Illustrated Moss Flora of Minnesota

The "Illustrated Moss Flora of Minnesota" is designed for identification of Minnesota mosses in the lab, with both stereo- and compound microscope. The chapters are mostly based on the order of family and genus treatments of the "Flora of North America," volumes 27 and 28 ("Flora of North America north of Mexico," Volume 27, Bryophyta, part 1, 2007, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 713 pp. and "Flora of North American north of Mexico," Volume 28, Bryophyta, part 2, 2014, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 702 pp.). The keys have been modified from keys published in the "Flora of North America," using my own expertise and additional sources of diagnostic detail, cited specifically for each chapter. I eliminated all species from the keys without properly annotated Minnesota vouchers, as well as those key characters that are not needed to differentiate the remaining species. All individual species recognized for Minnesota are illustrated with a full plate, a reduced legend and caption illustration with referenced text pointing out diagnostic character states, and some photos, if available, of either habitat, habit, or clone appearance. Dot-distribution maps are provided for each species, with unconfirmed county records listed in the map captions.Sponsorship: Bell Museum of Natural History (MIN); Science Museum of Minnesota (SMM); Minnesota Department of Natural Resource

Prevalence and Parasite Density of Asymptomatic Malaria Parasitemia among Unbooked Paturients at Abakaliki, Nigeria

Background: Malaria in pregnancy has contributed significantly to maternal morbidity and mortality in our environment.Aim: This study was aimed at determining the prevalence, and parasite density of asymptomatic malaria parasitemia among unbooked paturients at Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki. Subjects and Methods: This was a prospective cross‑sectional study conducted in the labor ward complex of the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki over a period of three months from March to May 2012. Two hundred and fifty unbooked women presenting in labor at term and willing to participate were consecutively recruited. A structured data collection sheet was administered to each parturient. Thick and thin blood films were prepared for quantification and speciation of parasitemia respectively. Results: A total of 250 unbooked parturients participated in the study. The mean age of the parturients was 28.2 (7.2) years. One hundred and seven 107/250 (42.8%) were primigravid, 111/250 (44.4%) were between para 1‑4 while 32/250 (12.8%) were para 5 and above. Majority of the parturients 236/250 (95.2%) were of low socio‑economic class. The prevalence of asymptomatic malaria parasitemia was 77.6%. Asymptomatic malaria parasitemia was most prevalent among paturients of social class 5 (24/32 (75%) and primigravid paturients (93/107 (86.9%)) and the association of asymptomatic malaria parasitemia with parity (χ2 = 10.8, P = 0.01) and social class (χ2 = 10.88, P = 0.02) was statistically significant. Conclusion: There was high prevalence of asymptomatic malaria parasitemia in the study. Preconceptional care and early antenatal booking are advocated with emphasis on prevention of malaria infestation through health education and effective use of insecticide treated nets and intermittent prophylaxis therapy for malaria during pregnancy.Keywords: Asymptomatic malaria parasitemia, Nigeria, prevalence, unbooked paturient

A nationwide study on concordance with multimodal treatment guidelines in bipolar disorder

Background: Most previous studies on concordance with treatment guidelines for bipolar disorder focused on pharmacotherapy. Few studies have included other treatment modalities. Aims: To study concordance with the Dutch guideline of various treatment modalities in outpatient treatment settings for patients with bipolar disorder and to identity factors associated with concordance. Methods: A nationwide non-interventional study using psychiatrists’ and patients’ surveys. Results: 839 patients with bipolar or schizoaffective disorder bipolar type were included. Concordance with the guideline was highest for participation of a psychiatrist in the treatment (98%) and for maintenance pharmacotherapy (96%), but lower for supportive treatment (73.5%), use of an emergency plan (70.6%), psychotherapy (52.2%), group psychoeducation (47.2%), and mood monitoring (47%). Presence of a written treatment plan, a more specialized treatment setting, more years of education, and diagnosis of bipolar I disorder versus bipolar II, bipolar NOS, or schizoaffective disorder were significantly associated with better concordance. Conclusion: In contrast to pharmacotherapy, psychosocial treatments are only implemented to a limited extend in everyday clinical practice in bipolar disorder. More effort is needed to implement non-pharmacological guideline recommendations for bipolar disorder

