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Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Costs
Department of Transportation —
The Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) of the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) established the ITS Costs Database as a... -
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Collection TIGER/Line Shapefile, 2019, Series Information for the Primary and Secondary Roads State-based Shapefile
U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce —
The TIGER/Line shapefiles and related database files (.dbf) are an extract of selected geographic and cartographic information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master... -
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Activation of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α protects against myocardial ischaemic injury and improves endothelial vasodilatation
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) plays an important role in the metabolism of lipoproteins and fatty acids, and seems to protect... -
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Collection National Transportation Library (NTL) Repository & Open Science Access Platform (ROSA P)
Department of Transportation —
The National Transportation Library (NTL) provides national and international access to transportation information, coordinates information creation and... -
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Transcutaneous flow related variables measured in vivo: the effects of gender
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Backgound The identification of potential sources of error is a crucial step for any new assessment technique. This is the case for transcutaneous variables, such as... -
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Debate: Should statin be used in patients with heart failure?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Statins reduce mortality of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, by protocol, trials have excluded patients with chronic heart failure. Since the... -
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Icodextrin as salvage therapy in peritoneal dialysis patients with refractory fluid overload
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Icodextrin is a high molecular weight, starch-derived glucose polymer, which is capable of inducing sustained ultrafiltration over prolonged (12–16 hour)... -
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What is the optimal prophylaxis for treatment of cardiac allograft vasculopathy?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Coronary artery disease in the transplanted heart, also known as cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), is one of the major causes of mortality late after... -
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Lack of agreement between bioimpedance and continuous thermodilution measurement of cardiac output in intensive care unit patients
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background: Bolus thermodilution is the standard bedside method of cardiac output measurement in the intensive care unit (ICU). The Baxter Vigilance monitor uses a... -
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Exertional dyspnea as initial manifestation of Takayasu's arteritis – A case report and literature review
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Takayasu's arteritis is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease that usually affects the aorta, its primary branches and occasionally the pulmonary and... -
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Omapatrilat normalizes renal function curve in spontaneously hypertensive rats
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The present study was designed to analyze the chronic renal response to omapatrilat, a new vasopeptidase inhibitor, in spontaneously hypertensive rats... -
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Acute hemodynamic effects of inhaled nitric oxide, dobutamine and a combination of the two in patients with mild to moderate secondary pulmonary hypertension
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Introduction The use of low-dose dobutamine to maintain hemodynamic stability in pulmonary hypertension may have a detrimental effect on gas exchange. The aim of this... -
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Why do antioxidants fail to provide clinical benefit?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The results of recent randomized trials to test the influence of antioxidants on coronary-event rates and prognosis in patients with coronary-artery disease were... -
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NARSTO EPA Supersite (SS) Fresno, Beta Attenuation Monitors (BAM) Meteorological Data
National Aeronautics and Space Administration —
NARSTO_EPA_SS_FRESNO_MET_DATA is North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO) Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Supersite (SS) Fresno, Beta... -
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A comparison of balloon injury models of endovascular lesions in rat arteries
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Balloon injury (BI) of the rat carotid artery (CCA) is widely used to study intimal hyperplasia (IH) and decrease in lumen diameter (LD), but CCA's small... -
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Is clopidogrel superior to aspirin in secondary prevention of vascular disease?
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
The cornerstone in clinical evidence of the relative efficacy of thienopyridines (clopidogrel, ticlopidine) versus aspirin in the secondary prevention of vascular... -
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Myocardial bridging as a cause of acute myocardial infarction: a case report
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background Systolic compression of a coronary artery by overlying myocardial tissue is termed myocardial bridging. Myocardial bridging usually has a benign prognosis,... -
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Equipment review: Intrahospital transport of critically ill patients
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background This review on the current literature of the intrahospital transport of critically ill patients addresses type and incidence of adverse effects, risk... -
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PKQuest: volatile solutes – application to enflurane, nitrous oxide, halothane, methoxyflurane and toluene pharmacokinetics
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Background The application of physiologically based pharmacokinetic models (PBPK) to human studies has been limited by the lack of the detailed organ information that... -
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Design of a randomized controlled trial of comprehensive rehabilitation in patients with myocardial infarction, stabilized acute coronary syndrome, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or coronary artery bypass grafting: Akershus Comprehensive C
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services —
Objectives 1. To assess the long-term effectiveness of a comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation programme on quality of life and survival in patients with a large...