Reslice3Dto2D: Introduction of a software tool to reformat 3D volumes into reference 2D slices in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging.

Objective: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance enables the quantification of functional and morphological parameters with an impact on therapeutical decision making. While quantitative assessment is established in 2D, novel 3D techniques lack a standardized approach. Multi-planar-reformatting functionality in available software relies on visual matching location and often lacks necessary functionalities for further post-processing.

Enhanced Intersystem Crossing, Yet Still Fluorescence Upon Introduction of Intermediate Charge-Transfer States in Hemicaged [Zn(bpy)].

Photoactive zinc(II) complexes typically undergo fluorescence from the singlet excited state as the dominant radiative pathway, as the operative spin-orbit coupling is usually very small and phosphorescence from the triplet state is strongly forbidden. Although dicationic zinc(II) tris(bipyridine) strictly follows this scheme with fluorescence at λ = 326 nm, constructing the ligand sphere as a hemicage was reported to lead to quantitative intersystem crossing (ISC) and subsequent fast phosphorescence with λ = 485 and a short radiative lifetime of ca. 1 μs.

Sex-specific structural and functional cardiac remodeling during healthy aging assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance.

Background: Aging as a major non-modifiable cardiac risk factor challenges future cardiovascular medicine and economic demands, which requires further assessments addressing physiological age-associated cardiac changes.

Objectives: Using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR), this study aims to characterize sex-specific ventricular adaptations during healthy aging.

Methods: The population included healthy volunteers who underwent CMR at 1.

The effect of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist on essential delivery practices and birth outcomes: .

We study the effect of the Safe Childbirth Checklist (SCC) - a tool developed by the WHO to improve the quality of delivery care - on a range of provider- and patient-level outcomes. We conducted a clustered pair-wise matched randomized controlled trial among 166 health providers in two districts of Pakistan. This included primary and secondary health facilities as well as non-facility based rural health workers.

Comparison of manual and artificial intelligence based quantification of myocardial strain by feature tracking-a cardiovascular MR study in health and disease.

Objectives: The analysis of myocardial deformation using feature tracking in cardiovascular MR allows for the assessment of global and segmental strain values. The aim of this study was to compare strain values derived from artificial intelligence (AI)-based contours with manually derived strain values in healthy volunteers and patients with cardiac pathologies.

Materials And Methods: A cohort of 136 subjects (60 healthy volunteers and 76 patients; of those including 46 cases with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) of varying etiology and 30 cases with chronic myocardial infarction) was analyzed.

Myocardial injury in patients with acute ischemic stroke detected by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging.

Background: Patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) are at high risk of adverse cardiovascular events. Until now, the burden of myocardial injury derived from cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) has not been established in this population.

Methods: Patients with AIS underwent CMR at 3 Tesla within 120 h after the index stroke as part of a prospective, single-center study.

Mechano-Stimulus and Environment-Dependent Circularly Polarized TADF in Chiral Copper(I) Complexes and Their Application in OLEDs.

Molecular emitters that combine circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) and high radiative rate constants of the triplet exciton decay are highly attractive for electroluminescent devices (OLEDs) or next-generation photonic applications, such as spintronics, quantum computing, cryptography, or sensors. However, the design of such emitters is a major challenge because the criteria for enhancing these two properties are mutually exclusive. In this contribution, we show that enantiomerically pure {Cu(Cbz)[()-BINAP]} [R = H (), 3,6-Bu ()] are efficient thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitters with high radiative rate constants of up to 3.

A systematic review on ethical challenges of 'field' research in low-income and middle-income countries: respect, justice and beneficence for research staff?

Introduction: Primary data collection in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) is associated with a range of ethical complexities. Considerations on how to adequately ensure the well-being of research staff are largely neglected in contemporary ethics discourse. This systematic review aims to identify the ethical challenges that research staff across different hierarchical levels and scientific disciplines face when conducting research in LMICs.

Public provision of emergency obstetric care: a case study in two districts of Pakistan.

Objectives: Pakistan is one out of five countries where together half of the global neonatal deaths occur. As the provision of services and facilities is one of the key elements vital to reducing this rate as well as the maternal mortality rate, this study investigates the status of the delivery of essential obstetric care provided by the public health sector in two districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2015 aiming to highlight areas where critical improvements are needed.

Setting: We analysed data from a survey of 22 primary and secondary healthcare facilities as well as 85 community midwives (CMWs) in Haripur and Nowshera districts.

Antenatal care services and its implications for vital and health outcomes of children: evidence from 193 surveys in 69 low-income and middle-income countries.

Objectives: Antenatal care (ANC) is an essential part of primary healthcare and its provision has expanded worldwide. There is limited evidence of large-scale cross-country studies on the impact of ANC offered to pregnant women on child health outcomes. We investigate the association of ANC in low-income and middle-income countries with short- and long-term mortality and nutritional child outcomes.

Ultrafast photoinduced relaxation dynamics of the indoline dye D149 in organic solvents.

The relaxation dynamics of the indoline dye D149, a well-known sensitizer for photoelectrochemical solar cells, have been extensively characterized in various organic solvents by combining results from ultrafast pump-supercontinuum probe (PSCP) spectroscopy, transient UV-pump VIS-probe spectroscopy, time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) measurements as well as steady-state absorption and fluorescence. In the steady-state spectra, the position of the absorption maximum shows only a weak solvent dependence, whereas the fluorescence Stokes shift Δν̃(F) correlates with solvent polarity. Photoexcitation at around 480 nm provides access to the S(1) state of D149 which exhibits solvation dynamics on characteristic timescales, as monitored by a red-shift of the stimulated emission and spectral development of the excited-state absorption in the transient PSCP spectra.