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💓 Microcatheter delivers therapies to the tiniest blood vessels
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10-microcatheter-therapies-tiniest-blood-vessels.html

Microcatheter delivers therapies to the tiniest blood vessels
EPFL researchers have invented a remarkably small and ultraflexible neurovascular microcatheter. Powered by blood flow, it can safely navigate the most intricately branched arteries in a matter of seconds.

Unlawful Attacks on Venezuelan Vessels (Eric Friedman/New York City Bar Association)
https://www.nycbar.org/press-releases/unlawful-attacks-on-venezuelan-vessels/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p131#a251006p131

One Navy secretary and his allies in Congress fought to build more littoral combat ships even as they broke down at sea and their weapons systems failed. The Navy wound up with more ships than it wanted, at an estimated lifetime cost that could reach $100 billion or more.
The Navy’s haste to deliver ships took precedence over combat ability. Without functioning weapons systems the vessels are like a “box floating in the ocean,” one former officer said.
Sailors and officers complain…

The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the “Little Crappy Ship”
Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of their weapons never worked. Now the Navy is getting rid of them. One is less than five years old.

“This is the last opportunity for Gaza residents who wish to do so to move south. Those who remain in Gaza will be (considered) terrorists and terror supporters.”
– Israeli defence minister Israel Katz
If the Hague were still a thing, this statement alone would be enough for him to hang.

Rare view of my desk during video editing.
With appropriate beverage vessels.

Pirates of the Mediterranean.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is being entirely ignored, it seems.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-military-vessels-pro-palestinian-flo…

Improve Retinal Artery/Vein Classification via Channel Couplin
Shuang Zeng, Chee Hong Lee, Kaiwen Li, Boxu Xie, Ourui Fu, Hangzhou He, Lei Zhu, Yanye Lu, Fangxiao Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03738

Improve Retinal Artery/Vein Classification via Channel Couplin
Retinal vessel segmentation plays a vital role in analyzing fundus images for the diagnosis of systemic and ocular diseases. Building on this, classifying segmented vessels into arteries and veins (A/V) further enables the extraction of clinically relevant features such as vessel width, diameter and tortuosity, which are essential for detecting conditions like diabetic and hypertensive retinopathy. However, manual segmentation and classification are time-consuming, costly and inconsistent. With…

Israel: "Do not disturb our genocide."
https://flipboard.com/@npr/world-news-fqv71h77z/-/a-QEqS0XHNRFyfZmIPjnTXAg:a:3195441-/0

Activists say Israel's navy has begun intercepting a Gaza-bound aid flotilla
BARCELONA, Spain — Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza said late Wednesday that the Israeli navy has begun intercepting their vessels as they approach the besieged Palestinian territory. The Global Sumud Flotilla, with Greta Thunberg, Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla …

👀 Eye scans reveal clues to aging and heart disease risk, study finds
#health

Eye scans reveal clues to aging and heart disease risk, study finds
The tiny blood vessels in your eyes might hold the key to predicting a person's risk of developing heart disease and how fast they're biologically aging, according to researchers at McMaster University and Population Health Research Institute (PHRI) - a joint institute of Hamilton Health Sciences and McMaster.

Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza
About 20 Israeli naval ships approached the fleet of more than 40 boats carrying aid, activists on board say
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/01/israeli-m…

Sinking ships and confiscating vessels: Israel's plan to intercept Gaza flotillas revealed
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/sinking-ships-confiscating-vessels-israels-233628878.html

The #GazaGenocide continues.
"The Israeli military has dismantled an entire humanitarian flotilla seeking to break its siege on war-ravaged Gaza, arresting hundreds of activists from dozens of vessels."
Last remaining boat in Gaza humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Last remaining boat in Gaza humanitarian flotilla intercepted by Israel
The Israeli navy has intercepted all the ships that formed the 44-strong Global Sumud Flotilla.

