Composition bias from Chargaff’s second parity rule (PR2) has long been found in sequenced genomes, and is believed to relate strongly with the replication process in microbial genomes. However, some disagreement on the underlying reason for strand c...
Microbiome data are subject to experimental bias that is caused by DNA extraction and PCR amplification, among other sources, but this important feature is often ignored when developing statistical methods for analyzing microbiome data. McLaren, Will...
For large-scale tropical tuna purse-seine fisheries, it is prohibitively costly to obtain adequate sampling coverage to estimate fleet-level catch composition solely from sample data. Logbook or observer data, with complete fleet coverage, are often...
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) is a reliable, non-invasive, objective, and cost-effective body composition assessment method, with high reproducibility. This scoping review aims to evaluate the current scientific and clinical evidence on BIA...
Composite thin films arouse great interests owing to the multifunctionalities and heterointerface induced physical property tailoring. The exchange bias effect aroused from the ferromagnetic (FM)–antiferromagnetic (AFM) heterointerface is applicable...
Bias in facial recognition systems often results in unequal performance across demographic groups. This study addresses this by investigating how dataset composition affects the performance and bias of age estimation models across ethnicities. We fin...
The principal presumption of phage display biopanning is that the naïve library contains an unbiased repertoire of peptides, and thus, the enriched variants derive from the affinity selection of an entirely random peptide pool. In the current st...
Viral codon usage bias may be the product of a number of synergistic or antagonistic factors, including genomic nucleotide composition, translational selection, genomic architecture, and mutational or repair biases. Most studies of viral codon bias e...
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) in protein sequences are flexible, have low structural constraints and as a result have faster rates of evolution. This lack of evolutionary conservation greatly limits the use of sequence homology for the clas...
Copper-doped hydrogenated amorphous carbon (Cu-doped a-C:H) films were synthesized using copper as the cathode and C2H2 as the precursor. The result shows that the negative bias voltage can affect the composition and microstructure of nanocomposite f...
Prunus necrotic ringspot virus (PNRSV) is a significant virus of ornamental plants and fruit trees. It is essential to study this virus due to its impact on the horticultural industry. Several studies on PNRSV diversity and phytosanitary detection te...
Though bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a favorable tool for assessing body composition to estimate nutritional status and physical fitness, such as sarcopenia, there are accuracy issues. Hence, high-frequency (HF) BIA equipment uses an addi...
Transposable elements exhibit a base composition that is often different from the genomic average and from hosts’ genes. The most common compositional bias is towards Adenosine and Thymine, although this bias is not universal, and elements with...
Background: This study sought to assess how body mass (BM) and body composition in post-COVID-19 elderly adults were affected by 8 weeks of resistance training. An additional goal was to determine the agreement between Bioelectrical Impedance Analysi...
Different rugby positions make different demands on players. It therefore follows that optimum body composition may vary according to the position played. Using anthropometry and bioimpedance analysis (BIA) to assess body composition, the present stu...
Recent technological development of utilizing an active screen made of solid carbon for plasma-assisted thermochemical diffusion treatments opens up new possibilities for control over the in situ generated treatment environment to guarantee reproduci...
Background: Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a widely used field technique for assessing body composition in football. However, its reliance on population-specific regression equations limits its accuracy. Objective: This scoping review aime...
The CHEMTAX program has been widely used to estimate community composition based on major pigment concentrations in seawater. However, because CHEMTAX is an underdetermined optimization algorithm, underdetermined bias has remained an unsolved problem...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a method used to estimate body composition, and it relies mainly on the body’s water content. Insufficient body water can introduce bias to body composition scores. Purpose: To determine the effect of b...
We present NiO/Ni composite particles with face-centered cubic (fcc) structure prepared by a pulsed laser irradiation of NiO nanoparticles dispersed in liquid. The sizes of particles and the Ni content in NiO/Ni composites were controlled by tuning t...
The most widely used method in professional sports for fat percentage assessment is the skinfold method. However, there is the chance of bias and human error. For this reason, other more precise methods are used, such as single-frequency bioelectrica...
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are sometimes considered parts of the ‘dark proteomes’, i.e., protein parts that have been largely under-appreciated, as are the overlapping phenomena of low-complexity or compositionally biased reg...
31 December 2024
Background: A commercial three-dimensional optical (3DO) scanning system was reported to be used in body composition assessment. However, the applicability in Chinese adults has yet to be well-studied. Methods: This secondary analysis was based on a...
The aim of our study was to validate three different bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) methods for estimating body composition (BC). First, we generated BIA prediction equations based on the 4-C model as the reference method for fat mass (FM) an...
A finite element simulation was utilized in this work to analyze the thermoforming process of woven carbon fiber fabric/polyurethane thermoplastic composite sheets. In the simulation that may be classified as a discrete method, the woven carbon fiber...
