Helicobacter pylori infects the human stomach and triggers an inflammatory response that damages the gastric tissue. This host-pathogen interplay has dire consequences as up to 20 % of infected individuals develop peptic ulcer disease or gastric cancer. Given that half of the world’s population is infected, the number of afflicted humans is staggering and also tells that H. pylori is extremely ...

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Short-acting β2 -agonists (SABA) overuse is associated with negative outcomes in asthma patients. There a lack of actual data about patterns SABA the Russian population asthma. The aim . To investigate Methods Data from “SABA use IN Asthma (SABINA) III” study were analyzed. SABINA III was cross-sectional observational covering 24 countries. Adults and adolescents documented diagnosis for at lea...

Aula Abbara, Adam Coutts, Fouad M Fouad, Sharif A Ismail, Miriam Orcutt; the Syria Public Health Network National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial Co...

*Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals, Case Medical Center, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, †Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, and ‡Department of Emergency Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon Reprint Address: Barry Brenner, MD, PHD, Professor o...

1Department of Hematology, Spirito Santo Hospital, Pescara, Italy; 2Center of Excellence on Aging, G. D’Annunzio University Foundation, Chieti, Italy; 3Department of Biomedical Sciences, University G. D’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy; 4Department of Pharmacology, Catholic University School of Medicine, Rome, Italy; 5Department of Biochemistry, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; 6Departmen...

implement the model. AMEL is applied to a real case study, a district of the city of Beirut, Lebanon, which potentially could be stricken by a M7 earthquake. The objective of the model is to reproduce real life mobility behaviours that have been gathered through a survey in Beirut and to test different future scenarios, which may help the local authorities to target information campaigns.

Placing a certain number of sinks at appropriate locations in WSNs reduces the number of hops between a sensor and its sink resulting in less exchanged messages between nodes and consequently less energy consumption. Since finding the optimal number of the sinks to be added and their locations is an NP Hard problem, we propose in this paper, a topological level solution that uses a meta-heurist...