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Nowak S, Rosin M, Stuerzlinger W, Bartram L. Visual Analytics: A Method to Explore Natural Histories of Oral Epithelial Dysplasia. FRONTIERS IN ORAL HEALTH 2022; 2:703874. [PMID: 35048041 PMCID: PMC8757761 DOI: 10.3389/froh.2021.703874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
Risk assessment and follow-up of oral potentially malignant disorders in patients with mild or moderate oral epithelial dysplasia is an ongoing challenge for improved oral cancer prevention. Part of the challenge is a lack of understanding of how observable features of such dysplasia, gathered as data by clinicians during follow-up, relate to underlying biological processes driving progression. Current research is at an exploratory phase where the precise questions to ask are not known. While traditional statistical and the newer machine learning and artificial intelligence methods are effective in well-defined problem spaces with large datasets, these are not the circumstances we face currently. We argue that the field is in need of exploratory methods that can better integrate clinical and scientific knowledge into analysis to iteratively generate viable hypotheses. In this perspective, we propose that visual analytics presents a set of methods well-suited to these needs. We illustrate how visual analytics excels at generating viable research hypotheses by describing our experiences using visual analytics to explore temporal shifts in the clinical presentation of epithelial dysplasia. Visual analytics complements existing methods and fulfills a critical and at-present neglected need in the formative stages of inquiry we are facing.
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- Stan Nowak
- School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- BC Oral Cancer Prevention Program, Cancer Control Research, BC Cancer, Vancouver, BC, Canada.,Department of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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- School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
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Sheng L, Zhang Z, Sun G, Wang L. Light-driven antimicrobial activities of vitamin K3 against Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella Enteritidis. Food Control 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2020.107235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Hall KW, Bradley AJ, Hinrichs U, Huron S, Wood J, Collins C, Carpendale S. Design by Immersion: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Problem-Driven Visualizations. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS 2020; 26:109-118. [PMID: 31449025 DOI: 10.1109/tvcg.2019.2934790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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While previous work exists on how to conduct and disseminate insights from problem-driven visualization projects and design studies, the literature does not address how to accomplish these goals in transdisciplinary teams in ways that advance all disciplines involved. In this paper we introduce and define a new methodological paradigm we call design by immersion, which provides an alternative perspective on problem-driven visualization work. Design by immersion embeds transdisciplinary experiences at the center of the visualization process by having visualization researchers participate in the work of the target domain (or domain experts participate in visualization research). Based on our own combined experiences of working on cross-disciplinary, problem-driven visualization projects, we present six case studies that expose the opportunities that design by immersion enables, including (1) exploring new domain-inspired visualization design spaces, (2) enriching domain understanding through personal experiences, and (3) building strong transdisciplinary relationships. Furthermore, we illustrate how the process of design by immersion opens up a diverse set of design activities that can be combined in different ways depending on the type of collaboration, project, and goals. Finally, we discuss the challenges and potential pitfalls of design by immersion.
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Kondeti VSSK, Phan CQ, Wende K, Jablonowski H, Gangal U, Granick JL, Hunter RC, Bruggeman PJ. Long-lived and short-lived reactive species produced by a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet for the inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus. Free Radic Biol Med 2018; 124:275-287. [PMID: 29864482 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.05.083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2017] [Revised: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Different chemical pathways leading to the inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus aureus by a cold atmospheric pressure plasma jet (APPJ) in buffered and non-buffered solutions are reported. As APPJs produce a complex mixture of reactive species in solution, a comprehensive set of diagnostics were used to assess the liquid phase chemistry. This includes absorption and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy in addition to a scavenger study to assess the relative importance of the various plasma produced species involved in the inactivation of bacteria. Different modes of inactivation of bacteria were found for the same plasma source depending on the solution and the plasma feed gas. The inactivation of bacteria in saline is due to the production of short-lived species in the case of argon plasma when the plasma touches the liquid. Long-lived species (ClO-) formed by the abundant amount of O. radicals produced by the plasmas played a dominant role in the case of Ar + 1% O2 and Ar + 1% air plasmas when the plasma is not in direct contact with the liquid. Inactivation of bacteria in distilled water was found to be due to the generation of short-lived species: O. &O2.- for Ar + 1% O2 plasma and O2.- (and .OH in absence of saline) for Ar plasma.
