Search Results - "CASTRO, MARIO"

Conditional likelihood inference in a heteroscedastic functional measurement error model by Galea, Manuel, de Castro, Mário

“…In this paper, we deal with inference about the structural parameters in a heteroscedastic functional measurement error models under the normal distribution…”
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Submergence and Waterlogging Stress in Plants: A Review Highlighting Research Opportunities and Understudied Aspects by Fukao, Takeshi, Barrera-Figueroa, Blanca Estela, Juntawong, Piyada, Peña-Castro, Julián Mario

“…Soil flooding creates composite and complex stress in plants known as either submergence or waterlogging stress depending on the depth of the water table. In…”
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A new family of generalized distributions by Cordeiro, Gauss M., de Castro, Mário

“…Kumaraswamy [Generalized probability density-function for double-bounded random-processes, J. Hydrol. 462 (1980), pp. 79-88] introduced a distribution for…”
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Model for Nonrelativistic Topological Multiferroic Matter by Saez, Guidobeth, Castro, Mario A, Allende, Sebastian, Nunez, Alvaro S

“…We provide a model capable of accounting for the multiferroicity in certain materials. The model's base is on free electrons and spin moments coupled within…”
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Short-course systemic corticosteroids in asthma: striking the balance between efficacy and safety by Price, David, Castro, Mario, Bourdin, Arnaud, Fucile, Sebastian, Altman, Pablo

“…Short courses of systemic corticosteroids (SCS), both oral and injectable, are very effective for the resolution of acute asthma symptoms, including…”
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Efficacy and Safety of Dupilumab in Glucocorticoid-Dependent Severe Asthma by Rabe, Klaus F, Nair, Parameswaran, Brusselle, Guy, Maspero, Jorge F, Castro, Mario, Sher, Lawrence, Zhu, Hongjie, Hamilton, Jennifer D, Swanson, Brian N, Khan, Asif, Chao, Jingdong, Staudinger, Heribert, Pirozzi, Gianluca, Antoni, Christian, Amin, Nikhil, Ruddy, Marcella, Akinlade, Bolanle, Graham, Neil M.H, Stahl, Neil, Yancopoulos, George D, Teper, Ariel

“…Patients who used oral glucocorticoids for asthma were able to reduce the dose of treatment more successfully when dupilumab, a monoclonal antibody targeting…”
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Management of severe asthma: a European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society guideline by Holguin, Fernando, Cardet, Juan Carlos, Chung, Kian Fan, Diver, Sarah, Ferreira, Diogenes S, Fitzpatrick, Anne, Gaga, Mina, Kellermeyer, Liz, Khurana, Sandhya, Knight, Shandra, McDonald, Vanessa M, Morgan, Rebecca L, Ortega, Victor E, Rigau, David, Subbarao, Padmaja, Tonia, Thomy, Adcock, Ian M, Bleecker, Eugene R, Brightling, Chris, Boulet, Louis-Philippe, Cabana, Michael, Castro, Mario, Chanez, Pascal, Custovic, Adnan, Djukanovic, Ratko, Frey, Urs, Frankemölle, Betty, Gibson, Peter, Hamerlijnck, Dominique, Jarjour, Nizar, Konno, Satoshi, Shen, Huahao, Vitary, Cathy, Bush, Andy

“…This document provides clinical recommendations for the management of severe asthma. Comprehensive evidence syntheses, including meta-analyses, were performed…”
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Testing structural identifiability by a simple scaling method by Castro, Mario, de Boer, Rob J

“…Successful mathematical modeling of biological processes relies on the expertise of the modeler to capture the essential mechanisms in the process at hand and…”
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Dupilumab Efficacy and Safety in Moderate-to-Severe Uncontrolled Asthma by Castro, Mario, Corren, Jonathan, Pavord, Ian D, Maspero, Jorge, Wenzel, Sally, Rabe, Klaus F, Busse, William W, Ford, Linda, Sher, Lawrence, FitzGerald, J. Mark, Katelaris, Constance, Tohda, Yuji, Zhang, Bingzhi, Staudinger, Heribert, Pirozzi, Gianluca, Amin, Nikhil, Ruddy, Marcella, Akinlade, Bolanle, Khan, Asif, Chao, Jingdong, Martincova, Renata, Graham, Neil M.H, Hamilton, Jennifer D, Swanson, Brian N, Stahl, Neil, Yancopoulos, George D, Teper, Ariel

“…Treatment of uncontrolled asthma with dupilumab, an anti–interleukin-4 and anti–interleukin-13 receptor monoclonal antibody, in addition to usual therapy, led…”
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Vision-based change detection for inspection of tunnel liners by Attard, Leanne, Debono, Carl James, Valentino, Gianluca, Di Castro, Mario

“…Tunnel inspections may demand personnel to access hazardous environments soliciting the need for robotic operations to minimize human intervention. CERN, the…”
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Unsupervised phenotyping of Severe Asthma Research Program participants using expanded lung data by Wu, Wei, PhD, Bleecker, Eugene, MD, Moore, Wendy, MD, Busse, William W., MD, Castro, Mario, MD, Chung, Kian Fan, MD, Calhoun, William J., MD, Erzurum, Serpil, MD, Gaston, Benjamin, MD, Israel, Elliot, MD, Curran-Everett, Douglas, PhD, Wenzel, Sally E., MD

