(1) Background: Pharmacist interventions are key to optimizing medication therapy and improving patient outcomes. The CLEO multidimensional tool assesses the clinical, economic, and organizational impact of these interventions, though its use in Port...
Periodontitis, driven by Porphyromonas gingivalis (P. gingivalis) biofilms, is a global health burden with limited treatment options due to antibiotic resistance. Chrysanthemum lavandulifolium is traditionally used in China for clearing heat and redu...
Despite the rapid advances in deep learning (DL) for object detection, existing techniques still face several challenges. In particular, object detection in adverse weather conditions (AWCs) requires complex and computationally costly models to achie...
Cinnamomum longepaniculatum essential oil (CLEO) possesses antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant activities. However, CLEO shows volatilization and poor solubility, which limits its application field. In this research, inclusion complexes...
This research is intended to ascertain the impact of low-voltage electrostatic field (LVEF) together with chili pepper leaf essential oil (CLEO) on the storage quality of chili pepper. Four groups of samples were investigated, namely, control (CK), C...
New goals for industry and science have led to increased awareness of food safety and healthier living in the modern era. Here, one of the challenges in food quality assurance is the presence of pathogenic microorganisms. As planktonic cells can form...
Background/Objectives: The Charlotte Large artery occlusion Endovascular therapy Outcome Score (CLEOS) predicts neurological outcomes after endovascular thrombectomy (EVT). Given recent expanded indications for EVT, we evaluated CLEOS in a modern coh...
The antioxidant and antibacterial properties of four essential oils (oregano essential oil (OEO), tea tree essential oil (TTEO), wild orange essential oil (WOEO), and clove leaf essential oil (CLEO)) were determined. The in-vitro experiment indicated...
Essential oils (EOs) derived from evergreen conifer trees are recognized as complex sources of agents with various biological activities. In this study, the biological activities of the EOs derived from Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (A.Murray bis) Parl. (...
Lignin-rich residues from lignocellulosic biorefineries remain underutilized, limiting their economic viability. This study demonstrates how modifying hydrothermal pretreatments with temperatures and additives enhances the lignin-rich residue’s...
Cistus ladanifer L. is an aromatic and resinous perennial shrub commonly used in Moroccan folk medicine against a range of illnesses including skin problems, diabetes, diarrhea, and inflammation. The current investigation aims to determine the bioact...
The volatility, instability, and water insolubility of Camphora longepaniculata essential oil (CLEO) limit its practical applications in the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics industries. CLEO nanoemulsions (CLNEs) were formulated and characterized...
Sustainable food packaging solutions replacing the current petroleum-based ones are sparking researchers’ interest in the development of innovative applications. This study developed and characterized an edible film as a food packaging material...
The development of protective coatings is a key requirement to extend the operating window of structural materials in lead-cooled fast reactors, particularly at temperatures where corrosion of conventional steels becomes increasingly challenging to c...
The antioxidant capacity of oregano (OEO) and clove (CLEO) essential oils and black elderberry (Sambucus nigra) flower extract (SNE) were compared with butylhydroxytoluene (BHT) regarding its protection against lipid peroxidation and microbial counts...
Fast reactor systems benefit from less operational experience than traditional water-cooled reactors, making it essential to assess the reliability of computational tools and of input nuclear data for such systems. This assessment is conducted rigoro...
Immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) is a promising cancer therapy, which has progressed rapidly from a preclinical concept to clinical implementation. Commonly considered targets in ICI are CTLA-4, PD-1/PD-L1, and LAG-3, and the list grows. As ICI is...
Current outcome prediction markers for localized prostate cancer (PCa) are insufficient. The impact of the lipid-modifying Sphingomyelin Phosphodiesterase Acid Like 3B (SMPDL3B) in PCa is unknown. Two cohorts of patients with PCa who underwent radica...
Mobile personalized learning can be achieved by the identification of students’ learning styles; however, this happens with the completion of large questionnaires. This task has been reported as tedious and time-consuming, causing random select...
Reliable entity subtyping is paramount for therapy stratification in lung cancer. Morphological evaluation remains the basis for entity subtyping and directs the application of additional methods such as immunohistochemistry (IHC). The decision of wh...
Cell-free protein synthesis (CFPS) is an emerging tool for the rapid production of difficult-to-express proteins as well as for identifying protein synthesis bottlenecks. In CFPS, the biotic phase is substituted by extracts of living cells devoid of...
Impacts of climate change are likely to be marked in areas with steep climatic transitions. Species turnover, spread of invasive species, altered productivity, and modified processes such as fire regimes can all spread rapidly along ecotones, which c...
Non-perennial rivers, watercourses that cease to flow at some point in time and space, are widespread globally but often lack effective protections. Although it is thought that these ecosystems are undervalued by society, empirical studies exploring...
We apply different methods for detection of extreme phenomena (EP) in air-turbulent time series measured in the nocturnal boundary layer above the Amazon forest. The methods used were: (a) a Morlet complex wavelet transform, which is often used in an...
