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  1. Article ; Online: Distilling coarse-grained representations of molecular electronic structure with continuously gated message passing.

    Maier, J Charlie / Wang, Chun-I / Jackson, Nicholas E

    The Journal of chemical physics

    2024  Volume 160, Issue 2

    Abstract: Bottom-up methods for coarse-grained (CG) molecular modeling are critically needed to establish rigorous links between atomistic reference data and reduced molecular representations. For a target molecule, the ideal reduced CG representation is a ... ...

    Abstract Bottom-up methods for coarse-grained (CG) molecular modeling are critically needed to establish rigorous links between atomistic reference data and reduced molecular representations. For a target molecule, the ideal reduced CG representation is a function of both the conformational ensemble of the system and the target physical observable(s) to be reproduced at the CG resolution. However, there is an absence of algorithms for selecting CG representations of molecules from which complex properties, including molecular electronic structure, can be accurately modeled. We introduce continuously gated message passing (CGMP), a graph neural network (GNN) method for atomically decomposing molecular electronic structure sampled over conformational ensembles. CGMP integrates 3D-invariant GNNs and a novel gated message passing system to continuously reduce the atomic degrees of freedom accessible for electronic predictions, resulting in a one-shot importance ranking of atoms contributing to a target molecular property. Moreover, CGMP provides the first approach by which to quantify the degeneracy of "good" CG representations conditioned on specific prediction targets, facilitating the development of more transferable CG representations. We further show how CGMP can be used to highlight multiatom correlations, illuminating a path to developing CG electronic Hamiltonians in terms of interpretable collective variables for arbitrarily complex molecules.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 3113-6
    ISSN 1089-7690 ; 0021-9606
    ISSN (online) 1089-7690
    ISSN 0021-9606
    DOI 10.1063/5.0179253
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  2. Article: Monte Carlo Dose Calculation - A QA Method for SRT and SBRT Plans in Treating Multiple and Small Metastatic Lesions.

    Lin, Teh / Wang, Lu / Charlie Ma, C-M

    Journal of medical physics

    2022  Volume 47, Issue 1, Page(s) 99–104

    Abstract: To provide accurate and fast 3-D dose verification for hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT/SBRT) of small and multi targets calculated with a Varian Eclipse treatment planning system (TPS) delivered on a Varian accelerator. Ten brain and lung ...

    Abstract To provide accurate and fast 3-D dose verification for hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT/SBRT) of small and multi targets calculated with a Varian Eclipse treatment planning system (TPS) delivered on a Varian accelerator. Ten brain and lung hypofractionated SRT/SBRT linac-based and CyberKnife plans were generated by the Eclipse system for delivery on the accelerator with the Millenium-120 leaf multileaf collimator (MLC) and Multiplan for the CyberKnife machine. These clinical SRT/SBRT plans required accurate quality assurance measurements to obtain absolute point dose and 3-D dose distributions due to the low number of fractions and high fraction doses. For small-field and multi-target plans, the EGS4/MCSIM code was used to calculate the dose distribution. A 0.125 cc ion chamber, a 0.016 cc pin-point chamber and Kodak EDR2 film were used for the measurements and the results were compared with Monte Carlo (MC) calculations. The dosimetry for small-field and multi-target treatment plans is challenging due to the comparable range of secondary electrons and the field sizes defined by SRT/SBRT MLC segments. Our MC simulations can accurately reproduce the linac dose distributions (within 1%/1 mm) three dimensionally. For the clinical SRT/SBRT plans investigated in this work, the MC doses agreed within 3% with ion chamber measurements and within 2%/2 mm with film measurements. The doses calculated by the Eclipse AAA algorithm and Multiplan differed by no more than 5% from MC calculations for small (4-40 cc) Planning Target Volumes (PTVs). MC dose calculation provides accurate and fast 3-D dose verification for hypofractionated SRT for small and multi-target treatment plans generated by a Varian Eclipse TPS on a Varian accelerator and Multiplan treatment planning on the CyberKnife System.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-03-31
    Publishing country India
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1193902-3
    ISSN 1998-3913 ; 0971-6203
    ISSN (online) 1998-3913
    ISSN 0971-6203
    DOI 10.4103/jmp.jmp_123_21
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  3. Article ; Online: A Statistical Overview of Fixed Wing Air Medical Transportation Operations in the United States (2019-2020).

    Sherry, Lance / Wang, Charlie

    Air medical journal

    2022  Volume 41, Issue 4, Page(s) 359–369

    Abstract: Air medical transportation (AMT) services provide the transportation of patients, medical teams, and organs for the US health care system. Interfacility transfers account for 54% of air medical transports, and delivering specialty care and organs ... ...

