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Dataset for the publication "Assessing the extent of citrus trees root apparatus under deficit irrigation via multi-method geo-electrical imaging"
No full textDataset for the publication "Assessing the extent of citrus trees root apparatus under deficit irrigation via multi-method geo-electrical imaging"
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Supplemental Data and Methods: Subtyping of Primary Aldosteronism in the AVIS-2 Study: Assessment of Selectivity and Lateralisation
Get PDFContext:
Adrenal venous sampling (AVS) is the key test for subtyping primary aldosteronism (PA), but its interpretation varies widely across referral centers and this can adversely affect the management of PA patients.
Objectives:
To investigate in a real life study the rate of bilateral success, identification of unilateral aldosteronism and blood pressure outcomes in PA subtyped by AVS.
Design and settings:
in a retrospective analysis of the largest international registry of individual AVS data (AVIS-2 study) we investigated how different cut-off values of the selectivity (SI) and lateralization index (LI) affected rate of bilateral success, identification of unilateral aldosteronism and blood pressure outcomes.
Results:
AVIS-2 recruited 1625 individual AVS studies performed between 2000 and 2015 in 19 tertiary referral centers. Under unstimulated conditions, the rate of biochemically confirmed bilateral AVS success progressively decreased with increasing SI cut-offs;
furthermore, with currently used LI cut-offs the rate of identified unilateral PA leading to adrenalectomy was as low as < 25%. A within-patient pairwise comparison of 402 AVS performed both under unstimulated and cosyntropin-stimulation conditions
showed that cosyntropin increased the confirmed rate of bilateral selectivity for SI cutoffs ≥ 2.0, but with reduced lateralization rates (p < 0.001). Post-adrenalectomy outcomes were not improved by use of cosyntropin or more restrictive diagnostic criteria.
Conclusion:
Commonly used SI and LI cut-offs are associated with disappointingly low rates of biochemically defined AVS success and identified unilateral PA. Evidence-based protocols entailing less restrictive interpretative cut-offs might optimize the clinical use
of this costly and invasive test
Angiotensin II Type 1 Receptor Autoantibodies (AT1AA): Cause or Consequence of Human Primary Aldosteronism?
Get PDFSupplemental data originally submitted to JCEM, than revised and submitted to Hypertension (see https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/suppl/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.119.13388
Effects of MIneralocorticoid and AT-1 Receptor Antagonism on The Diagnosis of Primary Aldosteronism (EMIRA Study)
Get PDFSupplemental data to the manuscript "Effects of MIneralocorticoid and AT-1 Receptor Antagonism on The Aldosterone-Renin Ratio (ARR) In Primary Aldosteronism Patients (EMIRA Study) – A Within-patient Study" submitted to jCE
Dataset of paper: "Dogs (Canis familiaris) recognise our faces in photographs: implications for existing and future research"
No full textDogs are an ideal species to investigate phylogenetic and ontogenetic factors contributing to face recognition. Previous research has found that dogs can recognise their owner using visual information about the person’s face, presented live. However, a thorough investigation of face processing mechanisms requires the use of graphical representations and it currently remains unclear whether dogs can spontaneously recognise human faces in photographs. To test this, pet dogs (N = 36) were briefly separated from their owners and, to achieve reunion, they needed to select the location indicated by a photograph of their owner’s face, rather than that of an unfamiliar person concurrently presented. Photographs were taken under optimal and suboptimal (non-frontally oriented and unevenly illuminated faces) conditions. Results revealed that dogs approached their owner significantly above chance level, with no difference in the probability of choosing the owner between the optimal and suboptimal conditions. Only in the suboptimal condition did the amount of attention paid to the owner’s photograph affect dogs’ choices, with low attention associated with failures. The probability of approaching the owner was also affected by an interaction between the dog’s sex and condition, although no significant effect was detected in post-hoc comparisons. This study provides the first direct evidence that dogs can recognise human faces from photographs. The results imply that motion and three-dimensional information is not necessary for recognition. The results also support the ecological valence of such stimuli and increase the validity of previous investigations into dog cognition that used two-dimensional representations of faces
A Novel GPER Mediated Feed-forward Loop Enhancing Aldosterone Biosynthesis
Get PDFSupplemental data The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism - JCEM submissio
Short-term incentives make people save more for the future
Get PDFData for the paper entitled "Short-term incentives make people save more for the future" (authors: Enrico Rubaltelli and Lorella Lotto
High velocity friction data and thermochemical modeling data of smectite-rich STx-1b (vacuum dry, room humidity and water partly saturated)
No full textThe dataset is described also in the readme.txt file as follows:
The columns are organized as follows:
* Time [milliseconds]: time
* Normal [MPa]: normal stress
* Slip [m]: equivalent displacement
* Vel [m/s]: equivalent tangential velocity
* Shear1 [MPa]: shear stress
* Mu1 []: friction coefficient = shear stress / normal stress
* Thick [mm]: thickness of the gouge layer measured with the low resolution LVDT
* Thick_high [mm]: thickness of the gouge layer measured with the high resolution LVDT
Models
Subfolder \model\
Each filename is the experiment’s name and is in .CSV format. The header for all the tables is in a separate file: header.CSV.
