Abstract Purpose To describe a multimodal imaging diagnosis of retinopathy in dermatomyositis.Case presentation A 21-year-old white woman with a history of fatigue and a cutaneous rash complained of visual impairment in her left eye.A funduscopic examination showed multiple confluent cotton-wool spots in both eyes.Swept source-optical coherence tom
This hbl5266ca study examined applications of polarized evanescent guided wave surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to determine the binding and orientation of small molecules and ligand-modified nanoparticles, and the relevance of this technique to lab-on-a-chip, surface plasmon polariton and other types of field enhancement techniques relevant to
The French State services in charge of flood forecasting supervise about 22,000 km among the 120,000 km of the French rivers within a warning procedure called Vigilance Crues (http://www.vigicrues.gouv.fr).Some recent dramatic flood events on small watershed not covered by Vigilance Crues highlight the need for a new warning procedure to anticipate
Abstract Background This paper documents and analyses some of the responses to the largest Ebola outbreak on record, which took place in Uganda between September 2000 and February 2001.Four hundred and twenty five people developed clinical symptoms in three geographically distinct parts of the country (Gulu, Masindi, and Mbarara), of whom 224 (53%)
In cement-based materials, alkalis mainly exist in read more the form of different alkali sulfates.In this study, the impacts of different alkali sulfates on the shrinkage, hydration, pore structure, fractal dimension and microstructure of low-heat Portland cement (LHPC), medium-heat Portland cement (MHPC) and ordinary Portland cement (OPC) are inv