    Abstract Air medical transportation (AMT) services provide the transportation of patients, medical teams, and organs for the US health care system. Interfacility transfers account for 54% of air medical transports, and delivering specialty care and organs accounts for 13% of air medical transports. Interfacility transfer, specialty care, and organ delivery are predominantly conducted using fixed wing aircraft. The AMT fixed wing fleet has grown 2.2% per year over the last decade along with a 3.6% per year expansion in the number of AMT base airports with fixed wing operations. This article aims to characterize the operations of fixed wing AMT in the United States for the period of 2019 to 2020. This information can be used for aircraft design, airport and air traffic control infrastructure assessment and funding, and AMT industry sector analysis and strategic planning. Data from 12 databases were combined to identify AMT flights and generate operational statistics including the number of vehicles; ownership; flight distances; flight frequency; geographic distribution; and the types of airports, air traffic control, and navigation systems used.
    MeSH term(s) Air Ambulances ; Aircraft ; Aviation ; Databases, Factual ; Humans ; United States
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-24
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 2072853-0
    ISSN 1532-6497 ; 1067-991X
    ISSN (online) 1532-6497
    ISSN 1067-991X
    DOI 10.1016/j.amj.2022.04.011
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  4. Article ; Online: A massive compact quiescent galaxy at

    van Dokkum, Pieter / Brammer, Gabriel / Wang, Bingjie / Leja, Joel / Conroy, Charlie

    Nature astronomy

    2023  Volume 8, Issue 1, Page(s) 119–125

    Abstract: One of the surprising results from the Hubble Space Telescope was the discovery that many of the most massive galaxies at ... ...

    Abstract One of the surprising results from the Hubble Space Telescope was the discovery that many of the most massive galaxies at redshift
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-10-19
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 2397-3366
    ISSN (online) 2397-3366
    DOI 10.1038/s41550-023-02103-9
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  5. Article: Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of AA1050/AA6061 Laminated Composites Fabricated through Three-Cycle Accumulative Roll Bonding and Subsequent Cryorolling.

    Song, Lingling / Gao, Haitao / Wang, Zhengyu / Cui, Huijie / Kong, Charlie / Yu, Hailiang

    Materials (Basel, Switzerland)

    2024  Volume 17, Issue 3

    Abstract: In this study, AA1050/AA6061 laminated composites were prepared by three-cycle accumulative roll bonding (ARB) and subsequent rolling. The effects of the rolling process on the microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of AA1050/AA6061 laminated ...

    Abstract In this study, AA1050/AA6061 laminated composites were prepared by three-cycle accumulative roll bonding (ARB) and subsequent rolling. The effects of the rolling process on the microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of AA1050/AA6061 laminated composites were systematically investigated. The results indicate that the mechanical properties of the laminated composites can be effectively improved by cryorolling compared with room-temperature rolling. The microstructure analysis reveals that cryorolling can suppress the necking of the hard layer to obtain a flat lamellar structure. Moreover, the microstructure characterized by transmission electron microscopy shows that cryorolling can inhibit the dynamic recovery and significantly refine the grain size of the constituent layers. Meanwhile, the tensile fracture surface illustrates that AA1050/AA6061 laminated composites have the optimal interfacial bonding quality after cryorolling. Therefore, the laminated composites obtain excellent mechanical properties with the contribution of these factors.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-25
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2487261-1
    ISSN 1996-1944
    ISSN 1996-1944
    DOI 10.3390/ma17030577
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  6. Article ; Online: Identifying Coarse-Grained Representations for Electronic Predictions.

    Wang, Chun-I / Maier, J Charlie / Jackson, Nicholas E

    Journal of chemical theory and computation

    2023  Volume 19, Issue 15, Page(s) 4982–4990

    Abstract: Coarse-grained (CG) simulations are an important computational tool in chemistry and materials science. Recently, systematic "bottom-up" CG models have been introduced to capture electronic structure variations of molecules and polymers at the CG ... ...

    Abstract Coarse-grained (CG) simulations are an important computational tool in chemistry and materials science. Recently, systematic "bottom-up" CG models have been introduced to capture electronic structure variations of molecules and polymers at the CG resolution. However, the performance of these models is limited by the ability to select reduced representations that preserve electronic structure information, which remains a challenge. We propose two methods for (i) identifying important electronically coupled atomic degrees of freedom and (ii) scoring the efficacy of CG representations used in conjunction with CG electronic predictions. The first method is a physically motivated approach that incorporates nuclear vibrations and electronic structure derived from simple quantum chemical calculations. We complement this physically motivated approach with a machine learning technique based on the marginal contribution of nuclear degrees of freedom to electronic prediction accuracy using an equivariant graph neural network. By integrating these two approaches, we can both identify critical electronically coupled atomic coordinates and score the efficacy of arbitrary CG representations for making electronic predictions. We leverage this capability to make a connection between optimized CG representations and the future potential for "bottom-up" development of simplified model Hamiltonians incorporating nonlinear vibrational modes.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-05
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1549-9626
    ISSN (online) 1549-9626
    DOI 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00466
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  7. Article ; Online: Chinese herbal medicine bath therapy for psoriasis vulgaris using topical calcipotriol as the comparator: A systematic review with meta-analysis and association rule analysis.