The columns are organized as follows:
* Time [seconds]: time
* U_1 [°C]: temperature in node 1
* U_20 [°C]: temperature in node 20
* Qso [°C/s]: temperature source
* Qsi1 [°C/s]: temperature sink of reaction 1 (smectite interlayer dehydration)
* Qsi2 [°C/s]: temperature sink of reaction 2 (smectite dehydroxylation)
* U2_1 [MPa]: pressure in node 1
* U2_20 [MPa]: pressure in node 20
* Thpress [Pa/s]: pressure source for thermal pressurization
* Omega1 [Pa/s]: pressure source for reaction 1 (smectite interlayer dehydration)
* Omega2 [Pa/s]: pressure source for reaction 2 (smectite dehydroxylation)
* R1_1 []: reacted fraction for reaction 1 (smectite interlayer dehydration)
* R2_1 []: reacted fraction for reaction 2 (smectite dehydroxylation
Effects of MIneralocorticoid and AT-1 Receptor Antagonism on The Aldosterone-Renin Ratio (ARR) In Primary Aldosteronism Patients (EMIRA Study) – A Within-patient Study
No full textSupplemental data to the manuscript "Effects of MIneralocorticoid and AT-1 Receptor Antagonism on The Aldosterone-Renin Ratio (ARR) In Primary Aldosteronism Patients (EMIRA Study) – A Within-patient Study" submitted to jCE
Supplemental Data and Methods: Subtyping of Primary Aldosteronism in the AVIS-2 Study: Assessment of Selectivity and Lateralisation
Get PDFContext:
Adrenal venous sampling (AVS) is the key test for subtyping primary aldosteronism (PA), but its interpretation varies widely across referral centers and this can adversely affect the management of PA patients.
Objectives:
To investigate in a real life study the rate of bilateral success, identification of unilateral aldosteronism and blood pressure outcomes in PA subtyped by AVS.
Design and settings:
in a retrospective analysis of the largest international registry of individual AVS data (AVIS-2 study) we investigated how different cut-off values of the selectivity (SI) and lateralization index (LI) affected rate of bilateral success, identification of unilateral aldosteronism and blood pressure outcomes.
Results:
AVIS-2 recruited 1625 individual AVS studies performed between 2000 and 2015 in 19 tertiary referral centers. Under unstimulated conditions, the rate of biochemically confirmed bilateral AVS success progressively decreased with increasing SI cut-offs;
furthermore, with currently used LI cut-offs the rate of identified unilateral PA leading to adrenalectomy was as low as < 25%. A within-patient pairwise comparison of 402 AVS performed both under unstimulated and cosyntropin-stimulation conditions
showed that cosyntropin increased the confirmed rate of bilateral selectivity for SI cutoffs ≥ 2.0, but with reduced lateralization rates (p < 0.001). Post-adrenalectomy outcomes were not improved by use of cosyntropin or more restrictive diagnostic criteria.
Conclusion:
Commonly used SI and LI cut-offs are associated with disappointingly low rates of biochemically defined AVS success and identified unilateral PA. Evidence-based protocols entailing less restrictive interpretative cut-offs might optimize the clinical use
of this costly and invasive test