{"title":"Relationship of cardiometabolic disease risk factors with age and spinal cord injury duration.","authors":"Hannah W Mercier, Ryan Solinsky, J Andrew Taylor","doi":"10.1080/10790268.2022.2065410","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10790268.2022.2065410","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context/objectives: </strong>Cardiometabolic disease (CMD) is increased after spinal cord injury (SCI), with an increased number of CMD risk factors that relate to higher mortality. The study objective was to characterize the relationship of age and injury duration with CMD.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Retrospective cohort assessment of CMD risks using unbiased recursive partitioning to divide for group comparison: (1) Lowest Risk, (2) Moderate Risk, and (3) Highest Risk based on classification and regression trees predicting CMD diagnosis by age and injury duration.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Academic rehabilitation center laboratory.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Adults (<i>N</i> = 103; aged 18-75) with traumatic SCI (C4-L2) of 3 months to 42 years duration.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>NA.</p><p><strong>Outcome measures: </strong>CMD risk factors (obesity, insulin resistance, dyslipidemia, and hypertension) using Paralyzed Veterans of America SCI-specific guidelines.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Obesity was prevalent (82%) and co-occurred with most other risk factors present. Age increased odds for CMD diagnosis by 1.05 per year (<i>P</i> = 0.02) and was directly related to elevated body mass index (BMI, β = 0.42, <i>P</i> < 0.05), fasting glucose (β = 0.58, <i>P</i> < 0.01), and higher systolic blood pressure (β = 0.31, <i>P</i> < 0.10). In contrast, time since injury contributed to lower risk factor count (β = -0.29, <i>P</i> < 0.10) and higher HDL-C (β = 0.50, <i>P</i> < 0.01), and was not related to odds of CMD diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>While SCI is linked to an increased risk of CMD, age is associated with higher CMD risk. Increased SCI duration related to improvement in individual CMD risk factors but did not decrease overall risk for CMD diagnosis. SCI may not uniformly increase CMD risks and highlight a necessary focus on weight management for risk prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":49582,"journal":{"name":"Russian Mathematical Surveys","volume":"30 1","pages":"379-386"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11044727/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81086691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R B Namasivaya Navin, D Balaji, K Gowthame, S Prabakaran, S Rajasekaran, S R Karthika
{"title":"Ent Manifestations in Sculptors of South Chennai, India: A Cross Sectional Observational Study.","authors":"R B Namasivaya Navin, D Balaji, K Gowthame, S Prabakaran, S Rajasekaran, S R Karthika","doi":"10.1007/s12070-023-04179-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12070-023-04179-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite the National Occupational Safety and Legislation Act 2020's implementation, reports of workplace accidents are rising in India. Various ear, nose, and throat conditions have been linked to a wide range of physico-chemical variables. Due to a lack of training, inadequate knowledge, a lack of awareness of occupational health and safety risks, or a lack of accessibility to or use of personal protective equipment (PPE), sculptors are frequently exposed to a variety of physical, compound and unplanned risks, chemical, and accidental hazards. The study aimed to assess the various ear, nose and throat manifestations like noise induced hearing loss, occupational rhinitis and non-infectious pharyngitis among the sculptors working in the southern part of Chennai. This observational study was performed in a total of 110 sculptors. Demographic data like age, education, duration of occupation, use of PPE like face mask, ear plug during work hours, whether sculpting is a family occupation or first generation sculptor. A detailed history and thorough ENT examination was performed with pure tone audiometry (PTA), diagnostic nasal endoscopy (DNE) and videolaryngoscopy (VLS). If any problem is detected they will be treated accordingly. Most of them (70%) were in the age group of 21-40 years but 71% of them are sculptors for more than 15 years which infers introduction to the occupation at an early age. The reason for this could be more than 80% of them possessed the heritage of sculpting as their family occupation. Duration of occupation was significantly associated with chronic rhinitis (<i>P</i> value was 0.002) and NIHL (<i>P</i> value was 0.002) whereas education and use of PPE like face mask or ear plugs were not associated with ENT manifestations. This study focuses on the sculptors' working habits, their ignorance of safety precautions, and an assessment of the numerous ENT ailments. These manifestations showed a strong correlation to exposure time. To prevent the issues from becoming more severe, regular medical monitoring is required for early detection and intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":49582,"journal":{"name":"Russian Mathematical Surveys","volume":"62 1","pages":"437-442"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10908744/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80964826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Wazir, Tomi A O Parviainen, Jessica J Pfannenstiel, Men Thi Hoai Duong, Daniel Cluff, Sven T Sowa, Albert Galera-Prat, Dana Ferraris, Mirko M Maksimainen, Anthony R Fehr, Juha P Heiskanen, Lari Lehtiö
{"title":"Discovery of 2-amide-3-methylester thiophenes that target SARS-CoV-2 Mac1 and repress coronavirus replication, validating Mac1 as an anti-viral target.","authors":"Sarah Wazir, Tomi A O Parviainen, Jessica J Pfannenstiel, Men Thi Hoai Duong, Daniel Cluff, Sven T Sowa, Albert Galera-Prat, Dana Ferraris, Mirko M Maksimainen, Anthony R Fehr, Juha P Heiskanen, Lari Lehtiö","doi":"10.1101/2023.08.28.555062","DOIUrl":"10.1101/2023.08.28.555062","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The COVID-19 pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus has made it clear that further development of antiviral therapies will be needed to combat additional SARS-CoV-2 variants or novel CoVs. Here, we describe small molecule inhibitors for SARS-CoV-2 Mac1, which counters ADP-ribosylation mediated innate immune responses. The compounds inhibiting Mac1 were discovered through high-throughput screening (HTS) using a protein FRET-based competition assay and the best hit compound had an IC<sub>50</sub> of 14 μM. Three validated HTS hits have the same 2-amide-3-methylester thiophene scaffold and the scaffold was selected for structure-activity relationship (SAR) studies through commercial and synthesized analogs. We studied the compound binding mode in detail using X-ray crystallography and this allowed us to focus on specific features of the compound and design analogs. Compound <b>27</b> (MDOLL-0229) had an IC<sub>50</sub> of 2.1 μM and was generally selective for CoV Mac1 proteins after profiling for activity against a panel of viral and human ADP-ribose binding proteins. The improved potency allowed testing of its effect on virus replication and indeed, <b>27</b> inhibited replication of both MHVa prototype CoV, and SARS-CoV-2. Furthermore, sequencing of a drug-resistant MHV identified mutations in Mac1, further demonstrating the specificity of <b>27.