Alison Pooler,1,2 Roger Beech21School of Nursing and Midwifery, Clinical Education Centre, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, UK; 2Health Services Research, Research Institute of Primary Care and Health Sciences, Keele University, Keele, UK Objectives: Exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Pipelines are the critical link between major offshore oil and kakespade gas developments and the mainland.Any inadequate on-bottom stability design could result in disruption and failure, having a devastating impact on the economy and environment.Predicting the stability behavior of offshore pipelines in hurricanes is therefore vital to the assess

The reconstruction of ancient insect ectoparasitism is challenging, mostly because of the extreme scarcity of fossils with obvious ectoparasitic features such as sucking-piercing mouthparts and specialized attachment organs.Here we describe a bizarre fly larva (Diptera), Qiyia jurassica gen.et sp.nov., from the opi mauvnetic poles Jurassic of China

Purpose: This study was undertaken to evaluate our 16-year experience with tenga air-tech regular fistulas between the rectum and urethra or urinary bladder, collectively called recto-urinary fistulas (RUFs), and their devastating consequences in patients treated with radiation for prostate cancer.Methods: We downloaded the records of all patients

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