Importance of the Simultaneous ECG During Routine EEG Recording

Objectives: Ictal and interictal ECG abnormalities are not rare in patients with epilepsy. The diagnosis of those arrhythmias using video-EEG monitoring may provide help for prediction of lateralization-localization of epileptic focus and choosing apropriate antiepileptic drugs. The aim of our study was to define arrhythmias during simultaneous routine EEG-ECG recordings and to analyze the effect of these on the management of the patients.Methods: The keywords related to cardiac arrhythmia were searched in all EEG recording reports between January 2011 and February 2012. The demographic features, diagnosis, or pre-diagnosis of patients during routine EEG recordings were obtained from Hospital Data System. We also evaluated the EEG-ECG recordings of patients having arrhythmia and searched for long QT interval.Results: In all 2136 EEG reports, 48 (2%) of them included keywords related to cardiac arrhytmias. There were 25 females included in the study and the mean age of all was 53. Of the 48 patients, 18 had exstrasystole and 14 had tacycardia. Thirteen reports noted no details about the type of arrhythmia, and 3 patients had bloc or bradiarrhythmia. After routine EEG recordings, 6 patients underwent cardiology follow up in our center. One patient with an asystole during EEG recording received cardiac pacemaker inplant.Conclusion: The detection of cardiac arrhythmias is important in diagnosis and follow up of patients who are referred for routine EEG laboratory. Dedicating one channel to ECG recording can only take few minutes even in busy EEG laboratories and make big differences in some patients’ management

Whole genome sequencing of Turkish genomes reveals functional private alleles and impact of genetic interactions with Europe, Asia and Africa

Cataloged from PDF version of article.Background: Turkey is a crossroads of major population movements throughout history and has been a hotspot of cultural interactions. Several studies have investigated the complex population history of Turkey through a limited set of genetic markers. However, to date, there have been no studies to assess the genetic variation at the whole genome level using whole genome sequencing. Here, we present whole genome sequences of 16 Turkish individuals resequenced at high coverage (32 × −48×). Results: We show that the genetic variation of the contemporary Turkish population clusters with South European populations, as expected, but also shows signatures of relatively recent contribution from ancestral East Asian populations. In addition, we document a significant enrichment of non-synonymous private alleles, consistent with recent observations in European populations. A number of variants associated with skin color and total cholesterol levels show frequency differentiation between the Turkish populations and European populations. Furthermore, we have analyzed the 17q21.31 inversion polymorphism region (MAPT locus) and found increased allele frequency of 31.25% for H1/H2 inversion polymorphism when compared to European populations that show about 25% of allele frequency. Conclusion: This study provides the first map of common genetic variation from 16 western Asian individuals and thus helps fill an important geographical gap in analyzing natural human variation and human migration. Our data will help develop population-specific experimental designs for studies investigating disease associations and demographic history in Turkey

Acciones de conservación de lugares patrimoniales a partir de datos gestionados con HBIM

