Deep Brain Stimulation in Persistent Vegetative States: Ethical Issues Governing Decision Making by Sara Patuzzo, Paolo Manganotti

“…Second, ethical issues, criticisms, and methodological issues of this intervention, also in the future perspectives, are discussed, attempting to identify who could give informed consent for a patient in PVS.…”
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Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging Brain Age Investigation in Athletes with Persistent Postconcussion Syndrome by Samuel Guay, Camille Charlebois-Plante, Sophie-Andrée Vinet, Marie-Eve Bourassa, Louis De Beaumont

“…Regarding SHAP, the third ventricle was found to be the most informative feature in the PCS+ group, while the superior temporal sulcus posterior area was more informative in the PCS− group. …”
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Persistence of Untreated Bed Nets in the Retail Market in Tanzania: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Benjamin Kamala, Dana Loll, Ruth Msolla, David Dadi, Peter Gitanya, Charles Mwalimu, Frank Chacky, Stella Kajange, Mwinyi Khamis, Sarah-Blythe Ballard, Naomi Serbantez, Stephen Poyer

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Drug-induced tolerant persisters in tumor: mechanism, vulnerability and perspective implication for clinical treatment by Shujie Liu, Anfeng Jiang, Faqing Tang, Minghao Duan, Bin Li

“…Initial therapies eliminate the bulk of tumor cells, yet residual populations termed drug-tolerant persister cells (DTPs) survive, regenerate tumor and even drive distant metastases. …”
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Post-outbreak dynamics and persistence of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotype 15 in finisher pigs in Iowa by Marcelo Nunes de Almeida, Pablo P. Pineyro, Derald Holtkamp, Isadora Machado, Ana P. S. Silva, Guilherme Cezar, Peter Thomas, Marcelo Gottschalk, Alyona A. Michael

“…The atypical regional spread raised concerns for the strain’s unusual environmental persistence and survivability. This prospective longitudinal study aimed to determine the duration of App15 persistence in convalescent pigs at a naturally infected 1200 head site. …”
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Cancers missed, women dismissed yet persist: natural language processing of online forums by Kathleene T. Ulanday, Maxim Topaz, Jeanette Shekelle, Marley Gibbons, Desiree Walker, Paula M. Castaño, Amanda Nixon, Stacy Lewis, Mary Beth Terry, Lauren C. Houghton

“…True positive cases who experienced these delays strongly encouraged their peers to self-advocate, persist and insist on further testing until diagnosed accurately. …”
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Airway remodeling in children with asthma, which runs on the background of intracellular infections. by O. E. Chernyshova, A. E. Abaturov

“…The paper provided information on the impact of persistent intracellular infections, including cytomegalovirus, caused by herpes simplex virus I / II types, Epstein-Barr virus, Сhlamydophila pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae, on airway remodeling process in the form of smooth muscle hypertrophy, enhanced formation of new vessels, epithelial cell hyperplasia, collagen deposition, sealing of the basement membrane in bronchial asthma in children. …”
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Airway remodeling in children with asthma, which runs on the background of intracellular infections by Chernyshova O.E., Abaturov A.E.

“…The paper provided information on the impact of persistent intracellular infections, including cytomegalovirus, caused by herpes simplex virus I / II types, Epstein-Barr virus, Сhlamydophila pneumoniae and Mycoplasma pneumoniae, on airway remodeling process in the form of smooth muscle hypertrophy, enhanced formation of new vessels, epithelial cell hyperplasia, collagen deposition, sealing of the basement membrane in bronchial asthma in children. …”
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Mutual Aid and Informal Finance by Elise M. Dermineur, Unathi Kolanisi

“…It examines the resilience and persistence of mutual aid in a modern setting. It seeks to build a qualitative model to understand the persistence and adaptation of the stokvels in a modern society where banking institutions coexist with informal credit practices. …”
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Information sharing and information quality in Southern African humanitarian supply chains during disaster response by Marni de Wet, Wesley Niemann, Carla Schutte

“…However, significant challenges persist, including information duplication, lack of inter-actor sharing and ethical issues, highlighting the need for improved tools and processes to address these barriers. …”
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Do shocks to electricity consumption generate persistent effect? Evidence from Hunan Province in China by Sheng Xiang, Mingbo Zheng, Hongming Yang, Yushuang He, Chun-Ping Chang

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Modulation of network excitability by persistent activity: how working memory affects the response to incoming stimuli. by Elisa M Tartaglia, Nicolas Brunel, Gianluigi Mongillo

