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Traumatic Urethral Injury without Pelvic Fracture in an Adult Female

A 23-year-old female was involved in a motor vehicle collision with multiple injuries, including a right acetabular fracture, but no pelvic fracture. Urology consultation was obtained due to difficulty placing a urethral catheter. Examination revealed a longitudinal urethral tear with vaginal laceration extending 2 cm from the urethral meatus proximally toward the bladder neck. The longitudinal urethral tear was repaired primarily. Traumatic female urethral injury in the absence of a pelvic fracture is an exceedingly rare occurrence

Deep Learning for Neuroimaging: a Validation Study

Deep learning methods have recently made notable advances in the tasks of classification and representation learning. These tasks are important for brain imaging and neuroscience discovery, making the methods attractive for porting to a neuroimager’s toolbox. Success of these methods is, in part, explained by the flexibility of deep learning models. However, this flexibility makes the process of porting to new areas a difficult parameter optimization problem. In this work we demonstrate our results (and feasible parameter ranges) in application of deep learning methods to structural and functional brain imaging data. These methods include deep belief networks and their building block the restricted Boltzmann machine. We also describe a novel constraint-based approach to visualizing high dimensional data. We use it to analyze the effect of parameter choices on data transformations. Our results show that deep learning methods are able to learn physiologically important representations and detect latent relations in neuroimaging data

The Heidelberg-Moscow double beta decay experiment with enriched 76Ge. First results

Abstract The status of the Heidelberg-Moscow ββ-experiment using isotopically enriched 76Ge is reported. The results of 14.8 mol yr (or 1.29 kg yr) of operation are presented. From these data a new half life time for the ββ0v-decay of 76Ge to the ground state of 76Se of T 1 2 1.4 (2.5) X 10 24 yr with 90% (68%) CL can be deduced. For a possible neutrinoless decay to the first excited state a half life of 4.3(8.2)X1023 yr can be excluded with 90% (68%) CL

New experimental limits for electron decay and charge conservation

Abstract New experimental limits for the decay e− → γ + νe are reported. The lower limit for the half-life of this decay mode is T e 1 2 > 1.63 × 10 25 yr (68% CL). The data were collected for 3199 h by using one of the enriched germanium detectors of the Heidelberg-Moscow ββ Collaboration. This detector has an active volume of 591 cm3. This value is up to now the most stringent laboratory limit for this decay mode. Also charge nonconservation in nuclei is shortly discussed in the GaGe system using the data of gallium solar neutrino experiments

Searching for dark matter with the enriched Ge detectors of the Heidelberg-Moscow ββ experiment

Abstract For the first time a search for dark matter with isotopically enriched material is done, by using the Ge detectors of the Heidelberg-Moscow experiment. A measuring time of 165.6 kg·d is used to set limits on the spin-independent cross section of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). A background level of 0.102±0.005 events/(kg·d·keV) was achieved (average value between 11 keV and 30 keV). It was possible to extend the exclusion range for Dirac neutrino masses up to 4.7 TeV

Measurement of the ββ2ν decay of 76Ge

Abstract From the data taken with one of the enriched detectors of the Heidelberg-Moscow ββ experiment a half-life of T 1 2 2v = (1.42 ± 0.03 ( stat ) ± 0.13 ( syst )) × 10 12 yr for the two-neutrino double-beta ( ββ 2 ν ) decay of 76 Ge is derived. The 76 Ge exposure is 19.3 mol yr. This result represents the first high statistics measurement and probably the first undoubtable evidence of this extremely rare nuclear decay mode. The measured decay rate is in good agreement with the theoretical predictions