803 (52.8%) vs. group 1: 329 (66.8%) p

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32. Optimization of capsaicin‐induced dermal blood flow measurement by laser Doppler imaging in cynomolgus macaque

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Jeremy M. Yeung, Jeffrey B. Lo, Sheung Pun Tsai, Granger G.C. Hwa, Jeffrey A. Roberts, and Phillip C. Allen

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Reproducibility, General Veterinary, business.industry, Laser Doppler Imaging, Lasers, Reproducibility of Results, Washout, Blood flow, Calcitonin gene-related peptide, Macaca fascicularis, chemistry.chemical_compound, Allodynia, chemistry, Desensitization (telecommunications), Regional Blood Flow, Capsaicin, Laser-Doppler Flowmetry, Animals, Medicine, Animal Science and Zoology, medicine.symptom, business, Skin, Biomedical engineering
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BACKGROUND Capsaicin is used in several areas of non-human primate research including allodynia and dermal blood flow (DBF). The capsaicin-induced DBF increase was measured using laser Doppler imaging (LDI), but this response is known to diminish upon repeated topical applications. Refinement of the experimental procedures could improve the rigor and reproducibility of the DBF migraine model. METHODS Optimal anatomical site in cynomolgus was determined, and conditions and experimental settings for DBF measurement using LDI were established. Then, two study design trial structures were compared. RESULTS Medial thigh was the preferrable site, and an ethanol-Tween 20 formulation of capsaicin was desirable. A 1-week washout for contralateral side or 2-week washout for ipsilateral side was necessary to eradicate capsaicin desensitization. CONCLUSIONS With the established technicality in DBF measurements in cynomolgus macaques, the capsaicin-induced DBF model may be utilized in translational medical research in developing migraine therapeutics.

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33. What Procedures Are Important to General Pediatricians and Why?

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Maya S Iyer, Daniel J. Schumacher, Charmaine B Lo, David P. Way, and Laurel K. Leslie

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Male, Teaching method, education, Graduate medical education, Accreditation, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Phone, 030225 pediatrics, Humans, Pediatricians, 030212 general & internal medicine, Child, Competence (human resources), Ohio, Medical education, Emergency management, business.industry, Internship and Residency, United States, Education, Medical, Graduate, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Clinical Competence, Thematic analysis, business, Psychology, Graduation
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Background/Objective Pediatric residents must demonstrate competence prior to graduation in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) required procedures. Recent literature shows general pediatricians (GPeds) infrequently perform these procedures yet believe them important to learn. The purpose of this study was to determine why GPeds believe learning procedures was important, what barriers prevent them from developing and maintaining procedural skills, and what procedures they believe should be included in training. Methods Fifty-one GPeds from the American Board of Pediatrics General Examination Committee and the central Ohio region participated in 30-minute semistructured recorded phone interviews that probed their use of procedures across training and current practice. Participants represented urban, suburban, and rural geographic regions and practiced in a variety of settings. We conducted a thematic analysis of transcribed interviews. Results GPeds believed currently required ACGME procedures were crucial to learn for 5 reasons: 1) adaptation to change in practice type or location, 2) emergency preparedness, 3) counseling patients and families, 4) distance from a tertiary care center and specialists, and 5) professional identity as a pediatrician. Numerous barriers, particularly never learning the procedures, prevented GPeds from performing procedures in practice. Recommended procedures to be taught included high- (eg, circumcision), and low-risk (eg, cerumen removal, nasopharyngeal swabs, umbilical cauterization) skills. Conclusions GPeds believed procedural training was important, however may never have learned certain procedures. These findings suggest that teaching methods should be adapted or customized procedural education should be implemented to ensure relevancy of skills learned for clinical practice.

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36. Search for a resonance decaying to a W boson and a photon in proton-proton collisions at s $$ \sqrt{s} $$ = 13 TeV using leptonic W boson decays

