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Cardiovascular and metabolic health effects of team handball training in overweight women: Impact of prior experience
Authors: Hornstrup Therese , Póvoas Susana , Helge Jørn Wulff , Melcher Pia Sandfeld , Fristrup Bjørn , Andersen Jesper Løvind , Møgelvang Rasmus , Hansen Peter Riis , Nybo Lars , Krustrup Peter 
Published: October 2019

PurposeWe tested the hypothesis that participation in small‐sided team handball training could provide beneficial effects on cardiovascular and metabolic parameters in overweight premenopausal women with special focus on the importance of prior team handball experience.MethodsA 16‐week RCT training intervention was conducted in overweight premenopausal women randomized into three groups: a team handball training group without prior experience (UN; n = 13), a team handball group with prior experience (EXP; n = 10), and an inactive control group (CON; n = 9). Both UN and EXP completed 1.6 ± 0.3 training sessions per week with average heart rates of 84 ± 5 and 85 ± 9% of maximal heart rate, respectively. Cardiovascular and metabolic parameters were assessed before and after the intervention.ResultsCompared to CON, UN had significant increases in VO2max (7 ± 4%) and intermittent endurance performance (26 ± 14%) as well as reduced total fat mass (4 ± 6%), total fat percentage (4 ± 5%), and android fat mass (7 ± 12%), respectively (all P < .05). Compared to UN and CON, EXP displayed increased left ventricular mass and left ventricular mass index (both P < .05) after the training period. There were no significant changes between any of the groups in muscle mass, blood lipids, resting heart rate, and blood pressure (all P > .05).ConclusionSmall‐sided team handball training in overweight premenopausal women resulted in improvement of VO2max and body composition for participants with minimal team handball experience, indicating that prior team handball experience is not a prerequisite for improving physiological parameters of importance for health. Furthermore, EXP displayed cardiac adaptations, including increased left ventricular mass and left ventricular mass index.
Review of imaging technologies used in Hidradenitis Suppurativa
Authors: Elkin Kenneth , Daveluy Steven , Avanaki Kamran 
Published: October 2019

AbstractBackgroundUntil recently, clinical assessment with manual palpation of the HS lesions was the primary means to detect HS lesions and their borders. In the past decade, there has been increased application of imaging technologies to HS patients, and it is reported that manual palpation consistently underestimates HS. Of the technologies, ultrasound (US) imaging has been the most efficacious and well‐studied. In the present review, we will discuss the various imaging modalities that aid in detecting, managing, and treating HS.Materials and MethodsNon‐invasive HS imaging technologies including ultrasound (US) imaging, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), medical infrared thermography (MIT), positron emission topography (PET), and computed tomography (CT) were reviewed and compared through a review of the literature. PubMed, Google, and Google Scholar were utilized.ResultsOf the 4 HS technologies reviewed, US imaging and MRI are the most established and useful non‐invasive modalities utilized in HS patients. However, MIT may have potential to aid in the pre‐operative and intra‐operative surgical excision of HS lesions.ConclusionFor imaging HS lesions, US imaging is the most well‐characterized and has the greatest range of use, while MRI has a role in severe, anogenital HS lesions. MIT of HS lesions is a novel application and merits attention.
Fluvial incisions in the North‐Western Pyrenees (Aspe Valley): Dissection of a former planation surface and some tectonic implications
Authors: Uzel Jessica , Nivière Bertrand , Lagabrielle Yves 
Published: October 2019

AbstractDissected remnants of a high elevation low relief surface (HELRS) are encountered all along the Pyrenean range. All authors agree that the HELRS was shaped during the post‐shortening evolution of the belt, but doubt remains on its original elevation. Notably, whether a post‐shortening uplift event occurred after the generation of the Pyrenean planation surface is still debated. Based on a geomorphological study of the entrenchment of the Aspe River in the North‐Western Pyrenees, we describe a post‐Oligocene multi‐stage dissection of the HELRS linked to a regional post‐shortening uplift. Each incision stage is recorded by erosional triangular facets and associated stepped remnants of former smooth topographies. Compared analysis of patterns of incision in the Axial Zone and its northern border allows to evidence differential vertical motions. We discuss the forcing mechanism(s) that controlled this morphological evolution.
Enhancing spatial and textual analysis with EUPEG: An extensible and unified platform for evaluating geoparsers
Authors: Wang Jimin , Hu Yingjie 
Published: October 2019

