Vaginal microbiome is submitted to permanent changes accordingly to age, menopausal status or association of different pathological conditions such as inflammation or mucosal atrophy. The presence of ...these modifications is usually associated with local development of infectious, inflammatory or atrophic vulvovaginitis. These represent the most commonly complaints which affect women at all ages. Therefore, attention was focused on creating a topic product which is able to control the local process and to alleviate the symptoms. The aim of the current paper is to analyze the physiology, physiopathology and therapeutic strategies in such cases with special focus on Cerviron, a product which seems to provide multiple therapeutic benefits in such cases.
The orientation effect of methyl-red (MR) molecules on pentylcyanobiphenyl (5CB) nematic liquid crystal has been investigated in a pump-probe experiment at various concentrations of azo-dye and for ...different power values of an exciting Ar
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laser beam. Excited dye molecules reorient the LC molecules within their correlation spheres. There is a percolation probability that the whole LC bulk be reoriented. Analyzing the threshold energy necessary for this percolation in terms of dye concentration, the model allows evaluating the lowest concentration of dye molecules (critical concentration), the correlation length and the quantum efficiency of the reorientation process.
The diabetic foot syndrome is the most common cause of diabetic patients hospitalization, being a challenging complication of diabetes. This is a case report of a diabetic patient who presented a ...silent myocardial infarction after partial foot amputation. The patient presented normal troponin at admission, but after 21 days of hospitalization he acused a very slight pain in the chest and breathing difficulty. The troponin was 682 ng/l. He was transfered immediately in the intensive care unit for specific treatment. The evolution of the surgical intervention was favourable even under the poor general status. The patient fully recovered after 10 days and left the cardiology department in a good clinical condition. A silent myocardial infarction seems to occur with increased frequency in patients with diabetes, due to the cardiac autonomic dysfunction. It is highly important a quick diagnosis and a good management of the patient.
We present results on the growth and magnetic anisotropies of Co sub(75)Fe sub(25) films grown on a Cu(1 1 0) single crystal. Angular dependent MOKE measurements show a thickness dependent, in-plane ...rotation of the easy axis of magnetisation of up to 60 degree from the 0 0 1 direction (towards -1 1 0). For a film thickness of 5 ML, just greater than that required for the onset of ferromagnetism, uniaxial anisotropy is observed with the easy axis along the 0 0 1 direction. As the film thickness increases this is seen to rotate in-plane towards the -1 1 0 direction as the contribution from the cubic anisotropy constant grows. At a film thickness of 9 ML there is predominantly cubic anisotropy and at 10 ML the easy axis is rotated to 150 degree with respect to the 1 -1 0 axis, where it is stabilised.
While artificial intelligence (AI) design continues to aspire towards romanticised visions of intelligence and human-likeness, the increasing dichotomy between its technological and social facets has ...given rise to tangible evidence of surveillance, inequality and discrimination. This evidence emphasises a pressing need for systems more aligned with human expectations and values, but computationally, it remains extremely difficult to embed concepts as fundamentally fluid and situational as value and meaning. Such difficulty has led present-day research to formalise these intricate principles of human behaviour, in all their complexity, through predictive machine learning models built on data extracted from how people behave not in relationship to AI but in the absence of it.Human entails, foremost, an understanding of the interaction between concept (humanlike design) and percept (anthropomorphism). Consequently, the effect of these variables on each other is explored in two stages: first by reviewing whether our mental models of humanlike AI are built on pre-existing knowledge and schemas of other people (Just Like Me), and second, by probing their homogeneity with respect to their corresponding human counterparts (But Not Exactly). Building on the results of these initial investigations, this study demonstrates that the locus of the interaction, in practice, cannot be neatly extracted from manipulating the correlation of these variables, but rather by looking at how it is continuously constituted in the dynamic between the two. With combinations of effects born in the fleeting concept-perception interaction, it is concluded that very few behavioural patterns and mental models can truly be universalised, and for the most part, one context cannot be neatly applied to the next.To address this epistemological limitation, the present study proposes a novel methodological approach – taking influence from cognitive dissonance theory – that requires the designer/researcher to locate themselves in the complexity of this socio-technical world and to reflect on how their interventions impact that which they are observing. In addition to providing a visual method of investigating the interaction, the proposed approach is ultimately intended as a design strategy for addressing the nonlinear and often chaotic dynamics of an emergent field of study: the Human-AI.
The aim of this study is to evaluate the presence / absence of the correlation between pulse pressure (PP, determined by ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM)) and traditional and ...non-traditional cardiovascular (CV) risk factors: age, sex, blood glucose, proteinuria / microalbuminuria, uric acid, ESR, fibrinogen, total cholesterol, HDL – cholesterol), triglyceridemia, Hb, in renal and non-renal hypertensive patients. Material and method. The data were collected from the observation records of 412 hypertensive patients admitted during the period 2006-2012 to the Department of Nephrology and Internal Medicine 1 of the Bucharest Emergency University Hospital. It is a retrospective study. These data consist of blood and urine analysis, on the one hand, and parameters obtained by ABPM, on the other hand. The subjects were divided into two groups: hypertensive patients with and without CKD. The results of the study showed a positive correlation between the presence of CKD and mean 24-hour PP with a statistical effect (p <0.01): mean PP was in the first group 63.04 ± 15.53 mmHg versus 53.40 ± 12, 29 mmHg in the group of patients without CKD. The result is also maintained in multivariate analysis. Discussions. Study limitations are the following: the relatively small group of subjects to issue valid population conclusions, we could not control the multiple variables involved in cardiovascular risk, and the fact that subjects included in the study are not followed for a longer period of time. Conclusions. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that the presence of CKD determines the increase of the cardiovascular risk of the patients. This is due in part to the fact that we found higher mean PP in the group of hypertensive patients with CKD. For a better understanding of this relation further studies are required.
Current vs voltage measurements have revealed two different conduction zones in a NLC sample. A standard sandwich type sample was filled with K18 (6CB) which was aligned (approximately) ...homeotropically by the two ITO surfaces previously cleaned in orthochromic mixture. On two opposite sides of the cell, the NLC was limited by two Mylar stripes acting as spacers. The other two sides were left open, and the liquid crystal had two free surfaces (limited only by air) in the form of a cylindrical meniscus. The overall conductivity of the cell depended strongly on the length of the free surface. For the same area, samples with a larger free surface experienced a higher overall conductivity. In the absence of an electric field, we considered the order in the free surface zone to be planar with n being normal to LC−air interface. For small electric fields the conduction along director n in the bulk is less than the conduction perpendicular to n on the free zone. At higher fields, the Freedericksz transition which operates on the free zone reduces the overall conductivity. This reduced conductivity was practically equal to that obtained when ITO electrodes were completely immersed in liquid crystal; that is, the free surfaces do not contribute to the conduction. Considering the measured values, we have concluded that the order in the free surface zone was planar for a depth of about 50 μm.
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