text stringlengths 330 20.7k | summary stringlengths 3 5.31k |
|---|---|
High-resolution detectors are used in relative dosimetry, such as dose profile measurements, to correctly characterize the penumbra regions with steep dose gradient .Due to the increasing use of small fields in state-of-the-art radiation therapy, high resolution detectors are also employed to obtain the small field out... | This chamber replaces the previous model (PTW 31014), where the diameter of the central electrode has been increased from 0.3 to 0.6 mm and the guard ring has been redesigned.The shifts of the effective point of measurement (EPOM) from the chamber's reference point were determined by comparison of the measured PDD with... |
the Monte-Carlo package EGSnrc with the user code egs_chamber.The chambers were modelled according to the blueprints provided by the manufacturer, including the guard rings.To systematically study the influence of the central electrode on the correction factor, three models of the PTW 31023 chamber with different inner... | Results: The shifts of the EPOM from the reference point, Δz, are found to be −0.55 (6 MV) and −0.56 (10 MV) in the radial orientation and −0.97 mm (6 MV) and −0.91 mm (10 MV) in the axial orientation.All values of Δz have an uncertainty of 0.1 mm.The σ values are 0.80 mm (axial), 0.75 mm (radial lateral) and 1.76 mm (... |
in the DIN 6800-2 for measurements in axial orientation.However, due to the construction of this chamber, i.e. the length of its air cavity is 2.5 times greater than its diameter, it should be positioned axially for relative profile measurements as recommended by the recent TRS 483 for which the EPOM have been determin... | Introduction: The aim of the present work is to perform dosimetric characterization of a novel vented PinPoint ionization chamber (PTW 31023, PTW-Freiburg, Germany).Correction factors for reference and non-reference measurement conditions were examined.Materials and methods: Measurements and calculations of the correct... |
change could then introduce tensile or compressive stress in the migrated region, which would fracture the intergranular oxide and decrease its protectiveness.The second one is that Cr was depleted in the migrated grain boundary and protective oxide was difficult to form, resulting in faster intergranular oxidation.The... | Oxidation and stress corrosion cracking (SCC) of 316L stainless steel were studied in simulated pressurized water reactor primary water.Surface, crack flank, and crack tip oxides were analyzed and compared by high-resolution characterization, including oxidation state mapping.All oxides were found to have a triplex str... |
on the relationship between transport location and real estate prices.By building on previous research, they demonstrate a decrease in the willingness-to-pay for proximity on purchasing prices decreased by 42.5% for dwellings in Athens during the ongoing financial crisis between 2011 and 2013.Clearly, the time of analy... | This paper estimates the willingness-to-pay for anticipated journey-time savings introduced by the Crossrail intervention in the London Borough of Ealing.Given Crossrail remains under construction, we estimate how the anticipated benefit of Crossrail's announcement enters the house price determination process.Anticipat... |
of listening to speech while in noise themselves.In the former case, participants experienced Lombard speech.In the latter, they did not, and we propose that a Lombard listening mode might only be triggered if the characteristics of the speech signal resemble speech plausibly produced in noise.Our perception experiment... | Some locations are probabilistically associated with certain types of speech.Most speech that is encountered in a car, for example, will have Lombard-like characteristics as a result of having been produced in the context of car noise.We examine the hypothesis that the association between cars and Lombard speech will t... |
that the mixing activity is very low.At a distance 7D downstream of the nozzle exit, all cases are showing a double peak for the PDFs.The M0 case has a very high probability at a value close to 0.5, followed by the TR case with a high probability for a value close to 0.65.All the other cases have their first peak for a... | Plasma-controlled turbulent jets are investigated by means of Implicit Large–Eddy Simulations at a Reynolds number equal to 460,000 (based on the diameter of the jet and the centreline velocity at the nozzle exit).Eight Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma actuators located just before the nozzle exit are used as ... |
rats become equally efficient as controls to terminate an acute stress response.This competency complies well with previous results where BPA-treated males exhibited similar behavioral coping and corticosterone responses to stress as the untreated animals.The finding that a short-term stress can modify FKBP51 levels de... | In rats, perinatal BPA exposure modifies stress response in pubertal offspring via unknown mechanisms.Similar effects were obtained in a male hippocampal cell line when exposed to BPA during differentiation.The estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist ICI 182,780 or ERβ knock-down affected Fkbp5 expression and methylation sim... |
Pulmonary fibrosis is a condition with injured lesions and scars, which cannot work properly and make it difficult to breathe due to the disability of the lungs to carry oxygen to the bloodstream.The most common symptoms are shortness of breath and dry cough.These symptoms may be mild or even in the early stages.It may... | Lung fibrosis is a chronic and intermittent pulmonary disease, caused by damage to the lung parenchyma due to inflammation and fibrosis.Each group was divided into six subgroups include control, Epi 100 mg/kg, BLM, and BLM groups pretreated with 25, 50 and 100 mg/kg Epi, respectively, from three days before until 7 or ... |
GPX activity in a dose-dependent manner.These effects were at the same level compared to the BLM group and showed significant recovery.BLM reduced lung tissue GSH levels in comparison with the control group.Epi in doses 50 and 100 mg/kg increased GSH levels, whereas the treatment with Epi 25 mg/kg had no effect.BLM inc... | Accordingly, animals were randomly assigned into two groups of 7 and 14 days to evaluate the role of Epi in the early oxidative and late fibrotic phases of BLM-induced pulmonary injury, respectively.Epi exerted protective effects against BLM-induced pulmonary injury in a dose-dependent manner in two early and late phas... |
gain by improving the damage induced by BLM.A significant increase in lung index on day 7 may be due to the role of both inflammation and pro-fibrotic lesions.Pretreatment with Epi, especially with dose 100 mg/kg in the BLM lung injury model, has shown the best reversing effect according to increase the activity of GPX... | Epicatechin (Epi) as a flavonoid has antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties.This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of Epi on oxidative stress, inflammation and pulmonary fibrosis induced by bleomycin (BLM) in mice.Finally, it is concluded that Epi can protect the lung against BLM-induced pulmonary oxidat... |
voice research more generally, by optionally exporting a wealth of intermediate signals and analysis results in convenient data formats.With extra multichannel hardware, FonaDyn supports the acquisition of additional signals in parallel and in synchrony, such as pressure, respiration, larynx height tracking, etc., for ... | From soft to loud and low to high, the mechanisms of human voice have many degrees of freedom, making it difficult to assess phonation from the acoustic signal alone.FonaDyn is a research tool that combines acoustics with electroglottography (EGG).It characterizes and visualizes in real time the dynamics of EGG wavefor... |
