Multiple Arterial Grafting During Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients: A Short- and Long-Term Analysis at a Single Center.

: Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) with multiple arterial grafting (MAG) has shown potential to improve patient survival compared to single arterial bypass grafting. Whether this superiority in survival also exists in diabetics is uncertain. We therefore aimed to compare short and long-term outcomes of MAG in diabetic versus non-diabetic patients.

Grandiose narcissism, unfounded beliefs, and behavioral reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A theoretical perspective on grandiose narcissism suggests four forms of it (sanctity, admiration, heroism, rivalry) and states that these forms conduce to different ways of thinking and acting. Guided by this perspective, we examined in a multinational and multicultural study (61 countries; N = 15,039) how narcissism forms are linked to cognitions and behaviors prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As expected, differences in cognitions and behaviors across narcissism forms emerged.

High mobility group box protein 1 sensitizes mononuclear cells to further contact with lipopolysaccharide.

Fever is an adaptive host-defense response to infection and nowadays is rightly considered to be an expression of a healthy body and a well-functioning immune system. The condition is that it must be tightly regulated. Therefore, in individual cases, fever may be detrimental and should be treated.

Cavity-mediated long-range interactions in levitated optomechanics.

The ability to engineer cavity-mediated interactions has emerged as a powerful tool for the generation of non-local correlations and the investigation of non-equilibrium phenomena in many-body systems. Levitated optomechanical systems have recently entered the multiparticle regime, which promises the use of arrays of strongly coupled massive oscillators to explore complex interacting systems and sensing. Here we demonstrate programmable cavity-mediated interactions between nanoparticles in vacuum by combining advances in multiparticle optical levitation and cavity-based quantum control.

Impact of Residual Compositional Inhomogeneities on the MCT Material Properties for IR Detectors.

HgCdTe is a well-known material for state-of-the-art infrared photodetectors. The interd-iffused multilayer process (IMP) is used for Metal-Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) of HgCdTe heterostructures, enabling precise control of composition. In this method, alternating HgTe and CdTe layers are deposited, and they homogenize during growth due to interdiffusion, resulting in a near-uniform material.