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Ultrasonography revealed a medium-high reflective dome-shaped tumor. Fifty-nine percent of the patients died during the follow-up with a mean survival time of 8.8 ± 8.7 months.

We described here the clinical spectrum of RM and highlighted specific features of the disease.
We described here the clinical spectrum of RM and highlighted specific features of the disease.
The purpose of this study was to compare intravitreal nesvacumab (anti-angiopoietin 2) plus aflibercept with intravitreal aflibercept injection (IAI) in diabetic macular edema.

The eyes (n = 302) were randomized (123) to nesvacumab 3 mg + aflibercept 2 mg (LD combo), nesvacumab 6 mg + aflibercept 2 mg (HD combo), or IAI 2 mg at baseline, Weeks 4 and 8. LD combo continued every 8 weeks (q8w). HD combo was rerandomized at Week 12 to q8w or every 12 weeks (q12w); IAI to q8w, q12w, or HD combo q8w through Week 32.

Week 12 best-corrected visual acuity gains for LD and HD combo versus IAI were 6.8, 8.5, and 8.8 letters; Week 36 changes were similar. Central subfield retinal thickness reductions at Week 12 were -169.4, -184.0, and -174.6 µm (nominal P = 0.0183, HD combo vs. IAI); Week 36 reductions for LD combo and HD combo q8w and q12w versus IAI were -210.4, -223.4, and -193.7 versus -61.9 µm (nominal P < 0.05). CRT-0105446 At Week 12, 13.3% and 21.3% versus 15.2% had ≥2-step Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Scale improvement (LD and HD combos vs. IAI) and 59.6% and 66.3% versus 53.7% had complete foveal center fluid resolution. Safety was comparable across groups.

