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This study presents a real-time, bidirectional system for translating American Sign Language (ASL) to and from English using computer vision and transformer-based models to enhance accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing users. Leveraging publicly...

More than four million people worldwide suffer from hearing loss. Recently, new CNNs and deep ensemble-learning technologies have brought promising opportunities to the image-recognition field, so many studies aiming to recognize American Sign Langua...

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) MRI allows non-invasive quantification of renal blood flow (RBF) and shows great potential for renal assessment. To our knowledge, renal ASL-MRI has not previously been performed in dogs. The aim of this pilot study was t...

Background and Objectives: Inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs) are a group of genetic disorders characterized by defects in enzymes or transport proteins involved in metabolic processes. These defects result in an abnormal accumulation of metabolite...

American Sign Language (ASL) makes extensive use of pointing signs, but there has been only limited documentation of how pointing signs are used for demonstrative functions. We elicited demonstratives from four adult Deaf signers of ASL in a puzzle c...

This paper proposes a gesture-based control system for industrial robots. To achieve that goal, the performance of an image classifier trained on three different American Sign Language (ASL) fingerspelling image datasets is considered. Then, the thre...

The internal structure of wind turbines is intricate and precise, although the challenging working conditions often give rise to various operational faults. This study aims to address the limitations of traditional machine learning algorithms in wind...

Argininosuccinic aciduria (ASA) is a metabolic disorder caused by a deficiency in argininosuccinate lyase (ASL), which cleaves argininosuccinic acid to arginine and fumarate in the urea cycle. ASL deficiency (ASLD) leads to hepatocyte dysfunction, hy...

We investigated the relationship between MRI-arterial spin labeling (ASL) parameters and PET-cerebral blood flow (CBF)/cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) simultaneously obtained by PET/MRI in Moyamoya disease. Twelve patients underwent ¹⁵O-water PET/MR...

Early language acquisition is critical for lifelong success in language, literacy, and academic studies. There is much to explore about the specific techniques used to foster deaf children’s language development. The use of rhyme and rhythm in...

Focused attention meditation (FAM) training has been shown to improve attention, but the neural basis of FAM on attention has not been thoroughly understood. Here, we aim to investigate the neural effect of a 2-month FAM training on novice meditators...

Biological control using beneficial microbes offers a sustainable alternative to chemical fungicides for managing postharvest diseases. This study reports the isolation and characterization of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens AsL-1 from the latex of Alston...

Evidence for a Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) could surface with language processing/comprehension, language production, or a combination of both. Whereas, various studies have described cases of DLD in signing deaf children, there exist few d...

Due to the extreme, harsh natural environment in the Himalayas higher than 8000 m above sea level (asl) long-term and continuous meteorological observation is still a great challenge, and little is known about water vapor transport in this extremely...

Background: Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a severe central nervous system infection that can lead to cerebral vasculitis and infarction. This study aimed to evaluate changes in cerebral perfusion and vasculitis on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) b...

In this paper, we propose a framework to convert American Sign Language (ASL) to English and English to ASL. Within this framework, we use a deep learning model along with the rolling average prediction that captures image frames from videos and clas...

Arterial spin labeling (ASL) has emerged as a promising noninvasive tool for the evaluation of both pediatric and adult arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). This paper reviews the advantages and challenges associated with the use of ASL in AVM assessm...

Background: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a significant contributor to global mortality and long-term neurological disability. Accurate prognostic biomarkers are crucial for enhancing prognostic accuracy and guiding personalized clinical manag...

Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to identify the most effective MRI techniques for detecting and characterising neck paragangliomas (NPGLs), which are highly vascularised tumors. Methods: Five readers were asked which MRI sequence...

Central nervous system (CNS) involvement in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) occurs in more than 50% of patients. Structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has identified global cerebral atrophy, as well as the involvement of the...

The association between younger age and poorer mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic has been documented. Whether these changes were associated with a change in antidepressant (AD) use is not well understood. This study aimed to estimate the imp...

Cerebral blood flow (CBF) measurements are of high clinical value and can be acquired non-invasively with no radiation exposure using pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (ASL). The aim of this study was to evaluate accordance in resting state CB...

Upper Cretaceous carbonate rocks in Jordan are the main resources for construction and paint-related industrial applications. This study evaluates the elemental composition, mineralogy, and petrography of two main geological formations from two local...

Background: Pharmacological treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)/benign prostatic obstruction (BPO)-associated lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) aims at improving patients’ quality of life by managing urinary symptoms and preventin...

Introduction: The prediction of the fluorescent effect of 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) in patients with diffuse gliomas can improve the selection of patients. The degree of enhancement of gliomas has been reported to predict 5-ALA fluorescence, whil...

Low-code development platforms have gained popularity as an effective solution to address urgent market demands for software applications. These platforms have often overcome challenges faced by traditional software development processes, including r...

