Alignment of picornavirus proteinase/polymerase sequences reveals this family evolved into five 'supergroups'. Interestingly, the nature of the 2A region of the picornavirus polyprotein is highly correlated with this phylogeny. Viruses within supergroup 4, the , have complex 2A regions with many viruses encoding multiple 2A sequences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDeep learning has been used to improve photoacoustic (PA) image reconstruction. One major challenge is that errors cannot be quantified to validate predictions when ground truth is unknown. Validation is key to quantitative applications, especially using limited-bandwidth ultrasonic linear detector arrays.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHere a spin glass system with emergent planar ordered spin clusters is investigated. The mixed B-site pyrochlore GdScNbOhas been synthesized and characterized through a variety of techniques, including x-ray diffraction, magnetic susceptibility, muon spin relaxation, heat capacity and neutron scattering. Despite a Curie-Weiss temperature of -3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA recent advance in the study of emergent magnetic monopoles was the discovery that monopole motion is restricted to dynamical fractal trajectories [J. N. Hallén , , 1218 (2022)], thus explaining the characteristics of magnetic monopole noise spectra [R.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hypothermic machine perfusion (HMP) reduces renal injury in donation after circulatory death donors with a high Kidney Donor Profile Index (KDPI). This study aims to characterize the correlation between KDPI, HMP parameters, and donor vitals during the withdrawal period in predicting short- and long-term graft outcomes.
Methods: ANOVA with Tukey's honestly significant difference tests compared the relationship between average flow, average resistance, peak resistance, flow slope, and resistance slope on day 30, 1-y, and 3-y eGFR, and days of delayed graft function.