Recent Topics Research Articles

Evolution of Topics in Maxillofacial Prosthetics Publications.

To study the evolution of recent topics in maxillofacial prosthetics (MP) research. Science mapping analyses were used to measure bibliometric similarities among articles extracted from the Web of Science from the last three decades. Keyword co-occurrence highlighted the rise of computer-aided design/computer-assisted manufacturing, mandibular reconstruction, and extraoral prostheses during the last decade. Citation analysis showed that surgery journals kept the leadership on MP publications, but that prosthodontics journals were closing the gap. The United States was the leading country in MP publications over the last three decades, but their lead is fast dissolving worldwide.

Learning Nontechnical Skills for a Successful Career

The main goal of the SPE Business Management and Leadership Committee (BML) is to promote learning opportunities for nontechnical skills. Technical skills often get you in the door, but strong nontechnical skills can propel you to career success. This year has started out strongly for the BML committee. We have a new name, have designed/distributed/analyzed a worldwide survey, produced several webinars, initiated an SPE Connect platform for community discussions, have two Distinguished Lecturers, submitted SPE publications, scheduled workshops, and put together a panel discussion at the 2018 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Dallas this month. The BML Committee, which was previously called the SPE Soft Skills Committee, is a diversified group of 14 members from nine countries. Our main role is to provide members venues for professional growth in addition to technical development opportunities. We identify the gaps between the nontechnical skills that members need and those currently provided by SPE and make recommendations to fill these gaps. These recommendations include ways to share information, stimulate ideas, and coordinate initiatives aimed at meeting the industry’s needs in developing member professional competencies in various areas of business management and leadership. The committee distributed a survey in October 2017 to SPE members world-wide to learn their views of nontechnical skills. We received more than 1,100 responses from 72 countries. We asked members to rank the importance of various nontechnical skills such as communication, leadership, and creativity, among others. An interesting finding was that industry professionals sometimes view these skills differently from management. The survey results will be presented in a paper at ATCE. The committee has produced several free webinars for members to learn BML skills online. Some are on-demand and some are live. Upcoming live webinar titles include “Killer Communication Skills” and “Career Resilience: Practical Tools.” For more information, please go to https://webevents.spe.org/upcoming. We have also initiated an SPE Connect platform as an open forum for BML skills discussions. Two recent topics are “Top Skills for New Employees” and “How has Certification/Licensure Impacted Your Career.” To join in a discussion with experts and fellow engineers, go to https://connect.spe.org/home. In 2017/18, the committee endorsed a nominee for the Distinguished Lecturer program, and current BML member Maria Angela Capello delivered lectures on multiculturalism in India, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Nigeria. It was a clear step forward in SPE’s Distinguished Lecturer offerings. We are also happy to report that two of our founding members, Behrooz Fattahi and Lori Dalrymple, have been selected 2018–19 Distinguished Lecturers. They will be traveling the world sharing their BML knowledge. There will be several learning opportunities related to nontechnical skills during ATCE. There will be a BML workshop in conjunction with the conference, as well as panel discussions on BML skills led by high-profile industry leaders. The BML Committee welcomes new members to support work in the following areas: diversity and inclusion, effective communication, integrity and ethics, critical thinking, intrinsic motivation, collaboration, networking and mentoring, career options for young professionals, how to write technical papers, soft skills to improve business performance, negotiation and conflict resolution, global communication, how to make a breakthrough, how to start a business, and other topics. Members are invited to come to our training events and services to hone their BML skills and propel themselves to a successful career.

Recent topics on clinical application of vestibular-evoked myogenic potential

Recent topics on clinical application of vestibular-evoked myogenic potential

Biometrics: In Search of Identity and Security (Q & A)

Though biometrics is widely being used in various applications, it still faces many challenges. This article aims: i) to present an overview of biometrics and latest progress, ii) to further understanding of general audiences and policy makers, and interdisciplinary research, iii) to complement earlier articles with updates on recent topics.

Recent Topics of Pulps

Recent Topics of Pulps

Observation of Structure of Surfaces and Interfaces by Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction: Atomic-Scale Imaging and Time-Resolved Measurements

The recent developments in synchrotron optics, X-ray detectors, and data analysis algorithms have enhanced the capability of the surface X-ray diffraction technique. This technique has been used to clarify the atomic arrangement around surfaces in a non-contact and nondestructive manner. An overview of surface X-ray diffraction, from the historical development to recent topics, is presented. In the early stage of this technique, surface reconstructions of simple semiconductors or metals were studied. Currently, the surface or interface structures of complicated functional materials are examined with sub-Å resolution. As examples, the surface structure determination of organic semiconductors and of a one-dimensional structure on silicon are presented. A new frontier is time-resolved interfacial structure analysis. A recent observation of the structure and dynamics of the electric double layer of ionic liquids, and an investigation of the structural evolution in the wettability transition on a TiO2 surface that utilizes a newly designed time-resolved surface diffractometer, are presented.