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The CMS collaboration, A. Hayrapetyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, J. W. Andrejkovic, T. Bergauer, S. Chatterjee, K. Damanakis, M. Dragicevic, P. S. Hussain, M. Jeitler, N. Krammer, A. Li, D. Liko, I. Mikulec, J. Schieck, R. Schöfbeck, D. Schwarz, M. Sonawane, S. Templ, W. Waltenberger, C.-E. Wulz, T. Janssen, T. Van Laer, P. Van Mechelen, N. Breugelmans, J. D’Hondt, S. Dansana, A. De Moor, M. Delcourt, F. Heyen, S. Lowette, I. Makarenko, D. Müller, S. Tavernier, M. Tytgat, G. P. Van Onsem, S. Van Putte, D. Vannerom, B. Bilin, B. Clerbaux, A. K. Das, G. De Lentdecker, H. Evard, L. Favart, P. Gianneios, J. Jaramillo, A. Khalilzadeh, F. A. Khan, K. Lee, M. Mahdavikhorrami, A. Malara, S. Paredes, M. A. Shahzad, L. Thomas, M. Vanden Bemden, C. Vander Velde, P. Vanlaer, M. De Coen, D. Dobur, G. Gokbulut, Y. Hong, J. Knolle, L. Lambrecht, D. Marckx, K. Mota Amarilo, A. Samalan, K. Skovpen, N. Van Den Bossche, J. van der Linden, L. Wezenbeek, A. Benecke, A. Bethani, G. Bruno, C. Caputo, J. De Favereau De Jeneret, C. Delaere, I. S. Donertas, A. Giammanco, A. O. Guzel, Sa. Jain, V. Lemaitre, J. Lidrych, P. Mastrapasqua, T. T. Tran, S. Wertz, G. A. Alves, M. Alves Gallo Pereira, E. Coelho, G. Correia Silva, C. Hensel, T. Menezes De Oliveira, C. Mora Herrera, A. Moraes, P. Rebello Teles, M. Soeiro, A. Vilela Pereira, W. L. Aldá Júnior, M. Barroso Ferreira Filho, H. Brandao Malbouisson, W. Carvalho, J. Chinellato, E. M. Da Costa, G. G. Da Silveira, D. De Jesus Damiao, S. Fonseca De Souza, R. Gomes De Souza, M. Macedo, J. Martins, L. Mundim, H. Nogima, J. P. Pinheiro, A. Santoro, A. Sznajder, M. Thiel, C. A. Bernardes, L. Calligaris, T. R. Fernandez Perez Tomei, E. M. Gregores, B. Lopes Da Costa, I. Maietto Silverio, P. G. Mercadante, S. F. Novaes, B. Orzari, Sandra S. Padula, A. Aleksandrov, G. Antchev, R. Hadjiiska, P. Iaydjiev, M. Misheva, M. Shopova, G. Sultanov, A. Dimitrov, L. Litov, B. Pavlov, P. Petkov, A. Petrov, E. Shumka, S. Keshri, D. Laroze, S. Thakur, T. Cheng, T. Javaid, L. Yuan, Z. Hu, Z. Liang, J. Liu, K. Yi, G. M. Chen, H. S. Chen, M. Chen, F. Iemmi, C. H. Jiang, A. Kapoor, H. Liao, Z.-A. Liu, R. Sharma, J. N. Song, J. Tao, C. Wang, J. Wang, Z. Wang, H. Zhang, J. Zhao, A. Agapitos, Y. Ban, S. Deng, B. Guo, C. Jiang, A. Levin, C. Li, Q. Li, Y. Mao, S. Qian, S. J. Qian, X. Qin, X. Sun, D. Wang, H. Yang, L. Zhang, Y. Zhao, C. Zhou, S. Yang, Z. You, K. Jaffel, N. Lu, G. Bauer, B. Li, J. Zhang, X. Gao, Y. Li, Z. Lin, C. Lu, M. Xiao, C. Avila, D. A. Barbosa Trujillo, A. Cabrera, C. Florez, J. Fraga, J. A. Reyes Vega, F. Ramirez, C. Rendón, M. Rodriguez, A. A. Ruales Barbosa, J. D. Ruiz Alvarez, D. Giljanovic, N. Godinovic, D. Lelas, A. Sculac, M. Kovac, A. Petkovic, T. Sculac, P. Bargassa, V. Brigljevic, B. K. Chitroda, D. Ferencek, K. Jakovcic, S. Mishra, A. Starodumov, T. Susa, A. Attikis, K. Christoforou, A. Hadjiagapiou, C. Leonidou, J. Mousa, C. Nicolaou, L. Paizanos, F. Ptochos, P. A. Razis, H. Rykaczewski, H. Saka, A. Stepennov, M. Finger, A. Kveton, E. Carrera Jarrin, Y. Assran, B. El-mahdy, S. Elgammal, M. A. Mahmoud, Y. Mohammed, K. Ehataht, M. Kadastik, T. Lange, S. Nandan, C. Nielsen, J. Pata, M. Raidal, L. Tani, C. Veelken, H. Kirschenmann, K. Osterberg, M. Voutilainen, S. Bharthuar, N. Bin Norjoharuddeen, E. Brücken, F. Garcia, P. Inkaew, K. T. S. Kallonen, T. Lampén, K. Lassila-Perini, S. Lehti, T. Lindén, L. Martikainen, M. Myllymäki, M. m. Rantanen, H. Siikonen, J. Tuominiemi, P. Luukka, H. Petrow, M. Besancon, F. Couderc, M. Dejardin, D. Denegri, J. L. Faure, F. Ferri, S. Ganjour, P. Gras, G. Hamel de Monchenault, M. Kumar, V. Lohezic, J. Malcles, F. Orlandi, L. Portales, A. Rosowsky, M. Ö. Sahin, A. Savoy-Navarro, P. Simkina, M. Titov, M. Tornago, F. Beaudette, G. Boldrini, P. Busson, A. Cappati, C. Charlot, M. Chiusi, F. Damas, O. Davignon, A. De Wit, I. T. Ehle, B. A. Fontana Santos Alves, S. Ghosh, A. Gilbert, R. Granier de Cassagnac, A. Hakimi, B. Harikrishnan, L. Kalipoliti, G. 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Dezoort, P. Elmer, A. Frankenthal, B. Greenberg, N. Haubrich, K. Kennedy, G. Kopp, S. Kwan, D. Lange, A. Loeliger, D. Marlow, I. Ojalvo, J. Olsen, D. Stickland, C. Tully, S. Malik, A. S. Bakshi, S. Chandra, R. Chawla, A. Gu, L. Gutay, M. Jones, A. W. Jung, A. M. Koshy, M. Liu, G. Negro, N. Neumeister, G. Paspalaki, S. Piperov, V. Scheurer, J. F. Schulte, M. Stojanovic, J. Thieman, A. K. Virdi, F. Wang, A. Wildridge, W. Xie, Y. Yao, J. Dolen, N. Parashar, A. Pathak, D. Acosta, T. Carnahan, K. M. Ecklund, P. J. Fernández Manteca, S. Freed, P. Gardner, F. J. M. Geurts, I. Krommydas, W. Li, J. Lin, O. Miguel Colin, B. P. Padley, R. Redjimi, J. Rotter, E. Yigitbasi, Y. Zhang, A. Bodek, P. de Barbaro, R. Demina, J. L. Dulemba, A. Garcia-Bellido, O. Hindrichs, A. Khukhunaishvili, N. Parmar, P. Parygin, R. Taus, B. Chiarito, J. P. Chou, S. V. Clark, D. Gadkari, Y. Gershtein, E. Halkiadakis, M. Heindl, C. Houghton, D. Jaroslawski, S. Konstantinou, I. Laflotte, A. Lath, R. Montalvo, K. Nash, J. Reichert, H. Routray, P. Saha, S. Salur, S. Schnetzer, S. Somalwar, R. Stone, S. A. Thayil, S. Thomas, J. Vora, H. Wang, D. Ally, A. G. Delannoy, S. Fiorendi, S. Higginbotham, T. Holmes, A. R. Kanuganti, N. Karunarathna, L. Lee, E. Nibigira, S. Spanier, D. Aebi, M. Ahmad, T. Akhter, O. Bouhali, R. Eusebi, J. Gilmore, T. Huang, T. Kamon, S. Luo, R. Mueller, D. Overton, D. Rathjens, A. Safonov, N. Akchurin, J. Damgov, N. Gogate, V. Hegde, A. Hussain, Y. Kazhykarim, K. Lamichhane, A. Mankel, T. Peltola, I. Volobouev, E. Appelt, Y. Chen, S. Greene, A. Gurrola, W. Johns, R. Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, A. Melo, F. Romeo, P. Sheldon, S. Tuo, J. Velkovska, J. Viinikainen, B. Cardwell, H. Chung, B. Cox, J. Hakala, R. Hirosky, A. Ledovskoy, C. Neu, P. E. Karchin, A. Aravind, K. Black, T. Bose, S. Dasu, I. De Bruyn, P. Everaerts, C. Galloni, H. He, M. Herndon, A. Herve, C. K. Koraka, A. Lanaro, R. Loveless, J. Madhusudanan Sreekala, A. Mallampalli, A. Mohammadi, G. Parida, L. Pétré, D. Pinna, A. Savin, V. Shang, W. H. Smith, D. Teague, H. F. Tsoi, W. Vetens, A. Warden, S. Afanasiev, V. Alexakhin, V. Andreev, Yu. Andreev, T. Aushev, M. Azarkin, A. Babaev, V. Blinov, E. Boos, V. Borshch, D. Budkouski, V. Bunichev, V. Chekhovsky, R. Chistov, M. Danilov, A. Dermenev, T. Dimova, D. Druzhkin, M. Dubinin, L. Dudko, G. Gavrilov, V. Gavrilov, S. Gninenko, V. Golovtcov, N. Golubev, I. Golutvin, I. Gorbunov, A. Gribushin, Y. Ivanov, V. Kachanov, V. Karjavine, A. Karneyeu, V. Kim, M. Kirakosyan, D. Kirpichnikov, M. Kirsanov, V. Klyukhin, O. Kodolova, D. Konstantinov, V. Korenkov, A. Kozyrev, N. Krasnikov, A. Lanev, P. Levchenko, N. Lychkovskaya, V. Makarenko, A. Malakhov, V. Matveev, V. Murzin, A. Nikitenko, S. Obraztsov, V. Oreshkin, V. Palichik, V. Perelygin, M. Perfilov, S. Petrushanko, S. Polikarpov, V. Popov, O. Radchenko, M. Savina, V. Savrin, V. Shalaev, S. Shmatov, S. Shulha, Y. Skovpen, S. Slabospitskii, V. Smirnov, D. Sosnov, V. Sulimov, A. Terkulov, O. Teryaev, I. Tlisova, A. Toropin, L. Uvarov, A. Uzunian, A. Vorobyev, G. Vorotnikov, N. Voytishin, B. S. Yuldashev, A. Zarubin, I. Zhizhin, and A. Zhokin

