Publications by authors named "Amelia Costa"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) affects swallowing function and safety, specifically looking for flow rates that allow safe swallowing.
- Healthy participants underwent swallowing function assessments using Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES), testing various textures and HFNC flow rates (0-60 LPM).
- Results indicate that high flow rates do not significantly impact swallow safety, though a small percentage of unsafe swallows were recorded at the highest flow rate for a specific trial.
Humic substances (HS) are ubiquitous organic constituents in soil and water and can strongly adsorb metal contaminants in natural and waste environments. Therefore, understanding and modeling contaminant-HS interactions is a key issue in environmental risk assessment. Current binding models for HS, such asthe nonideal competitive adsorption (NICA)-Donnan model, are developed and calibrated against natural organic matter from soils and surface waters.
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