Biomarkers of Suicidal Ideation in Depression: Insights From VMHC Analysis and Machine Learning by Wang X, Liu F, Hu X, Zhang Q, Guan X, Wu J, Long X, Lu Z

“…VMHC values were calculated to assess interhemispheric functional connectivity. Brain regions with significant differences between the groups were identified. …”
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ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ANXIETY-DEPRESSIVE SPECTRUM DISORDERS AND JOINT DISEASE IN WOMEN by A. O. Vasilyeva, P. A. Shesternya, M. M. Petrova

“…All the patients were evaluated for disease activity (DAS-28-ESR, ASDAS-ESR), pain (visual analogue scale), and functional status (HAQ). The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was used to detect ADSDs and the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A) and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale were employed to rate the severity of anxiety and depression, respectively. …”
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Procalcitonin, Presepsin, Endocan, and Interleukin-6 in the Early Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis—A Prospective Study by Maura-Adelina Hincu, Liliana Gheorghe, Cristina Dimitriu, Luminita Paduraru, Gabriela Zonda, Dan-Constantin Andronic, Ingrid-Andrada Vasilache, Luiza-Maria Baean, Dragos Nemescu

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A standardized definition for right ventricular failure in cardiac surgery patients by Habib Jabagi, Alex Nantsios, Marc Ruel, Lisa M. Mielniczuk, André Y. Denault, Louise Y. Sun

“…We foresee that the provision of a standardized perioperative definition for RVF based on practical and objective criteria will help to improve quality of care through early detection and facilitate the generalization of RVF research to advance this field. …”
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Restoration of natural somatic sensations to the amputees: finding the right combination of neurostimulation methods by Gurgen Soghoyan, Artur R. Biktimirov, Nikita S. Piliugin, Yury Matvienko, Alexander Y. Kaplan, Alexander Y. Kaplan, Mikhail Y. Sintsov, Mikhail A. Lebedev, Mikhail A. Lebedev

“…Limb amputation results in such devastating consequences as loss of motor and sensory functions and phantom limb pain (PLP). Neurostimulation-based approaches have been developed to treat this condition, which provide artificial somatosensory feedback such as peripheral nerve stimulation (PNS), spinal cord stimulation (SCS), and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). …”
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Sequential Inversion for Helicopter Time-Domain Electromagnetics Based on a Regularized Extended Kalman Filtering by Sirui Zhou, Jun Lin, Chuandong Jiang, Haigen Zhou, Yanzhang Wang

“…Based on the sequential processing strategy of measuring while inverting, the REKF algorithm yields the optimal solution of the inversion objective function in just a few iterations, or even a single iteration, enabling near real-time calculations. …”
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Serological Characteristics, Etiological Analysis, and Treatment Prognosis of Children with Congenital Hypothyroidism by Lin shen, Jingchao Ding

“…Screening for common causes of CH is conducive to timely detection of children with CH, and L-T4 treatment can effectively improve thyroid function in children.…”
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Classification of CT scan and X-ray dataset based on deep learning and particle swarm optimization. by Honghua Liu, Mingwei Zhao, Chang She, Han Peng, Mailan Liu, Bo Li

“…In the first stage, the model is trained using classical gradient descent, and relevant features are extracted; in the second stage, an objective function that minimizes the false positive rate is constructed to obtain a network model with high accuracy and low false positive rate. …”
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Early diagnosis and treatment of splenic artery steal syndrome after liver transplantation by А. А. Kirshin, А. Yu. Teregulov, A. R. Kirshina

“…Objective: to study the incidence of splenic artery steal syndrome (SASS) in our own series of liver transplant surgeries and to determine diagnostic and therapeutic tactics. …”
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Estimating brown bear abundance and harvest rate on the southern Alaska Peninsula. by Earl F Becker, David W Crowley

“…We used a mark-resight distance sampling method with a two-piece normal detection function to estimate brown bear abundance as 1,682.9 (SE = 174.29) and 316.9 (SE = 48.25) for GMU 9D and GMU 10, respectively. …”
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Laboratory Evaluation of the Shinyei PPD42NS Low-Cost Particulate Matter Sensor. by Elena Austin, Igor Novosselov, Edmund Seto, Michael G Yost

“…<h4>Objective</h4>Finely resolved PM2.5 exposure measurements at the level of individual participants or over a targeted geographic area can be challenging due to the cost, size and weight of the monitoring equipment. …”
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At-Home Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) Monitoring of Adult Females at Risk of Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: Nonrandomized One-Year Longitudinal Feasibility Study by Cheri Teranishi-Hashimoto, Monica Padilla, Yoomi Heo, Lori Bravi