    Wang, Junyue / Zhang, Claire Shuiqing / Zhang, Anthony Lin / Changli Xue, Charlie / Lu, Chuanjian

    Journal of ethnopharmacology

    2024  Volume 330, Page(s) 118166

    Abstract: Ethnopharmacological relevance: Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. Vitamin D analogues are the first-line topical agents for the long-term management of psoriasis. Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) bath therapy is commonly employed for ... ...

    Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance: Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. Vitamin D analogues are the first-line topical agents for the long-term management of psoriasis. Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) bath therapy is commonly employed for psoriasis. However, the effects and safety of CHM bath therapy for psoriasis vulgaris, using topical calcipotriol as the comparator, remain inconclusive. Furthermore, the combination of herbs, a distinctive feature of CHM, is essential for its therapeutic effects due to the individual and synergistic properties of the herbs involved.
    Aim of the study: The review was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of CHM bath therapy for psoriasis vulgaris, using calcipotriol as the comparator. Potential herbs and herb combinations of CHM bath therapy were also explored for further drug discovery.
    Materials and methods: Nine databases were searched from inception until March 05, 2024. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) investigating CHM bath therapy, using calcipotriol as the comparator, were included. Statistical analyses were performed using RevMan 5.4, Stata 12.0 and SPSS Clementine 12.0 software. The evidence certainty for outcomes was assessed using the approach proposed by the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group. Moreover, association rule analysis on herbs identified in the systematic review was conducted to explore the potential herbs and herb combinations.
    Results: A total of 17 RCTs involving 1,379 participants were included in this systematic review. The findings of this review revealed that: 1) CHM bath therapy produced comparable effects to calcipotriol in reducing Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI), Psoriasis Scalp Severity Index (PSSI), and itch visual analogue scale (VAS) at the end of the treatment phase; as well as exhibited a superior long-term effect than calcipotriol through decreasing relapse rates at the end of the follow-up phase; 2) CHM bath therapy showed an additional benefit when combined with calcipotriol in managing psoriasis vulgaris at the end of the treatment phase, in terms of PASI, PSSI, itch VAS, IL-17, IL-23, CD3
    Conclusions: The effects of CHM bath therapy were comparable with those of topical calcipotriol but demonstrated a longer-lasting effect. Combining CHM bath therapy with calcipotriol also provided an additional benefit for adult psoriasis vulgaris. However, the certainty of the evidence was downgraded due to the methodological limitations of included studies. To confirm the findings of this review, future investigations should involve double-blinded, placebo-controlled RCTs. Importantly, it appears worthwhile to consider further research for drug development utilising the identified herbs or herb combinations.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-04-16
    Publishing country Ireland
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 134511-4
    ISSN 1872-7573 ; 0378-8741
    ISSN (online) 1872-7573
    ISSN 0378-8741
    DOI 10.1016/j.jep.2024.118166
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  8. Article ; Online: Adding Chinese herbal medicine bath therapy to conventional therapies for psoriasis vulgaris: A systematic review with meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials.

    Wang, Junyue / Zhang, Claire Shuiqing / Zhang, Anthony Lin / Chen, Haiming / Xue, Charlie Changli / Lu, Chuanjian

    Phytomedicine : international journal of phytotherapy and phytopharmacology

    2024  Volume 128, Page(s) 155381

    Abstract: Background: Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) bath is commonly used in China as an adjuvant therapy for managing psoriasis vulgaris. Previous systematic reviews showed that CHM bath therapy was effective and safe for psoriasis vulgaris, however, without ... ...