Nesvacumab + aflibercept demonstrated no additional visual benefit over IAI. Anatomic improvements with HD combo may warrant further investigation.
Nesvacumab + aflibercept demonstrated no additional visual benefit over IAI. Anatomic improvements with HD combo may warrant further investigation.The experience of chronic pain is influenced by gender, race, and age but is understudied in older Black women. Society and family alike expect Black older women to display superhuman strength and unwavering resilience. This qualitative study examined the narratives of 9 rural- and urban-dwelling Black older women to identify the ways in which they displayed strength while living with chronic osteoarthritis pain. Their "herstories" parallel the 5 characteristics of the Superwoman Schema/Strong Black Woman. Two additional characterizations emerged spiritual submission for strength and code switching to suffering Black woman; these may be unique to Black Americans with pain.We combine density functional theory simulations and active learning (AL) of element-embedding neural networks (NNs) to explore the sample efficiency for the prediction of vacancy layer formation energies and lattice parameters inABXninfinite-layer (n= 2) versus perovskite (n= 3) nitrides, oxides, and fluorides in the spirit of transfer learning. Following a comprehensive data analysis from different thermodynamic, structural, and statistical perspectives, we show that NNs model these observables with high precision, using merely∼30%of the data for training and exclusively theA-,B-, andX-site element names as minimal input devoid of any physicala prioriinformation. Element embedding autonomously arranges the chemical elements with a characteristic recurrent topology, such that their relations are consistent with human knowledge. We compare two different embedding strategies and show that these techniques render additional input such as atomic properties negligible. Simultaneously, we demonstrate that AL is largely independent of the initial training set, and exemplify its superiority over randomly composed training sets. Despite their highly distinct chemistry, the present approach successfully identifies fundamental quantum-mechanical universalities between nitrides, oxides, and fluorides that enhance the combined prediction accuracy by up to 16% with respect to three specialized NNs at equivalent numerical effort. This quantification of synergistic effects provides an impression of the transfer learning improvements one may expect for similarly complex materials. Finally, by embedding the tensor product of theBandXsites and subsequent quantitative cluster analysis, we establish from an unbiased artificial-intelligence perspective that oxides and nitrides exhibit significant parallels, whereas fluorides constitute a rather distinct materials class.In recent years, biodiesel production has emerged as an option for renewable and green fuel generation due to the constant reduction of fossil fuel reservoirs. Biofuels as biodiesel also show valuable attributes, environmentally speaking, due to their low environmental impact, contributing to the achievement of sustainability. However, costs are not allowable for large-scale production. Thereby, several novel processes have been proposed (e.g., reactive distillation) to solve this issue. An inconvenience for the development of these processes is the little information in the literature about the critical properties of fatty acids, which are precursors of biodiesel. Determination of critical properties for fatty acids through experimentation is difficult. The reason is that fatty acids tend to self-associate (to dimerize) due to carboxylic groups presence through hydrogen bonds, and consequently, have higher boiling points than other compounds of similar molecular mass (e.g., hydrocarbons, esters). Therefore, , density) have been extrapolated from trajectories obtained in these simulations using scaling law relations. Critical properties for these compounds are not available experimentally, therefore, group contribution calculations from the literature were used as a reference. In this comparison, the palmitic acid properties calculated in this work, show the best agreement among the three substances investigated.Surface wave elastography is a growing method to estimate the elasticity in soft solids. It is particularly useful in the case of agrifoods like meat, cheese, or fruits because it does not require major infrastructure or large equipment and could be developed in portable devices. However, estimating the shear elastic properties from surface wave measurements is not straightforward. The shear wavelength in those materials is cm sized for the excitation frequencies usually employed in elastography (∼102 Hz), and the size of samples is comparable to it. Thus, the surface wave speed is frequency dependent with no direct relation to the shear wave speed. In this work we propose a simplified Green's function for soft solid elastic plates which allows to retrieve the shear elasticity from near field measurements. The model is compared with experimental results obtained in agar-gelatin phantoms and food samples (cheese and bovine liver). The results show a good overall agreement although improvements can be achieved by incorporating diffraction and viscosity to the model.Objective.Electroencephalogram (EEG)-based motor imagery (MI) brain-computer interface offers a promising way to improve the efficiency of motor rehabilitation and motor skill learning. In recent years, the power of dynamic network analysis for MI classification has been proved. In fact, its usability mainly depends on the accurate estimation of brain connection. However, traditional dynamic network estimation strategies such as adaptive directed transfer function (ADTF) are designed in the L2-norm. Usually, they estimate a series of pseudo connections caused by outliers, which results in biased features and further limits its online application. Thus, how to accurately infer dynamic causal relationship under outlier influence is urgent.Approach.In this work, we proposed a novel ADTF, which solves the dynamic system in the L1-norm space (L1-ADTF), so as to restrict the outlier influence. To enhance its convergence, we designed an iteration strategy with the alternating direction method of multipliers, which could be used for the solution of the dynamic state-space model restricted in the L1-norm space. Furthermore, we compared L1-ADTF to traditional ADTF and its dual extension across both simulation and real EEG experiments.Main results.A quantitative comparison between L1-ADTF and other ADTFs in simulation studies demonstrates that fewer bias errors and more desirable dynamic state transformation patterns can be captured by the L1-ADTF. Application to real MI EEG datasets seriously noised by ocular artifacts also reveals the efficiency of the proposed L1-ADTF approach to extract the time-varying brain neural network patterns, even when more complex noises are involved.Significance.The L1-ADTF may not only be capable of tracking time-varying brain network state drifts robustly but may also be useful in solving a wide range of dynamic systems such as trajectory tracking problems and dynamic neural networks.ObjectiveNeurons communicate with each other by sending action potentials (APs) through their axons. The velocity of axonal signal propagation describes how fast electrical APs can travel. This velocity can be affected in a human brain by several pathologies, including multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury and channelopathies. High-density microelectrode arrays (HD-MEAs) provide unprecedented spatio-temporal resolution to extracellularly record neural electrical activity. The high density of the recording electrodes enables to image the activity of individual neurons down to subcellular resolution, which includes the propagation of axonal signals. However, axon reconstruction, to date, mainly relies on manual approaches to select the electrodes and channels that seemingly record the signals along a specific axon, while an automated approach to track multiple axonal branches in extracellular action-potential recordings is still missing.ApproachIn this article, we propose a fully automated approach to recoproducible velocity estimations, which constitute an important electrophysiological feature of neuronal preparations.Ionic liquids (ILs) supported on oxide surfaces are being investigated for numerous applications including catalysis, batteries, capacitors, transistors, lubricants, solar cells, corrosion inhibitors, nanoparticle synthesis and biomedical applications. The study of ILs with oxide surfaces presents challenges both experimentally and computationally. The interaction between ILs and oxide surfaces can be rather complex, with defects in the oxide surface playing a key role in the adsorption behaviour and resulting electronic properties. The choice of the cation/anion pair is also important and can influence molecular ordering and electronic properties at the interface. These controllable interfacial behaviours make ionic liquid/oxide systems desirable for a number of different technological applications as well as being utilised for nanoparticle synthesis. This topical review aims to bring together recent experimental and theoretical work on the interaction of ILs with oxide surfaces, including TiO2, ZnO, Al2O3, SnO2and transition metal oxides. It focusses on the behaviour of ILs at model single crystal surfaces, the interaction between ILs and nanoparticulate oxides, and their performance in prototype devices.Objective.The article aims at addressing 2 challenges to step motor brain-computer interface (BCI) out of laboratories asynchronous control of complex bimanual effectors with large numbers of degrees of freedom, using chronic and safe recorders, and the decoding performance stability over time without frequent decoder recalibration.Approach.Closed-loop adaptive/incremental decoder training is one strategy to create a model stable over time. Adaptive decoders update their parameters with new incoming data, optimizing the model parameters in real time. It allows cross-session training with multiple recording conditions during closed loop BCI experiments. In the article, an adaptive tensor-based recursive exponentially weighted Markov-switching multi-linear model (REW-MSLM) decoder is proposed. REW-MSLM uses a mixture of expert (ME) architecture, mixing or switching independent decoders (experts) according to the probability estimated by a 'gating' model. A Hidden Markov model approach is employed as gating model to improve the decoding robustness and to provide strong idle state support.
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