Prophylactic use of inotropic agents for the prevention of low cardiac output syndrome and mortality in adults undergoing cardiac surgery.

Background: As the burden of cardiovascular disease grows, so does the number of cardiac surgeries. Surgery is increasingly performed on older people with comorbidities who are at higher risk of developing perioperative complications such as low cardiac output state (LCOS). Surgery-associated LCOS represents a serious pathology responsible for substantial morbidity and mortality.

Race and Superfund site remediation.

Superfund is a federal program established in 1980 to manage the cleanup of hazardous waste sites across the United States. Given the health and economic costs borne by people living near these sites, any demographic disparities within the Superfund program are issues of environmental justice. We investigate whether racial demographics local to a Superfund site are associated with its cleanup status, and if so, how.

Bringing Molecules Together: Synergistic Coadsorption at Dopant Sites of Single Atom Alloys.

Bringing molecules together on a catalytic surface is a prerequisite for bimolecular and recombination reactions. However, in the absence of attractive interactions between reactants, such as hydrogen bonds, this poses a challenge. In contrast, based on density functional theory, we show that coadsorption at active sites of single-atom alloys (SAAs) is favored and that coadsorption is a general phenomenon observed for catalytically relevant adsorbates on a broad range of SAAs under temperature and pressure conditions commonly employed for catalysis.