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Polarization-independent multimode interference coupler with anisotropy-engineered bricked metamaterial

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Photonics Research 2022年第4期10卷 I0001-I0009页

作者： Carlos Perez-Armenta alejandro ortega-monux Jose Manuel Luque-Gonzalez Robert Halir Pedro J.Reyes-Iglesias Jens Schmid Pavel Cheben Inigo Molina-Fernandez J.Gonzalo Wanguemert-Perez Telecommunication Research Institute(TELMA) Universidad de MalagaCEI Andalucia TECHE.T.S.I.Telecomunicacion29010 MalagaSpain Bionand Center for Nanomedicine and Biotechnology Parque Tecnologico de AndaluciaMalaga 29590Spain National Research Council Canada OttawaOntario K1A 0R6Canada

Many applications, including optical multiplexing, switching, and detection, call for low-cost and broadband photonic devices with polarization-independent operation. While the silicon-on-insulator platform is well positioned to fulfill most of these requirements, its strong birefringence hinders the development of polarizationagnostic devices. Here we leverage the recently proposed bricked metamaterial topology to design, for the first time, to our knowledge, a polarization-independent 2 × 2 multimode interference coupler using standard 220 nm silicon thickness. Our device can be fabricated with a single etch step and is optimized for the O-band,covering a wavelength range of 160 nm with excess loss, polarization-dependent loss, and imbalance below 1 dB and phase errors of less than 5°, as demonstrated with full three-dimensional finite-difference time-domain simulations.

关键词： polarization multimode multiplexing

Extreme drought triggers parallel shifts in wood anatomical and physiological traits in upper treeline of the Mediterranean Andes

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Ecological Processes 2024年第1期13卷 132-143页

作者： Luiz Santini Jr. Dylan Craven Daigard Ricardo ortega Rodriguez Manolo Trindade Quintilhan Stephanie Gibson-Carpintero Cristina Aravena Torres Fidel A.Roig Ariel A.Mu?oz alejandro Venegas-Gonzalez Hémera Centro de Observación de la Tierra Universidad Mayor GEMA Center for Genomics Ecology and Environment Universidad Mayor Data Observatory Foundation ANID Technology Center Depart-ment of Forest Sciences ESALQ-University of Sao Paulo Department of Plant Biology Institute of Biology University of Campinas Instituto de Geografía Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) Argentine Institute of Nivology Glaciology and Environmental Sciences(IANIGLA CONICET ) Institute of Geography Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Instituto de Ciencias Agroalimentarias Animales y Ambientales (ICA3) Universidad de O'Higgins

Background Treeline ecotones of Mediterranean ecoregions have been affected by the increasing intensity and severity of droughts. Even though the effect of droughts on forest dynamics has been widely documented, knowledge is relatively scarce of how extreme climate episodes affect the hydraulic structure and, therefore, the phys-iology of woody plants. The Mediterranean Andes have experienced an uninterrupted period of drought since 2010, including an extremely dry year in 2019 with approximately 80% rainfall deficit. Here, we investigated shifts in wood anatomical and physiological traits of Kageneckia angustifolia, an endemic treeline species, in response to this drought *** We evaluated the xylem plasticity of three K. angustifolia populations across their natural distribution(31–35° SL) based on anatomical(vessel structure and distribution) and physiological(intrinsic water-use efficiency) variables in the tree rings. We focused on the period 2000–2020 that corresponds to before the megadrought(2000–2007),(ii) megadrought(2008–2018) and(iii) hyperdrought(2019–2020). The variables were annualized and analyzed by linear mixed-effects *** Our results provide insights to the anatomical and physiological mechanisms underlying the resilience of treeline forests to persistent droughts in central Chile. We found that the extreme drought in 2019–2020 triggered shifts in vessel size and frequency that increased hydraulic safety. These significant shifts in vessel traits occurred in parallel with a decrease in pit aperture area and an increase in water-use efficiency, further increasing the resilience of K. angustifolia to extreme drought *** Our results revealed coordinated shifts in vessel size and frequency and water-use efficiency in response to the megadrought, thereby reducing vulnerability to hydraulic failure. The apparent resilience of K. angustifolia to extreme droughts suggests that this adaptation to drought stress may incre

关键词： Dendro-anatomy Kageneckia angustifolia Xylem vulnerability Drought Climate change