    Abstract Background: Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) bath is commonly used in China as an adjuvant therapy for managing psoriasis vulgaris. Previous systematic reviews showed that CHM bath therapy was effective and safe for psoriasis vulgaris, however, without exploration of the specifics of CHM bath therapy such as the optimal temperature, duration of each session, and the total treatment duration.
    Purpose: To evaluate the add-on effects of CHM bath therapy to conventional therapies for adult psoriasis vulgaris.
    Methods: We conducted a comprehensive search in nine medical databases from inception to September 2022 to identify relevant randomised controlled trials (RCTs) published in Chinese or English. The included studies compared the combination of CHM bath therapy and conventional therapies to conventional therapies alone for adult psoriasis vulgaris. Methodological quality assessment of the included RCTs was performed using the Cochrane risk-of-bias tool 2 (RoB 2). Statistical analysis was carried out using RevMan 5.4, R 4.2.3 and Stata 12.0 software. The certainty of evidence of outcome measures was evaluated using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development, and Evaluation Working Group (GRADE) system.
    Results: A total of 23 RCTs involving 2,183 participants were included in this systematic review. Findings suggested that the combination of CHM bath therapy and conventional therapies was more effective in reducing Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI), Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) and itch visual analogue scale, compared to using conventional therapies alone. These enhanced effects were notably observed when the CHM bath was set above 38 °C and had a duration of 20 and 30 min, as assessed by DLQI. Moreover, an eight-week treatment duration resulted in better effects for PASI compared to shorter durations. Additionally, the top ten frequently used herbs in the included studies were identified. Despite the findings, the certainty of evidence was rated as 'low' or 'moderate' based on the GRADE assessment, and significant heterogeneity was detected in subgroup and sensitivity analyses.
    Conclusion: The CHM bath therapy combined with conventional therapies is more effective and safer than conventional therapies alone for adult psoriasis vulgaris. The results suggest a potential correlation between treatment effects and factors such as extended treatment duration, increased bath temperature, and longer bath sessions. However, the certainty of evidence was downgraded due to methodological limitations of the included studies. To confirm the findings of this systematic review, a double-blinded, placebo-controlled RCT is needed in the future.
    MeSH term(s) Psoriasis/drug therapy ; Psoriasis/therapy ; Humans ; Drugs, Chinese Herbal/therapeutic use ; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic ; Baths/methods ; Combined Modality Therapy ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional/methods ; Phytotherapy
    Chemical Substances Drugs, Chinese Herbal
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-01
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article ; Systematic Review ; Meta-Analysis
    ZDB-ID 1205240-1
    ISSN 1618-095X ; 0944-7113
    ISSN (online) 1618-095X
    ISSN 0944-7113
    DOI 10.1016/j.phymed.2024.155381
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  9. Article ; Online: Zhong et al. Respond to "There's No Place Like Home".

    Zhong, Charlie / Franklin, Meredith / Wang, Sophia S / Longcore, Travis

    American journal of epidemiology

    2022  Volume 191, Issue 9, Page(s) 1544–1545

    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-05-10
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 2937-3
    ISSN 1476-6256 ; 0002-9262
    ISSN (online) 1476-6256
    ISSN 0002-9262
    DOI 10.1093/aje/kwac085
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  10. Article ; Online: Monte Carlo dose calculation – A QA method for srt and sbrt plans in treating multiple and small metastatic lesions

    Teh Lin / Lu Wang / C-M Charlie Ma

    Journal of Medical Physics, Vol 47, Iss 1, Pp 99-

    2022  Volume 104

    Abstract: To provide accurate and fast 3-D dose verification for hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT/SBRT) of small and multi targets calculated with a Varian Eclipse treatment planning system (TPS) delivered on a Varian accelerator. Ten brain and lung ...

    Abstract To provide accurate and fast 3-D dose verification for hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT/SBRT) of small and multi targets calculated with a Varian Eclipse treatment planning system (TPS) delivered on a Varian accelerator. Ten brain and lung hypofractionated SRT/SBRT linac-based and CyberKnife plans were generated by the Eclipse system for delivery on the accelerator with the Millenium-120 leaf multileaf collimator (MLC) and Multiplan for the CyberKnife machine. These clinical SRT/SBRT plans required accurate quality assurance measurements to obtain absolute point dose and 3-D dose distributions due to the low number of fractions and high fraction doses. For small-field and multi-target plans, the EGS4/MCSIM code was used to calculate the dose distribution. A 0.125 cc ion chamber, a 0.016 cc pin-point chamber and Kodak EDR2 film were used for the measurements and the results were compared with Monte Carlo (MC) calculations. The dosimetry for small-field and multi-target treatment plans is challenging due to the comparable range of secondary electrons and the field sizes defined by SRT/SBRT MLC segments. Our MC simulations can accurately reproduce the linac dose distributions (within 1%/1 mm) three dimensionally. For the clinical SRT/SBRT plans investigated in this work, the MC doses agreed within 3% with ion chamber measurements and within 2%/2 mm with film measurements. The doses calculated by the Eclipse AAA algorithm and Multiplan differed by no more than 5% from MC calculations for small (4–40 cc) Planning Target Volumes (PTVs). MC dose calculation provides accurate and fast 3-D dose verification for hypofractionated SRT for small and multi-target treatment plans generated by a Varian Eclipse TPS on a Varian accelerator and Multiplan treatment planning on the CyberKnife System.
    Keywords monte carlo ; quality assurance ; radiation treatment ; srt/sbrt ; Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine ; R895-920
    Subject code 616
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
    Document type Article ; Online
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