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Beyond Standard Model, Hadron-Hadron Scattering, Particle and Resonance Production, Photon Production, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
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Abstract A search for a new charged particle X with mass between 0.3 and 2.0 TeV decaying to a W boson and a photon is presented, using proton-proton collision data at a center-of-mass energy of 13 TeV, collected by the CMS experiment and corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb −1. Particle X has electric charge ±1 and is assumed to have spin 0. The search is performed using the electron and muon decays of the W boson. No significant excess above the predicted background is observed. The upper limit at 95% confidence level on the product of the production cross section of the X and its branching fraction to a W boson and a photon is found to be 94 (137) fb for a 0.3 TeV resonance and 0.75 (0.81) fb for a 2.0 TeV resonance, for an X width-to-mass ratio of 0.01% (5%). This search presents the most stringent constraints to date on the existence of such resonances across the probed mass range. A statistical combination with an earlier study based on the hadronic decay mode of the W boson is also performed, and the upper limit at 95% confidence level for a 2.0 TeV resonance is reduced to 0.50 (0.63) fb for an X width-to-mass ratio of 0.01% (5%).

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2024
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37. Long-term brain structural and cognitive outcomes in a low-risk preterm-born sample

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L. Fernández de Gamarra-Oca, Natalia Ojeda, J. M. Ontañón, B. Loureiro-Gonzalez, A. Gómez-Gastiasoro, J. Peña, N. Ibarretxe-Bilbao, M. A. García-Guerrero, and L. Zubiaurre-Elorza

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Low-risk preterm birth, Cognitive functioning, Current socioeconomic status, Brain macro and microstructure, Adolescence and young adulthood, Medicine, Science
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Abstract Prematurity has been related to altered brain structure and cognition, and so our aim was to describe them in the absence of major structural brain injury following low-risk preterm birth during adolescence and young adulthood. The sample consisted of 250 participants, 132 of whom were low-risk preterm (30–36 weeks’ gestational age) and 118 were full-term individuals (37–42 weeks’ gestational age), aged between 16 and 38 years old. All participants underwent an extensive neuropsychological assessment. T1- and diffusion-weighted MRI images of 33 low-risk preterm and 31 full-term young adults (20–32 years old) were analyzed. No differences were found in terms of general cognitive functioning score or current socioeconomic status; however, the low-risk preterm group obtained lower scores in phonetic and semantic fluencies, and theory of mind. Significant reductions were identified in the thalamus volume as well as thicker cortex in the inferior temporal gyrus in the low-risk preterm group. Low-risk preterm young adults evidenced greater regional AD and MD compared to the full-term sample; while low-risk preterm group showed lower mean NDI and ODI (FWE-corrected, p

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2024
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38. Measurement of the 1-jettiness event shape observable in deep-inelastic electron-proton scattering at HERA

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H1 Collaboration, V. Andreev, M. Arratia, A. Baghdasaryan, A. Baty, K. Begzsuren, A. Bolz, V. Boudry, G. Brandt, D. Britzger, A. Buniatyan, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, K. B. Cantun Avila, K. Cerny, V. Chekelian, Z. Chen, J. G. Contreras, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, K. Daum, A. Deshpande, C. Diaconu, A. Drees, G. Eckerlin, S. Egli, E. Elsen, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, J. Feltesse, M. Fleischer, A. Fomenko, C. Gal, J. Gayler, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, M. Gouzevitch, C. Grab, T. Greenshaw, G. Grindhammer, D. Haidt, R. C. W. Henderson, J. Hessler, J. Hladký, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, T. Hreus, F. Huber, P. M. Jacobs, M. Jacquet, T. Janssen, A. W. Jung, J. Katzy, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, H. T. Klest, S. Kluth, R. Kogler, P. Kostka, J. Kretzschmar, D. Krücker, K. Krüger, M. P. J. Landon, W. Lange, P. Laycock, S. H. Lee, S. Levonian, W. Li, J. Lin, K. Lipka, B. List, J. List, B. Lobodzinski, O. R. Long, E. Malinovski, H.-U. Martyn, S. J. Maxfield, A. Mehta, A. B. Meyer, J. Meyer, S. Mikocki, V. M. Mikuni, M. M. Mondal, K. Müller, B. Nachman, Th. Naumann, P. R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, G. Nowak, J. E. Olsson, D. Ozerov, S. Park, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, E. Perez, A. Petrukhin, I. Picuric, D. Pitzl, R. Polifka, S. Preins, V. Radescu, N. Raicevic, T. Ravdandorj, D. Reichelt, P. Reimer, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, M. Rotaru, D. P. C. Sankey, M. Sauter, E. Sauvan, S. Schmitt, B. A. Schmookler, G. Schnell, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, S. Schumann, F. Sefkow, S. Shushkevich, Y. Soloviev, P. Sopicki, D. South, A. Specka, M. Steder, B. Stella, L. Stöcker, U. Straumann, C. Sun, T. Sykora, P. D. Thompson, F. Torales Acosta, D. Traynor, B. Tseepeldorj, Z. Tu, G. Tustin, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Mechelen, D. Wegener, E. Wünsch, J. Žáček, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, R. Žlebčík, H. Zohrabyan, and F. Zomer

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Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
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Abstract The H1 Collaboration reports the first measurement of the 1-jettiness event shape observable $$\tau _1^b$$ τ 1 b in neutral-current deep-inelastic electron-proton scattering (DIS). The observable $$\tau _1^b$$ τ 1 b is equivalent to a thrust observable defined in the Breit frame. The data sample was collected at the HERA ep collider in the years 2003–2007 with center-of-mass energy of $$\sqrt{s}=319\,\textrm{GeV} $$ s = 319 GeV , corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 351.1 $$\textrm{pb}^{-1}$$ pb - 1 . Triple differential cross sections are provided as a function of $$\tau _1^b$$ τ 1 b , event virtuality $$Q^{2}$$ Q 2 , and inelasticity y, in the kinematic region $$Q^{2} >150\,\textrm{GeV}^2 $$ Q 2 > 150 GeV 2 . Single differential cross sections are provided as a function of $$\tau _1^b$$ τ 1 b in a limited kinematic range. Double differential cross sections are measured, in contrast, integrated over $$\tau _1^b$$ τ 1 b and represent the inclusive neutral-current DIS cross section measured as a function of $$Q^{2}$$ Q 2 and y. The data are compared to a variety of predictions and include long-standing and more recent Monte Carlo event generators, predictions in fixed-order perturbative QCD where calculations up to $$\mathcal {O}(\alpha _\textrm{s} ^3)$$ O ( α s 3 ) are available for $$\tau _1^b$$ τ 1 b or inclusive DIS, and resummed predictions at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy matched to fixed order predictions at $$\mathcal {O}(\alpha _\textrm{s} ^2)$$ O ( α s 2 ) . These comparisons reveal sensitivity of the 1-jettiness observable to QCD parton shower and resummation effects, as well as the modeling of hadronization and fragmentation. Within their range of validity, the fixed-order predictions provide a good description of the data. Monte Carlo event generators are predictive over the full measured range and hence their underlying models and parameters can be constrained by comparing to the presented data.

