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Metal nanoslit lenses with polarization-selective design: erratum (2011)

Get PDF Email Share Share with Facebook Tweet This Post on reddit Share with LinkedIn Add to CiteULike Add to Mendeley Add to BibSonomy Get Citation Copy Citation Text Satoshi Ishii, Alexander V. Kildishev, Vladimir M. Shalaev, Kuo-Ping Chen, and Vladimir P. Drachev, "Metal nanoslit lenses with polarization-selective design: erratum," Opt. Lett. 36, 1244-1244 (2011) Export Citation BibTex Endnote (RIS) HTML Plain Text Citation alert Save article
Variability in plasma prothrombin concentration (1998)

Recent evidence suggests a major role for prothrombin as a risk factor for thrombosis. However, estimating prothrombin levels from a deficient plasma-based clotting assay (factor IIc) is expensive and technically difficult in the setting of population-based research. We report the development of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for prothrombin using purified antigen and polyclonal anti-prethrombin-1 IgG. Three different quality control plasmas had coefficients of variation (CV) of 6.5%, 4.9%, and 4.8%. Analytical recovery averaged 103.8%. Results from the ELISA correlated well with factor IIc results (r=0.75). The 5th-95th percentile range for healthy men (n=10) and women (n=16) was 97.7 pg/ml to 161.8 microg/ml. The assay exhibited no significant cross-reactivity with other vitamin-K-dependent proteins. Prothrombin showed no diurnal variation. In a study of biovariability the analytical variability, CV(A), was 3.1%; the within-subject variability, CV(I), was 7.3%; the between-subject variability, CV(G), was 14.5%. The critical difference for sequential values (i.e. the smallest percentage change unlikely to be due to CV(A) or CV(I)) significant at P=0.05 was 21.9%. The index of individuality, CV(I)/CV(G), was 0.50. On the basis of the overall biovariability data, primarily the index of individuality, prothrombin as measured in our ELISA is well suited for applications in population-based research.
Passive cutaneous anaphylaxis in the chicken. Biological fractionation of the mediating antibody population. (1973)

The studies reported here demonstrated that adult chickens, when immunized with bovine serum albumin, respond with the production of serum antibodies which will mediate passive cutaneous anaphylactic (PCA) reactions in 10-day-old chicks but not in adults. This difference is at least in part due to differences in histamine sensitivity between chicks and adults. The molecule responsible for this PCA activity was indistinguishable from the predominant 7S chicken immunoglobulin antigenically and by a combination of gel filtration on Sephadex G-200 and ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose. However, the PCA activity is apparently biologically separable from portions of the 7S serum immunoglobulin population since this activity has never been elicited by immunoglobulins derived from yolk. On the basis of stability to denaturing treatments and short tissue fixation time periods, the chicken PCA-mediating antibodies appear to resemble the γG(1) homocytotrophic antibodies of mice and guinea-pigs instead of the IgE-type reagins found in some mammals. Therefore, PCA-mediating antibodies appear to be a subpopulation of the chicken 7S immunoglobulins, distinguishable by its inability to pass into the egg yolk but indistinguishable by standard chemical and immunochemical criteria.
Convective diffusion in capillaries (1968)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTConvective diffusion in capillariesAllen R. Overman and Raymond Jarvis MillerCite this: J. Phys. Chem. 1968, 72, 1, 155–158Publication Date (Print):January 1, 1968Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 January 1968https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/j100847a029https://doi.org/10.1021/j100847a029research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views94Altmetric-Citations3LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access options Get e-Alerts
On a new nonlinear image filtering technique (2017)

A generalization of the varying weight trimmed mean (VWTM) filter is proposed for the removal of both additive and impulse noise from corrupted images by introducing the center pixel to the original VWTM filter. Unlike many traditional nonlinear filters, one key feature of the VWTM filter is that the weights of the pixels to be averaged are not constant. They vary based on their differences to the median value. By adding the weight varying center pixel to the VWTM filtering formalism, the center pixel is therefore involved in adjusting its filtering output. Studies of the proposed filtering technique with several other methods show that the present method, in comparison, is extremely robust and efficient for removing noise from highly corrupted images.
Carbon-Carbon Bond Cleavage of a-Hydroxybenzylheteroarenes to Ketones and Heteroarenes by Catalytic Action of Cyanide Ion Based on Retro-Benzoin Condensation (1997)

