Direction and symmetry transition of the vector order parameter in topological superconductors CuBiSe.

Topological superconductors have attracted wide-spreading interests for the bright application perspectives to quantum computing. CuBiSe is a rare bulk topological superconductor with an odd-parity wave function, but the details of the vector order parameter d and its pinning mechanism are still unclear. Here, we succeed in growing CuBiSe single crystals with unprecedented high doping levels.

Predicting the chance of weaning dysphagic stroke patients from enteral nutrition: a multivariate logistic modelling study.

Aim: The aim of this article was to develop a simple predictive model of dysphagia outcome for stroke patients. The study enrolled patients recovering from first-ever stroke (supratentorial lesions) staying in a long-term rehabilitation hospital. On admission, all patients were being fed via nasogastric or percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube.

Application of a specially designed palatal lift prosthesis to a patient with velopharyngeal incompetence due to severe brain injury.

This article reports the evaluation of the therapeutic effect of a palatal lift prosthesis with a specially designed connection between the anterior denture base and the palatal lifting plate in a patient with velopharyngeal incompetence due to severe brain injury.

[19F-MR imaging of transplanted tumor: perfluorochemicals as a fluorine tumor imaging agent].

Purpose: The purpose of our study was to detect tumor selectively using 19F-magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to assess Fluosol-DA, a perfluorochemical emulsion, as a tumor imaging agent for 19F-MRI.

Materials And Methods: SCC VII cells were transplanted in the right leg of mice. After 6 days, Fluosol-DA was administrated intravenously (40 ml/kg).

Changes in cerebral blood flow estimated after stellate ganglion block by single photon emission computed tomography.

The validity of the hypothesis that the cerebral vasculature is under the control of sympathetic innervation was investigated using brain scintigraphy imaging before and after stellate ganglion block (SGB). The experiment with HM-PAO showed a definite increase in the blood flow of the brain on the block side on both by the dynamic images and the SPECT images. The tympanic temperature (Tty) of the block side decreased significantly after SGB, compared to the unblock side in this study, as had been reported before.