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2024
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39. The importance of understanding the multiple dimensions of power in stakeholder participation for effective biodiversity conservation

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L. Lécuyer, E. Balian, J. R. A. Butler, C. Barnaud, S. Calla, B. Locatelli, J. Newig, J. Pettit, D. Pound, F. Quétier, V. Salvatori, Y. Von Korff, and J. C. Young

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biodiversity, conflict, facilitation, participatory process, power, Human ecology. Anthropogeography, GF1-900, Ecology, QH540-549.5
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Abstract Biodiversity conservation are increasingly focused on involving stakeholder engagement, making power a key concept in understanding its success and failure. Power is often conceptualized as unidimensional and coercive, but a multidimensional view better reflects structural power, as well as its productive and enabling potential. This paper investigates how different dimensions of power in participatory processes affect biodiversity conservation objectives. Six case studies from Europe and Asia‐Pacific were analysed using an adapted framework that explores the interlinkages between ‘power over’ and ‘transformative power’, looking at the scale and space in which power occurs, and analysing in which arenas of power and under which form of expression it appears. The framework distinguishes between the different ways to exert influence (‘power to’, ‘power with’, ‘power within’, ‘power for’), as well as the dynamics of domination and resistance observed in decision‐making (visible power), hidden biases and exclusionary experiences (hidden power), and actions that either reinforce or resist social norms and beliefs (invisible and systematic power). Focusing on biodiversity, the different arenas of power allow us to go deeper than the surface issues and conflicting interests of diverse participants, regarding for example wildlife, to question underlying power dynamics. Different expressions of power, more specifically the ‘power for’ dimension, allow an understanding of how participants integrate nature and biodiversity in their aspirations. The different levels of power also highlight the need to focus not only on the local level but to analyse how participatory processes are embedded in national, or even international governance in a globalized world. Finally, they shed light on two challenges in participatory processes regarding biodiversity: the representation of non‐human interests (designated here as ‘beyond‐human’ voices), and the integration of multiple forms of knowledge systems. Synthesis and applications: Integrating power into biodiversity issues involves deconstructing normalized discourses that focus solely on certain more powerful human agents, their interests and scientific knowledge, and creating new narratives, knowledge and embodied practice of learning and action to encompass a wider diversity of voices and views. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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2024
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40. Observation and differential cross section measurement of neutral current DIS events with an empty hemisphere in the Breit frame

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H1 Collaboration, V. Andreev, M. Arratia, A. Baghdasaryan, A. Baty, K. Begzsuren, A. Bolz, V. Boudry, G. Brandt, D. Britzger, A. Buniatyan, L. Bystritskaya, A. J. Campbell, K. B. Cantun Avila, K. Cerny, V. Chekelian, Z. Chen, J. G. Contrera, J. Cvach, J. B. Dainton, K. Daum, A. Deshpande, C. Diaconu, A. Drees, G. Eckerlin, S. Egli, E. Elsen, L. Favart, A. Fedotov, J. Feltesse, M. Fleischer, A. Fomenko, C. Gal, J. Gayler, L. Goerlich, N. Gogitidze, M. Gouzevitch, C. Grab, T. Greenshaw, G. Grindhammer, D. Haidt, R. C. W. Henderson, J. Hessler, J. Hladký, D. Hoffmann, R. Horisberger, T. Hreus, F. Huber, P. M. Jacobs, M. Jacquet, T. Janssen, A. W. Jung, J. Katzy, C. Kiesling, M. Klein, C. Kleinwort, H. T. Klest, S. Kluth, R. Kogler, P. Kostka, J. Kretzschmar, D. Krücker, K. Krüger, M. P. J. Landon, W. Lange, P. Laycock, S. H. Lee, S. Levonian, W. Li, J. Lin, K. Lipka, B. List, J. List, B. Lobodzinski, O. R. Long, E. Malinovski, H. U. Martyn, S. J. Maxfield, A. Mehta, A. B. Meyer, J. Meyer, S. Mikocki, V. M. Mikuni, M. M. Mondal, K. Müller, B. Nachman, Th. Naumann, P. R. Newman, C. Niebuhr, G. Nowak, J. E. Olsson, D. Ozerov, S. Park, C. Pascaud, G. D. Patel, E. Perez, A. Petrukhin, I. Picuric, D. Pitzl, R. Polifka, S. Preins, V. Radescu, N. Raicevic, T. Ravdandorj, D. Reichelt, P. Reimer, E. Rizvi, P. Robmann, R. Roosen, A. Rostovtsev, M. Rotaru, D. P. C. Sankey, M. Sauter, E. Sauvan, S. Schmitt, B. A. Schmookler, G. Schnell, L. Schoeffel, A. Schöning, S. Schumann, F. Sefkow, S. Shushkevich, Y. Soloviev, P. Sopicki, D. South, A. Specka, M. Steder, B. Stella, L. Stöcker, U. Straumann, C. Sun, T. Sykora, P. D. Thompson, F. Torales Acosta, D. Traynor, B. Tseepeldorj, Z. Tu, G. Tustin, A. Valkárová, C. Vallée, P. van Mechelen, D. Wegener, E. Wünsch, J. Žáček, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, R. Žlebčík, H. Zohrabyan, and F. Zomer

Subjects
Astrophysics, QB460-466, Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity, QC770-798
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Abstract The Breit frame provides a natural frame to analyze lepton–proton scattering events. In this reference frame, the parton model hard interactions between a quark and an exchanged boson defines the coordinate system such that the struck quark is back-scattered along the virtual photon momentum direction. In Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), higher order perturbative or non-perturbative effects can change this picture drastically. As Bjorken-x decreases below one half, a rather peculiar event signature is predicted with increasing probability, where no radiation is present in one of the two Breit-frame hemispheres and all emissions are to be found in the other hemisphere. At higher orders in $$\alpha _{s}$$ α s or in the presence of soft QCD effects, predictions of the rate of these events are far from trivial, and that motivates measurements with real data. We report on the first observation of the empty current hemisphere events in electron–proton collisions at the HERA collider using data recorded with the H1 detector at a center-of-mass energy of 319 GeV. The fraction of inclusive neutral-current DIS events with an empty hemisphere is found to be $$0.0112 \pm 3.9\%_\text {stat} \pm 4.5\%_{\text {syst}} \pm 1.6\%_{\text {mod}}$$ 0.0112 ± 3.9 % stat ± 4.5 % syst ± 1.6 % mod in the selected kinematic region of $$150

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2024
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45. Nausea, Vomiting, and Dyspepsia Following Solid Organ Abdominal Transplant

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Simone A Jarrett, Kevin B Lo, Cameron Body, Joyce J Kim, Ziduo Zheng, Suprateek Kundu, Eugene Huang, Arpita Basu, Mary Flynn, Karan A Dietz-Lindo, Nikrad Shahnavaz, and Jennifer Christie

