Iowa Influenza Surveillance Network: Weekly Activity Report Week 51, December 26, 2015

The Iowa Influenza Surveillance Network (IISN) was established in 2004, though surveillance has been conducted at the Iowa Department of Public Health. Schools and long-term care facilities report data weekly into a Web-based reporting system. Schools report the number of students absent due to illness and the total enrolled. Long-term care facilities report cases of influenza and vaccination status of each case. Both passively report outbreaks of illness, including influenza, to IDPH.

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[Archives de la parole]. , [Le vingt-cinq de décembre, je me suis t'engagé] : [chanson] ; [Briolée aux boeufs] : [chanson] / [Ferdinand Brunot], collecteur ; [Jean Ducroc, 51 ans, cultivateur], chant. [L'amoureux infidèle] : [chanson] / [Ferdinand Brunot], collecteur ; [Mme Rivière, 78 ans, cultivatrice], chant

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Arterial wall dosimetry for non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients treated with radioimmunotherapy.

Tumors in non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) patients are often proximal to the major blood vessels in the abdomen or neck. In external-beam radiotherapy, these tumors present a challenge because imaging resolution prevents the beam from being targeted to the tumor lesion without also irradiating the artery wall. This problem has led to potentially life-threatening delayed toxicity. Because radioimmunotherapy has resulted in long-term survival of NHL patients, we investigated whether the absorbed dose (AD) to the artery wall in radioimmunotherapy of NHL is of potential concern for delayed toxicity. SPECT resolution is not sufficient to enable dosimetric analysis of anatomic features of the thickness of the aortic wall. Therefore, we present a model of aortic wall toxicity based on data from 4 patients treated with (131)I-tositumomab. METHODS: Four NHL patients with periaortic tumors were administered pretherapeutic (131)I-tositumomab. Abdominal SPECT and whole-body planar images were obtained at 48, 72, and 144 h after tracer administration. Blood-pool activity concentrations were obtained from regions of interest drawn on the heart on the planar images. Tumor and blood activity concentrations, scaled to therapeutic administered activities-both standard and myeloablative-were input into a geometry and tracking model (GEANT, version 4) of the aorta. The simulated energy deposited in the arterial walls was collected and fitted, and the AD and biologic effective dose values to the aortic wall and tumors were obtained for standard therapeutic and hypothetical myeloablative administered activities. RESULTS: Arterial wall ADs from standard therapy were lower (0.6-3.7 Gy) than those typical from external-beam therapy, as were the tumor ADs (1.4-10.5 Gy). The ratios of tumor AD to arterial wall AD were greater for radioimmunotherapy by a factor of 1.9-4.0. For myeloablative therapy, artery wall ADs were in general less than those typical for external-beam therapy (9.4-11.4 Gy for 3 of 4 patients) but comparable for 1 patient (32.6 Gy). CONCLUSION: Blood vessel radiation dose can be estimated using the software package 3D-RD combined with GEANT modeling. The dosimetry analysis suggested that arterial wall toxicity is highly unlikely in standard dose radioimmunotherapy but should be considered a potential concern and limiting factor in myeloablative therapy.

Classificació i reconeixement de vídeo

El principal objectiu d’aquest projecte és aconseguir classificar diferents vídeos d’esports segons la seva categoria. Els cercadors de text creen un vocabulari segons el significat de les diferents paraules per tal de poder identificar un document. En aquest projecte es va fer el mateix però mitjançant paraules visuals. Per exemple, es van intentar englobar com a una única paraula les diferents rodes que apareixien en els cotxes de rally. A partir de la freqüència amb què apareixien les paraules dels diferents grups dins d’una imatge vàrem crear histogrames de vocabulari que ens permetien tenir una descripció de la imatge. Per classificar un vídeo es van utilitzar els histogrames que descrivien els seus fotogrames. Com que cada histograma es podia considerar un vector de valors enters vàrem optar per utilitzar una màquina classificadora de vectors: una Support vector machine o SVM

