BackgroundThe extent that controlled diabetes impacts upon mortality, compared with uncontrolled diabetes, and how pre-diabetes alters mortality risk remain issues requiring clarification.MethodsWe carried out a cohort study of 22,106 Health Survey for England participants with a HbA1C measurement linked with UK mortality records.We estimated hazar
Biomedical Term Extraction: NLP Techniques in Computational Medicine
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its branch Natural Language Processing (NLP) in particular are main contributors to recent advances in classifying documentation and extracting information from assorted fields, Medicine being one that has gathered a lot of attention due to the amount of information generated in public professional journals and othe
Photolysis of hexamethylenediaminetetra(methylenephosphonic acid) (HDTMP) using manganese and hydrogen peroxide
Aminophosphonates such as hexamethylenediaminetreta(methylene phosphonic acid) (HDTMP) are categorised as persistent substances.They are commonly used as scale inhibitors in cooling water systems and desalination processes.After utilisation, they are often discharged into aquatic environment without pre-treatment.Advanced oxidation processes (AOP)
Relationship between damage and structural vulnerability in historical heritage: Case study of San Fernando de Bocachica Fort, Cartagena de Indias
The restoration process for historical heritage is complex and consists of several steps.In the professional field, the evaluation of the structural vulnerability of a historical monument often does not include an evaluation of its previous damage.It is important to understand the degradation phenomena to properly interpret the results of structura