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) bridges crucial communication gaps, this study extends AI’s utility to American and Taiwan Sign Language (ASL and TSL) communities through advanced models like the hierarchical vision transformer wit...

This study dives into the interactive functions of the palm-up across four language ecologies drawing on comparable corpus data from American Sign Language (ASL)-American English and French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB)-Belgian French. While researche...

The Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) has demonstrated excellent performance in image recognition and has brought new opportunities for sign language recognition. However, the features undergo many nonlinear transformations while performing the conv...

Adult chimpanzees Tatu and Loulis lived at the Fauna Foundation sanctuary. They had acquired signs of American Sign Language (ASL) while young and continued to use them as adults. Caregivers with proficiency in ASL maintained daily sign language reco...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the relationship between tumor blood flow (TBF) measured by the pseudo-continuous arterial spin labeling (PCASL) method and IDH1 mutation status of gliomas as well as Ki-67 proliferative index. Methods. The study...

In a Drug Prescription Network (DPN), each drug is represented as a node and two drugs co-prescribed to the same patient are represented as an edge linking the nodes. The use of DPNs is a novel approach that has been proposed as a means to study the...

Here, we demonstrate the broadband spectra and efficient laser performance of a disordered Nd:Sr_0.7La_0.3Mg_0.3Al_11.7O₁₉ (Nd:ASL) crystal. The polarized absorption and emission spectra were characterized and calculated with the Judd–Ofelt (J&ndas...

Communication barriers pose significant challenges for the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) community, limiting their access to essential services, social interactions, and professional opportunities. To bridge this gap, assistive technologies leveragi...

Communication through sign language effectively helps both hearing- and speaking-impaired individuals connect. However, there are problems with the interlingual communication between Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) and English Sign Language (ASL) due to...

Measurements of cerebrovascular reactivity (CVR) are essential for treatment decisions in moyamoya vasculopathy (MMV). Since MMV patients are often young or cognitively impaired, anesthesia is commonly used to limit motion artifacts. Our aim was to i...

A number of imaging readout schemes are proposed for renal arterial spin labeling (ASL) to quantify kidney cortex perfusion, including gradient echo-based methods of balanced fast field echo (bFFE) and gradient-echo echo-planar imaging (GE-EPI), or s...

Human gesture image recognition is the process of identifying, deciphering, and classifying human gestures in images or video frames using computer vision algorithms. These gestures can vary from the simplest hand motions, body positions, and facial...

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetases (aaRSs) are a well-studied family of enzymes with a canonical role in charging tRNAs with a specific amino acid. These proteins appear to also have non-canonical roles, including post-transcriptional regulation of mRNA expr...

We sought to systematically review and meta-analy the role of cerebral blood flow (CBF) in the medial temporal lobe (MTL) using arterial spin labeling magnetic resonance imaging (ASL-MRI) and compare this in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (A...

Tissue perfusion allows for delivery of oxygen and nutrients to tissues, and in the kidneys is also a key determinant of glomerular filtration. Quantification of regional renal perfusion provides a potential window into renal (patho) physiology. Howe...

Arabic sign language (ArASL) is the primary communication medium for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people across Arabic-speaking communities. Most current ArASL recognition systems are based solely on visual features and do not incorporate linguistic or s...

New approaches are required to successfully intervene therapeutically in neurodegenerative diseases. Addressing the earliest phases of disease, blood brain barrier (BBB) leak before the accumulation of misfolded proteins has significant potential for...

Hand gesture recognition is one of the most effective modes of interaction between humans and computers due to being highly flexible and user-friendly. A real-time hand gesture recognition system should aim to develop a user-independent interface wit...

Sign language recognition is one of the most challenging tasks of today’s era. Most of the researchers working in this domain have focused on different types of implementations for sign recognition. These implementations require the development...

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) plays a crucial role in maintaining the homeostasis of the central nervous system by regulating solute transport and preventing neurotoxic substances from infiltrating brain tissue. In schizophrenia, emerging evide...

MR perfusion imaging is important in the clinical evaluation of primary brain tumors, particularly in differentiating between true progression and treatment-induced change. The utility of velocity-selective ASL (VSASL) compared to the more commonly u...

Plasmodium spp. and some other blood parasites belonging to the order Haemosporida are the focus of many epidemiological studies worldwide. However, haemosporidian parasites from wild animals are largely neglected in scientific research. For example,...

Changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) and regulation of cerebral circulation occur at high altitude (HA). However, the changes in CBF and their associations with neurological syndrome sequelae and blood pressure after subjects return to the lowlands r...

In this study, we showed that the multi-angle satellite remote sensing product, MISR L2 Land Surface (MIL2ASLS), which has a scale of 1.1 km, could be suitable for improving land-cover studies. Using seven images from this product, captured by the mu...