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Enhanced perversities
open2sipartially_openD'Agnolo, Andrea; Kashiwara, MasakiD'Agnolo, Andrea; Kashiwara, Masak
Andrea DelMastro
Since joining the Department of Surgery in 2001 as an administrative assistant in the Division of Transplant Surgery, Andrea DelMastro has moved to our 1300 Wolf Street Office on the Methodist Campus. Born and raised in South Philly, she has returned and served as the Departmentâs practice manager there for the past five years.
At Methodist, Andrea oversees day-to-day operations of 14 providers and a team of registrars, medical assistants and nurse practitioners. The practice includes several specialties within the Department of Surgery: Bariatric, Breast, Colorectal, General, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery & Vascular Medicine. The services provided there include more than just surgical consultations, as several other outpatient services are offered, including vascular ultrasound, minimally invasive vein closure, and wound care.
During the last few years she has been active at both campuses taking on a number of departmental projects: she is currently the Departmentâs lead for the JeffConnect telehealth program and serves as a âsuper userâ for the EPIC Electronic Health Record implementation.
Another of DelMastroâs long-term projects is contributing to the Methodist Hospital Divisionâs Surgery White Paper. The purpose of the ongoing initiative: to identify ways to improve both patient experience and overall surgical patient throughput at Methodist. To date, such improvements have included adding a room for private family surgical consultations and staffing a patient registrar.
She appreciates the diverse challenges of her work: âEvery day is different,â she says. âI juggle clinic hours, department projects, as well as the unique needs of staff and patients that come up daily.â DelMastro strives to make sure her employees are engaged, as she believes that âmakes all the difference in patient care.â
Above all, Andrea values being part of the Methodist community: âI love that I get to work in an office where I know the majority of my patients from the neighborhood. Itâs world-class care â with a real hometown feel.
Who is Andrea Yates? A Short Story About Insanity
On June 20, 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her four children in a bathtub. At Andreaâs trial, in Harris County, Texas, the prosecutionâs star expert, Patrick Dietz, appeared particularly adept at persuading the jury to accept the prosecutionâs assertion that Andrea was sane and acting intentionally when she killed her children. This Article analyzes the problematic aspects of Dietz\u27s testimony in an effort to contribute some balance to the Andrea Yates story. Despite the long history of expert witnesses in criminal trials, the justice system should question the fairness and efficacy of such an unregulated storytelling process. Part I of this Article briefly discusses Andrea\u27s life up to her marriage as well as the outcome of her trial. Part II provides an overview of the insanity defense and the strict Texas insanity standard. Part III examines Dietz\u27s background, his reputation, and his psychiatric philosophy, in addition to his proclivity to testify for the prosecution. Part IV describes Andrea\u27s history of mental illness, especially her postpartum psychosis that started with the birth of her first child and ended with a severe psychotic episode. Part V focuses on Dietz\u27s testimony in the Yates trial, beginning with his pre-trial interview with Andrea and ending with an analysis of his conclusions. The discussion emphasizes the speculative nature of many of Dietz\u27s statements and their lack of connection to Andrea\u27s history of mental illness. Part VI presents the other perspectives and experts in the Yates case, and considers how the case might have reached a different result with a more consistent defense strategy or a less rigid insanity standard
Transapical off-pump mitral valve repair with Neochord Implantation (TOP-MINI): step-by-step guide
open10openColli, Andrea; Zucchetta, Fabio; Torregrossa, Gianluca; Manzan, Erica; Bizzotto, Eleonora; Besola, Laura; Bellu, Roberto; Sarais, Cristiano; Pittarello, Demetrio; Gerosa, GinoColli, Andrea; Zucchetta, Fabio; Torregrossa, Gianluca; Manzan, Erica; Bizzotto, Eleonora; Besola, Laura; Bellu, Roberto; Sarais, Cristiano; Pittarello, Demetrio; Gerosa, Gin
A Cryptic Non-Inducible Prophage Confers Phage-Immunity on the Streptococcus thermophilus M17PTZA496
open9openda Silva Duarte, VinĂcius; Giaretta, Sabrina; Campanaro, Stefano; Treu, Laura; Armani, Andrea; Tarrah, Armin; Oliveira de Paula, SĂ©rgio; Giacomini, Alessio; Corich, Vivianada Silva Duarte, VinĂcius; Giaretta, Sabrina; Campanaro, Stefano; Treu, Laura; Armani, Andrea; Tarrah, Armin; Oliveira de Paula, SĂ©rgio; Giacomini, Alessio; Corich, Vivian
A Method Based on Total Variation for Network Modularity Optimization using the MBO Scheme
The study of network structure is pervasive in sociology, biology, computer
science, and many other disciplines. One of the most important areas of network
science is the algorithmic detection of cohesive groups of nodes called
"communities". One popular approach to find communities is to maximize a
quality function known as {\em modularity} to achieve some sort of optimal
clustering of nodes. In this paper, we interpret the modularity function from a
novel perspective: we reformulate modularity optimization as a minimization
problem of an energy functional that consists of a total variation term and an
balance term. By employing numerical techniques from image processing
and compressive sensing -- such as convex splitting and the
Merriman-Bence-Osher (MBO) scheme -- we develop a variational algorithm for the
minimization problem. We present our computational results using both synthetic
benchmark networks and real data.Comment: 23 page
V605 Aquilae: a born again star, a nova or both?