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- V S Santosh K Kondeti
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 111, Church Street, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota, Microbiology Research Facility, 689, SE, 23rd Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- ZIK Plasmatis at Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology e.V. (INP Greifswald e.V.), Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.
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- ZIK Plasmatis at Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology e.V. (INP Greifswald e.V.), Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 111, Church Street, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 339 Veterinary Medical Center, 1352 Boyd Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA.
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota, Microbiology Research Facility, 689, SE, 23rd Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 111, Church Street, SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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The dynamics of chemical reactions in liquid solutions are now amenable to direct study using ultrafast laser spectroscopy techniques and advances in computer simulation methods. The surrounding solvent affects the chemical reaction dynamics in numerous ways, which include: (i) formation of complexes between reactants and solvent molecules; (ii) modifications to transition state energies and structures relative to the reactants and products; (iii) coupling between the motions of the reacting molecules and the solvent modes, and exchange of energy; (iv) solvent caging of reactants and products; and (v) structural changes to the solvation shells in response to the changing chemical identity of the solutes, on timescales which may be slower than the reactive events. This article reviews progress in the study of bimolecular chemical reaction dynamics in solution, concentrating on reactions which occur on ground electronic states. It illustrates this progress with reference to recent experimental and computational studies, and considers how the various ways in which a solvent affects the chemical reaction dynamics can be unravelled. Implications are considered for research in fields such as mechanistic synthetic chemistry.
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- Andrew J Orr-Ewing
- School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.
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Benedikt J, Mokhtar Hefny M, Shaw A, Buckley BR, Iza F, Schäkermann S, Bandow JE. The fate of plasma-generated oxygen atoms in aqueous solutions: non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasmas as an efficient source of atomic O(aq). Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:12037-12042. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp00197a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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It is demonstrated with help of 18O2 labeling that O(aq) is stable in water and can directly react with dissolved molecules.
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- J. Benedikt
- Experimental and Applied Physics
- Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
- Christian-Albrecht-Universität zu Kiel
- 24098 Kiel
- Germany
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- Research Department Plasmas with Complex Interactions
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 44780 Bochum
- Germany
- Basic Science Department
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- Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
- Loughborough University
- UK
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- Department of Chemistry
- Loughborough University
- Loughborough
- UK
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- Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
- Loughborough University
- UK
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- Applied Microbiology
- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 44780 Bochum
- Germany
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- Applied Microbiology
- Faculty of Biology and Biotechnology
- Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 44780 Bochum
- Germany
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Codorniu-Hernández E, Hall KW, Boese AD, Ziemianowicz D, Carpendale S, Kusalik PG. Mechanism of O(3P) Formation from a Hydroxyl Radical Pair in Aqueous Solution. J Chem Theory Comput 2015; 11:4740-8. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00783] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Department
of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Graz, Heinrichstraße 28/IV, 8010 Graz, Austria
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 24-25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Onyango AN. Alternatives to the 'water oxidation pathway' of biological ozone formation. J Chem Biol 2015; 9:1-8. [PMID: 26855676 DOI: 10.1007/s12154-015-0140-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2015] [Accepted: 06/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Recent studies have shown that ozone (O3) is endogenously generated in living tissues, where it makes both positive and negative physiological contributions. A pathway for the formation of both O3 and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was previously proposed, beginning with the antibody or amino acid-catalyzed oxidation of water by singlet oxygen ((1)O2) to form hydrogen trioxide (H2O3) as a key intermediate. A key pillar of this hypothesis is that some of the H2O2 molecules incorporate water-derived oxygen atoms. However, H2O3 decomposes extremely readily in water to form (1)O2 and water, rather than O3 and H2O2. This article highlights key literature indicating that the oxidation of organic molecules such as the amino acids methionine, tryptophan, histidine, and cysteine by (1)O2 is involved in ozone formation. Based on this, an alternative hypothesis for ozone formation is developed involving a further reaction of singlet oxygen with various oxidized organic intermediates. H2O2 having water-derived oxygen atoms is subsequently formed during ozone decomposition in water by known reactions.
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- Arnold N Onyango
- Department of Food Science and Technology, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 62000, 00200 Nairobi, Kenya
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