Chuck Lanzieri was born and grew up in Wolcott, Connecticut, and attended Boston College, graduating in 1974 with a bachelor’s degree in biology. He went to New York Medical College, where his interest in neuroanatomy initially led him to consider neurology as a speciality. During medical school, Chuck was secretly drawn to radiology by then department chairman Richard Friedenberg and chief res...

Neonatal diabetes (ND) is a rare entity with an estimated incidence of 1/400 000 births in Europe. Hyperglycaemia usually occurs in the first few days of life and patients require insulin treatment. Intrauterine growth retardation, low birth weight, and decreased adipose tissue are frequently associated. ND is permanent in some patients (permanent ND), and in other cases hyperglycaemia is trans...

ONE OF THE MORE COMMON HEALTH issues affecting our society is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which affects at least 10% of the general population, primarily overweight or obese men (12). OSA, defined as the cessation of breathing caused by the repetitive, episodic collapse of the pharyngeal airway due to an airway obstruction or increased airway resistance during sleep, is a well-known public h...

Experimental innovations starting in the 1990’s leading to the advent of highthroughput experiments in cellular biology have made it possible to measure thousands of genes simultaneously at a modest cost. This enables the discovery of new unexpected relationships between genes in addition to the possibility of falsify existing. To benefit as much as possible from these experiments the new inter...

The extraction of roads from aerial and satellite images is an important task within cartography and planning of new road networks. The automation of this task is highly motivated by the expected increase of the speed and the precision of extraction. The present work considers automatic road extraction from single aerial images of high resolution. It is based on two previously developed approac...

Engineering aircraft systems is a complex task. Therefore models and computer simulations are needed to test functions and behaviors of non existing systems, reduce testing time and cost, reduce the risk involved and to detect problems early which reduce the amount of implementation errors. At the section Vehicle Simulation and Thermal Analysis at Saab Aeronautics in Linköping every basic aircr...

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A full-season mating disruption trial was conducted in 5–23-acre plots on five farms, to assess the efficacy of two different pheromone dispensing systems against codling moth (CM), oriental fruit moth (OFM), lesser appleworm (LAW), and obliquebanded leafroller (OBLR): Checkmate Puffers (against CM, OFM, and LAW), and SPLAT (against CM, OFM, LAW and OBLR). Pheromone treatments were used as a co...

Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) affects 1–6% of prosthetic valve recipients and in patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has an incidence of 0.3–2.3% per patient-year [1–3]. A 79-year-old man who underwent TAVI with a Med-tronic Evolut R 29 mm bioprosthesis 7 months earlier was admitted due to recurring episodes of fever up to 39°C and mild worsening of exerci...

Because modern medicine suffers increasingly from the “silo” phenomenon, in which each specialty ponders its problems in isolation, the gradual emergence of a generalized threat to millions of patients is thus poorly countered by the disconnected efforts of small teams that address the same theme without the recognition of common ground. The recent recognition that bacteria have reverted to the...