OBJECTIVES: To determine the effect of the addition of noninvasive positive-pressure
ventilation (NPPV) to standard medical therapy on length of hospital stay among patients …

Purpose Early clinical failure criteria (ECFC) were recently introduced to predict unfavorable
outcomes in patients with Gram-negative bloodstream infections (BSI). ECFC include …

ContextNoninvasive positive-pressure ventilation (NPPV) has been demonstrated to be
effective in preventing the need for endotracheal intubation in some patients who present with …

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Tropical forests disappear rapidly because of deforestation, yet they have the potential to
regrow naturally on abandoned lands. We analyze how 12 forest attributes recover during …

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Autophagy activation has the potential to ameliorate neurodegenerative disease phenotypes,
including protein aggregation, lipid level perturbations and axonal trafficking defects. We …

… Reconstruction only emphasized that stratification, and Powers examines in detail the
aspirations and concessions that shaped the lives of the newly freed blacks, who were led by a …

A new monoclonal antibody (MAb), F99/97.6.1, that has been used to demonstrate scrapie-associated
prion protein PrP sc in brain and lymphoid tissues of domestic sheep with scrapie …

Few figures in American history have faded farther from renown to obscurity than John
Taylor of Caroline. John Taylor was not only a widely respected United States Senator and …