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Intrauterine transfusion and non invasive treatment options for hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn review on current management and outcome
Venue: Expert review of hematology
Year: 2017

Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) remains a serious pregnancy complication which can lead to severe fetal anemia, hydrops and perinatal death.  This review focusses on the current prenatal management, treatment with intrauterine transfusion (IUT) and promising non invasive treatment options for HDFN.  IUTs are the cornerstone in prenatal management of HDFN and have significantly improved perinatal outcome in the past decades. IUT is now a relatively safe procedure, however the risk of complications is still high when performed early in the second trimester. Non invasive management using intravenous immunoglobulin may be a safe alternative and requires further investigation.
SAR Image Classification Through Information Theoretic Textural Features, MRF Segmentation, and Object Oriented Learning Vector Quantization
Venue: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Year: 2014

Segmentation of optical images may be obtained through algorithms based on image prior models that exploit the spatial dependencies of land covers. In synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, speckle conceals such spatial dependencies and segmentation algorithms suitable for optical images may become ineffective. Textural features may be used to emphasize spatial dependencies in the data and hence to improve segmentation. Once segmentation has been accomplished, a number of shapes is available. In this paper, the problem is tackled through the joint use of information theoretic (IT) SAR features, of a segmentation algorithm based on tree structured Markov random fields (TS MRFs) and of object oriented classification achieved through learning vector quantization (LVQ) The proposed system works with one or more coregistered images, not necessarily all SAR, and one or more spatial maps of pixel features derived from each input image. A unique partition into connected regions, or segments, is achieved from the plurality of input channels, either images or feature maps. From each segment, representing a shape, geometric, radiometric, and textural parameters are extracted and fed to an LVQ classifier, trained through a partial reference ground truth (GT) of the scene. Classification results on a textured SAR image of a city and its surroundings validate the proposed object oriented approach. Good performances can be achieved with small sizes of training sets, but they can be improved by using a decision fusion through majority voting (MV) of the outcomes of several experiments.
HRS/EHRA/ECAS expert Consensus Statement on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation: recommendations for personnel, policy, procedures and follow up. A report of the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) Task Force on catheter and surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation.
Venue: Heart rhythm
Year: 2007

Hugh Calkins, MD, FHRS; Josep Brugada, MD, FESC; Douglas L. Packer, MD, FHRS; Riccardo Cappato, MD, FESC; Shih Ann Chen, MD, FHRS; Harry J. G. Crijns, MD, FESC;  Michel Haissaguerre, MD; David Haines MD, FHRS; Yoshito Iesaka, MD; Warren Jackman, MD; Pierre Jais, MD; Hans Kottkamp, MD; Karl Heinz Kuck, MD, FESC; Bruce Lindsay, MD FHRS; Francis Marchlinski, MD; Patrick McCarthy, MD; J. Lluis Mont, MD, FESC; Fred Morady, MD; Koonlawee Nademanee, MD; Andrea Natale, MD, FHRS; Carl Pappone, MD, PhD; Eric Prystowsky, MD, FHRS; Antonio Raviele, MD, FESC; Jeremy Ruskin, MD; Richard Shemin, MD
Biomimetic Synthesis of Oleocanthal, Oleacein, and Their Analogues Starting from Oleuropein, A Major Compound of Olive Leaves.
Venue: Journal of natural products
Year: 2020

Oleocanthal and oleacein are known for a wide range of beneficial activities in human health and the prevention of diseases. The inability to isolate significant and pure amounts of these natural compounds and their demanding synthesis lead to the development of an efficient, five step, three pot procedure. The synthesis is performed by a convenient biomimetic approach, starting from oleuropein, an abundant raw material in olive leaves, through the mixed anhydride of oleoside. The method is stereocontrolled and provides an efficient approach to the synthesis of various oleocanthal analogues; thus, a small library of four compounds was prepared with 35 45% overall yield.
Rainwater harvesting state regulations and technical resources
Year: 2019

