Research snippets from the medical world

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Recent guidelines agree that upper airway diseases such as rhinitis and sinusitis, asthma, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) are the most common triggers of chronic cough (CC). It is presumed that in patients with upper airway diseases cough originates in pharyngolaryngeal receptors stimulated by the postnasal drip of inflammatory material or made hypersensitive by mucosal inflammation...

Text Snippets from the DomGraph

ABSTRACT We explore the idea that the Document-Object Model tree of an HTML page — absent any semantic or heuristic interpretations of the tags and their positions — provides cues about the importance of the information it contains. This hypothesis is evaluated by constructing a DomGraph, i.e., a network of the DOM trees of pages connected by their hyperlinks, and using it in a snippet-extracti...

Nursing research in Iran and the world from the perspective of nursing professors: A qualitative study

Background: Changes and evolution in health care systems, especially in nursing, are achieved through scientific researches. Research is essential for better implementing care and improving quality in clinical practice. Thus, this study aimed to explore nursing professors’ perceptions about research in nursing. Methods : This qualitative study was carried out with conventional content analysis ...

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U.S. medical research in the developing world: ignoring Nuremberg.

"The memory of Nazi Germany's destruction of 'other' bodies weighs upon the design of any contemporary medical experiment that involves human subjects. "I