Introduction to Special Issue: New Trends in Fuzzy Set Theory and Related Items

We focus on the articles recently published in the special issue of Axioms devoted to “New Trends in Fuzzy Set Theory and Related Items”.

Damaging the Future: The Health Rights of Children and the Issue of Short-Termism; Issues Facing Australian Bioethicists.

This article considers recent ethical topics in Australia relating to the health rights of children in the contexts of (1) detention centers, (2) vaccination, and (3) procreative liberty, within a wider framework of discussion of the competing rights of society, parents, the child, and future generations.

On the Lindblad equation for open quantum systems: Rényi entropy rate and weak invariants

A brief review of two recent topics on the Lindblad equation is presented. One is concerned with time evolution of the quantum Rényi entropy under the equation. The lower bound of the entropy rate is derived in a compact form. The other is about the concept of weak invariants, which generalize the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant and are defined in such a way that they are not constant but their expectation values remain invariant in time. The Lindbladian operator describing the time-dependent damped quantum oscillator is identified, and the corresponding weak invariant is explicitly constructed as an example.

The role of new adipokines in gestational diabetes mellitus pathogenesis.

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is defined as any degree of glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition dur-ing pregnancy. Explanation of the GDM pathogenesis is important due to preventing gestational complications. During pregnancy there are significant changes in maternal metabolism. Many of these changes are influenced by different adi-pokines produced in the placenta and adipose tissue. The exact role of adipokines in the pathogenesis of GDM remains still unknown. Several adipokines have been analysed throughout gestation and their levels have been suggested as biomarkers of maternal-perinatal outcomes. Some of them have been postulated as significant in the pathogenesis of pregnancy complications like GDM. This report aims to review some of the recent topics of adipokine research that may be of particular importance in patho-physiology and diagnosis of gestational diabetes mellitus. Because of manuscript length limitations, after thorough literature review and in view of the recent evidence, we focus on the one of the most well-known adipokine: adiponectin, and not so well-studied: nesfatin-1, chemerin, ghrelin, and CTRP 1.

Photofunctions of Phthalocyanine Complexes

Phthalocyanines (Pcs, Figure 1) have attracted attention as a result of their diverse electronic and optical properties, offer applications in the fields of luminophores, sensors, non-linear optics, photosensitizers for singlet oxygen generation, photovoltaic cells, red or near-infrared light absorbers in optical data storage systems, and photoconductor devices. Because of a recent surge of interest in both the functionalization of various molecules, focusing on photofunctions of Pcs has become essential. I'll present recent topics especially from the viewpoint of photofunctions of Pc complexes, i.e., photoelectrochemical catalysts, singlet oxygen generators, redox-based fluorescent probes, and magneto-optical effects. Figure 1

Recent Topics Around Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1.

Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1 (MEN1) is complex with regard to clinical expressions, management, and molecular pathways. Advances are being made broadly and in focused aspects. Selected topics are presented for their developments since publication of the most recent MEN1 consensus guidelines 6 years ago. Topics were selected for clinical impact or broad interest or both. For each topic, information was obtained from original reports and reviews. The selected topics are as follows: tumor behavior and breast cancer in MEN1; foregut neuroectoderm tumor screening, biomarkers periodically to detect tumor emergence of foregut neuroectoderm tumors, 68Ga dotatate positron emission tomography/computed tomography for pancreatic and duodenal neuroectodermal tumor imaging, and glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor scintigraphy for insulinoma; therapy, the size of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (NET) as one criterion for surgery, minimally invasive surgery of pancreatic NETs, and 177Lu dotatate therapy; MEN1 gene, the search for the MEN1/menin pathway and MEN1 or GCM2 mutation in familial isolated hyperparathyroidism, and MEN1 mutation-positive vs mutation-negative cases of MEN1 are different. MEN1 topics are a rich and fast-moving area. Important highlights stand out, and major and rapid advances will continue into the near future.

Recent topics of candidate antigens for immunological control of ixodid ticks

Ticks have been recognized as harmful parasite since ancient times. At present immunological protection of host against ticks is the most practical and sustainable tick control method, which is more suitable to natural environment compared to the current use of acaricides. Recently, focuses on the development of anti-tick vaccine are the identification, molecular cloning and in vitro production of recombinant protein, responsible for executing key roles in regulating physiology, modulation of host immune response and pathogen transmission via ticks. Among several works, serine protease inhibitors have been thought as one of the most interest vaccine candidates, because serine protease inhibitors are mainly involved in the maintenance of homeostasis. In the current review, we would like to introduce selected examples covering aspects of tick vaccine antigen identification and analyses, because advances in vector molecular biology open new possibilities for vaccine development. In dealing with this subject, contents were mainly divided into tick salivary gland associated molecules (exposed antigens) injected into the host during tick feeding and no salivary gland molecules (concealed antigens). While emerging the fact that serine protease inhibitors belong to either exposed or concealed antigens, the utility of serine protease inhibitors for the candidate vaccine have been discussed separately because of the importance of serine protease inhibitors in the physiology of several organisms including ticks. Advances in tick vaccine development and related subjects are regularly reviewed and in this paper, referred citations of excellence are suggested as additional reading.

