Background Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) has previously been shown to improve asthma
control out to 2 years in patients with severe persistent asthma. Objective We sought to assess …

Uncontrolled pilot studies demonstrated promising results of endoscopic lung volume
reduction using emphysematous lung sealant (ELS) in patients with advanced, upper lobe …

The objective of this study was to test whether a telehealth intervention could improve the
compliance with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) by patients with sleep apnea. …

Rationale: Biologic lung volume reduction (BioLVR) is a new endobronchial treatment for
advanced emphysema that reduces lung volume through tissue remodeling. Objectives: …

RESULTS Between Oct 11, 1990, and March 20, 1992, 50 consecutive thoracenteses that
met criteria were performed. Thirty-five thoracenteses were performed by fellows (21 by one …

We present an approach for estimating physical parameters in nonlinear models that relies
on an approximation to the mechanistic model itself for computational efficiency. The …

Processes in ocean physics, air-sea interaction and ocean biogeochemistry span enormous
ranges in spatial and temporal scales, that is, from molecular to planetary and from seconds …

As ecological data sets increase in spatial and temporal extent with the advent of new
remote sensing platforms and long-term monitoring networks, there is increasing interest in …

A growing body of evidence indicates that anthropogenic greenhouse gases are changing
Earth's climate, and that those changes may involve not only changes in climatic means but …

Extensive chemical research carried out in recent years has produced a rodenticide, sodium
fluoroacetate, which has been found to be very effective and extremely toxic. Sodium …