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Successful Treatment of Acute Prostatitis Caused by Multidrug-Resistant Escherichia coli With Tigecycline Monotherapy
We present a successful treatment, with tigecycline monotherapy, of acute prostatitis caused by multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli harboring an NDM-1 carbapemenase along with a CMY-2 cephalosporinase and a TEM ESBL
Dipeptydil peptidase-4 inhibitors in type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials.
Predictors of response to dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors: evidence from randomized clinical trials.
Structural Forecasting for Short-term Tropical Cyclone Intensity Guidance
Because geostationary satellite (Geo) imagery provides a high temporal
resolution window into tropical cyclone (TC) behavior, we investigate the
viability of its application to short-term probabilistic forecasts of TC
convective structure to subsequently predict TC intensity. Here, we present a
prototype model which is trained solely on two inputs: Geo infrared imagery
leading up to the synoptic time of interest and intensity estimates up to 6
hours prior to that time. To estimate future TC structure, we compute cloud-top
temperature radial profiles from infrared imagery and then simulate the
evolution of an ensemble of those profiles over the subsequent 12 hours by
applying a Deep Autoregressive Generative Model (PixelSNAIL). To forecast TC
intensities at hours 6 and 12, we input operational intensity estimates up to
the current time (0 h) and simulated future radial profiles up to +12 h into a
``nowcasting'' convolutional neural network. We limit our inputs to demonstrate
the viability of our approach and to enable quantification of value added by
the observed and simulated future radial profiles beyond operational intensity
estimates alone. Our prototype model achieves a marginally higher error than
the National Hurricane Center's official forecasts despite excluding
environmental factors, such as vertical wind shear and sea surface temperature.
We also demonstrate that it is possible to reasonably predict short-term
evolution of TC convective structure via radial profiles from Geo infrared
imagery, resulting in interpretable structural forecasts that may be valuable
for TC operational guidance
A toolbox for the retrodeformation and muscle reconstruction of fossil specimens in Blender
Accurate muscle reconstructions can offer new information on the anatomy of fossil organisms and are also important for biomechanical analysis (multibody dynamics and finite-element analysis (FEA)). For the sake of simplicity, muscles are often modelled as point-to-point strands or frustra (cut-off cones) in biomechanical models. However, there are cases in which it is useful to model the muscle morphology in three dimensions, to better examine the effects of muscle shape and size. This is especially important for fossil analyses, where muscle force is estimated from the reconstructed muscle morphology (rather than based on data collected in vivo). The two main aims of this paper are as follows. First, we created a new interactive tool in the free open access software Blender to enable interactive three-dimensional modelling of muscles. This approach can be applied to both palaeontological and human biomechanics research to generate muscle force magnitudes and lines of action for FEA. Second, we provide a guide on how to use existing Blender tools to reconstruct distorted or incomplete specimens. This guide is aimed at palaeontologists but can also be used by anatomists working with damaged specimens or to test functional implication of hypothetical morphologies
A toolbox for the retrodeformation and muscle reconstruction of fossil specimens in Blender
Accurate muscle reconstructions can offer new information on the anatomy of fossil organisms and are also important for biomechanical analysis (multibody dynamics and finite-element analysis (FEA)). For the sake of simplicity, muscles are often modelled as point-to-point strands or frustra (cut-off cones) in biomechanical models. However, there are cases in which it is useful to model the muscle morphology in three dimensions, to better examine the effects of muscle shape and size. This is especially important for fossil analyses, where muscle force is estimated from the reconstructed muscle morphology (rather than based on data collected in vivo). The two main aims of this paper are as follows. First, we created a new interactive tool in the free open access software Blender to enable interactive three-dimensional modelling of muscles. This approach can be applied to both palaeontological and human biomechanics research to generate muscle force magnitudes and lines of action for FEA. Second, we provide a guide on how to use existing Blender tools to reconstruct distorted or incomplete specimens. This guide is aimed at palaeontologists but can also be used by anatomists working with damaged specimens or to test functional implication of hypothetical morphologies
Item re-scaling of an Italian version of the Sickness Impact Profile: Effect of age and profession of the observers
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