Educating frontline health workers to support evidence-based management and treatment for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients: A literature review

Problem: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, yet frontline workers lack the capacity and education required to provide evidence-based management and support for COPD patients.Purpose: The aim of this review was to: (i) identify the respiratory education gaps within frontline health workers s

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The Biochemistry and Evolution of the Dinoflagellate Nucleus

Dinoflagellates are known to possess a highly aberrant nucleus—the so-called dinokaryon—that exhibits USB a multitude of exceptional biological features.These include: (1) Permanently condensed chromosomes; (2) DNA in a cholesteric liquid crystalline state, (3) extremely large DNA content (up to 200 pg); and, perhaps most strikingly, (4

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The enterprise culture heritage of Minangkabau cuisine, West Sumatra of Indonesia as a source of sustainable competitive advantage

Abstract The enterprise cultural heritage of the Minangkabau cuisine, West Sumatra in Indonesia was formed by several factors such as history, knowledge, and inheritance of processing procedures to the presentation of cuisine.Minangkabau cuisine has a wealth of assets in the form of Saucer Sets heterogeneity of culinary heritage resources that are

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Estimation of the Average Kappa Coefficient of a Binary Diagnostic Test in the Presence of Partial Verification

The average kappa coefficient of a binary diagnostic test is a measure of the beyond-chance average agreement between the binary diagnostic test and the gold standard, and it depends on the sensitivity and specificity of the diagnostic test and on disease prevalence.In this manuscript the estimation of the average kappa coefficient of a diagnostic

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A Chisel Generator for Standardized 3-D Die-to-Die Interconnects

A 3-D heterogeneous integration (3-D-HI) is poised to enable a new era of high-performance integrated circuits via a multitude of benefits, including a reduction in I/O power consumption and ability to tightly couple disparate technologies.However, a significant hurdle toward enabling a chiplet ecosystem is the standardization of 3-D die-to-die (D2

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