AbstractA rich amount of geographic information exists in unstructured texts, such as web pages, social media posts, housing advertisements, and historical archives. Geoparsers are useful tools that extract structured geographic information from unstructured texts, thereby enabling spatial analysis on textual data. While a number of geoparsers have been developed, they have been tested on different data sets using different metrics. Consequently, it is difficult to compare existing geoparsers or to compare a new geoparser with existing ones. In recent years, researchers have created open and annotated corpora for testing geoparsers. While these corpora are extremely valuable, much effort is still needed for a researcher to prepare these data sets and deploy geoparsers for comparative experiments. This article presents EUPEG: an Extensible and Unified Platform for Evaluating Geoparsers. EUPEG is an open source and web‐based benchmarking platform which hosts the majority of open corpora, geoparsers, and performance metrics reported in the literature. It enables direct comparison of the geoparsers hosted, and a new geoparser can be connected to EUPEG and compared with other geoparsers. The main objective of EUPEG is to reduce the time and effort that researchers have to spend in preparing data sets and baselines, thereby increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of comparative experiments.
Nocardia infection in kidney transplant recipients: A single‐center experience
Authors: Matchett Caroline , Djamali Arjang , Mandelbrot Didier , Saddler Christopher , Parajuli Sandesh 
Published: October 2019

AbstractBackgroundData on Nocardia infection in kidney transplant patients remain limited.MethodsA chart review of patients with a history of kidney transplant and one positive culture for Nocardia between 1999 and 2019 was performed.ResultsTen patients (0.1%) had a Nocardia infection. Eight were deceased donor kidney transplant recipients, and the mean age at the time of transplant was 56.0 ± 14.5 years. Nocardia infection occurred at a median of 12 months (range, 6‐102) after transplant with half of the cases within 1 year. Breakthrough Nocardia infection occurred in five patients receiving daily double‐strength (160/800 mg) TMP‐SMX as prophylaxis. Half of the patients had comorbid CMV infection at diagnosis. The most common site involved was the lung. TMP‐SMX was the most frequently used antimicrobial agent for treating Nocardia infection (9 of 10); it was administered as single‐drug therapy (4 of 10) or as combination therapy with other antimicrobials (5 of 10). Overall mortality was 60% with 30% attributable mortality within a mean of 3.3 ± 7.7 weeks after a diagnosis of Nocardia.DiscussionTMP‐SMX prophylaxis did not appear to protect against Nocardia but did appear to be associated with less severe disease. Overall outcomes remain poor, and infection can occur outside the traditional window.
The Value of Diversity in Cognitive Science
Authors: Bender Andrea 
Published: October 2019

AbstractA recent article (Núñez et al., 2019) claims that cognitive science, while starting off as a multidisciplinary enterprise, has “failed to transition to a mature inter‐disciplinary coherent field.” Two indicators reported in support of this claim target one of the two journals of the Cognitive Science Society,Cognitive Science, depicting cognitive science as an increasingly monodisciplinary subfield which is dominated by psychology. With a focus on the society's other journal,Topics in Cognitive Science, the present commentary reveals a greater degree of interdisciplinarity and discusses the relative values of diversity and integration for the field.
On the road to C4 rice: advances and perspectives
Authors: Ermakova Maria , Danila Florence R. , Furbank Robert T. , von Caemmerer Susanne 
Published: October 2019

