IMPORTANCE African American individuals experience barriers to accessing many types of health care in the United States, resulting in substantial health care disparities. To improve health care in this patient population, it is important to recognize and study the potential factors limiting access to care. OBJECTIVE To examine deep brain stimulation (DBS) use in Parkinson disease (PD) to dete...

Incorporating oxophilic metals into noble metal-based catalysts represents an emerging strategy to improve the catalytic performance of electrocatalysts in fuel cells. However, effects of the distance between the noble metal and oxophilic metal active sites on the catalytic performance have rarely been investigated. Herein, we report on ultrasmall (∼5 nm) Pd-Ni-P ternary nanoparticles for ethan...

Abstract Partial discharge (PD) detection is a valuable method for the estimation of GIS condition, and the PD mapping is benefit for GIS defects identification. To investigate the PD characteristic of the GIS model, this paper simulates different PD maps of various fault simulations, and the characteristics of PD map is acquired by the pulse amplitude, phase and the discharge density to identi...

background the aim of the present study was to compare two analgesic techniques for transrectal ultrasound (trus)-guided biopsy: diclofenac patch versus periprostatic nerve block with 1% lidocaine. objectives to study the efficacy of and compare diclofenac patch and periprostatic nerve block as analgesia in trus-guided prostate needle biopsy. patients and methods in total, 60 patients were pros...

The creeping perennial weed species Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. occurs in patches. Expanding roots allow these patches to increase their covered area. This characteristic has rarely been addressed when investigating the effects of control options arable fields. We designed a three-year field experiment (2019–2021) north-eastern Germany, accounting for existing patch patterns. experimental setup ...

Alloying or doping Pd may be an option for overcoming sulfur poisoning. The current investigation probes the mechanism associated with sulfur binding to determine if Nb and Cu are appropriate doping metals. In this study, the effect of doping Pd with Cu or Nb on the binding strength of H(2) and H(2)S was investigated using plane-wave density functional theory-based electronic structure calculat...

Direction selectivity (DS) is an important neuronal property in the visual system, but how DS is generated beyond the retina remains controversial. Here, we report a close correspondence between the preferred direction (PD) and the morphology of DS cells in the optic tectum. Ca(2+) imaging in cells expressing the genetically encoded Ca(2+) indicator GCaMP3 and multiphoton-targeted patch-clamp r...