3,143 Results Found

Since the introduction of super-resolution microscopy, there has been growing interest in quantifying the nanoscale spatial distributions of fluorescent probes to better understand cellular processes and their interactions. One way to check if distri...

Background: The communication skills of healthcare professionals directly impact patient interventions. Consequently, an improvement in healthcare quality indicators is observed. Objective: to adapt and validate the Interpersonal Communication Compet...

This study, using content analysis and frame analysis, examines whether there is any connection between the International Criminal Court’s (ICC’s) announcement on the fifth day of Russia’s war against Ukraine (which began on 24 Febr...

Background/Objectives: Combined hepatocellular cholangiocarcinoma (cHCC-ICC) is a rare malignancy that involves a combination of features of hepatocellular carcinoma and intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) and exhibits a more aggressive clinical co...

The main function of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) is to regulate gastrointestinal peristalsis by acting as a “pacemaker” cell by generating spontaneous slow electrical waves. In 2005, electron microscopy revealed a cell type similar...

Despite the interaction between bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) and macrophages has been found to play a critical role in repairing bone defects, it remains a challenge to develop a desirable tissue engineering scaffold for synchronous reg...

In the era of personalized medicine, there is an increasing demand for comprehensive and complex diagnosis using minimally invasive techniques. Nowadays, it is mandatory to integrate biomarkers in the diagnostic process, as well as in the treatment a...

The myelodysplastic syndromes/myeloproliferative neoplasms (MDS/MPN) category comprises a varied group of myeloid neoplastic diseases characterized by clinical and pathologic overlapping features of both myelodysplastic and myeloproliferative neoplas...

In recent years, lithium-ion batteries have gained significant attention due to their crucial role in various applications, such as electric vehicles and renewable energy storage. Accurate prediction of the remaining useful life (RUL) of these batter...

Comprehensive analyses of the molecular heterogeneity of acute myelogenous leukemia, AML, particularly when malignant cells retain normal karyotype, has significantly evolved. In 2022, significant revisions were introduced in the World Health Organiz...

The International Consensus Classification of Myeloid Neoplasms and Acute Leukemias (ICC) and the 5th edition of the WHO classification (WHO 2022) have refined the diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). Both classifications segregate MDS subty...

Nursing home quality indicators are often used to publicly report the quality of nursing home care. In Switzerland, six national nursing home quality indicators covering four clinical domains (polypharmacy, pain, use of physical restraints and weight...

Despite the success of combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) to suppress HIV replication, HIV persists in a long-lived reservoir that can give rise to rebounding viremia upon cART cessation. The translationally active reservoir consists of HIV-in...

Intracranial compliance (ICC) holds significant potential in neuromonitoring, serving as a diagnostic tool and contributing to the evaluation of treatment outcomes. Despite its comprehensive concept, which allows consideration of changes in both volu...

Globalization has transformed classrooms into culturally diverse environments, highlighting the critical need to prepare future teachers with skills to address these complexities. This study explores Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC) as a...

Millions of patients worldwide suffer from gastrointestinal (GI) motility disorders such as gastroparesis. These disorders typically include debilitating symptoms, such as chronic nausea and vomiting. As no cures are currently available, clinical car...

A correct differentiation between hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and intracellular cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is essential for clinical management and prognostic prediction. However, non-invasive differential diagnosis between HCC and ICC remains highl...

Unethical behavior is one of the grand challenges facing international construction companies (ICCs) to move toward sustainable development when operating on an international basis. The ethics and compliance program (ECP) has played a significant rol...

Introduction. Interstitial Cells of Cajal (ICCs) play a critical role in the regulation of gastrointestinal motility and have been implicated in various functional gastrointestinal disorders. Recent research indicates a possible association between I...

Background/Objectives: Functional assessment of the fetal heart remains a significant challenge in contemporary perinatology due to the absence of a universally accepted gold standard for such evaluations. The aim of this study was to evaluate the re...

Understanding the reliability of jump testing is essential to determine the neuromuscular progress of athletes and make informed decisions. This study aimed to assess the reliability of several countermovement jump (CMJ) and drop jump (DJ) test metri...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is a necessary but not sufficient factor for the development of invasive cervical cancer (ICC) and high-grade intraepithelial lesion (HSIL). Oxidative stress is known to play a crucial role in HPV infection and ca...

Background: Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is an aggressive primary liver malignancy with limited survival, largely due to delayed diagnosis, recurrence and limited effective therapeutic options. Radiomics- and artificial intelligence (AI)-bas...

Expanding waste-to-energy (WtE) facilities is difficult, and with tightening incineration regulations, improvements in WtE facility operations are required to dispose of waste that is increasing by an average of 4.8% annually. To achieve this, an int...

This study proposes a standardized robustness measurement framework for comprehensive evaluation models based on the Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC(3,1)), The framework aims to address two key issues: (1) the non-unique evaluation results ca...