SummaryThe international C4 rice consortium aims to introduce into rice a high capacity photosynthetic mechanism, the C4 pathway, to increase yield. The C4 pathway is characterised by a complex combination of biochemical and anatomical specialisation that ensures high CO2 partial pressure at RuBisCO sites in bundle sheath (BS) cells. Here we report an update of the progress of the C4 rice project. Since its inception in 2008 there has been an exponential growth in synthetic biology and molecular tools. Golden Gate cloning and synthetic promoter systems have facilitated gene building block approaches allowing multiple enzymes and metabolite transporters to be assembled and expressed from single gene constructs. Photosynthetic functionalisation of the BS in rice remains an important step and there has been some success overexpressing transcription factors in the cytokinin signalling network which influence chloroplast volume. The C4 rice project has rejuvenated the research interest in C4 photosynthesis. Comparative anatomical studies now point to critical features essential for the design. So far little attention has been paid to the energetics. C4 photosynthesis has a greater ATP requirement, which is met by increased cyclic electron transport in BS cells. We hypothesise that changes in energy statues may drive this increased capacity for cyclic electron flow without the need for further modification. Although increasing vein density will ultimately be necessary for high efficiency C4 rice, our modelling shows that small amounts of C4 photosynthesis introduced around existing veins could already provide benefits of increased photosynthesis on the road to C4 rice.
FIRING BEHAVIOUR OF CERAMIC WHITEWARE BODIES INCORPORATED WITH LOCAL FELDSPATHIC SOURCES
Authors: Othman Radzali , Mohamad Mahizar 
Published: October 2019

Quarry dust is a by-product of granite quarrying activities. Granite fragments, that are normally obtained from blasting granite rocks in a particular quarry, are subjected to a number of machineries of decreasing crushing aperture sizes and each attendant sieving to obtain granite aggregates of the desired size, normally 20 mm, 10 mm, etc. These are to be used in the construction of buildings as coarse aggregates in concrete mixes, as well as in the laying of tarred roads. The finest fraction, nominally below 7 mm or 5 mm in size depending on the practice of the quarrying company, is normally dumped on site. It is considered to be a waste that needs to be disposed of. Apart from attending to the environmental issue, the reuse of such waste material in the development of new products would be an attractive commercial proposition. In this work, granite quarry dust was incorporated into a clay-based ceramic body to replace the use of feldspar (an expensive component) as the fluxing agent in such triaxial clay whiteware compositions. A fluxing agent is the component in a ceramic body composition that melts first and functions as the component that binds together all the other solid particles into a rigid body. Initially, the quarry dust was chemically and mineralogically characterized before mixing with clay at a fixed 45:55 weight ratio. The mixtures were then pressed and fired at various temperatures before testing the properties of the fired products. A comparison was made with a local feldspathic source from Gua Musang to ascertain the feasibility of such replacement to produce high quality ceramic bodies. It was found that mineralogically the granite quarry dust consists of K-feldspar (or orthoclase) as compared to Na-feldspar (or albite) found in the Gua Musang feldspar. This led to melting at a lower temperature of the former but exhibited a much more viscous melt. At the same time, the higher iron content in the granite quarry dust led to a much darker colourisation of the body upon firing. In conclusion, the granite quarry dust has been found to be successful in lowering the maturing temperature of ceramic bodies compared to the Gua Musang feldspar beside conferring stability of the low porosity property over a wider firing temperature.
A NOVEL MICROWAVE SENSOR WITH HIGH-Q SYMMETRICAL SPLIT RING RESONATOR FOR MATERIAL PROPERTIES MEASUREMENT
Authors: A. Alahnomi Rammah , Zakaria Z. , Ruslan E. , Mohd Bahar Amyrul Azuan , Shairi Noor Azwan 
Published: October 2019

