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Donor and post-transplant ureteroscopy for stone disease in patients with renal transplant: evidence from a systematic review
No full textPURPOSE OF REVIEW: Renal transplant is needed for end-stage renal disease. Although treatment of donor stones may be needed pretransplant and increases the pool available for renal transplant, posttransplant stone disease may also need treatment to maintain the allograft function. A Cochrane style review was performed in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses guidelines to evaluate the outcomes of donor and posttransplant ureteroscopy (URS) for stone disease, including all English language articles between January 1996 and December 2018.RECENT FINDINGS: Eighteen articles (167 patients), seven ex-vivo or donor URS and 11 posttransplant URS met inclusion criteria and were included in the review. A pretransplant URS showed a stone-free rate (SFR) of 100% with an overall complication rate of 7.5% (four Clavien I and one Clavien ≥3), where as a posttransplant URS showed SFR of 100% in five studies and 60-91% in four studies with an overall complication rate of 12.9% (10 Clavien I and three Clavien ≥3).SUMMARY: Advancements in endourological technique has made URS for donor and posttransplant urolithiasis a safe and effective procedure. Although data were based on small retrospective caser series, it shows that in experienced centres it can be performed with low morbidity and a high SFR.</p
On the formation of the first quasars
No full textObservations of the most luminous quasars at redshift z>6 reveal the
existence of numerous supermasssive black holes (>10^9 Msun) already in place
about twelve billion years ago. In addition, the interstellar medium of the
galaxies hosting these black holes are observed to be chemically mature
systems, with metallicities (Z>Zsun) and dust masses (>10^8 Msun) similar to
that of more evolved, local galaxies. The connection between the rapid growth
of the first supermassive black holes and the fast chemical evolution of the
host galaxy is one of the most puzzling issues for theoretical models. Here we
review state-of-the-art theoretical models that focus on this problem with
particular emphasis on the conditions that lead to the formation of quasar
seeds and their subsequent evolution at z>6
Correction: Kolkiran, A.; Agarwal, G.S. Amplitude Noise Reduction in a Nano-Mechanical Oscillator. Math. Comput. Appl. 2011, 16(1), 290–300
No full textThe authors would like to remove Girish S. Agarwal from the author list of the paper [1]. Aziz Kolkiran will therefore serve as the single author.[...
Unraveling the complexity – Insights and interventions of refractory vernal keratoconjunctivitis
No full textVernal keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) is a chronic severe ocular allergic inflammation mostly observed in children and young adults. The ocular manifestations are the expression of multifactorial immune mechanisms that generally have a good prognosis, however long-term inflammation may remarkably reduce the visual function due to complications and poor therapeutic responses. Lack of responsiveness to a drug or treatment is relatively common in VKC and it is not only due to corneal involvement, which is considered the main sign of severity. The concept of refractory may be relative to multiple factors including the clinical condition, systemic co-morbidities, previous or concomitant drugs or regiments, compliance, patient's psychological condition or expectations, type of exposome and environmental conditions, doctor's experience and expectations, or timing of clinical evaluation. In this narrative review, the authors propose a definition of refractory VKC based on revised literature and clinical experience and consider potential new treatments for refractory patients and surgical management in case of complications
Bijective Proofs of Some <i>n</i>-Color Partition Identities
No full textAbstractUsing a technique of Agarwal and Andrews (1987), bijective proofs of some n-color partition identities discovered recently by the author, are given.</jats:p
Unveiling the First Black Holes With JWST:Multi-wavelength Spectral Predictions
No full textGrowing supermassive black holes ( ) that power luminous quasars from light seeds-the remnants of the first stars-within a Gyr of the Big Bang poses a timing challenge. The formation of massive black hole seeds via direct collapse with initial masses alleviates this problem. Viable direct-collapse black hole formation sites, the satellite halos of star-forming galaxies, merge and acquire stars to produce a new, transient class of high-redshift objects, obese black hole galaxies (OBGs). The accretion luminosity outshines that of the stars in OBGs. We predict the multi-wavelength energy output of OBGs and growing Pop III remnants at z = 9 for standard and slim disk accretion, as well as high and low metallicities of the associated stellar population. We derive robust selection criteria for OBGs-a pre-selection to eliminate blue sources, followed by color-color cuts and the ratio of X-ray flux to rest-frame optical flux . Our cuts sift out OBGs from other bright, high- and low-redshift contaminants in the infrared. OBGs with predicted are unambiguously detectable by the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), on the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). For parameters explored here, growing Pop III remnants with predicted will likely be undetectable by JWST. We demonstrate that JWST has the power to discriminate between initial seeding mechanisms
DBLP Publications Records and ACM Metadata for SIGWEB Conferences
