The Association of New Onset Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation and Abnormal P-Terminal Force in Lead V1 After On-Pump Cardiac Surgery.

Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after cardiac surgery is associated with higher morbidity and mortality. This paper presents several studies that conclude the presence of an aberrant p-terminal force vector in lead V1 (PTFV1) has been identified as a significant predictor of atrial fibrillation in the non-surgical population. It is uncertain whether or not there is an association of PTFV1 and new-onset POAF in patients after cardiac surgery.

Mapping cells through time and space with moscot.

Single-cell genomic technologies enable the multimodal profiling of millions of cells across temporal and spatial dimensions. However, experimental limitations hinder the comprehensive measurement of cells under native temporal dynamics and in their native spatial tissue niche. Optimal transport has emerged as a powerful tool to address these constraints and has facilitated the recovery of the original cellular context.

Gender dysphoria in adolescence: examining the rapid-onset hypothesis.

The sharp rise in the number of predominantly natal female adolescents experiencing gender dysphoria and seeking treatment in specialized clinics has sparked a contentious and polarized debate among both the scientific community and the public sphere. Few explanations have been offered for these recent developments. One proposal that has generated considerable attention is the notion of "rapid-onset" gender dysphoria, which is assumed to apply to a subset of adolescents and young adults.

Treatment of psychiatric comorbidities and interaction patterns in Coffin-Siris syndrome: A case report of a 4-year-old girl.

Coffin-Siris syndrome (CSS) is a rare genetic disorder and often co-occurs with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and autism spectrum (ASD). The present case study illustrates possible therapeutic interventions of these common psychiatric comorbidities taking into account the family interaction patterns. This can contribute to improve holistic management and overall level of functionality.

Unresolved attachment and identity diffusion in adolescence.

This study examined the severity of unresolved attachment underlying adolescent identity diffusion. Our sample consisted of 180 inpatient adolescents aged 14 to 18 years (77% female, = 15.13, = 1.

CurveCurator: a recalibrated F-statistic to assess, classify, and explore significance of dose-response curves.

Dose-response curves are key metrics in pharmacology and biology to assess phenotypic or molecular actions of bioactive compounds in a quantitative fashion. Yet, it is often unclear whether or not a measured response significantly differs from a curve without regulation, particularly in high-throughput applications or unstable assays. Treating potency and effect size estimates from random and true curves with the same level of confidence can lead to incorrect hypotheses and issues in training machine learning models.

Personality Disorders and Attachment Trauma in Adolescent Patients with Psychiatric Disorders.

This study examined how personality disorders (PD) differ with respect to gender, attachment status and traumatic childhood experiences in adolescent psychiatric inpatients. In particular, we investigated attachment-related traumatic material underlying adolescent PD. Our sample consisted of 175 inpatient adolescents aged 14 to 18 years (77% female, M = 15.

Symmetrized non-decomposable approximations of the non-additive kinetic energy functional.

In subsystem density functional theory (DFT), the bottom-up strategy to approximate the multivariable functional of the non-additive kinetic energy (NAKE) makes it possible to impose exact properties on the corresponding NAKE potential (NAKEP). Such a construction might lead to a non-symmetric and non-homogeneous functional, which excludes the use of such approximations for the evaluation of the total energy. We propose a general formalism to construct a symmetric version based on a perturbation theory approach of the energy expression for the asymmetric part.

Evaluation of visual food stimuli paradigms on healthy adolescents for future use in fMRI studies in anorexia nervosa.

Background: Mostly, visual food stimuli paradigms for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging are used in studies of eating disorders. However, the optimal contrasts and presentation modes are still under discussion. Therefore, we aimed to create and analyse a visual stimulation paradigm with defined contrast.

Low-rank Parareal: a low-rank parallel-in-time integrator.

In this work, the Parareal algorithm is applied to evolution problems that admit good low-rank approximations and for which the dynamical low-rank approximation (DLRA) can be used as time stepper. Many discrete integrators for DLRA have recently been proposed, based on splitting the projected vector field or by applying projected Runge-Kutta methods. The cost and accuracy of these methods are mostly governed by the rank chosen for the approximation.

Cross-points in the Dirichlet-Neumann method I: well-posedness and convergence issues.

Cross-points in domain decomposition, i.e., points where more than two subdomains meet, have received substantial attention over the past years, since domain decomposition methods often need special attention in their definition at cross-points, in particular if the transmission conditions of the domain decomposition method contain derivatives, like in the Dirichlet-Neumann method.

How to Best Choose the Outer Coarse Mesh in the Domain Decomposition Method of Bank and Jimack.

