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Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics in Astrophysics

Volker Springel • Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (2010)

This review discusses smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) in the astrophysical context, with a focus on inviscid gas dynamics. The particle-based SPH technique allows an intuitive and simple formulation of hydrodynamics that has excellent...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-astro-081309-130914

Black holes in astrophysics

Ramesh Narayan • New Journal of Physics (2005)

This paper reviews the current status of black hole (BH) astrophysics, focusing on topics of interest to a physics audience. Astronomers have discovered dozens of compact objects with masses greater than 3 M ⊙ , the likely maximum mass of a...

OPENALEX cc-by DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/199

Neutrinos in Physics and Astrophysics

Chung W. Kim, Aihud Pevsner, Frank Seiulli • Physics Today (1995)

This work provides an overview of the subject of neutrino physics that will be of value to both the serious graduate student and the professional physicist. The authors focus on topics vital to the understanding of the intrinsic properties ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2807980

Adverse skin reactions to antiepileptic drugs - a review

Michalina Gruszczyńska, Adam Jarzemski, Agnieszka Kolossa, Rafał Porzych • Journal of Education, Health and Sport (2023)

Introduction and objective: Treatment with antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) is frequently used all around the world. Just like in the course of all the drugs administration, side effects may appear, including characteristic side effects presentin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.12775/JEHS.2023.21.01.002

Epigenetic Mechanisms and Nephrotic Syndrome: A Systematic Review

Samantha Hayward, Kevon Parmesar, Gavin I. Welsh, Matthew Suderman et al. • Biomedicines (2023)

A small subset of people with nephrotic syndrome (NS) have genetically driven disease. However, the disease mechanisms for the remaining majority are unknown. Epigenetic marks are reversible but stable regulators of gene expression with uti...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11020514

Epidemiology and risk factors of dementia

Wiesje M. van der Flier • Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry (2005)

ementia refers to a syndrome that is characterised by progressive deterioration of cognitive functions.Neuropsychiatric symptoms, such as apathy, agitation, and depression, are also common.With increasing loss of function, a patient is grad...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.2005.082867 PMC: 1765715

Epidemiology: Beyond the Basics

Robert McCarter • Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise (2000)

Epidemiology: Beyond the BasicsAuthors: SZKLO, Moyses, MD, DrPH (Johns Hopkins Univ.); NIETO, F. Javier, MD, PhD (Johns Hopkins Univ.) Bibliographic Data: (ISBN: 0–8342-0618–8, Aspen Publishers, Inc., 2000, $55.00) 495 pages, soft cover Aud...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00005768-200006000-00031

Hyperuricemia and dementia – a case-control study

Bettina Engel, Willy Gomm, Karl Broich, Wolfgang Maier et al. • BMC Neurology (2018)

Abstract Background There is evidence that uric acid may have antioxidant and neuroprotective effects and might therefore alter the risk for neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia. So far, the relation between serum uric acid (SUA) lev...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12883-018-1136-y

Studies of the epidemiology of bulimia nervosa

Christopher G. Fairburn, Sarah J. Beglin • American Journal of Psychiatry (1990)

Research on the epidemiology of bulimia nervosa has focused largely on the prevalence of the disorder. As methods have improved, consensus has increased regarding the prevalence rate among adolescent and young adult women--about 1%. However...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.147.4.401

Role of Goats in the Epidemiology of <i>Coxiella burnetii</i>

Sofia Anastácio, Sérgio Ramalho de Sousa, Maria José Saavedra, Gabriela Jorge da Silva • Biology (2022)

Since its first description in the late 1930s, Q fever has raised many questions. Coxiella burnetii, the causative agent, is a zoonotic pathogen affecting a wide range of hosts. This airborne organism leads to an obligate, intracellular lif...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/biology11121703

‘The public health turn on violence against women’: analysing Swedish healthcare law, public health and gender-equality policies

Ann Öhman, Monica Burman, Maria Carbin, Kerstin Edin • BMC Public Health (2020)

Abstract This article focuses on policy and law concerning violence against women as a public health issue. In Sweden, violence against women is recently recognized as a public health problem; we label this shift “The public health turn on ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12889-020-08766-7

Epidemiology of Peripheral Artery Disease

Michael H. Criqui, Victor Aboyans • Circulation Research (2015)

New data on the epidemiology of peripheral artery disease (PAD) are available, and they should be integrated with previous data. We provide an updated, integrated overview of the epidemiology of PAD, a focused literature review was conducte...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1161/circresaha.116.303849

Nurse-coordinated home-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure: A scoping review

Tiantian Ruan, Mengqi Xu, Lingyan Zhu, Yuan Ding • International Journal of Nursing Sciences (2023)

Objectives: This study aimed to review and summarize the studies of nurse-coordinated home-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients with heart failure. Methods: The review was performed using Arksey and O’Malley’s scoping review framework....

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.ijnss.2023.09.022

Culture at Work in Aviation and Medicine

Robert L. Helmreich, Ashleigh C. Merritt • Routledge eBooks (2019)

Published in 1998, culture forms a complex framework of national, organizational, and professional attitudes and values within which groups and individuals function. The reality and strength of culture become salient when we work within a n...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429463716

Recent advances in autonomous synthesis of materials

Yucen Li, Lingling Xia, Yiming Fan, Qinyue Wang et al. • ChemPhysMater (2022)

The synthesis of materials has been an important task throughout human history, and the ability to perform successful and efficient syntheses has been a factor in industrial revolutions and societal development. Recently, the rapid developm...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.chphma.2021.10.002

Legged Robots That Balance

Marc H. Raibert, Ernest R. Tello • IEEE Expert (1986)

This book, by a leading authority on legged locomotion, presents exciting engineering and science, along with fascinating implications for theories of human motor control. It lays fundamental groundwork in legged locomotion, one of the leas...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/mex.1986.4307016

Foundations of Robotics

Tsuneo Yoshikawa • The MIT Press eBooks (1990)

Foundations of Robotics presents the fundamental concepts and methodologies for the analysis, design, and control of robot manipulators. It explains the physical meaning of the concepts and equations used, and it provides, in an intuitively...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/3074.001.0001

Novel Blended Learning on Artificial Intelligence for Medical Students: Qualitative Interview Study

Zoe S Oftring, Kim Deutsch, Daniel Tolks, Florian Jungmann et al. • JMIR Medical Education (2025)

Abstract BackgroundArtificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming increasingly relevant in everyday clinical practice, with Food and Drug Administration–approved AI solutions now available in many specialties. This developmen...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/65220