</b> Compound <b>27</b> is the first Mac1 targeted small molecule demonstrated to inhibit coronavirus replication in a cell model. This, together with its well-defined binding mode, makes <b>27</b> a good candidate for further hit/lead-optimization efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":49582,"journal":{"name":"Russian Mathematical Surveys","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10793406/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80668268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamics of metrics in measure spaces and scaling entropy","authors":"A. Vershik, Georgii A Veprev, P. Zatitskii","doi":"10.4213/rm10103e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4213/rm10103e","url":null,"abstract":"This survey is dedicated to a new direction in the theory of dynamical systems, the dynamics of metrics in measure spaces and new (catalytic) invariants of transformations with invariant measure. A space equipped with a measure and a metric which are naturally consistent with each other (a metric triple, or an mm-space) defines automatically the notion of its entropy class, thus allowing one to construct a theory of scaling entropy for dynamical systems with invariant measure, which is different and more general in comparison to the Shannon-Kolmogorov theory. This possibility was hinted at by Shannon himself, but the hint went unnoticed. The classification of metric triples in terms of matrix distributions presented in this paper was proposed by Gromov and Vershik. We describe some corollaries obtained by applying this theory. Bibliography: 88 titles.","PeriodicalId":49582,"journal":{"name":"Russian Mathematical Surveys","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139238854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Derived category of moduli of parabolic bundles on $mathbb{P}^1$","authors":"A. Fonarev","doi":"10.4213/rm10116e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4213/rm10116e","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a conjecture on the structure of the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves of the moduli space rank $2$ parabolic bundles on $mathbb{P}^1$.","PeriodicalId":49582,"journal":{"name":"Russian Mathematical Surveys","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139372722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automorphism groups of $mathbb{P}^1$-bundles over a non-uniruled base","authors":"Tatiana Bandman, Yuri Gennad'evich Zarhin","doi":"10.4213/rm10093e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4213/rm10093e","url":null,"abstract":"In this survey we discuss holomorphic $mathbb{P}^1$-bundles $pcolon X to Y$ over a non-uniruled complex compact Kähler manifold $Y$, paying a special attention to the case when $Y$ is a complex torus. We consider the groups $operatorname{Aut}(X)$ and $operatorname{Bim}(X)$ of its biholomorphic and bimeromorphic automorphisms, respectively, and discuss when these groups are bounded, Jordan, strongly Jordan, or very Jordan. Bibliography: 88 titles.","PeriodicalId":49582,"journal":{"name":"Russian Mathematical Surveys","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135103168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strong and weak associativity of weighted Sobolev spaces of the first order","authors":"V. Stepanov, E. Ushakova","doi":"10.4213/rm10075e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4213/rm10075e","url":null,"abstract":"A brief overview of the recent results on the problem of characterization of associative and double associative spaces of function classes, including both ideal and non-ideal structures, is presented. The latter include two-weighted Sobolev spaces of the first order on the positive semi- axis. It is shown that, in contrast to the notion of duality, associativity can be ‘strong’ or ‘weak’. In addition, double associative spaces are further divided into three types. In this context it is established that a weighted Sobolev space of functions with compact support possesses weak associative reflexivity, while the strong associative space of a weak associative space is trivial. Weighted classes of Cesàro and Copson type have similar properties; for these classes the problem us fully investigated, and their connections with Sobolev spaces with power weights are established. As an application, the problem of boundedness of the Hilbert transform from a weighted Sobolev space to a weighted Lebesgue space is considered. Bibliography: 49 titles.","PeriodicalId":49582,"journal":{"name":"Russian Mathematical Surveys","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70328894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stable and historic behavior in replicator equations given by nonlinear mappings","authors":"Mansoor Khajibaevich Saburov","doi":"10.4213/rm10084e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4213/rm10084e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49582,"journal":{"name":"Russian Mathematical Surveys","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136368155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Boris Olegovich Volkov, Alexander Nikolaevich Pechen
{"title":"Higher-order traps for some strongly degenerate quantum control systems","authors":"Boris Olegovich Volkov, Alexander Nikolaevich Pechen","doi":"10.4213/rm10069e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4213/rm10069e","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum control is necessary for a variety of modern quantum technologies as it allows to optimally manipulate quantum systems. An important problem in quantum control is to establish whether the control objective functional has trapping behaviour or no, namely if it has or no traps -- controls from which it is difficult to escape by local search optimization methods. Higher order traps were previously introduced in [A. N. Pechen, D. J. Tannor,\"Are there traps in quantum control landscapes?\", Phys. Rev. Lett., 106 (2011), 120402], where 3-rd order traps were found. In this note we show that traps of arbitrarily high order exist for controllable quantum systems with special symmetry in the Hamiltonian.","PeriodicalId":49582,"journal":{"name":"Russian Mathematical Surveys","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136368141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}