Die NCL Salten ist übrigens wieder unterwegs, aktuell nach Husoy.
https://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/details/9252773

The UK's obligatory inshore fishing vessel position reporting system (I-VMS) appears to have launched without one of the suppliers having a finalised contract. So they just stopped relaying the data.
(It's not like AIS - it batches up positional data and relays via cell-towers when in range.)
https://www.

I-VMS Urgent Update
The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) is aware that Succorfish is no longer transmitting I-VMS data to the UK VMS Hub. This is preventing MMO from receiving positional data from under-12m vessels using Succorfish type-approved devices.

Multi-vessel Interaction-Aware Trajectory Prediction and Collision Risk Assessment
Md Mahbub Alam, Jose F. Rodrigues-Jr, Gabriel Spadon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01836 https://…

Multi-vessel Interaction-Aware Trajectory Prediction and Collision Risk Assessment
Accurate vessel trajectory prediction is essential for enhancing situational awareness and preventing collisions. Still, existing data-driven models are constrained mainly to single-vessel forecasting, overlooking vessel interactions, navigation rules, and explicit collision risk assessment. We present a transformer-based framework for multi-vessel trajectory prediction with integrated collision risk analysis. For a given target vessel, the framework identifies nearby vessels. It jointly predic…

LadderMoE: Ladder-Side Mixture of Experts Adapters for Bronze Inscription Recognition
Rixin Zhou, Peiqiang Qiu, Qian Zhang, Chuntao Li, Xi Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01651 …

LadderMoE: Ladder-Side Mixture of Experts Adapters for Bronze Inscription Recognition
Bronze inscriptions (BI), engraved on ritual vessels, constitute a crucial stage of early Chinese writing and provide indispensable evidence for archaeological and historical studies. However, automatic BI recognition remains difficult due to severe visual degradation, multi-domain variability across photographs, rubbings, and tracings, and an extremely long-tailed character distribution. To address these challenges, we curate a large-scale BI dataset comprising 22454 full-page images and 19859…

20 unidentified vessels 3 NM ahead of the Global Sumud Flotilla— possible blockade.
Watch livestream here: #SUMUD

The US is set to raise the number of military vessels deployed near Venezuela to eight this week,
which Maduro described as
“the greatest threat that has been seen on our continent in the last 100 years.”
Following an authorization by Trump to use military force against Latin American drug cartels,
the Associated Press and CBS News report that “the US Navy now has two Aegis guided-missile destroyers — the USS Gravelyand the USS Jason Dunham — in the Caribbean,
a…

Maduro Says US Pointing '1,200 Missiles' at Venezuela After Trump Sends More Warships | Common Dreams
In a press conference on Monday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said the US has "1,200 missiles" pointed at the country after Trump sent more warships. One US defense official said Trump is gearing up for "Noriega part two," suggesting regime change.

Ooh, I feel more US sanctions on the UN coming up. https://flipboard.com/@bbcnews/top-stories-hc55lmo2z/-/a-WOBuTLhPRXugyid_r6rXUg:a:3199692-/0

US strikes on alleged drug boats violate law, UN human rights chief says
The UN's human rights chief has condemned US military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying drugs in the Caribbean and Pacific, saying the lethal attacks violate international law and amount to "extrajudicial killing". Volker Türk said on Friday that more than 60 people have reportedly been killed …

Trump just keeps killing people illegally in international waters, regardless who they are , they deserve a trial, this is not a war situation.
But all Trump allies (or countries that keep pretending they are) stay silent.
#trump #criminal

US forces kill two in strike on alleged drug boat in the Pacific
This is the eighth US strike on alleged drug trafficking vessels near Latin America, the first on the Pacific side.

The SjŸforsvaret (Royal Norwegian Navy) has large QR codes on the sides of their vessels, so when ships return to port they can scan the navy in...