Soybean is a crop in high demand, in particular as a crucial source of plant protein. As a short-day plant, soybean is sensitive to the latitude of the growing site. Consequently, varieties that are well adapted to higher latitudes are required to ex...
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Virtual architecture has been increasingly relied on to evaluate the health impacts of physical architecture. In this health research, exposure to virtual architecture has been used as a proxy for exposure to physical architecture. Despite the growin...
Wildfire is the primary cause of deforestation in fire-prone environments, disrupting the forest transition process generated by multiple social-ecological drivers of modernization. Given the positive feedback between climate change and wildfire-driv...
Background: Melanoma brain metastasis (MBM) is associated with poor outcome, but targeted therapies (TTs) and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized treatment over the past decade. We assessed the impact of these treatments in a real...
Purpose: Evaluate the diagnostic potential of [18F]FDG-PET/MRI data compared with invasive acquired biomarkers in newly diagnosed early breast cancer (BC). Methods: Altogether 169 women with newly diagnosed BC were included. All underwent a breast- a...
This study aimed at producing an updated assessment of the incidence of anaphylaxis associated with COVID-19 vaccines based on pharmacovigilance data. Anaphylactic reaction and anaphylactic shock data post-COVID-19-vaccination reported from week 52,...
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biomarkers, namely total tau, phospho-tau and amyloid beta peptides, have received much attention specifically regarding Alzheimer’s disease (AD), since they can detect the biochemical fingerprint of AD and serve as a...
In order to practice sustainable and resource-efficient agriculture, the use of new technologies such as water-retaining polymers is essential. The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of a polymer incorporated into the soil on gas exch...
Adaptive systems and Augmented Reality are among the most promising technologies in teaching and learning processes, as they can be an effective tool for training engineering students’ spatial skills. Prior work has investigated the integration...
In this systematic review, research works pertaining to the use of augmented reality (AR) in special education are investigated. In recent years, the introduction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education has transformed the teac...
3D printing has shown great promise in medical applications with increased reports in the literature. Patient-specific 3D printed heart and vascular models replicate normal anatomy and pathology with high accuracy and demonstrate superior advantages...
Human herpesviruses (HHVs) have been implicated as possible risk factors in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathogenesis. Persistent lifelong HHVs infections may directly or indirectly contribute to the generation of AD hallmarks: amyloid beta (A&beta...
Group A Streptococcus (GAS) causes about 500,000 annual deaths globally, and no vaccines are currently available. The Group A Carbohydrate (GAC), conserved across all GAS serotypes, conjugated to an appropriate carrier protein, represents a promising...
The effective treatment of autoimmune disorders can greatly benefit from disease-specific biomarkers that are functionally involved in immune system regulation and can be collected through minimally invasive procedures. In this regard, human serum Ig...
With the immersion of a plethora of technological tools in the early post-COVID-19 era in university education, instructors around the world have been at the forefront of implementing hybrid learning spaces for knowledge delivery. The purpose of this...
Introduction: This study investigates whether it is possible to predict a final diagnosis based on a written nephropathological description—as a surrogate for image analysis—using various NLP methods. Methods: For this work, 1107 unlabell...
Environmental awareness refers to the understanding of the importance of protecting the natural environment. Digital technologies can play an important role in raising awareness of environmental issues. In view of this compelling need, this paper pre...
Background: Segmentation is, in many Pathomics projects, an initial step. Usually, in supervised settings, well-annotated and large datasets are required. Regarding the rarity of such datasets, unsupervised learning concepts appear to be a potential...
Vaccination plays a key role in reducing morbidity and mortality caused by infectious diseases, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic. However, a comprehensive approach that allows the planning of vaccination campaigns and the estimation of the reso...
Several vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were developed and made available in a record time, just over a year after the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) [...]
This paper describes an innovative and sophisticated approach for improving learner-computer interaction in the tutoring of Java programming through the delivery of adequate learning material to learners. To achieve this, an instructional theory and...
The parallelized large-eddy simulation model (PALM) was used to understand better the turbulent exchanges of a passive scalar above and within a forested region located in the central Amazon. Weak (2 ms
Affective computing can be implemented across many fields in order to provide a unique experience by tailoring services and products according to each person’s needs and interests. More specifically, digital learning and robotics in education c...
Introduction: It has been hypothesized that the urinary microbiome might play an important role in OAB. Studies have been conducted on the association between OAB symptoms and the microbiome, although a possible causality still has to be determined....
To overcome pandemics, such as COVID-19, vaccines are urgently needed at very high volumes. Here we assess the techno-economic feasibility of producing RNA vaccines for the demand associated with a global vaccination campaign. Production process perf...
Laboratories testing predictive biomarkers in lung and colorectal cancer are advised to participate in external quality assessment (EQA) schemes. This study aimed to investigate which corrective actions were taken by laboratories if predetermined per...
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