Ribosome biogenesis is tightly associated with plant growth and reproduction. Mutations in genes encoding ribosomal proteins (RPs) or ribosome biogenesis factors (RBFs) generally result in retarded growth and delayed flowering. However, the early-flo...
There is a growing interest of estimating the inherent uncertainty of photovoltaic (PV) power forecasts with probability forecasting methods to mitigate accompanying risks for system operators. This study aims to advance the field of probabilistic PV...
Various published COVID-19 models have been used in epidemiological studies and healthcare planning to model and predict the spread of the disease and appropriately realign health measures and priorities given the resource limitations in the field of...
Maritime activity is expected to increase, and therefore also the need for maritime surveillance and safety. Most ships are obligated to identify themselves with a transponder system like the Automatic Identification System (AIS) and ships that do no...
Humidimycin (MDN-0010) is a ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptide (RiPP) belonging to class I lasso peptides, and is structurally related to siamycins, which have been shown to have strong antimicrobial activities against...
Prompt estimation of phytoplankton biomass is critical in determining the ecological quality of freshwaters. Remote Sensing (RS) may provide new opportunities to integrate with situ traditional monitoring techniques. Nonetheless, wide regional and te...
An essential part of a city’s transportation infrastructure, taxis allow for regular encounters between drivers and customers. Nevertheless, there are issues with efficiency since there is an imbalance in the supply and demand for taxis. This s...
A new napyradiomycin, MDN-0170 (1), was isolated from the culture broth of the marine-derived actinomycete strain CA-271078, together with three known related compounds identified as 4-dehydro-4a-dechloronapyradiomycin A1 (2), napyradiomycin A1 (3) a...
Urban rivers, as crucial components of ecosystems, serve multiple functions, including flood control, drainage, and landscape services. However, with the acceleration of urbanization, factors such as industrial wastewater discharge, domestic sewage l...
A reliable prediction of the remaining useful life of critical electronic components, such as insulated gate bipolar transistors, is necessary for preventing failures in many industrial applications. Recently, diverse machine-learning techniques have...
AAA-ATPases are molecular engines evolutionarily optimized for the remodeling of proteins and macromolecular assemblies. Three AAA-ATPases are currently known to be involved in the remodeling of the eukaryotic ribosome, a megadalton range ribonucleop...
The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) demands scalable, efficient, and user-friendly gateway solutions that seamlessly connect resource-constrained edge devices to cloud services. Low-cost, widely available microcontrollers, such as the...
IoT technologies are becoming pervasive in public and private sectors and represent presently an integral part of our daily life. The advantages offered by these technologies are frequently coupled with serious security issues that are often not prop...
The ribosome assembly factor Nsa2 is part of the Rea1-Rsa4-Nsa2 interconnected relay on nuclear pre-60S particles that is essential for 60S ribosome biogenesis. Cryo-EM structures depict Nsa2 docked via its C-terminal β-barrel domain to nuclear...
In shallow water, Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery has only four visible bands and limited quantization levels, which easily leads to the occurrence of the same spectral profile but different depth (SSPBDD) phenomenon, resulting in a one-to-many rela...
Carbohydrate intake (CI) has the largest impact on the short-term glycaemia of all nutrients, yet optimal CI management in gestational diabetes remains unclear. Objective: To examine CI behaviours in individuals with recently diagnosed gestational di...
(1) Background: The use of smartphone-based ecological momentary assessment (EMA) questionnaires in affective disorder research has rapidly increased. Though, a thorough understanding of experienced burden of and adherence to EMA is crucial in determ...
Assess and restore programs such as Humber’s Elderly Assess and Restore Team (HEART) provide short-term restorative care to prevent functional decline in hospitalized older adults. The aim of this retrospective observational study was to determ...
Purpose: Current guidelines on urgent thoracotomy of polytraumatized patients are based on data from perforating chest injuries. We aimed to identify predictive factors for urgent thoracotomy after chest-tube placement for blunt chest trauma in a civ...
Globally, cognitive impairment (CI) is the leading cause of disability and dependency among the elderly, presenting a significant public health concern. However, there is currently a deficiency in pharmacological interventions that can effectively cu...
Background and objectives: Numerous studies link ultra-processed food (UPF) intake to adverse health outcomes. However, data on the relationship between UPF intake and overall dietary quality are scarce. Therefore, the present analysis aimed to explo...
Myocardial protection has become an essential adjunctive procedure in veterinary cardiac surgery. Del Nido cardioplegia is a good alternative to the traditional St. Thomas II (ST) cardioplegia in open heart surgery in humans. This study aims to compa...
Background: Hypertrophic pyloric stenosis is a condition in newborns in which the hypertrophic pyloric muscle causes gastric obstructive symptoms of progressive vomiting leading to hypochloremic hypokalemic metabolic alkalosis. The main aim of the re...
Numerous factors affect the behavior, attitudes, and knowledge of health professionals about breastfeeding. The aim of this paper is to determine the impact of participation in pregnancy courses and breastfeeding support groups on the attitudes and k...
Fused deposition modeling (FDM) parts show condition-dependent variability in ultimate tensile strength (UTS), yet most machine learning (ML) studies report only deterministic point estimates, limiting use in safety-critical design. This work present...
