Monitoring, Modeling, and Statistical Analysis in Metal Additive Manufacturing: A Review.

Despite the significant advances made involving the additive manufacturing (AM) of metals, including those related to both materials and processes, challenges remain in regard to the rapid qualification and insertion of such materials into applications. In general, understanding the process-microstructure-property interrelationships is essential. To successfully understand these interrelationships on a process-by-process basis and exploit such knowledge in practice, leveraging monitoring, modeling, and statistical analysis is necessary.

Impact of experience on visual and Simpson's biplane echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular ejection fraction.

Background: In clinical routine, health care professionals with various levels of experience assess left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) by echocardiography. The aim was to investigate to what extent visual and Simpson's biplane assessment of LVEF, using two-dimensional (2D) transthoracic echocardiography (TTE), is affected by the evaluator's experience.

Methods: Ultrasound images of 140 patients were assessed, visually and with Simpson's biplane method, by six evaluators divided into three groups based on echocardiographic experience level (beginner, intermediate and expert).

Trends in antiseizure medication prescription in Idiopathic generalized epilepsy over the last 10 years.

Background: Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsies (IGE) are a subset of syndromes defined by the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE) with the particularity to respond to a narrow number of ASMs and particularly to valproic acid (VPA). Recommendations have changed in the last decade. We aimed to describe changes in antiseizure medication (ASM) in adult IGE over the last 10 years.

Li-Ions Pre-intercalation Strategy of Manganese Oxides for Capacitive Deionization-Based Selective Lithium Extraction From Low-grade Brine.

In this work, Li preintercalated λ-LiMnO with tunable lithium content is synthesized, which exhibited excellent electrochemical performance and dual-mode electrochemical storage behavior. Double-layer capacitive and diffusion-controlled Faradaic processes play a role in the charge-discharge process, leading to an enhanced lithium selective adsorption capacity. When employed in hybrid capacitive deionization (HCDI), the λ-LiMnO obtains a Li adsorption capacity of 33.