background: nosocomial pneumonia is a prevalent complication in patients admitted to intensive care units (icu). endotracheal suction is used in cleaning the airways of secretions in patients under mechanical ventilation. performing suction accurately is of great importance to prevent ventilation associated pneumonia. the purpose of this study was to compare the effect of open versus closed tra...

This study focuses on the rotating target imaging and parameter estimation with narrowband radar echoes, which is essential for radar target recognition. First, a two-dimensional (2D) imaging model with narrowband echoes is established in this paper, and two images of the target are formed on the velocity-acceleration plane at two neighboring coherent processing intervals (CPIs). Then, the rota...

The automatic detection of Center Pivot Irrigation Systems (CPIS) is fundamental for establishing public policies, especially in countries with a growth perspective this technology, like Brazil. Previous studies to detect CPIS using deep learning used single-date optical images, containing limitations due seasonal changes and cloud cover. Therefore, research aimed Sentinel-2 multitemporal image...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (CPIs) have been shown to be beneficial in the treatment of cancers by enhancing antitumor immunity. CPIs block intrinsic down regulators immunity, such as cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) and programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) or its ligand (PD-L1). While useful for targeting malignant tissue, can destructive effects on normal tissues, including endocrine orga...

Background/objectives Acute Kidney Injury (AKI), induced by Checkpoint Inhibitors therapies (CPI-induced AKI), is an uncommon but severe Immune-Related Adverse Event (IRAE). The aim was to describe the epidemiology, risks factors, clinical, and laboratory characteristics of these renal adverse events (AEs) in a real-life cohort treatment. Design/participants Consecutive patients undergoing chec...

Objective: To investigate the clinical efficacy and toxicity of nebulized polymyxin monotherapy combined intravenous for treatment VAP caused by CR-GNB. Additionally, among patients treated with monotherapy, we compared B E. Methods: This study was a single-center, retrospective study. Included received aerosolized at least 72 h or without management CR-GNB VAP. The primary endpoint cure end th...

Endogenous inhibitors tightly control the activity of proteinases in the extracellular space. Proteinase/antiproteinase imbalance may be caused by predominance of proteinases, resulting in severe tissue damage or abundance of proteinase inhibitors, leading to a shift in the balance of synthesis and degradation of extracellular matrix proteins and accumulation of these matrix components. Lung fi...

abstract this study scrutinized the interaction between linguistic and strategic variables in reading comprehension test performance of iranian efl learners. to this end, the interaction among the participants’ reading comprehension test performance, use of test-taking strategies, and level of language proficiency was analyzed. the participants comprised 286 students who answered a reading comp...