Treatment with antenatal corticosteroids (ACS) to women at risk for preterm birth (PTB) is associated a reduction in adverse neonatal outcomes. Obstetricians occasionally shorten the interval between doses of steroids if delivery predicted occur before ACS are fully administered. In this study we aimed investigate predicting factors identify patients that will deliver prematurely, less than 48 ...

Gene therapy is the most promising treatment for recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB), however genetic cargo delivery efficiency still a technical limitation. Viruses are traditional vector of preference gene therapy, as virus trophism increase tissue specificity. However, drawbacks related with safety and high manufacturing costs have facilitated expansion non-viral vectors, such ...

PURPOSE To design an efficient method for utilizing phase-space source models in the GPU-based Monte Carlo (MC) dose calculation engine gDPM. METHODS In GPU-based MC algorithms, particles are transported in parallel on different threads. Particles of different types and energies can require significantly different execution times. This can cause "thread divergence" and lower efficiency when s...

The Plant The Altbach/Deizisau CHP plant ensures reliable, economical and environmentally-friendly power supply. EnBW operates several plants at the site with a total output of around 1,200 MW, including the 476 MW coal-fired block HKW 1. The district heating generated supplies a considerable proportion of the industrial enterprises in Esslingen and Stuttgart, as well as private households in t...