Maternal Undernutrition and Long-term Effects on Hepatic Function

Undernutrition in utero, regardless of the source, can impair proper liver development leading to long-term metabolic dysfunction. Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying how nutritional deficits during perinatal life lead to permanent alterations in hepatic gene expression will provide better therapeutic strategies to alleviate the undernourished liver in postnatal life. This chapter addresses the different experimental models of undernutrition in utero, and highlights the direct and indirect mechanisms involved leading to metabolic diseases in the liver. These include hypoxia, oxidative stress, epigenetic alterations, and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. In addition, promising perinatal nutritional and pharmaceutical interventions are highlighted which illustrate how the placidity of the developing liver can be exploited to prevent the onset of long-term metabolic disease

Hybrid inverse halftoning using adaptive filtering

We propose a novel fast inverse halftoning technique using a combination of spatial varying filtering and spatial invariant filtering. The proposed algorithm is significantly simpler than most existing algorithms. Without explicit edge region classification, the proposed spatial varying filter is shown to be capable of preserving edges effectively

The legend of posttraumatic growth: A preliminary report on the effectiveness of Body-Mind-Spirit (BMS) intervention on colorectal cancer survivors

Paper being awarded the Young Investigator Award 200

The efficacy of the Body-Mind-Spirit Intervention Model on improving the quality of life and psychological well-being of Chinese patients with colorectal cancer

Poster Presentation - Cancer: no. j04Theme: Building Bridges Between Research, Practice & Polic

Multimaterial magnetically assisted 3D printing of composite materials

3D printing has become commonplace for the manufacturing of objects with unusual geometries. Recent developments that enabled printing of multiple materials indicate that the technology can potentially offer a much wider design space beyond unusual shaping. Here we show that a new dimension in this design space can be exploited through the control of the orientation of anisotropic particles used as building blocks during a direct ink-writing process. Particle orientation control is demonstrated by applying low magnetic fields on deposited inks pre-loaded with magnetized stiff platelets. Multimaterial dispensers and a two-component mixing unit provide additional control over the local composition of the printed material. The five-dimensional design space covered by the proposed multimaterial magnetically assisted 3D printing platform (MM-3D printing) opens the way towards the manufacturing of functional heterogeneous materials with exquisite microstructural features thus far only accessible by biological materials grown in nature