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General Engineering
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Background and objective Multiple comorbidities may contribute to high readmission rates post-transplant procedures. In this study, we aimed to assess the rates and factors associated with hospital readmissions for dyspeptic symptoms among transplant patients. Methods This was a retrospective analysis of adult patients who underwent solid organ transplants at our institution. Pregnant patients or those patients with preexisting gastroparesis were excluded from the study. Readmissions associated with the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for nausea/vomiting, weight loss, failure to thrive, abdominal pain, and/or bloating were included. Factors associated with 30-day and frequent readmissions (two or more) were explored. Results A total of 931 patients with solid organ transplants were included; 54% had undergone kidney transplants while 34% were liver transplants. Of note, 30% were readmitted within the first 30 days after discharge following transplant while 32.3% had frequent readmissions. A post-transplant upper endoscopy (EGD) was performed in 34% with food residue discovered in 19% suggesting gastroparesis. However, since only 22% of these patients had a gastric emptying study, only 6% were formally diagnosed with gastroparesis, which was independently associated with both 30-day [odds ratios (OR): 2.58, 95% confidence intervals (CI): 1.42-4.69] and frequent readmissions (OR: 6.71, 95% CI: 3.45-13.10). The presence of pre-transplant diabetes (35%) was significantly associated with a diagnosis of gastroparesis following transplant (OR: 5.17, 95% CI: 2.79-9.57). The use of belatacept (OR: 0.63, 95% CI: 0.42-0.94, p=0.023) was associated with a decrease in the odds of 30-day readmissions. Conclusion A significant number of patients were readmitted due to dyspeptic symptoms after solid organ transplants. Diabetes and gastroparesis were significantly associated with higher odds of readmissions while the use of belatacept appeared to be a protective factor.

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2022

46. Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with paediatric cancer in low-income, middle-income and high-income countries: a multicentre, international, observational cohort study

