Search Results - "Lavan, A."

Physical and mental health of older people while cocooning during the COVID-19 pandemic by Bailey, L, Ward, M, DiCosimo, A, Baunta, S, Cunningham, C, Romero-Ortuno, R, Kenny, R A, Purcell, R, Lannon, R, McCarroll, K, Nee, R, Robinson, D, Lavan, A, Briggs, R

“…Summary Background Cocooning or shielding, i.e. staying at home and reducing face-to-face interaction with other people, was an important part of the response…”
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Electrically Controlled Drug Delivery from Biotin-Doped Conductive Polypyrrole by George, P. M., LaVan, D. A., Burdick, J. A., Chen, C.-Y., Liang, E., Langer, R.

“…A platform for controlled drug delivery using a conductive‐polymer substrate has been created. Through the incorporation of biotin into the conductive polymer…”
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Fabrication and biocompatibility of polypyrrole implants suitable for neural prosthetics by George, Paul M., Lyckman, Alvin W., LaVan, David A., Hegde, Anita, Leung, Yuika, Avasare, Rupali, Testa, Chris, Alexander, Phillip M., Langer, Robert, Sur, Mriganka

“…Finding a conductive substrate that promotes neural interactions is an essential step for advancing neural interfaces. The biocompatibility and conductive…”
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Small-scale systems for in vivo drug delivery by Langer, Robert, LaVan, David A, McGuire, Terry

“…Recent developments in the application of micro- and nanosystems for drug administration include a diverse range of new materials and methods. New approaches…”
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Inpatient referrals to a specialist falls and syncope service: prevalence of STOPPFall FRIDs and review of deprescribing patterns by O’Donnell, D., Zainal, T., Malomo, K., Fitzpatrick, N., Rice, C., Byrne, L., Briggs, R., Cunningham, C., Kenny, R. A., Lavan, A. H.

“…Falls are the commonest cause of accidental death in older people and the most frequent reason for their presentation to hospital. The Screening Tool of Older…”
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Impact of a specialist service in the Emergency Department on admission, length of stay and readmission of patients presenting with falls, syncope and dizziness by Jusmanova, K, Rice, C, Bourke, R, Lavan, A, McMahon, C G, Cunningham, C, Kenny, R A, Briggs, R

“…Summary Background Up to half of patients presenting with falls, syncope or dizziness are admitted to hospital. Many are discharged without a clear diagnosis…”
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Approaches for Biological and Biomimetic Energy Conversion by LaVan, David A., Cha, Jennifer N.

“…This article highlights areas of research at the interface of nanotechnology, the physical sciences, and biology that are related to energy conversion:…”
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Synthetic Protocells to Mimic and Test Cell Function by Xu, Jian, Sigworth, Fred J., LaVan, David A.

“…Synthetic protocells provide a new means to probe, mimic and deconstruct cell behavior; they are a powerful tool to quantify cell behavior and a useful…”
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Response: Impact of a specialist service in the emergency department on admission, length of stay and readmission of patients presenting with falls, syncope and dizziness by Jusmanova, K, Rice, C, Bourke, R, Lavan, A, McMahon, G, Cunningham, C, Kenny, R A, Briggs, R

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Nanocalorimetry-Coupled Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry: Identifying Evolved Species during High-Rate Thermal Measurements by Yi, Feng, DeLisio, Jeffery B., Zachariah, Michael R., LaVan, David A.

“…We report on measurements integrating a nanocalorimeter sensor into a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) for simultaneous thermal and speciation…”
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Letter to the editor, reply re: ‘Impact of a specialist service in the emergency department on admission, length of stay and readmission of patients presenting with falls, syncope and dizziness’ by Jusmanova, K, Rice, C, Bourke, R, Lavan, A, McMahon, G, Cunningham, C, Kenny, R A, Briggs, R

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Evaporation-Induced Self-Assembly of Hybrid Bridged Silsesquioxane Film and Particulate Mesophases with Integral Organic Functionality by Lu, Yunfeng, Fan, Hongyou, Doke, Nilesh, Loy, Douglas A, Assink, Roger A, LaVan, David A, Brinker, C. Jeffrey

“…We report an evaporation-induced self-assembly procedure to prepare poly(bridged silsesquioxane) thin-film and particulate mesophases that incorporate organic…”
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A nanocalorimetric study of the effect of composition gradients on crystallization in amorphous Cu-Zr thin films by Arlington, Shane Q., Yi, Feng, LaVan, David A., Weihs, Timothy P.

“…Nucleation, the initial formation of a new phase from a parent phase, plays an important role in the eventual microstructure and properties of materials…”
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Synthetic protocells interact with viral nanomachinery and inactivate pathogenic human virus by Porotto, Matteo, Yi, Feng, Moscona, Anne, LaVan, David A

“…We present a new antiviral strategy and research tool that could be applied to a wide range of enveloped viruses that infect human beings via membrane fusion…”
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Leveraging high heating rates to attain desirable reaction products in Al/Zr/C nanocomposites by Arlington, Shane Q., Neuhauser, Tobias, Short, Markus, Woll, Karsten, LaVan, David A., Fritz, Gregory M., Weihs, Timothy P.

“…[Display omitted] •Desired cermet formed by quenching or by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis.•High heating rates avoid formation of undesirable…”
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Moving smaller in drug discovery and delivery by Langer, Robert, LaVan, David A, Lynn, David M

“…Advances in new micro- and nanotechnologies are accelerating the identification and evaluation of drug candidates, and the development of new delivery…”
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Diaphragmatic repair through fetal tissue engineering: a comparison between mesenchymal amniocyte– and myoblast-based constructs by Kunisaki, Shaun M., Fuchs, Julie R., Kaviani, Amir, Oh, Jung-Tak, LaVan, David A., Vacanti, Joseph P., Wilson, Jay M., Fauza, Dario O.

“…We have previously shown that fetal tissue engineering is a preferred alternative to diaphragmatic repair in a large animal model. This study was aimed at…”
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Designing artificial cells to harness the biological ion concentration gradient by Lavan, David A, Xu, Jian

“…Cell membranes contain numerous nanoscale conductors in the form of ion channels and ion pumps 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 that work together to form ion concentration…”
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Adverse drug reactions as a cause of admission to a Dublin-based university teaching hospital by Walsh, D., Lavan, A., Cushen, A.-M., Williams, D.

“…Background A meta-analysis of 25 international studies suggests that 4.2–6.0 % of medical admissions are the result of an adverse drug reaction (ADR). One…”
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Crystallize It before It Diffuses: Kinetic Stabilization of Thin-Film Phosphorus-Rich Semiconductor CuP2 by Crovetto, Andrea, Kojda, Danny, Yi, Feng, Heinselman, Karen N., LaVan, David A., Habicht, Klaus, Unold, Thomas, Zakutayev, Andriy

“…Numerous phosphorus-rich metal phosphides containing both P–P bonds and metal–P bonds are known from the solid-state chemistry literature. A method to grow…”
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