Disentangling the Optoelectronic Behavior of Lead Iodide Governed by Two-Dimensional Electron Confinement.

We present a joint experimental and theoretical study for complete spectroscopic characterization and optoelectronic properties of lead iodide. Experimentally, we combine X-ray diffraction experiments to elucidate the structure with photoelectron spectroscopy to explore its electronic structure. Computationally, simulations are performed in the frame of density functional theory.

[Effectiveness of treatment with Pygeum africanum in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms and benign prostatic hyperplasia: a cross-sectional study in the real-world clinical practice in Spain (The PROFIT Study)].

Objectives: To assess the effectivenessand tolerability of treatment with P africanum(P. africanum) in patients with lower urinary tractsymptoms (LUTS) associated with benign prostatichyperplasia (BPH) in routine clinical practice.

Material And Methods: Cross-sectional observationalstudy in which 115 patients with LUTS/BPHtreated for 6 months with P.

Empirical Mode Decomposition-Based Filter Applied to Multifocal Electroretinograms in Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis.

As multiple sclerosis (MS) usually affects the visual pathway, visual electrophysiological tests can be used to diagnose it. The objective of this paper is to research methods for processing multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) recordings to improve the capacity to diagnose MS. MfERG recordings from 15 early-stage MS patients without a history of optic neuritis and from 6 control subjects were examined.

Computer-Aided Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis Using a Support Vector Machine and Optical Coherence Tomography Features.

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the feasibility of diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS) using optical coherence tomography (OCT) data and a support vector machine (SVM) as an automatic classifier. Forty-eight MS patients without symptoms of optic neuritis and forty-eight healthy control subjects were selected. Swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) was performed using a DRI (deep-range imaging) Triton OCT device (Topcon Corp.

Effect of intraoperative paravertebral or intravenous lidocaine versus control during lung resection surgery on postoperative complications: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Use of minimally invasive surgical techniques for lung resection surgery (LRS), such as video-assisted thoracoscopy (VATS), has increased in recent years. However, there is little information about the best anesthetic technique in this context. This surgical approach is associated with a lower intensity of postoperative pain, and its use has been proposed in programs for enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS).

Enantiosensitive Bonding of Chiral Molecules on a Magnetic Substrate Investigated by Means of Electron Spectroscopies.

The adsorption of purely organic chiral molecules on ferromagnetic Co thin films is studied under ultra high vacuum conditions by means of synchrotron radiation-based electron spectroscopies, namely X-ray absorption and ultraviolet photoemission. X-ray absorption reveals that enantiomers with opposite handedness (R,R)- and (S,S)- of two different molecules adsorb with different strength on the Co surfaces and their valence band photoemission spectra also display distinctive features. In view of the recent reports describing the chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect these results lead us to consider the possibility that some enantiosensitivity may appear when bonding chiral molecules to a substrate with an initial asymmetry in the population of the different spin orientations.

Empirical mode decomposition processing to improve multifocal-visual-evoked-potential signal analysis in multiple sclerosis.

Objective: To study the performance of multifocal-visual-evoked-potential (mfVEP) signals filtered using empirical mode decomposition (EMD) in discriminating, based on amplitude, between control and multiple sclerosis (MS) patient groups, and to reduce variability in interocular latency in control subjects.

Methods: MfVEP signals were obtained from controls, clinically definitive MS and MS-risk progression patients (radiologically isolated syndrome (RIS) and clinically isolated syndrome (CIS)). The conventional method of processing mfVEPs consists of using a 1-35 Hz bandpass frequency filter (XDFT).

Enantiospecific spin polarization of electrons photoemitted through layers of homochiral organic molecules.

Electrons photoemitted through layers of purely organic chiral molecules become strongly spin-polarized even at room temperature and for double-monolayer thicknesses. The substitution of one enantiomer for its mirror image does not revert the sign of the spin polarization, rather its direction in space. These findings might lead to the obtention of highly efficient spin filters for spintronic applications.

Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Short-Risk Stratification in Acute Myocardial Infarction.

Background/aims: Renal dysfunction is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The aim of this study was to investigate the independent prognostic value of renal dysfunction and its incremental predictability risk after adjusting for well-known clinical factors in patients with AMI.

Methods: 751 consecutive patients with AMI admitted to the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) were included.

Driving position field study, differences with the whiplash protocol and biomechanics experimental responses.

Rear-impact collisions at low speed are a leading cause of economic costs among motor vehicle accidents. Recently, EuroNCAP has incorporated in its protocol the whiplash test, to reproduce a low-speed rear impact. This paper presents a field driving study to assess the potential differences between the EuroNCAP dummy tests and actual drivers in the field, focusing on occupant position and biomechanics experimental results.

Falcipain inhibitors: optimization studies of the 2-pyrimidinecarbonitrile lead series.

Falcipain-2 and falcipain-3 are papain-family cysteine proteases of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum that are responsible for host hemoglobin hydrolysis to provide amino acids for parasite protein synthesis. Different heteroarylnitrile derivatives were studied as potential falcipain inhibitors and therefore potential antiparasitic lead compounds, with the 5-substituted-2-cyanopyrimidine chemical class emerging as the most potent and promising lead series. Through a sequential lead optimization process considering the different positions present in the initial scaffold, nanomolar and subnanomolar inhibitors at falcipains 2 and 3 were identified, with activity against cultured parasites in the micromolar range.

Effectiveness of a multifaceted strategy to improve the appropriateness of cesarean sections.

The objective was to assess the effectiveness of a multifaceted strategy for improving the appropriateness of indications for cesarean sections in two public Spanish hospitals. A multifaceted strategy was used including the adoption of a consensus protocol with indications for emergency and prescheduled cesarean sections, continuing education and improvement, and the correction of deficiencies in organization. A pre and post-intervention design was applied.

Mutations in TBX1 genocopy the 22q11.2 deletion and duplication syndromes: a new susceptibility factor for mental retardation.

A screen for TBX1 gene mutations identified two mutations in patients with some features compatible with the 22q11.2-deletion syndrome but with no deletions. One is a de novo missense mutation and the other is a 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) C>T change that affects a nucleotide with a remarkable trans-species conservation.

[Morphologic and informatic study of human femoral artery stenoses for its application as a diagnostic complement].

This paper studies the performance of the blood flow starting from stenotic human adult femoral arteries with different grades of obstruction, removed from autopsies and surgical amputations, and from simulations produced by an original simulator computerized software based on the method of finite elements for newtonian, homogeneous and uncompressible fluids. Its employment generated numerous maximal curves, subsequently joined in a unique graphic of easy application. Exceeding the evaluation of the origin and impact of turbulences by analyzing the different variables involved in such anomalous conditions (i.

[Chronic bronchial dilatations in different colonies of laboratory rats].

Bronchiectasis occurred naturally in 12-month-old spontaneously diabetic eSS male rats. The lungs of 3 and 6-month-old eSS rats were compared in eumetabolic eSS rats from three inbred lines consisting of inbred spontaneously diabetic eSS derived from IIM strain; these were compared with eumetabolic, outbred Wistar rats, paired by sex and age. Acrylic casts of bronchial tree were obtained after injection of a plastic substance.