Sir, Saner and colleagues have made a good case for home haemodialysis (HHD) as an effective renal replacement therapy in Switzerland [1]. Yet, in the last paragraph of their case–cohort study of 58 patients, they admit that patient selection may have influenced their results. We agree. Our analysis of a much larger cohort, that of the United States Renal Data System, used the standardized mort...

Dye-sensitized solar cells technology has attracted extensive academic scholars’ interests due to their potential low-cost energy harvesting. Increasing performance of dye-sensitized cell needs more efficient dye maximize absorption. This work presents the synthesis and J–V characterization studies for a novel alizarin derivative HDD. The was formed by reaction between brominated 5-hexyl-2-thio...

Nowadays we can observe a growing demand for installations of new gas pipelines in Europe. A large number them are installed using trenchless Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) technology. The aim this work was to develop and compare machine learning models dedicated risk assessment HDD projects. data from 133 projects eight countries the world were gathered, profiled, preprocessed. Three mo...

Brief intervention (BI) has the potential to reduce heavy drinking in young adults that present to the emergency department (ED) but require time and resources that are rarely available. Text-messaging (TM) may provide an effective way to collect drinking data from young adults after ED discharge as well as to provide ongoing support for behavior change. Young adults in three urban EDs identifi...

OBJECTIVE Influenza-associated myositis (IAM), characterized by severe lower-extremity myalgia and reluctance to walk, is a complication of influenza among children. We investigated IAM in Nebraska during six influenza seasons, 2001-2007. METHODS During 2006-2007, we requested reports of severe influenza illness among persons aged <18 years and investigated medical records to identify and con...

Ireland has one of the highest rates emissions per capita in world and its residential sector is responsible for approximately 10% total national CO2 emissions. Therefore, reducing this will play a decisive role achieving EU targets by 40% 2030. To better inform decisions regarding retrofit existing building stock, study proposes Optimum Insulation Thicknesses (OIT) typical walls 25 regions Ire...

The energy use in buildings is highly influenced by outdoor temperature changes. In the contest of nowadays climate change, its impact on sector important and needs to be assessed. This study investigates how heat consumption (HC) existing regional building stock, located a temperate Northern part Europe (Belgium), will future First, Seasonal Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA), ...