Analyzing medical images has always been a challenging task because these images are used to observe complex internal structures of the human body. This research work is based on the study of the retinal fundus and magnetic resonance images (MRI) for...
Mothers and Spirits examines the intersection of women, alcohol, and death through a comparative analysis. Offering a brief history of the study of drinking, followed by a short analysis of drinking in European and Chinese cultures, Cann examines two...
Mammals rely on vision and self-motion information in nature to distinguish directions and navigate accurately and stably. Inspired by the mammalian brain neurons to represent the spatial environment, the brain-inspired positioning method based on mu...
In this paper, we investigated rates of admission to hospitals (or other health facilities) due to respiratory diseases in a United States working population and their dependence on a number of demographic and health insurance-related factors. We emp...
Learning with noisy labels (LNL) remains challenging, especially when the identification of clean samples relies heavily on the predictions of the model being trained. In such cases, early-stage selection errors may be reinforced during iterative opt...
Development of Foamed Concrete (FC) and incessant increases in fabrication technology have paved the way for many promising civil engineering applications. Nevertheless, the design of FC requires a large number of experiments to determine the appropr...
Urban helicopter activity is intermittent and route-focused, yet most strategic mapping tools were developed for fixed-wing traffic and long-term averages, leaving urban rotorcraft noise under-represented. In the EU, the Environmental Noise Directive...
The impacts of morphine and dexmedetomidine on the MAC of isoflurane were studied in rats constantly medicated with the cannabinoid WIN 55,212-2. Methods: Prior to the administration of morphine, the MAC was measured in both untreated rats (MAC (ISO)...
According to the free will defense, God cannot create a world with free creatures, and hence a world with moral goodness, without allowing for the possibility of evil. David Lewis points out that any free will defense must address the “playpen proble...
We developed a methodology for the neural network boosting of logistic regression aimed at learning an additional model structure from the data. In particular, we constructed two classes of neural network-based models: shallow–dense neural netw...
Accurate prediction of a robot’s dynamic parameters, including mass and moment of inertia, is essential for adequate motion planning and control in autonomous systems. Traditional methods often depend on manual computation or physics-based mode...
Our ever-increasing interest in economic growth is leading the way to the decline of natural resources, the detriment of air quality, and is fostering climate change. One potential solution to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from industrial emitters...
Di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) is a plasticizer commonly found in polyvinyl chloride, medical equipment, and food packaging. DEHP has been shown to target the reproductive system and alter the gut microbiome in humans and experimental animals. Howe...
Orodispersible films (ODFs) have been widely used in paediatric, geriatric and dysphagic patients due to ease of administration and precise and flexible dose adjustments. ODF fabrication has seen significant advancements with the move towards more te...
Previous studies have described the chemical pollution in indoor air of healthcare and care facilities. From these studies, the main objective of this work was to conduct a quantitative health risk assessment of the chronic inhalation of chemical com...
Most dryland grain growers in Australia retain all or most of their crop residues to protect the soil from erosion and to improve water conservation but retaining stubbles with a high carbon-to-nitrogen (C:N) ratio can affect N availability to crops....
Bacteroides spp. of the human colonic microbiome degrade complex arabinoxylans from dietary fiber and release ferulic acid. Several studies have demonstrated the beneficial effects of ferulic acid. Here, we hypothesized that ferulic acid or the ferul...
Black Deaths Matter: Earning the Right to Live—Death and the African-American Funeral Home recounts the history of black funeral homes in the United States and their role in demanding justice for bodies of color and the black community. Through...
Indoor air quality is an important consideration for the health and well-being of building occupants, and the SARS CoV-2 pandemic highlighted the importance of maintaining proper ventilation in buildings. Air handling units (AHUs) are used to provide...
11 February 2022
The purpose of this study was to utilize community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods to identify behaviors that may increase the exposure rates of firefighters to carcinogens and other occupational hazards. Key informant interviews and focu...
Thermoanaerobacterium bryantii strain mel9T is a thermophilic bacterium isolated from a waste pile of a corn-canning factory. The genome of T. bryantii mel9T was sequenced and a hemicellulase gene cluster was identified. The cluster encodes seven put...
Di-isononyl phthalate (DiNP) is a plasticizer used to impart flexibility or stability in a variety of products including polyvinyl chloride, cable coatings, artificial leather, and footwear. Previous studies have examined the impact of DiNP on gut in...
Moving bed heat exchangers (MBHE)s are used in industrial applications including waste heat recovery and the drying of solids. As a result, energy balance models have been developed to simulate the heat transfer between a moving bed and the gas phase...
17 April 2014
Microbial pollution in aquatic environments is one of the crucial issues with regard to the sanitary state of water bodies used for drinking water supply, recreational activities and harvesting seafood due to a potential contamination by pathogenic b...
This paper presents accounts of preposition selection and agreement in English within Dynamic Syntax. To achieve this, I introduce two new, non-semantic, labels into the tree language:
Background: Corisin, a microbiota-derived proapoptotic peptide, has emerged as a key mediator of epithelial injury, inflammation, and acute exacerbation in fibrotic lung disease. Although acute corisin inhibition prevents exacerbations in experimenta...
