Heart failure (HF) is a global health burden characterized by high morbidity and mortality, necessitating advancements in diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Molecular diagnostics, encompassing genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics,...
Linear rolling guides, used in production machines for the realisation of linear motion, demand in industrial practice early damage identification to prevent production outages and losses. Therefore, the article aims for early damage diagnostics that...
Kernel extreme learning machine (KELM) has been widely studied in the field of aircraft engine fault diagnostics due to its easy implementation. However, because its computational complexity is proportional to the training sample size, its applicatio...
An online failure diagnostic test is essential to ensure the robustness and reliability of high-powered systems. Furthermore, the overall design must comprise diagnostic strategies to detect in-service and high-powered module defects. This paper desc...
Education is considered to be one of the main factors of development, economic growth and social progress. No country can achieve sustainable economic development without substantial investment in human capital. In Spain, school failure represents on...
Background and Objectives: In patients with congestive heart failure, brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) are released due to excessive heart muscle expansion; they can be used for the ea...
Background/Objectives: Acute dyspnea is a common and urgent presentation in the emergency department, with acute heart failure (AHF) as one of its leading causes. Rapid differentiation between AHF and other etiologies is essential. Methods: This stud...
Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging has become a cornerstone in the diagnosis, risk stratification, and management of cardiovascular disease (CVD), particularly heart failure (HF) and cardiomyopathies. Renowned as the gold standard for no...
A key enabler of intelligent maintenance systems is the ability to predict the remaining useful lifetime (RUL) of its components, i.e., prognostics. The development of data-driven prognostics models requires datasets with run-to-failure trajectories....
Background: Suppression of Tumorigenicity 2 (ST2), a member of the interleukin-1 receptor family, plays a crucial role in immune regulation. Elevated sST2 levels are associated with poor prognosis in various inflammatory and cardiovascular diseases,...
In accordance with the recently reinforced exhaust regulations and onboard diagnostics regulations, it is essential to adopt diesel particulate filter systems in diesel vehicles; a sensor that directly measures particulate matter (PM) in exhaust gas...
Photovoltaic (PV) technology allows large-scale investments in a renewable power-generating system at a competitive levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) and with a low environmental impact. Large-scale PV installations operate in a highly competitive...
Already in the ancient world, clinical pictures were described that can be clearly recognised as heart failure nowadays. However not until the 17th century, the first anatomic descriptions of heart failure were published. Another 200 years later, the...
Electric submersible pumps (ESPs) are critical for artificial lift operations; however, they are prone to frequent failures, often resulting in high operational costs and production downtime. Traditional ESP failure classifications are limited by lac...
Diagnostic data of transformers are essential in determining their integrity and to estimate their reliability. Such diagnostic data is not available for distribution transformers as only meagre attempts are made to accumulate this information. The r...
A diesel particulate filter (DPF) is an exhaust after-treatment device designed to capture and store exhaust particulate matter, such as soot and ash, to reduce emissions from diesel-powered vehicles. A DPF has a finite capacity and typically uses a...
Background: The prevalence of heart failure in the Mongolian population is unknown. Thus, in this study, we aimed to define the prevalence of heart failure in the Mongolian population and to identify significant risk factors for heart failure among M...
Patients with chronic cardiopulmonary pathologies have an increased risk of developing venous thromboembolic events. The worsening of dyspnoea is a frequent occurrence and often leads patients to consult the emergency department. Pulmonary embolism c...
The recent focus on sustainability and improved efficiency requires innovative approaches in industrial automation. We present SemKoRe, a knowledge graph developed to improve machine maintenance in the industrial domain. SemKoRe is vendor-agnostic, i...
Heart failure (HF) is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide and represents an escalating problem for healthcare systems. The identification of asymptomatic patients with underlying cardiac subclinical disease would create an op...
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary hemoglobin disorder characterized by chronic hemolysis and recurrent vaso-occlusive crises, leading to a wide spectrum of complications. While common SCD manifestations have well-established management protoc...
The paper discusses the results of a study carried out to determine the thermal condition of a conveyor power unit using a thermal imaging camera. The tests covered conveyors in the main haulage system carrying coal from a longwall. The measurements...
Background: The pathophysiologic heterogeneity of heart failure (HF) necessitates a more detailed identification of diagnostic biomarkers that can reflect its diverse pathogenic pathways. Methods: We conducted weighted gene and multiscale embedded ge...
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) represents a complex clinical syndrome, often very difficult to diagnose using the available tools. As the global burden of this disease is constantly growing, surpassing the prevalence of heart...
Predictive maintenance is increasingly popular in many branches, as well as in the mining industry; however, there is a lack of spectacular examples of its practice efficiency. Close collaboration between Omya Group and Wroclaw University of Science...
