Publications by authors named "D de Coster"

From June to October, 2022, we recorded the weight, the internal temperature, and the hive entrance video traffic of ten managed honey bee () colonies at a research apiary of the Carl Hayden Bee Research Center in Tucson, AZ, USA. The weight and temperature were recorded every five minutes around the clock. The 30 s videos were recorded every five minutes daily from 7:00 to 20:55.

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Background: We present the first documented case of bacteraemia in a patient with liver transplantation. is a Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium found in aquatic environments in fish and birds, and is source of nosocomial infection causing pneumonia, enteritis, cholangitis or urinary infections, associated with surgical interventions in a hospital setting.

Case Description: A 44-year-old female presented with a 2-day history of fever, rigors, and headache.

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  • * A study at Sheba Medical Center analyzed 193 CSU patients from 2009 to 2022, focusing on various factors like age at diagnosis, triggers, co-morbidities, and treatment responses in both pediatric and adult populations.
  • * Findings revealed that metabolic syndrome was more common in adults while atopic conditions were predominant in pediatrics, and adults with autoimmune diseases often needed more aggressive treatments, highlighting the complexity of managing CSU in patients with co-morbidities.
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Microfluidic devices have found extensive applications in mechanical, biomedical, chemical, and materials research. However, the high initial cost, low resolution, inferior feature fidelity, poor repeatability, rough surface finish, and long turn-around time of traditional prototyping methods limit their wider adoption. In this study, a strategic approach to a deterministic fabrication process based on in-situ image analysis and intermittent flow control called image-guided in-situ maskless lithography (IGIs-ML), has been proposed to overcome these challenges.

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We sought to divide COVID-19 patients into distinct phenotypical subgroups using echocardiography and clinical markers to elucidate the pathogenesis of the disease and its heterogeneous cardiac involvement. A total of 506 consecutive patients hospitalized with COVID-19 infection underwent complete evaluation, including echocardiography, at admission. A k-prototypes algorithm applied to patients' clinical and imaging data at admission partitioned the patients into four phenotypical clusters: Clusters 0 and 1 were younger and healthier, 2 and 3 were older with worse cardiac indexes, and clusters 1 and 3 had a stronger inflammatory response.

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