Remote Patient Monitoring and Machine Learning in Acute Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Dual Systematic Literature Review and Narrative Synthesis.

Background: Acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD) are associated with high mortality, morbidity, and poor quality of life and constitute a substantial burden to patients and health care systems. New approaches to prevent or reduce the severity of AECOPD are urgently needed. Internationally, this has prompted increased interest in the potential of remote patient monitoring (RPM) and digital medicine.

Exacerbation predictive modelling using real-world data from the myCOPD app.

Background: Acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) are episodes of breathlessness, cough and sputum which are associated with the risk of hospitalisation, progressive lung function decline and death. They are often missed or diagnosed late. Accurate timely intervention can improve these poor outcomes.

Determining unilateral or bilateral hearing aid preference in adults: a prospective study.

Objective: Despite high rates of bilateral hearing aid fitting globally, a number of adults continue to reject one hearing aid. The current study aimed to identify a clinically suitable tool for determining, pre-fitting, which clients might prefer one hearing aid.

Unlabelled: Ninety-five new adult hearing aid candidates, aged 49-87 years, were assessed prior to a first hearing aid fitting.

Quantum liquids.

This article is dedicated to Roger A Cowley and his seminal contributions to our understanding of quantum liquids, both liquidHe andHe. Roger Cowley's neutron scattering measurements of the collective and independent particle response of liquidHe were made at Chalk River Laboratories in 1965-74 chiefly with A D B (Dave) Woods. They measured the phonon-roton (P-R) mode energy, intensity and width with new precision.

Determination of Dynamical Heterogeneity from Dynamic Neutron Scattering of Proteins.

Motional displacements of hydrogen (H) in proteins can be measured using incoherent neutron-scattering methods. These displacements can also be calculated numerically using data from molecular dynamics simulations. An enormous amount of data on the average mean-square motional displacement (MSD) of H as a function of protein temperature, hydration, and other conditions has been collected.