Fusing Monocular RGB Images with AIS Data to Create a 6D Pose Estimation Dataset for Marine Vessels
Fabian Holst, Emre G\"ulsoylu, Simone Frintrop
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14767

Fusing Monocular RGB Images with AIS Data to Create a 6D Pose Estimation Dataset for Marine Vessels
The paper presents a novel technique for creating a 6D pose estimation dataset for marine vessels by fusing monocular RGB images with Automatic Identification System (AIS) data. The proposed technique addresses the limitations of relying purely on AIS for location information, caused by issues like equipment reliability, data manipulation, and transmission delays. By combining vessel detections from monocular RGB images, obtained using an object detection network (YOLOX-X), with AIS messages, t…

NFL Week 4 schedule rankings: Top 5 chaos games, from Ravens-Chiefs to Parsons vs. Cowboys https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6656922/2025/09/26/week-4-nfl-ravens-chiefs-micah-parsons-packers-cowboys-how-to-watch/

Airstrikes by the United States of America on boats in the Caribbean and in the Pacific violate international human rights law.
The U.N. human rights chief said Friday that
U.S. military strikes against boats in the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific Ocean allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are
“unacceptable” and must stop.
The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, called for an investigation into the strikes, in what appeared to mark t…

UN human rights chief says US strikes on alleged drug boats are 'unacceptable'
The U.N. human rights chief says U.S. military strikes on vessels allegedly carrying illegal drugs from South America are unacceptable and must stop. The condemnation on Friday appeared to mark the first from a U.N. organization. U.S. President Donald Trump has justified the attacks as necessary to stem drug flow into the U.S. Volker Türk, the rights chief, calls for an investigation, noting over 60 reported deaths since early September. The strikes reportedly violate international human right…

NFL Week 4 schedule rankings: Top 5 chaos games, from Ravens-Chiefs to Parsons vs. Cowboys https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6656922/2025/09/26/week-4-nfl-ravens-chiefs-micah-parsons-packers-cowboys-how-to-watch/

A04 - Time Squad
BLAKE: Zen, three sixty degree survey. Put etheric detector beams on maximum. Report any space vehicles within range. Vila, put visual survey on the screen.
ZEN: Negative on all systems. There are no space vehicles within detector range.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/10…

As U.S. fleet steams toward coast, Venezuelans face uncertainty, fear and, for some, hope
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-08-31/as-u-s-fleet-patrols-off-coast-venezuelans-face-uncertainty…

As U.S. fleet steams toward coast, Venezuelans face uncertainty, fear and, for some, hope
Long-suffering Venezuelans face new potential crisis as the U.S. sends navy vessels off its coast and increased pressure on President Nicolás Maduro.

Safe Robust Predictive Control-based Motion Planning of Automated Surface Vessels in Inland Waterways
Sajad Ahmadi, Hossein Nejatbakhsh Esfahani, Javad Mohammadpour Velni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06687

Safe Robust Predictive Control-based Motion Planning of Automated Surface Vessels in Inland Waterways
Deploying self-navigating surface vessels in inland waterways offers a sustainable alternative to reduce road traffic congestion and emissions. However, navigating confined waterways presents unique challenges, including narrow channels, higher traffic density, and hydrodynamic disturbances. Existing methods for autonomous vessel navigation often lack the robustness or precision required for such environments. This paper presents a new motion planning approach for Automated Surface Vessels (ASV…

Having just one alcoholic drink every day is linked to brain damage - Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/having-just-one-alcoholic-drink-every-day-linked-to-damaged-brain-vessels/

Untangling Vascular Trees for Surgery and Interventional Radiology
Guillaume Houry, Tom Boeken, St\'ephanie Allassonni\`ere, Jean Feydy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23165 http…

Untangling Vascular Trees for Surgery and Interventional Radiology
The diffusion of minimally invasive, endovascular interventions motivates the development of visualization methods for complex vascular networks. We propose a planar representation of blood vessel trees which preserves the properties that are most relevant to catheter navigation: topology, length and curvature. Taking as input a three-dimensional digital angiography, our algorithm produces a faithful two-dimensional map of the patient's vessels within a few seconds. To this end, we propose opti…