A new sensor based on symmetrical split ring resonator (SSRR) functioning at microwave frequencies has been proposed in order to detect and characterize the properties of the materials. This sensor is based on perturbation theory, in which the dielectric properties of the material affect the quality factor and resonance frequency of the microwave resonator. Conventionally, coaxial cavity, waveguide, dielectric resonator techniques have been used for characterizing materials. However, these techniques are often large, and expensive to build, which restricts their use in many important applications. Thus, the proposed bio-sensing technique presents advantages such as high measurement sensitivity (around 400 Q-factor) with the capability of suppressing undesired harmonic spurious and permits potentially material characterization and determination. Hence, using a specific experimental methodology, tests performed have demonstrated the biosensor ability to characterize at least four references materials with known permittivity (Air, Roger Duriod RT 5880, Roger Duriod RT 4530, FR4) and one material with unknown permittivity (Beef). Accordingly, the numerically established relations are experimentally verified for these reference materials and the results indicated that the average estimation error of measuring the permittivity was 2.56 % at resonant of around 2.2 GHz. The proposed design is useful for various applications such as food industry, medicine, pharmacy, bio-sensing and quality control
Piezoelectric Actuated Nonlinear Energy Sink With Tunable Attenuation Efficiency
Authors: Zhao Jian , Lyu Ming , Wang Hongxi , Kacem Najib , Huang Yu , Liu Pengbo 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
Comparing to linear vibration absorbers, nonlinear energy sinks (NESs) have attracted worldwide attention for their intrinsic characteristics of targeted energy transfer or energy pumping in a relatively wide frequency range. Unfortunately, they are highly dependent on the vibration amplitude to be attenuated and will play its role only if the external load exceeds a specific threshold value. Different from the passive bistable NES, a novel piezoelectric nonlinear energy sink (PNES) is designed by introducing in-phase actuation to compensate or enhance the external vibration loads, thus triggering the NES operating in high attenuation efficiency. The nonlinear mathematic model of the PNES is established for investigating the dynamic response and determining the threshold compensation strategy. And the results show that the maximum attenuation efficiency can be improved by 58.16% compared to the traditional passive NES. Also, the amplitude-dependent coefficient (ADC) can be significantly reduced to 0.33 from 1.0, which means that the PNES can effectively mitigate vibrations even when the excitation amplitude is 67% smaller than the original threshold value. Finally, the feasibility of the in-phase compensation method is experimentally validated, which can further expand the application range of NES.
Two- and Three-Dimensional Failure Criteria for Laminate Composites
Authors: Mega Mor , Dolev Orly , Banks-Sills Leslie 
Published: October 2019

AbstractSeveral two- and three-dimensional mixed-mode interface failure criteria are proposed for predicting delamination failure in multidirectional, laminate composites. The proposed criteria, based on the stress intensity factors K1, K2, and KIII, as well as the critical interface energy release rate Gic and phase angles ψ and ϕ, are examined using results obtained from Brazilian disk mixed-mode fracture toughness tests. Two material systems are considered. The first contains a delamination along an interface between a unidirectional fabric and a plain woven fabric. The second is composed of a plain woven fabric with fibers oriented in different directions in succeeding plies. The former was manufactured by means of a wet-layup and the latter is a prepreg. Finally, a statistical analysis is carried out to obtain a failure curve or surface with a 10% probability of unexpected failure and a 95% confidence. These curves or surfaces may be used to predict failure of structures containing these laminates and to assist in composite design.
Development of a Global Design Education Experience in Bioengineering Through International Partnerships
Authors: McCullough Melissa , Msafiri Nicodemus , Richardson William J. , Harman Melinda K. , DesJardins John D. , Dean Delphine 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
The field of engineering is increasingly appreciating the value of diversity for innovative design solutions. Successful engineering depends on our ability to explore constrained parameter spaces for finding the best solutions, and more diverse minds and experiences enable us to explore the entire potential solution space more thoroughly, more quickly, and more creatively. With a goal to expand the diversity of experiences and mindsets in our undergraduate bioengineering curricula, Arusha Technical College (ATC) in Arusha, Tanzania and Clemson University (CU) in Clemson, South Carolina, U.S., have partnered together over the past 5 years to provide intercontinental educational opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate assistants, and faculty. In 2018, CU and ATC collaborated on an international design course targeting undergraduate students in biomedical engineering focused on global health solutions for resource poor communities. Undergraduate students from ATC and CU collaborated on design projects through formal videoconferenced group meetings, e-mail, and various social media platforms. The year ended with a joint design symposium in Arusha where the students presented on their work in a public poster forum. This successful ATC-CU Global Health Design Collaboration pilot year provides a solid model upon which to build. Students reported overall positive experiences and plans to continue in their curriculum to graduation, as well as some ATC and CU students changing their career direction to include global health initiatives.
Selective Thermal Stimulation Delays the Progression of Vasoconstriction During Body Cooling
Authors: Namisnak Laura H. , Khoshnevis Sepideh , Diller Kenneth R. 
Published: October 2019

