Additive manufacturing of a 3D-segmented plastic scintillator detector for tracking and calorimetry of elementary particles.

Plastic scintillators, segmented into small, optically isolated voxels, are used for detecting elementary particles and provide reliable particle identification with nanosecond time resolution. Building large detectors requires the production and precise alignment of millions of individual units, a process that is time-consuming, cost-intensive, and difficult to scale. Here, we introduce an additive manufacturing process chain capable of producing plastic-based scintillator detectors as a single, monolithic structure.

FPGA-based Implementation of Random Forest Classifier for sEMG Signal Classification.

This paper proposes a method that combines a hardware description language and Random Forests theory, to develop a motion recognition embedded system. To validate this system, the Ninapro database DB2 was used as training and test data, resulting in an accuracy of 83.1% for the test base in movement prediction.

Mean arterial pressure differences between cuff oscillometric and invasive blood pressure.

Differences between automated cuff oscillometric blood pressure (BP) and invasive measurements are well described, but the causes are not fully understood. Automated BP devices record cuff oscillometric mean arterial pressure (MAP) as a key measurement step that is presumed to be accurate, but if not, could create error in cuff systolic (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) estimations. This has never been determined and was the aim of the study.

Differential Protective Effects of Edaravone in Cerebellar and Hippocampal Ischemic Injury Models.

Ischemic stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability, with cerebellar strokes posing severe complications such as herniation and brainstem compression. Edaravone, a radical scavenger known for reducing oxidative stress, has shown neuroprotective effects in cerebral strokes, but its impact on cerebellar strokes remains unclear. This study investigates Edaravone's protective properties in organotypic slice cultures of rat cerebellum and hippocampus, employing an oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) model to simulate ischemic stroke.

Prospective relationships between left ventricular mass, brachial and central blood pressures in participants from the UK Biobank.

Background: Central SBP purports to aid hypertension management. This concept is founded on cross-sectional studies; however, findings are mixed and few report longitudinal relationships between changes in blood pressure (BP) and outcomes. This study aimed to determine associations of changes in brachial BP and central BP with changes in left ventricular mass index (LVMi), as an important hypertension-related clinical outcome.