As usual we watched the "Stoertebekker" stage play at Ralswiek on Rügen Island. The stage setups and wardrobes were as awesome as always. They really try to improve on that every year and come up with clever mechanisms to transform the building for the various acts of the play. The script this year left room for desire ;) Nevertheless a happing worth attending
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"""
Customarily, the honour of having liberated hysteria from the ancient myths about a displacement of the uterus goes to Le Pois and Willis. Jean Liebaud, translating or rather adapting Marinello’s work for the seventeenth century, still accepted (with a small number of caveats) the idea of a spontaneous movement of the womb. If it moved, it was “to be more at ease; not that this came about through prudence, nor was it a conscious decision or an animal stimulus, but by a natural instinct, to safeguard health and to have the pleasure of something delectable.” The idea that it could change its place and move around the body, bringing convulsions and spasms everywhere it travelled, had been abandoned, for it was now taken to be ‘tightly held in place’ by the cervix, ligaments, vessels and the sheath of the peritoneum; yet in some senses it could change its location. “The womb therefore, even though it is tightly fixed to the parts that we have described and cannot easily change its place, still manages to roam, making strange, petulant movements around the woman’s body. These diverse movements include ascensions and descents, convulsions, wanderings and prolapses. It can wander up to the liver, spleen, diaphragm, stomach, chest, heart, lung, throat and head.” Physicians of the classical age are more or less unanimous in refusing this explanation.
[…] Yet these analyses were not sufficient to break the theme of an essential link between hysteria and the womb. But the link is now conceived in different terms. It is no longer considered to be the trajectory of a real displacement through the body, but rather a sort of mute propagation through the paths of the organism and its functional proximities. It cannot be said that the seat of the malady has become the brain, nor that thanks to Willis a psychological explanation of hysteria was now possible. But the brain does take on the role of a relay that distributes a malady whose origins are visceral, and the womb brings it on just as the other viscera do. Up until the end of the eighteenth century, and Pinel, the uterus and the womb are still present in the pathology of hysteria, but thanks to a privileged diffusion by the humours and nerves, not because of any particular prestige of their nature.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Washington Post edit board:
There’s a name for attacks on civilian ships on the high seas:
Piracy.
That’s also an unfortunately plausible description of the Trump administration’s bombings of vessels around South America that it says are carrying drugs.
-- Max Boot
https://www.

The new pirates of the Caribbean
Attacks against alleged drug boats are lawless.

Biology-driven assessment of deep learning super-resolution imaging of the porosity network in dentin
Lauren Anderson, Lucas Chatelain, Nicolas Tremblay, Kathryn Grandfield, David Rousseau, Aur\'elien Gourrier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08407

Biology-driven assessment of deep learning super-resolution imaging of the porosity network in dentin
The mechanosensory system of teeth is currently believed to partly rely on Odontoblast cells stimulation by fluid flow through a porosity network extending through dentin. Visualizing the smallest sub-microscopic porosity vessels therefore requires the highest achievable resolution from confocal fluorescence microscopy, the current gold standard. This considerably limits the extent of the field of view to very small sample regions. To overcome this limitation, we tested different deep learning …

Europe pioneers lead-cooled nuclear reactors for clean energy at sea, revolutionizing maritime decarbonization. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Europe bets on lead-cooled nuclear reactors to decarbonize sea vessels
Switzerland's ABB and Sweden's Blykalla have joined their forces to develop a small lead-cooled nuclear reactor for maritime use.

