The Antarctica Dry Valleys are regarded as the coldest hyperarid desert system on Earth.While a wide variety of environmental stressors including very low minimum temperatures, frequent freeze-thaw cycles and low water availability impose severe limitations to life, suitable niches for abundant microbial colonization exist.Antarctic desert soils co
OBJECTIVES Inhalation exposure to humidifier disinfectants has resulted to various types of health damages in Korea.To determine the epidemiological correlation necessary for presuming the legal causation, we aimed to develop a method to synthesize the entire evidence.METHODS Epidemiological and toxicological studies are systematically reviewed.Tar
Using human tools can significantly benefit robots in many application domains.Such ability would allow robots to solve problems that they were unable to without tools.However, robot tool use is a challenging task.Tool use was initially considered to be the ability that distinguishes human beings from other animals.We identify three skills required
Abstract The efficient community spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in the current pandemic of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), which in severe and critical cases results in progressive pulmonary infection, complicated by respiratory failure, with a high prevalence of acute respiratory distress s
Abstract Background Health care organization is entering a new age.Focus is increasingly shifting from individual health care institutions to interorganizational collaboration and health care networks.Much hope is set on such networks which have been argued to improve economic efficiency and quality of care.However, this does not automatically mean