Publications by authors named "Parth Kumar"

Introduction: Pectoralis major tendon (PMT) tears are increasingly common, particularly among young, athletic individuals.

Case Report: This case report discusses the management of a chronic PMT tear in a 24-year-old professional wrestler who sustained an injury during a wrestling match. Initially treated conservatively with immobilization and physiotherapy, the patient presented 1 year later with unsatisfactory functional outcomes.

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A key question in the thermodynamics of open quantum systems is how to partition thermodynamic quantities such as entropy, work, and internal energy between the system and its environment. We show that the only partition under which entropy is nonsingular is based on a partition of Hilbert space, which assigns half the system-environment coupling to the system and half to the environment. However, quantum work partitions nontrivially under Hilbert-space partition, and we derive a work sum rule that accounts for quantum work at a distance.

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Purpose: To evaluate radiolabeled doxorubicin (Dox) analogs as tracers of baseline Dox biodistribution in vivo during hepatic intra-arterial chemotherapy and to assess the efficacy of ChemoFilter devices to bind Dox in vitro.

Materials And Methods: In an in vitro static experiment, [fluorine-18]N-succinimidyl 4-fluorobenzoate ([F]SFB) and [fluorine-18]fluorobenzoyl-doxorubicin ([F]FB-Dox) were added to a beaker containing a filter material (Dowex cation exchange resin, single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) resin, or sulfonated polymer coated mesh). In an in vitro flow model, [F]FB-Dox was added into a Dox solution in phosphate-buffered saline, and the solution flowed via a syringe column containing the filter materials.

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CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) has facilitated the study of essential genes in diverse organisms using both high-throughput and targeted approaches. Despite the promise of this technique, no comprehensive arrayed CRISPRi library targeting essential genes exists for the model bacterium Escherichia coli, or for any Gram-negative species. Here, we built and characterized such a library.

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