Using positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to monitor and quantitatively analyze the delivery and localization of Au nanomaterials (NMs), a widely used photothermal agent, is essential to optimize therapeutic protocols to achieve individualized medicine and avoid side effects. Coupling radiometals to Au NMs via a chelator faces the challenges of possible detachment of the radiometals as w...

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS) is a rare but life-threatening idiosyncratic side effect resulting from neuroleptic drugs. NMS mainly occurs in patients treated with high-potency typical antipsychotics, but rarely caused by atypical antipsychotics. Although NMS is less common with atypical antipsychotic, but it seems that its incidence is rising due to increased administration of such drug...

Due to the increasing use and production of nanomaterials (NMs), the ability to characterise their physical/chemical properties quickly and reliably has never been so important. Proper characterisation allows a thorough understanding of the material and its stability, and is critical to establishing dose-response curves to ascertain risks to human and environmental health. Traditionally, method...

The United States securities markets have served as the subject of a continuing debate regarding the structure most beneficial to local market participants. A consolidated market structure reduces transactions cost by increasing liquidity in the shares of a security. Conversely, fragmentation creates a system wherein competition flourishes and innovation is fostered. Balancing these opposing vi...

Most object detection systems consist of three stages. First, a set of individual hypotheses for object locations is generated using a proposal generating algorithm. Second, a classifier scores every generated hypothesis independently to obtain a multi-class prediction. Finally, all scored hypotheses are filtered via a non-differentiable and decoupled non-maximum suppression (NMS) post-processi...

Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a serious mental illness that causes significant physical, emotional, cognitive, and social impairments. AN most often develops during adolescence or young adulthood and has high mortality and morbidity rates, in addition to cost burden. Current treatment of AN is multidisciplinary and is typically with a combination of medical, nutritional, and psychological interventi...

Several studies have reported on catatonia caused by the use of antipsychotic drugs and on the association between catatonia and neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS), but none has reported such a case in Korea. Here, we report the case of a 20-year-old woman whose catatonia and NMS appeared associated with the administration of an atypical antipsychotic drug. We discuss the association between ...

We report the synthesis of free-standing two-dimensional semiconductor zinc oxide (ZnO) nanomembranes (NMs) using a bottomup approach, i.e., nanomembranes grown from the faceted sidewalls of horizontally oriented ZnO nanowires (NWs). The ZnO NMs were synthesized on r-plane sapphire substrates utilizing high purity ZnO powder and graphite mixture and oxygen as source materials and argon (Ar) as ...

In the past two decades, use of biomolecules, either from biological or biomimetic systems (or so-called synthesis), has emerged as a promising green approach to synthesize gold nanomaterials (Au NMs). Here, we describe recent progress on and syntheses Au NMs. We focus our discussions selection principles synthesis mechanisms involving evolution synthesis, contributions bioinspired production h...

The prevalence of non-motor symptoms (NMS) in Parkinson's Disease (PD) has varied between studies. Their interrelation isn't totally understood. Also, the relative importance of each symptom, regarding its impact on activities of daily living (ADL) and health related quality of life (HRQL), remains debatable. We assessed all PD patients attending a Portuguese tertiary movement disorders center ...