No full textThe dataset ”DBLP-SIGWEB.zip” is derived from September 17, 2015 snapshot of dblp bibliography database. It contains all publications and authors records (available in dblp data) of 8 ACM SIGWEB conferences (HT, DL, DocEng, WebSci, CIKM, WSDM, UMAP, SIGIR): The dataset also contains the authors, chairs, affiliations and additional metadata information of conferences that are published in ACM digital library.dblp-sigweb.sql file creates 14 tables in mysql. Followings are the list and description of all attributes and tables used in the dataset. Same attributes used in different tables are listed only once.1. Table- papersdblp_key- unique id of each publication in dblp databasecrossref- unique id of each conference in dblp databasedoi- unique doi url to publisher pagepaper_id- unique id of each article in acm digital library (DL)cite_count- number of citations for each article calculated for the papers published in acm DLpages- number of pages for each article in conference proceedingsconf_id- unique id of each conference in acm DLfunding- funding source information of article. NULL- if no funcding source available2. Table- paper_authorsauthor_id- unique id of an author in acm DLaffiliation- affiliation information of author for associated article3. Table- conceptsconcept- concepts in an article- tagged by ACM4. Table- author_tagsauthor_tag- Keywords/tags provided by authors5. cited_bypaper_id- acm DL id of article A to be citedcite_id- unique id of article that has cited article A6. paper_referencesrefer_id- unique id of the articles (published in sigweb conferences) cited in article A.7. Table- conferencesdblp_key- unique id of each conference in dblp databaseyear- year of the conferencepublisher- publisher name of each conference (ACM, Springer, IEEE etc.)title- full name of the conference proceedingdoi- unique doi url to the conference publisher page8. Table- general_chairs, program_chairs, editorsauthor_id- unique id of author (as general chair, program chair or editor of conference conf_id)affiliation- affiliation of author9. authors_affiliation_history, colleaguesauthor_id- unique id of author A in ACM DLposition- index of affiliation- starts from 0affiliation- lists all affiliations of an authorcolleague_id- lists acm IDs of all authors publishing papers in ACM co-authored with A.11. authors_infoauthor_name- full name of author acquired from ACM publisher pageyear_first- year of first article publication in ACMyear_last- year of recent article publication in ACMpub_count- total number of publciations in ACM DLcite_count- total number of citations mentioned in ACM publciationsavg_cite- average number of citation in ACM publications12. affiliations_infoaffiliation- name of the affiliationaffiliation_type- type of affiliatioin (Industry, Academic Institution)city, state, country- geographical location of affiliationlat, lng- geocodes (latitude and longitude) of affiliatio
DBLP Records and Entries for Key Computer Science Conferences
No full textThe dataset ”DBLP-CSR.zip” is derived from September 17, 2015 snapshot of dblp bibliography database. It contains the last 16 years (2000 − 2015) of publications records of 81 Computer Science Research conferences used for a study conducted in our paper Women in Computer Science Research- What is Bibliography Data Telling Us? published in ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society Newsletter, Volume 46, Issue 1, February 2016. Link to the Newsletter Archive: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=J198The dataset contains 7 .sql files and a README file providing the description of dataset and attributes. The seven .sql files are primarily named as affiliation_coord.sql, affiliation.sql, author_gender.sql, authors.sql, editor_gender.sql, editor.sql and main.sql.The affiliation_coord.sql, affiliation.sql, authors.sql, editor.sql files create the tables with same name. While main.sql, editor_gender.sql and author_gender.sql create tables with the names general, genedit and genauth old respectively.Followings are the list and description of all attributes used in the dataset. Same attributes used in different tables are listed only once.1. Table- generalk- unique id of each article- primary key in the table.year- the year of publicationconf- abbreviation for conference name (HT for ACM HyperText)crossref- cross reference link to all articles published in a conference in a yearcs, de, se, th- a binary attribute denoting if a conference belongs to these domains (Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, Theory)publisher- Name of the conference publisherlink- unique DOI link to the article that re-directs to conference publisher page.2. Table- authorspos- position of author in the paper. 0 denotes first authorname- unique name of author in dblp datasetgender- gender of authors. Hyphen (-) denotes that gender was not determined. Please refer to the paper for more details.prob- probability of a name to be M, F, -.3. Table- editorsk- foreign key for crossref attribute in general tablepos- position of editor in conference. 0 denotes the first editor.4. Table- genauth_old and genedit contain the records of gender information of authors and editors- derived from authors and editors tables.5. Table- affiliation affil- affiliation record of each author publishing in the 81 conferences mentioned above.year- year of publication6. Table- affiliation_coordcountry- country of the author extracted from affiliationcountry_code- code to be used for mapslat, lng- latitude and longitude information of affiliation
Endoilluminator-assisted Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty and endoilluminator-assisted pre-Descemet endothelial keratoplasty
No full textSoosan Jacob,1,2 Amar Agarwal,1 Dhivya Ashok Kumar1 1Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital and Eye Research Centre, 2Dr Agarwal’s Refractive and Cornea Foundation (DARCF), Chennai, IndiaWe read with great interest the article by Kobayashi et al on the use of endoillumination probe-assisted Descemet membrane endothelial keratoplasty (DMEK) for bullous keratopathy secondary to argon-laser iridotomy.1 We would like to bring to the author’s notice that one of us (SJ) described the use of external endoillumination for DMEK, and the same was published under our names in 2014 as endoilluminator-assisted transcorneal illumination for DMEK,2 with study patients included from January 2013. Read the original article by Kobayashi et al 
R06. Identification of the Cellular Pathways Targeted by Two Antifungal Natural Products Using RNA-Seq Analysis
No full textCorresponding author (NCNPR): Ameeta Agarwal, [email protected]://egrove.olemiss.edu/pharm_annual_posters/1005/thumbnail.jp
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