“…Background Previous studies have identified asthma phenotypes based on small numbers of clinical, physiologic, or inflammatory characteristics. However, no…”
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Dupilumab efficacy and safety in adults with uncontrolled persistent asthma despite use of medium-to-high-dose inhaled corticosteroids plus a long-acting β2 agonist: a randomised double-blind placebo-controlled pivotal phase 2b dose-ranging trial by Wenzel, Sally, Prof, Castro, Mario, MD, Corren, Jonathan, MD, Maspero, Jorge, MD, Wang, Lin, PhD, Zhang, Bingzhi, PhD, Pirozzi, Gianluca, MD, Sutherland, E Rand, MD, Evans, Robert R, PharmD, Joish, Vijay N, PhD, Eckert, Laurent, PhD, Graham, Neil M H, MD, Stahl, Neil, PhD, Yancopoulos, George D, MD, Louis-Tisserand, Mariana, MD, Teper, Ariel, MD

“…Summary Background Dupilumab, a fully human anti-interleukin-4 receptor α monoclonal antibody, inhibits interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 signalling, key…”
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Improvement in Sunlight-Irradiated Photocatalytic Activity and Stability of Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2/g-C3N4 for Dye Mixture Degradation by Castro, Mário A. M., Galvão, José Victor S., Morais, Débora F. S., Teodoro, Marcio D., Souza, Ricardo P., Bomio, Maurício R. D., Motta, Fabiana V.

“…In this work, heterostructures formed by carbon nitride (CN) and hydroxyapatite (HAp) were successfully synthesized by the microwave-assisted hydrothermal…”
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Reslizumab for inadequately controlled asthma with elevated blood eosinophil counts: results from two multicentre, parallel, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trials by Castro, Mario, Prof, Zangrilli, James, MD, Wechsler, Michael E, Prof, Bateman, Eric D, Prof, Brusselle, Guy G, Prof, Bardin, Philip, Prof, Murphy, Kevin, MD, Maspero, Jorge F, MD, O'Brien, Christopher, MD, Korn, Stephanie, MD

“…Summary Background Elevated numbers of blood eosinophils are a risk factor for asthma exacerbations. Reslizumab is a humanised anti-interleukin 5 monoclonal…”
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A Bayesian analysis of the matching problem by Vidal, Ignacio, de Castro, Mário

“…The matching problem is known since the beginning of the eighteenth century and Bayesian solutions have been proposed. In this paper, we present a Bayesian…”
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Evidence for Exacerbation-Prone Asthma and Predictive Biomarkers of Exacerbation Frequency by Peters, Michael C, Mauger, David, Ross, Kristie R, Phillips, Brenda, Gaston, Benjamin, Cardet, Juan Carlos, Israel, Elliot, Levy, Bruce D, Phipatanakul, Wanda, Jarjour, Nizar N, Castro, Mario, Wenzel, Sally E, Hastie, Annette, Moore, Wendy, Bleecker, Eugene, Fahy, John V, Denlinger, Loren C

“…Cross-sectional studies suggest an exacerbation-prone asthma (EPA) phenotype and the utility of blood eosinophils and plasma IL-6 as predictive biomarkers. To…”
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Determinants of asthma after severe respiratory syncytial virus bronchiolitis by Bacharier, Leonard B., MD, Cohen, Rebecca, MD, Schweiger, Toni, RN, Yin-DeClue, Huiquing, PhD, Christie, Chandrika, MA, Zheng, Jie, MS, Schechtman, Kenneth B., PhD, Strunk, Robert C., MD, Castro, Mario, MD, MPH

“…Background The development of asthma after respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) bronchiolitis has been demonstrated in case-control studies, although the…”
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Heterogeneity of severe asthma in childhood: Confirmation by cluster analysis of children in the National Institutes of Health/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Severe Asthma Research Program by Fitzpatrick, Anne M., PhD, Teague, W. Gerald, MD, Meyers, Deborah A., PhD, Peters, Stephen P., MD, PhD, Li, Xingnan, PhD, Li, Huashi, MS, Wenzel, Sally E., MD, Aujla, Shean, MD, Castro, Mario, MD, Bacharier, Leonard B., MD, Gaston, Benjamin M., MD, Bleecker, Eugene R., MD, Moore, Wendy C., MD

“…Background Asthma in children is a heterogeneous disorder with many phenotypes. Although unsupervised cluster analysis is a useful tool for identifying…”
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Bayesian inference in measurement error models from objective priors for the bivariate normal distribution by de Castro, Mário, Vidal, Ignacio

“…In regression analysis, when the covariates are not exactly observed, measurement error models extend the usual regression models toward a more realistic…”
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The upper-airway microbiota and loss of asthma control among asthmatic children by Zhou, Yanjiao, Jackson, Daniel, Bacharier, Leonard B., Mauger, David, Boushey, Homer, Castro, Mario, Durack, Juliana, Huang, Yvonne, Lemanske, Robert F., Storch, Gregory A., Weinstock, George M., Wylie, Kristine, Covar, Ronina, Fitzpatrick, Anne M., Phipatanakul, Wanda, Robison, Rachel G., Beigelman, Avraham

“…The airway microbiome has an important role in asthma pathophysiology. However, little is known on the relationships between the airway microbiome of asthmatic…”
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