Advances in Geant4 application in Physics, Medicine and Biology frontiers
The 4th Geant4 International Conference at the Physics-Medicine-Biology Frontier, 24 –26 October 2022, was organized in Napoli, Italy, by the Dipartimento di Fisica E. Pancini, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” (UNINA) and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). The conference was chaired by Giovanni Mettivier (UNINA/INFN, Napoli, Italy), with the support o f three co-chairs Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical and Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia), Sebastien Incerti (LP2i/IN2P3/CNRS/Bordeaux U., Bordeaux, France) and Jeremy M. (Source: Physica Medica: European Jo...
Source: Physica Medica: European Journal of Medical Physics - April 26, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: G. Mettivier, S. Guatelli, J. Brown, S. Incerti Tags: Editorial Source Type: research
News at a glance: Plants ’ tree of life, conserving U.S. federal lands, and entertaining invertebrate sentience
CONSERVATION
Interior Department boosts restoration
The largest manager of public lands in the United States last week announced it will manage them to promote ecological stewardship, while continuing to allow extractive commercial uses such as mining, oil drilling, and cattle grazing. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees nearly 1 million square kilometers of federal land, about 10% of the country’s landmass, mostly in Western states. Under a rule issued on 18 April,
BLM will now assess the ecological condition of all hectares it manages
, not just grazing land. The agency will a...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 25, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
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Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - April 25, 2024 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
Livestock intensification: No panacea for emissions | Science
During the 28th annual meeting of the Conference of Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28) held in November and December 2023, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) released a roadmap for transforming food systems. The plan aims to end world hunger without breaching the relatively safe 1.5 °C global temperature rise threshold (1). The livestock industry is food systems’ biggest climate culprit, accounting for more than half of food systems emissions (2) and at least 16.5% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (2, 3). FAO’s roadmap calls for intensification of livest ock...
Source: Science: Current Issue - April 25, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: research
Advocating for Policy Change: Examples Emerging From a Medical-Legal Partnership in Primary Care
This study consisted of a document review and thematic analysis, triangulated with data from interviews with legal team members and health providers. We defined policy advocacy as actions associated with attempts to change policy or legislation. The medical-legal partnership engaged in seven distinct cases of policy advocacy: disability support form requirements, changing workplace review, challenging barriers to citizenship, housing, publicly funded medication program (pharma care), safe injection sites, and the need for increased social assistance. Actions taken included presentations at conferences and submissions of br...
Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - April 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nishwa Shah Kim Radford Steve Durant Rami Shoucri Jennifer Stone Navindra Persaud Andrew D Pinto Source Type: research
Advocating for Policy Change: Examples Emerging From a Medical-Legal Partnership in Primary Care
This study consisted of a document review and thematic analysis, triangulated with data from interviews with legal team members and health providers. We defined policy advocacy as actions associated with attempts to change policy or legislation. The medical-legal partnership engaged in seven distinct cases of policy advocacy: disability support form requirements, changing workplace review, challenging barriers to citizenship, housing, publicly funded medication program (pharma care), safe injection sites, and the need for increased social assistance. Actions taken included presentations at conferences and submissions of br...
Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - April 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nishwa Shah Kim Radford Steve Durant Rami Shoucri Jennifer Stone Navindra Persaud Andrew D Pinto Source Type: research
Prioritization of initiatives 2024-2027 of the strategic map of pharmaceutical outpatient care of the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy
CONCLUSIONS: The initiatives agreed upon as priorities were aimed at improving professional visibility, broadening the methodology of care work, expanding the quality of care, enhancing the training of professionals and the voice of patients.PMID:38664075 | DOI:10.1016/j.farma.2024.03.013 (Source: Farmacia Hospitalaria)
Source: Farmacia Hospitalaria - April 25, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Ram ón Morillo Verdugo Beatriz Bernardez Ferr án Aurora Fern ández Polo Luis Margusino Frami ñan Jos é Manuel Martínez Sesmero Manuel Velez-Diaz-Pallar és Esther Vicente-Escrig Source Type: research
25th International Pigment Cell Conference, Bilbao, Spain: IPCC 2023 Meeting Abstracts
Pigment Cell Melanoma Res. 2024 Apr 25. doi: 10.1111/pcmr.13145. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38661724 | DOI:10.1111/pcmr.13145 (Source: Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research)
Source: Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research - April 25, 2024 Category: Cytology Source Type: research
Invited Article-It's Time to Rethink Our Future: "Radical" Perspectives on Deaf Education in the United States and Beyond
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;167(5):597-604. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.0002.ABSTRACTThe language wars have driven decision-making and educational options for D/deaf and hard of hearing children for over a century, yet we still have not made sufficient progress in closing the linguistic and educational gaps between D/deaf and hard of hearing children and their hearing peers. Perhaps it is time to abandon the bifurcated approach that has driven our field since the infamous Milan Conference of 1880. This commentary explores how a "Radical Middle" approach can frame the way we prepare teachers of the deaf, how we conduct and disseminate rese...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 25, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Michella Basas Jenna Voss Karla Giese Jessica Williams Daphne Werner Source Type: research
Advocating for Policy Change: Examples Emerging From a Medical-Legal Partnership in Primary Care
This study consisted of a document review and thematic analysis, triangulated with data from interviews with legal team members and health providers. We defined policy advocacy as actions associated with attempts to change policy or legislation. The medical-legal partnership engaged in seven distinct cases of policy advocacy: disability support form requirements, changing workplace review, challenging barriers to citizenship, housing, publicly funded medication program (pharma care), safe injection sites, and the need for increased social assistance. Actions taken included presentations at conferences and submissions of br...