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) conducted in depth research of state level rainwater harvesting regulations for the Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) to help federal agencies strategically identify locations conducive to rainwater harvesting projects. Currently, rainwater harvesting is not regulated by the federal government but rather it is up to individual states to regulate the collection and use of rainwater. There is no centralized information on state level regulations on rainwater harvesting maintained by a federal agency or outside organization. To fill this information gap, PNNL performed detailed internet searches for each state, which included state agencies, universities, Cooperative Extension Offices, city governments, and related organizations. The state by state information on rainwater harvesting regulations was compiled and assembled into an interactive map that is color coded by state regulations. The map provides a visual representation of the general types of rainwater harvesting policies across the country as well as general information on the state programs if applicable. The map allows the user to quickly discern where rainwater harvesting is supported and regulated by the state. This map will be available on the FEMP website by September 2015.
Lithium biofortification of medicinal tea Apocynum venetum
Venue: Scientific Reports
Year: 2019

Lithium (Li) could be much safer and successful approach to supply Li via Li fortified food products. This study is highlighting the potential scope of Li supply via Li biofortification of Luobuma tea (made from Apocynum venetum leaves) which is a very popular beverage in Asia with several medical properties. We explored the possibility of A. venetum as Li enriched tea and investigated plant growth, Li accumulation, total flavonoids (TFs) rutin and hyperoside concentrations, and the antioxidant capacity of A. venetum. With the increase of additional Li, Li concentration in roots, stems and leaves increased gradually. Compared with the control treatment, 10 15 mg kg 1 Li addition stimulated the growth of A. venetum and 25 mg kg 1 Li addition significantly increased the Li concentration in leaves by 80 mg kg 1. Li application did not decrease TFs, rutin, hyperoside and antioxidant capacity of this medicinal herb. A daily consumption of 10 g Li biofortified A. venetum leaves (cultivated with 25 mg kg 1 LiCl) can give 592 mg Li intake and would constitute 59% of the provisional recommended dietary daily intake of Li. Our results showed that Li biofortified A. venetum leaves can be used as Li fortified tea to enhance Li supply and to improve human health when it was used as daily drink.
Validity of the Handheld Doppler to Determine Lower Limb Blood Flow Restriction Pressure for Exercise Protocols.
Venue: Journal of strength and conditioning research
Year: 2018

Laurentino, GC, Loenneke, JP, Mouser, JG, Buckner, SL, Counts, BR, Dankel, SJ, Jessee, MB, Mattocks, KT, Iared, W, Tavares, LD, Teixeira, EL, and Tricoli, V. Validity of the handheld Doppler to determine lower limb blood flow restriction pressure for exercise protocols.  2018 Handheld (HH) Doppler is frequently used for determining the arterial occlusion pressure during blood flow restriction exercises; however, it is unknown whether the blood flow is occluded when the auscultatory signal is no longer present. The purpose of this study was to assess the validity between the HH Doppler and the Doppler ultrasound (US) measurements for determining the arterial occlusion pressure in healthy men. Thirty five participants underwent 2 arterial occlusion pressure measurements. In the first measure, a pressure cuff (17.5 cm wide) was placed at the most proximal region of the thigh and the pulse of posterior tibial artery was detected using an HH Doppler probe. The cuff was inflated until the auscultatory pulse was no longer detected. After 10 minutes of rest, the procedure was repeated with the Doppler US probe placed on the superficial femoral artery. The cuff was inflated up to the point at which the femoral arterial blood flow was interrupted. The point at which the auscultatory pulse and blood flow were no longer detected was deemed the arterial occlusion pressure. There were no significant differences in arterial occlusion pressure level between the HH Doppler and the Doppler US (133 18] vs. 135 17] mm Hg, p 0.168) There was a significant correlation (r 0.938, p 0.168) reasonable agreement, and a total error of the estimate of 6.0 mm Hg between measurements. Arterial occlusion pressure level determined by the HH Doppler and the Doppler US was similar, providing evidence that the HH Doppler is a valid and practical method.
Emotional intelligence and creativity in teacher education
Year: 2011