AbstractThe objective of this study was to test the feasibility of selective thermal stimulation (STS) as a method to upregulate glabrous skin blood flow. STS is accomplished by mild surface heating along the spinal cord. Four healthy subjects were tested in this study. Each participated in a control experiment and an intervention experiment (STS). Both experiments included establishing a maximum level of vasodilation, considered unique to a subject on a test day, and then cooling to a maximum level of vasoconstriction. Perfusion was measured by a laser Doppler flow probe on the index fingertip. The percent of perfusion in the range of minimum to maximum was the primary outcome variable. The data were fit to a linear mixed effects model to determine if STS had a significant influence on perfusion during whole body cooling. STS had a statistically significant effect on perfusion and increased glabrous skin blood flow by 16.3% (P < 0.001, CI (13.1%, 19.5%)) as skin temperature was decreased. This study supports the theory that STS improves the heat exchanger efficiency of palmar and plantar surfaces by increasing the blood flow.
A Two-Dimensional Model of Hypertension-Induced Arterial Remodeling With Account for Stress Interaction Between Elastin and Collagen
Authors: Rachev Alexander , Shazly Tarek 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
We propose a novel structure-based two-dimensional (2D) mathematical model of hypertension-induced arterial remodeling. The model is built in the framework of the constrained mixture theory and global growth approach, utilizing a recently proposed structure-based constitutive model of arterial tissue that accounts for the individual natural configurations of and stress interaction between elastin and collagen. The basic novel predictive result is that provided remodeling causes a change in the elastin/collagen mass fraction ratio, it leads to a structural reorganization of collagen that manifests as an altered fiber undulation and a change in direction of the helically oriented fibers in the tissue natural state. Results obtained from the illustrative simulations for a porcine renal artery show that when remodeling is complete the collagen reorganization might have significant effects on the initial arterial geometry and mechanical properties of the arterial tissue. The proposed model has potential to describe and advance mechanistic understanding of adaptive arterial remodeling, promote the continual refinement of mathematical models of arterial remodeling, and provide motivation for new avenues of experimental investigation.
Heat Transfer Characteristics and Kinetics of Camellia oleifera Seeds During Hot-Air Drying
Authors: Huang Dan , Tao Yuchao , Li Wei , Sherif S. A. , Tang Xiaohong 
Published: October 2019

Abstract
The heat transfer characteristics and kinetics of Camellia oleifera seeds under hot-air drying were investigated at different temperatures (40, 60, and 80 °C) and loading densities (0.92, 1.22, and 1.52 g/cm2) with a constant air velocity of 1 m/s. Twelve common drying kinetic models were selected to fit the experimental data. The most suitable model was chosen to describe the hot-air drying process of C. oleifera seeds and help in its optimization. The results showed that the drying temperature has a significant influence on the hot-air drying characteristics of C. oleifera seeds. As the drying air temperature increases, the drying time decreases. The effect of the loading density on the drying characteristics of C. oleifera seeds is much smaller than that of temperature. With the increase in the loading density, the drying time slightly increases. The hot-air drying curve of C. oleifera seeds consists of a very short acceleration rate period at the beginning and a long falling rate period, indicating that the drying of C. oleifera seeds is mainly controlled by the diffusion of moisture inside the material. An effective moisture diffusion coefficient of C. oleifera seeds was estimated to range from 0.81256 × 10−9 to 3.28496 × 10−9 m2/s within the temperature range studied. The average activation energy was 28.27979 kJ/mol. The logarithmic model was found to be the best model to describe the kinetics of hot-air drying of C. oleifera seeds.