Purpose: The Australian Clinical Dosimetry Service (ACDS) has been auditing and New Zealand radiotherapy providers for nearly 10 years building the National Dataset of audit measurements. audits have uncovered numerous issues with varying significance. This paper will present an update ACDS including trends within recent findings then cover more advanced modalities such as SRS, SBRT, VMAT adapt...

Although air curtain destructors (ACDs) have been used for quite some time to dispose of vegetative debris, relatively little in-depth testing has been conducted to quantify emissions of pollutants other than CO and particulate matter. As part of an effort to prepare for possible use of ACDs to dispose of the enormous volumes of debris generated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the literature on...

BACKGROUND In children with mild-to-moderate persistent asthma, identification of phenotypic predictors to guide selection of a controller regimen is essential. OBJECTIVE We sought to identify phenotypic characteristics having predictive value for the difference in treatment responses between twice-daily fluticasone and once-daily montelukast. METHODS Data from the Pediatric Asthma Controll...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to assess the safety of arteriotomy closure devices (ACDs) versus mechanical compression by meta-analysis in patients undergoing percutaneous transfemoral coronary procedures. BACKGROUND Although ACDs are widely applied for hemostasis after percutaneous endovascular procedures, their safety is controversial. METHODS Randomized, case-control, and cohort stu...

Progenitor cells must balance self-amplification and production of differentiated progeny during development and homeostasis. In the epidermis, progenitors divide symmetrically to increase surface area and asymmetrically to promote stratification. In this study, we show that individual epidermal cells can undergo both types of division, and therefore, the balance is provided by the sum of indiv...

Sepsis, caused by uncontrollable infection and inflammatory response, leads to more than 30 million infected patients results in high morbidity worldwide every year. Currently, no efficient approaches have been developed for sepsis therapy due antimicrobial resistance storm. Here, we report macrophages loaded with aggregated carbon dots (ACDs) the lysosome, termed MCDs, treat immunosuppressive ...

Abstract Issue As healthcare systems faced the challenge of COVID-19, need for fast and automated quality care control has grown tremendously. Automatization is widely implemented in form Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDS), however, developing such software can take several years trained IT specialists' work. Description problem We opted an analytics clinical decision support (ACDS) system...

Advance care directives (ACDs) are used in all Australian states and territories, but take different forms and names. In the Northern Territory, they are known as advance personal plans (APPs). An APP allows not only for advanced consent decisions in relation to life support and palliative care, but also the appointment of a substitute decision maker. The powers of the substitute decision maker...

Ethylene inhibits nodulation in various legumes. In order to investigate strategies employed by Rhizobium to regulate nodulation, the 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase gene was isolated and characterized from one of the ACC deaminase-producing rhizobia, Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae 128C53K. ACC deaminase degrades ACC, the immediate precursor of ethylene in higher plants. T...