Complex vasculobiliary injuries constitute 12–61% of biliary injuries, most commonly following laparoscopic cholecystectomy .They present a formidable challenge to the multidisciplinary team treating these patients.During management, complete right and left hepatic arterial occlusion due to accidental coil migration du... | Introduction: Complete proper hepatic arterial [PHA] occlusion due to accidental coil migration during embolization of cystic artery stump pseudoaneurysm resulting from a complex vasculobiliary injurie [CVBI] post laparoscopic cholecystectomy [LC] is an extremely rare complication with less than 15 cases reported.We pr... |
so far, to the best of our knowledge.Proper hepatic arterial injury induces biliary ischaemia and worsens a biliary injury.The hepatic ischemia is usually transient.The effect is more profound when the biliary confluence is disrupted along with a proper hepatic artery injury, since the hilar marginal collateral is also... | Multiple collaterals had developed.Minimum hilar dissection ensured preservation of collateral supply to the biliary enteric anastomosis.Discussion: Definitive biliary enteric repair should be delayed till collateral circulation is established within the hilar plate, hepatoduodenal ligament and perihepatic/peribiliary ... |
Advances in nanomaterial synthesis have led to the development of solar cells that can potentially combine high efficiency with lower production costs than conventional cells."One example is the dye sensitised solar cell, first demonstrated in 1991 by O'Regen and Grätzel , which uses nano-structured TiO2 to enhance the... | CdTe/CdSe and CdSe/CdTe core/shell colloidal quantum dots, both with and without a second CdS shell, have been synthesised and characterised by absorption and photoluminescence spectroscopies, scanning transmission electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction.Each type of quantum dot had a zinc blende crystal structure an... |
it is unlikely that CTAB would have affected this cell fraction.Only minor fractions of CTAB were recovered as FFA, and phospholipid, with 25.61 ± 6.05% of CTAB remaining on the column.This data suggests that the adsorbed CTAB did not significantly affect the composition of the lipid fraction.Therefore, CTAB must have ... | Foam flotation is an effective and energy efficient method of harvesting microalgae.Surprisingly, the quantities of lipid recovered from microalgae harvested by foam flotation using the surfactant cetyl trimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), were significantly higher than from cells harvested by centrifugation.Further, cell... |
in Training schools.iLEAPS also supports participants from developing countries to conferences and training schools to ensure truly global coverage.The iLEAPS newsletter with a hard-copy circulation of ca. 3000 and available online to the whole community and beyond highlights important aspects of iLEAPS work to large a... | The integrated land ecosystem-atmosphere processes study (iLEAPS) is an international research project focussing on the fundamental processes that link land-atmosphere exchange, climate, the water cycle, and tropospheric chemistry.The project, iLEAPS, was established 2004 within the International Geosphere-Biosphere Pr... |
one function parameter in the probability distribution function and the parameter name must be “aa”, “bb” or “cc” corresponding to the first, second or the third fitting parameter.Remind also that, a sample file for the AMIDAS code can be downloaded from the AMIDAS website.For doing Bayesian fitting, users need to set ... | In this paper, we give a detailed user's guide to the AMIDAS (A Model-Independent Data Analysis System) package and website, which is developed for online simulations and data analyses for direct Dark Matter detection experiments and phenomenology.Recently, the whole AMIDAS package and website system has been upgraded ... |
robots .With the ability to incorporate enhanced hardware and AI/machine learning to carry out many everyday jobs, smart automation now enables the discovery of new molecules and improvements to existing chemical synthesis .In addition, AI/machine learning coupled with ‘big data’-generating systems will, and already ca... | There is a growing drive in the chemistry community to exploit rapidly growing robotic technologies along with artificial intelligence-based approaches.Applying this to chemistry requires a holistic approach to chemical synthesis design and execution.Here, we outline a universal approach to this problem beginning with ... |
stress.However, it is important to note that an oxide would generate a compressive lateral stress which must be balanced by a tensile stress present deeper into the matrix.Therefore, if the oxide is intergranular a lateral compressive stress is generated which is balanced by a tensile stress ahead of the oxide along th... | Analytical electron microscopy was employed to characterize the early stages of oxidation to aid in developing an understanding of the stress corrosion cracking behaviour of this alloy.The measurements of residual stresses at the microscopic level using a recently-developed FIB micro-hole drilling technique revealed a ... |
According to the ambitious targets of climate change mitigation made in the Paris Agreement, there is a need for rapid and effective reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions.The Paris Agreement aims at holding the increase in the global average temperature well below 2 °C, compared to pre-industrial levels, and pu... | However, the DFs of individual products and their production volumes could not be used alone to evaluate the climate impacts of forest utilization.For this reason, in this study we have developed a methodology to assess a required displacement factor (RDF) for all wood products and bioenergy manufactured and harvested ... |
of INT1 the corresponding emissions will be clearly smaller, i.e. 367 Mt CO2 equivalents for the first 50 years and 696 Mt CO2 equivalents for the whole period.Finnish GHG emissions in 2015 were 55.6 Mt CO2 equivalents.Assumptions and uncertainties in models and their input data will contribute to the results of RDF.In... | A displacement factor (DF) may be used to describe the efficiency of using wood-based products or fuels instead of fossil-based ones to reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.Input data for calculations were produced with the simulation model, Monsu, capable of predicting the carbon stocks of forests and wood-based ... |
5 V.The measurement was repeated with 1500 ns pulses and compared to NDMOS with gate grounded.In this case, the device capability is determined by avalanche breakdown of the vertical NDMOS.On-time of the clamp was also measured, and is approximately 1 μs.Qualification showed that the product passes 3 kV HBM and 750 V C... | In this paper we present the development of an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection supply clamp for an 802.3bt PD PoE controller.A characterization method for extending the System-Efficient ESD design (SEED) approach to surge pulses is presented and applied to the IC and externals.Finally an application diagram fo... |
that is taken up by each slice, which is always displayed in the Investigator View.The final percentages can be easily logged by the investigator, e.g., by taking a screen shot.In the Participant View, the participant uses the knobs to manipulate sizes of slices on the wheel.The participant is also able to use the rese... | A probability wheel app is intended to facilitate communication between two people, an “investigator” and a “participant”, about uncertainties inherent in decision-making.A user adjusts the sizes of the slices to indicate the relative value of the probabilities assigned to them.A probability wheel can improve the adjus... |