Treatment of 4-(a-benzyl-a-hydroxybenzyl)quinazoline (Za) with potassium cyanide in DMF resulted in carbon-carbon bond cleavage to give benzyl phenyl ketone (3a) and quinazoline (4).Similar results were obtained with other 4-(a-hydroxybenzyl)quinazolines (Zb-f and 7a).This reaction proceeds through retrobenzoin condensation.This condensation also proceeded in pyrazolopyrimidine (9a) triazolopyrimidine (10a).quinoxaline ( l l a ) , and benzimidazole (lZa), and the imidazolium salt (16) was an effective catalyst.
Manual versus electric vacuum aspiration for first‐trimester abortion: a systematic review (2007)

There is some evidence that MVA is as effective and acceptable as EVA and might be safer than EVA.
Copper‐Catalyzed Alkylation of Sulfonamides with Alcohols (2009)

Water is the only by-product in an efficient and atom-economical Cu(OAc)2-catalyzed coupling of alcohols with sulfonamides (see proposed mechanism; Ts= p-toluenesulfonyl). It was discovered that bissulfonylated amidines formed as intermediates when the transhydrogenative CN bond-forming reaction is carried out in air act as novel ligands to stabilize the catalyst. Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.
Tiny telomere DNA (2002)

We describe the design, synthesis and biophysical characterization of a novel DNA construct in which a folded quadruplex structure is joined to a standard double helix. Circular dichroism, gel electrophoresis, three-dimensional UV melting and differential scanning calorimetry were all used to characterize the structure. Rigorous molecular dynamics simulations were used to build a plausible atomic-level structural model of the DNA construct. This novel DNA construct provides a model for the duplex-quadruplex junction region at the end of chromosomal DNA and offers a system for the study of structure-selective ligand binding.
Activation of human neutrophils by monoclonal antibody PMN7C3: cell movement and adhesion can be triggered independently from the respiratory burst (1986)

Anti-neutrophil monoclonal antibody PMN7C3 (IgG3) recognizes glycoproteins bearing the oligosaccharide lacto-N-fucopentaose III, including the C3bi receptor, LFA-1, and p150,95 on the plasma membrane and a group of granule-associated glycoproteins. We have previously shown that binding of this antibody to polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) stimulates a transient rise in cytosolic free calcium concentration but does not trigger the neutrophil respiratory burst. We now demonstrate that binding of PMN7C3 (and five other monoclonal antibodies recognizing the same antigen) to human neutrophils activates several other cellular responses. Addition of PMN7C3 to monolayers of neutrophils induces a rapid change in cell shape followed by pseudopod formation and increased migration. With incubation at 37 degrees C, the neutrophils aggregate in clusters (leukoagglutination). Quantitation of cell movement in a multiwell chemotaxis assembly or by migration of PMNs under agarose revealed that PMN7C3 is both chemotactic and chemokinetic. Pretreatment with the antibody inhibits subsequent chemotactic response to other stimuli. Monoclonal antibodies binding to other neutrophil antigens do not mimic these effects. These data suggest that cell movement and adhesion can be triggered independently from the respiratory burst. PMN7C3 may be a useful probe with which to study the events that link receptor-ligand binding to cellular response.
Algebraic-iterative Reed-Solomon trellis decoding (2003)

A suboptimal soft-decision Reed-Solomon decoder for an RS(n,k) code is developed which searches the less complex trellis of a higher rate RS(n,k') code where k'>k along with a set of hard-decision decoders. An exact expression for the number of edges and vertices for the minimal trellis of any RS code is given. The Viterbi trellis decoding complexity is determined for all RS codes. An expression for an approximate upper bound on the number of 'arithmetic' operations for the proposed RS decoder is given. The decoding complexity is compared with the Viterbi minimal trellis decoder.
Prostate Cancer Risk-Associated Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Affects Prostate-Specific Antigen Glycosylation and Its Function (2018)

The rs61752561 SNP appears to have a potential role in PCa pathogenesis by changing the glycosylation, protein stability, and PSA activity and may also affect the clinically measured F/T PSA ratio. Accounting for these effects on tPSA concentration and F/T PSA ratio may help to improve the accuracy of the current PSA test.
Modeling the effects of traps on the I-V characteristics of GaAs MESFETs (2002)

This paper provides an investigation on the effects of deep level traps on the large-signal I-V characteristics of GaAs MESFETs by means of measurements and physics-based device simulations; results give clear indications that pulsed I-V measurements are sufficient in order to characterize large-signal AC device operation and provide a good physical basis for circuit-level large signal MESFET models.
Schottky barrier and interface chemistry for Ni contacted to Al0.8Ga0.2N grown on c‐oriented AlN single crystal substrates (2012)