Source: Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved - April 25, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Nishwa Shah Kim Radford Steve Durant Rami Shoucri Jennifer Stone Navindra Persaud Andrew D Pinto Source Type: research
Prioritization of initiatives 2024-2027 of the strategic map of pharmaceutical outpatient care of the Spanish Society of Hospital Pharmacy
CONCLUSIONS: The initiatives agreed upon as priorities were aimed at improving professional visibility, broadening the methodology of care work, expanding the quality of care, enhancing the training of professionals and the voice of patients.PMID:38664075 | DOI:10.1016/j.farma.2024.03.013 (Source: Farmacia Hospitalaria)
Source: Farmacia Hospitalaria - April 25, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Ram ón Morillo Verdugo Beatriz Bernardez Ferr án Aurora Fern ández Polo Luis Margusino Frami ñan Jos é Manuel Martínez Sesmero Manuel Velez-Diaz-Pallar és Esther Vicente-Escrig Source Type: research
The Cancer Biomarkers Conference: Pathologists Leading the Molecular Testing Discussion
Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2024 May 1;148(5):e75-e76. doi: 10.5858/arpa.2023-0175-ED.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38662907 | DOI:10.5858/arpa.2023-0175-ED (Source: Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine)
Source: Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - April 25, 2024 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Timothy Craig Allen Source Type: research
25th International Pigment Cell Conference, Bilbao, Spain: IPCC 2023 Meeting Abstracts
Pigment Cell Melanoma Res. 2024 Apr 25. doi: 10.1111/pcmr.13145. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38661724 | DOI:10.1111/pcmr.13145 (Source: Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research)
Source: Pigment Cell and Melanoma Research - April 25, 2024 Category: Cytology Source Type: research
Invited Article-It's Time to Rethink Our Future: "Radical" Perspectives on Deaf Education in the United States and Beyond
Am Ann Deaf. 2023;167(5):597-604. doi: 10.1353/aad.2023.0002.ABSTRACTThe language wars have driven decision-making and educational options for D/deaf and hard of hearing children for over a century, yet we still have not made sufficient progress in closing the linguistic and educational gaps between D/deaf and hard of hearing children and their hearing peers. Perhaps it is time to abandon the bifurcated approach that has driven our field since the infamous Milan Conference of 1880. This commentary explores how a "Radical Middle" approach can frame the way we prepare teachers of the deaf, how we conduct and disseminate rese...
Source: American Annals of the Deaf - April 25, 2024 Category: Audiology Authors: Michella Basas Jenna Voss Karla Giese Jessica Williams Daphne Werner Source Type: research
Mesh2SSM: From Surface Meshes to Statistical Shape Models of Anatomy
Med Image Comput Comput Assist Interv. 2023 Oct;14220:615-625. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-43907-0_59. Epub 2023 Oct 1.ABSTRACTStatistical shape modeling is the computational process of discovering significant shape parameters from segmented anatomies captured by medical images (such as MRI and CT scans), which can fully describe subject-specific anatomy in the context of a population. The presence of substantial non-linear variability in human anatomy often makes the traditional shape modeling process challenging. Deep learning techniques can learn complex non-linear representations of shapes and generate statistical shape mod...
Source: MICCAI International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention - April 25, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Krithika Iyer Shireen Elhabian Source Type: research