[EN] Digital surveying tools provide a highly accurate geometric representation of cultural heritage sites in the form of point cloud data. With the recent advances in interoperability between point cloud data and Building Information Modelling (BIM), digital heritage researchers have introduced the Heritage/Historic Information Modelling (HBIM) notion to the field. As heritage data require safeguarding strategies to ensure their sustainability, the process is closely tied to conservation actions in the architectural conservation field. Focusing on the intersection of the ongoing trends in HBIM research and the global needs for heritage conservation actions, this paper tackles methodological pipelines for the data-driven management of archaeological heritage places. It illustrates how HBIM discourse could be beneficial for easing value-based decision-making in the conservation process. It introduces digital data-driven conservation actions by implementing a novel methodology for ancient building remains in Erythrae archaeological site (Turkey). The research ranges from a) surveying the in-situ remains and surrounding stones of the Heroon remains with digital photogrammetry and terrestrial laser scanning to b) designing a database system for building archaeology. The workflow offers high geometric fidelity and management of non-geometric heritage data by testing out the suitability and feasibility for the study of material culture and the physical assessment of archaeological building remains. This methodology is a fully data-enriched NURBS-based (non-uniform rational basis spline) three-dimensional (3D) model which is integrated and operational in the BIM environment for the holistic conservation process. Using a state-of-the-art digital heritage approach can be applied from raw data (initial stages) to decision-making about an archaeological heritage site (final stages). In conclusion, the paper offers a method for data-driven conservation actions, and given its methodological framework, it lends itself particularly well to HBIM-related solutions for building archaeology.[ES] Las herramientas topográficas digitales proporcionan una representación geométrica muy exacta de sitios patrimoniales en forma de datos (nubes de puntos). Con los avances recientes de interoperabilidad entre nubes de puntos y modelado de información de la construcción (BIM), los investigadores en patrimonio digital han introducido la noción de modelado de información de la construcción patrimonial/histórica (HBIM) en este campo. Como los datos patrimoniales requieren estrategias de salvaguardia que garanticen su sostenibilibidad, el proceso está íntimamente ligado a acciones de conservación en el campo de la conservación arquitectónica. Teniendo en cuenta las últimas tendencias en investigación HBIM y las necesidades globales de las acciones de conservación patrimonial, este artículo afronta el flujo metodológico de la gestión basada en datos de sitios patrimoniales arqueológicos. Se introducen acciones de conservación basadas en datos que implementan una metodología novedosa en los restos edificados del sitio arqueológico de Erythrae (Turquía). La investigación aborda tanto la fase desde a) el topografiado in situ de los restos y las piedras circundantes de los restos de Heroon con fotogrametría digital y escaneado láser terrestre, hasta b) la fase del diseño del sistema de bases de datos en arqueología de la arquitectura. El flujo de trabajo ofrece alta fidelidad geométrica y de gestión de datos patrimoniales no geométricos; también prueba la idoneidad y viabilidad de cara al estudio de la cultura material y a la evaluación física de los restos de edificios arqueológicos. El modelo tridimensional (3D) enriquecido con datos basados en NURBS ( non-uniform rational B-splines ), se demuestra que es operativo en el proceso de conservación integral; este trata desde los datos sin procesar hasta la toma de decisiones sobre un sitio arqueológico-patrimonial, utilizando un procedimiento digital puntero. En conclusión, el artículo presenta un método orientado a acciones de conservación basadas en datos y, dado su marco metodológico, se presta particularmente bien a soluciones relacionadas con HBIM en arqueología de la arquitectura.Saricaoglu, T.; Saygi, G. (2022). Data-driven conservation actions of heritage places curated with HBIM. Virtual Archaeology Review. 13(27):17-32. https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2022.17370OJS1732132

Temporal hints in the cultural heritage discourse: what can an ontology of time as it is worded reveal?

International audienceTime is an indispensable component of cultural heritage (CH) information: implementing appropriate knowledge models carry crucial importance in order to provide deeper understanding of heritage elements' evolution, to uncover concurrences, and to weigh quality factors. It is a challenging task though due to the uncertain characteristics of temporal data, and to the wording of time in the CH discourse. Existing KR models are either not designed for these distinctive characteristics, or spatial aspects tend to upstage the temporal dimension.This research aims at deciphering and proposing a formal representation of the way temporal hints are formalized in historical narratives. An OWL temporal ontology is introduced that provides a core support mechanism allowing for a semantic representation of temporal statements, and for structural analysis. The objective is to facilitate the cross-examination of temporal hints in and across CH collections so that specialists can have extensive reading possibilities of heritage information.Dans le champ des sciences patrimoniales, la dimension temporelle de l’information joue un rôle à l’évidence majeur tant pour l’interpréter et l’analyser que pour relier des faits isolés. Mais la façon dont cette dimension est verbalisée pose des problèmes de formalisation non triviaux. Pourtant, cette verbalisation, que l’on associe souvent au terme-chapeau d’incertitude, peut être lue en dissociant d’une part le caractère «mal connu» d’un fait doc-umenté, irréductible, et les choix faits par le producteur de l’information pour la «relativiser».Dans cette contribution nous proposons un modèle formel permettant d’observer et d’analyser de façon systématique cette couche de verbalisation. L’expérience est menée sur des données fortement hétérogènes, souvent d’origine citoyenne, documentant le petit pat-rimoine matériel et immatériel. Ce cas d’étude est donc limité, mais il apparait néanmoins comme portant une question de fond allant au-delà du cas d’espèce.La contribution détaille d’abord la grille d’analyse d’indices temporels proposée, puis relate l’expérimentation concrète associée (ontologie OWL). Il n’est pas fait état d’une quelconque prétention à un résultat généralisable stricto sensu, mais cette expérience peut contribuer à nourrir de façon pragmatique un débat nécessaire sur la formalisation d’indices temporels dans les sciences historiques

Atrial fibrillation and the role of LAA in pathophysiology and clinical outcomes?

