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We herein present a rare case of perimitral annulus (MA) counterclockwise single-loop macro-reentrant biatrial flutter utilizing Bachmann's bundle (BB), the atrial septum and the coronary sinus (CS) ostium as the critical components of the reentrant circuit, even though the left atrial anterior line was blocked. By acknowledging the interatrial conduction via the BB and the CS identified by the ultrahigh-resolution mapping result, we could understand the atrial flutter mechanism and successfully treat the patient. AIMS Implantable loop recorders (ILR) are recommended to detect atrial fibrillation (AF) in cases of cryptogenic stroke. However, real life data besides controlled trials are rare. Aim of the study was the detection of atrial fibrillation with a special focus on other arrhythmias according to criteria defined in earlier clinical trials. METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of 64 patients with cryptogenic stroke who underwent ILR implantation between 4/2014 and 1/2018. The primary endpoint was the detection of atrial fibrillation, significant bradycardia (150 bpm). ILR interrogation was performed after implantation and 6, 12 and 24 months thereafter. RESULTS Mean patients age was 65.4 ± 12 years, 50% were male. Mean follow-up duration was 419.2 ± 309 days. One death occurred during follow-up. 23 patients (35.9%) experienced a symptomatic clinical neurological or cardiac event during follow-up. Overall rate of detected arrhythmias was 35% (23/64). The most frequent arrhythmia was atrial fibrillation which was observed in 16 patients (25%). 6 of 16 patients presenting with atrial fibrillation had no clinical symptoms. Bradycardias requiring subsequent pacemaker implantations were detected in 9.4%. A ventricular tachycardia was observed in one patient (1.6%). CONCLUSION In this group of patients with cryptogenic stroke the rate of arrhythmic events was high. Besides a high rate of atrial fibrillation (25%), an unexpectedly high rate of bradyarrhythmias (9.4%) occurred in our patient collective. SR-4835 datasheet Since many of those episodes were clinically asymptomatic, the ILR helps to detect and treat those clinically silent arrhythmias. We report the NMR characterization of the molecular interaction between Gastrin Releasing Peptide Receptor (GRP-R) and its natural ligand bombesin (BN). GRP-R is a transmembrane G-protein coupled receptor promoting the stimulation of cancer cell proliferation; in addition, being overexpressed on the surface of different human cancer cell lines, it is ideal for the development of new strategies for the selective targeted delivery of anticancer drugs and diagnostic devices to tumor cells. However, the design of new GRP-R binders requires structural information on receptor interaction with its natural ligands. The experimental protocol presented herein, based on on-cell STD NMR techniques, is a powerful tool for the screening and the epitope mapping of GRP-R ligands aimed at the development of new anticancer and diagnostic tools. Notably, the study can be carried out in a physiological environment, at the surface of tumoral cells overespressing GRP-R. Moreover, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of an NMR experiment able to detect and investigate the structural determinants of BN/GRP-R interaction. Total synthesis of Myc-IV(C160, S) via automated electrochemical assembly has been accomplished. This tetrasaccharide has been studied as a symbiotic signal molecule of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza fungi. We have achieved stereoselective synthesis of a disaccharide building block using the mixed-electrolyte system for electrochemical glycosylation; 2 + 1+1 strategy enables us to access the tetrasaccharide precursor and complete the synthesis Myc-IV(C160, S) efficiently. Environmental surveillance can be used for monitoring enteric disease in a population by detecting pathogens, shed by infected people, in sewage. Detection of pathogens depends on many factors infection rates and shedding in the population, pathogen fate in the sewerage network, and also sampling sites, sample size, and assay sensitivity. This complexity makes the design of sampling strategies challenging, which creates a need for mathematical modeling to guide decision making. In the present study, a model was developed to simulate pathogen shedding, pathogen transport and fate in the sewerage network, sewage sampling, and detection of the pathogen. The simulation study used Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S. Typhi) as the target pathogen and two wards in Kolkata, India as the study area. Five different sampling strategies were evaluated for their sensitivity of detecting S. Typhi, by sampling unit sewage pumping station, shared toilet, adjacent multiple shared toilets (primary sampling unit), pumping station + shared toilets, pumping station + primary sampling units. Sampling strategies were studied in eight scenarios with different geographic clustering of risk, pathogen loss (decay, leakage), and sensitivity of detection assays. A novel adaptive sampling site allocation method was designed, that updates the locations of sampling sites based on their performance. We then demonstrated how the simulation model can be used to predict the performance of environmental surveillance and how it is improved by optimizing the allocation of sampling sites. The results are summarized as a decision tree to guide the sampling strategy based on disease incidence, geographic distribution of risk, pathogen loss, and the sensitivity of the detection assay. The adaptive sampling site allocation method consistently outperformed alternatives with fixed site locations in most scenarios. In some cases, the optimum allocation method increased the median sensitivity from 45% to 90% within 20 updates. The machine vision based methods for micro-cracks detection of solar cells surface have become one of the main research directions with its efficiency and convenience. The existed methods are roughly classified into two categories current viewing information based methods, prior knowledge based methods, however, the former usually adopt hand-designed features with poor generality and lacks the guidance of prior knowledge, the latter are usually implemented through the machine learning, and the generalization ability is also limited since the large-scale annotation dataset is scarce. To resolve above problems, a novel micro-cracks detection method via combining short-term and long-term deep features is proposed in this paper. The short-term deep features which represent the current viewing information are learned from the input image itself through stacked denoising auto encoder (SDAE), the long-term deep features which represent the prior knowledge are learned from a large number of natural scene images that people often see through convolutional neural networks (CNNs).