Clinical description and outcome of overall varicella-zoster virus-related organ dysfunctions admitted in intensive care units: the VAZOREA cohort study.

Background: Due to aging population and increasing part of immunocompromised patients, a raise in life-threatening organ damage related to VZV can be expected. Two retrospective studies were already conducted on VZV in ICU but focused on specific organ injury. Patients with high-risk of VZV disease still must be identified.

compression of micropillars under coherent X-ray diffraction: a case study of experimental and data-analysis constraints.

Micropillar compression is a method of choice to understand mechanics at small scale. It is mainly studied with electron microscopy or white-beam micro-Laue X-ray diffraction. The aim of the present article is to show the possibilities of the use of diffraction with a coherent X-ray beam.

Into the wild of nonlinear electromagnetism-a course on nonlinear electromagnetism, not quite from scratch, part III: tutorial.

This tutorial is aimed at introducing in a natural fashion the propagation equations system governing the scattering of an electromagnetic wave by a nonlinear medium. The purpose is first to obtain the equations showing the most common nonlinear effects such as the Kerr effect or second and third harmonic generation by avoiding conventional recipes and trying to arrive at these equations with a minimum of assumptions. For this, we start from the general Maxwell's equations involving the fields E, B, D, and H, and we rigorously provide all the hypotheses needed to attain the nonlinear systems of partial differential equations involving the different complex amplitudes of the different fields associated with the different frequencies at stake.

Into the wild of nonlinear electromagnetism-a course on nonlinear electromagnetism, not quite from scratch, part I: tutorial.

This tutorial is aimed at introducing in a natural fashion the propagation equations system governing the scattering of an electromagnetic wave by a nonlinear medium. The purpose is first to obtain the equations showing the most common nonlinear effects such as the Kerr effect or second and third harmonic generation by avoiding conventional recipes and trying to arrive at these equations with a minimum of assumptions. For this, we start from the general Maxwell's equations involving the fields E, B, D, and H and rigorously provide all the hypotheses needed to attain the nonlinear systems of PDEs involving the different complex amplitudes of the different fields associated with the different frequencies at stake.

Noise models for low counting rate coherent diffraction imaging.

Coherent diffraction imaging (CDI) is a lens-less microscopy method that extracts the complex-valued exit field from intensity measurements alone. It is of particular importance for microscopy imaging with diffraction set-ups where high quality lenses are not available. The inversion scheme allowing the phase retrieval is based on the use of an iterative algorithm.