An Analogy of Frequency Droop Control for Grid-forming Sources
Minghui Lu, Brett Ross
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07177 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07177

An Analogy of Frequency Droop Control for Grid-forming Sources
In this paper, we present an analogy for a power system dominated by grid-forming (GFM) sources that proves to be a powerful visualization tool for analyses of power flow, frequency regulation, and power dispatch. Frequency droop characteristics of a typical GFM source are exactly reflected by an ordinary model of water vessels. The frequency is represented by visible water levels while the droop slope is reified by the vessel sizes. This proposed analogy allows us to use the intuitive water-fl…

Good Morning #Canada
Collingwood Ontario today is known as a resort town, supporting skiers at Blue Mountains and swimmers at nearby Wasaga Beach. But the town was built on their reputation for ship building for over 100 years. The Collingwood Shipyard, established in 1882, was a major shipbuilding center, building over 200 ships including Great Lakes freighters, naval vessels, and the HMCS Hochelaga. During #WWII the shipyard launched ships for the Canadian Navy. The shipyard was famous for its unique side-launching technique, necessary due to harbour constraints, which became a significant local spectacle. It closed in 1986, and after significant remediation efforts, the site is now a waterfront park with mixed housing and a marina.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://definingmomentscanada.ca/all-for-9/historical-articles/whats-a-side-launch/

Lightweight CNNs for Embedded SAR Ship Target Detection and Classification
Fabian Kresse, Georgios Pilikos, Mario Azcueta, Nicolas Floury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10712 https:…

Lightweight CNNs for Embedded SAR Ship Target Detection and Classification
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data enables large-scale surveillance of maritime vessels. However, near-real-time monitoring is currently constrained by the need to downlink all raw data, perform image focusing, and subsequently analyze it on the ground. On-board processing to generate higher-level products could reduce the data volume that needs to be downlinked, alleviating bandwidth constraints and minimizing latency. However, traditional image focusing and processing algorithms face challen…

Enhancing understanding and clinical applications of cerebral autoregulation: A novel integrated numerical framework
Qi Zhang, Meng-di Yang, Xuan-hao Xu, Xiu-li Xu, Shuai Tian, Li-ling Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10295

Enhancing understanding and clinical applications of cerebral autoregulation: A novel integrated numerical framework
Cerebral autoregulation (CA) is a fundamental mechanism that modulates cerebrovascular resistance, primarily by regulating the diameter of small cerebral vessels to maintain stable cerebral blood flow (CBF) in response to fluctuations in systemic arterial pressure. However, the clinical understanding of CA remains limited due to the intricate structure of the cerebral vasculature and the challenges in accurately quantifying the hemodynamic and physiological parameters that govern this autoregul…

Direct vascular territory segmentation on cerebral digital subtraction angiography
P. Matthijs van der Sluijs, Lotte Strong, Frank G. te Nijenhuis, Sandra Cornelissen, Pieter Jan van Doormaal, Geert Lycklama a Nijeholt, Wim van Zwam, Ad van Es, Diederik Dippel, Aad van der Lugt, Danny Ruijters, Ruisheng Su, Theo van Walsum
https://arxiv.or…

Direct vascular territory segmentation on cerebral digital subtraction angiography
X-ray digital subtraction angiography (DSA) is frequently used when evaluating minimally invasive medical interventions. DSA predominantly visualizes vessels, and soft tissue anatomy is less visible or invisible in DSA. Visualization of cerebral anatomy could aid physicians during treatment. This study aimed to develop and evaluate a deep learning model to predict vascular territories that are not explicitly visible in DSA imaging acquired during ischemic stroke treatment. We trained an nnUNet …

Falsification-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Maritime Motion Planning
Marlon M\"uller, Florian Finkeldei, Hanna Krasowski, Murat Arcak, Matthias Althoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06970

Falsification-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Maritime Motion Planning
Compliance with maritime traffic rules is essential for the safe operation of autonomous vessels, yet training reinforcement learning (RL) agents to adhere to them is challenging. The behavior of RL agents is shaped by the training scenarios they encounter, but creating scenarios that capture the complexity of maritime navigation is non-trivial, and real-world data alone is insufficient. To address this, we propose a falsification-driven RL approach that generates adversarial training scenarios…

