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Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an inherited disorder characterized by fibro-fatty infiltration with an increased propensity for ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death. Genetic variants in desmosomal genes are associated with ACM. Incomplete...

In this paper, the Adaptive Calibration Model (ACM) and Active Inference Theory (AIT) are related to future-proofing startups. ACM encompasses the allocation of energy by the stress response system to alternative options for action, depending upon in...

Recently, a distribution management system (DMS) that can conduct periodical system analysis and control by mounting various applications programs has been actively developed. In this paper, we summarize the development and demonstration of a databas...

This work proposes a truly compact MOSFET model that contains only four parameters to assist an integrated circuits (IC) designer in a design by hand. The four-parameter model (4PM) is based on the advanced compact MOSFET (ACM) model and was implemen...

Social media apps provide analysts with a wide range of data to study behavioral aspects of our everyday lives and to answer societal questions. Although social media data analysis is booming, only a handful of prominent social media apps, such as Tw...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has been widely used in ocean surveillance. As an important part of shipping management and military applications, ship monitoring is a study hotspot in SAR image interpretation; hence, many researches focus on ship tar...

Cloud initialization is a challenge in numerical weather prediction. Probably the most relevant observations for this task come from geostationary satellites. These satellites provide the cloud mask with high spatio-temporal resolution and low latenc...

Accurate optic disc (OD) and optic cup (OC) segmentation play a critical role in automatic glaucoma diagnosis. In this paper, we present an automatic segmentation technique regarding the OD and the OC for glaucoma assessment. First, the robust adapti...

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is largely an autosomal dominant genetic disorder manifesting fibrofatty infiltration and ventricular arrhythmia with predominantly right ventricular involvement. ACM is one of the major conditions associated with...

USA300 is a predominant community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain which carries an arginine catabolic mobile element (ACME). ACME contains potential virulence factors including an arginine deiminase (arc) pathway and an...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is providing the technology for large-scale, cost-effective and current asbestos-containing material (ACM) roofing detection. AI models can provide additional data to monitor, manage and plan for ACM in situ and its safe...

Nanoemulsions are alternative means of incorporating functional components into systems. This research aims to model the effect of African catfish mucilage (ACM) concentrations on the particle size (PS) of stable oil-in-water (O/W) nanoemulsions form...

Physiological stressors, such as exercise, can precipitate sudden cardiac death or heart failure progression in patients with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM). Yet, whether and to what extent a highly prevalent and more elusive environmental facto...

Cardiomyopathies (CMPs) represent a significant healthcare burden and are a major cause of heart failure leading to premature death. Several CMPs are now recognized to have a strong genetic basis, including arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), which...

Certificates are integral to the security of today’s Internet. Protocols like BlockVoke allow secure, timely and efficient revocation of certificates that need to be invalidated. ACME, a scheme used by the non-profit Let’s Encrypt Certifi...

Patulin (PAT), ochratoxin A (OTA), and acetamiprid (ACM) are common food contaminants that frequently co-occur in agricultural products, raising concerns over their cumulative health risks. This study is the first to systematically assess the combine...

Introduction: The management of anemia in chronic kidney disease (CKD-An) presents significant challenges for nephrologists due to variable responsiveness to erythropoietin-stimulating agents (ESAs), hemoglobin (Hb) cycling, and multiple clinical fac...

Due to the limited regeneration of cartilage, new implant materials are needed. Biodegradable polymers poly-(D,L)-lactide-ε-caprolactone-methacrylate (LCM) and polyamid-ε-caprolactone-methacrylate (ACM) were recently established and c...

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a rare genetic cardiac disease characterized by the progressive substitution of myocardium with fibro-fatty tissue. Clinically, ACM shows wide variability among patients; symptoms can include syncope and ventric...

The safe and stable operation of submarine cables is a critical issue in offshore wind power engineering. This study presents an experimental and theoretical study on the stability of submarine cable protected by a sleeve (SCPS) with Articulated Conc...

Acemetacin (ACM) is a new non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug with anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic effects. However, the poor water solubility and gastrointestinal side effects limit its use. Recently, the co-amorphous (CAM) strategy h...

Primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG), characterized by angle closure (AC) with insidious and irreversible progression, requires precise assessment of AC mechanisms for accurate diagnosis and treatment. This study developed an artificial intelligence...

The multifaceted inductive technique of AC magnetic susceptibility (ACMS) provides versatile and reliable means for the investigation of the respective properties of magnetic and superconducting materials. Here, we explore, both mathematically and ex...

Background: Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a genetic heart muscle disease characterized by progressive fibro-fatty replacement of cardiac myocytes. Up to now, the existing therapeutic modalities for ACM are mostly palliative. About 50% of ACM...

When asbestos containing materials (ACM) must be removed from the building before demolition, additional greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are generated. However, precedent studies have not considered the removal of ACM from the building. The present st...

Chronic alcohol consumption leads to myocardial injury, ventricle dilation, and cardiac dysfunction, which is defined as alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM). To explore the induced myocardial injury and underlying mechanism of ACM, the Liber-DeCarli liqui...

