Heart Failure Due to Secondary Haemochromatosis in a Case of Beta Thalassemia Major: A Rare Case Presentation

Hemochromatosis is defined as abnormal accumulation of iron in various organs of the body such as liver, pancreas, skin, joints, heart due to raised gut absorption of iron due to low hepcidin yield. Hemochromatosis is secondary to thalassemia major in this case. In the absence of other concurrent processes, cardiac hemochromatosis is identified as the presence of cardiac dysfunction owing to increased iron accumulation in the heart leading to heart failure. Unique: Cardiac involvement in secondary hemochromatosis due to thalassemia major. Take Away lesson: Regular monitoring of serum iron, ferritin, echocardiographic monitoring among thalassemia major patients is essential. Despite the fact that heart failure due to iron overload could be fatal, early diagnosis and intervention could prevent and treat the disease.

SP-ILC: Concurrent Single-Pixel Imaging, Object Location, and Classification by Deep Learning

We propose a concurrent single-pixel imaging, object location, and classification scheme based on deep learning (SP-ILC). We used multitask learning, developed a new loss function, and created a dataset suitable for this project. The dataset consists of scenes that contain different numbers of possibly overlapping objects of various sizes. The results we obtained show that SP-ILC runs concurrent processes to locate objects in a scene with a high degree of precision in order to produce high quality single-pixel images of the objects, and to accurately classify objects, all with a low sampling rate. SP-ILC has potential for effective use in remote sensing, medical diagnosis and treatment, security, and autonomous vehicle control.

Nitrogen Biogeochemistry in Lakes – Chemical and Biological Drivers and Developing Techniques to Explicitly Measure Concurrent Processes

A benthic chamber system was developed to measure all major nitrogen cycling processes in lakes. The system coupled advantages of flow-through systems common in core incubations with those of Nutrient loading ratios (Si:N and P:N) and community composition of herbivores (

Nitrogen Biogeochemistry in Lakes – Chemical and Biological Drivers and Developing Techniques to Explicitly Measure Concurrent Processes

A benthic chamber system was developed to measure all major nitrogen cycling processes in lakes. The system coupled advantages of flow-through systems common in core incubations with those of Nutrient loading ratios (Si:N and P:N) and community composition of herbivores (

A Canonical String Encoding for Pure Bigraphs

The bigraph theory, devised by Robin Milner, is a recent mathematical framework for concurrent processes. Its generality is able to subsume many existing process calculi, for example, CCS, CSP, and Petri nets. Further, it provides a uniform proof of bisimilarity, which is a congruence. We present the first canonical string encoding for pure and lean bigraphs by lifting the breadth-first canonical form of rooted unordered trees to a unique representation for bigraphs up to isomorphism (i.e., lean-support equivalence). The encoding’s applicability is limited to atomic alphabets. The time complexity is $$O(n^{2}k\, d \log {d})$$ O ( n 2 k d log d ) , where n is the number of places, d the degree of the place graph and k the maximum arity of a bigraph’s signature. We provide proof of the correctness of our method and also conduct experimental measurements to assess the complexity.

IRONY AND PARODY IN JACQUELINE WOODSON’S HARBOR ME: A POSTMODERNISM STUDY

This study concerns to discuss the Irony and Parody in Jacqueline Woodson’s novel entitled Harbor Me. This study is focused on postmodern theory, since the novel tells about social phenomena in daily life such as irony and parody. This study aims to disclose how irony and parody are reflected in Harbor Me novel by Jacqueline Woodson.This study was conducted by applying a qualitative type since the data are in the form of words. The source of data in this study is Harbor Me novel by Jacqueline Woodson. The data are the utterances of the characters and the author’s narration in Jacqueline Woodson’s Harbor Me. In analyzing the data, the writer used three concurrent processes. They are data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing or verification. The result of this study found that irony and parody also as a theme in postmodernism literature. The irony and parody are used for illustrating the social condition in Harbor Me novel by Jacqueline Woodson. The characters experienced the irony as a real occurrence which is not accordance with their expectation. Meanwhile, they also experienced the parody for giving an insinuation by imitating others characters’ words and attitudes. In addition, the presentation of irony and parody demonstrate the influence of theme in postmodernism. It is because the characteristics of irony and parody as the parts of postmodernism which have been stated by Lyotard in Sarup (1993). Keywords: Postmodernism, Irony, Parody

Tomography-based investigation of concurrent snow creep and isothermal metamorphism

<p>Once on the ground, the microstructure of snow, i.e. the three-dimensional arrangement of ice and pores, quickly evolves with metamorphism and deforms under the overburden of the overlaying snow. Understanding these concurrent processes is important to predict the evolution of the physical and mechanical properties of snow which are crucial for many applications, such as avalanche forecasting. To this end, we monitored oedometric creep tests of snow under isothermal conditions at -8.6°C for about one week with X-ray tomography. We investigated the evolution of recent snow under a constant load of around 4 kPa, where both ice matrix creep and metamorphism are active. Our time-series comprises one of the most highly-resolved images of snow microstructure evolution, with a temporal resolution of 3 h and spatial resolution of 8.5 microns and thousands of images. Interestingly, we observed distinct effects of the overburden and of the vapor transport on the microstructure evolution. In particular, the quantification of the ice bond network through the Euler characteristic and the min-cut surface shows that metamorphism progressively increases the bond size almost independently of the applied overburden, while the application of an overburden yields a rapid increase of the bond coordination number. These distinct impacts exhibit the difficulty to accurately reproduce the time evolution of recent snow by snow cover models, whose snow microstructure representation with density and snow type remains too coarse. </p>

Topoisomerase IV tracks behind the replication fork and the SeqA complex during DNA replication in Escherichia coli

Topoisomerase IV (TopoIV) is a vital bacterial enzyme which disentangles newly replicated DNA and enables segregation of daughter chromosomes. In bacteria, DNA replication and segregation are concurrent processes. This means that TopoIV must continually remove inter-DNA linkages during replication. There exists a short time lag of about 10–20 min between replication and segregation in which the daughter chromosomes are intertwined. Exactly where TopoIV binds during the cell cycle has been the subject of much debate. We show here that TopoIV localizes to the origin proximal side of the fork trailing protein SeqA and follows the movement pattern of the replication machinery in the cell.