Objective As ‘critical illness’ and ‘critical care’ lack consensus definitions, this study aimed to explore how the concepts’ are used, describe their defining attributes, and propose potential ...

We study the heat kernel and the Green’s function on the infinite supercritical percolation cluster in dimension d ≥ 2 and prove a quantitative homogenization theorem for these functions with an ...

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We all know what a company is—a business entity where people come together to achieve a common purpose, usually generating profit. But do you know the legal definition of a company? In this article, ...

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In one of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first moves as secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, the agency released guidance Wednesday for the US government, external partners and the ...

Homogenization is vital in many industrial processes, including food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. High-pressure homogenization and sonication are two widely used homogenization techniques. However ...

COVID-19 vaccination has been the subject of immense scrutiny and misinformation since the vaccines were first administered in the U.S. nearly four years ago. In the first year alone, it is estimated ...

Abstract: The scattering-parameter extraction method of metamaterial homogenization is reviewed to show that the only ambiguity is that related to the choice of the branch of the complex logarithmic ...

A sweeping new definition of long COVID could help affected people get recognition of their condition and improve diagnosis and treatment. The U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and ...

Biotic homogenization occurs when human activity leads to the spread of non-native species, thereby diminishing global biodiversity. This phenomenon is at the core of a new study published in the ...