Left atrial appendage (LAA) is a source of thromboembolism especially in patients with non valvular atrial fibrillation (AF). It is reasonable to accept LAA as a distinct part of left atrium (LA) with unique anatomical and physiological properties. Advances in imaging modalities increased the knowledge about anatomical and physiological characteristics of LAA. It is important to prevent the AF patients from systemic thromboembolic events, and new pharmacological and non pharmacological management approaches demonstrate encouraging results. Also pulmonary vein isolation which has been accepted as a curative and useful treatment option for the treatment of drug resistant AF has been helpful in understanding the electrophysiological properties of LAA. Accumulating data revealed that LAA continues to be the one of the most important structure of heart during AF because of its distinctive anatomical, mechanical, and electrophysiological properties

First identification of rotational band structures in Re-166(75)91

Excited states in the odd-odd, highly neutron-deficient nucleus Re-166 have been investigated via the Mo-92(Kr-78, 3p1n)Re-166 reaction. Prompt gamma rays were detected by the JUROGAM II. gamma-ray spectrometer, and the recoiling fusion-evaporation products were separated by the recoil ion transport unit (RITU) gas-filled recoil separator and implanted into the Gamma Recoil Electron Alpha Tagging spectrometer located at the RITU focal plane. The tagging and coincidence techniques were applied to identify the gamma-ray transitions in Re-166, revealing two collective, strongly coupled rotational structures, for the first time. The more strongly populated band structure is assigned to the pi h(11/2)[514]9/2(-) circle times vi(13/2)[660]1/2(+) Nilsson configuration, while the weaker structure is assigned to be built on a two-quasiparticle state of mixed pi h(11/2)[514]9/2(-) circle times v[h(9/2)f(7/2)]3/2(-) character. The configuration assignments are based on the electromagnetic characteristics and rotational properties, in comparison with predictions from total Routhian surface and particle-rotor model calculations.</p

Primary psoas muscle abscess diagnosed and treated during pregnancy: case report and literature review.

BACKGROUND: Primary psoas muscle abscess is rare and can be difficult to diagnose, particularly during pregnancy. CASE: To our knowledge, this is the first case of primary psoas muscle abscess diagnosed during pregnancy. Clinical investigation did not reveal any infection spreading from adjacent structures. Surgical drainage and simultaneous Cesarean delivery of the infant, combined with appropriate antibiotics, enabled a cure. CONCLUSION: The possibility of psoas muscle abscess should be taken into account when investigating lower back pain during pregnancy if conventional approaches are unsatisfactory

Anomalous B(E2)4+/2+ ratios in the neutron-deficient nuclide 168Os and 166W

The structure of the neutron-deficient nuclides 168Os and 166W has been investigated in experiments using the JUROGAM γ-ray spectrometer and GREAT spectrometer in conjunction with RITU separator at the Accelerator Laboratory of the University of Jyväskylä. The excitation level scheme for 168Os has been extended and the lifetimes of excited states in 166W have been measured using the DPUNS differential plunger and the recoil distance Doppler-shift method. These states were produced using by a fusion-evaporation reaction using a 92Mo target and a 78Kr beam. This thesis addresses the anomalous B(E2;4+ → 2+)/B(E2;2+ → 0+) ratios measured for these neutron-deficient N = 92 isotones. The extended level scheme of 168Os has revealed several new features. These features were investigated in a model using the Bateman equations and based on the differential decay curve method to provide possible explanations for the anomalous B(E2)4+/2+ ratios in 168Os extracted from recent lifetime measurements by Grahn et al [1]. In a complementary experiment, the lifetimes of the 2+, 4+, 6+, 12+ and 14+ excited states in 166W have been measured for the first time using recoil gated γ- γ-coincidence spectra. The measured reduced transition probabilities revealed a B(E2; 4+ →2+)/B(E2; 2+ → 0+) ratio less than unity. The B(E2) value for the transitions between high-spin states provides evidence for a weak interaction strength at the ground-Stockholm band crossing

The Effect of Using Cryptology on Understanding of Function Concept

The aim of the study is to teach the concept of function by using cryptology and to examine whether it provides support to students who have difficulty in integrating this subject into daily life. The study group of the study consisted of 50 primary school teachers in elementary mathematics teaching department of a public university in Ankara. Since the research was aimed to reveal the advantages and disadvantages of using cryptology in teaching the basic function concept, qualitative data were collected and analyzed. The data collection tool of the study is a achievement test consisting of 10 questions prepared by observer researcher, practicing researcher and evaluation expert. This achievement test was applied as both pre-test and post-test. In terms of functions, only the definition of function, inverse function, one-to-one function, set of values-set of definition, set of images and cryptography about where functions can be used in daily life were utilized. As a result of the study, it was concluded that pre-service teachers' awareness about function increased and it was advantageous and possible to use cryptology to connect functions with daily life