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3 N/mm and 34.4 mNm/deg.Glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive adult brain tumor, is considered non-curative at diagnosis. Current literature shows promise on imaging-based overall survival prediction for patients with glioblastoma while integrating advanced (structural, perfusion, and diffusion) multipara metric magnetic resonance imaging (Adv-mpMRI). However, most patients prior to initiation of therapy typically undergo only basic structural mpMRI (Bas-mpMRI, i.e., T1,T1-Gd,T2,T2-FLAIR) pre-operatively, rather than Adv-mpMRI. Here we assess a retrospective cohort of 101 glioblastoma patients with available Adv-mpMRI from a previous study, which has shown that an initial feature panel (IFP) extracted from Adv-mpMRI can yield accurate overall survival stratification. We further focus on demonstrating that equally accurate prediction models can be constructed using augmented feature panels (AFP) extracted solely from Bas-mpMRI, obviating the need for using Adv-mpMRI. The classification accuracy of the model utilizing Adv-mpMRI protocols and the IFP was 72.77%, and improved to 74.26% when utilizing the AFP on Bas-mpMRI. Furthermore, Kaplan-Meier analysis demonstrated superior classification of subjects into short-, intermediate-, and long-survivor classes when using AFPon Basic-mpMRI. This quantitative evaluation indicates that accurate survival prediction in glioblastoma patients is feasible by using solely Bas-mpMRI and integrative radiomic analysis can compensate for the lack of Adv-mpMRI. Avotaciclib Our finding holds promise for predicting overall survival based on commonly-acquired Bas-mpMRI, and hence for potential generalization across multiple institutions that may not have access to Adv-mpMRI, facilitating better patient selection.Associational resistance theory predicts that insect herbivory decreases with increasing tree diversity in forest ecosystems. However, the generality of this effect and its underlying mechanisms are still debated, particularly since evidence has accumulated that climate may influence the direction and strength of the relationship between diversity and herbivory.We quantified insect leaf herbivory and leaf chemical defences (phenolic compounds) of silver birch Betula pendula in pure and mixed plots with different tree species composition across 12 tree diversity experiments in different climates. We investigated whether the effects of neighbouring tree species diversity on insect herbivory in birch, that is, associational effects, were dependent on the climatic context, and whether neighbour-induced changes in birch chemical defences were involved in associational resistance to insect herbivory.We showed that herbivory on birch decreased with tree species richness (i.e. associational resistance) in colder environments but that this relationship faded as mean annual temperature increased.Birch leaf chemical defences increased with tree species richness but decreased with the phylogenetic distinctiveness of birch from its neighbours, particularly in warmer and more humid environments.Herbivory was negatively correlated with leaf chemical defences, particularly when birch was associated with closely related species. The interactive effect of tree diversity and climate on herbivory was partially mediated by changes in leaf chemical defences.Our findings confirm that tree species diversity can modify the leaf chemistry of a focal species, hence its quality for herbivores. They further stress that such neighbour-induced changes are dependent on climate and that tree diversity effects on insect herbivory are partially mediated by these neighbour-induced changes in chemical defences.Brazilian Federal Government created an emergency aid to face the COVID19 emergency. This aid provides monthly payments to low-income or unemployed citizens, informal workers, or individual micro-entrepreneurs. An intricate set of criteria made too complex the identification of all citizens eligible for emergency aid, considering there is no an integrated database to which they could apply these criteria. Consequently, lots of people who fulfilled the criteria were not able to receive the aid, and lots of people who were not supposed to get it ended up receiving it. In this context, the goal of this opinion paper is to discuss the process effectiveness and which issues related to information management hindered the positive program impact. Additionally, a less complex but relevant case of Rio Grande do Sul State is discussed. Both cases - the Federal Government and the state government - show the importance of effective information management to face very demanding situations and avoid the high social price to be paid by those who need this aid the most.We present a numerical scheme for solving an inverse problem for parameter estimation in tumor growth models for glioblastomas, a form of aggressive primary brain tumor. The growth model is a reaction-diffusion partial differential equation (PDE) for the tumor concentration. We use a PDE-constrained optimization formulation for the inverse problem. The unknown parameters are the reaction coefficient (proliferation), the diffusion coefficient (infiltration), and the initial condition field for the tumor PDE. Segmentation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans drive the inverse problem where segmented tumor regions serve as partial observations of the tumor concentration. Like most cases in clinical practice, we use data from a single time snapshot. Moreover, the precise time relative to the initiation of the tumor is unknown, which poses an additional difficulty for inversion. We perform a frozen-coefficient spectral analysis and show that the inverse problem is severely ill-posed. We introduce a biophysica compared to the two-norm regularized solver.We propose domain decomposition preconditioners for the solution of an integral equation formulation of the acoustic forward and inverse scattering problems. We study both forward and inverse volume problems and propose preconditioning techniques to accelerate the iterative solvers. For the forward scattering problem, we extend the domain decomposition based preconditioning techniques presented for partial differential equations in "A restricted additive Schwarz preconditioner for general sparse linear systems", SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 21 (1999), pp. 792-797, to integral equations. We combine this domain decomposition preconditioner with a low-rank correction, which is easy to construct, forming a new preconditioner. For the inverse scattering problem, we use the forward problem preconditioner as a building block for constructing a preconditioner for the Gauss-Newton Hessian. We present numerical results that demonstrate the performance of both preconditioning strategies.