Listening to parents: The role of symptom perception in pediatric palliative home care.

Objective: This study analyzes symptom perception by parents and healthcare professionals and the quality of symptom management in a pediatric palliative home care setting and identifies which factors contribute to a high quality of palliative and end-of-life care for children.

Methods: In this retrospective, cross-sectional study, parents were surveyed at the earliest three months after their child's death. All children were cared for by a specialized home pediatric palliative care team that provides a 24/7 medical on-call service.

Listeria phage and phage tail induction triggered by components of bacterial growth media (phosphate, LiCl, nalidixic acid, and acriflavine).

The detection of Listeria monocytogenes from food is currently carried out using a double enrichment. For the ISO methodology, this double enrichment is performed using half-Fraser and Fraser broths, in which the overgrowth of L. innocua can occur in samples where both species are present.

Effectiveness of a pediatric palliative home care team as experienced by parents and health care professionals.

Objectives: Little data are available on palliative home care for children. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a specialized pediatric palliative home care team (PPHCT) as experienced by parents and health care professionals (HCPs).

Methods: Parents and HCPs involved in the care of terminally ill children who died and whom the PPHCT was in charge of were surveyed with questionnaires focusing on satisfaction with the PPHCT, satisfaction with the course of the dying phase, and the development of anxiety, depression, and prolonged grief disorder.

Using cross-correlations of elastic diffuse fields for attenuation tomography of structural damage.

A scanning laser Doppler vibrometer is used to measure, at multiple grid points, the diffuse vibrations (50-150 kHz) propagating over a thin aluminum plate with complex geometry. These diffuse vibrations were generated by a few pulsed laser impacts randomly distributed outside of the measurement grid. The pairwise cross-correlations of the diffuse field recorded at all grid points provided an estimate of the first antisymmetric Lamb mode direct arrival between these grid points.

Extracting guided waves from cross-correlations of elastic diffuse fields: applications to remote structural health monitoring.

Due to their apparent complexity, diffuse fields are not commonly used by conventional structural health monitoring methodologies. However, recent theoretical and experimental studies have demonstrated that local Green's functions (GFs) can be estimated from the cross-correlation of elastic diffuse fields (CDFs) recorded between any points of a sensor grid and generated by sources located remotely from the monitoring area. Hence, this CDF technique effectively transforming each measurement point into a virtual elastic source, thus allowing to measure the local structural response (or GF).