Zwicky Transient Facility constraints on the optical emission from the nearby repeating FRB 180916.J0158+65

The discovery rate of fast radio bursts (FRBs) is increasing dramatically thanks to new radio facilities. Meanwhile, wide-field instruments such as the 47 deg$^2$ Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey the optical sky to study transient and variable sources. We present serendipitous ZTF observations of the CHIME repeating source FRB 180916.J0158+65, that was localized to a spiral galaxy 149 Mpc away and is the first FRB suggesting periodic modulation in its activity. While 147 ZTF exposures corresponded to expected high-activity periods of this FRB, no single ZTF exposure was at the same time as a CHIME detection. No $>3\sigma$ optical source was found at the FRB location in 683 ZTF exposures, totalling 5.69 hours of integration time. We combined ZTF upper limits and expected repetitions from FRB 180916.J0158+65 in a statistical framework using a Weibull distribution, agnostic of periodic modulation priors. The analysis yielded a constraint on the ratio between the optical and radio fluences of $\eta \lesssim 200$, corresponding to an optical energy $E_{\rm opt} \lesssim 3 \times 10^{46}$ erg for a fiducial 10 Jy ms FRB (90% confidence). A deeper (but less statistically robust) constraint of $\eta \lesssim 3$ can be placed assuming a rate of $r(>5$ Jy ms)= hr$^{-1}$ and $1.2\pm 1.1$ FRB occurring during exposures taken in high-activity windows. The constraint can be improved with shorter per-image exposures and longer integration time, or observing FRBs at higher Galactic latitudes. This work demonstrated how current surveys can statistically constrain multi-wavelength counterparts to FRBs even without deliberately scheduled simultaneous radio observation.Comment: Accepted for publication in ApJL, 9 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl

Perfiles de potencia de las lentes de contacto medidas con NIMO TR1504

This study was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad and FEDER (Grant DPI2015-71256-R) and by the Generalitat Valenciana (Grant PROMETEOII-2014-072), Spain.Rodríguez-Vallejo, M.; Montagud-Martínez, D.; Monsoriu Serra, JA.; Furlan, WD. (2017). On the power profiles of contact lenses measured with NIMO TR1504. Journal of Optometry. 10(4):265-266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optom.2016.10.002S26526610

Peanut allergen Ara h 6 is detectable in blood transfusion products

Peanut allergen Ara h 6 is known to maintain IgE‐binding capacity upon exposure to digestive enzymes1 and its presence in circulation after consumption of peanut has been demonstrated.2,3 Therefore, it has been speculated that food‐derived allergens could be transferred via blood transfusion products, causing an allergic reaction in food-allergic recipients.4,5 However, in published case reports, presence of food allergen in donated material could not be confirmed due to lack of remaining transfusion material and/or lack of sensitive analytical methods. Using a newly developed sensitive immune‐assay for detecting Ara h 6 in human serum, we now report to what extent consumed peanut allergens can be present in blood transfusion materials and estimate the associated risk for peanut‐allergic recipients

A Retrospective Evaluation of the Storm Surge Produced by Hurricane Gustav (2008): Forecast and Hindcast Results