in persons with Mtb infection or active TB represents a possibility that must be considered when testing therapeutic TB vaccines on persons with active TB disease.The possibility of pulmonary and systemic inflammatory reactions , and the breakdown of granuloma structure potentially resulting in Mtb dissemination should... | Treatment failure and recurrence after end-of-treatment can have devastating consequences, including progressive debilitation, death, the transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis – the infectious agent responsible for causing TB – to others, and may be associated with the development of drug-resistant TB.The burden o... |
time series of food availability.Trends in these variables may help to explain the increased likelihood of maturation at small lengths, but could not be considered in this study as the relevant data were not available.In light of the apparent correlation between regional differences in the fisheries and the rate of cha... | Probabilistic maturation reaction norms (PMRNs) were used to investigate the maturation schedules of cod, haddock and whiting in the Firth of Clyde to determine if typical lengths at maturation have changed significantly since 1986.Some potential sources of growth-independent plasticity were accounted for by including ... |
Prefrontal cortex is a part of the brain which is responsible for behavior repertoire.Inspired by PFC functionality and connectivity, as well as human behavior formation process, we propose a novel modular architecture of neural networks with a Behavioral Module and corresponding end-to-end training strategy. This appr... | Extendable Modular Architecture is proposed for developing of variety of Agent Behaviors in DQN. |
In this work, we propose a self-supervised method to learn sentence representations with an injection of linguistic knowledge.Multiple linguistic frameworks propose diverse sentence structures from which semantic meaning might be expressed out of compositional words operations.We aim to take advantage of this linguist ... | We aim to exploit the diversity of linguistic structures to build sentence representations. |
of the electric field occurs so fast that there is no excess ion diffusion in the direction of the field.This indicates that the electrode polarization and space charge effects are prevalent.The decrease of dielectric constants with increasing frequency is mainly attributed to the mis-match of interfacial polarization ... | Pure and VO2+ ions doped PVA/MAA:EA polymer blend films were prepared by a solution casting method.XRD pattern reveals an increase in amorphicity with increase in doping.The dTGA study shows an enhancement of thermal stability of the system with increase in dopant concentration.The optical absorption spectrum exhibits ... |
The presented data contains the microbial composition of a drinking water supply system for O'Kiep, Namaqualand, South Africa.Table 1 represents the bacterial composition of the source point at the lower Orange River while Table 2 shows the microbial composition of the treated water, distributed by a state owned agency... | The metagenomic data presented herein contains the bacterial community profile of a drinking water supply system (DWSS) supplying O'Kiep, Namaqualand, South Africa.Representative samples from the source (Orange River) to the point of use (O'Kiep), through a 150km DWSS used for drinking water distribution were analysed ... |
Rheumatoid arthritis is a progressive systemic inflammatory disease characterized by joint destruction and functional disability .RA occurs globally in about 1.0% of the general population, with 2–4-times higher prevalence in women than in men .Although the etiology of RA is not quite clear, some inflammatory cytokines... | Infliximab, an inhibitor of TNF-α, is one of the most widely used biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs.Recent studies indicated that baseline serum TNF-α could be considered as a key indicator for optimal dosing of infliximab for RA treatment to achieve the clinical response and its sustained remission.The ... |
to 3.3 at 54 weeks, they discontinued infliximab.After the enrollment, the patients received 3 mg/kg infliximab at 0, 2, and 6 weeks.The dose of infliximab was selected based on baseline serum TNF-α.If serum TNF-α was less than 0.55 pg/mL, infliximab was kept at 3 mg/kg every 8 weeks after 14 weeks.If serum TNF-α was g... | The primary endpoint is the proportion of patients who kept discontinuation of infliximab 1 year after discontinued infliximab at the time of 54 weeks after the first administration of infliximab.The secondary endpoints are the proportion of clinical remission based on SDAI and changes in SDAI from baseline at each tim... |
time on crop monitoring and have a suboptimal timing of on-farm activities.We found that the number of plots had a significant, positive impact on TE.In other words, the potential positive TE impacts of having more plots as a way to adapt to variations in micro-level agro-climatic conditions outweighed the potential ne... | This traditional farming method generally results in a highly efficient use of land, but whether it also contributes to a higher technical efficiency remains unclear.Technical efficiency refers to the efficiency with which a given set of natural resources and other inputs can be used to produce crops.In this study, we ... |
statistical precision in the measurement data.Comparison of fit results with different codes does reveal biases that are not under statistical control.The preferred way of dealing with uncertainties in radionuclide metrology is to make for each peak a detailed uncertainty budget and perform proper uncertainty propagati... | Peak overlap is a recurrent issue in alpha-particle spectrometry, not only in routine analyses but also in the high-resolution spectra from which reference values for alpha emission probabilities are derived.In this work, improved peak shape formulae are presented for the deconvolution of alpha-particle spectra.They ha... |
also noted that these bacteria inhibit the growth of other microflora.By virtue of this inhibitory property, Kocuria has been successfully used to control Aeromonas salmonicida infection in rainbow trout.Therefore, this bacterium is a potential candidate constituent for future probiotic ingredients.Kocuria has already ... | In 2014 and 2016 in Poland a few disease outbreaks caused by Kocuria rhizophila and Micrococcus luteus were diagnosed in rainbow trout and brown trout.In each of these events, abnormal mortality (approximately 50%) was accompanied by pathological changes in external tissues and internal organs.In the majority of cases ... |
Many machine learning image classifiers are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, inputs with perturbations designed to intentionally trigger misclassification.Current adversarial methods directly alter pixel colors and evaluate against pixel norm-balls: pixel perturbations smaller than a specified magnitude, according to... | Enabled by a novel differentiable renderer, we propose a new metric that has real-world implications for evaluating adversarial machine learning algorithms, resolving the lack of realism of the existing metric based on pixel norms. |
100 ml of SKY4364 were grown to an OD600 of 0.5 in YPD media.Cells were split into two flasks, one untreated and one which was subjected to 0.02% MMS for 3 h. Cells were harvested and HIS6-tagged Ssa1 along with the associated interactome was isolated as follows: Protein was extracted via bead beating in 500 µl Binding... | The molecular chaperones Hsp70 and Hsp90 participate in many important cellular processes, including how cells respond to DNA damage.Here we show the results of applied quantitative affinity-purification mass spectrometry (AP-MS) proteomics to understand the protein network through which Hsp70 and Hsp90 exert their eff... |
Hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia is a well-characterized human disease affecting the morphology and number of skin appendages, principally the hair follicles, teeth, and exocrine glands.HED, the most common of the ectodermal dysplasias, is caused by mutations to the ectodysplasin signaling pathway, which is essential ... | The highly conserved ectodysplasin A (EDA)/EDA receptor signaling pathway is critical during development for the formation of skin appendages.Mutations in genes encoding components of the EDA pathway disrupt normal appendage development, leading to the human disorder hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia.Spontaneous mutati... |
accelerated healing, with a clear induction of re-epithelialization.Peri-wound proliferation levels were assessed by BrdU incorporation assay.In contrast to Tabby mice, mAbEDAR1-treated WT mice displayed increased proliferation only in peri-wound HFs and not IFE.During development, EDA/EDAR is essential for epidermal/d... | Little is known about the role of EDA signaling in adult skin homeostasis or repair.Because wound healing largely mimics the morphogenic events that occur during development, we propose a role for EDA signaling in adult wound repair.Here we report a pronounced delay in healing in Tabby mice, demonstrating a functional ... |
signals are involved in communicating an injury response signal to peri-wound follicles.While several candidates have been suggested it is tempting to speculate that EDAR may be involved in this initial wound-HF cross-talk.Here, we note with interest that Inamatsu et al. have previously reported Edar-expressing ectopic... | Moreover, pharmacological activation of the EDA pathway in both Tabby and wild-type mice significantly accelerates healing, influencing multiple processes including re-epithelialization and granulation tissue matrix deposition. |
the model is able to provide an adequate description of outcomes of pre- and post-shock in real-world scenarios, then the insights drawn from the model can be used to identify pockets of vulnerable populations so that a more timely and effective policy response can be implemented.In particular, since food insecurity ca... | Adverse post-natural disaster outcomes in low-income regions, like elevated internal migration levels and low consumption levels, are the result of market failures, poor mechanisms for stabilizing income, and missing insurance markets, which force the affected population to respond, and adapt to the shock they face.In ... |
the energy analysis point of view, 14 Wh achieved at the last Pee Power field trial at Glastonbury 2017 would be the equivalent to 0.23 British pence of energy saving for every kWh.This is based on raw power data produced during the field trial where the MFC stack was operated on neat human urine and does not take into... | This short review focuses on the recent developments of the Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) technology, its scale-up and implementation in real world applications.Microbial Fuel Cells produce (bio)energy from waste streams, which can reduce environmental pollution, but also decrease the cost of the treatment.Although the tec... |
tinnitus on quality of life.The THI questionnaire is currently one of the most accepted methods for assessing tinnitus, having been validated in several consensuses.32,This study also used the THI questionnaire to assess the quality of life of patients with tinnitus, as it has been used in several other studies.32,33,T... | Introduction Tinnitus is a subjective sensation of hearing a sound in the absence of an external stimulus, which significantly worsens the quality of life in 15–25% of affected individuals.Objective To assess the effectiveness of acupuncture therapy for tinnitus.Methods Randomized clinical trial (REBEC: 2T9T7Q) with 50... |
this, it is found that the aquifer system lacks clay layer that can serve as natural barriers to protect groundwater from such imminent fluoride sources.The industry zone is Pumice and highly fractured basalt.These areas are highly exposed for industrial waste.Hence, if it is damped as in the “Chalalak” wetland, the po... | Study region: The Main Ethiopian Rift valley (MER) region, where millions rely on fluoride contaminated drinking water that is by far higher than the WHO standard resulting skeletal and tooth decay.The concentration of fluoride ion, ranging from 0.65mg/l to 11mg/l is under significance influence by the geochemistry.Hig... |
reveals the occurrence of hydrolysis, dissociation and dissolution.Hence, the above explained chemical reaction process could possibly associated with the high fluoride ion dissolution and pollution of the groundwater in the study area.The fluoride ion concentration special distribution analysis showed that the Northwe... | Particular emphasis is given to the spatial distribution of fluoride ion (F-) and Total dissolved solids (TDS) applying SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Scientists) statistical tool.New hydrological insights for the region: The major water bearing formation is of weathered and fractured geologic formation havin... |
are undamaged.In the experiments containing photocatalyst only those exposed to light shows significant damaged cells.It was observed that after removal from suspension, cells appear to be attached and agglomerated onto the catalyst.If this occurs during the photocatalytic experiments it may have an effect on the numbe... | A modified hydrothermal synthesis, avoiding high temperature calcination, is used to produce nano-particulate rhodium doped strontium titanate in a single-step, maintaining the rhodium in the photocatalytically active +3 oxidation state as shown by X-ray spectroscopy.The photoactivity of the material is demonstrated th... |
when conventional hospital foam mattresses are used, but such mattresses were outside the scope of this study.In the open systems, represented here by the Nimbus®, deflation of the mattress with the CPR function seems, however, to improve the stability of resuscitation, especially in the situations where the height of ... | The relationship between the efficacy of resuscitation and the mattresses and backboards used in acute care units, has been studied previously.However, few reports focus on the relative efficacy of resuscitation when using mattresses with different modes of function.This study examines the performance of different supp... |
or even a publicist of innovation.Future studies could try to differentiate the role and impact of the orchestrators of innovation in destinations from the role and impact of actual innovators and so test whether public sector actors in destinations can only facilitate but not innovate or whether tourism offices or oth... | We combine network structure and firm-level relationship measures to explore the association between innovative behavior, firm position within the network of a destination, and the knowledge and relational trust characteristics of a firm's innovation-oriented relationships.We find current collaboration, shared knowledg... |
Articular cartilage is a load bearing material found at the articulating ends of bones within joints of the body.Smooth joint motion is a result of the low friction at joints of the body, aided by a surface roughness of ~100 nm for articular cartilage.Osteoarthritis includes the degeneration of cartilage, leading to po... | The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the induced stress and restraint provided by the underlying bone on the frequency-dependent storage and loss stiffness (for bone restraint) or modulus (for induced stress) of articular cartilage, which characterise its viscoelasticity.Dynamic mechanical analysis has ... |
were tested following the DMA procedure in air or in Ringer’s solution.To enable a paired comparison, each individual test specimen was tested under both conditions with half the test specimens tested first in air and the other half first in Ringer’s solution.Between tests, each specimen was allowed to rest/recover whi... | The phase angle decreased significantly (p < 0.05) as the induced stress increased; reducing from 13.1° to 3.5°.The median storage stiffness ranged from 548 N/mm to 707 N/mm for cartilage tested on-bone and 544 N/mm to 732 N/mm for cartilage tested off-bone.On-bone articular cartilage loss stiffness was frequency indep... |
