Influenza is an annual, global health care concern. Secondary bacterial pneumonia is a severe complication associated with primary influenza virus infection, often resulting in critical morbidity and mortality. Our laboratory has identified influenza-induced suppression of anti-bacterial Type 17 immunity as a mechanism for enhanced susceptibility to bacterial super-infection. We have shown that...

Feelings of elevation, elicited by witnessing another perform a good deed, have been hypothesized to motivate a desire to help others (Haidt, 2003a; 2003b). However, despite growing interest in the determinants of prosocial behavior, there is only limited evidence that elevation leads to increases in actual altruism. In two experiments, we tested the relationship between elevation and helping b...

Primary percutaneous intervention (PCI) in acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (MI) is a preferred way of treatment nowadays. Sometimes it becomes difficult to get good myocardial blood flow during PCI if clot burden is large. In this case of an elderly lady, the use of "Mother and Child Technique" combined with super selective pharmacological intervention is demonstrated to achieve good b...

High-resolution DEMs can provide accurate geographic information and be widely used in hydrological analysis, path planning, urban design. As the main complementary means of producing high-resolution DEMs, DEM super-resolution (SR) method based on deep learning has reached a bottleneck. The reason for this phenomenon is that lacks part global it requires. Specifically, multilevel aggregation pr...

Digital elevation models are responsible for providing altimetric information on a surface to be mapped. While global of low and medium spatial resolution available open source by several space agencies, the high-resolution ones, which utilized in scales 1:25,000 larger, scarce expensive. Here we address this limitation utilization deep learning algorithms coupled with SISR techniques digital o...

Methods We digitized lizard distribution data to generate gridded maps of species richness and b-diversity. Using similar maps for amphibians, mammals and birds, we explored the relationship between species richness and temperature, actual evapotranspiration, elevation and local elevation range. We used spatial eigenvector filtering and geographically weighted regression to explore geographical...