The evolution and convergence of modeled storm surge were examined using a high-resolution implementation of the Advanced Circulation Coastal Ocean and Storm Surge (ADCIRC) model for Hurricane Gustav (2008). The storm surge forecasts were forced using an asymmetric gradient wind model (AWM), directly coupled to ADCIRC at every time step and at every grid node. A total of 20 forecast advisories and best-track data from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) were used as input parameters into the wind model. Differences in maximum surge elevations were evaluated for ensembles comprised of the final 20, 15, 10, and 5 forecast advisories plus the best track. For this particular storm, the final 10-12 forecast advisories, encompassing the last 2.5-3 days of the storm's lifetime, give a reasonable estimate of the final storm surge and inundation. The results provide a detailed perspective of the variability in the storm surge due to variability in the meteorological forecast and how this changes as the storm approaches landfall. This finding is closely tied to the consistency and accuracy of the NHC storm track forecasts and the predicted landfall location and, therefore, cannot be generalized to all storms in all locations. Nevertheless, this first attempt to translate variability in forecast meteorology into storm surge variability provides useful insights for guiding the potential use of storm surge models for forecast purposes. Model skill was also evaluated for Hurricane Gustav by comparing observed water levels with hindcast modeled water levels forced by river flow, tides, and several sources of wind data. The AWM (which ingested best-track information from NHC) generated winds that were slightly higher than those from NOAA's Hurricane Research Division (HRD) HWind analyses and substantially greater than the North American Mesoscale (NAM) model. Surge obtained using the AWM more closely matched the observed water levels than that computed using HWind; however, this may be due to the neglect of the contribution of wave setup to the surge, especially in exposed areas. Several geographically distinct storm surge response regimes, some characterized by multisurge pulses, were identified and described

Hydrophobic air pollutants removal at one second gas contact in a multi-channel capillary bioreactor

Producción CientíficaBiological processes are increasingly applied for gas purification as a sustainable and economical alternative to conventional physical-chemical processes (chemical absorption, incineration, adsorption). Although biological gas treatment is accepted as an economical, safe, and reliable air pollution control technology, it faces important limitations when applied for the treatment of poorly water-soluble compounds due to mass transfer limitations. A twenty-five capillary channels bioreactor was studied to characterize mass transfer coefficients and the removal of hydrophobic air pollutants under segmented gas-liquid flow pattern. The removal efficiency of hexane, toluene and α-pinene vapors reached values up to about 75%, 99% and 75%, respectively, at a gas contact time of less than 1 second, which is at least one, but closer to two orders of magnitude shorter than conventional biological gas purification systems. The bioreactor displayed stable operation for 100 days and was robust against common upsets, which opens the new opportunities for expanding the application field of biological processes for air pollution control and the mitigation of greenhouse gases in dilute air streams.Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación y Ministerio de Universidades [project RTI2018-0-096441-B-I00]Junta de Castilla y León - EU-FEDER [grant number CLU 2017-09 y CL-EI-2021-07

Report of the first AKI Round Table meeting: an initiative of the ESICM AKI Section.

Critical Care Nephrology is an emerging sub-specialty of Critical Care. Despite increasing awareness about the serious impact of acute kidney injury (AKI) and renal replacement therapy (RRT), important knowledge gaps persist. This report represents a summary of a 1-day meeting of the AKI section of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) identifying priorities for future AKI research. International Members of the AKI section of the ESICM were selected and allocated to one of three subgroups: "AKI diagnosis and evaluation", "Medical management of AKI" and "Renal Replacement Therapy for AKI." Using a modified Delphi methodology, each group identified knowledge gaps and developed potential proposals for future collaborative research. The following key research projects were developed: Systematic reviews: (a) epidemiology of AKI with stratification by patient cohorts and diagnostic criteria; (b) role of higher blood pressure targets in patients with hypertension admitted to the Intensive Care Unit, and (c) specific clearance characteristics of different modalities of continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT). Observational studies: (a) epidemiology of critically ill patients according to AKI duration, and (b) current clinical practice of CRRT. Intervention studies:( a) Comparison of different blood pressure targets in critically ill patients with hypertension, and (b) comparison of clearance of solutes with various molecular weights between different CRRT modalities. Consensus was reached on a future research agenda for the AKI section of the ESICM