Publications by authors named "K J Weinhold"
There is a body of evidence that ultrafine particles (UFP, those with diameters ≤ 100 nm) might have significant impacts on health. Accordingly, identifying sources of UFP is essential to develop abatement policies. This study focuses on urban Europe, and aims at identifying sources and quantifying their contributions to particle number size distribution (PNSD) using receptor modelling (Positive Matrix Factorization, PMF), and evaluating long-term trends of these source contributions using the non-parametric Theil-Sen's method.
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- Atmospheric new particle formation (NPF) is the natural process of creating tiny particles (sub-10 nm) from gases, observed globally in various environments.
- Although these particles impact total and ultrafine particle concentrations, there is limited research on their health effects largely due to a lack of specific identifiers in existing data.
- This study introduces an automated machine learning algorithm that identifies NPF events from particle data across 65 global measurement sites from 1996 to 2023, facilitating future research on NPF.
Background: Approximately half of patients with localised, high-risk soft tissue sarcoma of the extremity develop metastases. We aimed to assess whether the addition of pembrolizumab to preoperative radiotherapy and surgery would improve disease-free survival.
Methods: We completed an open-label, randomised clinical trial in patients with grade 2 or 3, stage III undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma or dedifferentiated or pleomorphic liposarcoma of the extremity and limb girdle.
Background: Direct comparison of tumor microenvironment of matched lung cancer biopsies and pleural effusions (PE) from the same patients is critical in understanding tumor biology but has not been performed. This is the first study to compare the lung cancer and PE microenvironment by single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq).
Methods: Matched lung cancer biopsies and PE were obtained prospectively from ten patients.
New particle formation (NPF) is a major source of atmospheric aerosol particles, including cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), by number globally. Previous research has highlighted that NPF is less frequent but more intense at roadsides compared to urban background. Here, we closely examine NPF at both background and roadside sites in urban Central Europe.
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