Background and Objectives: Resilience and perceived social support are crucial factors influencing the psychological well-being among breast cancer survivors. Understanding their levels and interrelations can inform psychosocial interventions aimed a...
28 November 2022
(1) The perimenopausal period and menopause are physiological stages of a woman’s life, and they may result in the occurrence of many health problems. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of sociodemographic factors related to the use...
Healthcare providers (HCPs) are responsible for educating pregnant women about food safety issues in to prevent infectious diseases; however, few HCPs provide their pregnant women with such information. This study aimed to identify food safety educat...
Purpose: Diabetic patients aged 65 years or older are more likely to be frail than non-diabetic older adults. Adherence to therapeutic recommendations in the elderly suffering from diabetes and co-existent frailty syndrome may prevent complications s...
Text-to-music generation aims to automatically produce audio content with semantic consistency and coherent musical structure based on natural language descriptions. However, existing methods still face challenges in terms of style diversity, rhythmi...
Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) enables autonomous vehicles to perform complex decision making using neural networks. However, previous DRL networks only output decisions, so there is no way to determine whether the decision is proper. Reinforcemen...
Adaptive behavior in the environment requires a high level of cognitive control to bias limited processing resources to behaviorally significant stimuli. Such control has been associated with a set of brain regions located in the fronto-parietal cort...
Accurate assessment and prediction of mandible shape are fundamental prerequisites for successful orthognathic surgery. Previous studies have predominantly used linear models to predict lower facial structures from facial landmarks or measurements; t...
Bulgaria, situated on the Balkan Peninsula, is rich in small and shallow, natural and man-made non-lotic waterbodies, which are threatened by blooms of Cyanoprokaryota/Cyanobacteria. Although cyanotoxins in Bulgarian surface waters are receiving incr...
Wet deposition of mercury (Hg) across the United States is influenced by changes in atmospheric conditions, domestic emissions and global background emissions. We examine trends in Hg precipitation concentrations at 47 Mercury Deposition Network (MDN...
Evidence-based information accumulated over the years has demonstrated the importance of having a culturally embedded temperament assessment instrument. Thus, the aim of this article was to investigate the psychometric properties of a Lithuanian vers...
Neuronal models of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s Disease (PD) are extensively studied in pathological and therapeutical research with neurite outgrowth being a core feature. Screening of neurite outgrowth enables characterization of...
28 October 2022
Background: Cognitive-behavioral alterations can occur after an acquired brain injury (ABI). Objectives: To develop and evaluate a synchronous online training program on emotional intelligence (EI) for the caregivers of adult patients with cognitive-...
Few studies on humans have comprehensively evaluated the intake composition of methyl-donor nutrients (MDNs: choline, betaine, and folate) in relation to visceral obesity (VOB)-related hepatic steatosis (HS), the hallmark of non-alcoholic fatty liver...
23 October 2022
The purpose of this article was to evaluate reported oral and mucosal complaints among seniors residing in institutionalized 24-h care of the Municipal Center for Older and Dependent People (MHCOD) and the 3-month rehabilitation program of the Daily...
Prolonged untreated psychosis worsens outcomes, thus motivating the study of pathways and perceived barriers to care, especially for high-risk age groups like college students. The primary objective of this study was to explore pathways to coordinate...
Effective situation awareness relies on the robust processing of high-dimensional data streams generated by onboard sensors. However, the application of deep generative models to extract features from complex UAV sensor data (e.g., GPS, IMU, and rada...
16 August 2021
This project aimed to analyze the impact of disease acceptance and selected demographic and clinical factors on the adherence to treatment recommendations in elderly type 2 diabetes mellitus patients. The observational study was performed using stand...
Early spaceborne laser altimetry mission development starts in pre-phase A design, where diverse ideas are evaluated against mission science requirements. A key challenge is predicting realistic instrument performance through forward modeling at an a...
Real-time, reliable forecasting of water quality (WQ) is a critical component of sustainable environmental management. A key challenge, however, is modeling time-varying uncertainty (heteroscedasticity), particularly during disruptive events like sto...
Estimating accurate 3D human poses from 2D images remains a challenge due to the lack of explicit depth information in 2D data. This paper proposes an improved mixture density network for 3D human pose estimation called the Locally Connected Mixture...
Background/Objectives: Cariprazine, a D3/D2 partial agonist, is one of the few recommended treatment options for bipolar 1 disorder (BP1D) in Southeast Asia. This study aims to generate insights from leading experts on the safe and effective use of c...
15 March 2021
Background: Based on the holistic approach to prevention diabetic disease, the role of periodontal inflammation in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is under intensive scrutiny. Data from clinical trials have shown benefit from a periodontal therapy in...
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the impact of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and platelet-rich gel (PRG) on tympanic membrane closure rates, hearing improvement, and quality of life following tympanoplasty. Methods: Seventy-two patients with...
Sport-related concussions (SRC) are characterized by impaired autonomic control. Heart rate variability (HRV) offers easily obtainable diagnostic approaches to SRC-associated dysautonomia, but studies investigating HRV during sleep, a crucial time fo...
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