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Sensor based sleep patterns and reported sleep quality in breast cancer patient...

Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer in women worldwide and its treatment often leads to the onset of sleep disturbances. While much research has focused on chemotherapy's impact on overall sleep quality through subjective measures, less attention has been given to its effects on specific sleep metrics such as duration, timing, continuity, and naps. This preliminary study addresses this gap by assessing s...

A preliminary approach for blooming removal in polyurethane-coated fabrics

Coated fabrics with thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) are largely found in fashion and design collections in imitation leathers and glossy-look fabrics. Unfortunately, blooming is a common damage in aged TPU, appearing as white crystalline deposits at the surface. These deposits have been generally identified as adipic acid and mainly affect ester-based aromatic TPU. The white colour of adipic acid often leads t...

Survivability prediction based on the serum molecular fingerprint in critically...

It is relevant to discover biomarkers enabling to predict critically ill patients’ survival. This study focused on 45 patients, from which 22 deceased and 23 were discharged from an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). It was considered the serum molecular fingerprint, as acquired by Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) spectroscopy, obtained 3 days before the patients discharged or death at the ICU. It was possible to obt...

Comparison of the serum whole molecular composition with the serum metabolome t...

Omics Sciences serve as an essential tool to advance precision medicine. Since conventional omics sciences rely on laborious, complex and time-consuming analytical processes, this study evaluated whether the serum molecular fingerprint, captured by FTIR spectroscopy, could predict mortality risk in critically ill patients. Both the whole serum and the serum metabolome (i.e., serum after removal of macromolecule...

Viral genetics and transmission dynamics in the second wave of mpox outbreak in...

“Knowledge Surgery”: potentialities and challenges of a pedagogical path at the...

The construction of educational practices based on curricular articulation brings potentialities and challenges to the teaching and learning process, leading to the development of holistic learning, which is favored by the existence of a correlation between the contents, providing reading, reflection and a full understanding of the nuances of reality (Leite, 2012). The present work presents an intervention proj...

Is There Evidence of Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet (CDED) in remission of acti...

Crohn’s disease (CD) is an inflammatory bowel disease. Previous research has explored the impact of diet on CD, as specific dietary components can influence gut microbiota and immune responses, contributing to damage in the gastrointestinal tract. The Crohn’s Disease Exclusion Diet (CDED) is based on an exclusion diet; it is a recent dietary approach that is often used alongside partial enteral nutrition (PEN) ...

COVID-19 Associated Longitudinal Extensive Transverse Myelitis with Cerebral Sp...

There have been multiple reports of COVID-19 associated neurological symp-toms, including several cases of para-infectious myelitis.We report a case of an 84-year-old male patient presenting with acute paraparesis coinciding with active mild COVID-19 pneumonia. Spinal cord magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed longitudinally extensive transverse myelitis (LETM) affecting the entire cervical cord to the tenth ...

Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in the Treatment of Multiple...

Autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (AHSCT) has been gaining prominence over the last 20 years in the context of autoimmune diseases, particularly multiple sclerosis. This procedure allows the eradication of the autoreactive immune system and its subsequent reconstitution from hematopoietic stem cells, constituting a process of “immune reinitiation” by diversifying the T-cell repertoire and resto...

Impact of pyrolysis heating methods on biochars with enhanced CO2/N2 separation...

N-doped biochars, derived from chitosan sourced from waste crustaceous shells, were produced via microwave-assisted pyrolysis at temperatures ranging from 400 to 800 °C to enhance CO2 and N2 separation. Their performance was compared with biochars from conventional pyrolysis. Microwave-derived biochars exhibited superior CO2 adsorption capacity at 25 °C and 100 kPa (0.78 – 1.56 mmol g−1) compared to conventiona...