Heart failure (HF) is an increasingly prevalent disease with a major impact on morbidity and mortality worldwide. Continuous advancements in diagnostic and therapeutic strategies have significantly improved patient outcomes; however, precise biomarke...
Background: current algorithms for the detection of heart failure (HF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbations have poor performance. Methods: this study was designed as a prospective longitudinal trial. Physiological parameter...
Herein, we report a case of an Italian male infected by Delta sublineage AY.4 harboring an atypical deletion, leading to a N gene target failure (NGTF) by a commercial molecular assay for SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis (AllplexTM SARS-CoV-2 Assay, Seegene). A...
(200 w) Introduction. Remote monitoring (RM) of cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) diagnostics helps to identify patients potentially at risk of worsening heart failure (HF). Additionally, knowledge of patient HF-related symptoms is crucial...
Graphene-based materials are actively being investigated as sensing elements for the detection of different analytes. Both graphene grown by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and graphene oxide (GO) produced by the modified Hummers’ method are ac...
Heart failure is a class of cardiovascular diseases that remains the number one cause of death worldwide with a substantial economic burden of around $18 billion incurred by the healthcare sector in 2017 due to heart failure hospitalization and disea...
Heart failure represents a major medical concern of the 21st century [...]
With its high spatial resolution and tissue contrast, cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is an extremely flexible imaging technique that enables a thorough morphological and functional evaluation of the heart and vascular system. From diagnosis to trea...
The expansion of services and technological equipment applied to the agribusiness sector grows year after year, e.g., tractors and agricultural machinery, which use systems shipped with sophisticated software that collaborate to aid, and optimize act...
Background: Tetranectin (CLEC3B), a plasminogen-binding protein involved in fibrinolysis and tissue remodeling, has been increasingly studied as a potential diagnostic and prognostic biomarker in cardiovascular disease (CVD). This review synthesizes...
The proper operation of medium- and high-voltage power equipment is greatly affected by the degradation of its insulation [...]
More than half of patients with heart failure have a preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). The prevalence of HFpEF has been increasing worldwide and is expected to increase further, making it an important health-care problem. The diagnosis of HFpEF is...
Heart failure (HF) is a clinical syndrome with high morbidity and mortality, and its prevalence is rapidly increasing. Galectin-3 (Gal-3) is an important factor in the pathophysiology of HF, mainly due to its role in cardiac fibrosis, inflammation, a...
Since its first identification as a cardiac transverse tubule (t-tubule) protein, followed by the cloning of the cardiac isoform responsible for t-tubule membrane microdomain formation, cardiac bridging integrator 1 (cBIN1) and its organized microdom...
The management of acute heart failure (AHF) is becoming increasingly complex, especially in patients with multiple comorbidities. Endothelin-1 (ET-1), a vasoconstrictive peptide, is an important mediator of neurohormonal activation, endothelial dysfu...
Limited data concerning the diagnostic and prognostic value of blood-derived biomarkers in heart failure with mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFmrEF) is available. This study investigates the diagnostic and prognostic value of aminoterminal prohorm...
This paper describes a novel approach to assess detection mechanisms and their diagnostic coverage, implemented using embedded software, designed to identify random hardware failures affecting digital components. In the literature, many proposals ado...
The most common cause of heart failure (HF) is coronary artery disease (CAD). The aim of this study was to evaluate the transcriptional activity of the metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9) and tissue metalloproteinase inhibitor 1 (TIMP-1) genes in a study gro...
Differentiation between acute liver failure (ALF) and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) can be challenging in patients with de novo liver disease but is important to indicate the referral to a transplant center and urgency of organ allocation. Le...
Among the most valuable types of renewable energy available today is wind energy. The reliability of WF systems must be regularly evaluated at every stage of their “life,” from design to operation, if a wind farm energy system is to be ef...
The presence of the Fip1-Like1-platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (FIP1L1–PDGFRα) fusion gene represents a rare cause of hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES), which is associated with organ damage. The aim of this paper is to empha...
Wind energy has achieved a leading position among renewable energies. The global installed capacity in 2022 was 906 GW of power, with a growth of 8.4% compared to the same period in the previous year. The forecast is that the barrier of 1,000,000 MW...
In this paper, we propose a Transformer-based encoder architecture integrated with an unsupervised denoising method to learn meaningful and sparse representations of vibration signals without the need for data transformation or pre-trained data. Exis...
Background: Wild-type transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis (ATTRwt-CM) is a frequent but underdiagnosed cause of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). Early identification is essential given the a...
Background: Ambulatory risk stratification for worsening heart failure (HF) using diagnostics measured by insertable cardiac monitors (ICM) may depend on the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). We evaluated risk stratification performance in p...
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