Dehydrated human-derived amnion–chorion membranes (ACM), known for their bioactive composition of growth factors and cytokines, have demonstrated potential as a bioactive scaffold in regenerative medicine; however, their clinical application in...

Frailty and myosteatosis are each prognostic of all-cause mortality (ACM) in patients with cancer. However, it is unclear whether myosteatosis adds value to frailty for predicting ACM. We assessed whether myosteatosis improves the predictive ability...

Asbestos-Containing Materials (ACMs) are hazardous and prohibited to be sold or used as recycled materials. In the past, asbestos was widely used, together with cement, to produce “asbestos cement-based” products. During the recycling pro...

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a genetic cardiac disease characterized by a progressive loss of cardiomyocytes associated with fibrofatty myocardial replacement, resulting in a heightened risk of ventricular arrhythmias and sudden cardiac dea...

With the further development of the automotive industry, the traditional vibration isolation method is difficult to meet the requirements for wide frequency bands under multiple operating conditions, the active control mount (ACM) is gradually paid a...

Introduction: This study aimed to develop and validate an efficient eye-tracking algorithm suitable for the analysis of images captured in the visible-light spectrum using a smartphone camera. Methods: The investigation primarily focused on comparing...

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an inherited heart disease characterized by sudden death in young people and featured by fibro-adipose myocardium replacement, malignant arrhythmias, and heart failure. To date, no etiological therapies are avai...

Amyloid cardiomyopathy (ACM), driven by transthyretin (TTR) and immunoglobulin light chain (LC) amyloid fibrils, remains a major clinical challenge due to limited mechanistic understanding and insufficient preclinical models. Human-induced pluripoten...

The δ opioid receptor (DOR) inverse agonist has been demonstrated to improve learning and memory impairment in mice subjected to restraint stress. Here, we investigated the effects of SYK-623, a new DOR inverse agonist, on behavioral, immunohis...

Identifying and extracting building boundaries from remote sensing data has been one of the hot topics in photogrammetry for decades. The active contour model (ACM) is a robust segmentation method that has been widely used in building boundary extrac...

Objective: The aim was to compare outcomes in high-risk localized RCC (HRL-RCC) patients treated with adjuvant (AT) and neoadjuvant therapy (NT) utilizing a propensity score-matched model (PSM). Methods: We conducted a multicenter analysis (USA and J...

Pancreatic cancer is a unique cancer in that up to 90% of its tumour mass is composed of a hypovascular and fibrotic stroma. This makes it extremely difficult for chemotherapies to be delivered into the core of the cancer mass. We tissue-engineered a...

To meet the demands for miniaturization and multi-functional and high-performance electronics applications, the semiconductor industry has shifted its packaging approach to multi-chip vertical stacking. Among the advanced packaging technologies for h...

Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a familial heart disease, characterized by contractile dysfunction, ventricular arrhythmias (VAs), and the risk of sudden cardiac death. Currently, implantable cardioverter defibrillators and antiarrhythmics are...

The Victorian Asbestos Eradication Agency (VAEA) was established to develop a long-term plan for the prioritised removal of asbestos containing materials (ACMs) from Victorian government-owned buildings. The safest and most sustainable way to end the...

Ambiguous software requirements are a significant contributor to software project failure. Ambiguity in software requirements is characterized by the presence of multiple possible interpretations. As requirements documents often rely on natural langu...

Chronic alcohol exposure can cause myocardial degenerative diseases, manifested as cardiac insufficiency, arrhythmia, etc. These are defined as alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM). Alcohol-mediated myocardial injury has previously been studied through met...

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is an inherited disorder characterized by structural and electrical cardiac abnormalities, including myocardial fibro-fatty replacement. Its pathological ventricular substrate predisposes subjects to an increased r...

Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a heart muscle disease associated with ventricular arrhythmias and a high risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Although the disease was described over 40 years ago, its diagnosis is still difficult. Several studi...

(1) Background: Besides the use of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT), multidisciplinary heart failure (HF) outpatient care (HFOC) is of strategic importance in HFrEF. (2) Methods: Data from 257 hospitalised HFrEF patients between 2019 and 202...

Background: Ex vivo computer controlled circulatory reactors are advantageous for the investigation of circulatory systems. So far, most of the models have dealt with laminar or pulsatile flow. This study aimed to monitor blood vessel and vessel graf...

We demonstrate an ultra-low efficiency droop in c-plane polar InGaN blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs) by reducing the carrier density using a wide InGaN last quantum well (LQW). It is found that the LEDs with a 5.2 nm thick LQW show a negligible effi...

The Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea are annually exposed to severe tropical cyclones, which impose massive infrastructure damages and cause the loss of life in coastal regions. Cyclone Shaheen originally generated in the Bay of Bengal in 2021 and trans...

Guided ultrasonic wave (GUW) analysis is a well-investigated method for structural health monitoring (SHM) applications. For plate-like structures, the pitch-catch technique is a popular choice since it offers the possibility to investigate a large a...