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Int J Environ Res Public Health
December 2024
Institute of Integrated Atmospheric Environment, 1-2-8 Koraku, Bunkyo, Tokyo 112-0004, Japan.
Concerns regarding the health risks associated with employe exposure to volatile chemicals during gasoline refueling necessitates rigorous investigation and effective countermeasures. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of vapor recovery systems in mitigating exposure risks during gasoline refueling. Employee exposure to volatile organic compounds, aldehydes, carbon monoxide, and fine particulate matter (PM) was assessed at gasoline stations with and without vapor recovery systems.
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January 2025
Element Iowa City (JMI Laboratories), 345 Beaver Kreek Centre, Suite A North Liberty, Iowa, IA, 52317, USA.
Background: Initial antimicrobial therapy for pneumonia is frequently empirical and resistance to antimicrobial agents represents a great challenge to the treatment of patients hospitalized with pneumonia. We evaluated the frequency and antimicrobial susceptibility of Gram-negative bacteria causing pneumonia in US hospitals.
Methods: Bacterial isolates were consecutively collected (1/patient) from patients hospitalized with pneumonia and the susceptibility of Gram-negative bacilli (3,911 Enterobacterales and 2,753 non-fermenters) was evaluated by broth microdilution in a monitoring laboratory.
Aerosp Med Hum Perform
January 2025
Introduction: Insomnia and sleep apnea (SA) can have adverse effects on operating aircraft. This study examined trends in insomnia and SA incidence rates in U.S.
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January 2025
Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, USA.
In a prospective study, we examined the recovery trajectory of patients with lower extremity fractures to better understand the healing process in the absence of complications. Using a chest-mounted inertial measurement unit (IMU) device for gait analysis and collecting patient-reported outcome measures, we focused on 12 key gait variables, including Mean Leg Lift Acceleration, Stance Time, and Body Orientation. We employed a linear mixed model (LMM) to analyze these variables over time, incorporating both fixed and random effects to account for individual differences and the time since injury.
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January 2025
Key Laboratory for Environmental Factors Control of Agro-product Quality Safety (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs), Tianjin Key Laboratory of Agro-environment and Safe-product, Institute of Agro-environmental Protection, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Tianjin 300191, China.
Nitrogen-fixing microorganisms (NFMs) are important components of soil N sinks and are influenced by multiple environmental factors. We established a random forest model optimized by the distributed delayed particle swarm optimization (RODDPSO) algorithm to analyze the global NFM data. Soil pH, organic carbon (OC), mean annual precipitation (MAP), altitude, and total phosphorus (TP) are factors with contributions greater than 10% to NFMs.
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