With aspirated specimens from clinical infections, we evaluated the recovery of anaerobic, aerobic, and facultative bacteria in three widely used transport systems: (i) aspirated fluid in a gassed-out tube (FGT), (ii) swab in modified Cary and Blair transport medium (SCB), and (iii) swab in a gassed-out tube (SGT). Transport tubes were held at 25 degrees C and semiquantitatively sampled at 0, 2...

We experimentally investigate second-harmonic transverse voltage response to ac electrical current for a magnetic nodal-line semimetal Fe 3 GeTe 2 (FGT). For zero field, the observed behaves as square of longitudinal current, it should be expected nonlinear Hall effect. The field behavior is found sophisticated: while first-harmonic shows known anomalous hysteresis in FGT, characterized by pron...

The advent of ferromagnetism in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnets has stimulated high interest exploring topological magnetic textures, such as skyrmions for use future skyrmion-based spintronic devices. To engineer vdW by transforming Bloch-type bubbles into N\'eel-type skyrmions, the heterostructure heavy metal/vdW thin film been made to induce interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya...

Income-differentiated mortality, by reducing the share of poor persons in the population, leads to what can be called the "Mortality Paradox": the worse the survival conditions of the poor are, the lower the measured poverty is. We show that the extent to which FGT measures (Foster Greer Thorbecke 1984) underestimate old-age poverty under incomedifferentiated mortality depends on whether the pr...

Evaluating sums of multivariate Gaussians is a common computational task in computer vision and pattern recognition, including in the general and powerful kernel density estimation technique. The quadratic computational complexity of the summation is a significant barrier to the scalability of this algorithm to practical applications. The fast Gauss transform (FGT) has successfully accelerated ...

OBJECTIVES We conducted a pilot study to identify whether MRI parameters are sensitive to hormone-induced changes in the breast during the natural menstrual cycle and whether changes could also be observed during an oral contraceptive (OC) cycle. MATERIALS AND METHODS The New York University Langone Medical Center Institutional Review Board approved this HIPAA-compliant prospective study. All...

Abstract With the advent of ferromagnetism, two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnets have attracted particular attention in exploring topological spin textures, such as skyrmions used for next-generation spintronic devices. The discovery magnetic Fe 3 GeTe 2 (FGT) has sparked interest investigating configurations FGT. Here, we an situ Lorentz microscope to directly demonstrate generatio...

OBJECTIVES To assess the field accuracy, reproducibility and feasibility of the formol gel test (FGT), the urine latex agglutination test (KAtex) and a rK39 antigen-based dipstick for the diagnosis of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in rural Nepal. METHOD Patients with clinical suspicion of VL were recruited at Rangeli District Hospital (DH), a 15-bed government hospital located in south-eastern ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate promoting factors for background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) in MR mammography (MRM). METHODS 146 patients were retrospectively evaluated, including 91 high-risk patients (50 BRCA patients, 41 patients with elevated lifetime risk). 56 screening patients were matched to the high-risk cases on the basis of age. The correlation of BPE with factors such as fibroglandula...