76 Results Found

This study aimed to model the effects of aw, pH, and OA, a compound commonly used as a plant elicitor, on the growth and mycotoxin production of Aspergillus welwitschiae and Aspergillus flavus on a fig-based model substrate. Using RSM with a BBD, the...

Background: Technology allows us to predict a histopathological diagnosis, but the high costs prevent the large-scale use of these possibilities. The current liberal indication for surgery in benign thyroid conditions led to a rising frequency of inc...

This research evaluated the modified RCTU score, derived from amyloid PET scans, for predicting the progression from amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment (aMCI) to Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). aMCI patients underwent baseline evaluations, including...

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate whether [18F]FDG PET/CT-derived semi-quantitative parameters can predict immunotherapy treatment response in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients. Secondly, immune-related adverse events (...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a significant cause of hospital-associated pneumonia (HAP). The rapid identification of MRSA would be beneficial for early diagnosis. The study aimed to evaluate a multilocus, fluorescence-base...

Introduction: Bone scintigraphy has emerged as a key tool for non-invasive etiologic diagnosis of transthyretin (ATTR) cardiac amyloidosis (CA). We focused on a new semi-quantification method (on planar imaging) that could complement the qualitative/...

Background: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common non-Hodgkin lymphoma worldwide. After first-line therapy, 30–40% of patients relapse or experiment with refractory disease. 18F-FDG PET/CT represents a validated diagnostic to...

Background: Infection of Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices (CIEDI) is a real public health problem. The main aim of this study was to determine the diagnostic performance of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the diagnosis of CIEDI. Methods: A total of 48 patien...

99mTc-MIBI (MIBI) imaging is able to exclude malignancy of hypofunctioning thyroid nodules (TNs) with high probability but false positive results are frequent due to low specificity. Therefore, pre-test selection of appropriate TNs is crucial. For im...

Background/objectives: Pathological complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) in breast cancer (BC) is a solid indicator of favourable prognosis, potentially also being useful for more conservative patient management. We aim to explor...

Background/Objectives: Fingernail onychomycosis differs etiologically and epidemiologically from toenail infections and is frequently complicated by colonization and mixed growth. Reliable interpretation of microscopy–culture correlations is es...

This work focused on a detailed assessment of lung tissue affected by metastasis of breast cancer. We used large-area chemical scanning implemented in Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic imaging supported with classical histological and m...

The risk assessment matrix is a widely accepted, semi-quantitative tool for assessing risks, and setting priorities in risk management. Although the method can be useful to promote discussion to distinguish high risks from low risks, a published crit...

Streptococcus suis is a Gram-positive bacterium responsible for major infections in pigs and economic losses in the livestock industry, but also an emerging zoonotic pathogen causing serious diseases in humans. No vaccine is available so far against...

Early detection of microorganisms is essential for the management of infectious diseases. However, this is challenging, as traditional culture methods are labor-intensive and time-consuming. The 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium br...

Background: The aim of the study was to evaluate a novel EEG scoring system as a diagnostic and prognostic tool for brain injury in infants who had experienced perinatal asphyxia. Methods: The scoring system, based on a semi-quantitative approach, en...

Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a significant risk factor for developing chronic kidney disease and progression to end-stage renal disease in elderly patients. AKI is also a relatively common complication after kidney transplantation (KTx) associated wi...

Despite various opportunities, urban development projects have been causing significant challenges to the preservation and conservation of historic cultural heritage. In particular, an increasing number of World Heritage (WH) properties are impacted...

Adult diet quality indices are shown to predict nutritional adequacy of dietary intake as well as all-cause morbidity and mortality. This study describes the reproducibility and validity of a food-based diet quality index, the Australian Recommended...

Coastal erosion poses a significant risk to the Romanian Black Sea coast, a region characterized by the interaction of natural geomorphological processes and anthropogenic pressures. The research focuses on developing a tool to quantify the cumulativ...

Background/Objectives: To assess quantitatively the correlation between the lung ultrasound severity scores (LUSSs) and chest CT severity scores (CTSSs) derived from low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) for evaluating pulmonary inflammation in COVID-1...

Severe eosinophilic asthma poses a serious health and economic problem, so new therapy approaches have been developed to control it, including biological drugs such as benralizumab, which is a monoclonal antibody that binds to IL-5 receptor alpha sub...

Concrete mixing can lead to mechanical degradation of aggregates, particularly when dealing with recycled concrete aggregates. In this work, the attrition of such materials during mixing is studied by means of experiments and simulations. The effect...

Despite different approaches used to assign the risk scores for missing information in productivity susceptibility analysis (PSA)—a widely used semi-quantitative risk assessment tool for target and non-target fisheries stocks—for the selected attribu...

(1) Purpose: To determine the association between visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and proton density fat fraction (PDFF) with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and hepatic steatosis (HS), non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and hepatic fibrosis (HF) i...