of loading.Further, while regions with differing matrix integrity across a joint may have a similar storage/loss ratio, a compromised matrix may well have a lower storage/loss failure threshold.This is likely related to the mechanism by which collagen interacts with the surrounding gel.Alterations to collagen-gel inter... | A sinusoidal load was applied to the specimens and out-of-phase displacement response was measured to determine the phase angle, the storage and loss stiffness or modulus.As induced stress increased, the storage modulus significantly increased (p < 0.05).In conclusion, the frequency-dependent trends of storage and loss... |
proteins identified in wild-type animals showed reduced rates of change in long-lived daf-2 mutants.The majority of proteins accumulated at similar rates in chronologically age-matched wild-type animals versus daf-2 mutants.Stated simply, these proteins didn’t seem to know that they were in a long-lived mutant.These re... | Effective network analysis of protein data requires high-quality proteomic datasets.Here, we report a near doubling in coverage of the C. elegans adult proteome, identifying >11,000 proteins in total with ∼9,400 proteins reproducibly detected in three biological replicates.Functional experiments confirm that protein im... |
input ratio, however, did not have any significant effect as can be seen from the two cases of Umix = 0.78 and 1.09 m/s, where different input ratios were studied.The wave frequencies were also studied with the double-wired conductance probe for the few conditions where there were no drops present.There is good agreeme... | In this paper the effect of a transverse cylindrical rod immersed in water on the flow patterns and interfacial characteristics of an oil-water pipe flow is investigated experimentally.The cylinder is used to passively actuate the transition from stratified to non-stratified flows and to localise the formation of waves... |
donate and contributed less.This study aimed to determine the effects of announcing SEED and PREV on voluntary contributions to trail maintenance in the national park.This is one of the first studies conducting a field experiment to investigate both effects at the same time.Thus, we will consider and then compare the e... | Donation is one of the most important solutions to inadequate funding for protected area management; however, there has been little agreement on the measures to be used to encourage visitors to donate.The second type is for trail maintenance and information is provided on the value of one day's contribution by other pa... |
peak during delithiation is attributed to a low lithium ion conductivity of the delithiated matrix, which, given that the surface of the film is delithiated first, effectively reduces the kinetics of the further delithiation.Fig. 7 shows an illustration of the relationship between the differential capacity analysis and... | An extensive research effort is being made to develop the next generation of anode materials for lithium ion batteries.A large part of this effort has been related to silicon, primarily due to its considerable theoretical capacity; however, very limited cycling stability has prevented widespread commercial adoption.A p... |
sintering or hot compressing.Yang et al. determined values between about 60 and 68 emu g−1 for samples with 55 at% Mn obtained by melt spinning, grinding and magnetically aligning.Similarly, the sample of Cui et al. had been ball milled and magnetically aligned, resulting in a saturation magnetization at room temperatu... | Several Mn-based compounds have been identified as promising materials to replace permanent magnetic alloys based on rare earth elements.Amongst them is the compound BiMn, in particular the low temperature modification α-BiMn (hP4, AsNi-type, B81), which has been shown to exhibit interesting magnetic properties.In the ... |
algorithm proposed here, similar to the work on cortical sulci recognition, where the expansion of the database that could represent the high inter-subjects variability of sulcal patterns improved the accuracy and generalization of the method.In addition, the training data set needs to be expanded to include other mous... | Study of cerebral vascular structure broadens our understanding of underlying variations, such as pathologies that can lead to cerebrovascular disorders.The development of high resolution 3D imaging modalities has provided us with the raw material to study the blood vessels in small animals such as mice.However, the hi... |
scenarios and various adaptation measures in such analyses.High water supply allows an expansion of vineyards in the region leading to an increase in regional net benefits.However, efficient adaptation to a climate scenario would require high flexibility in terms of land and water use, or lead to severe groundwater ext... | Identifying efficient adaptation measures in land and water use requires integrated approaches and a spatially and temporally explicit representation of water demand and supply.Stochastic climate information may further improve adaptation assessments to reduce the risk of misinterpretation of climate signals.We aim at ... |
GABAergic interneurons constitute 20–30% of all neurons in the cortex and are essential for cortical circuit function.Through their inhibitory actions cortical interneurons have multiple functions including maintenance of network balance and shaping of synchronized activity .This functional diversity of interneurons in... | The origins of cortical interneurons in rodents have been localized to the embryonic subcortical telencephalon where distinct neuroepithelial precursors generate defined interneuron subsets.A swathe of research activity aimed at identifying molecular determinants of subtype identity has uncovered a number of transcript... |
studies which resulted in an imbalance of interneuron subtypes in the cortex .This has been attributed to a defect in progenitor proliferation rather than cell fate determination .The related transcription factor, NR2F2, is involved in directing interneurons through a caudal migration route .Like NR2F1, expression of N... | Pathways that lead to the acquisition of mature interneuron traits are therefore beginning to emerge.As genetic programs are influenced by external factors the search continues not only into genetic determinants but also extrinsic influences and the interplay between the two in cell fate specification. |
Adeno-associated virus-derived recombinant vectors are attracting significant attention as promising tools for a wide range of applications in the field of gene therapy.Cell transduction mechanisms with rAAV have been studied in detail.Those studies have identified a number of cellular receptors for virus entry, as wel... | We have previously shown that interaction with human galectin 3 binding protein dramatically reduces rAAV-6 efficacy, whereas binding of mouse C-reactive protein improves rAAV-1 and rAAV-6 transduction effectiveness.Herein we have assessed, through qualitative and quantitative studies, the proteins from mouse and human... |
Congenital heart defects are associated with significant societal costs and are a leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality.Cardiovascular malformations account for nearly one-third of all congenital anomalies, making these the most common type of birth defects.While the specific causes of cardiac malformations h... | Background: Cardiovascular malformations account for nearly one-third of all congenital anomalies, making these the most common type of birth defects.Little is known regarding the influence of ambient ultrafine particles (<0.1 μm) (UFPs) on their occurrence.Methods: A total of 158,743 singleton live births occurring in... |
