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    A decision support system to propose coaching plans for seniors

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    This paper presents the decision support system that has been defined and developed under the umbrella of the NESTORE project. The main goal of the proposed system is to help users in selecting coaching plans by proposing personalised recommendations based on their behaviours and preferences. Recognising such behaviours and their evolution over time is therefore a crucial element for tailoring the interaction of the system with the user. A three-layer system composed of pathways, coaching activity plans, and coaching events, constitutes the so-called coaching timeline on which the analysis is grounded. Various techniques are used to model and personalise the recommendations and feedback. Firstly, the indicators are extracted from disparate data sources, then these are modelled through a profiling system and, finally, recommendations on the pathways and coaching plans are performed through a scoring and a tagging system

    Intracellular Complement Activation Sustains T Cell Homeostasis and Mediates Effector Differentiation

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    SummaryComplement is viewed as a critical serum-operative component of innate immunity, with processing of its key component, C3, into activation fragments C3a and C3b confined to the extracellular space. We report here that C3 activation also occurred intracellularly. We found that the T cell-expressed protease cathepsin L (CTSL) processed C3 into biologically active C3a and C3b. Resting T cells contained stores of endosomal and lysosomal C3 and CTSL and substantial amounts of CTSL-generated C3a. While “tonic” intracellular C3a generation was required for homeostatic T cell survival, shuttling of this intracellular C3-activation-system to the cell surface upon T cell stimulation induced autocrine proinflammatory cytokine production. Furthermore, T cells from patients with autoimmune arthritis demonstrated hyperactive intracellular complement activation and interferon-γ production and CTSL inhibition corrected this deregulated phenotype. Importantly, intracellular C3a was observed in all examined cell populations, suggesting that intracellular complement activation might be of broad physiological significance

    Riociguat treatment in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: Final safety data from the EXPERT registry

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    Riociguat treatment in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: Final safety data from the EXPERT registry

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    Dulaglutide and cardiovascular outcomes in type 2 diabetes (REWIND): a double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial

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