Publications by authors named "S LOEWE LYON"
Probing the Nanostructure and Reactivity of Epoxy-Amine Interphases.
ACS Appl Mater Interfaces
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- Understanding the interphase regions in epoxy resins is crucial for enhancing their mechanical properties, like fracture strength and barrier performance, as these areas are often weak spots.
- Conventional methods struggle to analyze these nanoscale regions, making it hard to understand their formation processes.
- By using molecular dynamics simulations and infrared mapping, researchers discovered that binding interactions of the amine cross-linker with various metal oxide surfaces affect binding energies, while also revealing that an excess of reactive materials remains near the particles, indicating potential undercuring in the matrix.
Article Synopsis
- - The study focused on cancer patients in Mbarara, Uganda, who developed infections after chemotherapy, aiming to assess the 30-day fatality rate and identify risk factors for mortality.
- - Out of 150 patients studied, 42% died within 30 days, with pneumonia being the most common infection; factors such as high qSOFA and UVA scores were linked to increased mortality.
- - The research concluded that the mortality rate for these infections was significant and highlighted the effectiveness of clinical risk scores (ECOG, qSOFA, UVA) in predicting patient outcomes.
The Competency-Based Veterinary Education (CBVE) Analyze Working Group of the American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges (AAVMC) Council on Outcomes-based Veterinary Education (COVE) has developed a CBVE assessment toolkit. The toolkit is designed to provide curriculum committees and individual instructors with an opportune intersection of the CBVE domains of competence and various assessment techniques. College-wide curriculum committees can use the toolkit to guide programs of assessment in the larger unit, ensuring that assessment methods are aligned with intended learning outcomes throughout the curriculum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to identify qualitative aspects of small animal veterinary internship applications that are associated with relative intern performance. This study took place with data collected on small animal interns from the 2015-2016, 2016-2017, and 2017-2018 intern classes from four different institutions. Applicants were divided into top-performers and bottom-performers by sorting the calculated overall scores from highest to lowest, labeling the top half of interns as "top-performers," and the lower half of interns as "bottom-performers.
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