V605 Aquilae is today widely assumed to have been the result of a final
helium shell flash occurring on a single post-asymptotic giant branch star. The
fact that the outbursting star is in the middle of an old planetary nebula and
that the ejecta associated with the outburst is hydrogen deficient supports
this diagnosis. However, the material ejected during that outburst is also
extremely neon rich, suggesting that it derives from an oxygen-neon-magnesium
star, as is the case in the so-called neon novae. We have therefore attempted
to construct a scenario that explains all the observations of the nebula and
its central star, including the ejecta abundances. We find two scenarios that
have the potential to explain the observations, although neither is a perfect
match. The first scenario invokes the merger of a main sequence star and a
massive oxygen-neon-magnesium white dwarf. The second invokes an
oxygen-neon-magnesium classical nova that takes place shortly after a final
helium shell flash. The main drawback of the first scenario is the inability to
determine whether the ejecta would have the observed composition and whether a
merger could result in the observed hydrogen-deficient stellar abundances
observed in the star today. The second scenario is based on better understood
physics, but, through a population synthesis technique, we determine that its
frequency of occurrence should be very low and possibly lower than what is
implied by the number of observed systems. While we could not envisage a
scenario that naturally explains this object, this is the second final flash
star which, upon closer scrutiny, is found to have hydrogen-deficient ejecta
with abnormally high neon abundances. These findings are in stark contrast with
the predictions of the final helium shell flash and beg for an alternative
explanation.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figures, 2 tables, accepted for MNRAS. Better title and
minor corrections compared to previous versio
Near-Infrared Studies of V1280 Sco (Nova Scorpii 2007)
We present spectroscopic and photometric results of Nova V1280 Sco which was
discovered in outburst in early 2007 February. The large number of spectra
obtained of the object leads to one of the most extensive, near-infrared
spectral studies of a classical nova. The spectra evolve from a P-Cygni phase
to an emission-line phase and at a later stage is dominated by emission from
the dust that formed in this nova. A detailed model is computed to identify and
study characteristics of the spectral lines. Inferences from the model address
the vexing question of which novae have the ability to form dust. It is
demonstrated, and strikingly corroborated with observations, that the presence
of lines in the early spectra of low-ionization species like Na and Mg -
indicative of low temperature conditions - appear to be reliable indicators
that dust will form in the ejecta. It is theoretically expected that mass loss
during a nova outburst is a sustained process. Spectroscopic evidence for such
a sustained mass loss, obtained by tracing the evolution of a P-Cygni feature
in the Brackett gamma line, is presented here allowing a lower limit of 25-27
days to be set for the mass-loss duration. Photometric data recording the
nova's extended 12 day climb to peak brightness after discovery is used to
establish an early fireball expansion and also show that the ejection began
well before maximum brightness. The JHK light curves indicate the nova had a
fairly strong second outburst around 100 days after the first.Comment: Accepted in MNRAS. The paper contains 8 figures and 4 tables. Few
typographical errors were correcte
Self-adjoint elliptic operators with boundary conditions on not closed hypersurfaces
The abstract theory of self-adjoint extensions of symmetric operators is used
to construct self-adjoint realizations of a second-order elliptic operator on
with linear boundary conditions on (a relatively open part of)
a compact hypersurface. Our approach allows to obtain Krein-like resolvent
formulas where the reference operator coincides with the "free" operator with
domain ; this provides an useful tool for the scattering
problem from a hypersurface. Concrete examples of this construction are
developed in connection with the standard boundary conditions, Dirichlet,
Neumann, Robin, and -type, assigned either on a
dimensional compact boundary or on a relatively open
part . Schatten-von Neumann estimates for the difference
of the powers of resolvents of the free and the perturbed operators are also
proven; these give existence and completeness of the wave operators of the
associated scattering systems.Comment: Final revised version, to appear in Journal of Differential Equation
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