Phenomenological Constraints on the Transport Properties of QCD Matter with Data-Driven Model Averaging.

Using combined data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion and Large Hadron Colliders, we constrain the shear and bulk viscosities of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at temperatures of ∼150-350 MeV. We use Bayesian inference to translate experimental and theoretical uncertainties into probabilistic constraints for the viscosities. With Bayesian model averaging we propagate an estimate of the model uncertainty generated by the transition from hydrodynamics to hadron transport in the plasma's final evolution stage, providing the most reliable phenomenological constraints to date on the QGP viscosities.

A clinical review of non-age-related cataracts.

BACKGROUND: A cataract is any opacity or partial loss of transparency of the lens, whether the absence of transparency is small or complete. Pupil dilation affords a view of a legion of internal variations and abnormalities of the human crystalline lens which often tell us about its events and insults, as well as when in the patient's life these might have occurred. METHODS: In this article, we review the major non-age-related association of cataractogenesis with respect to metabolic, environmental, ocular-specific, infectious, dermatologic, retinal, and toxic etiologies. The data are presented from the clinical perspective of incidence for a given condition and cataract type. RESULTS: Two simplified summary reference sheets are provided: (1) frequency of occurrence vs. etiology and (2) cataract type vs. etiology (color-coded). The busy clinician can refer to both tools chair-side. CONCLUSIONS: The human body has numerous methods of signaling insults and abnormalities. As the crystalline lens is an important gauge of overall health, an argument can be made for routine dilation of all patients. This information is also essential for future neutraceutical and pharmaceutical therapeutic intervention.

Hyperplasia and hypertrophy of chicken cardiac myocytes during posthatching development.

For characterization of the growth pattern of cardiac myocytes during posthatching development, cardiac myocytes were enzymatically isolated from the ventricles of 1-, 15-, 29-, and 42-day-old chickens for measurement of myocyte nucleation, length, width, volume, and number, and for immunolabeling of cytoskeletal proteins. Ventricular myocyte number increased 156% from day 1 to day 42. Average cell volume increased more than 400%, and myocytes lengthened 125%, but cell width only increased 53% during this period. All myocytes were mononucleated at day 1. At day 15, 18% of myocytes became binucleated with < 1% of myocytes containing more than two nuclei. Interestingly, binucleated myocytes were able to divide with two nuclei going through mitosis at the same time. As demonstrated by staining with tubulin and alpha-actinin antibodies, two mitotic spindles and two cleavage furrows were formed in dividing binucleated myocytes. At day 42, binucleated myocytes increased to 44% with 11% of myocytes containing more than two nuclei. Sarcomeric alpha-actinin was partially disassembled in prometaphase and was reorganized into regular Z lines of sarcomeres in telophase. Desmin was disassembled in prophase and was reassembled during late telophase. These results suggest that chicken myocytes undergo hypertrophy and continue to proliferate during posthatching maturation, although it is currently believed that myocytes of all vertebrates withdraw from the cell cycle shortly after birth. We provide direct evidence for the first time of in vivo myocyte division in 6-wk-old chicken hearts.