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INTRODUCTION Radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG) placement in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) carries risks related to periprocedural sedation and analgesia. To minimize these risks, we used a paravertebral block (PVB) technique for RIG placement. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed patients with ALS undergoing RIG placement under PVB between 2013 and 2017. RESULTS Ninety-nine patients with ALS underwent RIG placement under PVB. Median (range) age was 66 (28 to 86) years, ALS Functional Rating Scale-Revised score was 27 (6 to 45), and forced vital capacity was 47% (8%-79%) at time of RIG placement. Eighty-five (85.9%) patients underwent RIG placement as outpatients, with a mean postanesthesia care unit stay of 2.3 hours. The readmission rate was 4% at both 1 and 30 days postprocedure. DISCUSSION PVB for RIG placement has a low rate of adverse events and provides effective periprocedural analgesia in patients with ALS, the majority of whom can be treated as outpatients. © 2020 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.In the biopharmaceutical industry, capillary gel electrophoresis using sodium dodecyl sulfate (CE-SDS) assesses the purity, heterogeneity and stability of therapeutic proteins. However, for mAb-1 and mAb-2, typical CE-SDS under reducing conditions produced atypical protein peak profiles which led to biased purity results thus were not acceptable for biologics manufacturing. This bias was caused by the formation of method-induced higher molecular weight (HMW) artifacts, the levels of which correlated with protein concentration. Here we show that adding sodium tetradecyl and hexadecyl sulfates (STS and SHS respectively) to the sample and the sieving gel buffer solutions was required to prevent formation of aggregate artifacts and to maintain detergentprotein uniformity, suggesting their importance during the sample preparation steps of heat denaturation and subsequent cooling as well as during capillary migration. For these proteins, we show that this uniformity was likely due to the ability of these detergents to bind proteins with markedly higher affinities compared to SDS. "CE-SCX S" methods, with CX representing the chain length of the various detergents utilized, were developed with an STS sample buffer and an SHS-containing sieving gel buffer that minimized artifacts and provided robust characterization and release results for mAb-1 and mAb-2. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.PURPOSE To investigate the dose response of optically stimulated luminescent dosimeters, OSLDs, and how this response changes with repeated use, increased accumulated dose, and bleaching light with or without a UV component. To devise a method to stabilize dose response characteristics of OSLDs that are used repeatedly. To decrease measurement uncertainty. METHODS OSLD irradiations were made using a linear accelerator and Ir-192. The OSLDs (InLight nanoDots) dose response was characterized for these various irradiations under the batch, single use, method and the repeated irradiation method. Some nanoDots were pre-irradiated with hundreds of Gray of dose with Ir-192 gamma rays. Repeated use OSLDs were bleached with lights that had different UV content. A special bleaching light was fabricated and used that had the same spectrum as the light in the OSLD reader. RESULTS New, never irradiated, nanoDots had their characteristics altered by illumination with bleaching light that had a UV component. find more Each new nanoDoth repeated use they change sensitivity to low and high dose very differently based on the UV content of the bleaching light. For nanoDots that have been pre-irradiated with hundreds of Gray of dose their dose response was supra-linear for bleaching light without UV content and infra-linear for light that has UV content. NanoDots can be used repeatedly and have stable dose response characteristics if they are pre-irradiated and bleached with light without UV content. Dose can be measured with an uncertainty of 1.4%, which is a 3 fold reduction of the uncertainty found with the single use batch method recommended by the manufacturer. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.BACKGROUND Berseem clover is the main forage crop grown in Mediterranean regions. There are plenty of cultivars that possess variability in their productivity and quality among the different cuts. Therefore, accurate agronomic and qualitative characterization is crucial for selecting the most promising cultivars for breeding and feeding purposes. In the present study, the agronomic characteristics, ruminal degradability and fermentation measures of five cuts of the five most prominent Egyptian beseem clover cultivars (Helaly, Serw, Giza6, Gemmeza1 and Sakha4) were evaluated. RESULTS The Giza6 cultivar produced a significantly higher fresh yield and high whole plant dry matter content on the 3rd cut. Giza6 was among the superior cultivars in crude protein content and had the highest values of gas production at the 3rd cut, and ruminal degraded acid detergent fiber and propionate concentrations at the 2nd cut, at the same time as presenting the lowest ammonia concentrations at the 3rd and 5th cuts. Overall, the 3rd cut produced significantly higher fresh yield across all cultivars, except for Sakha4. The 3rd cut also produced a higher leaf to stem ratio compared to the 4th and 5th cuts. The 1st three cuts had higher degraded neutral detergent fiber than the 4th and 5th cuts. The 1st cut was characterized by low propionate concentration in the Helaly and Gemmeza1 cultivars compared to the other cuts. CONCLUSION Expanded production of the high-yielding, high-quality cultivar Giza6 is recommended. When harvesting, three cuts is optimal for berseem clover cultivation for breeding and feeding programs. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry.From January 23 to February 27, 2020, Singapore had 96 Covid-19 cases confirmed by real time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) for SARS-CoV-2. We examined the peripheral blood films of 32 patients and found reactive lymphocytes as shown in the top images in 23 cases (72%). This is in stark contrast to the coronavirus responsible for the 2003 SARS outbreak where reactive lymphocytes of this type were not present in a review of 185 SARS cases in Singapore and were present in only 15.2% of 138 cases in Hong Kong (Chng et al., 2005; Lee et al. 2003). This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.