The concept of robustness has been widely used in water resources management to identify solutions that perform satisfactorily across a range of plausible future conditions to increase confidence in decision-making in a deeply uncertain future. However, the selection of an appropriate metric to quantify robustness remains challenging due to the existence of multiple choices reflecting different risk preferences. In addition, different scenarios can be used to represent plausible future conditions, which adds another layer of complexity to solution identification.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: When choosing between different treatment options, implants often appear too costly. However, this perspective does not take future costs into account. This article evaluates lifetime costs for different surgical interventions to treat hearing loss.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of a fatal, clonal, autonomously proliferating CD4-CD8- chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)+ peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) occurred 1 month after a patient received treatment with tisagenlecleucel for relapsed primary central nervous system lymphoma. The PTCL had a clonal T-cell receptor rearrangement, which was already detectable in the apheresis product for CAR T-cell manufacturing and 7 months earlier for autologous transplantation. Somatic and mutations in CD34+ stem cells and their progeny were detected in the PTCL, in the apheresis specimen that was obtained for CAR T-cell production, and in the autotransplant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPredicting the probability that a given location will be burnt by a wildfire is an important part of understanding the risk that wildfires pose and how our management actions (e.g., prescribed burning) can reduce this risk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Mater Sci Mater Med
October 2024
This study aimed to investigate adhesive shear bond strength (SBS) on an ultrafine-grained niobium alloy (UFG-Nb) that is a potential dental implant material. SBS of three adhesive systems combined with three composites to UFG-Nb was compared to corresponding SBS to Ti-6Al-4V and to zirconia. Specimens of the substrates UFG-Nb, Ti-6Al-4V and zirconia with plane surfaces were sandblasted with AlO, cleaned and dried.
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