Abstract Background Acute kidney injury is among the most serious complications after cardiac surgery and is associated with an impaired outcome.Multiple factors may concur in the development of this disease.Moreover, severe renal failure requiring renal replacement therapy (RRT) presents a high mortality rate.Consequently, we studied a Spanish coh
Atheism has become fashionable in the recent years.It has diff erent forms, but in many Hobs cases starts from the presupposition that the only rational approach is the one of natural sciences.Believers have the duty to provide some answers to the atheists, also at the philosophical level.St.Thomas Aquinas off ers several arguments that can be expl
Background: Migrant mortality advantage has been widely studied in Western countries, but little attention has been paid to how social factors interact to increase or diminish risks of death.Socioeconomic factors are indeed widely used in regression models but mostly to define, ceteris paribus, whether migrants have a higher propensity to die than
The proliferation of open-source flight data has been heralded throughout the aviation industry, from air traffic service providers seeking efficiencies to the voyeuristic tracking of celebrity aircraft movements.However, the rise of open-source data presents challenges when juxtaposed against the traditional safety management systems that have sus