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nd high specificity. Clinical Impact CT performed at 0.3 mSv mean effective dose has acceptable diagnostic performance for lung nodule detection in children and young adults and has the potential to reduce patient dose or expand CT utilization (e.g., to replace radiography in screening or monitoring protocols).Purpose Research comparing different biofeedback types could lead to individualized treatments for those with residual speech errors. This study examines within-treatment response to ultrasound and visual-acoustic biofeedback, as well as generalization to untrained words, for errors affecting the American English rhotic /ɹ/. We investigated whether some children demonstrated greater improvement in /ɹ/ during ultrasound or visual-acoustic biofeedback. Each participant received both biofeedback types. Individual predictors of treatment response (i.e., age, auditory-perceptual skill, oral somatosensory skill, and growth mindset) were also explored. Method Seven children ages 9-16 years with residual rhotic errors participated in 10 treatment visits. Each visit consisted of two conditions 45 min of ultrasound biofeedback and 45 min of visual-acoustic biofeedback. The order of biofeedback conditions was randomized within a single-case experimental design. Acquisition of /ɹ/ was evaluated through acoustic measuremedoi.org/10.23641/asha.14881101.

Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is a clinically significant presentation of coronary heart disease. Genetic information has been proposed to improve prediction beyond well-established clinical risk factors. While polygenic scores (PS) can capture an individual's genetic risk for ACS, its prediction performance may vary in the context of diverse correlated clinical conditions. Here, we aimed to test whether clinical conditions impact the association between PS and ACS.

We explored the association between 405 clinical conditions diagnosed before baseline and 9080 incident cases of ACS in 387 832 individuals from the UK Biobank. Results were replicated in 6430 incident cases of ACS in 177 876 individuals from FinnGen.