Overview and Application of Enabling Technologies Oriented on Energy Routing Monitoring, on Network Installation and on Predictive Maintenance

Energy routers are recent topics of interest for scientific community working on alternative energy. Enabling technologies supporting installation and monitoring energy efficiency in building are discussed in this paper, by focusing the attention on innovative aspects and on approaches to predict risks and failures conditions of energy router devices. Infrared (IR) Thermography and Augmented Reality (AR) are indicated in this work as potential technologies for the installation testing and tools for predictive maintenance of energy networks, while thermal simulation, image post-processing and data mining improve the analysis of the prediction process. Image post- processing has been applied on thermal images and for WiFi AR. Concerning data mining we applied k-Means and Artificial Neural Network – ANNobtaining outputs based on measured data. The paper proposes some tools procedure and methods supporting the Building Information Modeling- BIM- in smart grid applications. Finally we provide some ISO standards matching with the enabling technologies by completing the overview of scenario.

Recent topics of arrangements of hyperplanes

Recent topics of arrangements of hyperplanes

Cyber Risk and Cyber Risk Insurance: Status Quo and Future Research

The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance—Issues and Practice has a long tradition of publishing special issues on emerging topics in the insurance industry. Recent topics include extreme events and climate risk, microinsurance and longevity. There have also been several special issues devoted to the fields of pensions, health, and regulation. Currently, the growing economic and social importance of cyber risk is seen in the media on a daily basis. In addition, businesses are facing cyber risks that can lead to considerable corporate losses. Although first studies on cyber risk have been published, there is still an enormous lack of information on its empirical properties. The goal of this special issue is not only to present some interesting articles on one of the timeliest topics in insurance research and practice but also to stimulate future research on cyber risk and cyber risk insurance. This editorial summarises the papers included in this special issue and highlights some of the potential avenues for future research.

Structure modification of natural zeolite for waste removal application

Tremendous industrialization in the last century has led to the generation of huge amount of waste. One of the recent hot research topics is utilizing any advance materials and methods for waste removal. Natural zeolite as an inexpensive porous material with a high abundance holds a key for efficient waste removal owing to its high surface area. However, the microporous structure of natural zeolite hinders the adsorption of waste with a bigger molecular size. In addition, the recovery of natural zeolite after waste adsorption into its pores should also be considered for continuous utilization of this material. In this study, the porosity of natural zeolite from Tasikmalaya, Indonesia, was hydrothermally-modified in a Teflon-lined autoclave filled with certain pore directing agent such as distilled water, KOH, and NH4OH to obtain hierarchical pore structure. After proper drying process, the as-treated natural zeolite is impregnated with iron cation and heat-treated at specified temperature to get Fe-embedded zeolite structure. XRD observation is carried out to ensure the formation of magnetic phase within the zeolite pores. The analysis results show the formation of maghemite phase (γ-Fe2O3) within the zeolite pore structure.

Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center: The First 25 Years

Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center: The First 25 Years

Investigation of Structure and Dynamics in Disordered Materials Using Containerless Techniques with In-Situ Quantum Beam and Thermophysical Property Measurements

The use of levitation (containerless) techniques can enable new scientific discoveries because deeply undercooled and metastable liquids can be achieved over a wide temperature range. This review article summarizes the state-of-art instrumentation for structure measurements at synchrotron radiation/neutron sources and for thermophysical property measurements not only on the ground but also in microgravity utilizing the International Space Station (ISS). Furthermore, we introduce recent scientific topics on high-temperature oxide liquids and oxide glasses synthesized from levitated undercooled liquids by the use of quantum beam measurements analyzed using advanced computation.

Autoimmunity and autoimmune co-morbidities in psoriasis.

Psoriasis is characterized by widespread scaly erythematous plaques that cause significant physical and psychological burdens for the affected individuals. Accelerated inflammation driven by the tumour necrosis factor-α/interleukin-23/interleukin-17 axis is now known to be the major mechanism in the development of psoriasis. In addition, psoriasis has an autoimmune nature that manifests as autoreactive T cells and is co-morbid with other autoimmune diseases, such as autoimmune bullous diseases, vitiligo, alopecia and thyroiditis. In this article, we review the recent topics on autoimmunity and autoimmune co-morbidities in psoriasis.