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B is for beer
In this story for both children and adults, kindergartner Gracie decides to find out just what beer is and why her father likes it so much. Along the way she discovers more than she probably expected.
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Role of artificial intelligence in imaging and endoscopy for the diagnosis, monitoring and prognostication of inflammatory bowel disease: a scoping review protocol
IntroductionInflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are immune-mediated conditions that are increasing in incidence and prevalence worldwide. Their assessment and monitoring are becoming increasingly important, though complex. The best disease control is achieved through tight monitoring of objective inflammatory parameters (such as serum and stool inflammatory markers), cross-sectional imaging and endoscopic assessment. Considering the complexity of the information obtained throughout a patient’s journey, artificial intelligence (AI) provides an ideal adjunct to existing tools to help diagnose, monitor and predict the course of disease of patients with IBD. Therefore, we propose a scoping review assessing AI’s role in diagnosis, monitoring and prognostication tools in patients with IBD. We aim to detect gaps in the literature and address them in future research endeavours.Methods and analysisWe will search electronic databases, including Medline, Embase, Cochrane CENTRAL, CINAHL Complete, Web of Science and IEEE Xplore. Two reviewers will independently screen the abstracts and titles first and then perform the full-text review. A third reviewer will resolve any conflict. We will include both observational studies and clinical trials. Study characteristics will be extracted using a data extraction form. The extracted data will be summarised in a tabular format, following the imaging modality theme and the study outcome assessed. The results will have an accompanying narrative review.Ethics and disseminationConsidering the nature of the project, ethical review by an institutional review board is not required. The data will be presented at academic conferences, and the final product will be published in a peer-reviewed journal.
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The criminal crowd and other writings on mass society
\"The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society is the first English collection of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele. Sighele is largely responsible for providing post-unification Italy with a new outlook on issues ranging from the blurring line between individual and collective accountability, the role of urbanization in the development of criminality, and the emancipation of women. This work draws a multifaceted portrait of a provocative thinker and public intellectual caught between tradition and modernity during the European fin de siلecle. Containing a comprehensive introduction by the editor, The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society includes Sighele's seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, as well as his formative studies on group behaviour. Nicoletta Pireddu contextualizes Sighele's contribution to the so-called 'age-of crowds,' from the fierce polemic with his French rivals Gustave LeBon and Gabriel Tarde to the scientific, literary, and cultural developments of his conceptualization of mass behaviours as a legitimate object of psychological investigation into a new century.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Microwave Oscillator Ultrasound Receivers
Ultrasound refers simply to those sound waves which are above the range of human hearing. Since the discovery of the piezoelectric effect in the late 19th Century, the generation and reception of ultrasound has become an integral (though understated) part of modern life in fields as diverse as cardiac imaging and automotive range-finding. For the vast majority of applications, high-frequency ultrasound is generated and received by means of some piezoelectric material, most often derived from lead zirconate titanate (PZT), a technology which has changed little since the 1970s. In recent decades, there has been a push to overcome some limitations posed by PZT and related technologies. Two prominent technologies which have emerged as alternatives are micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) such as capacitivie micromachined ultrasound transducers (CMUT), and optical Fabry-Perot hydrophones. We examined the possibility of creating a purely electronic analogue of the optical Fabry-Perot hydrophone. The device we invented is called a microwave oscillator ultrasound receiver (MOUR). It is implemented by a compact electromagnetic resonator on a piece of high-permittivity circuit board covered by a thin superstrate layer. When the superstrate layer deforms (as a result of incoming ultrasound), the transfer function of the resonator shifts, and that shift can be detected by reading out the IQ modulation of a carrier transmitted through the resonator at or near its resonant frequency. To multiplex the device, an array of resonators, each with a different resonant frequency, can be produced. Each element is thereby associated with its own microwave channel, since each element will modulate only the carrier near its electromagnetic resonance. In this way, frequency division multiplexing (FDM) is implemented, allowing fast readout of each element by tuning the receiver circuitry to the relevant microwave frequency. This has the potential to greatly simplify the design of ultrasound receiver arrays, as a single electrical pathway can be used to read out multiple elements, without the need for digitisation or analogue switching. We designed, manufactured and tested a proof-of-concept device comprising a single electromagnetic resonator implemented as a defected microstrip structure (DMS) in the shape of a hairpin on a piece of high-permittivity circuit board. The board was covered with a layer of black latex paint to form a low-Young’s modulus superstrate layer and characterised with a conventional ultrasound source. We present these results, along with a detailed description of the device’s operating principle, its applications, and design considerations.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Volume 1, Change is constant
\"It's a different world for the Turtles. The group is broken as Raphael wanders the streets of NYC in search of food and shelter. His brothers and Master Splinter are on the search, but so far all they can find is trouble-- in the form of mutant alley cat Old Hob and his gang of criminals! The very core of the Turtles family is at stake as the new origin of TMNT is revealed!\"--Back cover.
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The Effects of Social Distancing Policies on Non-SARS-CoV-2 Respiratory Pathogens
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Background
The initial focus of the US public health response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was the implementation of numerous social distancing policies. While COVID-19 was the impetus for imposing these policies, it is not the only respiratory disease affected by their implementation. This study aimed to assess the impact of social distancing policies on non–severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) respiratory pathogens typically circulating across multiple US states.
Methods
Linear mixed-effect models were implemented to explore the effects of 5 social distancing policies on non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory pathogens across 9 states from January 1 through May 1, 2020. The observed 2020 pathogen detection rates were compared week by week with historical rates to determine when the detection rates were different.
Results
Model results indicate that several social distancing policies were associated with a reduction in total detection rate, by nearly 15%. Policies were associated with decreases in pathogen circulation of human rhinovirus/enterovirus and human metapneumovirus, as well as influenza A, which typically decrease after winter. Parainfluenza viruses failed to circulate at historical levels during the spring. The total detection rate in April 2020 was 35% less than the historical average. Many of the pathogens driving this difference fell below the historical detection rate ranges within 2 weeks of initial policy implementation.
Conclusions
This analysis investigated the effect of multiple social distancing policies implemented to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 on non-SARS-CoV-2 respiratory pathogens. These findings suggest that social distancing policies may be used as an impactful public health tool to reduce communicable respiratory illness.
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An Interview with Tom Robbins
Tom Robbins est né en 1936 en Caroline du Nord. Son deuxième livre, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, généralement qualifié de « roman culte », le propulse star de ce que Larry McCaffery appellera, pour le meilleur et pour le pire, « avant pop fiction ». Encore trop peu connu en France, ce « maître de la métaphore » livre avec une certaine parcimonie (neuf romans en près de quarante ans) des œuvres qui sont autant de regards critiques et savoureux sur l'état du monde. Tom Robbins, dont le neuvième roman, B is for Beer, a été publié au printemps dernier, en même temps que la traduction française de Half Asleep In Frog Pajamas, a accepté de répondre à quelques questions sur son œuvre et sur l'écriture de fiction en général.
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