Abstract We demonstrate electronic sequential tunneling transport through the ground‐state subbands of GaN/Al 0.15 Ga 0.85 N quantum cascade structures grown on free‐standing GaN substrates. A pronounced transition from a high‐ to a low‐resistance state is observed as the applied voltage is increased. The measured current‐voltage characteristics are found to vary with temperature, structure design, and polarity of the applied bias, in a way that is fully consistent with theoretical expectations. The dominant transport mechanism is determined to be scattering‐assisted tunneling (© 2012 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &amp; Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
Differences in Drought Tolerance among Gisela® Cherry Rootstocks Determined Using Automated Weighing Lysimeters (2019)

The Gisela ® series of dwarfing rootstock are widely used because they enable high-density production, but they may be sensitive to drought. Drought tolerance may be associated with root-zone distribution and depth or with physiological adaptation to low water potential. Here we describe a novel technique for determining physiological tolerance to drought when root distribution is held constant. In two matching studies, we continuously measured transpiration of two groups of eight trees using a 16-container automated weighing lysimeter system in a greenhouse. With this system, Gisela ® 3, 5, and 12 (G.3, G.5, and G.12) rootstocks were subjected to multiple, controlled drought cycles based on reductions in whole-tree transpiration. To provide an equivalent amount of stress for each tree, water was withheld until the daily transpiration rate had decreased to less than 250 g of water transpired per tree per day. Each tree was then drip-irrigated to bring the root-zone back to about field capacity. G.3 and G.12 rootstocks more rapidly recovered to maximum transpiration rates compared with G.5 (an indication of ability to resume normal growth after a drought). At harvest, G.3 and G.12 rootstocks also had greater leaf area and trunk diameter. Both transpiration data and harvest data indicate physiological differences among rootstocks. Because root-zone volume was constant, these differences are not associated with changes in root distribution or depth. These data indicate that G.5 is less adapted for regulated deficit irrigation strategies that include long irrigation intervals.
Correction to Germanium-Vacancy Color Center in Diamond as a Temperature Sensor (2018)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVAdditions and Correc...Additions and CorrectionsNEXTORIGINAL ARTICLEThis notice is a correctionCorrection to Germanium-Vacancy Color Center in Diamond as a Temperature SensorJing-Wei FanJing-Wei FanMore by Jing-Wei Fan, Ivan CojocaruIvan CojocaruMore by Ivan Cojocaru, Joe BeckerJoe BeckerMore by Joe Becker, Ilya V. FedotovIlya V. FedotovMore by Ilya V. Fedotov, Masfer Hassan A. AlkahtaniMasfer Hassan A. AlkahtaniMore by Masfer Hassan A. Alkahtani, Abdulrahman AlajlanAbdulrahman AlajlanMore by Abdulrahman Alajlan, Sean BlakleySean BlakleyMore by Sean Blakley, Mohammadreza RezaeeMohammadreza RezaeeMore by Mohammadreza Rezaee, Anna LyamkinaAnna LyamkinaMore by Anna Lyamkina, Yuri N. PalyanovYuri N. PalyanovMore by Yuri N. Palyanov, Yuri M. BorzdovYuri M. BorzdovMore by Yuri M. Borzdov, Ya-Ping YangYa-Ping YangMore by Ya-Ping Yang, Aleksei ZheltikovAleksei ZheltikovMore by Aleksei Zheltikov, Philip HemmerPhilip HemmerMore by Philip Hemmer, and Alexey V. Akimov*Alexey V. AkimovMore by Alexey V. Akimovhttp://orcid.org/0000-0002-4167-5085Cite this: ACS Photonics 2018, 5, 11, 4710Publication Date (Web):October 29, 2018Publication History Received15 October 2018Published online29 October 2018Published inissue 21 November 2018https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01432https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.8b01432correctionACS PublicationsCopyright © 2018 American Chemical Society. This publication is available under these Terms of Use. Request reuse permissions This publication is free to access through this site. Learn MoreArticle Views970Altmetric-Citations3LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail PDF (349 KB) Get e-AlertscloseSUBJECTS:Carbon,Color,Optics,Sensors Get e-Alerts
VENet: Voting Enhancement Network for 3D Object Detection (2021)