Emotional intelligence (EI) and creativity have emerged to be crucial components of emotional adjustment, personal well being, life success, and interpersonal relationship in the past decade. This article provides a critical review of the research field of EI and Creativity in the school context and analyzes its present and future value in teacher education in the Nigerian educational system. Firstly, the author examines the debate on educational policies in different countries (UK, USA, Spain and Nigeria) for providing children the best start in life and for development of EI and Creative abilities. Secondly, theoretical models of EI by Mayer and Salovey (1997) and Creativity by Edward de Bono (2001) were discussed in detail. Thirdly, the author summarizes research concerning the relevance of EI and Creativity to indicators for personal and school success. Some recommendations for developing EI and Creativity at school and implication for future educational policies were given.  Emotional Intelligence (EI) creativity, personal well being, educational policies and school success.
A Survey on Policy Search Algorithms for Learning Robot Controllers in a Handful of Trials
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Robotics
Year: 2020

Most policy search (PS) algorithms require thousands of training episodes to find an effective policy, which is often infeasible with a physical robot. This survey article focuses on the extreme other end of the spectrum: how can a robot adapt with only a handful of trials (a dozen) and a few minutes? By analogy with the word "big data," we refer to this challenge as "micro data reinforcement learning." In this article, we show that a first strategy is to leverage prior knowledge on the policy structure (e.g. dynamic movement primitives) on the policy parameters (e.g. demonstrations) or on the dynamics (e.g. simulators) A second strategy is to create data driven surrogate models of the expected reward (e.g. Bayesian optimization) or the dynamical model (e.g. model based PS) so that the policy optimizer queries the model instead of the real system. Overall, all successful micro data algorithms combine these two strategies by varying the kind of model and prior knowledge. The current scientific challenges essentially revolve around scaling up to complex robots, designing generic priors, and optimizing the computing time.
The synthesis of two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide by cold wall chemical vapour deposition
Year: 2017

The synthesis of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) by conventional hot walled CVD remains critical issues of large scale, spatial homogeneity and quality  Here we demonstrate a coldwall CVD (CW CVD) system with advanced functions for the growth of high quality wafer scale homogeneous monolayer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) on various substrates  This automatic system can precisely control the temperatures of multizone, pressure and gaseous flow rate with individual precursors of Mo(CO)6 and sulfur. In addition, the system has high flexibility to be upgraded for extra functions such as plasma source, multi precursor supply and load lock system. The Raman spectrum of as synthesized MoS2 on 2 inch sapphire wafer shows the significant E2g and A1g peaks with 19cm 1 inter distance, and the photoluminescence (PL) spectrum shows an apparent peak at 650 nm. Both spectra reveal the monolayer and high quality feature of CW CVD synthesized MoS2.
How Narratives and Evidence Influence Rumor Belief in Conflict Zones: Evidence from Syria
Venue: Perspectives on Politics
Year: 2020

Armed conflict creates a context of high uncertainty and risk, where accurate and verifiable information is extremely difficult to find. This is a prime environment for unverified information rumors to spread. Meanwhile, there is insufficient understanding of exactly how rumor transmission occurs within conflict zones. I address this with an examination of the mechanisms through which people evaluate new information. Building on findings from research on motivated reasoning, I argue that elite driven narrative contests competitions between elites to define how civilians should understand conflict increase the difficulty of distinguishing fact from fiction. Civilians respond by attempting thorough evaluations of new information that they hope will allow them to distinguish evidence from narratives. These evaluations tend to involve some combination of self evaluation, evaluation of the source, and collective sense making. I examine this argument using over 200 interviews with Syrian refugees conducted in Jordan and Turkey. My findings indicate that people are usually unable to effectively distinguish evidence from narratives, so narrative contests are powerful drivers of rumor evaluation. Still, civilian mechanisms of rumor evaluation do constrain what propaganda elites can spread. These findings contribute to research on civil war, narrative formation, and information diffusion.
Dynamic Neural Network Reorganization Associated with Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition: A Multimodal Imaging Study
Venue: The Journal of Neuroscience
Year: 2013

