Subpicosecond Spectroscopic Ellipsometry of the Photoinduced Phase Transition in VO Thin Films.

We report the first application of broadband time-resolved pump-probe ellipsometry to study the ultrafast dynamics of the photoinduced insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) in vanadium dioxide (VO) thin films driven by 35 fs laser pulses. This novel technique enables the direct measurement of the time-resolved evolution of the complex pseudodielectric function of VO during the IMT. We have identified distinct thermal and nonthermal dynamics in the photoinduced IMT, which critically depends on the pump wavelength and fluence, while providing a detailed temporal and spectral phase map.

Erratum: Interlaboratory study on SbS interplay between structure, dielectric function, and amorphous-to-crystalline phase change for photonics.

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Genetic Testing in Craniofacial Care: Development of Algorithms for Testing Patients with Orofacial Clefting, Branchial Arch Anomalies, and Craniosynostosis.

Objective: To develop consensus-based algorithms for genetic testing in patients with common craniofacial conditions.

Design: An online collaborative consisting of online meetings, independent work, and feedback across groups. A collaborative of genetics and pediatrics providers from three regional craniofacial centers (four institutions).

Isolation and characterization of a native strain of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana for the control of the palm weevil Dynamis borassi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) in the neotropics.

This study aimed to isolate and characterize a native strain of Beauveria bassiana, coded as Bv065, showcasing its potential as a biological control agent targeting the palm weevil Dynamis borassi. Originating from a naturally infected D. borassi specimen collected in southwestern Colombia, the fungus underwent molecular identification and was identified as B.

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Eugenol-Rich Essential Oil from : In Vitro and In Vivo Potentialities against .

L. is one the most recognized species with diverse biological activities. In this study, in vitro activity and in vivo efficacy of essential oil from (EO-Pd) was evaluated.

A scarab beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) causes tree mortality, delayed growth, and yield reduction in cacao with genotype-specific susceptibility to herbivory.

Background: This study explored the impact of Leucothyreus femoratus, a previously unreported folivorous pest in cacao cultivation, on cacao tree survival, development, and yield. The study was conducted in an experimental cacao plot in the Colombian plains, it featured 20 cacao genotypes in an agroforestry system, with plantain and Mexican sunflower providing temporary shade, and yopo offering permanent shade.

Results: We found an infestation rate of 2.

Stability of Nanometer-Thick Layered Gallium Chalcogenides and Improvements via Hydrogen Passivation.

The gallium monochalcogenides family, comprising gallium sulfide (GaS), gallium selenide (GaSe), and gallium telluride (GaTe), is capturing attention for its applications in energy storage and production, catalysis, photonics, and optoelectronics. This interest originates from their properties, which include an optical bandgap larger than those of most common transition metal dichalcogenides, efficient light absorption, and significant carrier mobility. For any application, stability to air exposure is a fundamental requirement.

The relevance of clinical and epidemiological correlation in the early diagnosis of histoplasmosis: report of two clinical cases in Popayán, Colombia.

Histoplasmosis is an endemic mycosis in Colombia. Here we present two cases in the Cauca department, to indicate the clinical impact of histoplasmosis delayed diagnosis and treatment when its epidemiology is unknown. Informed consent was requested to review patients’ medical records and case report publication.

Directional Scattering Switching from an All-Dielectric Phase Change Metasurface.

All-dielectric metasurfaces are a blooming field with a wide range of new applications spanning from enhanced imaging to structural color, holography, planar sensors, and directionality scattering. These devices are nanopatterned structures of sub-wavelength dimensions whose optical behavior (absorption, reflection, and transmission) is determined by the dielectric composition, dimensions, and environment. However, the functionality of these metasurfaces is fixed at the fabrication step by the geometry and optical properties of the dielectric materials, limiting their potential as active reconfigurable devices.

ITS1 Barcode and Phytochemical Analysis by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry of Hook. f (Balanophoraceae) from Ecuador and Peru.

The use of medicinal plants is the basis of traditional healthcare. Recently, the use of herbal medicine has been increasing among consumers due to availability, economy, and less side effect. For instance, the hemiparasite plant has medicinal properties and could be found in some regions of America, from Costa Rica to Bolivia.

Study design of BETTER-BP: Behavioral economics trial to enhance regulation of blood pressure.

Background: Nonadherence to antihypertensive medications remains a persistent problem that leads to preventable morbidity and mortality. Behavioral economic strategies represent a novel way to improve antihypertensive medication adherence, but remain largely untested especially in vulnerable populations which stand to benefit the most. The Behavioral Economics Trial To Enhance Regulation of Blood Pressure (BETTER-BP) was designed in this context, to test whether a digitally-enabled incentive lottery improves antihypertensive adherence and reduces systolic blood pressure (SBP).

The lipidome of an omnivorous insect responds to diet composition and social environment.

Lipids are biomolecules with essential roles in metabolic processes, signaling, and cellular architecture. In this study, we investigated changes in the lipidome of the house cricket subjected to diets of different nutritional composition (i.e.

Plasmonic hot-electron reconfigurable photodetector based on phase-change material SbS.

Hot-carrier based photodetectors and enhanced by surface plasmons (SPs) hot-electron injection into semiconductors, are drawing significant attention. This photodetecting strategy yields to narrowband photoresponse while enabling photodetection at sub-bandgap energies of the semiconductor materials. In this work, we analyze the design of a reconfigurable photodetector based on a metal-semiconductor (MS) configuration with interdigitated dual-comb Au electrodes deposited on the semiconducting SbS phase-change material.

An inception-based deep multiparametric net to classify clinical significance MRI regions of prostate cancer.

Multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (MP-MRI) has played an important role in prostate cancer diagnosis. Nevertheless, in the clinical routine, these sequences are principally analyzed from expert observations, which introduces an intrinsic variability in the diagnosis. Even worse, the isolated study of these MRI sequences trends to false positive detection due to other diseases that share similar radiological findings.

Multimodal Contrastive Supervised Learning to Classify Clinical Significance MRI Regions on Prostate Cancer.

Clinically significant regions (CSR), captured over multi-parametric MRI (mp-MRI) images, have emerged as a potential screening test for early prostate cancer detection and characterization. These sequences are able to quantify morphology, micro-circulation, and cellular density patterns that might be related to cancer disease. Nonetheless, this evaluation is mainly carried out by expert radiologists, introducing inter-reader variability in the diagnosis.

Interlaboratory study on SbS interplay between structure, dielectric function, and amorphous-to-crystalline phase change for photonics.

Antimony sulfide, SbS, is interesting as the phase-change material for applications requiring high transmission from the visible to telecom wavelengths, with its band gap tunable from 2.2 to 1.6 eV, depending on the amorphous and crystalline phase.

Interplay between Thickness, Defects, Optical Properties, and Photoconductivity at the Centimeter Scale in Layered GaS.

From the group-III monochalcogenide (MX, M  =  Ga, In; X  =  S, Se, Te) layered semiconductors, gallium monosulfide, GaS, has emerged as a promising material for electronics, optoelectronics, and catalysis applications. In this work, GaS samples of various thicknesses in the range from 38 to 1665 nm have been obtained by mechanical exfoliation to study the interplay between structural, morphological, optical, and photoresponsivity properties as a function of thickness. This interplay has been established by analyzing the structure through Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction, the morphology through scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy, the density and optical properties through spectroscopic ellipsometry, and the photoresponsivity through current-voltage measurements under UV light.