Publications by authors named "A Humphries"

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  • * Small-bowel endoscopy is crucial for diagnosing and managing NETs, working alongside other tools like biomarkers and imaging techniques.
  • * This approach can also aid in preoperative planning by locating tumors for surgery and addressing complications like variceal bleeding linked to NETs.
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  • This study presents a new method for activating the N-H bond in ammonia at room temperature using a specific diphosphine compound, leading to a zwitterionic product.
  • Unlike traditional phosphorus-based methods that require structural constraints, this process relies on the teamwork of electron-rich phosphine centers and an electron-accepting carborane cluster.
  • The research highlights a unique, metal-free approach to ammonia oxidation through triple hydrogen atom abstraction, demonstrating that activation can occur in the presence of air and water without the need for metal catalysts.
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The amount of ocean protected from fishing and other human impacts has often been used as a metric of conservation progress. However, protection efforts have highly variable outcomes that depend on local conditions, which makes it difficult to quantify what coral reef protection efforts to date have actually achieved at a global scale. Here, we develop a predictive model of how local conditions influence conservation outcomes on ~2,600 coral reef sites across 44 ecoregions, which we used to quantify how much more fish biomass there is on coral reefs compared to a modeled scenario with no protection.

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Heart failure (HF) creates a considerable clinical, humanistic and economic burden on patients and caregivers as well as on healthcare systems. To attenuate the significant burden of HF, there is a need for enhanced management of patients with HF. The use of digital tools for remote non-invasive monitoring of heart parameters is gaining traction, and cardiac acoustic biomarkers (CABs) have been proposed as a complementary set of measures to assess heart function alongside traditional methods such as electrocardiogram and echocardiography.

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Biogeographic structure in marine protist communities is shaped by a combination of dispersal potential and environmental selection. High-throughput sequencing and global sampling efforts have helped better resolve the composition and functions of these communities in the world's oceans using both molecular and visual methods. However, molecular barcoding data are critically lacking across the Indo-Pacific, a region widely considered the epicenter of marine biodiversity.

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