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Open AccessAccessible and reliable neurometric testing in humans using a smartphone platform
Tests of human brain circuit function typically require fixed equipment in lab environments. We have developed a smartphone-based platform for neurometric testing. This platform, which uses AI models like comp...
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Prompt Gamma Activation Imaging (PGAI)
The neutron is an ideal probe for elemental composition and structural analysis of samples due to its deep penetration into materials. This feature makes it especially suitable for the non-invasive investigati...
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Extraction and Characterization of Cellulose Nanofibers from Banana Plant
Isolation of cellulose nanofibers from renewable resources is becoming an important area of research. The use of these novel nature-based materials has garnered interest from the scientific community because o...
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Terahertz, X-ray and neutron computed tomography of an Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian sealed pottery
An Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian sealed pottery stored at the Museum of Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France) has been investigated using terahertz radiation, X-rays and neutrons. THz computed tomography revealed nondes...
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Impurity Susceptibilities in Magnetically Doped cis-Polyacetylene
The behaviour of Kondo impurities interacting with hole-doped cis-Polyacetylene is investigated using a worldline quantum Monte Carlo algorithm. For next-nearest-neighbour impurities, collective anti-ferromagneti...
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Non-invasive investigation of art paintings by terahertz imaging
Terahertz electromagnetic waves propose attractive features such as non-invasive and non-destructive analysis, transparency and good penetration depth through various materials, low scattering and broad spectr...
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Non-septic Acute Lung Injury and Inflammation: Role of TLR4
Although the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in bacterial infection and sepsis is well characterized, recent studies have also shown that TLR4 can play an important role in contributing to acute inflammato...
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Non-septic Acute Lung Injury and Inflammation: Role of TLR4
Although the role of Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) in bacterial infection and sepsis is well characterized, recent studies have also shown that TLR4 can play an important role in contributing to acute inflammato...
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Direct and converse magnetoelectric effect at resonant frequency in laminar piezoelectric-magnetostrictive composite
Laminar piezoelectric-magnetostrictive composites using piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate ceramics and the giant magnetostrictive rare-earth-iron alloy Terfenol-D were prepared by epoxy bonding. The direct...
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The Significance of HMGB1, a Late-Acting Pro-inflammatory Cytokine
HMGB1 is a novel late mediator of inflammatory responses that contributes to ALI and lethal sepsis. It appears to interact with at least three receptors, including RAGE, TLR2, and TLR4, potentially explaining ...
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Immunological Monitoring, Functional Genomics and Proteomics
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Gene expression and intracellular NF-κB activation after HMGB1 and LPS stimuli in neutrophils from septic patients
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Decreased activation of NF-κB and expression of related genes in IRAK-1SNP 532 neutrophils from volunteers exposed to endotoxin and in unstimulated neutrophils from septic patients
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A Fully Abstract Semantics for UML Components
We present a fully abstract semantics for components. This semantics is formalized in terms of a notion of trace for components, providing a description of the component externally observable behavior inspired...
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Cytokine Neutralization: An Overview
An excessive inflammatory response accompanies the initial stages of severe infection and appears to contribute to organ system failure and death in this setting [1–3]. A number of immunomodulatory therapies aime...
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Study of Atomic Motions in EuBa2Cu3O7 − δ by Mössbauer and EXAFS Spectroscopies
We report the results of 151Eu Mössbauer and Eu K-edge EXAFS measurements on samples of EuBa2Cu3O7 − δ. In particular, the ratios between the Eu Debye–Waller factors along the c and ab-plane directions, were obta...
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Immunological therapy of sepsis: experimental therapies
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Effects of Propofol Containing EDTA on Mineral Metabolism in Medical ICU Patients With Pulmonary Dysfunction
Objective: To determine whether the addition of disodium edetate (EDTA) to propofol significantly alters mineral metabolism, adverse events, and outcome in critically ill medical patient...
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Why immunomodulatory therapies have not worked in sepsis
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On the role of the Coulomb interaction in the mechanism of d-wave Cooper pairing of charge carriers in high-T c superconductors
The question of the effect of the structure of the anisotropic quasi-two-dimensional electron spectrum of high-T c superconductors on the character of the screening of the Coul...