Nappe geometry in the Western Swiss Alps

Detailed geological mapping during the last 20 years in the Western Swiss Alps has shown clearly that most of the lower basement nappes are fold nappes possessing normal and inverted limbs. Moreover their cores are made of strongly deformed gneisses indicating that important ductile strain took place during the formation of the fold nappes. It is therefore probably wrong to imagine deep basement nappes as rigid slices as often actually claimed, especially when interpreting seismic profiles. True `brittle type' thrust nappes involving basement rocks only occur in the internal and upper parts of the belt. Cover nappes, on the contrary, are in most parts of the Alpine belt thrust sheets following more or less the rules of thin-skinned tectonics. Many basement fold nappes lost part of their sedimentary cover during or just before their formation, by decollement along ductile horizons. The result is that many cover thrust nappes in the external part of the Alps are directly related to their original basement fold nappes.

Experimental and clinical radiofrequency ablation: proposal for standardized description of coagulation size and geometry.

BACKGROUND: Radiofrequency (RF) ablation is used to obtain local control of unresectable tumors in liver, kidney, prostate, and other organs. Accurate data on expected size and geometry of coagulation zones are essential for physicians to prevent collateral damage and local tumor recurrence. The aim of this study was to develop a standardized terminology to describe the size and geometry of these zones for experimental and clinical RF. METHODS: In a first step, the essential geometric parameters to accurately describe the coagulation zones and the spatial relationship between the coagulation zones and the electrodes were defined. In a second step, standard terms were assigned to each parameter. RESULTS: The proposed terms for single-electrode RF ablation include axial diameter, front margin, coagulation center, maximal and minimal radius, maximal and minimal transverse diameter, ellipticity index, and regularity index. In addition a subjective description of the general shape and regularity is recommended. CONCLUSIONS: Adoption of the proposed standardized description method may help to fill in the many gaps in our current knowledge of the size and geometry of RF coagulation zones.

Anàlisi, classificació i propostes de millora de la xarxa de camins del Parc Narutal de la Serra del Montsant

Aquest treball pretèn analitzar, classificar, descriure i proposar les actuacions necessàries a la xarxa viaria del Parc Natural del Montsant, per tal d’adequar-la als objectius definits en el Pla de Prevenció d’Incendis i fer d’aquesta xarxa viaria una eina útil per a l’ús dels medis d’extinció. A més, mitjançant un estudi de les conques que afecten als camins, s’han proposat i dimensionat altres mesures de drentatge i pavimentació per tal d’evitar el deteriorament degut a l’acció erosiva de l’aigua, i per tant, millorar l’estat d’aquests i disminuir les tasques de manteniment.

In search for better pharmacological prophylaxis for acute mountain sickness: looking in other directions.

Despite decades of research, the exact pathogenic mechanisms underlying acute mountain sickness (AMS) are still poorly understood. This fact frustrates the search for novel pharmacological prophylaxis for AMS. The prevailing view is that AMS results from an insufficient physiological response to hypoxia and that prophylaxis should aim at stimulating the response. Starting off from the opposite hypothesis that AMS may be caused by an initial excessive response to hypoxia, we suggest that directly or indirectly blunting-specific parts of the response might provide promising research alternatives. This reasoning is based on the observations that (i) humans, once acclimatized, can climb Mt Everest experiencing arterial partial oxygen pressures (PaO2 ) as low as 25 mmHg without AMS symptoms; (ii) paradoxically, AMS usually develops at much higher PaO2 levels; and (iii) several biomarkers, suggesting initial activation of specific pathways at such PaO2 , are correlated with AMS. Apart from looking for substances that stimulate certain hypoxia triggered effects, such as the ventilatory response to hypoxia, we suggest to also investigate pharmacological means aiming at blunting certain other specific hypoxia-activated pathways, or stimulating their agonists, in the quest for better pharmacological prophylaxis for AMS.