In Ciaramella et al. (2020) we defined a new partition of unity for the Bank-Jimack domain decomposition method in 1D and proved that with the new partition of unity, the Bank-Jimack method is an optimal Schwarz method in 1D and thus converges in two iterations for two subdomains: it becomes a direct solver, and this independently of the outer coarse mesh one uses! In this paper, we show that the Bank-Jimack method in 2D is an optimized Schwarz method and its convergence behavior depends on the structure of the outer coarse mesh each subdomain is using. For an equally spaced coarse mesh its convergence behavior is not as good as the convergence behavior of optimized Schwarz.

Secure Attachment Representation in Adolescence Buffers Heart-Rate Reactivity in Response to Attachment-Related Stressors.

To date, we know very little about the effects of the differences in attachment classifications on the physiological correlates of stress regulation in adolescent age groups. The present study examined for the first time heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) during an attachment interview in adolescents. HR and HRV data were collected during a baseline assessment as well as during the administration of the () in a community-based sample of 56 adolescents (26 females and 30 males, mean age = 16.

A non-decomposable approximation on the complete density function space for the non-additive kinetic potential.

A new non-decomposable approximation of the non-additive kinetic energy potential is constructed starting from the same exact property in the limit (ρ → 0 and ∫ρ = 2), as introduced in the work of Lastra et al. [J. Chem.

Attachment status is associated with grey matter recovery in adolescent anorexia nervosa: Findings from a longitudinal study.

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether grey matter (GM) reductions in acute anorexia nervosa (AN) are (i) valid for adolescents (age 14-18 years), (ii) reversible following short-term psychotherapeutic and nutritional therapy and (iii) depend on psychological components like attachment trauma. 3T MRI including a high-resolution T1 MPRAGE was performed in 22 female adolescents in the acute state of AN (age: 15.2 ± 1.

[Attachment-Related Affect Regulation of Mothers in a Psychiatric Parent-Child Ward - A Case Study].

Attachment researchers propose that the term affect regulation is associated with attachment-related defensive processes resulting from attachment experiences with primary caregivers. They serve to regulate attachment-related inner states. The Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP) is a reliable and valid tool to classify attachment patterns and it allows to assess these attachment-related defensive processes.

Giant Slalom: Analysis of Course Setting, Steepness and Performance of Different Age Groups - A Pilot Study.

Giant slalom is the core discipline of alpine skiing, and each race has its own specific course and terrain characteristics. These variations may explain differences in the speed and time per turn profiles, which are essential for performance development and injury prevention. This study aims to address the differences in course setting and steepness of the different course sections (flat-medium-steep) and compare them to the performance parameters among young (U12, U14, U16) and older (U18, U21, elite) male athletes.

Decorated bodies for eternal life: A multidisciplinary study of late Roman Period stucco-shrouded portrait mummies from Saqqara (Egypt).

This study focuses on the multidisciplinary investigation of three stucco-shrouded mummies with mummy portrait from Egypt dating from the late 3rd to the middle of the 4th century AD, corresponding to the late Roman Period. These three mummies were excavated in the early 17th and late 19th centuries in the Saqqara necropolis near the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis. Two of them experienced an interesting collection history, when they became part of the collection of the Elector of Saxony and King of Poland August II in Dresden, Germany, in 1728.

Unresolved Attachment Mediates the Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Impaired Personality Functioning in Adolescence.

The present study investigates the mediating effect of attachment trauma on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and personality functioning in 199 adolescents (12-18 years) using a novel approach of an in-depth analysis of attachment-related traumatic contents during an attachment interview (AAP). Our findings demonstrate that adolescents with a high amount of traumatic attachment-related material show a lower resilience when facing traumatic childhood experiences, resulting in a greater severity of personality dysfunction. In particular, the associations between emotional abuse and neglect and the domains of identity, empathy, self-direction, and intimacy were mediated by the severity of attachment trauma.

Spatially-distinct redox conditions and degradation rates following field-scale bioaugmentation for RDX-contaminated groundwater remediation.

In situ bioaugmentation for cleanup of an hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX)-contaminated groundwater plume was recently demonstrated. Results of a forced-gradient, field-scale cell transport test with Gordonia sp. KTR9 and Pseudomonas fluorescens strain I-C cells (henceforth "KTR9" and "Strain I-C") showed these strains were transported 13 m downgradient over 1 month.

The role of attachment characteristics in dialectical behavior therapy for patients with borderline personality disorder.

Attachment characteristics play a key role in understanding borderline-specific problems with respect to childhood maltreatment. The aim of this study was to investigate how attachment representations may influence the trajectory of change in a 1-year outpatient dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) for patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Attachment representations were assessed in 26 BPD patients and 26 healthy controls (HC) using the Adult Attachment Projective Picture System (AAP) before treatment.