Publications by authors named "D P Blanchard"

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  • Dry deposition plays a significant role in removing reactive organic carbon from the atmosphere, impacting airborne chemical reactions and transferring this carbon to other environmental systems.
  • Using aircraft measurements, researchers found that oil operations can lead to high deposition rates of organic carbon, reaching up to 100 tons per hour, with rapid lifetimes of about 4 hours that can compete with oxidation processes.
  • Traditional models for gas-phase deposition may not capture all deposited organic carbon, indicating a need to consider these deposition processes in assessing the effects on freshwater ecosystems, as they contribute significantly to the overall carbon balance compared to terrestrial sources.
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  • Healthcare professionals must work together to manage chronic diseases and rehabilitation, as teamwork is more effective than solo practice in providing care.
  • A review identified various self- and peer assessment tools that help healthcare students evaluate their interprofessional competencies in clinical settings.
  • Utilizing self- and peer assessments can significantly improve interprofessional learning and help students gauge their competency levels.
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Percutaneous treatment of para-prosthetic valve leaks (PVL) is an alternative to redo surgery. Based on the clinical case of an unusual aortic para-prosthetic leak closure (PVLc), are presented successively the diagnostic difficulties of PVL, the modalities of therapeutic choice, the main technical steps of PVLc followed by a review of results and complications.

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Anxiety is a complex phenomenon: Its eliciting stimuli and circumstances, component behaviors, and functional consequences are only slowly coming to be understood. Here, we examine defense systems from field studies; laboratory studies focusing on experimental analyses of behavior; and, the fear conditioning literature, with a focus on the role of uncertainty in promoting an anxiety pattern that involves high rates of stimulus generalization and resistance to extinction. Respectively, these different areas provide information on evolved elicitors of defense (field studies); outline a defense system focused on obtaining information about uncertain threat (ethoexperimental analyses); and, provide a simple, well-researched, easily measured paradigm for analysis of nonassociative stress-enhanced fear conditioning (the SEFL).

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