Molecular pathological pathways leading to multi-organ failure in critical illness are progressively being unravelled. However, attempts to modulate these pathways have not yet improved the clinical outcome. Therefore, new targetable mechanisms shoul...
Background/Objectives: This study examines the academic discourse surrounding Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD) and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) for first responders using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling. It ai...
In recent years, cold-formed steel has been widely used in prefabricated steel structures, and the common cross-section forms are mainly complex lipped angle sections. However, there is a lack of design guidance for such a cross-section due to the co...
In this study, the incipient motion of four groups of sand, ranging from medium to very coarse particles, was experimentally examined using an acoustic Doppler velocimeter (ADV) in different water depths under the hydraulically transitional flow cond...
The double differentiation method overestimates the critical stress associated with the initiation of dynamic transformation (DT) because significant amounts of the dynamic phase must be present in order for its effect on the work hardening rate to b...
Various disputes exist regarding the critical shear stress (τc) of rill erosion determined by linear regression. Alternatively, some researchers have attempted to measure critical shear stress (τo) of rill erosion by observing the start of so...
In cold regions, flexible pavements are vulnerable to frost-induced damage, necessitating effective insulation strategies. Foam glass aggregate (FGA) insulation layers, made from recycled glass, offer promising thermal insulation properties but are m...
Mental health among university students is an issue of growing global concern, impacting both psychological well-being and academic outcomes. This study investigated the relationships between sleep quality, perceived stress, anxiety, and depression,...
2 April 2022
Severe pneumonia with novel pathogens, also called COVID-19, caused a pandemic in Taiwan as well as in the rest of the world in May 2021. Nurses are under great stress when caring for critically ill patients with COVID-19. This study aimed to explore...
The mean stress effect remains a critical aspect in multiaxial fatigue analysis. This work presents a new criterion that, based on the classical Findley criterion, applies a material-dependent exponent to the mean normal stress term and includes the...
Calcareous sand is a special marine soil rich in calcium carbonate minerals, characterized by brittle particles. It is, therefore, widely used as a filling material in the construction of islands and reefs. In this study, a series of cyclic tri-axial...
Tungsten carbide (WC) coatings of varying thicknesses were prepared using electrical discharge deposition technology. Relevant characterizations were conducted to analyze the residual stress in the WC coatings from a microscopic perspective, and this...
A simple, physically based model is developed to quantitatively predict the degradation of hydrogen on the crack growth critical stress intensity factor (CSIF) of metals. The model is formulated by combining a microscopically shielded Griffith criter...
In this paper, a comprehensive series of dynamic triaxial tests were conducted to delve into the influence of temperature and moisture content on the behavior of frozen silty clay. Upon scrutinizing the experimental outcomes under prolonged reciproca...
Measurement and control of stress in the metal forming layer is the basic problem of selective laser melting (SLM) forming parts. The critical refraction longitudinal (LCR) wave method to test stress in metallic materials has been extensively studied...
6 March 2022
Overview: Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has emerged as a severely debilitating psychiatric disorder associated with critical illness. Little progress has been made in the treatment of post-intensive care unit (ICU) PTSD. Aim: To synthesize ne...
Emergency service workers encounter potentially traumatic incidents as part of their normal work duties. They are, therefore, at an increased risk of symptoms of poor mental health. In the past, post-critical incident seminars (PCIS) were offered to...
To investigate the dynamic stability of natural subgrade filler (NSF) and fiber-binder reinforced subgrade filler (RSF) under cyclic load after freeze–thaw (FT) cycles, a triaxial test was conducted to determine the correlation between cumulati...
This study deals with the numerical estimation of the fatigue life represented in the form of strength-life (S-N, or Wöhler) curves of metals with different crystallographic structures, namely body-centered cubic (BCC) and face-centered cubic (F...
Critical dynamic stress (σcri) and accumulative plastic strain (εp) are primary indicators regarding the dynamic stability of unbound granular materials (UGMs). This study aims to seek an effective method to evaluate the dynamic stability of UGMs use...
Background/Objectives: Pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery can lead to postoperative stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in previously continent women, termed de novo SUI. This study assessed the incidence and risk factors of de novo SUI after apical P...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) remains a significant challenge in critical care medicine, affecting up to 50% of intensive care unit patients with substantial mortality rates. While traditional approaches to AKI assessment rely on static measurements like...
20 April 2022
Relative to the general population, public safety personnel (PSP) appear at an increased risk of developing mental health challenges as a result of repeated exposure to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTEs). To help mitigate the impact...
19 July 2024
Introduction: Public safety personnel (PSP) experience operational stress injuries (OSIs), which can put them at increased risk of experiencing mental health and functional challenges. Such challenges can result in PSP needing to take time away from...
Nutritional support is an important part of the treatment of critical ill children and the phase of disease has to be taken into account. The metabolic stress response during acute critical illness is characterized by severe catabolism. So far, there...