Hydroxytyrosol and Parkinson's disease:protective actions against alpha-synuclein toxicity

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Neural Regeneration Research 2024年第7期19卷 1427-1428页

作者： Ruth Hornedo-ortega Ana M.Espinosa-Oliva Departamento de Nutrición y Bromatología Toxicología y Medicina LegalFacultad de FarmaciaUniversidad de SevillaSevilleSpain Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla IBiS/Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío/CSIC/Universidad de SevillaSevillaSpain Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular Facultad de FarmaciaUniversidad de SevillaSevillaSpain

Parkinson’s disease:Parkinson’s disease(PD) is the second most prevalent neurodegenerative disease,after Alzheimer’s disease,affecting 1%of the general population over the age of *** to data from the World Health Organization(WHO),its prevalence has doubled in the past 25 *** 2019,global estimates indicated over 8.5 million individuals with PD and it is suggested that PD caused 329000 deaths,an increase of over 100% since 2000(WHO,2022).

关键词： protective Alzheimer prevalence

Unraveling the interaction between soil microbiomes and their potential for restoring polluted soils

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Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering 2024年第8期18卷 149-151页

作者： Carlos O.Lomeli-ortega Mingming Sun Jose Luis Balcazar Catalan Institute for Water Research(ICRA-CERCA) Girona 17003Spain University of Girona Girona 17004Spain Soil Ecology Laboratory College of Resources and Environmental SciencesNanjing Agricultural UniversityNanjing 210095China

Soils are not exempt from anthropogenic pollution,which can eventually cause disturbance of the microbial communities and areas without any kind of *** soil microbiota,bacteria play an important role in pollutant degradation,enabling them to thrive in contaminated *** this,several techniques have been used to increase the number of pollutantdegrading bacteria in situ or for subsequent ***,bacteriophages exhibit a high tolerance to pollutants and enhance bacterial metabolic activity through phage-encoded auxiliary metabolic genes(AMGs),thereby augmenting their skills for nutrient assimilation,resistance to phage infection,antibiotic resistance,heavy metal resistance,and degradation of pesticides and xenobiotics,among *** phage-encoded AMGs have been described during the last few years,but their diversity,distribution,and function have not been extensively explored,warranting further ***,we highlight soil microbiome interactions,especially bacterium and phage interactions to understand this unexplored world with a high potential for restoring polluted soils.

关键词： Auxiliary metabolic genes Microbiome Pollutants Soils Viruses

Quality-adjusted life years and surgical waiting list:Systematic review of the literature

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World Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery 2024年第4期16卷 1155-1164页

作者： Roberto de la Plaza Llamas Lorena ortega Azor Marina Hernández Yuste Ludovica Gorini Raquel Aránzazu Latorre-Fragua Daniel alejandro Díaz Candelas Farah Al Shwely Abduljabar Ignacio Antonio Gemio del Rey Department of General and Digestive Surgery Hospital Universitario de GuadalajaraGuadalajara 19002Spain Department of Surgery Medical and Social SciencesFaculty of Medicine and Health SciencesUniversity of AlcaláAlcaláde Henares 28871MadridSpain

BACKGROUND The quality-adjusted life year(QALY)is a metric that is increasingly used today in the field of health economics to evaluate the value of different medical treatments and *** waiting lists(SWLs)represent a pressing problem in public *** QALY measure has rarely been used in the context of *** would be interesting to know how many QALYs are lost by patients on *** To investigate the relationship between QALYs and SWLs in a systematic review of the scientific *** The study was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses *** unlimited search was carried out in PubMed,updated on January 19,*** on the following variables were investigated and analyzed:Specialty,country of study,procedure under study,scale used to measure QALYs,the use of a theoretical or real-life model,objectives of the study and items measured,the economic value assigned to the QALY in the country in question,and the results and conclusions *** Forty-eight articles were selected for the *** data were found regarding QALYs lost on *** specialties in which QALYs were studied the most in relation to the waiting list were urology and general surgery,with 15 articles *** country in which the most studies of QALYs were carried out was the United States(n=21),followed by the United Kingdom(n=9)and Canada(n=7).The most studied procedure was organ transplantation(n=39),including 15 kidney,14 liver,5 heart,4 lung,and 1 ***(n=4),cataract surgery(n=2),bariatric surgery(n=1),mosaicplasty(n=1),and septoplasty(n=1)completed the surgical interventions ***-nine of the models used were theoretical(the most frequently applied being the Markov model,n=34),and nine were *** survey used to measure quality of life in 11 articles was the European Quality of Life-5 dimensions,but in 32 articles the survey was not specified.T

