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A data mining approach to investigate food groups related to incidence of bladder cancer in the BLadder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants International Study
- Evan Y. W. Yu, Anke Wesselius, Christoph Sinhart, Alicja Wolk, Mariana Carla Stern, Xuejuan Jiang, Li Tang, James Marshall, Eliane Kellen, Piet van den Brandt, Chih-Ming Lu, Hermann Pohlabeln, Gunnar Steineck, Mohamed Farouk Allam, Margaret R. Karagas, Carlo La Vecchia, Stefano Porru, Angela Carta, Klaus Golka, Kenneth C. Johnson, Simone Benhamou, Zuo-Feng Zhang, Cristina Bosetti, Jack A. Taylor, Elisabete Weiderpass, Eric J. Grant, Emily White, Jerry Polesel, Maurice P. A. Zeegers
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- British Journal of Nutrition / Volume 124 / Issue 6 / 28 September 2020
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- 23 April 2020, pp. 611-619
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At present, analysis of diet and bladder cancer (BC) is mostly based on the intake of individual foods. The examination of food combinations provides a scope to deal with the complexity and unpredictability of the diet and aims to overcome the limitations of the study of nutrients and foods in isolation. This article aims to demonstrate the usability of supervised data mining methods to extract the food groups related to BC. In order to derive key food groups associated with BC risk, we applied the data mining technique C5.0 with 10-fold cross-validation in the BLadder cancer Epidemiology and Nutritional Determinants study, including data from eighteen case–control and one nested case–cohort study, compromising 8320 BC cases out of 31 551 participants. Dietary data, on the eleven main food groups of the Eurocode 2 Core classification codebook, and relevant non-diet data (i.e. sex, age and smoking status) were available. Primarily, five key food groups were extracted; in order of importance, beverages (non-milk); grains and grain products; vegetables and vegetable products; fats, oils and their products; meats and meat products were associated with BC risk. Since these food groups are corresponded with previously proposed BC-related dietary factors, data mining seems to be a promising technique in the field of nutritional epidemiology and deserves further examination.
Application of SIMS-SSAMS to Characterization of Surrogate Pre- and Post-Detonation Urban Debris Standard Reference Materials.
- Evan E. Groopman, Kenneth S. Grabowski, Albert J. Fahey
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- Microscopy and Microanalysis / Volume 23 / Issue S1 / July 2017
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- 04 August 2017, pp. 504-505
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- July 2017
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- By Mitchell Aboulafia, Frederick Adams, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert M. Adams, Laird Addis, James W. Allard, David Allison, William P. Alston, Karl Ameriks, C. Anthony Anderson, David Leech Anderson, Lanier Anderson, Roger Ariew, David Armstrong, Denis G. Arnold, E. J. Ashworth, Margaret Atherton, Robin Attfield, Bruce Aune, Edward Wilson Averill, Jody Azzouni, Kent Bach, Andrew Bailey, Lynne Rudder Baker, Thomas R. Baldwin, Jon Barwise, George Bealer, William Bechtel, Lawrence C. Becker, Mark A. Bedau, Ernst Behler, José A. Benardete, Ermanno Bencivenga, Jan Berg, Michael Bergmann, Robert L. Bernasconi, Sven Bernecker, Bernard Berofsky, Rod Bertolet, Charles J. Beyer, Christian Beyer, Joseph Bien, Joseph Bien, Peg Birmingham, Ivan Boh, James Bohman, Daniel Bonevac, Laurence BonJour, William J. Bouwsma, Raymond D. Bradley, Myles Brand, Richard B. Brandt, Michael E. Bratman, Stephen E. Braude, Daniel Breazeale, Angela Breitenbach, Jason Bridges, David O. Brink, Gordon G. 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Scarce Resources for Nuclear Detonation: Project Overview and Challenges
- C. Norman Coleman, Ann R. Knebel, John L. Hick, David M. Weinstock, Rocco Casagrande, J. Jaime Caro, Evan G. DeRenzo, Daniel Dodgen, Ann E. Norwood, Susan E. Sherman, Kenneth D. Cliffer, Richard McNally, Judith L. Bader, Paula Murrain-Hill
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- Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness / Volume 5 / Issue S1 / March 2011
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- 08 April 2013, pp. S13-S19
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Repassivation Potential of Alloy 22 in Chloride plus Nitrate Solutions using the Potentiodynamic-Galvanostatic-Potentiostatic Method
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In general, the susceptibility of Alloy 22 to suffer crevice corrosion is measured using the Cyclic Potentiodynamic Polarization (CPP) technique. This is a fast technique that gives rather accurate and reproducible values of repassivation potential (ER1) in most cases. In the fringes of susceptibility, when the environment is not highly aggressive, the values of repassivation potential using the CPP technique may not be highly reproducible, especially because the technique is fast and because transpassive corrosion may influence or mask the nucleation and propagation of crevice corrosion. To circumvent this, the repassivation potential of Alloy 22 was measured using a slower method that combines Potentiodynamic-Galvanostatic-Potentiostatic steps (called here the Tsujikawa-Hisamatsu Electrochemical or THE method). The THE method applies the charge to the specimen in a more controlled way, which may give more reproducible repassivation potential values, especially when the environment is not aggressive. The values of repassivation potential of Alloy 22 in sodium chloride plus potassium nitrate solutions were measured using the THE and CPP methods. Results show that both methods yield similar values of repassivation potential, especially under aggressive conditions.