previous studies can be attributed to different exposure assessment methods and differences in local air pollution emission sources.Our findings also showed that O3 was potentially associated with atrial septal defect as well as atrioventricular defect, but the associations did not remain statistically significant when... | Objective: This population-based study examined the association between prenatal exposure to UFPs and congenital heart defects (CHDs).We also investigated multi-pollutant models accounting for co-exposures to PM2.5, NO2 and O3.Results: A total of 1468 CHDs were identified.In fully adjusted models, UFP exposures during ... |
parameters in assessing the conformance between simulated and observed plume behaviour, provided that the detection threshold of seismic measurements is taken into account in the study.The “maximum lateral plume migration” is a parameter, which is difficult to derive from seismic time-lapse amplitude maps, commonly use... | Demonstrating conformity between observed and simulated plume behaviour is one of the main high-level requirements, which have to be fulfilled by an operator of a CO2 storage site in order to assure safe storage operations and to be able to transfer liability to the public after site closure.The observed plume behaviou... |
epithelium but separated from the tissues surrounding and underlying it.In the human tissues examined, there was significant, presumably age-related hair cell loss evidenced by the relatively low density of hair cells in comparison with the tissue from the young mice, but this did not seem to affect the extent of suppo... | Balance disequilibrium is a significant contributor to falls in the elderly.The most common cause of balance dysfunction is loss of sensory cells from the vestibular sensory epithelia of the inner ear.However, inaccessibility of inner ear tissue in humans severely restricts possibilities for experimental manipulation t... |
mode, which is a significant improvement compared to our previously reported results on GaAs/Si .Moreover, as the device has been fabricated by As-only growth and has a buffer as thin as ∼2 µm, the compatibility of the device with industry standard fabrication process has also improved.Furthermore, for the LI curve, a ... | The concept of high-efficiency, high-reliability and low-threshold electrically pumped lasers monolithically grown on silicon has attracted great attention over the past several decades, as a promising on-chip optical source for Si photonics.In this paper, we report an electrically pumped continuous-wave (CW) 1.3 µm In... |
the tip breakage risk due to much higher tensile and shear stress in the tip region.Furthermore, Fts is asymmetric in measurements of rising and falling edges of steep nanostructures.The measurement of structures at rising edges may lead to a much larger Fts, thus resulting in a higher risk of tip breakage.This simulat... | Tip abrasion is a critical issue particularly for high-speed atomic force microscopy (AFM).In this paper, a quantitative investigation on the tip abrasion of diamond-like-carbon (DLC) coated tips in a high-speed metrological large range AFM device has been detailed.During the tests, different scanning speeds up to 1 mm... |
in seismicity.A stress change on the order of ~0.1 MPa is typically considered necessary to trigger seismicity, particularly when considering aftershocks.The seasonal stress imposed at Aluto-Langano will have contributions from both surface and subsurface components and can be estimated from GRACE satellite data, which... | Seasonal variations in the seismicity of volcanic and geothermal reservoirs are usually attributed to the hydrological cycle.Here, we focus on the Aluto-Langano geothermal system, Ethiopia, where the climate is monsoonal and there is abundant shallow seismicity.We deployed temporary networks of seismometers and GPS rec... |
CABMOD-3 profile consistently shows Ni ablating later than the experimental profile.This suggests that the Ni grains in the Allende particles are small and hence have a large surface area to volume ratio.Hence, they ablate much faster than one large particle of equivalent total volume, which is what CABMOD-3 assumes.Th... | Modelling the ablation of Ni from micrometeoroids upon their entry to the Earth's atmosphere enables us to better understand not just the Ni layers in the upper atmosphere but also the differential ablation of Fe.Small grain sizes are consistent with the Fe–Ni grain size observed in SEM-EDX mapping of the meteorite par... |
1 then multiplied by the fraction ablated.The bar at the top of each plot also represents the experimental fraction of Ni ablated out of the total Ni present in the particle.Fig. 10 plots the temperature of maximum ablation of Ni versus the maximum temperature experienced by the particle.Particles of the same size but ... | Meteoritic particles (powdered terrestrial meteorites) and mineral proxies were flash heated to temperatures as high as 2700 K to simulate atmospheric entry.Slower linear heating ramps were also conducted to allow a more precise study of ablation as a function of temperature.Disagreement between the model and the data ... |
scavengers for detecting hole, superoxide radicals, and respectively.The likely mechanism is described as follows, upon photon irradiation, photo-reduced Ag3PO4 is subsequently oxidised into Ag3PO4, with H2O2 as oxidant.Whilst the photo-excited hole, at the valence band, directly oxidises MB, MO and RhB dyes into carbo... | Ag3PO4 photocatalyst has attracted interest of the scientific community in recent times due to its reported high efficiency for water oxidation and dye degradation.However, Ag3PO4 photo-corrodes if electron accepter such as AgNO3 is not used as scavenger.Synthesis of efficient Ag3PO4 followed by a simple protocol for r... |
Evolutionary-based optimization approaches have recently shown promising results in domains such as Atari and robot locomotion but less so in solving 3D tasks directly from pixels.This paper presents a method called Deep Innovation Protection that allows training complex world models end-to-end for such 3D environments... | Deep Innovation Protection allows evolving complex world models end-to-end for 3D tasks. |
We study the problem of designing provably optimal adversarial noise algorithms that induce misclassification in settings where a learner aggregates decisions from multiple classifiers.Given the demonstrated vulnerability of state-of-the-art models to adversarial examples, recent efforts within the field of robust mach... | Paper analyzes the problem of designing adversarial attacks against multiple classifiers, introducing algorithms that are optimal for linear classifiers and which provide state-of-the-art results for deep learning. |
Many tasks in natural language processing and related domains require high precision output that obeys dataset-specific constraints.This level of fine-grained control can be difficult to obtain in large-scale neural network models.In this work, we propose a structured latent-variable approach that adds discrete control... | A structured latent-variable approach that adds discrete control states within a standard autoregressive neural paradigm to provide arbitrary grounding of internal model decisions, without sacrificing any representational power of neural models. |
to be assessed with moral considerations in mind i.e. value-based constructs of righteousness.Consequently, people are less inclined to evaluate grassroots communities based on what they deliver in turn for financial contribution, ascending more traditional input-output balances.This aligns with our proposed “moralisat... | Grassroots initiatives for sustainable development are blossoming, offering localised alternatives for a range of societal functions including food and energy.Research into grassroots organisations often recognises the difficulties grassroots groups face to continue operations.However, there is a need for better unders... |
