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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Face mask"”.
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Assessment of face mask use among peripartum women at mowbray maternity hospital during the covid-19 pandemic
… based hand sanitisers, and, mostly importantly, face mask use. Of these, face mask use is the least adhered to. Effective face mask use and reasons for use or non-use among a vulnerable population such as peripartum women are still unknown. Objective: To assess face mask use and associated …
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Divergence: Toward a Neurodivergent Latinx Liberative Social Ethic
… Anzaldúa’s metaphor of haciendo cara (making face). Making face is one of Anzaldúa’s metaphors for constructing identity. An ethic of haciendo cara develops this metaphor to encompass not only neurodivergent Latinxs making face, but making society. Haciendo cara reinterprets the metaphorical …
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The Relationship Between a Dimensional Ratings of Perceived Exertion Scale and Heart Rate in Young Children
… across the chest. Either a mouthpiece or oxygen face mask was used to collect and analyze expired gases by a Sensormedics V-29 metabolic cart. A poster of the D-RPE using circles of increasing size was presented to each subject at the end of each two-minute interval and the subject pointed to the …
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Conformable Ultrasound Face Patch for Cavitation-enhanced Transdermal Cosmeceutical Delivery
… this thesis, we develop a conformable ultrasound face patch (cUFP) that closely adheres to the facial skin to aid in the penetration and absorption of cosmeceuticals across the epidermis and dermis layers of the skin. A novel face mask design with piezoelectric transducers embedded in a soft …
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Construction and testing of a respiratory apparatus for equine
… open circuit method of calorimetry. The face mask, of light plexiglass, fit over the muzzle of the animal and was secured to the head, via a modified halter. Six one-way rubber inhalation valves were located along the lower portion of the mask permitting the animal to inspire atmospheric …
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Critical Illness in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies
… ventilation provided by either a helmet or a face mask interface or use of high flow nasal oxygen decreased the risk of receiving invasive mechanical ventilation or dying in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure. Among 5844 patients with hematologic malignancy who received …
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Potential for change: Characterizing synaptic plasticity following visual discrimination learning in adult rats.
… to restrict visual input. Using a harness and face-mask for monocular occlusion, rats were trained in a monocular visual discrimination task using a Y-shaped water maze. Following learning, assessment of synaptic plasticity in the thalamocortical visual pathway found both general (changes in …
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Predictors of difficult intubation in obstetric cohort of patients: an analysis of the prospective obstetric airway management registry (OBAMR) (substudy – R025/2018)
… in obstetrics. Simple interventions such as face mask ventilation and the use of high flow nasal oxygenation, could be introduced to protect the parturient from the consequences of life-threatening hypoxaemia.
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Multiphase Flow at Small Scales
… natural and scientific phenomena, from subsurface processes to biological processes. In this thesis, we introduce innovative experimental methods to explore the impact of wettability on multiphase flow in porous media using microfluidics, and assess the effectiveness of cloth fabrics as source …
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Fibrous Membranes in Personal Protective Applications
… example, when used as filters in respirators and face masks, fibrous membranes can act as excellent barriers to aerosols without resulting in unreasonably high air resistance. The application of strong and tough fibrous textiles in protective clothing has continued to grow since the 1970s, …
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Breeding behaviour and polygyny in the Red Bishop bird Euplectes orix (L.)
… their striking nuptial plumage: the abdomen and face mask are black, while the crown, throat, breast, rump, upper and under tail coverts are scarlet. The mantle feathers are tawny, but the wings and tail remain brown. The bill colour also changes from flesh-coloured to black. Hall and Moreau …
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Disease marketing and patient coping : a research study
… than those in the no-marketing group to wear a face mask to protect themselves from airborne pathogens in crowded public places (t(61) = 1.79, p = 0.08). CONCLUSIONS: Based on our results, the presence of disease marketing is anticipated to have a general positive impact on patient coping …
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Sleep/wakefulness versus urethane anesthesia: analogous arousal states for respiratory control?
… in unanesthetized animals, and using a face mask and pneumotachograph in the anesthetized animals. Golden-mantled ground squirrels spent approximately 33% of the time in wakefulness(W), 31% to 14% in light sleep (LS) and 32% to 48% in slow-wave sleep (SWS). Less than 5%of the time was …
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Knowledge Construction and Multiple Realities: Global Health Collaborations, Development Practices, And Face Masks in The Context of Covid-19
… knowledge regarding the public use of face masks, which shed new light on the problem of sharing health-related knowledge. The thesis took the position that both of these cases can be usefully situated in ‘development discourse’ and the power struggles that come with it. This suggested …