5 November 2020
The accurate body composition assessment comprises several variables, causing it to be a time consuming evaluation as well as requiring different and sometimes costly measurement instruments. The aim of this study was to develop new equations for the...
The majority of BIA parameters have been investigated in relation to post-stroke recovery, except for body cell mass (BCM), which measures the body’s cellular components involved in oxygen consumption and nutritional status. The aim of this lon...
Background: Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a simple and rapid technique to measure body composition (BC). Validity of BIA in patients with low body mass index (BMI) remains controversial. We assessed the validity of several BIA equations t...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and anthropometry are considered alternatives to well-established reference techniques for assessing body composition. In team sports, the percentage of fat mass (FM%) is one of the most informative parameters,...
All iflavirus members belong to the unique genus, Iflavirus, of the family, Iflaviridae. The host taxa and sequence identities of these viruses are diverse. A codon usage bias, maintained by a balance between selection, mutation, and genetic drift, e...
The ketogenic diet (KD) is a very low-carbohydrate, high-fat, and adequate-protein diet that induces many metabolic adaptations when calorie intake is not limited. Its therapeutic use in a range of diseases including cancer is currently being investi...
We investigate the physico-chemical origins that determine the transistor characteristics and stabilities in sol-gel processed zinc tin oxide (ZTO) thin-film transistors (TFTs). ZTO solutions with Sn/(Sn+Zn) molar ratios from 0.3 to 0.6 were synthesi...
14 April 2020
Prediabetes in the form of impaired fasting glucose, impaired glucose tolerance, or both is considered as a preliminary stage for the onset of diabetes and diabetic complications. Hormonal fluctuations in adolescence are accompanied by body compositi...
Easy-to-apply and quick methods for evaluate body composition are often preferred when assessing soccer teams. This study aimed to develop new equations for the somatotype quantification that would reduce the anthropometric measurements required by t...
Obese patients often suffer from sarcopenia or sarcopenic obesity (SO) that can trigger inflammatory diseases including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Sarcopenia and SO can be diagnosed through measuring parameters of body composition such as...
Zinc binuclear cluster proteins (ZBC; Zn(II)2Cys6) are unique to the fungi kingdom and associated with a series of functions, viz., the utilization of macromolecules, stress tolerance, and most importantly, host–pathogen interactions by imparti...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) is a practical alternative to dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) for determining body composition in children. Currently, there are no population specific equations available for predicting fat-free mass (FF...
Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) provides body composition estimates that may complement conventional assessments of dynamic movement asymmetry. This cross-sectional study examined the association between the two in 50 adults aged 20–65 y...
Cowpea mild mottle virus (CpMMV) is an economically significant virus that causes severe disease on several legume crops. Aside from recombination, other factors driving its rapid evolution are elusive. In this study, the synonymous codon pattern of...
Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV), an important pathogen that causes mosaic diseases in vegetable crops worldwide, belongs to the genus Potyvirus of the family Potyviridae. Previously, the areas of genetic variation, population structure, timescale, and mig...
11 August 2022
As the availability of various bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) tools is increasing, the patient’s position during the test may be of significant importance for the comparability of the results. An observational pilot study was undertaken b...
Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) carry out many cellular functions and vary in length and placement in protein sequences. This diversity leads to variations in the underlying compositional biases, which were demonstrated for the short vs. long...
Osteoporosis is a common musculoskeletal disorder among the elderly and a chronic condition which, like many other chronic conditions, requires long-term clinical management. It is caused by many factors, including lifestyle and obesity. Bioelectrica...
This paper proposes topological enhancements to increase voltage gain of ultra-low-voltage (ULV) inverter-based OTAs. The two proposed improvements rely on adoption of composite transistors and forward-body-biasing. The impact of the proposed techniq...
Background: The combination of elexacaftor–tezacaftor–ivacaftor modulators (ETI) has improved clinical outcomes for people with cystic fibrosis (pwCF). Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate changes in nutritional and morphofunctional a...
The receive sensitivity of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducers (PMUTs) was improved by applying a DC bias during operation. The PMUT receive sensitivity is governed by the voltage piezoelectric coefficient...
Background: The prevalence of anorexia nervosa among males is increasing but few data are available in the literature. This cross sectional study aims to evaluate resting energy expenditure (REE) and phase angle as a marker of qualitative changes of...
Background/Aim: Extracellular-to-total body water ratio (ECW/TBW) and phase angle (PhA, PA) reflect hydration and cellular health, but their relationship with bone, muscle, and fat, as primary components of body composition, is not fully elucidated....
Due to advancements in sequencing technology, sequence data production is no longer a constraint in the field of microbiology and has made it possible to study uncultured microbes or whole environments using metagenomics. However, these new technolog...
Background: Albania has undergone a rapid demographic transition characterized by pronounced population aging. Comprehensive geriatric assessment—functional performance, validated nutritional screening tools, and systematic evaluation of morbid...
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