is highly pertinent.In order to explore this possibility, Shimotake and colleagues conducted a direct comparison between the location of the critical grid site for semantic processing in the patients, and the peak activations obtained from neurologically-intact participants when undertaking various verbal and nonverbal... | Electrocorticograms (ECoG) provide a unique opportunity to monitor neural activity directly at the cortical surface.Ten patients with subdural electrodes covering ventral and lateral anterior temporal regions (ATL) performed a picture naming task.The results indicate that the neural activity in the ventral subregion of... |
The aging of the population results in increasingly complex medication-related needs.1,To sustain the economic viability of health care the majority of elderly patients should be treated in primary care.To incorporate specific pharmaceutical expertise, some primary care practices have embedded a non-dispensing pharmaci... | Background: A non-dispensing pharmacist conducts clinical pharmacy services aimed at optimizing patients individual pharmacotherapy.Embedding a non-dispensing pharmacist in primary care practice enables collaboration, probably enhancing patient care.The degree of integration of non-dispensing pharmacists into multidisc... |
NDP and were excluded.We grouped studies by type of CPS: disease-specific CPS and patient-centered CPS.The included studies consisted of 35 RCTs, 12 two group cohort studies and 13 one group cohort studies.The median of the study population was 140 patients.The duration of the interventions ranged from 1 to 60 months.T... | Results: Eighty-nine health outcomes in 60 comparative studies contributed to the analysis.The accumulated evidence from these studies shows no impact of the degree of integration of non-dispensing pharmacists on health outcomes.For disease specific clinical pharmacy services the percentage of improved health outcomes ... |
based upon a set protocol.These standardized care trajectories are less prone to errors and allowing for variety may not have an added value.Reliability – defined as compliance to the protocols – seems to be more effective.77,Almost all studies reported surrogate health outcomes rather than clinical endpoints such as h... | Objectives: This study investigates how the degree of integration of a non-dispensing pharmacist impacts medication related health outcomes in primary care.Methods: In this literature review we searched two electronic databases and the reference list of published literature reviews for studies about clinical pharmacy s... |
post hoc test.*P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.Targeting specific signalling molecules in anucleate human platelets is often hampered by the availability of selective pharmacological inhibitors.As a result, the field of platelet biology is critically reliant on studies using genetically modified mice ... | Recently, we demonstrated that deletion of both Ral genes in a platelet-specific mouse gene knockout caused a substantial defect in surface exposure of P-selectin, with only a relatively weak defect in platelet dense granule secretion that did not alter platelet functional responses such as aggregation or thrombus form... |
to significantly suppress P-selectin to levels observed in Ral DKO platelets in the absence of RBC8.Furthermore, RBC8 could significantly suppress WT platelet-leukocyte aggregation formation, an effect principally mediated by platelet P-selectin interaction with PSGL-1 on leukocytes .We had previously demonstrated that... | We sought to investigate the function of Rals in human platelets using the recently described Ral inhibitor, RBC8.This study strongly suggests therefore that although RBC8 is useful as a Ral inhibitor in platelets, it is likely also to have off-target effects in the same concentration range as for Ral inhibition. |
In the data, Tables 1 and 2 show the different formulation of the micro-agglomerated cork stopper groups tested and the dimensions and density for each cork stopper type, respectively.Fig. 1 is the device developed in the INIA-CIFOR Cork Laboratory for measuring the displacement force.Figs. 2 and 3 show the maximum com... | The data in this paper are related to the research article entitled “Assessing the percentage of cork that a stopper should have from a mechanical perspective” (González and Terrazas, 2018).This data article contains data on the mechanical properties of different types of wine stoppers: 18 types of micro-agglomerated s... |
fistulae developed in cell-seeded 0% PAA SIS group at 6 months post-repair, chronic inflammation was also evidenced by mononuclear cell aggregates.Animals in unseeded PAA group showed serious stricture by retrograde urethrography and extensive fibrosis formation by histological assessment.Fig. 3 provides us with repres... | Objective To explore the feasibility of a modified 3D porous small intestinal submucosa (SIS) scaffold seeded with urothelial cells (UC) for surgical reconstruction in a rabbit model.Ventral onlay urethroplasty was performed with a 1.0 × 1.7 cm2 SIS scaffold that was either cell-seeded and treated with 5% peracetic aci... |
Training activation quantized neural networks involves minimizing a piecewise constant training loss whose gradient vanishes almost everywhere, which is undesirable for the standard back-propagation or chain rule.An empirical way around this issue is to use a straight-through estimator in the backward pass only, so tha... | We make theoretical justification for the concept of straight-through estimator. |
emulsion paint on the outside and parts of the inside faces of the walls this can subsequently result in structural damage as the water cannot easily diffuse to the outside.Cracks and spalling of the façade coating documented in the splash water zone of building 4 appear to further support this conclusion.In order to e... | Traditionally, buildings in the Inner Himalayan valleys of Bhutan were constructed from rammed earth in the western regions and quarry stone in the central and eastern regions.Whilst basic architectural design elements have been retained, the construction methods have however changed over recent decades alongside expec... |
The field of energy needs newer methods in its battle to sustain its role as the chief driver of economy.In this context, enhanced research is required in the field of renewable energy especially wind energy which is currently the fastest growing source.Although Vertical Axis Wind Turbines are inherently less efficient... | This paper deals with the derivational aspects of a dimensionless parameter named “Demand Factor” for optimization of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT).The input parameters considered in this derivation are power, wind velocity, the aspect ratio of the turbine, density of air and viscosity of air and the output paramet... |
completion of the design.For a particular “effective streamtube” to be a feasible solution to the optimization problem, the ADF value for it should lie within the limits of minimum and maximum values of IDF calculated.This situation is demonstrated graphically in Fig. 7.There could be numerous effective streamtubes tha... | The use of dimensionless numbers like Reynolds Number, Froude Number and Webber Number has historically simplified the process of comparison of phenomena irrespective of their scales and in their classification into different categories.With the filtering out of unsuitable combinations at different stages of eliminatio... |
are critical to society’ and that the animal feed industry is a particular problem.The use of land and, in particular, grain for animal feed has generated what was described in 1987 as a post-Malthusian ‘food versus feed’ problem with the rise of a global market for food and feed and the growth of middle-income, meat-c... | Where the territorial and scalar vision was breached, it was to imagine poorer countries exporting higher-value biofuel to the North rather than the raw material as in the controversial global biomass commodity chains of today.South/South and North/North trade conflicts are also emerging as are questions over biodegrad... |
