Publications by authors named "R Grabowski"

Antibodies are a cornerstone of the immune system, playing a pivotal role in identifying and neutralizing infections caused by bacteria, viruses, and other pathogens. Understanding their structure, and function, can provide insights into both the body's natural defenses and the principles behind many therapeutic interventions, including vaccines and antibody-based drugs. The analysis and annotation of antibody sequences, including the identification of variable, diversity, joining, and constant genes, as well as the delineation of framework regions and complementarity-determining regions, is essential for understanding their structure and function.

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Resilience, which can also be described as absorbing capacity, describes the amount of change that a system can undergo in response to disturbance and maintain a characteristic, self-sustaining regime of functions, processes, or sets of feedback loops. Rivers exhibit varying levels of resilience, but the net effect of industrialized anthropogenic alteration has been to suppress river resilience. As changing climate alters the inputs to rivers and human modification alters the morphology and connectivity of rivers, restoration increasingly considers how to enhance resilience.

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  • Airport de-icing has been shown to contribute to the growth of undesirable river biofilms (URBs), which can lead to long-term ecological issues in waterways.
  • The study aimed to identify which freeze-point depressants (FPDs) promote growth in a specific filamentous bacterium associated with URBs, compare the effectiveness of different FPDs and commercial airport de-icers (CADs), and analyze the influences of carbon sources on microbial growth.
  • Findings indicated that the bacteria thrive on various FPDs, with sodium acetate facilitating the fastest growth, while propylene glycol and ethylene glycol showed varying strengths in total growth and growth rate, highlighting limited effects from additives in commercial products on the bacterium's growth.
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Unlabelled: The risk of hypoglycemia and its serious medical sequelae restrict insulin replacement therapy for diabetes mellitus. Such adverse clinical impact has motivated development of diverse glucose-responsive technologies, including algorithm-controlled insulin pumps linked to continuous glucose monitors ("closed-loop systems") and glucose-sensing ("smart") insulins. These technologies seek to optimize glycemic control while minimizing hypoglycemic risk.

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The inclusion of nurse practitioners (NPs) in critical care transport teams has the potential to enhance patient care and improve team operations. NPs can manage complex clinical situations during transport and excel in various roles such as leadership, education, mentoring, research, quality improvement, and clinical expertise. As we navigate the evolving landscape of critical care transport, it is crucial to explore the potential benefits offered by NPs.

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