Hough voting, as has been demonstrated in VoteNet, is effective for 3D object detection, where voting is a key step. In this paper, we propose a novel VoteNet-based 3D detector with vote enhancement to improve the detection accuracy in cluttered indoor scenes. It addresses the limitations of current voting schemes, i.e., votes from neighboring objects and background have significant negative impacts. Before voting, we replace the classic MLP with the proposed Attentive MLP (AMLP) in the backbone network to get better feature description of seed points. During voting, we design a new vote attraction loss (VALoss) to enforce vote centers to locate closely and compactly to the corresponding object centers. After voting, we then devise a vote weighting module to integrate the foreground/background prediction into the vote aggregation process to enhance the capability of the original VoteNet to handle noise from background voting. The three proposed strategies all contribute to more effective voting and improved performance, resulting in a novel 3D object detector, termed VENet. Experiments show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art methods on benchmark datasets. Ablation studies demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed components.
ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis of the Naphthoquinone Nucleus of Awamycin. (1995)

Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 100 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
In Vitro Feasibility Analysis of a New Sutureless Wound-Closure System Based on a Temperature-Regulated Laser and a Transparent Collagen Membrane for Laser Tissue Soldering (LTS) (2020)

For the post-surgical treatment of oral wounds and mucosal defects beyond a certain size, the gold standard is still an autologous skin or mucosal graft in combination with complex suturing techniques. A variety of techniques and biomaterials has been developed for sutureless wound closure including different tissue glues or collagen patches. However, no wound covering that enables for sutureless fixation has yet been introduced. Thus, a new system was developed that allows for sutureless wound covering including a transparent collagen membrane, which can be attached to the mucosa using a specially modified 2λ laser beam with integrated temperature sensors and serum albumin as bio-adhesive. The sutureless wound closure system was tested for its applicability and its cytocompatibility by an established in vitro model in the present study. The feasibility of the laser system was tested ex vivo on a porcine palate. The in vitro cytocompatibility tests excluded the potential release of toxic substances from the laser-irradiated collagen membrane and the bio-adhesive. The results of the ex vivo feasibility study using a porcine palate revealed satisfactory mean tensile strength of 1.2-1.5 N for the bonding of the membrane to the tissue fixed with laser of 980 nm. The results suggest that our newly developed laser-assisted wound closure system is a feasible approach and could be a first step on the way towards a laser based sutureless clinical application in tissue repair and oral surgery.
Blow the germs away (2016)

Lugdunin, a new antibiotic produced by commensal bacteria in the nose, prevents pathogen colonization in humans.
Microbiota-associated Risk Factors for Clostridioides difficile Acquisition in Hospitalized Patients: A Prospective, Multicentric Study (2020)

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Pair-correlation entropy of hydrophobic hydration: Decomposition into translational and orientational contributions and analysis of solute-size effects (2006)

We develop an efficient method to evaluate the translational and orientational contributions to the solute-water pair-correlation entropy that is a major component of the hydration entropy. A water molecule is modeled as a hard sphere of diameter dS=0.28 nm in which a point dipole and a point quadrupole of tetrahedral symmetry are embedded. A hard sphere of diameter dM, a hydrophobic solute, is immersed at infinite dilution in the model water. The pair-correlation entropy is decomposed into the translational and orientational contributions in an analytical manner using the angle-dependent Ornstein-Zernike integral equation theory. The two contributions are calculated for solutes with a variety of sizes (0.6<or=dM/dS<or=30). The effects of the solute-water attractive interaction are also studied. As dM becomes larger, the percentage of the orientational contribution first increases, takes a maximum value at dM=DM (DM/dS depends on the strength of the solute-water attractive interaction and is in the range of 1.4-2), and then decreases toward a limiting value. The percentage of the orientational contribution reduces progressively as the solute-water attractive interaction becomes stronger. The physical origin of the maximum orientational restriction at dM=DM is discussed in detail.
Mesoporous Carbon Structure Directed by Mesostructured Cellular Foam Silica (2002)

We synthesised a new mesoporous carbon consisting of aggregates of uniformly sized spherical particles are aggregated. The structure is directed by the carbonisation of sucrose in the pores of mesocellular foam silica. The BET specific surface area and the transmission electron micrograph demonstrate that the carbon particles are not solid spheres but hollow ones whose diameter and the thickness of the wall are 30 and 3 nm, respectively.
Neuropsychological Functioning Among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients (1999)

Although CR patients were not grossly neuropsychologically impaired as a group, it appears highly likely that many within a given program exhibit some degree of neuropsychological dysfunction. Including neuropsychological screening as part of pre-CR testing would help to identify such patients. This information may help staff to impart health care information in a manner that is most effective for the individual patient and may also be useful in the formation of realistic goals.