Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) programs for early psychosis (EP) have expanded rapidly in the United States (US) in recent years due to evidence supporting early intervention and subsequent federal funding. The majority of CSC programs are located in major urban and surrounding suburban areas, although many states are expanding or planning to expand CSC services to rural and remote areas. Despite ongoing implementation efforts, little is known about effective implementation of CSC in rural and remote communities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGastrointestinal (GI) cancers represent a significant global health burden, with high morbidity and mortality often linked to late-stage detection and metastatic disease. The progression of these malignancies is critically driven by angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, and the surrounding dynamic tumor microenvironment (TME), a complex ecosystem comprising various cell types and non-cellular components. This comprehensive review, based on a systematic search of the PubMed database, synthesizes the existing literature to define the intertwined roles of angiogenesis and the TME in GI tumorigenesis.
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August 2025
The acid-base properties of catalytic materials play a crucial role in facilitating chemical transformations. Nanoscale structural heterogeneities within these catalysts can significantly affect the distribution, type, and strength of their acid-base sites, thereby influencing both localized and overall catalytic reactivity. In this study, high spatial-resolution chemical imaging of basic sites on supported Mg-Al mixed oxide (MgAlO) particles, which serve as catalysts for aldol condensation reactions, was achieved using atomic force microscopy-infrared (AFM-IR) nanospectroscopy measurements while using formic acid as a chemical probe for surface basic sites detection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIt is known that the long-range quantum entanglement exhibited in free fermion systems is sufficient to "thermalize" a small subsystem in that the subsystem reduced density matrix computed from a typical excited eigenstate of the combined system is approximately thermal. Remarkably, fermions without any interactions are thus thought to satisfy the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. We explore this hypothesis when the fermion subsystem is only minimally coupled to a quantum reservoir (in the form of another fermion system) through a quantum point contact (QPC).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of a mature histiocytic neoplasm after an immature lymphoproliferative disorder is rare but well documented. Previous studies have demonstrated clonal relationships between these entities-often through T- and B-cell receptor clonality analyses-supporting the concept of transdifferentiation. We report a unique case of a solitary, subtle xanthogranuloma identified during routine comprehensive skin examination in a patient with a history of T-cell acute lymphoblastic lymphoma, postallogeneic stem cell transplant.
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