1H-NMR-BASED METABOLIC PROFILING OF HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS AND HIGH-RESOLUTION CT-CLASSIFIED PHENOTYPES OF COPD WITH TREATMENT OF TIOTROPIUM BROMIDE

1H-NMR-based metabolic profiling of healthy individuals and high-resolution CT-classified phenotypes of COPD with treatment of tiotropium bromide

Li-Chuan Tan,1 Wen-Jie Yang,2 Wei-Ping Fu,1 Ping Su,2 Jing-Kui Shu,1 Lu-Ming Dai1 1Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming 650032, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Respiratory, Baoshan People’s Hospital, Baoshan 678000, People’s Republic of Ch

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Practical and ethical complexities of MAiD: Examples from Quebec [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

Background: Legally practiced assisted dying is an ethically complex area in need of empirical and conceptual work.International research suggests that providing assisted dying may be experienced as rewarding and meaningful but also emotionally and psychologically taxing, associated with feelings of loss and loneliness.Yet little research has been

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Ballasting Weight on Net Buoyancy Changes and Submergence Depth for a Spherical Buoyancy–Driven Intelligent Float Based on the Ballasting Method

Net buoyancy changes affect hovering performance and increase the extra energy consumption of deep-sea intelligent floats (DIFs) at different submergence depths.To improve the adjustment efficiency of net buoyancy changes and solve the extra energy consumption problem at different submergence depths, this study proposes a combination model of balla

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