Background The use of complementary and alternative medicine is high among children
and youth with chronic illnesses, including patients with cardiac conditions. Our goal was to …

INTRODUCTION: Bronchiectasis is defined as dilatation and destruction of bronchi generally
caused by infection and inflammation, and leads to recurrent exacerbations, dyspnea, and …

Prolonged mechanical ventilation (MV) results in diaphragmatic weakness due to fiber atrophy
and contractile dysfunction. Recent work reveals that activation of the proteases calpain …

Respiratory muscle weakness resulting from both diaphragmatic contractile dysfunction and
atrophy has been hypothesized to contribute to the weaning difficulties associated with …

… The authors gratefully acknowledge Connie Wither for her expert help with literature
searching, Ashley Whidden for her help in initial literature screening, Sana Ishaque for data …

This dissertation investigates the role of rhetoric in debates about miracles by exploring the
progression of what counts as evidence, and the way in which different disciplinary fields---…

This treatment of the Levantine British, based on family diaries and consular reports, asks why
a British colonial, Michael Barker, exiled from Egypt in 1956, continued to identify with the …

Insect herbivore diet mediates interactions with entomopathogens, yet this is relatively
unexplored for microsporidia. Here, we examine a diet‐mediated tri‐trophic interaction between …

Prevention of oxidative stress via antioxidants attenuates diaphragm myofiber atrophy
associated with mechanical ventilation (MV). However, the specific redox-sensitive mechanisms …

The architecture of the Bahamas was affected by the influx of fleeing American loyalists to that
country in the late 1700s. They imported the Georgian style of architecture to the Bahamas …