Autonomous Soft Robotic Guidewire Navigation via Imitation Learning
Noah Barnes, Ji Woong Kim, Lingyun Di, Hannah Qu, Anuruddha Bhattacharjee, Miroslaw Janowski, Dheeraj Gandhi, Bailey Felix, Shaopeng Jiang, Olivia Young, Mark Fuge, Ryan D. Sochol, Jeremy D. Brown, Axel Krieger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09497

Autonomous Soft Robotic Guidewire Navigation via Imitation Learning
In endovascular surgery, endovascular interventionists push a thin tube called a catheter, guided by a thin wire to a treatment site inside the patient's blood vessels to treat various conditions such as blood clots, aneurysms, and malformations. Guidewires with robotic tips can enhance maneuverability, but they present challenges in modeling and control. Automation of soft robotic guidewire navigation has the potential to overcome these challenges, increasing the precision and safety of endova…

Ship explosion in Baltimore near the Key Bridge
#ship #explosion #MD #Baltimore

What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) (@mercoglianos.bsky.social)
MV W Sapphire, outbound from Baltimore near the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, suffered an explosion in its forward hold. The ship has been escorted off Fort Howard and fire and @USCG vessels are on scene. W Sapphire is a fully loaded bulk carrier sailing to Mauritius.

3D Reconstruction of Coronary Vessel Trees from Biplanar X-Ray Images Using a Geometric Approach
Ethan Koland, Lin Xi, Nadeev Wijesuriya, YingLiang Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13358

3D Reconstruction of Coronary Vessel Trees from Biplanar X-Ray Images Using a Geometric Approach
X-ray angiography is widely used in cardiac interventions to visualize coronary vessels, assess integrity, detect stenoses and guide treatment. We propose a framework for reconstructing 3D vessel trees from biplanar X-ray images which are extracted from two X-ray videos captured at different C-arm angles. The proposed framework consists of three main components: image segmentation, motion phase matching, and 3D reconstruction. An automatic video segmentation method for X-ray angiography to enab…

Contrast-Free Ultrasound Microvascular Imaging via Radiality and Similarity Weighting
Jingyi Yin, Jingke Zhang, Lijie Huang, U-Wai Lok, Ryan M DeRuiter, Kaipeng Ji, Yanzhe Zhao, Kate M. Knoll, Kendra E. Petersen, Tao Wu, Xiang-yang Zhu, James D Krier, Kathryn A. Robinson, Lilach O Lerman, Andrew J. Bentall, Shigao Chen, Chengwu Huang
https://

Contrast-Free Ultrasound Microvascular Imaging via Radiality and Similarity Weighting
Microvascular imaging has advanced significantly with ultrafast data acquisition and improved clutter filtering, enhancing the sensitivity of power Doppler imaging to small vessels. However, the image quality remains limited by spatial resolution and elevated background noise, both of which impede visualization and accurate quantification. To address these limitations, this study proposes a high-resolution cross-correlation Power Doppler (HR-XPD) method that integrates spatial radiality weighti…

Flow-driven magnetic microcatheter for superselective arterial embolization
Lucio Pancaldi, Ece \"Ozel\c{c}i, Mehdi Ali Gadiri, Julian Raub, Pascal John Mosimann, Mahmut Selman Sakar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05312

Flow-driven magnetic microcatheter for superselective arterial embolization
Minimally invasive interventions performed inside brain vessels with the synergistic use of microcatheters pushed over guidewires have revolutionized the way aneurysms, stroke, arteriovenous malformations, brain tumors and other cerebrovascular conditions are being treated. However, a significant portion of the brain vasculature remains inaccessible from within because the conventional catheterization technique based on transmitting forces from the proximal to the distal end of the instruments …