We identified 80 conventional (eg, stable angina pectoris and type 2 diabetes) and unconventional (eg, diaphragmatic hernia and inguinal hernia) associations with ACS. The association between PS and ACS was consistent in individuals with and without most clinical conditions. However, a diagnosibe more appropriate for prediction of ACS in asymptomatic individuals than symptomatic individuals with clinical suspicion for coronary heart disease.Purpose Generalizations can be made about the order in which speech sounds are added to a child's phonemic inventory and the ways that child speech deviates from adult targets in a given language. mTOR inhibitor drugs Developmental and disordered speech patterns are presumed to reflect differences in both phonological knowledge and skilled motor control, but the relative contribution of motor control remains unknown. The ability to differentially control anterior versus posterior regions of the tongue increases with age, and thus, complexity of tongue shapes is believed to reflect an individual's capacity for skilled motor control of speech structures. Method The current study explored the relationship between tongue complexity and phonemic development in children (ages 4-6 years) with and without speech sound disorder producing various phonemes. Using established metrics of tongue complexity derived from ultrasound images, we tested whether tongue complexity incrementally increased with age in typical development, whether tongueese measures could help identify individuals with a prominent motor component to their speech sound disorder and could help match those individuals with a corresponding motor-based treatment approach. Supplemental Material https//doi.org/10.23641/asha.14880039.Salt sensitivity of blood pressure is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular mortality not only in hypertensive but also in normotensive adults. The diagnosis of salt sensitivity of blood pressure is not feasible in the clinic due to lack of a simple diagnostic test, making it difficult to investigate therapeutic strategies. Most research efforts to understand the mechanisms of salt sensitivity of blood pressure have focused on renal regulation of sodium. However, salt retention or plasma volume expansion is not different between salt-sensitive and salt-resistant individuals. In addition, over 70% of extracellular fluid is interstitial and, therefore, not directly controlled by renal salt and water excretion. We discuss in this review how the seminal work by Harry Goldblatt paved the way for our attempts at understanding the mechanisms that underlie immune activation by salt in hypertension. We describe our findings that sodium, entering antigen-presenting cells via an epithelial sodium channel, trigge-induced immunity take place in humans.The synthesis of symmetrical 3,3'-bisoxindoles from simple acyclic β-oxoanilides is reported. The described method forges three new C-C bonds in a single step via a sequential Mn(OAc)3·2H2O mediated oxidative radical cyclization-fragmentation-dimerization process. The scope of this reaction is demonstrated in the preparation of a variety of 3,3'-bisoxindoles, as well as its application toward the formal synthesis of the Calycanthaceae alkaloid, (±)-folicanthine.We propose a simple and generic definition of a demarcation reconciling structural and dynamic frameworks when combined with the entropy scaling framework. This crossover line between gas- and liquid-like behaviors is defined as the curve for which an individual property, the contribution to viscosity due to molecules' translation, is exactly equal to a collective property, the contribution to viscosity due to molecular interactions. Such a definition is shown to be consistent with the one based on the minima of the kinematic viscosity. For the hard sphere, this is shown to be an exact solution. For Lennard-Jones spheres and dimers and for some simple real fluids, this relation holds very well. This crossover line passes nearby the critical point, and for all studied fluids, it is well captured by the critical excess entropy curve for atomic fluids, emphasizing the link between transport properties and local structure.This work presents a novel theoretical description of the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of charge separation in organic solar cells (OSCs). Using stochastic thermodynamics, we take realistic state populations derived from the phonon-assisted dynamics of electron-hole pairs within photoexcited organic bilayers to connect the kinetics with the free energy profile of charge separation. Hereby, we quantify for the first time the difference between nonequilibrium and equilibrium free energy profile. We analyze the impact of energetic disorder and delocalization on free energy, average energy, and entropy. For a high disorder, the free energy profile is well-described as equilibrated. We observe significant deviations from equilibrium for delocalized electron-hole pairs at a small disorder, implying that charge separation in efficient OSCs proceeds via a cold but nonequilibrated pathway. Both a large Gibbs entropy and large initial electron-hole distance provide an efficient charge separation, while a decrease in the free energy barrier does not necessarily enhance charge separation.On the basis of real-time simulations, we devise a method to extend the capability of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) to track the electronic dynamics of molecules on a material's surface with the ultrafast temporal resolution of laser pulses. The intrinsic mechanism of visualization of electronic dynamics by measuring tunneling charge is attributed to the interference between the electronic oscillations stimulated by pump and probe pulses. The charge-transfer rate from molecule to the surrounding environment can be estimated with the decay time of electronic dynamics, which can also be detected by measuring the tunneling charge across the STM junction. Moreover, it is found that the tunneling charge can be varied precisely by changing the carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of the pulses, and this phase-dependence of tunnelling diminishes as the duration of incident laser pulses increases. The proposed scheme provides an alternative means for visualization of electron dynamics of single molecules by measuring tunnelling charges.The evolution of spin coherences due to spin-selective recombination in the system with three unpaired electrons is discussed. It is shown that in the case of bidirectional kinetics, the decoherence processes can significantly change the quantum yield of the products. This enables one to discriminate between approaches that model spin-selective recombination but predict different decoherence rates. The rigid donor-acceptor-radical molecular triad is suggested to study the decay rate of singlet-triplet coherence. A modification of the photodriven quantum teleportation protocol is proposed to measure the quantum yields of the monoradical products.The excess electron in the dipole-bound state (DBS) of the anion is found to be recaptured into the excited valence orbital localized at the positive end of the dipole, leading to the chemical bond cleavage of the anion. In the DBS of the 4-iodophenoxide anion, the extremely loosely bound electron (binding energy of 53 cm-1) is recaptured into the πσ* valence orbital, which is repulsive along the C-I bond extension coordinate, leading to the iodide (I-) and phenoxyl diradical (·C6H4O·) channel at the asymptotic limit. This is the first real-time observation of the state-specific relaxation (other than autodetachment) dynamics of the DBS and subsequent chemical reaction. The lifetime of the 4-iodophenoxide DBS at its zero-point energy (ZPE), which is measured for the cryogenically cooled trapped anion using the picosecond laser pump-probe scheme, has been estimated to be ∼9.5 ± 0.3 ps. Quantum mechanical calculations support the efficient transition from the DBS (below the detachment threshold) to the low-lying πσ* valence orbital of the first excited state of the anion. Similar experiments on 4-chlorophenoxide and 4-bromophenoxide anions indicate that the electron recaptures into excited valence orbitals hardly occur in the DBS of those anions, giving the long lifetimes (≫ns) at ZPE, suggesting that the internal conversion to S0 may be the major relaxation pathway for those anions.A brand-new self-folding biscavitand was synthesized from a feet-to-feet-connected bisresorcinarene. The X-ray crystal structure of the biscaivtand showed that the two cavities are tightly connected with four butylene linkages. The conformationally coupled two cavities accommodated two cationic guests, showing a homotropic negative cooperativity in nonpolar solvents (toluene and chloroform). A polar tetrahydrofuran solvent weakened the cyclic hydrogen bonding interactions of the biscavitand, which resulted in noncooperative guest binding.A phosphine-catalyzed cascade annulation of Morita-Baylis-Hillman (MBH) carbonates and diazenes was achieved, giving tetrahydropyrazole-fused heterocycles bearing two five-membered rings in moderate to excellent yields. The reaction underwent an unprecedented reaction mode of MBH carbonates, in which two molecules of MBH carbonates were fully merged into the ring system.