Comparison of 1-hour floatation-REST versus conventional napping on heart rate variability in active individuals.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the short-term effects of a 1-hour floatation-resting environmental therapy (FLO) versus conventional napping (NAP) on heart rate variability (HRV) in highly trained individuals.

Methods: 20 non-fatigued participants underwent a prospective randomised interventional study comparing the impacts of FLO and NAP on both supine and standing HRV. Measurements were taken before and after each intervention under controlled conditions, and subjective experiences were assessed through questionnaires.

Angiogenesis and multiple myeloma: Exploring prognostic potential of adrenomedullin.

Background: Adrenomedullin (AM) is a multifunctional peptide which under basal conditions mainly regulates vasodilation and maintains vascular integrity but is also implicated in the pathogenesis of several malignancies, including multiple myeloma (MM). It has been shown that adrenomedullin is expressed by human myeloma cell lines and that it enhances MM-driven angiogenesis. However, the clinical impact of AM remains unknown.

An elementary proof of existence and uniqueness for the Euler flow in localized Yudovich spaces.

We revisit Yudovich's well-posedness result for the 2-dimensional Euler equations for an inviscid incompressible fluid on either a sufficiently regular (not necessarily bounded) open set or on the torus . We construct global-in-time weak solutions with vorticity in and in , where and are suitable uniformly-localized versions of the Lebesgue space and of the Yudovich space respectively, with no condition at infinity for the growth function  . We also provide an explicit modulus of continuity for the velocity depending on the growth function  .

Translating the COVID-19 epidemiological situation into policies and measures: the Belgian experience.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to sustained surveillance efforts, which made unprecedented volumes and types of data available. In Belgium, these data were used to conduct a targeted and regular assessment of the epidemiological situation. In addition, management tools were developed, incorporating key indicators and thresholds, to define risk levels and offer guidance to policy makers.