“…Surveillance is key to identifying the earliest signs of breast cancer–related lymphedema, initiating treatment, reversing the disease process, and reducing the impact on function. ObjectiveThe primary goal of this study was to assess the feasibility of monitoring fluid levels in patients with cancer using a bioimpedance analysis home device and to detect any relevant changes that may correlate with an increased risk of developing lymphedema. …”
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Astragaloside IV Attenuates High-Glucose-Induced Impairment in Diabetic Nephropathy by Increasing Klotho Expression via the NF-κB/NLRP3 Axis by Jiaxin He, Jialin Cui, Yimin Shi, Tao Wang, Junyan Xin, Yimeng Li, Xiaomeng Shan, Zhiyao Zhu, Yanbin Gao

“…Objective. Deficiencies in klotho are implicated in various kidney dysfunctions including diabetic nephropathy (DN) related to inflammatory responses. …”
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Acoustic Representation of Prosodic Cues during the Production of Persian Irony and Sarcasm in Spontaneous Discourse by Raha Koochacki, Mohammad Hossein Sharafzadeh, Ameneh Zare

“…Objective: The present study has tackled to assess the interaction between lexical-syntactic and prosodic cues of irony, and the fact that how the cues are represented during the production of irony and sarcasm (as one of highly functional irony subtypes) in spontaneous discourse through an auditory modality. …”
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Semi-automatic grading system in histologic and immunohistochemistry analysis to evaluate in vitro chondrogenesis by Johana Guevara Morales, María Lucía Gutiérrez, Luis Alejandro Barrera

“…Aggrecan’s IHCanalysis had a decreasing tendency with time for aggregates in chondrogenic media for blinded observer and ImageJ evaluation.Conclusion. We developed a functional system for semi-automatic slide grading. …”
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Sistema de detección de señales de tráfico para la localización de intersecciones viales y frenado anticipado by Gabriel Villalón-Sepúlveda, Miguel Torres-Torriti, Marco Flores-Calero

“…The method is based on segmentation by color on the RGB-normalized space (ErEgEb) for generating regions of interest (ROIs), the classification of the type of signal using YCbCr and ErEgEb spaces to build a statistical template, where to remove the background has proposed a probability distribution function that models the color of the objects of interest and its background. …”
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Anatomically Guided Deep Learning System for Right Internal Jugular Line (RIJL) Segmentation and Tip Localization in Chest X-Ray by Siyuan Wei, Liza Shrestha, Gabriel Melendez-Corres, Matthew S. Brown

“…In this study, we propose a deep learning system that integrates an anatomical landmark segmentation, an RIJL segmentation network, and a postprocessing function to segment the RIJL course and detect the tip with accuracy and precision. …”
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To study the burden of post tubercular obstructive airway diseases in patients visiting chest OPD at a tertiary level chest OPD in North India: a descriptive cross-sectional study by Imrana Masood, Nosheen Neyazi, Shah Mohd Abbas Waseem, Hilal Hussain

“…There is evidence of post-tuberculosis lung function deterioration and the occurrence of obstructive airway diseases in such patient groups.Objectives: To study the burden and severity of obstructive airway disease in subjects with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis and find the demographic trends, features, and clinical presentations in tuberculosis-associated obstructive pulmonary disease (TOPD) and non-tubercular obstructive airway disease (non-tubercular OAD).Methodology: We investigated 125 patients divided into two groups, i.e., post-tubercular airway disease (n = 50) and airway disease due to other aetiology (n = 75). …”
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Design and testing of a crawler robot based on mid-axis row guidance in a shade house by Yu Tan, Wei Su, Qinghui Lai, Lijun Zhao, Yongjie Wang, Dake Song, Yu Lan

“…This paper uses an enhanced YOLOv5s object detection algorithm and the least squares method to identify the mid-axis of the shade house. …”
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Vascular-related biological stress, DNA methylation, allostatic load and domain-specific cognition: an integrated machine learning and causal inference approach by Reem Waziry, Olajide A Williams, Henning Tiemeier, Caleb Miles

“…In the present study we introduce vascular-related biological stress as a novel biomarker to capture the combined effects of vascular disease burden for more precision in early detection of cognitive changes in aging. Objective to determine the role of vascular-related biological Stress, DNA methylation-based biological aging and Allostatic Load in the relationship between vascular disorders and major cognitive domains including global cognition, episodic memory and executive function in a representative sample of adults across the age span. …”
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