Sterilization Using a Wide-Gap Discharge Formed by Dielectric Barrier Discharge Coupled with Surface Discharge under Atmospheric Pressure

Concentrations of Cortical GABA and Glutamate in Young Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder

“…After concluding that the groups do not differ on any of the GABA+ or Glx measures, we turned to examine whether neurometabolite levels are associated with sensory sensitivity or with ASD symptomatology, and whether these associations differ in direction or magnitude between the groups, as previously suggested [Brix et al, 2015;Robertson et al, 2016]. We estimated visual sensitivity by measuring thresholds for contrast detection, a task thought to rely on early visual cortex computations [Boynton, Demb, Glover, & Heeger, 1999;Ress & Heeger, 2003], and thresholds for motion discrimination, a task associated with MT+ activation [Chen, Lu, Shao, Weng, & Fang, 2017;Turkozer, Pamir, & Boyaci, 2016]. We correlated these thresholds with GABA+ and Glx measurements in the corresponding ROIs in the visual cortex (left and right MT+ for motion and occipital for contrast), however no significant correlations were observed (|r 21-38 | < 0.29, uncorrected P > 0.217).…”

Inactivation of Escherichia coli Using the Atmospheric Pressure Plasma Jet of Ar gas

“…In particular, the sterilization methods using atmospheric pressure plasma have no vacuum pumping units and enable a continuous sterilization process. Therefore, research studies on sterilization treatment using dielectric barrier discharge plasma [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] or glow discharge plasma [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] at atmospheric pressure have been actively carried out in recent years.…”