BACKGROUND Giant cell myocarditis (GCM) typically causes fulminant heart failure, arrhythmias, or heart block, necessitating aggressive immunosuppression, ventricular assist device insertion, or cardiac transplantation. We describe a novel variant of GCM, primarily involving the atria, that displays distinctive clinical features and follows a more benign course than ventricular GCM. METHODS A...

Dynamically downscaling climate projections from global climate models (GCMs) for use in impacts and adaptation research has become a common practice in recent years. In this study, the CSIRO Mk3.5 GCM is downscaled using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) regional climate model (RCM) to medium (50 km) and high (10 km) resolution over southeast Australia. The influence of model resoluti...

Background: The Food and Drug Administration patient-reported outcome (PRO) guidance provides standards for PRO development, but these standards bring scientific and logistical challenges which can result in a lengthy and expensive instrument development process. Thus, more pragmatic methods are needed alongside traditional approaches. Methods: Partnering with the National Ankylosing Spondyliti...

Secure and highly efficient authenticated encryption (AE) algorithms which achieve data confidentiality and authenticity in the symmetric-key setting have existed for well over a decade. By all conventional measures, AES-OCB seems to be the AE algorithm of choice on any platform with AES-NI: it has a proof showing it is secure assuming AES is, and it is one of the fastest out of all such algori...

One way in which global climate model (GCM) output can be utilized to infer local impacts is through the use of synoptic climatology: creating a set of atmospheric patterns that capture the variability in the climate system, and then analyzing trends and variability in the frequency of these patterns moving into the future. In this paper, we demonstrate a new synoptic climatological technique f...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of glass capillary micropipette (gcm) as a vessel forvitrification of bovine oocytes. cumulus-oocyte complexes (cocs) were obtained from slaughter-house andwashed 5 to 6 times in the washing medium (tcm-199 + 20% fbs) and randomly assigned to treatment andcontrol group. in the first step of vitrification, cocs were exposed to first vitrification...

We show two weaknesses in the the authentication functionality of GCM when it is used with a short authentication tag. The first weakness raises the probability of a successful forgery significantly. The second weakness reveals the authentication key if the attacker manages to create successful forgeries.

Glass crystalline materials (GCM) are of increasing interest as advanced nuclear wasteforms combining the advantages vitreous and matrices. The GCM versatile envisaged for a wider use to immobilise various types both radioactive chemically hazardous wastes. They can be produced either via low temperature sintering using precursors composed glass frit, oxides, phases or through conventional melt...

Longitudinal as well as transverse dynamics of a molten salt beyond the hydrodynamic region is studied within the generalized collective modes (GCM) approach. An analytical three-variable model is applied to the treatment of the coupled longand short-time charge fluctuations. Dispersion laws of propagating kinetic collective excitations such as optic phonon-like modes, heat and shear waves are ...