It remains unsettled whether human language relies exclusively on innately privileged brain structure in the left hemisphere or is more flexibly shaped through experiences, which induce neuroplastic changes in potentially relevant neural circuits. Here we show that learning of second language (L2) vocabulary and its cessation can induce bidirectional changes in the mirror reverse of the traditional language areas. A cross sectional study identified that gray matter volume in the inferior frontal gyrus pars opercularis (IFGop) and connectivity of the IFGop with the caudate nucleus and the superior temporal gyrus/supramarginal (STG/SMG) predominantly in the right hemisphere, were positively correlated with L2 vocabulary competence. We then implemented a cohort study involving 16 weeks of L2 training in university students. Brain structure before training did not predict the later gain in L2 ability. However, training intervention did increase IFGop volume and reorganization of white matter including the IFGop caudate and IFGop STG/SMG pathways in the right hemisphere. These "positive" plastic changes were correlated with the gain in L2 ability in the trained group but were not observed in the control group. We propose that the right hemispheric network can be reorganized into language related areas through use dependent plasticity in young adults, reflecting a repertoire of flexible reorganization of the neural substrates responding to linguistic experiences.
Giant Self Kerr Nonlinearity in the Metal Nanoparticles Graphene Nanodisks Quantum Dots Hybrid Systems Under Low Intensity Light Irradiance
Venue: Nanomaterials
Year: 2018

Hybrid nanocomposites can provide a promising platform for integrated optics. Optical nonlinearity can significantly widen the range of applications of such structures. In the present paper, a theoretical investigation is carried out by solving the density matrix equations derived for a metal nanoparticles graphene nanodisks quantum dots hybrid system interacting with weak probe and strong control fields, in the steady state. We derive analytical expressions for linear and third order nonlinear susceptibilities of the probe field. A giant self Kerr nonlinear index of refraction is obtained in the optical region with relatively low light intensity. The optical absorption spectrum of the system demonstrates electromagnetically induced transparency and amplification without population inversion in the linear optical response arising from the negative real part of the polarizabilities for the plasmonic components at the energy of the localized surface plasmon resonance of the graphene nanodisks induced by the probe field. We find that the self Kerr nonlinear optical properties of the system can be controlled by the geometrical features of the system, the size of metal nanoparticles and the strength of the control field. The controllable self Kerr nonlinearities of hybrid nanocomposites can be employed in many interesting applications of modern integrated optics devices allowing for high nonlinearity with relatively low light intensity.
Edge Intelligence Assisted Smoke Detection in Foggy Surveillance Environments
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Year: 2020

Smoke detection in foggy surveillance environments is a challenging task and plays a key role in disaster management for industrial systems. The current smoke detection methods are applicable to only normal surveillance videos, providing unsatisfactory results for video streams captured from foggy environments, due to challenges related to clutter and unclear contents. In this paper, an energy friendly edge intelligence assisted smoke detection method is proposed using deep convolutional neural networks for foggy surveillance environments. Our method uses a light weight architecture, considering all necessary requirements regarding accuracy, running time, and deployment feasibility for smoke detection in an industrial setting, compared to other complex and computationally expensive architectures including AlexNet, GoogleNet, and visual geometry group (VGG) Experiments are conducted on available benchmark smoke detection datasets, and the obtained results show better performance of the proposed method over state of the art for early smoke detection in foggy surveillance.
Comparison of true unenhanced and virtual unenhanced (VUE) attenuation values in abdominopelvic single source rapid kilovoltage switching spectral CT
Venue: Abdominal Radiology
Year: 2016

