Purpose: Nutrition-related problems are common in patients with advanced cancer. They can disrupt daily life and routines. This study aimed to explore how couples cope with this source of distress. Methods: A qualitative descriptive study design was adopted using semi-structured interviews. Seven couples, each consisting of an advanced cancer patie...
BACKGROUND: We previously validated simplified electroencephalogram (EEG) tracings obtained by a bispectral index (BIS) device against standard EEG. This retrospective study now investigated whether BIS EEG tracings can predict neurological outcome after cardiac arrest (CA). METHODS: Bilateral BIS monitoring (BIS VISTA™, Aspect Medical Systems, Inc...
Ultrasound super-resolution techniques use the response of microbubble contrast agents (MBs) to visualize the microvasculature. Techniques that localize isolated bubble signals first require detection algorithms to separate the MB and tissue responses. This work explores the three main MB detection techniques for super-resolution of microvasculatur...
The subject of the research is the diagnosis of the technical condition of the plate of knife refiners. The technical diagnosis of a knife plate consists of determining the stability of the inter-knife gap and the degree of the plate wear. The paper explores the dynamic effects of a plate on a fibrous material. It is shown that the main source of h...
Published in Behavior Research Methods
We present word prevalence data for 61,858 English words. Word prevalence refers to the number of people who know the word. The measure was obtained on the basis of an online crowdsourcing study involving over 220,000 people. Word prevalence data are useful for gauging the difficulty of words and, as such, for matching stimulus materials in experim...
Objective To describe senior paediatric emergency clinician perspectives on the optimal frequency of and preferred modalities for practising critical paediatric procedures. Methods Multicentre multicountry cross-sectional survey of senior paediatric emergency clinicians working in 96 EDs affiliated with the Pediatric Emergency Research Network. Res...
Purpose: Nutrition-related problems are common in patients with advanced cancer. They can disrupt daily life and routines. This study aimed to explore how couples cope with this source of distress. Methods: A qualitative descriptive study design was adopted using semi-structured interviews. Seven couples, each consisting of an advanced cancer patie...
The Internet of Things requires highly efficient ultra-wideband antenna systems that yield high performance at low manufacturing cost. Therefore, a novel ultra-wideband circular air-filled substrate-integrated-waveguide (AFSIW) cavity-backed annular slot antenna is proposed that enables straightforward integration into general-purpose materials by ...
A subject of research-a fibrous layer in the refiners at refining. By means of the tension compression chart it is shown that parameters of a fibrous layer are adequately described by Maxwell-Thompson's model for liquid friction and the Hooke model for boundary friction of a plate. Deborah's number of a fibrous layer is also investigated. Deborah's...
Published in Optics express
Next-generation wireless communication will require increasingly faster data links. To achieve those higher data rates, the shift towards mmWave frequencies and smaller cell sizes will play a major role. Radio-over-Fiber has been proposed as a possible architecture to allow for this shift but is nowadays typically implemented digitally, as CPRI (Co...
