Far-field effects of the Nile damming on the silica cycle in the Southeastern Mediterranean Sea.

Silica plays a key role in the growth of silicifying primary producers (e.g., diatoms) and hence the ocean carbon pump.

Research informatics and the COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges, innovations, lessons learned, and recommendations.

The recipients of NIH's Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) have worked for over a decade to build informatics infrastructure in support of clinical and translational research. This infrastructure has proved invaluable for supporting responses to the current COVID-19 pandemic through direct patient care, clinical decision support, training researchers and practitioners, as well as public health surveillance and clinical research to levels that could not have been accomplished without the years of ground-laying work by the CTSAs. In this paper, we provide a perspective on our COVID-19 work and present relevant results of a survey of CTSA sites to broaden our understanding of the key features of their informatics programs, the informatics-related challenges they have experienced under COVID-19, and some of the innovations and solutions they developed in response to the pandemic.

Spatial and temporal assessment of oil spills in the Mediterranean Sea.

Ship-generated oil pollution is a significant threat to the Mediterranean Sea. We present a geostatistical analysis of oil spills using three databases for the Mediterranean Sea: REMPEC (1977-2000) with 385 spills (17/year), ITOPF (1970-2018) with 167 spills (3.5/year) and EMSA (2015-2017) with 2066 detections (688/year).

Milk Consumption and Respiratory Function in Asthma Patients: NHANES Analysis 2007-2012.

Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, asthma prevalence has steadily risen since the 1980s. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), we investigated associations between milk consumption and pulmonary function (PF). Multivariable analyses were performed, adjusted for potential confounders for lung function, within the eligible total adult population ( = 11,131) and those self-reporting asthma ( = 1,542), included the following variables: milk-consumption, asthma diagnosis, forced vital capacity (FVC), FVC%-predicted (%), forced expiratory volume in one-second (FEV), FEV% and FEV/FVC.