The observation of and research on raindrop size distribution (DSD) is important for mastering and understanding the mutual restriction relationship between cloud dynamics and cloud microphysics in a process of precipitation; it also plays an irrepla...
Radar echo extrapolation is a critical forecasting tool in the field of meteorology, playing an especially vital role in nowcasting and weather modification operations. In recent years, spatiotemporal sequence prediction models based on deep learning...
Radar beam blockage is an important error source that affects the quality of weather radar data. An echo-filling network (EFnet) is proposed based on a deep learning algorithm to correct the echo intensity under the occlusion area in the Nanjing S-ba...
Aiming at the problems of low fault diagnosis accuracy caused by insufficient samples and unbalanced data sample distribution in bearing fault diagnosis, this paper proposes a fault diagnosis method for rolling bearings referencing conditional deep c...
Background: The success of healthy aging depends on the ability of countries to study and act on frailty in the elderly, control chronic diseases, improve functional capacity and prevent cognitive decline and social interaction. Aim: (1) to evaluate...
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal condition characterized by the selective loss of motor neurons in the motor cortex, brainstem, and spinal cord. Muscle involvement, muscle atrophy, and subsequent paralysis are among the main features of...
This paper presents the application of self-supervised deep contrastive learning in clustering signals detected in the wideband RF spectrum, presented in the form of spectrograms. Radio clustering is a method of searching for similar signals within t...
Vitiligo is a complex disorder with an important effect on the self-esteem and social life of patients. It is the commonest acquired depigmentation disorder characterized by the development of white macules resulting from the selective loss of epider...
Change detection, i.e., the identification per pixel of changes for some classes of interest from a set of bi-temporal co-registered images, is a fundamental task in the field of remote sensing. It remains challenging due to unrelated forms of change...
We tested the hypothesis that successful weight loss post-bariatric surgery would be associated with healthier chemosensory function, food likes, and dietary behaviors than either unsuccessful weight loss or pre-surgery morbid obesity. In a case-cont...
A critical step for gene selection algorithms using rough set theory is the establishment of a gene evaluation function to assess the classification ability of candidate gene subsets. The concept of dependency in a classic neighborhood rough set mode...
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are essential to maintain immune homeostasis by promoting self-tolerance. Reduced Treg numbers or functionality can lead to a loss of tolerance, increasing the risk of developing autoimmune diseases. An overwhelming variety...
To address the issue of existing automatic irrigation systems’ excessive reliance on electrical power and communication networks, a one-inlet, four-outlet Hydraulically Actuated Irrigation Control Valve (HAICV) was designed that operates based...
In the context of accelerated aging of the population worldwide, frailty has emerged as one of the main risk factors that can lead to loss of self-sufficiency in older people. This syndrome is defined as a reduced state of physiological reserve and f...
Introduction: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is defined by articular cartilage loss, increased discomfort, and functional restrictions. Changes in lifestyle, painkillers, intra-articular injections, and, as a last resort, surgery are all part of clinical t...
Background/Objective: Self-perceived hearing handicap (SPHH) reflects functional consequences of hearing loss beyond audiometric measures. Clarifying its relationship with audiometric severity and demographic factors is important for understanding ag...
We sought to examine the relationship between frailty and health-related quality of life as evaluated using the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) questionnaire in Japanese chronic liver disease (CLD) patients (n = 341, 122 liver cirrhosis case...
Aging is a primary risk factor for the progressive loss of function, disease onset, and increased vulnerability to negative health-related outcomes. These clinical manifestations arise in part from declines in mitochondrial, metabolic, and other proc...
The goal of deep anomaly detection is to identify abnormal data by utilizing a deep neural network trained by a normal training dataset. In general, industrial visual anomaly detection problems distinguish normal and abnormal data through small morph...
The last few years have been characterized by a growing interest of the medical and scientific world for the field of consciousness and its related disorders. Medically speaking, conscious- ness can be defined as the state of awareness of self and en...
STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy (SAVI) is a type I interferonopathy caused by gain-of-function mutations in STING1 encoding stimulator of interferon genes (STING) protein. SAVI is characterized by severe inflammatory lung disease,...
Female gametogenesis is orchestrated by dynamic epigenetic modifications. In mammals, SETDB1, a histone H3K9 methyltransferase, is required for proper meiotic progression and early embryonic development. In Drosophila, the ortholog of SETDB1 plays a...
How can an income tax system be designed to exploit human nature and a free market to create a poverty free society, while balancing budgets without disproportional tax burdens? Such a tax system, with universal character, is deduced from the followi...
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder primarily defined by the deterioration of motor function and characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons in the nigrostriatal system. Although it is the second most prevalent disord...
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Accumulating research has described cognitive impairment in adults with depression, however, few studies have focused on this relationship during older adulthood. Our cross-sectional study investigated the association between cognitive function perfo...
Developing classical three-dimensional consolidation theories considers the small-strain assumption. This small-strain assumption is inappropriate when studying the consolidation process of soft or very soft clay layers. Instead, this study derives a...
We developed a self-consistent double-null description of an evaporating white-hole spacetime by embedding the outgoing Vaidya solution in a coordinate system that remains regular across the future horizon. Starting from the radiation-coordinate form...
Frailty syndrome is a functional state that includes a loss of ability to react to stressors, and is associated with poor outcomes, morbidity and premature mortality. The first line treatment in many men with prostate cancer (PCa) consists of an andr...
Respiratory failure, malnutrition, aspiration pneumonia, and dehydration are the precursors to mortality in ALS. Loss of natural communication is considered one of the worst aspects of ALS. This first study to test the feasibility of a music therapy...
To solve the problem of low detection accuracy of small objects in UAV optical remote sensing images due to low contrast, dense distribution, and weak features, this paper proposes a small object detection method based on feature alignment of candida...
Understanding early nervous system stress response mechanisms is crucial for studying developmental neurotoxicity and devising neuroprotective treatments. We used hiPSC-derived long-term self-renewing neuroepithelial stem (lt-NES) cells differentiate...
With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, the question of how to leverage large amounts of unlabeled remote sensing data to detect changes in multi-temporal images has become a significant challenge. Self-supervised methods (SSL) for r...
The main objective of this study was to discover new packaging materials that could integrate one of the most expected properties, such as UV protection, with a self-cleaning ability defined as photocatalytic performance. Accordingly, new hybrid addi...