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Global Health Research Group on Children’s Non-Communicable Diseases Collaborative: Soham Bandyopadhyay, Noel, Peter, Kokila, Lakhoo, Simone de Campos Vieira Abib, Hafeez, Abdelhafeez, Shaun, Wilson, Max, Pachl, Benjamin, Martin, Sonal, Nagras, Mihir, Sheth, Catherine, Dominic, Suraj, Gandhi, Divya, Parwani, Rhea, Raj, Diella, Munezero, Rohini, Dutta, Nsimire Mulanga Roseline, Kellie, Mcclafferty, Armin, Nazari, Smrithi, Sriram, Sai, Pillarisetti, Kingdavid, Nweze, Aishwarya, Ashwinee, Gul, Kalra, Poorvaprabha, Patil, Priyansh, Nathani, Khushman Kaur Bhullar, Muhammed, Elhadi, Maryam, Khan, Nehal, Rahim, Shweta, Madhusudanan, Joshua, Erhabor, Manasi, Shirke, Aishah, Mughal, Darica, Au, Mahan, Salehi, Sravani, Royyuru, Mohamed, Ahmed, Syeda Namayah Fatima Hussain, Daniel, Robinson, Anna, Casey, Mehdi, Khan, Alexandre, Dukundane, Kwizera, Festus, Vaishnavi, Govind, Rohan, Pancharatnam, Lorraine, Ochieng, Elliott, H Taylor, Hritik, Nautiyal, Marta de Andres Crespo, Somy, Charuvila, Alexandra, Valetopoulou, Krithi, Ravi, Fatumata, Jalloh, Nermin, Badwi, Shahnur, Shah, Rohini, Rajpal, Masooma, Rana, Muskaan Abdul Qadir, Emmanuel, Uwiringiyimana, Abdelrahman, Azzam, Mayara, Fanelli, Gustavo Mendonça Ataíde Gomes, Igor Lima Buarque, Isadora Schwaab Guerini, Anfel, Bouderbala, Sarah, Alfurais, Mohamed, Gamal, Yara, Hijazi, Shatha, Tailakh, Hamza, Alnaggar, Zain, Douba, Sewar, Elejla, Abdullah, Eldaly, Ekram, Sharashi, Ahmad, Mansour, Tamara, Elyan, Aouabed, Nesrine, Ammar, Ayman, Aya, Zazo, Mohamed, Bonna, Safia, Lorabi, Hassan, Alalami, Rawan Yasser Emam, Soham, Bandyopadhyay, Muath, Alser, Mohamad, K Abou Chaar, Dennis, Mazingi, Hira, Zuberi, Iyad, Sultan, Dhruv Nath Ghosh, Nitin James Peters, Reto, M Baertschiger, Augusto, Zani, Lucy, Davies, Kefas John Bwala, M Umar, A, Abdurahaman, Aremu, Dauda, E Suleiman, Tybat, Aliyu, Ayesha, Saleem, Muhammad, Arshad, Kashaf, Turk, Sadaf, Altaf, Oluseyi Oyebode Ogunsua, Tunde Talib Sholadoye, Musliu Adetola Tolani, Yakubu, Alfa, Keffi Mubarak Musa, Mwangi, Irungu, Ken, Muma, Sarah, Muma, Mitchelle, Obat, Youssef Sameh Badran, Abdulrahman Ghassan Qasem, Faris, Ayasra, Reema, Alnajjar, Mohamed, Abdel-Maboud, Abdelrahman, Bahaa, Ayat, M Saadeldin, Mohamed, Adwi, Mahmoud, Adly, Abdallah, Elshenawy, Amer, Harky, Leanne, Gentle, Kirstie, Wright, Jessica, Luyt, Olivia, White, Charlotte, Smith, Nathan, Thompson, Thomas, Smith, Imogen, Harrison, Ashrarur Rahman Mitul, Sabbir, Karim, Nazmul, Islam, Sara Kader Alsaeiti, Fatma Saleh Benkhial, Mohammed Miftah Faraj Almihashhish, Eman Salem Muftah Burzeiza, Raja Mari Mohammed Nasef, Hend Mohammed Masoud, Mabroukah Saeid Alshamikh, Fatma Mohammed Masoud, William, B Lo, Nyararai, Togarepi, Elaine, Carrolan, Benjamin, J, Mohamed Hassanin O'Sullivan, Ahmed, Saleh, Mahmoud, Bassiony, Mostafa, Qatora, Mohamed, Bahaaeldin, Shady, Fadel, Yasmine El Chazli, Kamel, Hamizi, Mehdi Anouar Zekkour, Rima, Rahmoun, Boutheyna, Drid, Salma Naje Abu Teir, Mohamed Yazid Kadir, Yassine, Zerizer, Nacer, Khernane, Brahim, Saada, Imane, Ammouze, Yahya, Elkaoune, Hajar, Moujtahid, Ghita, Chaoui, Hajar, Benaouda, Meryem, Gounni, Narjiss, Aji, Laila, Hessissen, Joana Mafalda Monteiro, Susana, Nunes, Maria do Bom-Sucesso, Dave, R Lal, Brian, T Craig, Kerri, Becktell, Tahmina, Banu, Md Afruzul Alam, Orindom Shing Pulock, Tasmiah Tahera Aziz, Rosanda, Ilic, Danica, Grujicic, Tijana, Nastasovic, Igor, Lazic, Mihailo, Milicevic, Vladimir, Bascarevic, Radovan, Mijalcic, Vuk, Scepanovic, Aleksandar, Stanimirovic, Aleksandra, Paunovic, Ivan, Bogdanovic, Shahnoor, Islam, Akm Amirul Morshed, A K, M Khairul Basher, Mehnaz, Akter, M Rezanur Rahman, S, Zannat, Ara, Mohammed Tanvir Ahammed, Tania, Akter, Kamrun, Nahar, Fatema, Sayed, Ashfaque, Nabi, Md Asif Iqbal, Md Masud Rana, Asaduzzaman, Md, Hasanuzzaman, Md, Kemal Tolga Saracoglu, Elif, Akova, Evren, Aydogmus, Bekir Can Kendirlioglu, Tufan, Hicdonmez, Arshiya, Adhnon, Asim Noor Rana, Hani, Humad, Anjan, Madasu, Ahmed, Y Azzam, Mohammed, A Azab, Sherief, Ghozy, Alzhraa Salah Abbas, Olanrewaju, Moses, Ibiyeye Taiye Taibat, Taiwo, Jones, Kalu, Ukoha, Olagundoye, Goke, Okorie, Ikechukwu, Abiodun Idowu Okunlola, Milind, Chitnis, Helga, Nauhaus, Danelle, Erwee, Robyn, Brown, Agata, Chylinska, Robin, Simpson, Prasanna, Gomes, Marco Aurelio Ciriaco Padilha, Elvercio Pereira de Oliveira Junior, Lucas Garschagen de Carvalho, Fabiola Leonelli Diz, Mohamed El Kassas, Usama, Eldaly, Ahmed, Tawheed, Mohamed, Abdelwahab, Oudrhiri Mohammed Yassaad, Bechri, Hajar, El Ouahabi Abdessamad, Arkha, Yasser, Hessissen, Laila, Farah Sameer Yahya, Yasir, Al-Agele, Maria Teresa Peña Gallardo, Jacqueline Elizabeth Montoya Vásquez, Juan Luis García León, Sebastián Shu Yip, Mariam, Lami, Matthew H, V Byrne, Duha, Jasim, Harmit, Ghattaura, Eric, W Etchill, Daniel, Rhee, Stacy, Cooper, Kevin, Crow, Morgan, Drucker, Megan, Murphy, Benjamin, Shou, Alan, Siegel, Yasin, Kara, Gül Nihal Özdemir, Mahmoud, Elfiky, Ehab El Refaee, John George Massoud, Ayah Bassam Ibrahim, Ruaa Bassam Ibrahim, Faris Abu Za'nouneh, Ranya, M Baddourah, Toqa, Fahmawee, Ayah Al Shraideh, Ghazwani, Salman, Ehab, Alameer, Al-Mudeer, Ali, Ghazwani, Yahia, Khozairi, Waleed, Khalil, Ghandour, Shaima', Al-Dabaibeh, Ammar, Al-Basiti, Hazim, Ababneh, Omaima, El-Qurneh, Yousef, Alalawi, Ahmad Al Ayed, Ehab, Hanafy, Naif Al Bolowi, Amos Hp Loh, Anette, S Jacobsen, Heidi, Barola, Aubrey, L Pagaduan, Jingdan, Fan, Olumide Abiodun Elebute, Adesoji, O Ademuyiwa, Christopher, O Bode, Justina, O Seyi-Olajide, Oluwaseun, Ladipo-Ajayi, Felix, M Alakaloko, George, C Ihediwa, Kareem, O Musa, Edamisan, O Temiye, Olufemi, Oni, Adeseye, M Akinsete, Janita, Zarrish, Ramsha, Saleem, Soha, Zahid, Atiqa, Amirali, Ahsan, Nadeem, Sameer Saleem Tebha, Zonaira, Qayyum, Sana, Tahir, Anneqa, Tahir, Rabbey Raza Khan, Ayesha, Mehmood, Taimur Iftikhar Qureshi, Pooja, Kumari, Victor, Calvagna, Nathalie, Galea, Ariana, Axiaq, Matthew, R Schuelke, Jake, A Kloebe, Robert, L Owen, Alexander, S Roth, Catherine, Yang, J Hudson Barnett, Lucien, P Jay, Kirk David Wyatt, Paul, J Galardy, Agnes, Vojcek, Mahmoud Maher Abdelnaby Alrahawy, Seham, M Ragab, Abdallah, R Allam, Eman Ibrahim Hager, Kıvılcım Karadeniz Cerit, Adnan, Dağçınar, Tümay, Umuroğlu, Ayten, Saraçoğlu, Mustafa, Sakar, Can, Kıvrak, Gül, Çakmak, Ibrahim, Sallam, Gamal, Amira, Mohamed, Sherief, Ahmed, Sherif, Simone de Oliveira Coelho, Arissa, Ikeda, Licia, Portela, Marianne Monteiro Garrigo, Ricardo Vianna de Carvalho, Fernanda, Lobo, Sima Ester Ferman, Fernanda Ferreira da Silva Lima, Moawia Mohammed Ali Elhassan, Nada Osman Yousif Elhaj, Hytham K, S Hamid, Emmanuel, A Ameh, Vincent, E Nwatah, Adewumi, B Oyesakin, Andrew Nwankwo Osuigwe, Okechukwu Hyginus Ekwunife, Chisom Adaobi Nri-Ezedi, Eric Okechukwu Umeh, Nellie, Patiala, Ibukunolu Olufemi Ogundele, Abiodun Folashade Adekanmbi, Olubunmi Motunrayo Fatungase, Olubunmi Obafemi Obadaini, Sarah, Al-Furais, Humaida, Hemlae, Sreylis, Nay, John, Mathew, M Jeffri Ismail, R, Simonede Campos Vieira Abib, Fabianne Altruda de Moraes Costa Carlesse, Mayara Caroline Amorim Fanelli, Fernanda Kelly Marques de Souza, Pierfrancesco, Lapolla, Andrea, Mingoli, Denis, Cozzi, Anna Maria Testi, Paolo, Musiu, Paolo, Sapienza, Gioia, Brachini, Martina, Zambon, Simona, Meneghini, Pierfranco, Cicerchia, Bruno, Cirillo, Abdulrahman Omar Taha, Bouaoud, Souad, Mebarki, Malika, Bioud, Belkacem, Ayman, Meelad, Hajier Salim Alrashed, Fayza, Haider, Fatema Naser Al Fayez, Fakher, Rahim, Alhassan, Abdul-Mumin, Halwani Yaninga Fuseini, Peter Gyamfi Kwarteng, Abubakari Bawa Abdulai, Sheba Mary Pognaa Kunfah, Gilbert, B Bonsaana, Stephanie, Ajinkpang, Edmund, M Der, Francis, A Abantanga, Mary Joan Kpiniong, Kingsley Aseye Hattor, Kingsley Appiah Bimpong, Mohamed, Elbahnasawy, Sherief, Abdelsalam, Ahmed, Samir, Amanpreet, Brar, Andreea, C Matei, Lubna, Samad, Hira Khalid Zuberi, Kishwer, Nadeem, Naema, Khayyam, Fatima Ambreen Imran, Nida, Zia, Sadia, Muhammad, Muhammad Rafie Raza, Muhammad Rahil Khan, Alaa, Hamdan, Abdeljawad, Mazloum, Ali, Abodest, Nisreen, Ali, Bardisan, Gawarieh, Ammar, Omran, Almed, Moussa, Alaa, Ahmed, Munawar, Hraib, Victor, Khoury, Abdulrahman, Almjersah, Mohammad Ali Deeb, Almahmod, Alkhalil, Akram, Ahmed, Mohammad, Ahmad, Ali, Alelayan, Ali, Hammed, Wassem, Shater, Ahmad, Bouhuwaish, Alqasim, Abdulkarim, Eman, Abdulwahed, Marwa, Biala, Reem, Ghamgh, Amani, Alamre, Marwa, Shelft, Asmaa A, M Albanna, Hoda, Tawel, Emmanuel, Hatzipantelis, Athanasios, Tragiannidis, Eleni, Tsotridou, Assimina, Galli-Tsinopoulou, Dayang Anita Abdul Aziz, Zarina Abdul Latiff, Hamidah, Alias, C-Khai, Loh, Doris, Lau, Azrina Syarizad Khutubul, Raphael, N Vuille-Dit-Bille, Stefan, G Holland-Cunz, Nima, Allafi, Taiwo Akeem Lawal, Kelvin Ifeanyichukwu Egbuchulem, Olakayode Olaolu Ogundoyin, Isaac Dare Olulana, Biobele, J Brown, Oluwasegun Joshua Afolaranmi, Abdulbasit, Fehintola, Annika, Heuer, Christine, Nitschke, Michael, Boettcher, Matthias, Priemel, Lennart, Viezens, Martin, Stangenberg, Marc, Dreimann, Alonja, Reiter, Jasmin, Meyer, Leon, Köpke, Karl-Heinz, Frosch, Samson, Olori, Uduak, Offiong, Philip Mari Mshelbwala, Fashie Andrew Patrick, Aminu Muhammed Umar, N Otene ThankGod, Abdulrasheed, A Nasir, Kazeem O, O Ibrahim, Dupe, S Ademola-Popoola, Olayinka, T Sayomi, Alege, Abdurrzzaq, Ademola, A Adeyeye, Khadijah, O Omokanye, Lukman, O Abdur-Rahman, Olubisi Olutosin Bamidele, Shakirullah, Abdulazeez, Aminat, Akinoso, Michael, O Adegboye, Shireen Anne Nah, Yuki Julius Ng, Syukri Ahmad Zubaidi, Murad, Almasri, Sara, Ali, Rasaq, Olaosebikan, Akila, Muthukumar, Patricia, Shinondo, Amon, Ngongola, Bruce, Bvulani, Azad, Patel, Abdullahi, Nuhu-Koko, Baba, Jibrin, Ajiboye, L Olalekan, Christopher, S Lukong, Ezekiel, I Ajayi, Gabriela, Guillén, Sergio, López, José Andrés Molino, Pablo, Velasco, Omar, Elmandouh, Omar, Hamam, Rim, Elmandouh, Nensi Melissa Ruzgar, Rachel, Levinson, Shashwat, Kala, Sarah, Ullrich, Emily, Christison-Lagay, Aya Sabry Mortada, Mahmoud Ahmed Ebada, Eman Seif Alnaser Solimam, Khaled, Abualkher, Amr Mohammed Elsayed Yousf, Mohamed Mohamed Holail, Reem Mohamed Almowafy, Salah Eddine Oussama Kacimi, Janice Hui Ling Wong, Reto, Baertschiger, Essam, Elhalaby, Mahmoud, M Saad, Guido, Seitz, Judith, Lindbert, Francis Abantanga Georgios Tsoulfas, Asimina, Galli-Tsinopoulou, Maryam Ghavami Adel, Virgone, Calogero, Francesco, Pata, Gaetano, Gallo, Mohammad, K Abou Chaar, Eric Mwangi Irungu, Outani, Oumaima, Zineb, Bentounsi, Adesoji, Ademuyiwa, Lily, Saldana, Jan, Godzinsky, Abdelbasit, Ali, Dragana, Janic, Mohamed Bella Jalloh, Nellie, Bell, Annette, Jacobsen, Chan Hon Chui, Israel Fernandez Pineda, Lucas, Krauel, Maricarmen, Olivos, Waha, Rahama, Hazim, Elfatih, Arda, Isik, Kate, Cross, Andrea, Hayes-Jordan, Roshni, Dasgupta, Mohamedraed, Elshami, and Bandyopadhyay S., Peter N., Lakhoo K., Vieira Abib S. d. C. , Abdelhafeez H., Wilson S., Pachl M., Martin B., Nagras S., Sheth M., et al.

