Herein, we report the use of spiro-configured fluorene-xanthene scaffolds as a novel, promising, and effective strategy in thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) emitter design to attain high photoluminescence quantum yields (ΦPL), short luminescence lifetime, external efficiency (EQE), minimum roll-off characteristics organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). The optoelectronic electrolu...

Abstract Controller synthesis for general linear temporal logic (LTL) objectives is a challenging task. The standard approach involves translating the LTL objective into deterministic parity automaton (DPA) by means of Safra-Piterman construction. One challenges size DPA, which often grows very fast in practice, and can reach double exponential length formula. In this paper, we describe single ...

INTRODUCTION Arterial stiffness is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular morbidity and can be assessed by applanation tonometry by measuring pulse wave velocity (PWV) and augmentation index (AIX) by pressure pulse wave analysis (PWA). As an inexpensive and operator independent alternative, photoelectric plethysmography (PPG) has been introduced with analysis of the digital volume pulse ...

Auch wenn nicht alle Intensivkapazitäten ausgeschöpft werden mussten: Die Pandemie bindet viele Mittel und Kräfte. © Robert Michael / dpa-Zentralbild dpa picture alliance

OBJECTIVE Maintenance hemodialysis (MHD) patients often have impaired quality of life (QOL), anxiety, depression, and reduced daily physical activity (DPA) and physical performance. The contributions of these latter factors to reduced QOL in MHD are poorly understood. We examined the association of QOL with anxiety, depression, DPA, and physical performance. METHODS Seventy-two relatively hea...

BACKGROUND COPD is a debilitating disease that affects patients' daily lives. One's daily physical activity (DPA) decreases due to multifactorial causes, and this decrease is correlated with a poor prognosis in COPD patients. Muscle wasting may at least be partly due to increased activity of the ubiquitin proteasome pathway and apoptosis. METHODS This study investigated the relationships amon...

Bronchial inflammation contributes to a sustained elevation of airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in asthma. Conversely, omega-3 fatty acid derivatives have been shown to resolve inflammation in various tissues. Thus, the effects of docosapentaenoic acid monoacylglyceride (MAG-DPA) were assessed on inflammatory markers and reactivity of human distal bronchi as well as in a cultured model of guine...

We propose an extension of the zone-based algorithmics for analyzing timed automata to handle systems where timing uncertainty is considered as probabilistic rather than set-theoretic. We study duration probabilistic automata (DPA), expressing multiple parallel processes admitting memoryfull continuously-distributed durations. For this model we develop an extension of the zone-based forward rea...

‘Granny Smith’ apples (Malus x domestica Borkh) and ‘Beurre d’Anjou’ pears (Pyrus communis L.) were dipped in a 2.5, 5, or 10% stripped corn oil (a-tocopherol B5 mg kg) emulsions, 2000 mg l diphenylamine (DPA), respectively, at harvest and stored in air at 0°C for 8 months. Untreated fruit served as controls. In oil-treated apples and pears, ethylene and a-farnesene production rates were lower ...

PURPOSE Neuroinflammation is involved in several brain disorders and can be monitored through expression of the translocator protein 18 kDa (TSPO) on activated microglia. In recent years, several new PET radioligands for TSPO have been evaluated in disease models. [(18)F]DPA-714 is a TSPO radiotracer with great promise; however results vary between different experimental models of neuroinflamma...