Critically refracted longitudinal (LCR) waves are commonly used to evaluate the residual stress of a material. The utilization of LCR waves is advantageous in that these waves are not sensitive to the texture of the material. Thus, LCR can be conside...
Acid rain deposition (AR) has long-lasting implications for the community stability and biodiversity conservation in southwest China. Acer catalpifolium is a critically endangered species in the rain zone of Western China where AR occurs frequently....
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disability that presents significant challenges in communication and behavior. ASD prevalence exceeds 2% among eight-year-old children and is at similar levels globally. We propose that critical...
Climatic changes have caused seasonal drought to occur frequently in tea fields of low-mountain and hill regions over the past decades. This leads to huge losses in the quality and yields of famous tea, which restricts the economic development of the...
Malnutrition in critically ill patients represents a major concern as it can lead to adverse outcomes including increased morbidity and mortality. These patients exhibit an impaired immune response accompanied by increased oxidative stress. Nutrition...
Notch and size effects significantly influence the fatigue performance of engineering components, which is crucial for ensuring structural integrity. A novel probabilistic fatigue life prediction Kt-V-L model considering both the size and the notch e...
Obesity, a social problem worldwide, is characterized by an increase in body weight that results in excessive fat accumulation. Obesity is a major cause of morbidity and mortality and leads to several diseases, including metabolic syndrome, diabetes...
Endothelial dysfunction (characterized by reduced vasodilation or vasoconstriction, oxidative stress, inflammation, and pro-thrombotic condition) is a critical factor in the pathophysiology of various cardiovascular conditions, and the application of...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a mental disorder caused by exposure to traumatic stress, affects 5–10% of the world’s population. There is some evidence that PTSD is associated with accelerated cellular aging, leading to an increa...
This paper captures a qualitative review of the regulatory prescribed stress tests for UK financial services designed by the Bank of England and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)/Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after the Global Financial Cr...
In conventional clinical toxicology practice, the blood level of carboxyhemoglobin is a biomarker of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning but does not correspond to the complete clinical picture and the severity of the poisoning. Taking into account articl...
In today’s digital circuits, Si-based MOS devices have become the most widely used technology in medical, military, aerospace, and aviation due to their advantages of mature technology, high performance, and low cost. With the continuous integr...
The unfolded protein response (UPR) is a highly orchestrated survival response initiated in cells under endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. Steroidogenic acute regulatory-related lipid transfer domain 5 (StarD5) is an ER stress-responsive, cholesterol...
Fatigue damage accumulation will not only cause the degradation of material performance but also lead to the growth of effective stress and critical stiffness. However, the existing fatigue reliability models usually ignore the effective stress growt...
The research presented is directed to identify the ways to reduce stress state in critical areas of the C-frame of mechanical presses. Ribbing is a way to increase rigidity and a means to reduce energy consumption in operation. Hence, the objective i...
Buckled graphene has potential applications in energy harvest, storage, conversion, and hydrogen storage. The investigation and quantification analysis of the random porosity in buckled graphene not only contributes to the performance reliability eva...
In this paper, the fracture of notched polymeric specimens under compressive stresses was investigated both experimentally and theoretically. In the experimental section, to determine the load-carrying capacity (LCC) of U-notched specimens made of ge...
Crop photosynthesis is closely related to leaf water content (LWC), and clarifying the LWC conditions at critical points in crop photosynthesis has great theoretical and practical value for accurately monitoring drought and providing early drought wa...
In steel structures, skew thin steel plates serve as panel zones in structures spanning large spaces (e.g., warehouses and gymnasiums). Considerable research has been conducted on the shear buckling of panels due to seismic loads acting on a structur...
The ancient guanine nucleotide-binding (G) proteins are a group of critical regulatory and signal transduction proteins, widely involved in diverse cellular processes of all kingdoms of life. YchF is a kind of universally conserved novel unconvention...
This study presents a new interface for wellbore stability analysis, which visualizes and quantifies the stress condition around a wellbore at shear and tensile failure. In the first part of this study, the Mohr–Coulomb, Mogi–Coulomb, mod...
The paper introduces a valuable new description of fatigue strength in relation to material properties and thus a new perspective on the overall understanding of the fatigue process. Namely, a relation between the endurance limits and the accompanyin...
In this study, the differences in gene expression of Stropharia rugosoannulata at different treatment times under high temperature and drought stress were analyzed by transcriptomics. Here, a total of 74,571 transcripts and 16,233 unigenes were ident...
This publication is intended to present a new way of estimating the fatigue life of various construction materials. Carpinteri’s proposal was modified by replacing the fatigue limits ratio with the value of the normal to shear stress ratio for...
Drought stress has serious effects on the growth and yield of wheat in both productivity and quality and is an abiotic factor. Traditional methods of crop drought stress monitoring have some deficits. This work has been conducted in order to enhance...
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