Published in Cureus
Vitamin E is a fat-soluble vitamin and an antioxidant that prevents the peroxidation of lipid in vitro. The antioxidant role of vitamin E in preventing adverse cardiovascular outcomes is controversial as some studies support it, while others reject it. Therefore, this review aims to determine whether there is an association between vitamin E and ca...
Published in Global Heart
The current and immediate past Presidents of the World Heart Federation are pleased to publish this invited editorial to demonstrate the organization’s strong, ongoing commitment to addressing the impacts of air pollution on cardiovascular health and outline its strategy for action.
Published in Frontiers in Physics
Many new X-Ray treatment machines using small and/or non-standard radiation fields, e.g., Tomotherapy, Cyber-knife, and linear accelerators equipped with high-resolution multi-leaf collimators and on-board imaging system, have been introduced in the radiotherapy clinical routine within the last few years. The introduction of these new treatment mod...
We measured the thermal conductivity κ(T) of polycrystalline diamond with natural (natC) and isotopically enriched (12C content up to 99.96 at.%) compositions over a broad temperature T range, from 5 to 410 K. The high quality polycrystalline diamond wafers were produced by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition in CH4-H2 mixtures. The thermal ...
Published in Global Heart
Although the attention of the world and the global health community specifically is deservedly focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other determinants of health continue to have large impacts and may also interact with COVID-19. Air pollution is one crucial example. Established evidence from other respiratory viruses and emerging evidence for COVID-19...
$\textbf{Aims}$: Increases in glass sizes and wine strength over the last 25 years in the UK are likely to have led to an underestimation of alcohol intake in population studies. We explore whether this probable misclassification affects the association between average alcohol intake and risk of mortality from all causes, cardiovascular disease and...
Pages: 159 - 165
Nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) thin films are being progressively more employed in different applications. However, the current understanding of their growth mechanisms, which becomes important to properly tune their properties, is still very limited. In this context, we have studied by atomic force microscopy the growth dynamics of NCD thin films g...
GaN nanowire (NW) arrays have been fabricated by the electrodeless photoelectrochemical (PEC) etching method for the first time. Under appropriate conditions, the etching process is just a dislocation-hunted process, in which the etching solution "digs down'' along the threading dislocations, resulting in the formation of GaN NWs by preferentially ...
