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Open AccessCryogenic characterization of a \(\hbox {LiAlO}_{2}\) crystal and new results on spin-dependent dark matter interactions with ordinary matter
In this work, a first cryogenic characterization of a scintillating \(\hbox {LiAlO}_{2}\) ...
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Open AccessSearches for Light Dark Matter with the CRESST-III Experiment
Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers (CRESST) is a long-standing direct dark matter detection experiment with cryogenic detectors located at the underground facility Laboratori Naziona...
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Open AccessLithium-Containing Crystals for Light Dark Matter Search Experiments
In the current direct dark matter search landscape, the leading experiments in the sub-GeV mass region mostly rely on cryogenic techniques which employ crystalline targets. One attractive type of crystals for ...
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Open AccessErratum to: Geant4-based electromagnetic background model for the CRESST dark matter experiment
The original version of this article unfortunately contains mistakes.
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Analysis of meteorite samples using PIXE technique
A non-destructive approach to the sample treatment during the analytical process is one of the crucial advantages of the particle induced X-ray emission technique. Rare and precious environmental and space sam...
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Open AccessGeant4-based electromagnetic background model for the CRESST dark matter experiment
The CRESST (Cryogenic Rare Event Search with Superconducting Thermometers) dark matter search experiment aims for the detection of dark matter particles via elastic scattering off nuclei in \(\mathrm {CaWO_4}\)Ca...
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Numerical model of elastic laminated glass beams under finite strain
Laminated glass structures are formed by stiff layers of glass connected with a compliant plastic interlayer. Due to their slenderness and heterogeneity, they exhibit a complex mechanical response that is diff...
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Focused tandem shock waves in water and their potential application in cancer treatment
The generator of two focused successive (tandem) shock waves (FTSW) in water produced by underwater multichannel electrical discharges at two composite electrodes, with a time delay between the first and secon...
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Open AccessPW03-008 – Mitochondrial disturbances in Schnitzler syndrome
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Association of minor and trace elements with mineralogical constituents of urinary stones: A hard nut to crack in existing studies of urolithiasis
The role of metals in urinary stone formation has already been studied in several publications. Moreover, urinary calculi can also be used for assessing exposure of humans to minor and trace elements in additi...
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Focused Tandem Shock Waves in Water and Their Potential Application in Cancer Treatment
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) has been successful for more than 30 years in non-invasive treating patients with stone deceases (mostly kidney stones). ESWL devices (lithotripters) generate shock...
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237 Csf-Lactate as a Marker of Mitochondrial Disorders Even in Children After Brief Seizures
Background: An increased level of lactate in body fluids serves as a biochemical marker in assessing patients with inherited metabolic disease; especially in children with mitochondrial disorders that arise fr...
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Grain size, geochemistry and organic pollutants in modern fluvial deposits in eastern Moravia (Czech Republic)
Modern fluvial deposits from both small and large rivers were studied at 14 monitoring sites over 2 years (4 successive sampling seasons) in the area of eastern Moravia (Czech Republic). Grain size, geochemist...
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A new case of ALG8 deficiency (CDG Ih)
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) represent an expanding group of inherited diseases. One of them, ALG8 deficiency (CDG Ih), leads to protein N-glycosylation defects caused by malfunction of glucosyl...
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Fumaric aciduria: Mild phenotype in a 8-year-old girl with novel mutations
Fumaric aciduria is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder caused by deficient acitivity of fumarate hydratase (FH). Common clinical features are hypotonia, failure to thrive, severe psychomotor retardation and ...
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Epidemiology of Severe Sepsis in Intensive Care Units in the Slovak Republic
We investigated the number, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of ICU patients, who met precise clinical and physiological criteria for severe sepsis (as defined in the PROWESS study) in Slovak intensive c...
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Acid sphingomyelinase deficiency. Phenotype variability with prevalence of intermediate phenotype in a series of twenty-five Czech and Slovak patients. A multi-approach study
A multi-approach study in a series of 25 Czech and Slovak patients with acid sphingomyelinase deficiency revealed a broad phenotypic variability within Niemann–Pick disease types A and B. The clinical manifest...
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Homocystinuria due to cystathionine β-synthase deficiency: Novel biochemical findings and treatment efficacy
Summary: To explore the pathogenesis of cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) deficiency and to test the efficacy of pharmacological therapy we examined a panel of metabolites in nine homocystinuric pat...
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Far-infrared probe of size dispersion and population fluctuations in doped self-assembled quantum dots
We investigate the FIR magneto-optical transitions in doped self-assembled InAs quantum dots with an average filling ranging from 0.6 to 6 electrons per dot. Significant changes in the magnetic field dispersio...
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Biochemical and molecular analyses in three patients with 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaric aciduria
Two methods, spectrophotometry and HPLC, were compared in the analyses of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA lyase (HL) activity in three unrelated Czech patients with 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaric (HMG) aciduria and...
