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Int J Environ Res Public Health 2021 Mar 24;18(7). Epub 2021 Mar 24.

Department of Maritime and Transport Technology, Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands.

Over the last few decades, reliability analysis has attracted significant interest due to its importance in risk and asset integrity management. Meanwhile, Bayesian inference has proven its advantages over other statistical tools, such as maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) and least square estimation (LSE), in estimating the parameters characterizing failure modelling. Indeed, Bayesian inference can incorporate prior beliefs and information into the analysis, which could partially overcome the lack of data. Read More

Nanomaterials (Basel) 2021 Mar 18;11(3). Epub 2021 Mar 18.

Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, Via del Giochetto, 06123 Perugia, Italy.

The biomedical translational applications of functionalized nanoparticles require comprehensive studies on their effect on human stem cells. Here, we have tested neat star-shaped mesoporous silica nanoparticles (s-MSN) and their chemically functionalized derivates; we examined nanoparticles (NPs) with similar dimensions but different surface chemistry, due to the amino groups grafted on silica nanoparticles (s-MSN-NH), and gold nanoseeds chemically adsorbed on silica nanoparticles (s-MSN-Au). The different samples were dropped on glass coverslips to obtain a homogeneous deposition differing only for NPs' chemical functionalization and suitable for long-term culture of human Bone Marrow-Mesenchymal stem cells (hBM-MSCs) and Adipose stem cells (hASCs). Read More

Int Q Community Health Educ 2021 Mar 29:272684X211004951. Epub 2021 Mar 29.

Health Center of Tuyserkan, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.

Background: High blood pressure effects on patients' life. One of the problems in controlling blood pressure is lack of self-care. As a primary form of care, self-care is under patients' control and the patient's belief plays an important role in self-care behaviors. Read More

Int J Hyg Environ Health 2021 Mar 26;234:113740. Epub 2021 Mar 26.

National Centre for Environmental Health, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII), Majadahonda, Spain. Electronic address:

A fundamental objective of the human biomonitoring for Europe initiative (HBM4EU) is to progress toward comparable and robust exposure data for a wide variety of prioritized chemicals in human samples. A programme for Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) was designed in HBM4EU with the purpose of creating a network of European laboratories providing comparable analytical data of high quality. Two approaches were chosen for two sets of prioritized chemicals with different timelines: (i) Scheme 1, where interested candidate laboratories participated in multiple rounds of proficiency tests (ii) Scheme 2, where selected expert laboratories participated in three rounds of interlaboratory comparison investigations. Read More

J Anim Ecol 2021 Mar 16. Epub 2021 Mar 16.

Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, La Jolla, California, USA.

Understanding the effect of stage-specific traits on species feeding habits can reveal how natural selection shapes life strategies. Amino acid (AA) nitrogen stable isotopes (δ N) provide multiple proxies of habitat baseline values and diet that can improve our understanding of species feeding strategies relative to their animal metabolism. We evaluated the effect of body length as a proxy for life-stage and sex on the feeding habits of the common dolphin (Delphinus delphis delphis) using δ C and δ N in bulk tissue and AAs δ N from skin samples collected for almost two decades. Read More