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Adolescent, Retinal Neoplasms, Temel Tıp Bilimleri, Medicine (miscellaneous), Assessment and Diagnosis, global surgery, Sağlık Bilimleri, Temel Bilgi ve Beceriler, Genel Tıp, Fundamental Medical Sciences, Pathophysiology, Clinical Medicine (MED), paediatrics, Cohort Studies, TIP, GENEL & DAHİLİ, Health Sciences, Internal Medicine, EPIDEMIOLOGY, Humans, Klinik Tıp (MED), Aile Sağlığı, Child, MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL, Developing Countries, Pandemics, Dahiliye, Patofizyoloji, paediatric oncology, public health, Developed Countries, COVID-19, Hodgkin Disease, Klinik Tıp, CHILDHOOD-CANCER, Fundamentals and Skills, General Medicine, CLINICAL MEDICINE, CARE, Değerlendirme ve Teşhis, Tıp, General Health Professions, Medicine, Tıp (çeşitli), Family Practice, Genel Sağlık Meslekleri
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ObjectivesPaediatric cancer is a leading cause of death for children. Children in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) were four times more likely to die than children in high-income countries (HICs). This study aimed to test the hypothesis that the COVID-19 pandemic had affected the delivery of healthcare services worldwide, and exacerbated the disparity in paediatric cancer outcomes between LMICs and HICs.DesignA multicentre, international, collaborative cohort study.Setting91 hospitals and cancer centres in 39 countries providing cancer treatment to paediatric patients between March and December 2020.ParticipantsPatients were included if they were under the age of 18 years, and newly diagnosed with or undergoing active cancer treatment for Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, Wilms’ tumour, sarcoma, retinoblastoma, gliomas, medulloblastomas or neuroblastomas, in keeping with the WHO Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer.Main outcome measureAll-cause mortality at 30 days and 90 days.Results1660 patients were recruited. 219 children had changes to their treatment due to the pandemic. Patients in LMICs were primarily affected (n=182/219, 83.1%). Relative to patients with paediatric cancer in HICs, patients with paediatric cancer in LMICs had 12.1 (95% CI 2.93 to 50.3) and 7.9 (95% CI 3.2 to 19.7) times the odds of death at 30 days and 90 days, respectively, after presentation during the COVID-19 pandemic (pConclusionsThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected paediatric oncology service provision. It has disproportionately affected patients in LMICs, highlighting and compounding existing disparities in healthcare systems globally that need addressing urgently. However, many patients with paediatric cancer continued to receive their normal standard of care. This speaks to the adaptability and resilience of healthcare systems and healthcare workers globally.