“…Persistent activity and match effects are widely regarded as neuronal correlates of short-term storage and manipulation of information, with the first serving active maintenance and the latter supporting the comparison between memory contents and incoming sensory information. …”
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Explainable Federated Framework for Enhanced Security and Privacy in Connected Vehicles Against Advanced Persistent Threats by Sudhina Kumar G K, Krishna Prakasha K, Balachandra Muniyal, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan

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FACTORS FOR SMALLHOLDERS PERSISTENCE IN RURAL MALAYSIA: EVIDENCE FROM RICE FARMING COMMUNITY IN SELANGOR STATE by Khairul Hisyam KAMARUDIN, Mohamad Fadhli RASHID

“…Information for this paper are derived from in-depth interviews with key informants and series of field observation conducted in July and August 2017. …”
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Persistent homology based topological analysis on the gestalt patterns during human brain cognition process by Zaisheng LIU, Fei NI, Rongpeng LI, Honggang ZHANG, Chang LIU, Jiefang ZHANG, Songyun XIE

“…The integrated development of information communication technology and neuroscience heralds the possibility and great potential of brain-to-brain wireless communication(B2BC).The physiologically meaningful features of brain responses were extracted to different contour and shape in images in Gestalt cognitive tests by combining persistent homology analysis with electroencephalogram (EEG).The experimental results show that more brain regions in the frontal lobe were involved when the subject perceives the random and disordered combination of images compared to the ordered Gestalt images.Meanwhile, the persistence entropy of EEG data evoked by random sequence diagram (RSD) was observed to be significantly different from that by the ordered Gestalt images(GST) in several frequency bands, which indicated that human cognition of shapes and contours, such as a preliminary advanced cognition process, could be separated to some extent through topological analysis.This method can digitize the neural signals while preserving the whole and local features of the original signals.In general, the cognitively related neural correlates by persistent homology features of EEG signal are revaluated and quantified, which provides an approach to realize the digitization of neural signals in brain-to-brain wireless communication.…”
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Construction of advanced persistent threat attack detection model based on provenance graph and attention mechanism by Yuancheng LI, Hao LUO, Xinyu WANG, Jiexuan YUAN

“…In response to the difficulty of existing attack detection methods in dealing with advanced persistent threat (APT) with longer durations, complex and covert attack methods, a model for APT attack detection based on attention mechanisms and provenance graphs was proposed.Firstly, provenance graphs that described system behavior based on system audit logs were constructed.Then, an optimization algorithm was designed to reduce the scale of provenance graphs without sacrificing key semantics.Afterward, a deep neural network (DNN) was utilized to convert the original attack sequence into a semantically enhanced feature vector sequence.Finally, an APT attack detection model named DAGCN was designed.An attention mechanism was applied to the traceback graph sequence.By allocating different weights to different positions in the input sequence and performing weight calculations, sequence feature information of sustained attacks could be extracted over a longer period of time, which effectively identified malicious nodes and reconstructs the attack process.The proposed model outperforms existing models in terms of recognition accuracy and other metrics.Experimental results on public APT attack datasets show that, compared with existing APT attack detection models, the accuracy of the proposed model in APT attack detection reaches 93.18%.…”
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Persistence of hyperinvasive meningococcal strain types during global spread as recorded in the PubMLST database. by Eleanor R Watkins, Martin C J Maiden

“…The sample contained 3460 isolates with genotypic information from 57 countries over a 74 year period. …”
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The Transfer, Prevalence, Persistence, and Recovery of DNA from Body Areas in Forensic Science: A Review by Cara Woollacott, Mariya Goray, Roland A. H. van Oorschot, Duncan Taylor

“…This can provide useful information when the alleged activity involves the presence of various bodily fluids such as blood, semen, and/or saliva, as well as skin contact made between a perpetrator and a victim. …”
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TwinFedPot: Honeypot Intelligence Distillation into Digital Twin for Persistent Smart Traffic Security by Yesin Sahraoui, Abdessalam Mohammed Hadjkouider, Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache, Carlos T. Calafate

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A qualitative study exploring the education provided to midlife women with persistent post-concussion symptoms by Jaynee Lie, Katherine A. Tamminen

“…Purpose Between 20% and 40% of adults with a concussion experience a recovery period longer than the expected 3-month timeframe, which has been coined the term persistent post-concussion symptoms (PPCS; Cnossen et al., Popov et al.). …”
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