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Drexel University
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About: Drexel University is a education organization based out in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 26770 authors who have published 51438 publications receiving 1949443 citations. The organization is also known as: Drexel & Drexel Institute.
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20 Jun 2009TL;DR: This work presents a novel statistical framework for modeling the local spatio-temporal motion pattern behavior of extremely crowded scenes to exploit the dense activity of the crowded scene by modeling the rich motion patterns in local areas, effectively capturing the underlying intrinsic structure they form in the video.
Abstract: Extremely crowded scenes present unique challenges to video analysis that cannot be addressed with conventional approaches. We present a novel statistical framework for modeling the local spatio-temporal motion pattern behavior of extremely crowded scenes. Our key insight is to exploit the dense activity of the crowded scene by modeling the rich motion patterns in local areas, effectively capturing the underlying intrinsic structure they form in the video. In other words, we model the motion variation of local space-time volumes and their spatial-temporal statistical behaviors to characterize the overall behavior of the scene. We demonstrate that by capturing the steady-state motion behavior with these spatio-temporal motion pattern models, we can naturally detect unusual activity as statistical deviations. Our experiments show that local spatio-temporal motion pattern modeling offers promising results in real-world scenes with complex activities that are hard for even human observers to analyze.
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TL;DR: It is shown that a two-dimensional transition metal carbonitride, Ti3CNTx MXene, with a moderate electrical conductivity, provides a higher shielding effectiveness compared with more conductiveTi3C2Tx or metal foils of the same thickness.
Abstract: Lightweight, ultrathin, and flexible electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding materials are needed to protect electronic circuits and portable telecommunication devices and to eliminate cross-talk between devices and device components. Here, we show that a two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbonitride, Ti3CNTx MXene, with a moderate electrical conductivity, provides a higher shielding effectiveness compared with more conductive Ti3C2Tx or metal foils of the same thickness. This exceptional shielding performance of Ti3CNTx was achieved by thermal annealing and is attributed to an anomalously high absorption of electromagnetic waves in its layered, metamaterial-like structure. These results provide guidance for designing advanced EMI shielding materials but also highlight the need for exploring fundamental mechanisms behind interaction of electromagnetic waves with 2D materials.
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TL;DR: IL-1 regulation byCIAS1 suggests that IL-1 receptor blockade may constitute a rational approach to the treatment of NOMID/CINCA syndrome, and the total number of known germline mutations in CIAS1 is increased to 20, causing a spectrum of diseases ranging from familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome to Muckle-Wells syndrome.
Abstract: Objective
Neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease (NOMID; also known as chronic infantile neurologic, cutaneous, articular [CINCA] syndrome) is characterized by fever, chronic meningitis, uveitis, sensorineural hearing loss, urticarial skin rash, and a characteristic deforming arthropathy. We investigated whether patients with this disorder have mutations in CIAS1, the gene which causes Muckle-Wells syndrome and familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, two dominantly inherited disorders with some similarities to NOMID/CINCA syndrome.
Methods
Genomic DNA from 13 patients with classic manifestations of NOMID/CINCA syndrome and their available parents was screened for CIAS1 mutations by automated DNA sequencing. Cytokine messenger RNA (mRNA) levels were assessed by real-time polymerase chain reaction on peripheral blood leukocyte mRNA, and serum cytokine levels were assayed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Protein expression was assessed by Western blotting of lysates from plastic-adherent peripheral blood mononuclear cells.
Results
In 6 of the 13 patients, we found 6 heterozygous missense substitutions in CIAS1. Five of the 6 mutations are novel. None of these sequence changes was observed in a panel of >900 chromosomes from healthy controls. Two distinct nucleotide changes in a single codon in unrelated patients resulted in the same amino acid change. In 4 mutation-positive children whose parental DNA was available, no mutation was found in the parental DNA, supporting the conclusion that the mutations arose de novo. Consistent with the recently discovered role of CIAS1 in the regulation of interleukin-1 (IL-1), we found evidence of increased IL-1β, as well as tumor necrosis factor, IL-3, IL-5, and IL-6, but not transforming growth factor β, in a mutation-positive patient compared with normal controls.
Conclusion
Our data increase the total number of known germline mutations in CIAS1 to 20, causing a spectrum of diseases ranging from familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome to Muckle-Wells syndrome to NOMID/CINCA syndrome. Mutations in CIAS1 were only found in ∼50% of the cases identified clinically as NOMID/CINCA syndrome, which raises the possibility of genetic heterogeneity. IL-1 regulation by CIAS1 suggests that IL-1 receptor blockade may constitute a rational approach to the treatment of NOMID/CINCA syndrome.
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TL;DR: The growth rates of upper extremity arthroplasty were comparable to or higher than rates for total hip and knee procedures, and of particular concern was the increased revision burden.
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TL;DR: Uri Galili argues that the interaction between anti-Gal in the serum and alpha-galactosyl epitopes on cells of nonprimate grafts may act as an immunological barrier which prevents xenotransplantation.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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John Q. Trojanowski | 226 | 1467 | 213948 |
Peter Libby | 211 | 932 | 182724 |
Virginia M.-Y. Lee | 194 | 993 | 148820 |
Yury Gogotsi | 171 | 956 | 144520 |
Dennis R. Burton | 164 | 683 | 90959 |
M.-Marsel Mesulam | 150 | 558 | 90772 |
Edward G. Lakatta | 146 | 858 | 88637 |
Gordon T. Richards | 144 | 613 | 110666 |
David Price | 138 | 1687 | 93535 |
Joseph Sodroski | 138 | 542 | 77070 |
Hannu Kurki-Suonio | 138 | 433 | 99607 |
Jun Lu | 135 | 1526 | 99767 |
Stephen F. Badylak | 133 | 530 | 57083 |
Michael E. Thase | 131 | 923 | 75995 |
Edna B. Foa | 129 | 588 | 73034 |