Published in Applied Physics A
Solvent engineering is an important route for improving the quality of solution-processed copper-zinc-tin-sulfur-selenium (CZTSSe) thin films. Here, blended solvents composed of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) and dimethyl formamide (DMF) were used to prepare CZTSSe precursor solution. The addition of DMF improved the wettability of precursor solution on...
Published in Marine Biodiversity
Rhynchospio glandulosa sp. nov. inhabits silty tubes on muddy sand intertidally and in shallow water in the Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan (East Sea), and the Sea of Okhotsk (Korea, China, and Russia). Adults are up to 9 mm long, 1 mm wide for 62 chaetigers, with characteristic groups of glandular cells in the bases of branchiae from chaetiger 7 to chaet...
Published in Stem Cell Research & Therapy
BackgroundMesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have to be expanded in vitro to reach a sufficient cell dose for the treatment of various diseases. During the process of expansion, some obstacles remain to be overcome. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of storage solutions and heterogeneity on the behavior of MSCs in vitro and in viv...
Published in Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration
The Algerian–Tunisian border area is affected by active tectonics that have resulted in the creation of significant collapsed basins. Here, we present a case study in which gravity data were used to investigate the subsurface structure of the Hammamet-Tebessa and Foussana-Talah collapsed basins (Tunisia–Algeria). This included the computation of th...
Published in BMC Biology
BackgroundQuantitative imaging of epithelial tissues requires bioimage analysis tools that are widely applicable and accurate. In the case of imaging 3D tissues, a common preprocessing step consists of projecting the acquired 3D volume on a 2D plane mapping the tissue surface. While segmenting the tissue cells is amenable on 2D projections, it is s...
Published in Marine Biodiversity
A new species of the sea pen genus Scytalium Herklots, 1858, is proposed based on the morphological and molecular study of a colony collected during the Océano Profundo 2018 cruise to the Caribbean Sea (NW Atlantic). The new species, Scytalium herklotsi sp. nov., is characterized by its well-developed and overlapping polyp leaves (up to 68 mm in le...
Published in Surgical and radiologic anatomy : SRA
The aim of this study was to describe the anatomical features encountered in the parietal foramen in a series of 178 human bones and 123 head MRI examinations. A cadaveric specimen was also dissected to demonstrate the trajectory of a superficial scalp vein through the parietal foramen as far as the dura mater. A literature review was performed reg...
Published in Biomedical signal processing and control
Automatic diagnosis of coronavirus (COVID-19) is studied in this research. Deep learning methods especially convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown great success in COVID-19 diagnosis in recent works. But they are efficient when the depth of network is high enough. However, the use of a deep network requires a sufficiently large training se...
Published in Dento maxillo facial radiology
The frontal sinuses are potential evidences for human identification because of the inherent distinctiveness of their morphology. Over the last decades, several techniques emerged to enable the visualization and analysis of the frontal sinuses via bi- and three-dimensional imaging. This systematic review aimed to compile different methodological ap...
Published in Foot and ankle surgery : official journal of the European Society of Foot and Ankle Surgeons
The only classification of Müller-Weiss disease (MWD) is based primarily on Méary's talo-first metatarsal angle. It describes increasing sag of the medial longitudinal arch with greater degrees of compression and fragmentation of the navicular. Purportedly, the talar head pushes the subtalar joint into varus and drives the medial pole of the navicu...
