ACED: Accelerated Computational Electrochemical systems Discovery

Large-scale electrification is vital to addressing the climate crisis, but many engineering challenges remain to fully electrifying both the chemical industry and transportation. In both of these areas, new electrochemical materials and systems will be critical, but developing these systems currently relies heavily on computationally expensive first-principles simulations as well as human-time-intensive experimental trial and error. We propose to develop an automated workflow that accelerates these computational steps by introducing both automated error handling in generating the first-principles training data as well as physics-informed machine learning surrogates to further reduce computational cost. It will also have the capacity to include automated experiments "in the loop" in order to dramatically accelerate the overall materials discovery pipeline.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, accepted to NeurIPS Climate Change and AI Workshop 2020, updating acknowledgements and citation

Update on the spectrum of histoplasmosis among hispanic patients presenting to a New York City municipal hospital: A contemporary case series

Histoplasma capsulatum is the most common endemic mycosis worldwide. Although most of the globe's largest urban hubs fall outside this organism's regions of endemicity, clinicians practicing in a metropolis like New York City or Los Angeles must nevertheless remain vigilant for histoplasmosis because of the large immigrant population that is served by its hospitals. H. capsulatum infection ranges from asymptomatic pulmonary infection to life-threatening diffuse pneumonia with dissemination. The early years of the AIDS epidemic first introduced U.S. clinicians working in areas previously unfamiliar with histoplasmosis to newly immunocompromised patients from endemic regions presenting with disseminated H. capsulatum originally acquired in their home countries. Improvement in HIV prevention and therapeutics has reduced the frequency of such cases. Herein we report three cases of histoplasmosis encountered in our New York City institution over the last three years to emphasize that awareness of this infection remains mandatory for the frontline urban clinician

Acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome

Acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia (AFOP) is a histological pattern characterized by intra-alveolar fibrin deposition and associated organizing pneumonia. AFOP has been associated with many rheumatologic disorders in the literature but has not been described in association with Sjogren's syndrome. This paper shows a rare association of AFOP with Sjogren's syndrome. Patient's symptoms promptly improved after treatment with steroid

Application of Earth Observation Data and Standardized Precipitation Index Based Approach for Meteorological Drought Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction Over Kutch, Gujarat, India

Drought is a natural phenomenon which differs from other natural hazards by its slow accumulating process and its indefinite commencement and termination. The present study addresses water deficiency and drought occurrence over Kutch district, Gujarat, because nearly 45% of the whole Kutch district is severely suffering by deficiency of water. Earth observation data (LANDSAT ETM+) and Standardized Precipitation Index were used to analyze drought severity. Daily rainfall data over the study area were obtained from Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) for the period of study (1990-2014) and geo-referenced for further analyses. Using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques, rainfall variability map over the period of study has been prepared to show rainfall distribution and land use and land cover map is prepared to show the area under different land use classes and impacts of drought over land uses. Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) was generated for each block wise and scenario of drought development has been analyzed using decadal data set for the study period (1990-2014). The present study suggests method and techniques for continuous drought monitoring by linking temporal earth observation and rainfall data. The methodology will be very useful for the development of a regional drought monitoring syste

Refractile foreign material deposits and alveolar hemorrhage in crack cocaine smoker

Recreational use of alkaloid free-base cocaine, also known as crack cocaine, has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Inhalation of crack cocaine is known to cause a variety of pulmonary complications. Herein we present a case of diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) and particulate foreign matter deposition in the setting of crack cocaine inhalation