Publications by authors named "D V Byrne"

Introduction: The COVID-19 Symptoms Daily Diary (CSDD) is a patient-reported outcome measure designed to assess the severity of core COVID-19 symptoms in clinical trials. The preliminary version of the CSDD was developed based on regulatory guidance and the hallmark COVID-19 symptoms identified by the CDC. This study aimed to evaluate CSDD content validity, to determine whether it is fit for the purpose of supporting efficacy endpoints in clinical trials of treatments for COVID-19.

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The development of a colloidal synthesis procedure to produce nanomaterials with high shape and size purity is often a time-consuming, iterative process. This is often due to quantitative uncertainties in the required reaction conditions and the time, resources, and expertise intensive characterization methods required for quantitative determination of nanomaterial size and shape. Absorption spectroscopy is often the easiest method for colloidal nanomaterial characterization.

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Background: Equine Coronavirus (ECoV) can cause gastrointestinal disease and was first described in 2000 in the USA followed by several international outbreak case reports. Disease manifestation is characterised by vague clinical signs, including mild pyrexia, lethargy and anorexia. Morbidity ranges greatly from 10% to 83%.

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  • Language is a productive system, allowing children to create new utterances they've never heard before, making it tricky to determine when they first demonstrate linguistic productivity.
  • Researchers conducted a study with 64 English-learning children, examining when they started to combine determiners and nouns in ways not seen in their caregivers' speech.
  • By combining behavioral data and computational modeling, they found that the children were generating unique combinations similar to the model, indicating that they too were creatively using language beyond their prior experiences.
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