Background: Inter-rater reliability is critical in oncology to ensure consistent and reliable measurements across raters and methods, such as when evaluating biomarker levels in different laboratories or comparing tumor size assessments by radiation...

The cultivation of college students’ intercultural communication competence (ICC) for sustainable development is a hot research topic in English foreign language (EFL) education. What competencies are they required to have, and how to cultivate...

Background and Objective: The reliability of low-cost mobile systems for recording Electrocardiographic (ECG) data is mostly unknown, posing questions regarding the quality of the recorded data and the validity of the extracted physiological paramete...

Spatial chromatic instability is currently one of the most robust methods for improving solutions proposed for image-based fire detection systems. Real flames exhibit erratic, turbulent local color variations, providing a more reliable discriminative...

Objective: We aimed to assess the day-to-day variation in twelve one-day diet records over one year from 131 residents of urban and rural areas in the western region of Japan. Methods: Between 2014 and 2015, the participants provided repeated one-day...

The aim of this study was to identify the feather section, among the whole feather, rachis, and vane, with the highest reliability for corticosterone measurement in 10 Pekin ducks aged 42 days. In total, 60 samples (i.e., 20 per section) were collect...

The oncogenic retrovirus human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) is endemic in some countries although its prevalence and relationship with other sexually transmitted infections in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely unknown. A novel endpoint PCR m...

Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs) generate pacemaker potentials in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. In this study, the effects of trypsin on pacemaker potentials in murine small intestinal ICCs were examined. We used whole-cell patch-clamp analysis....

As the core component of an electric vehicle, the health of the traction battery closely affects the safety performance of the electric vehicle. If the sub-health state cannot be identified and dealt with in time, it may cause traction battery failur...

This study proposes a markerless, single-camera depth-sensing system for digitally quantifying pelvic-balance ability in the Trendelenburg test, and verifies its accuracy and reliability against a marker-based motion capture (MC) reference and manual...

The 2nd International Coffee Convention 2024 (ICC2024), scheduled for 17–18 October 2024, in Mannheim, Germany, seeks to advance the discussions from the successful ICC2023 [...]

This study investigates the relationship between technological innovation, renewable energy, economic growth, and carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions in a group of six specific Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries from 1990 to 2019. The study uti...

Children often present at the emergency department with a suspected elbow fracture. Sometimes, the only radiological finding is a ‘fat pad sign’ (FPS) as a result of hydrops or haemarthros. This sign could either be the result of a fractu...

Background: Liver resections have become the first-line treatment for primary malignant tumors and, therefore, are considered a core aspect of surgical training. This study aims to evaluate the learning curve for the safety of open hemihepatectomy pr...

Prior to the curative resection of colorectal carcinoma (CRC) or pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the exclusion of hepatic metastasis using cross-sectional imaging is mandatory. The Doppler perfusion index (DPI) of the liver is a promising me...

More than 90% of the road network of Loja, Ecuador, is unpaved and lacks an official condition metric. Low-cost measures relate to the IRI on pavements, but not demonstrably on unpaved roads. A 15 km Andean corridor was surveyed in one dry season wit...

In an increasingly interconnected world facing global challenges such as climate change and social inequality, citizenship education plays a critical role in preparing young people for responsible democratic participation and sustainability. This stu...

Human papillomavirus (HPV) are firmly established as the principal causative agent for cervical carcinoma. Current vaccines may provide some protection for women from cervical carcinoma linked to HPV genotype 16 and 18. This may be the best vaccine f...

Background: Facial surgeries require meticulous planning and outcome assessments, where facial analysis plays a critical role. This study introduces a new approach by utilizing three-dimensional (3D) imaging techniques, which are known for their abil...

Environmental citizenship has become an integral element of civic and citizenship education curricula, both globally and at the European level. Previous analysis provided important evidence that environmental-citizenship education practice in Nordic...

Complement component 3 (C3) contributes to neurogenesis, neural migration, and synaptic elimination under normal and disease conditions of the brain, even though it has not been studied in the enteric nervous system (ENS). To determine the role of C3...

Background: Primary cutaneous lymphomas (PCLs) represent a heterogeneous group of extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphomas with distinct clinical, histological, and molecular profiles. Recent advancements in genomic profiling have led to significant revision...

A two-day meeting on controversial topics in hematopathology was held in Bologna, Italy, on 19–20 January 2024. The meeting primarily targeted pathologists lacking experience in hematological neoplasms and pathologists in training. The course a...

The International Coffee Convention 2023 (ICC2023) is a unique three-day event in Mannheim, Germany, from September 30 to October 3, that will bring together academics, practitioners and coffee industry experts from around the world to discuss the ch...

We recently identified a FOXL1+ intestinal subepithelial network of telocytes (TCs) without which epithelial stem and progenitor cells cannot proliferate and support regeneration. In addition to FOXL1 lineage cell distribution along the intestinal ep...