Breaking barriers: The impact of telemedicine on improving soft tissue and bone tumor management in Armenia.

Purpose: Musculoskeletal sarcomas are a rare group of malignant neoplasms, accounting for approximately 12 % of all malignant neoplasms among children. Childhood cancer outcomes vary between developed and developing countries due to financial and educational inequalities. Telemedicine programs have a huge impact on the quality of cancer care, helping to optimize resources for better cancer care in a resource-limited setting.

Understanding the Retention of Vaping Additives in the Lungs: Model Lung Surfactant Membrane Perturbation by Vitamin E and Vitamin E Acetate.

Deviations from the normal physicochemical and functional properties of pulmonary surfactants are associated with the incidence of lung injury and other respiratory disorders. This study aims to evaluate the alteration of the 2D molecular organization and morphology of pulmonary surfactant model membranes by the electronic cigarette additives α-tocopherol (vitamin E) and α-tocopherol acetate (vitamin E acetate), which have been associated with lung injury, termed e-cigarette or vaping-use-associated lung injury (EVALI). The model membranes used contained a 7:3 molar ratio of DPPC (1,2-dipalmitoyl--glycero-3-phosphocholine) and POPG (1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl--glycero-3-phosphoglycerol) to which α-tocopherol and α-tocopherol acetate were added to form mixtures of up to 20 mol % additive.

The Coastal Carbon Library and Atlas: Open source soil data and tools supporting blue carbon research and policy.

Quantifying carbon fluxes into and out of coastal soils is critical to meeting greenhouse gas reduction and coastal resiliency goals. Numerous 'blue carbon' studies have generated, or benefitted from, synthetic datasets. However, the community those efforts inspired does not have a centralized, standardized database of disaggregated data used to estimate carbon stocks and fluxes.