Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a major cause of mortality and disability. Post-traumatic intracranial hypertension (ICH) further complicates the care of patients. Hyperosmolar agents are recommended for the treatment of ICH, but no consensus or high-level data exist on the use of any particular agent or the route of administration. The two agents used commonly are hypertonic saline (HTS) ...

High-throughput screening (HTS) has become an integral part of academic and industrial efforts aimed at developing new chemical probes and drugs. These screens typically generate several 'hits', or lead active compounds, that must be prioritized for follow-up medicinal chemistry studies. Among primary considerations for ranking lead compounds is selectivity for the intended target, especially a...

Future accelerator magnets will need to reach higher field in the range of 20T. This field level is very difficult to reach using only LTS materials whereas HTS’s provide interesting opportunities. High current densities and stress levels are needed to design such magnets. YBCO superconductor indeed carries large current densities under high magnetic field and provides good mechanical propertie...

Hypertrophic scars (HTS) are caused by dermal injuries such as trauma and burns to the deep dermis, which are red, raised, itchy and painful. They can cause cosmetic disfigurement or contractures if craniofacial areas or mobile region of the skin are affected. Abnormal wound healing with more extracellular matrix deposition than degradation will result in HTS formation. This review will introdu...

A tri-axial HTS power cable has been proposed and developed to reduce the number of HTS wires because it has copper shield instead of HTS shield. However, it has a drawback which is an inherent imbalance problem due to an asymmetry configuration in the cable. The authors designed a 22.9 kV/50 MVA class tri-axial HTS cable. The inherent imbalance problem of the three-phase currents in the tri-ax...

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BACKGROUND Although hypertrophic scar (HTS) formation following cleft lip repair is relatively common, published rates vary widely, from 1% to nearly 50%. The risk factors associated with HTS formation in cleft patients are not well characterized. The primary aim of this retrospective study of 180 cleft lip repairs is to evaluate the frequency of postoperative HTS among various ethnic groups fo...

INTRODUCTION High-temperature superconducting (HTS) Helmholtz coil pairs have been shown to provide substantial increases in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for applications in NMR and MR microscopy (1, 2). One limitation of HTS coils is that their non-linear response to applied power produces distortion of shaped RF pulses (3). Through the use of a previously reported field mapping technique (4) m...