Positive associations between mean ambient temperature and involuntary admissions to psychiatric facilities.

Background: Temperature increases in the context of climate change affect numerous mental health outcomes. One such relevant outcome is involuntary admissions as these often relate to severe (life)threatening psychiatric conditions. Due to a shortage of studies into this topic, relationships between mean ambient temperature and involuntary admissions have remained largely elusive.

Application of deep UV resonance Raman spectroscopy to column liquid chromatography: Development of a low-flow method for the identification of active pharmaceutical ingredients.

In this study, deep UV resonance Raman spectroscopy (DUV-RRS) was coupled with high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) to be applied in the field of pharmaceutical analysis. Naproxen, Metformin and Epirubicin were employed as active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) covering different areas of the pharmacological spectrum. Raman signals were successfully generated and attributed to the test substances, even in the presence of the dominant solvent bands of the mobile phase.

Global air pollution crossroads over the Mediterranean.

The Mediterranean Intensive Oxidant Study, performed in the summer of 2001, uncovered air pollution layers from the surface to an altitude of 15 kilometers. In the boundary layer, air pollution standards are exceeded throughout the region, caused by West and East European pollution from the north. Aerosol particles also reduce solar radiation penetration to the surface, which can suppress precipitation.

Transpulmonary contrast echocardiography: effects on delineation of endocardial border, assessment of wall motion and interobserver variability in stress echocardiograms of limited image quality.

Background: A major limitation of stress echocardiography remains poor image quality.

Objective: To investigate the effects of transpulmonary contrast echocardiography (TCE) with BY 963 on endocardial border delineation, detectability of wall motion abnormalities and interobserver variability at rest and during dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) in subjects with technically limited baseline echocardiograms.

Methods: BY 963 was administered intravenously to 36 patients (5 ml for parasternal LAX/SAX, 10 ml for apical four-chamber/two-chamber view) both at rest and at peak stress during DSE.

Histochemical detection of carbonic anhydrase with diemthylaminonaphthalene-5-sulfonamide.

A new specific method for the detection of carbonic anhydrase, EC 4.2.1.