Publications by authors named "R Ortiz"

More than a billion people live in fragile, conflict-affected, and vulnerable settings requiring humanitarian support, where cancer is a substantial health issue. Despite its substantial effect on populations, cancer care remains underprioritised in emergency preparedness and response frameworks and humanitarian operational planning. This Policy Review summarises the perspectives and actionable recommendations from the First Global High-Level Technical Meeting on Non-communicable Diseases in Humanitarian Settings, with a focus on cancer.

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Ligands containing phenanthridine (benzo[c]quinoline) have presented notable exceptions to the conventional logic that increasing ligand benzannulation leads to bathochromic (red) shifts in the absorption and emission of their coordination complexes. The counterintuitive blue shifts have been attributed to the peculiar structure of phenanthridines, whose ground states are dominated by imine-bridged biphenyl resonance contributors. These serve to isolate the C=N unit electronically from the rest of the ligand framework and allow the C=N moiety to act as a 'shock-absorber', buffering against larger molecular distortions in a molecule's excited state, and reducing the observed pseudo-Stokes' shift.

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Hemorrhage leading to life-threatening shock is a common and critical problem in both civilian and military medicine. Due to complex physiological compensatory mechanisms, traditional vital signs may fail to detect patients' impending hemorrhagic shock in a timely manner when life-saving interventions are still viable. To address this shortcoming of traditional vital signs in detecting hemorrhagic shock, we have attempted to identify metrics that can predict blood loss.

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Child lifestyle behaviors are influenced by their caregivers. Targeting the caregiver-child relationship can establish healthy habits, especially healthful eating patterns, in both the caregiver and child. The purpose of this study was to identify the context for addressing strategies used to establish nutritious eating for the caregiver and child taken together as a unit (e.

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