Aortic stenosis is the most frequent valvular heart disease.Aortic sclerosis is the first characteristic lesion of the cusps, which is considered today as the process similar to atherosclerosis.Progression of the disease is an active process leading to forming of bone matrix and heavily calcified stiff cusps by inflammatory cells and osteopontin.It
Avoiding Invalid Transitions in Land Cover Trajectory Classification With a Compound Maximum a Posteriori Approach
Classifying remote sensing time-series in land cover trajectories can provide essential information about ecosystems functioning and about the impacts of natural phenomena or human activities over the environment.The existing approaches commonly used for this task can present serious drawbacks, such as the possibility to derive invalid trajectories
Discrimination as a predictor of poor mental health among LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of the online Queerantine study
Objectives To assess the mental health and experiences of discrimination among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) people at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.Design Data come from a cross-sectional online survey targeted at LGBTQ+ people, which collected data on mental health, experiences of discrimination and a number of other pan