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Delivering the power of nanomedicine to patients today.

Matthieu Germain, Fanny Caputo, Su Metcalfe, Giovanni Tosi, Kathleen Spring, Andreas K O Aslund, Agnes Pottier, Raymond Schiffelers, Alexandre Ceccaldi, Ruth Schmid · 2020

The situation of the COVID-19 pandemic reminds us that we permanently need high-value flexible solutions to urgent clinical needs including simplified diagnostic technologies suitable for use in the f…

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Concentration and Spatial Clustering of Forest-Based Thermoelectric Plants in Brazil

Luiz Moreira Coelho Junior, Edvaldo Pereira Santos Junior, Anna Manuella Melo Nunes, Flavio Jose Simioni, Raphael Abrahao, Paulo Rotella Junior · 2020

This study analyzes the concentration and conglomerate spatial distribution of forest-based thermoelectric plants in Brazil, in 2018. Herein, we spatially identified thermoelectric plants in different…

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Personal Protective Equipment: A Pandora's Box.

Gopal Chawla, Nupur Abrol, Kamna Kakkar · 2020

Countries all over the world writhing under the wrath of coronavirus face not only the challenge of protecting their population but the tougher challenge of protecting their healthcare workers (HCWs) …

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[Cation selective electroanalysis of K(+)-, Na(+)- and Ca2(+) concentrations in acetate dialysis solutions].

 · 1970

An account is given on the influence of acetate ions in direct potentiometric analyses of dialytic solutions using K+, Na+ and Ca2+ selective carrier PVC solid contact sensors. By calibrating the flow…

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Effect of k-space-weighted image contrast and ultrasound focus size on the accuracy of proton resonance frequency thermometry.

 · 1970

PURPOSE: To construct a predictive model that describes how the duration and symmetry of a k-space-weighted image contrast (KWIC) window affects the temporal resolution of differently sized ultrasound…

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Evaluation of a personal-computer-based teleradiology system serving an isolated Canadian community.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a personal-computer-based teleradiology system for the interpretation of radiologic studies from an isolated community.METHODS: During a 5-month study period, 240 radiologic stu…

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Reflected reentry in nonhomogeneous ventricular muscle as a mechanism of cardiac arrhythmias.

 · 1970

Arrhythmogenesis in ventricular muscle exhibiting nonhomogeneous excitability was studied in isolated tissues from feline and canine hearts. Longitudinal bundles were mounted in a three-chambered bath…

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SPECT quantification of benzodiazepine receptor concentration using a dual-ligand approach.

 · 1970

UNLABELLED: The distribution of benzodiazepine receptors in the human brain has been widely studied with SPECT using (123)I-iomazenil and semiquantitative approaches, but these methods do not allow qu…

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Successful 96-Hr cold-storage preservation of canine pancreas with UW solution containing the thromboxane A2 synthesis inhibitor OKY046.

 · 1970

Prostanoids, such as prostacyclin (PGI) and thromboxane A2 (TxA), have been recently suggested to play an important role in preservation-induced injury of pancreas grafts. We have previously shown tha…

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Risk factors for secondary transmission in households after a common-source outbreak of Norwalk gastroenteritis.

 · 1970

In November 1984, a foodborne outbreak of Norwalk gastroenteritis occurred in a K-12 public school in northern Vermont. The outbreak offered an opportunity to systematically study in detail secondary …

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Domestic animals and epidemiology of visceral leishmaniasis, Nepal.

 · 1970

On the Indian subcontinent, visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is considered an anthroponosis. To determine possible reasons for its persistence during interepidemic periods, we mapped Leishmania infections …

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Classification of Two Class Motor Imagery Tasks Using Hybrid GA-PSO Based K-Means Clustering.

 · 1970

Transferring the brain computer interface (BCI) from laboratory condition to meet the real world application needs BCI to be applied asynchronously without any time constraint. High level of dynamism …

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Dielectric and calorimetric studies of hydrated purple membrane.

 · 1970

Purple membranes (PM) from halobacteria were hydrated to approximately 0.4 and approximately 0.2 g H(2)O/g of PM and studied by dielectric spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry between 12…

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Diffusion kurtosis imaging for differentiating borderline from malignant epithelial ovarian tumors: A correlation with Ki-67 expression.

 · 1970

PURPOSE: To investigate the use of diffusion kurtosis imaging (DKI) in differentiating borderline from malignant epithelial ovarian tumors (MEOTs) and to correlate DKI parameters with Ki-67 expression…

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Characterization and suppression of stripe artifact in velocity-selective magnetization-prepared unenhanced MR angiography.

 · 1970

PURPOSE: To characterize and suppress stripe artifact associated with velocity-selective (VS) magnetization for unenhanced MRA.METHODS: Extended phase graph formalism was used to show that the stripe …

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A new approach to autocalibrated dynamic parallel imaging based on the Karhunen-Loeve transform: KL-TSENSE and KL-TGRAPPA.

 · 1970

TSENSE and TGRAPPA are autocalibrated parallel imaging techniques that can improve the temporal resolution and/or spatial resolution in dynamic magnetic resonance imaging applications. In its original…

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Carbon nanotube transistor controlled by a biological ion pump gate.

 · 1970

We report a hybrid bionanoelectronic transistor that has a local ATP-powered protein gate. ATP-dependent activity of a membrane ion pump, Na(+)/K(+)-ATPase, embedded in a lipid membrane covering the c…

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An image analysis pipeline for the semi-automated analysis of clinical fMRI images based on freely available software.

 · 1970

The technique of functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) has evolved in the last 15 years from a research concept into a clinically relevant medical procedure. In this study, an efficient, semi-a…

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[Transfer of monovalent cations across the isolated human amniotic membrane].

 · 1970

When the conductance and the bi-ionic potential are measured in vitro, monovalent cations are transferred according to a simple diffusion mechanism across the amnion (from the inside to the outside of…

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A novel framework for evaluating the image accuracy of dynamic MRI and the application on accelerated breast DCE MRI.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: To develop a novel framework for evaluating the accuracy of quantitative analysis on dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE) MRI with a specific combination of imaging technique, scanning parameter…

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