The apicomplexan parasite Babesia bovis is a tick-borne intracellular hemoprotozoan parasite that is widespread across China. Genetic diversity is an important strategy used by parasites to escape the immune responses of their hosts. In our present s...
Cattle can be severely infected with the tick-borne protozoa Babesia bovis, giving rise to serious economic losses. Invasion of the host’s RBCs by the parasite merozoite/sporozoites depends largely on the MSA (merozoite surface antigens) gene f...
Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a late-onset, sporadic, progressive, neurodegenerative disorder clinically characterized by autonomic failure and either poorly levodopa-responsive parkinsonism or cerebellar ataxia. There isn’t any effective treatmen...
Toward low-carbon and sustainable power systems, hydro–wind–solar complementarity provides an important pathway for enhancing renewable energy accommodation and operational flexibility, while accurate characterization of uncertainty and c...
The demand for integrated telecommunication network infrastructure has increased, and 100 Gbps optical transceivers are a critical part of this infrastructure. In this paper, an efficient firmware design scheme is proposed for a 100 Gbps C form-facto...
The aim was to assess the occurrence of magnetic susceptibility artifacts (MSA) following endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysm by stent using susceptibility weighted imaging (SWI). Imaging and clinical data of 46 patients who underwent ste...
Background: Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a rapidly progressive neurodegenerative disorder that has no curative treatment. Diagnosis is based on a set of criteria established by Gilman (1998 and 2008) and recently updated by Wenning (2022). We aim...
Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in multiple-system atrophy (MSA) patients is common but remains poorly characterized, and the related factors are unclear. This retrospective study included 200 consecutive patients with a clinical diagnosis of possibl...
We present electrowinning of silver (Ag) from crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells using a solution of methanesulfonic acid (MSA) as the electrolyte. Ag dissolved effectively in MSA because of its high solubility in MSA; however, the electrochemica...
Background: Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is subdivided into two types: MSA-P (parkinsonian) and MSA-C (cerebellar). Brain SPECT allows for the detection of nigrostriatal involvement, even in the early stages. To date, the scientific literature does...
Background/Objectives: Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) often have cold hands and experience frostbite. The diagnostic criteria for multiple system atrophy (MSA) also describe cold and discolored hands; however, in our clinical experience...
Multiple system atrophy cerebellar type (MSA-C) and spinocerebellar ataxia type 3 (SCA3) demonstrate similar manifestations, including ataxia, pyramidal and extrapyramidal signs, as well as atrophy and signal intensity changes in the cerebellum and b...
Improvement of longevity is an eternal dream of human beings. The accumulation of protein damages is considered as a major cause of aging. Here, we report that the injection of exogenous recombinant mouse serum albumin (rMSA) reduced the total damage...
Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a fatal, rapidly progressing neurodegenerative disease of uncertain etiology, clinically characterized by various combinations of Levodopa unresponsive parkinsonism, cerebellar, autonomic and motor dysfunctions. The m...
Combination radiation and chemotherapy are commonly used to treat locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC). Aggressive dosing of these therapies is significantly hampered by side effects due to normal tissue toxicity. Sel...
In many activities, chainsaw users are exposed to the risk of injuries and several other hazard factors that may cause health problems. In fact, environmental and working conditions when using chainsaws result in workers’ exposure to hazards su...
Exploring environmentally friendly, efficient, cheap and recyclable catalysts are essential for the development of green, sustainable and mild processes for the liquid-phase Beckmann rearrangement. Herein, a novel caprolactam-based Brønsted ac...
Physical and climatic variables such as Tree Canopy coverage, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Distance to Roads, Distance to the Coast, Impervious Surface, and Precipitation can affect land surface temperature (LST). This paper examine...
Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is widely applied in prognostic and health management (PHM) of turbofan engines. Although some of the existing deep learning-based models for RUL prediction of turbofan engines have achieved satisfactory results...
The irradiance of ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a physical parameter that significantly influences biological molecules by affecting their molecular structure. The influence of UV radiation on nanoparticles has not been investigated much. In this wor...
Hydrophobic silica aerogels are widely used as thermal-insulation materials, but the thermal decomposition of their organic surface groups may affect their stability and safety during high-temperature service. In this study, ambient-pressure-dried si...
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First described in 1969 by Graham and Oppenheimer, multiple system atrophy (MSA) is increasingly recognised as distinctive neurodegenerative disease. Clinically, it is characterised by autonomic failure, parkinsonism, cerebellar ataxia and pyramidal...
Traditional ant colony optimization (ACO) often suffers from insufficient initial pheromone information, premature convergence, and limited adaptability across problem scales when solving the traveling salesman problem (TSP). This study proposes a mu...
Bacterial kidney disease (BKD) is a major health problem of salmonids, affecting both wild and cultured salmon. The disease is caused by Renibacterium salmoninarum (Rs), a fastidious, slow-growing and strongly Gram-positive diplobacillus that produce...
Fluorinated (F6) and zwitterionic, as well as phosphorylcholine (MPC) and sulfobetaine (MSA), copolymers containing a low amount (1 and 5 mol%) of 3-(trimethoxysilyl)propyl methacrylate (PTMSi) were prepared and covalently grafted to glass slides by...
