Computing tools for effective field theories: SMEFT-Tools 2022 Workshop Report, 14-16th September 2022, Zürich.

In recent years, theoretical and phenomenological studies with effective field theories have become a trending and prolific line of research in the field of high-energy physics. In order to discuss present and future prospects concerning automated tools in this field, the SMEFT-Tools 2022 workshop was held at the University of Zurich from 14th-16th September 2022. The current document collects and summarizes the content of this workshop.

New physics in rare decays after Moriond 2021.

The anomalies in rare decays endure. We present results of an updated global analysis that takes into account the latest experimental input - in particular the recent results on and BR - and that qualitatively improves the treatment of theory uncertainties. Fit results are presented for the Wilson coefficients of four-fermion contact interactions.

Review of Currently Available GP IIb/IIIa Inhibitors and Their Role in Peripheral Vascular Interventions.

The glycoprotein IIb/IIIa (GP IIb/IIIa) antagonists are the most recent additions to the antiplatelet agents available to the interventional radiologist. The currently available GP IIb/IIIa antagonists are abciximab, eptifibatide, and tirofiban. These medications have demonstrated excellent safety and efficacy in the setting of coronary arterial interventions.

Intra-arterial methylprednisolone infusion in treatment-resistant graft-versus-host disease.

Acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a potentially fatal complication following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant. Standard primary therapy for acute GVHD includes systemic steroids, often in combination with other agents. Unfortunately, primary treatment failure is common and carries a high mortality.

Crohn's disease of the appendix.

Although appendectomy is often the first surgical procedure in patients with Crohn's disease (CD), only few data exist on appendiceal CD. The aim of this study was to analyze appendices of CD patients undergoing surgery. We analyzed 149 specimens from consecutive patients with CD who underwent primary right ileocolonic or (sub)total colonic resection.

Significant association of strictures and internal fistula formation in Crohn's disease.

Intestinal inflammation in Crohn's disease (CD) may be complicated by the occurrence of strictures and fistulae. The pathogenesis of fistula formation is unknown. We therefore wanted to determine whether mechanical factors might contribute to the development of fistulae.

Sex differences in prefrontal volume with aging and Alzheimer's disease.

We used volumetric magnetic resonance imaging to examine sex differences in prefrontal tissue volumes of healthy aged and patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Healthy subjects had greater total prefrontal volume than AD, and men had greater total prefrontal volume than women (ps < or = 0.02).

Variable platelet response to low-dose ASA and the risk of limb deterioration in patients submitted to peripheral arterial angioplasty.

A group of 100 patients with intermittent claudication (70 male, 30 female), treated with I00 mg ASA per day, were followed over 18 months after elective percutaneous balloon angioplasty. Platelet function was monitored over a period of 12 months by corrected whole blood aggregometry (CWBA). Upon stimulation by arachidonic acid (AA), adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and collagen, CWBA-results were obtained by an electronic acquisition and evaluation system correcting for hematocrit and platelet count of the blood sample.

Influence of UW solution on in vitro platelet aggregability.

Bleeding problems in orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT), starting immediately after reperfusion of the graft, are complicating the outcome of transplantation. Platelets may be involved in this situation, but there is still a lack of information about the influence of UW solution on platelet function. We evaluated the effect of UW solution on in vitro platelet aggregability in healthy volunteers using whole blood electrical aggregometry and concluded, that UW solution causes impaired platelet aggregability and may contribute to bleeding problems during OLT.

Influence of hematocrit and platelet count on impedance and reactivity of whole blood for electrical aggregometry.

Previous studies have shown that differing qualities of blood specimen seem to influence whole blood electrical aggregometry (WBEA), making it difficult to standardize the method. The aim of this study was to investigate the impact of hematocrit (HCT) and platelet count (PLC) on in vitro platelet aggregation in citrated whole blood (CWB) in order to compensate for their possible effects on impedance aggregometry. Red blood cells and blood platelets were isolated from fresh citrated whole blood taken from 15 healthy donors (mean age = 26 years) and recombined to 20 physiologically relevant combinations of hematocrit and platelet count (HCT: 20-50, PLC: 100-500).

[Diagnostic and therapeutic video thoracoscopy: conversion rate and costs].

With the further development of new surgical techniques, that allow for the performance of a variety of standard diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in a less invasive fashion, it is instructive to look at the complications of these new techniques, in order to define their role for general thoracic surgery. 372 patients have been treated by means of video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) between 1/1992 and 12/1994. A total of 934 open thoracic procedures were performed in the same time frame, 399 out of them for the same chest disorders as treated by VATS alternatively.

[Long-term results of the Wilhelm denervation operation in epicondylitis humeri radialis (tennis elbow)].

Fourteen patients with epicondylitis humeri radialis, resistant to conservative therapy were surgically treated according to Wilhelm's procedure at the II. Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Vienna. The mean follow-up period was 7.

Routine diagnosis with PhastSystem compared to conventional electrophoresis: automated sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, silver staining and western blotting of urinary proteins.

The recent introduction of the PhastSystem, an automatic electrophoresis and staining system with precast gradient-gels, allows rapid and reproducible analysis of proteinuria in patients suffering from renal injury. A routine method for sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) and silver staining of unconcentrated urine specimens in the PhastSystem is described and compared to our conventional "macro"-method with self-cast SDS-polyacrylamide gradient gels. The method described for the PhastSystem using 0.

Analysis of recorded biomedical book and journal use in the Yale Medical Library. II. Subject and user relations.

Cancelled charge slips collected over a one-year period supply the data for this analysis of circulation in the Yale Medical Library. Full-time teaching faculty are the heaviest users of journal literature, and students, of monograph literature. Faculties of Medical School departments are compared in terms of their use of material in individual subjects.

Analysis of recorded biomedical book and journal use in the Yale Medical Library. I. Date and subject relations.

Analysis of book and journal circulation is based on cancelled charge slips collected over a one-year period in the Yale Medical Library. About two-fifths of material circulated were monographs. Books and journals in seven subject fields provided over half of the circulation.