BCG VACCINATION TO REDUCE THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 IN HEALTHCARE WORKERS: PROTOCOL FOR A RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL (BRACE TRIAL)

BCG vaccination to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in healthcare workers: Protocol for a randomised controlled trial (BRACE trial)

Introduction BCG vaccination modulates immune responses to unrelated pathogens.This off-target effect could reduce the impact of emerging pathogens.As a readily available, inexpensive intervention that has a well-established safety profile, BCG is a good candidate for protecting healthcare workers (HCWs) and other vulnerable groups against COVID-19

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Mission Reliability-Oriented Selective Maintenance Optimization for Intelligent Multistate Manufacturing Systems With Uncertain Maintenance Quality

Selective maintenance is widely used as a reliability-centered maintenance strategy due to the limited maintenance resources.However, existing selective maintenance studies only consider basic reliability, which cannot systematically describe the operating mechanism of a multistate system, thereby resulting in the inability to obtain an optimal mai

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exploding cluster dynamics probed by XUV fluorescence

Clusters excited by intense laser pulses are read more a unique source of warm dense matter, that has been the subject of intensive experimental studies.The majority of these investigations concern atomic clusters, whereas the evolution of molecular clusters excited by intense laser pulses is less explored.In this work we trace the dynamics of ${ m

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