Clinical Manifestations.

Background: Preexisting cognitive impairment is a significant risk factor for post operative delirium (POD), and POD increases morbidity and mortality. Disturbances of attention (i.e.

IConDiffNet: an unsupervised inverse-consistent diffeomorphic network for medical image registration.

This paper introduces a novel unsupervised inverse-consistent diffeomorphic registration network termed IConDiffNet, which incorporates an energy constraint that minimizes the total energy expended during the deformation process. The IConDiffNet architecture consists of two symmetric paths, each employing multiple recursive cascaded updating blocks (neural networks) to handle different virtual time steps parameterizing the path from the initial undeformed image to the final deformation. These blocks estimate velocities corresponding to specific time steps, generating a series of smooth time-dependent velocity vector fields.

Duration, course and caregiver burden of croup in children: two observational cohorts.

Objectives: Although croup is a common respiratory illness, there is little published regarding symptom course. We aimed to assess symptom progression and caregiver burden, and whether age, sex or season and initial severity of disease are associated with symptom duration.

Design, Setting And Participants: We conducted a secondary analysis of two Canadian prospective cohorts of children 0-16 years old diagnosed with croup; one recruited from a paediatric emergency department (ED) (307 children) between November 1999 and March 2000, and the other from 26 general EDs (1214 children) between September 2002 and April 2006.

Uranyl Naphthylsalophen and Pyrasal Complexes: Oxo Ligands Acting as Hydrogen Bond Acceptors in the Solid State.

Uranium is most stable when it is exposed to oxygen or water in its +6 oxidation state as the uranyl (UO) ion. This ion is subsequently particularly stable and very resistant to functionalization due to the inverse trans effect. Uranyl oxo ligands are typically not considered good hydrogen bond acceptors due to their weak Lewis basicity; however, the ligands bound in the equatorial plane greatly affect the strength of the oxo ligands' hydrogen bonding.

Fundamental Insights into Copper-Epoxy Interfaces for High-Frequency Chip-to-Chip Interconnects.

Future processes and materials are needed to enable multichip packages with chip-to-chip (C2C) data rates of 50 GB/s or higher. This presents a fundamental challenge because of the skin effect, which exacerbates signal transmission losses at high frequencies. Our results indicate that smooth copper interconnects with relatively thin cuprous oxides (CuO, Cu) and amine-functional silane adhesion promoters improve interfacial adhesion with epoxy dielectrics by nearly an order of magnitude.