Publications by authors named "P Kot"

Recently, there has been an increase in the number of aid campaigns launched via social media. The paper explores the phenomenon called "helping by clicking," which consists in clicking "Like" to support a charitable campaign or cause. The main aim of the paper is to present a new measure: The Helping by Clicking Types Questionnaire (HCTQ), assessing the patterns of helping by clicking.

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Introduction And Objectives: The occurrence of a difficult airway during intubation is a critical event in anaesthesia. Despite the usefulness of clinical predictors, difficult intubation frequently arises unexpectedly. The aim of this study was to determine the utility of airway ultrasound in detecting these patients.

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Although previous studies have reported that pre-mRNA splicing factors (SFs) are involved in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) via homologous recombination (HR), their exact role in promoting HR remains poorly understood. Here, we showed that SART1, an SF upregulated in several types of cancer, promotes DSB end resection, an essential first step of HR. The resection-promoting function of SART1 requires phosphorylation at threonine 430 and 695 by ATM/ATR.

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Trips and slips are significant causal perturbations leading to falls on stairs, especially in older people. The risk of a trip caused by a toe or heel catch on the step edge increases when clearance is small and variable between steps. The risk of a slip increases if the proportion of the foot area in contact with the step is reduced and variable between steps.

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