关键词： Quality-adjusted life year Waitlist Quality of life Surgery Systematic review

Fabrication and characterisation of random and aligned electrospun scaffolds to investigate hypothalamic stem/progenitor cell behaviour

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Engineered Regeneration 2024年第1期5卷 11-20页

作者： Selina Beal Iain Stewart Paul Hatton Marysia Placzek Ilida ortega School of Clinical Dentistry and Insigneo Institute Claremont CrescentUniversity of SheffieldSheffield S102TAUK School of Biosciences University of SheffieldEnglandUK National Heart and Lung Institute Imperial CollegeLondon SW36LYUK

Tanycytes are stem/progenitor cells that reside in the hypothalamus of the adult vertebrate *** can be cultured as free-floating neurospheres in vitro but tend to spontaneously differentiate over *** we asked whether morphological cues provided by engineered polymer scaffolds can modify spontaneous ***-derived neurospheres were cultured on electrospun scaffolds,prepared with either random or aligned fiber *** dispersed widely on the scaffolds,and-on aligned scaffolds-were highly organized,orientated parallel to the *** analysis showed that cells cultured on aligned scaffolds showed significantly greater expression of the neural stem/progenitor cell marker,NrCAM and reduced expres-sion of differentiated cell markers in comparison to those cultured on random *** this shows that tanycytes respond to local engineered cues,and that a morphologically constrained environment can better main-tain tanycytes as stem *** aligned scaffold culture system provides a powerful tool to better investigate this novel stem/progenitor cell population.

关键词： Scaffold Tanycytes Neural stem/progenitor cells Fiber alignment Electrospinning

Hydrogeochemical and isotopic assessment of the origin of NO_(3)^(−)and N-NH_(3)contents in the aquifer located in a closed lacustrine volcano-sedimentary basin in the metropolitan area of Mexico City

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Acta Geochimica 2024年第4期43卷 719-736页

作者： Jose Ivan Morales-Arredondo Maria Aurora Armienta Hernandez Joel Edmundo ortega-Gutierrez Elisa Cuellar Ramirez Natural Resources Department Institute of GeophysicsNational Autonomous University of MexicoCiudad Universitaria No.3000Col.Copilco UniversidadCoyoacán Delegation04360 MexicoCDMXMexico Instituto Politecnico Nacional ***án 55La Laguna Ticoman07340 MexicoCDMXMexico Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla Ciudad Universitaria Col.San ManuelPueblaPueMexico

To explain the presence and spatial distribution of NO_(3)^(−)and N-NH_(3)in the Aquifer of the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City(AMAMC),a hydrogeochemical and isotopic analysis using^(13)C DIC(as well as the stable isotopes^(18)O and^(2)H)in groundwater was *** aquifer is located in an old closed lacustrine volcano-sedimentary basin;some wells hosted in the semi-confined zone contain high N-NH_(3)concentrations,while others present NO_(3)^(−)contents in the recharge zones(hosted in an oxidizing environment).In this study,a change in the isotopic signature(primarily in^(18)O and^(2)H)was observed from the recharge zones to the basin center in some of the wells with high NO_(3)^(−)concentrations,this behavior can be attributed to evaporation during the incorporation of recently infiltrated *** addition,the results for^(13)C(along with ^(2) H)in wells with the highest N-NH_(3)concentrations exhibited an atypically broad range of *** indicated the occurrence of hydrogeochemical and/or biochemical processes in the aquifer(in an oxidizing or reducing environment),such as organic degradation,bacterial decomposition(primarily in the ancient Lake Texcoco and which acts as a natural sink for carbon,nitrogen,sulfur,and phosphorus),besides rock weathering and dissolution,which may be responsible for a very marked isotopic modification of the^(13)C(and,to a lesser extent,2 H).Methanotrophic bacterial activity and methanogenic activity may be related to N-NH_(3)removal processes by oxidation and residual water incorporation respectively,whereas the increase in the NO_(3)^(−)content in some wells is due to the recent contribution of poor-quality water due to contamination.