ObjectiveTo assess the agreement between the true non contrast (TNC) attenuation values of intra abdominal structures and attenuation values obtained on virtual unenhanced (VUE) images based on rapid kVp switching dual energy CT. The effects of contrast phase and patient characteristics (e.g. BMI, hematocrit, hemoglobin content) on VUE values were also investigated.MethodsNinety four patients who underwent triphasic abdominal CT (liver mass protocol, n 47; pancreas mass protocol, n 47) between August 2014 and May 2015 were retrospectively reviewed. Unenhanced series was performed using conventional single energy mode at 120 kVp. Late arterial and venous phase post contrast series were obtained utilizing rapid kVp switching dual energy CT technique. VUE images were processed off of arterial (VUE art) and venous (VUE ven) phase series. Attenuation values of liver, pancreas, kidneys, adrenal glands, muscle, subcutaneous fat, aorta, IVC, and main portal vein were recorded on TNC and VUE sets of images. Attenuation values were compared using univariate linear regression and Student two tailed paired t test.ResultsThere was excellent correlation between TNC, VUE art, and VUE ven attenuation values across all organs (p 0.0001) Paired Student t test, however, showed significant difference between TNC and VUE art attenuation of kidneys, right adrenal gland, paraspinal muscle, and aorta. There was also significant difference between TNC and VUE ven attenuation of left kidney. Percentage of cases which had >10 HU difference between VUE and TNC for an individual was calculated which ranged between 13% (right kidney) and 42% (right adrenal gland).ConclusionAlthough the correlation between VUE and TNC attenuation values was excellent and mean difference between TNC and VUE attenuation values was negligible (ranging between 5.94 HU for paraspinal muscles to 6.2 HU in aorta) intra patient analysis showed a considerable number of cases which had >10 HU difference between VUE and TNC. VUE ven generally offered a better approximation of TNC values. Further optimization of post processing algorithms might be necessary before complete replacement of TNC with VUE images.
Interconnection between Driving Style, Traffic Locus of Control, and Impulsivity in Bulgarian Drivers
Venue: Behavioral sciences
Year: 2020

The need for research in the field of transport psychology in Bulgaria has become more tangible in recent years, due to both the increased public intolerance to aggressive driving and the very high number of injuries and fatalities in road accidents in the country. The main objective of this study is to investigate the interconnection between Driving style, Traffic locus of control, and the Impulsivity in Bulgarian drivers. A research is conducted in order to examine the relations between the constructs in Bulgarian sample (n 456, male 204; female 252; average age 37) The results show that there are significant correlations between impulsivity and all driving styles. Positive correlations were found with the maladaptive driving styles, while the adaptive driving style was negatively associated with impulsivity. Correlations between the traffic locus of control and the driving styles were also found. These results provide a very good opportunity for further research in this area as well as for the development of prevention and training programs in the field of road safety.
Comparison of the soft and hard peri implant tissue dimensional changes around single immediate implants in the esthetic zone with socket shield technique versus using xenograft: A randomized controlled clinical trial.
Venue: Clinical implant dentistry and related research
Year: 2021

Compare the dimensional changes of the peri implant soft and hard tissues clinically and radiographically around single immediate implants in the esthetic zone with socket shield technique versus filling the buccal gap with xenograft.  Forty two patients with a single non restorable tooth in the esthetic zone replaced with an immediate implant were randomly assigned either to the socket shield technique (test) or to grafting the buccal gap with xenograft (control) The vertical and horizontal buccal bone resorption were measured 6 months following implant placement. The esthetic outcomes were evaluated by assessing the Pink Esthetic Score (PES) and the amount of midfacial mucosal alteration, in addition to patient satisfaction assessment through a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) based questionnaire 1 year following implant restoration.  The present study showed that the socket shield group yielded significantly less vertical and horizontal buccal bone resorption of 0.35 0.62) mm and 0.29 0.34) mm compared to 1.71 1.02) mm and 1.45 0.72) mm in the xenograft group respectively. Also, there was a significantly greater midfacial mucosal recession in the xenograft group of 0.466 0.58) mm compared to midfacial mucosal coronal migration of 0.45 0.75) mm in the socket shield group. However, there was no statistically significant difference regarding the total PES and patient satisfaction in both treatment groups.  The socket shield technique can preserve hard and soft peri implant tissues following immediate implant placement.