Additional file 1: of Prenatal and accurate perinatal diagnosis of type 2 H or ductular duplicate gallbladder

Timeline. Exact timeline of the case report from the 21st gestational week with the first suspicion of double gallbladder to the final exact diagnosis by Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and discharge of the little patient. (DOC 27 kb

Univariate analysis of continuous variables among cirrhotics waiting for LT, with and without visceral aneurysms.

<p>Univariate analysis of continuous variables among cirrhotics waiting for LT, with and without visceral aneurysms.</p

Risk of pre-LT aneurisms among cirrhotics waiting fort LT transplant.

<p>Results of a multivariate logistic regression.</p

Univariate analysis of categorical variables among cirrhotics waiting for LT with and without visceral aneurysms.

<p>Univariate analysis of categorical variables among cirrhotics waiting for LT with and without visceral aneurysms.</p

Univariate analysis of continuous variables (just before LT) of transplanted patients, according to the presence of post-LT visceral aneurysms.

<p>Univariate analysis of continuous variables (just before LT) of transplanted patients, according to the presence of post-LT visceral aneurysms.</p

Clinical characteristics of 494 adult recipients who underwent primary liver transplantation, 1983–2009.

<p>Clinical characteristics of 494 adult recipients who underwent primary liver transplantation, 1983–2009.</p

Kaplan-Meier survivor functions (thick lines) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI, thin lines) after liver transplantation or DNT onset.

<p>Kaplan-Meier survivor functions (thick lines) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI, thin lines) after liver transplantation or DNT onset.</p

Observed (Obs) and expected (Exp) cases of de-novo tumors, Standardized Incidence Ratios (SIR), and 95% Confidence Intervals (95% CI) among 494 adult recipients who underwent primary liver transplantation, 1983–2009, by gender. Reference: pool of Italian cancer registries.

<p>Observed (Obs) and expected (Exp) cases of de-novo tumors, Standardized Incidence Ratios (SIR), and 95% Confidence Intervals (95% CI) among 494 adult recipients who underwent primary liver transplantation, 1983–2009, by gender. Reference: pool of Italian cancer registries.</p

Effects of Dopant Ionic Radius on Cerium Reduction in Epitaxial Cerium Oxide Thin Films

The role of trivalent rare-earth dopants on the cerium oxidation state has been systematically studied by in situ photoemission spectroscopy with synchrotron radiation for 10 mol % rare-earth doped epitaxial ceria films. It was found that dopant rare-earths with smaller ionic radius foster the formation of Ce³⁺ by releasing the stress strength induced by the cation substitution. With a decrease of the dopant ionic radius from La³⁺ to Yb³⁺, the out-of-plane axis parameter of the crystal lattice decreases without introducing macroscopic defects. The high crystal quality of our films allowed us to comparatively study both the ionic conductivity and surface reactivity ruling out the influence of structural defects. The measured increase in the activation energy of films and their enhanced surface reactivity can be explained in terms of the dopant ionic radius effects on the Ce⁴⁺ → Ce³⁺ reduction as a result of lattice relaxation. Such findings open new perspectives in designing ceria-based materials with tailored properties by choosing suitable cation substitution

Structural Phases of Ordered FePc-Nanochains Self-Assembled on Au(110)

Iron-phthalocyanine molecules deposited on the Au(110) reconstructed channels assemble into one-dimensional molecular chains, whose spatial distribution evolves into different structural phases at increasing molecular density. The plasticity of the Au channels first induces an ordered phase with a 5×5 symmetry, followed by a second long-range ordered structure composed by denser chains with a 5×7 periodicity with respect to the bare Au surface, as observed in the low-energy electron-diffraction (LEED) and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXRD) patterns. The geometry of the FePc molecular assemblies in the Au nanorails is determined by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). For the 5×7 phases, the GIXRD analysis identifies a “4-3” rows profile along the [001] direction in the Au surface and an on-top FePc adsorption site, further confirmed by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The latter also reveals the electronic mixing of the interface states. The chain assembly is driven by the molecule–molecule interaction and the chains interact with the Au nanorails via the central metal atom, while the chain–chain distance in the different structural phases is primarily driven by the plasticity of the Au surface