Growth-friendly spinal surgery: Review of the effect on truncal growth.

Background: Pediatric spinal deformity surgery affects ultimate spinal height in the growing child. This effect on ultimate spinal height has also been shown to affect pulmonary development and ultimately pulmonary function. There has been an increasing trend toward growth-friendly spinal surgery in early onset scoliosis to minimize the negative consequences of early spinal fusion surgery.

Quantum Dot-Doped Electrospun Polymer Fibers for Explosive Vapor Sensors.

This research seeks to support reconnaissance efforts against homemade explosives (HMEs) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs), which are leading causes of combat casualties in recent conflicts. The successful deployment of a passive sensor to be developed for first responders and military must take expense, training requirements, and physical burden all into consideration. By harnessing the size-dependent luminescence of quantum dots (QDs) being electrospun into polymer fibers, the authors of this work hope to progress toward the development of lightweight, multivariable, inexpensive, easy to use and interpret, field-applicable sensors capable of detecting explosive vapors.