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2022

47. Power sharing in community-engaged research with Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Using community engagement to shape intervention fit to context

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R. Nakkash, M. Fares, M. Tleis, S. Mugharbil, M. Antaby, H. Al Masri, L. Ghandour, F. Al Halabi, Y. Najjar, B. Louis, and R. Afifi

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Mental healing, RZ400-408, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
Abstract

Our study assesses the community-engaged research approach (CEnR) followed during the planning phase for a randomized controlled trial designed to assess how young adult Syrian refugees living in the Bekaa region of Lebanon implementing PM+ with adults in their community will be impacted themselves. We aim to describe the community-engaged research process implemented in our study, and the impact of community engagement on the process of adaptation of the intervention, and the design of the study. Methods: Community-engaged research (CEnR) was used to adapt this intervention to the context of the young adult Syrian refugee community in Lebanon by forming a community alliance committee (CAC). Twelve members from the Syrian refugee community in the Bekaa, Lebanon with different professional and socio-demographic characteristics who have lived experience or expertise related to mental health, education, health more generally, or young adults were invited to join a community alliance committee. Thematic analysis was conducted for two sources of data: (1) minutes of the CAC meetings; (2) in-depth interviews conducted with five CAC members. Findings demonstrate that community-engaged research increases rigor and relevance of the intervention and influenced outcomes, process, and context measures. Suggested modifications made by the CAC members enhanced the social and cultural relevance of the intervention, the measurement tools, and the study's approach. Conclusion: Our results showed that a CEnR process contributes to building trust with the community, creating a safe space for everyone to share their inputs, and when integrating those inputs into the adaptation of the intervention, results in a more contextualized intervention.

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2024
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48. Enhancing economic sustainability in mature oil fields: Insights from the clustering approach to select candidate wells for extended shut-in

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B. Lobut and E. Artun

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Unsupervised learning, Clustering, Mature oil fields, Extended shut-in, Well classification, Geography (General), G1-922, Information technology, T58.5-58.64
Abstract

Fluctuations in oil prices adversely affect decision making situations in which performance forecasting must be combined with realistic price forecasts. In periods of significant price drops, companies may consider extended duration of well shut-ins (i.e. temporarily stopping oil production) for economic reasons. For example, prices during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic forced operators to consider shutting in all or some of their active wells. In the case of partial shut-in, selection of candidate wells may evolve as a challenging decision problem considering the uncertainties involved. In this study, a mature oil field with a long (50+ years) production history with 170+ wells is considered. Reservoirs with similar conditions face many challenges related to economic sustainability such as frequent maintenance requirements and low production rates. We aimed to solve this decision-making problem through unsupervised machine learning. Average reservoir characteristics at well locations, well production performance statistics and well locations are used as potential features that could characterize similarities and differences among wells. While reservoir characteristics are measured at well locations for the purpose of describing the subsurface reservoir, well performance consists of volumetric rates and pressures, which are frequently measured during oil production. After a multivariate data analysis that explored correlations among parameters, clustering algorithms were used to identify groups of wells that are similar with respect to aforementioned features. Using the field’s reservoir simulation model, scenarios of shutting in different groups of wells were simulated. Forecasted reservoir performance for three years was used for economic evaluation that assumed an oil price drop to $30/bbl for 6, 12 or 18 months. Results of economic analysis were analyzed to identify which group(s) of wells should have been shut-in by also considering the sensitivity to different price levels. It was observed that wells can be characterized in the 3-cluster case as low, medium and high performance wells. Analyzing the forecasting scenarios showed that shutting in all or high- and medium-performance wells altogether results in better economic outcomes. The results were most sensitive to the number of active wells and the oil price during the high-price period. This study demonstrated the effectiveness of unsupervised machine learning in well classification for operational decision making purposes. Operating companies may use this approach for improved decision making to select wells for extended shut-in during low oil-price periods. This approach would lead to cost savings especially in mature fields with low-profit margins.

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2024
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50. Measurement of the polarizations of prompt and non-prompt Image 1 and ψ(2S) mesons produced in pp collisions at s=13TeV

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A. Hayrapetyan, A. Tumasyan, W. Adam, J.W. Andrejkovic, T. Bergauer, S. Chatterjee, K. Damanakis, M. Dragicevic, P.S. Hussain, M. Jeitler, N. Krammer, A. Li, D. Liko, I. Mikulec, J. Schieck, R. Schöfbeck, D. Schwarz, M. Sonawane, S. Templ, W. Waltenberger, C.-E. Wulz, M.R. Darwish, T. Janssen, T. Van Laer, P. Van Mechelen, N. Breugelmans, J. D'Hondt, S. Dansana, A. De Moor, M. Delcourt, F. Heyen, S. Lowette, I. Makarenko, D. Müller, S. Tavernier, M. Tytgat, G.P. Van Onsem, S. Van Putte, D. Vannerom, B. Bilin, B. Clerbaux, A.K. Das, G. De Lentdecker, H. Evard, L. Favart, P. Gianneios, J. Jaramillo, A. Khalilzadeh, F.A. Khan, K. Lee, M. Mahdavikhorrami, A. Malara, S. Paredes, M.A. Shahzad, L. Thomas, M. Vanden Bemden, C. Vander Velde, P. Vanlaer, M. De Coen, D. Dobur, G. Gokbulut, Y. Hong, J. Knolle, L. Lambrecht, D. Marckx, K. Mota Amarilo, A. Samalan, K. Skovpen, N. Van Den Bossche, J. van der Linden, L. Wezenbeek, A. Benecke, A. Bethani, G. Bruno, C. Caputo, J. De Favereau De Jeneret, C. Delaere, I.S. Donertas, A. Giammanco, A.O. Guzel, Sa. Jain, V. Lemaitre, J. Lidrych, P. Mastrapasqua, T.T. Tran, S. Wertz, G.A. Alves, M. Alves Gallo Pereira, E. Coelho, G. Correia Silva, C. Hensel, T. Menezes De Oliveira, C. Mora Herrera, A. Moraes, P. Rebello Teles, M. Soeiro, A. Vilela Pereira, W.L. Aldá Júnior, M. Barroso Ferreira Filho, H. Brandao Malbouisson, W. Carvalho, J. Chinellato, E.M. Da Costa, G.G. Da Silveira, D. De Jesus Damiao, S. Fonseca De Souza, R. Gomes De Souza, M. Macedo, J. Martins, L. Mundim, H. Nogima, J.P. Pinheiro, A. Santoro, A. Sznajder, M. Thiel, C.A. Bernardes, L. Calligaris, T.R. Fernandez Perez Tomei, E.M. Gregores, B. Lopes Da Costa, I. Maietto Silverio, P.G. Mercadante, S.F. Novaes, B. Orzari, Sandra S. Padula, A. Aleksandrov, G. Antchev, R. Hadjiiska, P. Iaydjiev, M. Misheva, M. Shopova, G. Sultanov, A. Dimitrov, L. Litov, B. Pavlov, P. Petkov, A. Petrov, E. Shumka, S. Keshri, S. Thakur, T. Cheng, T. Javaid, L. Yuan, Z. 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CMS, Quarkonium production, Quarkonium polarization, Physics, QC1-999
Abstract

The polarizations of prompt and non-prompt Image 2 and ψ(2S) mesons are measured in proton-proton collisions at s=13 TeV, using data samples collected by the CMS experiment in 2017 and 2018, corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 103.3fb−1. Based on the analysis of the dimuon decay angular distributions in the helicity frame, the polar anisotropy, λϑ, is measured as a function of the transverse momentum, pT, of the charmonium states, in the 25–120 and 20–100 GeV ranges for the Image 2 and ψ(2S), respectively. The non-prompt polarizations agree with predictions based on the hypothesis that, for pT≳25GeV, the non-prompt Image 2 and ψ(2S) are predominantly produced in two-body B meson decays. The prompt results clearly exclude strong transverse polarizations, even for pT exceeding 30 times the Image 2 mass, where λϑ tends to an asymptotic value around 0.3. Taken together with previous measurements, by CMS and LHCb at s=7 TeV, the prompt polarizations show a significant variation with pT, at low pT.

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2024
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