Preterm birth and low birth weight remain major contributors to neonatal morbidity and mortality, yet the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. Maternal microbiota has been implicated in adverse pregnancy outcomes, but key mediators remain...
Objectives: To assess the efficacy of magnetic resonance (MR) lymphography with gadobutrol contrast for sentinel lymph node (SLN) mapping in early-stage oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC). Methods: This pilot study compared the identification of SLN...
Seedling establishment is often a critical bottleneck in the revegetation of mine tailings and similar substrates. Biochar and deactivated yeast are potential sustainable materials that could be used in this context as seed coatings to aid in seedlin...
The carbamate post-translational modification (PTM), formed by the nucleophilic attack of carbon dioxide by a dissociated lysine epsilon-amino group, is proposed as a widespread mechanism for sensing this biologically important bioactive gas. Here, w...
Tellurium oxides of the ATeO3 form typically do not crystallize in perovskite structures. Here, we show that perovskite-like ATeO3 (A = Ca, Sr, Ba) thin films can be grown on perovskite single-crystal substrates via epitaxial stabilization. These fil...
Estimating the abundance of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragments shed from a tumor (i.e., circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)) can approximate tumor burden, which has numerous clinical applications. We derived a novel, broadly applicable statistical method to q...
This study presents a data-driven approach for generating vortex-shedding maps, which are vital for predicting flow structures in vortex-induced vibration (VIV) wind energy extraction devices, while addressing the computational and complexity limitat...
The indoor air quality of healthcare and care facilities is poorly studied. The aim of this study was to qualitatively and quantitatively describe the chemical pollution and the microbiological contaminations of the indoor environment of these facili...
Apoptosis is a programmed cell death involved in embryogenesis and tissue homeostasis under physiological conditions. However, abnormalities in the process of apoptosis are implicated in the pathogenesis of various diseases. The human microbiota may...
Poor indoor air quality can have adverse effects on human health, especially in susceptible populations. The aim of this study was to measure the concentrations of dioxide carbon (CO2), fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and total volatile organic compo...
Background: Early-onset gastric cancer (EOGC), or gastric cancer in patients younger than 45 years old, is poorly understood and relatively uncommon. Similar to other gastrointestinal malignancies, the incidence of EOGC is rising in Western countries...
Choosing to have a body embalmed, the choice of interment locations and type, including the selection of a particular casket, are all deeply intertwined with various understandings of the afterlife, and views of the body after death. Consumer choices...
Cervical cancer remains a major global health challenge and a leading cause of gynecological cancer-related mortality, particularly in developing countries. Although persistent human papillomavirus infection is the primary driver of cervical carcinog...
Background: Early-onset (EO) GI malignancies, especially in younger adults, have increased in the past several decades, with advanced stages at diagnosis and aggressive tumor features relative to patients with average-age-onset disease. Methods: We p...
To address traditional Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) limitations in continuous variable encoding and biological plausibility, this study proposes C-SOM SNN, a novel SNN integrating SOM SNN clustering, CANN (Continuous Attractor Neural Network) conti...
We mapped the hemagglutinin-esterase (HE) antigenic epitopes of the influenza C virus on the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the HE glycoprotein using 246 escape mutants that were selected by a panel of nine anti-HE monoclonal antibodies (MAbs),...
The ability to recognize emotions from nonverbal cues (emotion recognition ability, ERA) is a core component of emotional intelligence, which has recently been conceptualized as a second-stratum factor of intelligence (MacCann et al., 2014). However,...
The construction industry, as a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, urgently requires sustainable development solutions to achieve the Net Zero Emission Goal. Magnesium oxide (MgO)-based cementitious composites have emerged as promising al...
In late summer and autumn Mediterranean coastal regions are quite regularly affected by small-scale, flood-producing convective systems. The complexity of mesoscale triggering mechanisms, related to low-level temperature gradients, moisture convergen...
Locality-sensitive hashing (LSH) has been widely used for c-approximate nearest neighbor search (c-ANNS) in high-dimensional spaces. However, its retrieval performance degrades as the dataset size grows. To address this limitation, we propose a data-...
This study examines the compositional differentiation of two Cucurbita species, C. maxima Duchesne and C. moschata Duchesne, to identify chemical markers relevant for their nutritional and functional potential. Multivariate statistical analysis, incl...
The shift in modern dietary regimens to “Western style” and sedentary lifestyles are believed to be partly responsible for the increase in the global burden of cardiovascular diseases. Natural products have been used throughout human hist...
This article evaluates contemporary filmmaker Naomi Kawase’s (b. 1969–) status within Japan’s film industry as well as her place among women directors. Using Kawase’s three award winning features Suzaku (Moe no suzaku, 1997),...
Objectives: The variant alpha COVID-19 rapidly spread across Europe in early 2021. While this variant’s increased infectivity has been proven, little is known of its clinical presentation and outcomes compared to the old strain. Methods: We identifie...
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