Crop diversification is pivotal in sustainable agriculture, influencing soil microbial communities and soil nutrient cycling functions. Yet, the impacts of incorporating medicinal plants into crop diversification strategies on the functional characte...
A novel biobased and biodegradable polyester, i.e., poly(butylene succinate-co-butylene 2-methylsuccinate) (P(BS-BMS)) was synthesized by succinic acid (SA), 2-methylsuccinic acid (MSA), and 1,4-butanediol (BDO) via a typically two-step esterificatio...
The production of biodiesel via simultaneous esterification and transesterification reactions of residual fats such as palm oleins, with variable TG and FFA composition, using methanol and methane sulfonic acid (MSA) or an acid carbon-based structure...
In this work, we present chemical stratigraphies of two sampling lines collected within a 4 m depth snow pit dug in Dome C during the Antarctic summer Campaign 2017/2018, 12 years after the last reported snow pit. The first sampling line was analyzed...
This paper aims to study ethnic micro-segregation in Rome, namely, high residential concentrations of ethnic groups at the micro-area level within neighbourhoods with low concentrations of these groups, with a focus on specific situations of spatial...
In polar environments, the thermoviscous behavior and heat dissipation characteristics of deck hydraulic systems are severely affected, resulting in response delays and increased failure risk during high-load operations such as anchor retrieval. To a...
Background/Objectives: Atypical parkinsonian syndromes (APSs) are a group of neurodegenerative disorders that differ from idiopathic Parkinson’s disease (IPD) in their clinical presentation, underlying pathology, and response to treatment. APSs...
Zampanolide is a promising microtubule-stabilizing agent (MSA) with a unique chemical structure. It is superior to the current clinically used MSAs due to the covalent nature of its binding to β-tubulin and high cytotoxic potency toward multidru...
The present study, initially to resolve the cryptic species within Corollospora maritima, is to determine how to attain taxonomic discrimination at species and generic levels. Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) of the ITS, 28S, and 18S regions of th...
Sulfur LIMitation1 (SLIM1) transcription factor coordinates gene expression in plants in response to sulfur deficiency (−S). SLIM1 belongs to the family of plant-specific EIL transcription factors with EIN3 and EIL1, which regulate the ethylene...
Predicting radiobiological effects is important in different areas of basic or clinical applications using ionizing radiation (IR); for example, towards optimizing radiation protection or radiation therapy protocols. In this case, we utilized as a ba...
Daptomycin is one of the last therapeutic resources for multidrug-resistant gram-positive bacteria. Despite its structural similarities with glycopeptides, its mechanisms of action and resistance are different and in some respects are not completely...
We are aimed to evaluate the diagnostic performances of quantitative indices obtained from dual-phase 18F-FP-CIT PET/CT for differential diagnosis of atypical parkinsonian syndromes (APS) from Parkinson’s disease (PD). We analyzed 172 subjects,...
The depletion of natural resources remains a major global challenge, emphasizing the need to develop sustainable processes that enable both metal recovery and waste recycling. This study investigates the leaching of valuable metals from lead smelting...
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) ship detection faces three persistent challenges: coherent speckle noise that obscures target boundaries, heterogeneous background clutter in coastal and harbor scenes, and ship targets whose spatial extent varies by mo...
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and α-synucleinopathies—including Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and multiple system atrophy (M...
Urban expansion is one of the most dramatic forms of land transformation in the world and it is one of the greatest challenges in achieving sustainable development in the 21st century. Previous studies analyzed urbanization patterns in areas with rap...
Parkinsonian syndromes are considered clinicopathological conditions that are challenging to diagnose. Molecular imaging with [18F]-FDOPA and [18F]-FDG contributes to a more accurate clinical diagnosis by evaluating presynaptic dopaminergic pathways...
Chlorophyll-a (Chla) and suspended particulate matter (SPM) are key indicators of water quality, playing critical roles in understanding marine biogeochemical processes and ecosystem health. Although satellite data from the Chinese Ocean Color and Te...
Cardiovascular diseases pose a major global health threat, making early automated detection through heart sound analysis crucial for their prevention. However, existing deep learning-based heart sound detection methods have shortcomings in feature ex...
In our study a robot was used to deliver objects for measurement into the Equator gauging system. To investigate the robot’s manipulation influence on dimensional measurements, the robot’s tasks were divided into basic functions. Based on these basic...
The state-of-the-art technology of raw silver refining in a silver nitrate-based electrorefining process (Moebius-electrolysis) is accompanied by several disadvantages, both from a technological and from an ecological point of view. In addition, incr...
Camellia vietnamensis Huang is an important woody oil crop in China, which has attracted much attention because of its abundant nutritional components and pharmaceutical value. Its seeds undergo a complex series of physiological and biochemical chang...
In this study, an ionogel electrolyte (PAIM-X) consisting of 1-vinyl-3-methylimidazole bis (trifluoromethyl sulfonyl) imide ([VMIM][TFSI]), Polyacrylamide (PAAm), and MXene were prepared. The conductivity of PAIM-X and integral area of the voltammetr...
Greywater reuse is a feasible solution for decreasing raw water extraction in urban and rural settings. However, pathogen-specific performance guidelines and regulations have only recently been recommended; practical means to assess performance are m...
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