that the use of biodegradable waste such as used cooking oil automatically circumvents controversy.UK biofuel statistics show that this too is a commodity that is being traded across borders.Since UCO can be double-counted towards the biofuel targets set by the amended EU Renewable Energy Directive and since it continu... | Working at the interface of sustainable innovation journey research and geographical theories on the spatial unevenness of sustainability transition projects, we show how the biofuels controversy is linked to characteristics of globalised industrial agricultural systems.In the 1970-80s, promoters of bioenergy anticipat... |
Gauss curvature evolves qualitatively in a similar manner to the mean curvature; the regions with high or low Gauss curvatures at the start of the isothermal hold become reduced.This can also be seen in the quantified distribution of the Gauss curvatures, Fig. 9, where the curves gradually become narrower as the isothe... | The scale of solidification microstructures directly impacts micro-segregation, grain size, and other factors which control strength.Using in situ high speed synchrotron X-ray tomography we have directly quantified the evolution of dendritic microstructure length scales during the coarsening of Mg-Zn hcp alloys in thre... |
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.,– Napoléon Bonaparte , p. 11."Norway is the world's largest producer of farmed Atlantic salmon, and the aquaculture industry1 is one of the largest export industries in the country.The industry is an important contributor of value creation and emp... | Norway is the world's largest producer of farmed salmon.Aquaculture is the country's second largest export industry and thus vital for employment in coastal areas of Norway.The industry is dependent on public acceptance and good standing in local communities in order to gain access to new sites and to be able to sell i... |
are being collected from different countries, the Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor being used is different which might give rise to systematic errors.However, both centers used systems of ABPM monitoring that are well validated and should minimize observer bias in the collection of individual blood pressure values.Bot... | Background Normal blood pressure (BP) follows a circadian rhythm, with dipping of BP at night.However, knowledge is limited in how the nocturnal dipping in hypertensive patients changes with the seasons.The study aims to examine the pattern of seasonal changes of nocturnal dip in an Irish population and furthermore, to... |
In recent years, all inorganic perovskite quantum dots have attracted significant attention due to their superior performance in optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting diodes , lasers , photodetectors solar cells and Soft-X-Ray detectors .In particular, all inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite QDs synthesized by Kovalen... | Compared with the CsPb1-xSnxBr3 HI-QDs reported in literatures, the CsPb1-xSnxBr3 RT-QDs show higher photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) and better stability: the CsPb0.9Sn0.1Br3 RT-QDs obtain the highest PLQY of more than 91%, and the stability of the film made with this QDs still maintain more than 80% of its orig... |
CsPb0.9Sn0.1Br3 perovskite QDs, the ultrafast femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, which can provide detailed radiative and non-radiative processes of excited states, was performed.Fig. 4a shows the decay associated spectra and retrieved decay times according to the global fitting.Obviously, TA dynamics were ... | Because of the superior PLQY, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) based on the RT-QDs is constructed, and it exhibits an external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 1.8%, a luminance of 1600 cdm-2, a current efficiency of 4.89 cdA-1, a power efficiency of 6.41 lmw−1, and a low on-voltage of 3.6 V. The present work provides a feasibl... |
.Another behavioral test used to achieve the aim of the study was the PA test.It assessed short-term and long-term emotional memory.This type of memory is associated with anxiety, which is generated by an aversive stimulus and involves Pavlovian conditioning based on the acquisition, storage and maintenance of avoidanc... | Objective: Zonisamide is an antiepileptic drug with a perspective of a broader use.Although it is regarded as a relatively safe drug, zonisamide might cause disorders of the central nervous system.The study assessed the influence of zonisamide on spatial and emotional memory in adult Wistar rats.Methods: Morris water m... |
producers state that the batteries removed from new energy vehicles retain 70–80% valid energy and appear competitive in costs, there are still many challenges when energy storage is focused in the field of battery reuse” ."Two years later, a large electric power company started construction of a 268.6 MWh energy stora... | Driven by the rapid uptake of battery electric vehicles, Li-ion power batteries are increasingly reused in stationary energy storage systems, and eventually recycled to recover all the valued components.Offering an updated global perspective, this study provides a circular economy insight on lithium-ion battery reuse a... |
The frequency of opioid use and its complications have increased substantially throughout the U.S. in recent years.From 1999 to 2015, the amount of opioid pain relievers prescribed per person grew three-fold in the US, reaching over 226 million prescriptions in 2015 – a rate of nearly 71 opioid prescriptions per 100 pe... | A set of 10 states (Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, and West Virginia) was chosen a priori to achieve a varied sample of state policies and timing, as well as population opioid complications.Archival research was conducted to identify state-level po... |
PDMPs continue to evolve to better serve stakeholder's needs.However, mandatory checking of the PDMP by prescribers is not the rule in many of the states we studied, with initial provider pushback being a significant factor.Kentucky, Massachusetts, New York, and Tennessee mandated prescriber use of the PDMP.For other s... | As the magnitude of the opioid epidemic grew in recent years, individual states across the United States of America enacted myriad policies to address its complications.We conducted a qualitative examination of the structure, successes, and challenges of enacted state laws and policies aimed at the opioid epidemic, wit... |
Deep Neck Infections are defined as suppurative infectious processes of deep visceral spaces of the neck that usually originates as soft tissue fasciitis and may lead to an abscess.1,Direct extension of an upper aerodigestive infection through fascial planes is the most common cause.DNI are a frequent emergency in Otol... | Introduction: Deep neck infections are defined as suppurative infectious processes of deep visceral spaces of the neck.Objective: The aim of this study is to review different factors that may influence peritonsillar and deep neck infections and may play a role as bad prognosis predictors.Methods: We present a retrospec... |
the other 3 secondary to prolonged orotracheal intubation.We observed a vocal cord paralysis and a Horner syndrome in two patients after surgery.5 of 13 required intensive care unit attentions, with a mean stay of 49 days.One patient died from septic shock.The factors that were related with complications were analyzed.... | Statistical analysis of comorbidities, diagnostic and therapeutic aspects was performed with Excel and SPSS.Results: There has been an increase in incidence of peritonsilar and deep neck infections.Systemic comorbidities such as diabetes or hepatopathy are bad prognosis factors.The most common pathogen was S. viridans ... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.