关键词： 18 O and^(13)C isotopes Iron Hydrogeochemical processes Nitrate Nitrogen species

Liquid biopsy for gastric cancer:Techniques,applications,and future directions

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World Journal of Gastroenterology 2024年第12期30卷 1680-1705页

作者： Cristina Díaz del Arco M Jesús Fernández Aceñero Luis ortega Medina Department of Surgical Pathology Health Research Institute of the Hospital Clínico San CarlosHospital Clínico San CarlosMadrid 28040Spain Department of Legal Medicine Psychiatry and PathologyUniversidad Complutense de MadridMadrid 28040Spain

After the study of circulating tumor cells in blood through liquid biopsy(LB),this technique has evolved to encompass the analysis of multiple materials originating from the tumor,such as nucleic acids,extracellular vesicles,tumor-educated platelets,and other ***,research has extended to include the examination of samples other than blood or plasma,such as saliva,gastric juice,urine,or *** techniques are diverse,intricate,and *** must be highly sensitive,and pre-analytical,patient,and tumor-related factors significantly influence the detection threshold,diagnostic method selection,and potential ***,the implementation of LB in clinical practice still faces several *** potential applications of LB range from early cancer detection to guiding targeted therapy or immunotherapy in both early and advanced cancer cases,monitoring treatment response,early identification of relapses,or assessing patient *** the other hand,gastric cancer(GC)is a disease often diagnosed at advanced *** recent advances in molecular understanding,the currently available treatment options have not substantially improved the prognosis for many of these *** application of LB in GC could be highly valuable as a non-invasive method for early diagnosis and for enhancing the management and outcomes of these *** this comprehensive review,from a pathologist’s perspective,we provide an overview of the main options available in LB,delve into the fundamental principles of the most studied techniques,explore the potential utility of LB application in the context of GC,and address the obstacles that need to be overcome in the future to make this innovative technique a game-changer in cancer diagnosis and treatment within clinical practice.

关键词： Liquid biopsy Gastric cancer Circulating tumor cells Cell-free DNA Circulating tumor DNA Molecular

The ILux^(®) compared to the mechanical meibomian gland expression for the treatment of moderate and severe meibomian gland dysfunction

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International Journal of Ophthalmology(English edition) 2024年第6期17卷 1042-1048页

作者： María Ximena Núñez Andrea Acosta-ortega Guillermo Raul Vera-Duarte Catalina Gómez-Duarte Unit of Cornea Cataract and Refractive SurgeryVision Sana Research GroupClínica de Oftalmología de CaliFaculty of Medicine Pontificia Universidad Javeriana CaliCali 760031Colombia Department of Ophthalmology Faculty of Medicine Pontificia Universidad Javeriana CaliCali 760031Colombia Department of Ophthalmology Hospital de ClínicasNational University of AsunciónAsunción 111421Paraguay

AIM:To compare the safety and effectiveness of eyelid treatment with the ILux®-MGD Treatment System in one session versus five sessions of mechanical meibomian gland expression(MMGE)in patients with moderate to severe meibomian gland dysfunction(MGD).METHODS:A prospective,randomized,open-label,and controlled clinical trial that compared one session of the ILux®MGD Treatment System versus five sessions of MMGE in both eyes of 130 patients aged≥18y with Ocular Surface Disease Index(OSDI)scores≥13,total meibomian gland scores(MGS)of<15 in the lower eyelid of each eye,and non-invasive tear break-up time(NI-TBUT)<10s,who were randomized 1:1 to ILux®or ***:The mean age was 58±*** total MGS scores in both treatment groups were *** follow-up,there were significant differences in total MGS and per sector with P<*** analysis was performed using generalized estimating equations corresponding to the generalized linear model for repeated means to determine the treatment relationship with total MGS,NIBUT,and *** was a significant difference between ILux®and MMGE(P<0.001)at follow-up from the first to the twelfth month in MGS,NI-BUT,and OSDI *** adverse events were ***:ILux®treatment compared to MMGE significantly improves symptoms and signs in patients with moderate to severe MGD for one year without adverse events.

关键词： meibomian gland dysfunction ILux® ocular surface dry eye