Potential Usage of Energetic Nano-sized Powders for Combustion and Rocket Propulsion
- Kenneth K. Kuo, Grant A. Risha, Brian J. Evans, Eric Boyer
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Nano-sized energetic metals and boron particles (with dimensions less than 100 nanometers) possess desirable combustion characteristics such as high heats of combustion and fast energy release rates. Because of their capability to enhance performance, various metals have been introduced in solid propellant formulations, gel propellants, and solid fuels. There are many advantages of incorporating nano-sized materials into fuels and propellants, such as: 1) shortened ignition delay; 2) shortened burn times, resulting in more complete combustion in volume-limited propulsion systems; 3) enhanced heat-transfer rates from higher specific surface area; 4) greater flexibility in designing new energetic fuel/propellants with desirable physical properties; 5) nano-particles can act as a gelling agent to replace inert or low-energy gellants; 6) nano-sized particles can also be dispersed into high-temperature zone for direct oxidation reaction and rapid energy release, and 7) enhanced propulsive performance with increased density impulse. In view of these advantages, numerous techniques have been developed for synthesizing nano-particles of different sizes and shapes. To reduce any possible hazards associated with the handling of nano-sized particles as well as unwanted particle oxidation, various passivation procedures have been developed. Some of these coating materials could enhance the ignition and combustion behavior, others could increase the compatibility of the particles with the surrounding material. Many researchers have been actively engaged in the characterization of the ignition and combustion behavior of nano-sized particles as well as the assessment of performance enhancement of propellants and fuels containing energetic nano-particles. For example, solid fuels could contain a significant percentage of nano-sized particles to increase the mass-burning rate in hybrid rocket motors, the regression rate of solid propellants can be increased by several times when nano-sized particles are incorporated into the formulation. Specifically, hybrid motor data showed that the addition of 13% energetic aluminum powders can increase the linear regression rate of solid HTPB-based fuel by 123% in comparison to the non-aluminized HTPB fuel at a moderate gaseous oxidizer mass flow rate. Strand burner studies of two identical solid propellant formulations (one with 18% regular aluminum powder and the other with 9% aluminum replaced by Alex® powder) showed that nano-sized particles can increase the linear burning rate of solid propellants by 100%. In addition to solid fuels and propellants, spray combustion of bipropellants has been conducted using gel propellants impregnated with nano-sized boron particles as the fuel in a rocket engine. High combustion efficiencies were obtained from burning nano-sized boron particles contained in a non-toxic liquid-fuel spray. Materials characterization such as chemical analyses to determine the active aluminum content, density measurements, and imaging using an electron microscope have been performed on both neat nano-sized particles and mixtures containing the energetic materials. In general, using energetic nano-sized particles as a new design parameter, propulsion performance of future propellants and fuels can be greatly enhanced.
Severe methemoglobinemia from topical anesthetic spray: case report, discussion and qualitative systematic review
- Riyad B. Abu-Laban, Peter J. Zed, Roy A. Purssell, Kenneth G. Evans
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Few health care professionals realize that topical anesthetic spray can cause methemoglobinemia. We describe a 56-year-old woman who was transferred to our emergency department when severe cyanosis and chest pain developed after administration of topical oropharyngeal benzocaine and lidocaine during outpatient endoscopy. Investigations revealed a methemoglobin level of 51%. Despite rapid diagnosis and treatment with methylene blue, pulmonary edema consistent with adult respiratory distress syndrome developed, endotracheal intubation was required, and the patient suffered a lengthy course in the intensive care unit. This article presents a detailed discussion of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of methemoglobinemia, as well as a qualitative systematic review of the English literature on methemoglobinemia induced by topical anesthetic. The implications of this condition for emergency physicians are also outlined.
Vancomycin Use in a University Medical Center: Comparison With Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee Guidelines
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Objective: To compare actual vancomycin use in a hospital with the guidelines proposed by the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Design: One-month prospective survey of all patients given vancomycin. Data were collected from patient and laboratory records and discussions with prescribing physicians.
Setting: Four hundred sixty-one–bed tertiary-care university hospital.
Results: Only 35% of the 101 vancomycin orders written during the audit were consistent with HICPAC guidelines. Twenty-eight patients were begun on vancomycin for the treatment of documented infections due to β-lactam–resistant gram-positive bacteria or because preliminary culture results suggested such bacteria were present. Seven methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, two ampicillin-resistant enterococci, and 10 coagulase-negative staphylococci were recovered. Vancomycin use was judged inappropriate in 66 patients. The drug was used empirically without obtaining appropriate cultures (44 patients), as surgical prophylaxis (6 patients), for primary treatment of antibiotic-associated colitis (3 patients), for convenience in a hemodialysis patient (1 patient), or for other reasons not recommended by HICPAC (12 patients).
Conclusions: Vancomycin use in our teaching center often was inconsistent with HICPAC guidelines. Information from the audit will be useful for designing strategies to improve vancomycin use.