Publications by authors named "M H Ashby"

Venetoclax plus azacitidine represents a key advance for older, unfit patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The chemotherapy and venetoclax in elderly AML trial (CAVEAT) was first to combine venetoclax with intensive chemotherapy in newly diagnosed patients ≥65 years. In this final analysis, 85 patients (median age 71 years) were followed for a median of 41.

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Background: Bluetongue virus serotype 3 (BTV-3) was detected for the first time in cattle and sheep in southern England in 2023, the first UK BTV incursion for more than 15 years. Clinical signs were not observed, yet severe clinical disease and mortality were reported during recent BTV-3 outbreaks in northern Europe.

Methods: To investigate the clinical disease and infection kinetics associated with this UK BTV-3 strain, five British sheep were infected with a UK BTV-3 isolate using Culicoides biting midges.

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Nano-patterned magnetic materials have opened new venues for the investigation of strongly correlated phenomena including artificial spin-ice systems, geometric frustration, and magnetic monopoles, for technologically important applications such as reconfigurable ferromagnetism. With the advent of atomically thin 2D van der Waals (vdW) magnets, a pertinent question is whether such compounds could make their way into this realm where interactions can be tailored so that unconventional states of matter can be assessed. Here, it is shown that square islands of CrGeTe vdW ferromagnets distributed in a grid manifest antiferromagnetic correlations, essential to enable frustration resulting in an artificial spin-ice.

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  • - The study evaluated the reliability of a method called detrended fluctuation analysis of heart rate variability (DFA-α1) for determining exercise intensity thresholds and compared it to traditional methods based on blood lactate and gas exchange for a group of 37 participants.
  • - Test results showed that DFA-α1 had good reliability and moderate agreement with the other two methods, although the accuracy of thresholds varied depending on participants' cardiorespiratory fitness levels.
  • - The findings indicated that male participants had a higher bias in threshold measurements compared to females, and to improve DFA-α1 accuracy, adjustments should be made based on both sex and fitness levels.
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