The pre-dose technique in thermoluminescence (TL) is used for dating archaeological ceramics and for accident dosimetry. During routine applications of this technique, the sensitisation of the quartz samples is measured as a function of the annealing temperature, yielding the so-called thermal activation characteristic (TAC). The measurement of multiple TACs and the study of the effect of UV-ra...

BACKGROUND The structure of the aorta is considered to influence exercise systolic blood pressure (SBP) response, which, in turn, might impact upon adverse outcomes. The current study sought to investigate the relationship of aortic calcification and exercise SBP with adverse outcomes among elderly individuals. METHODS AND RESULTS We retrospectively reviewed 702 elderly individuals (>65 years...

Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) studies provide measurements of the kinetics of radiotracers in living tissue. This is a powerful technology which can play a major role in the study of biological processes, potentially leading to better understanding and treatment of disease. Dynamic PET data relate to complex spatiotemporal processes and its analysis poses significant challenges. In...

A comprehensive transcriptome assembly of chickpea has been developed using 134.95 million Illumina single-end reads, 7.12 million single-end FLX/454 reads and 139,214 Sanger expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from >17 genotypes. This hybrid transcriptome assembly, referred to as Cicer arietinumTranscriptome Assembly version 2 (CaTA v2, available at http://data.comparative-legumes.org/transcriptome...

To investigate the efficacy of transcranial direct (tDCS) or alternating current stimulation (tACS) in boosting cognitive training efficiency healthy older adults. We further explored whether such improvements depend on general performance age. In this randomized, sham-controlled study, 59 elderly participants (mean age 71.7) were assigned to receive computer-based (10 sessions, 50 min, twice w...

Abstract Many clinicians lack experience in managing trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs) pregnancy and lactation. In addition to cluster headache, TACs include hemicrania continua, paroxysmal hemicrania, short‐lasting unilateral neuralgiform headache with conjunctival injection tearing/autonomic symptoms (SUNCT/SUNA). Treating these rare, severe conditions often requires off‐label drugs th...

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) are noninvasive neuromodulatory techniques that deliver low-intensity currents facilitating or inhibiting spontaneous neuronal activity. These techniques have a number of advantages that have been applied in clinical settings; in particular, tDCS/tACS dose in principle is easily customized by ...

Hemicrania continua (HC) is an indomethacin-responsive primary headache disorder which is currently classified under the heading of trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs). It is a highly misdiagnosed and underreported primary headache. The pooled mean delay of diagnosis of HC is 8.0 ± 7.2 years. It is not rare. We noted more than 1000 cases in the literature. It represents 1.7% of total heada...