Determinants of underdiagnosis of COPD in national and international surveys by Lamprecht, B, Soriano, JB, Studnicka, M, Kaiser, B, Vanfleteren, LE, Gnatiuc, L, Burney, P, Miravitlles, M, García-Rio, F, Akbari, K, Ancochea, J, Menezes, AM, Perez-Padilla, R, Montes de Oca, M, Torres-Duque, CA, Caballero, A, González-García, M, Buist, S

“…</p> <p><strong>Results:</strong> Among 30,874 participants with a mean age of 56 years, 55.8% were women, and 22.9% were current smokers. …”

A simple approach to improve recording of concerns about child maltreatment in primary care records: developing a quality improvement intervention by Woodman, J, Allister, J, Rafi, I, de Lusignan, S, Belsey, J, Petersen, I, Gilbert, R

“…<p><b>Results</b> The rate of children with at least one maltreatment-related code was 8.4/1000 child years (11 study practices, 2009–2010), and 8.0/1000 child years (THIN, 2009–2010). …”

Myocardial ischaemia following COVID-19: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study by Arnold, JR, Yeo, JL, Budgeon, CA, Shergill, S, England, R, Shiwani, H, Artico, J, Moon, JC, Gorecka, M, Roditi, G, Morrow, A, Mangion, K, Shanmuganathan, M, Miller, CA, Chiribiri, A, Alzahir, M, Ramirez, S, Lin, A, Swoboda, PP, McDiarmid, AK, Sykes, R, Singh, T, Bucciarelli-Ducci, C, Dawson, D

“…We studied 59 patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and elevated serum troponin (COVID + /troponin + , age 61 ± 11 years) and 37 control subjects without COVID-19 or elevated troponin and similar by age and cardiovascular comorbidities (COVID −/comorbidity + , 64 ± 10 years). …”

Brain markers of cumulative stress response and allostatic load in the ageing Whitehall II cohort by Zsoldos, E

“…</p> <p>As hypothesised, stress markers measured as early as 20 years prior to the scan, predicted lower GM and WM integrity in older age. …”

Periodontal disease and serum uric acid levels in the absence of metabolic syndrome: is there a link? A study on a sample of Cameroonian adults by Nkeck, JR, Ndjoh, JJ, Meyo Mvondo, GF, Eko Ondoa, M, Takam, O, Mbouna, SFM, Tcheutchoua Nzokou, D, Tchuisseu-Kwangoua, LA, Momo, CBY, Ekouelkoum Ngoude, JX, Chemgne, MI, Ama Moor, VJ

“…Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study including Cameroonians aged over 18 years recruited in the general population and free of metabolic syndrome elements. …”

Development of Attention-based Prediction Models for All-cause Mortality, Home Care Need, and Nursing Home Admission in Ageing Adults in Spain Using Longitudinal Electronic Health... by Carrasco-Ribelles, LA, Cabrera-Bean, M, Khalid, S, Roso-Llorach, A, Violán, C

“…Cohen’s kappa obtained using longitudinal data was 3.4-fold (1-year all-cause mortality), 10.3-fold (5-year all-cause mortality), 1.1-fold (5-year nursing home admission), and 1.2-fold (5-year home care need) higher than that obtained by the one-year history baseline models. …”

Low-dose spironolactone and cardiovascular outcomes in moderate stage chronic kidney disease: a randomized controlled trial by Hobbs, FDR, McManus, RJ, Taylor, CJ, Jones, NR, Rahman, JK, Wolstenholme, J, Kim, S, Kwon, J, Jones, L, Hirst, JA, Yu, L-M, Mort, S

“…In this prospective, randomized, open, blinded endpoint trial, we assessed the effectiveness of 25 mg spironolactone in addition to usual care or usual care alone for reducing cardiovascular outcomes in stage 3b CKD among an older community cohort (mean age = 74.8 years and s.d. = 8.1). We recruited 1,434 adults from English primary care, of whom 1,372 (96%) were included in the primary analysis. …”

Stroke incidence in heart failure and atrial fibrillation: population cohort study by Jones, N, Smith, M, Lay-Flurrie, S, Yang, Y, Hobbs, R, Taylor, C

“…</p> <br> <p><strong>Methods:</strong> We identified 2,381,941 people aged ≥45 years in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (2000-2018). …”

21W.745 / SP.576J / WGS.576J Advanced Essay Workshop, Spring 2005 by Faery, Rebecca Blevins

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Mode of action study for a novel class of antimicrobial polymers against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Shi, Zhenyu

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Analysis and design of RSSI in the RF receiver chain by Bhaskar Yashaswini

“…This dissertation presents the CMOS design of such a RSSI block implemented in the RF receiver chain, which is used in low-power applications such as BLE or ZigBee. IFA and rectifiers form the basic building blocks of RSSI that are constructed with much care in this design. …”
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Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents by Ratcliffe, H

“…Recruitment was achieved across the age groups of 0-24 years. This serosurvey was utilised to report SARS-CoV-2 seroepidemiology in children and adolescents aged 0–18 years in England, before widespread immunisation in this population, using samples collected from the end of 2019 through to mid-2021. …”

Growth of gallium nitride nanowires by low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) by Wang, Jianbo

“…Growth of III-Nitride nanowires on Si, which is the most commonly used substrate in microelectronic industry, using different growth techniques such as conventional Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD), and Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) etc. have been explored. Low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD), which is widely used in Si wafer fabs, is of particular interest due to its low cost, ability to handle large size wafer and high throughput. …”
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Human centric sensing by android phones for vehicular applications by Bose, Subhodeep

“…The project involved developing an application ‘CarCure’ for the Android smartphones using Android Studio and Java as the programming language.…”
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Vehicular localization using 5G V2X by Pan, Yongqi

“…With rapid advancements in automotive fields, self-driving cars are gradually transferred from labs to roads in our real lives. …”
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Traffic monitoring and analysis via street footage by Chew, Darren Wen Cong

“…This component has been developed and designed to handle multiple challenges such as nighttime images, poor lighting, various camera angles, blurring due to car speeds and imbalanced data set. With this component, key metrics such vehicle count, and detection, clustering and clustering density can be acquired. …”
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An autonomous vehicle simulation study : the misunderstood impact of a night driving environment on takeover performance by Lee, Lennell

“…Moreover, results also show that when facing a person hazard, participants had a significantly higher collision rate and different takeover quality as compared to facing a car hazard. This suggested that drivers showed worse takeover performance in the night driving environment or when facing person hazards.…”
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Wear modelling of a rail-wheel system by Lim, Darren Wei Xiang

“…A three-dimensional model has been created in Universal Mechanism based on the SMRT train car to characterize the wear performance of the rail-wheel system under different operating conditions. …”
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Design and dynamic stiffness evaluation of magnetorheologicalelastomer bushing using FEMM and dynamic testing machine by Abdul Hamid, Mohamad Ihsan, Mazlan, Saiful Amri, Nordin, Nur Azmah

“…The design concept of MRE bushing is based on the design of the bushing used in the conventional car, only the natural rubber is being replaced by the MRE compound. …”
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Compression dynamics and radiation emission from a deuterium plasma focus by Muhammad Shahid Rafique.

“…In order to study the correlation between the total neutron yield and the time-integrated energy spectra of the axially emitted deuteron beam, on a shot-to-shot basis, a magnetic spectrometer was successfully designed, constructed and implemented. …”
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