Intraoperative ultrasound elastography (IOUS-E) is a novel image modality applied in brain tumor assessment. However, the potential links between elastographic findings and other histological and neuroimaging features are unknown. This study aims to...

Background/Objectives: The relationship between macronutrient intake and cognitive decline in older adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains underexplored. Methods: This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the association between the p...

An in vitro 3D model using fungus colonized Reconstructed Human Epidermis (RHE) represents an effective preclinical model to simulate the pathological conditions of onychomycosis. We evaluated the suitability of this 3D onychomycosis model and use it...

Ultrasound images can reliably detect Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip (DDH) during early infancy. Accuracy of diagnosis depends on the scan quality, which is subjectively assessed by the sonographer during ultrasound examination. Such assessment i...

Semi-rigid tool polishing is widely used in the high-precision manufacturing of electroless nickel surface due to its stable material removal and high efficiency in correcting mid- and high-frequency profile errors. However, predicting mid-frequency...

Modeling the windborne transmission of aerosolized pathogens is challenging. We adapted an atmospheric dispersion model named the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model to simulate the windborne dispersion of porcine...

Hand Osteoarthritis (HOA) is a frequently occurring musculoskeletal disease that impacts health. Diagnostic criteria often incorporate osteophytes documented through imaging procedures. Radiographic imaging is considered the gold standard; however, m...

In assessing species susceptibility for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and in the search for an appropriate animal model, multiple research groups around the world inoculated a broad range of animal species using variou...

MRI can identify suspicious lesions, providing the semi-quantitative risk of csPCa through the Prostate Imaging-Report and Data System (PI-RADS). Predictive models of clinical variables that individualise the risk of csPCa have been developed by addi...

This study aims to evaluate the reliability of qualitative and semiquantitative parameters of 18F-FDG PET-CT, and eventually a correlation between them, in predicting the risk of malignancy in patients with solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) before th...

Objectives: (1.1) to evaluate the association between baseline 18F-FDG PET/CT semi-quantitative parameters of the primary lesion with progression free survival (PFS), overall survival (OS) and response to immunotherapy, in advanced non-small cell lun...

(1) Background: The visual and semiquantitative analysis of Technetium-99metastable-3,3-diphospono-1,2-propanodicarboxylic acid (99mTc-DPD) bone scintigraphy is promising for diagnosing cardiac amyloidosis but time-consuming. We validated a faster me...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the predictive features of baseline F-18-fluorodeoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG PET)/computed tomography (CT) parameters in patients with dedifferentiated liposarcomas (DDLPSs) and well-d...

Spectroscopic reflectance is a versatile optical methodology for the characterization of transparent and semi-transparent thin films in terms of thickness and refractive index. The Fresnel equations are used to interpret the measurements, but their a...

In practical applications, steel storage racks include a wide range of beam-to-column connections (BCCs), which have a significant impact on their structural stability, particularly under various loading conditions. This systematic review focuses on...

Wildland fire rate of spread prediction models are important tools for the effective coordination of resident evacuation and fire suppression efforts. A comparative assessment of ten empirical and semi-empirical rate of spread prediction models is pe...

We investigated the [18F]Fluciclovine PET/CT reliability in the early detection of recurrent prostate cancer (PCa) and its impact on therapeutic decision making. We retrospectively analyzed 58 [18F]Fluciclovine PET/CT scans performed to identify earl...

The increasing emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis requires new effective and safe drug regimens. However, drug discovery and development are challenging, lengthy and costly. The framework of model-informed drug discovery and development (MID3)...

Background: Intellectual disability (ID) is a heterogeneous condition caused by diverse genetic factors, including single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and copy number variants (CNVs). Whole-exome sequencing (WES) and clinical exome sequencing (CES) hav...

Pathological complete response (pCR) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) is a strong prognostic factor in breast cancer (BC). The aim of this study was to investigate whether semiquantitative parameters derived from baseline [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose...

Soot molecules are hazardous compounds threatening human health. Computational chemistry provides efficient tools for studying them. However, accurate quantum chemistry calculation is costly for the simulation of large-size soot molecules and high-th...

The risk prediction of future cardiovascular events is mainly based on conventional risk factor assessment by validated algorithms, such as the Framingham Risk Score, the Pooled Cohort Equations and the European SCORE Risk Charts. The identification...

The purpose of this study was to explore how a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) project with mathematical modeling influenced student competencies regarding sustainability in a university classroom. We used mixed methods with...

Background/Objectives: Extranodal NK-/T-cell lymphoma (ENKTCL) is a rare and highly aggressive lymphoma with a bad prognosis. The aim of our analysis is to evaluate existing research on the potential usefulness of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose posit...

Anthropogenic interventions in natural and semi-natural ecosystems often lead to substantial changes in their functioning and may ultimately threaten ecosystem service provision. It is, therefore, necessary to monitor these changes in order to unders...