ASSESSING STERILITY TECHNIQUES IN BRONCHODILATOR RESPONSIVENESS TESTING BY PRACTICING ALLERGISTS IN NORTH AMERICA

Assessing sterility techniques in bronchodilator responsiveness testing by practicing allergists in North America

Background: The American Thoracic Society has published general guidelines for sterility when testing for bronchodilator responsiveness.However, the extent to which practicing allergists implement sterility measures is currently unknown.Objective: This study aims to understand the adherence to the American Thoracic Society guidelines for sterility

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Distributionally Robust Policy and Lyapunov-Certificate Learning

This article presents novel methods for synthesizing distributionally robust stabilizing neural controllers and certificates for control systems under model uncertainty.A key challenge in designing controllers with stability guarantees for uncertain systems is the accurate determination of and adaptation to shifts in model parametric uncertainty du

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Parasitism and migration in southern Palaearctic populations of the painted lady butterfly, Vanessa cardui (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

The painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Nymphalinae) is well known for its seasonal long-distance migrations and for its dramatic population fluctuations between years.Although parasitism has occasionally been noted as an important mortality factor for this butterfly, no comprehensive study has quantified and compared

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