Publications by authors named "N W Linton"
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- Shape Memory Polymers (SMPs) have great potential for medical applications, but their usage has been limited due to challenges in processing and production.
- This study introduces a thermal drawing technique to create Shape Memory Polymer Fibers (SMPFs) that allow for programmable stiffness and shape control, specifically designed for medical devices.
- The research explores various applications of these SMPFs in medical devices like adjustable catheters, neural interfaces, and cochlear implants, demonstrating their versatility and potential in programmable mechanical functions.
The effective reproduction number serves as a metric of population-wide, time-varying disease spread. During the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, this metric was primarily derived from case data, which has varied in quality and representativeness due to changes in testing volume, test-seeking behavior, and resource constraints. Deriving nowcasting estimates from alternative data sources such as wastewater provides complementary information that could inform future public health responses.
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- Epidemiological delays are crucial for shaping public health policies and informing clinical practices, often used in models to develop control strategies.
- Recent findings indicate that common errors in estimating these delays, such as censoring and dynamical bias, can significantly impact various applications.
- The text presents best practices and a flowchart to help practitioners better estimate and report these delays, particularly focusing on the incubation period and serial interval, which are vital for managing outbreaks.
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are at risk for lethal ventricular arrhythmia, but the electrophysiological substrate behind this is not well-understood. We used non-invasive electrocardiographic imaging to characterize patients with HCM, including cardiac arrest survivors. HCM patients surviving ventricular fibrillation or hemodynamically unstable ventricular tachycardia (n = 17) were compared to HCM patients without a personal history of potentially lethal arrhythmia (n = 20) and a pooled control group with structurally normal hearts.
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