Variation within and between digital pathology and light microscopy for the diagnosis of histopathology slides: blinded crossover comparison study by David RJ Snead, Ayesha S Azam, Jenny Thirlwall, Peter Kimani, Louise Hiller, Adam Bickers, Clinton Boyd, David Boyle, David Clark, Ian Ellis, Kishore Gopalakrishnan, Mohammad Ilyas, Paul Kelly, Maurice Loughrey, Desley Neil, Emad Rakha, Ian SD Roberts, Shatrughan Sah, Maria Soares, YeeWah Tsang, Manuel Salto-Tellez, Helen Higgins, Donna Howe, Abigail Takyi, Yan Chen, Agnieszka Ignatowicz, Jason Madan, Henry Nwankwo, George Partridge, Janet Dunn

“…J Clin Pathol 2021;74:448–55. https://doi.org/10.1136/jclinpath-2020-206764). Setting Sixteen consultant pathologists, four for each specialty, from six National Health Service laboratories. …”
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Kinematic Metrics from a Wireless Stylus Quantify Tremor and Bradykinesia in Parkinson’s Disease by Andres Maldonado-Naranjo, Mandy Miller Koop, Olivia Hogue, Jay Alberts, Andre Machado

“…Kinematic metrics were calculated from the motion sensor data, including 3D angular velocity and 3D acceleration data, and were compared between the on and off conditions. …”
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Otoacoustic Emissions Testing to Identify Hearing Loss in the ICU: A Feasibility Study by Ramya Kaushik, MD, Nicholas Reed, AuD, PhD, Lauren E. Ferrante, MD, MHS

“…DESIGN:. Pilot study. SETTING:. Medical ICU at a tertiary medical center. …”
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Adaptive overcurrent protection considering fault current limiters effect by R. A. Mahmoud, K. G. Ghaly, S. A. Hasan

“…The simulation results indicate that the proposed algorithm can operate online and adjust its operating time settings automatically. As a consequence, it is able to detect fault instances upon which the relay sends a tripping flag, yet remains inactive under normal operating conditions. …”
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Safety After Dark: A Privacy Compliant and Real-Time Edge Computing Intelligent Video Analytics for Safer Public Transportation by Johan Barthelemy, Umair Iqbal, Yan Qian, Mehrdad Amirghasemi, Pascal Perez

“…The solution captures video streams from remote train stations closed circuit television (CCTV) networks, processes the data in the cloud, applies the action recognition model, and transmits the results to a live web application. …”
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Deep Learning Unravels Differences Between Kinematic and Kinetic Gait Cycle Time Series from Two Control Samples of Healthy Children Assessed in Two Different Gait Laboratories by Alfonso de Gorostegui, Damien Kiernan, Juan-Andrés Martín-Gonzalo, Javier López-López, Irene Pulido-Valdeolivas, Estrella Rausell, Massimiliano Zanin, David Gómez-Andrés

“…Our study emphasizes the importance of standardized protocols and robust data pre-processing to enhance the transferability of machine learning models across clinical settings, particularly for deep learning approaches.…”
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Unmanned aerial systems for precision forest inventory purposes: A review and case study by Tristan R.H. Goodbody, Nicholas C. Coops, Peter L. Marshall, Piotr Tompalski, Patrick Crawford

“…A total of 246 trees were detected using Canopy Height Models (CHMs) with 70% of these trees being matched in the ALS and DAP data sets. …”
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Gold exploration in the Gabal Abu Karahish area, Central Eastern Desert, Egypt: an integrated geological perspective by Mahmoud Abd El-Rahman Hegab, Salem Mohamed Salem, Nehal Mohamed Soliman, Sobhi Mahmoud Ghoneim, Kareem Hamed Abd El Wahid, Hala Fouad Ali, Mohamed Anwar Ahmed

“…Multispectral satellite data from ASTER and Landsat-9, combined with radiometric data and field geology, were utilized to delineate alteration zones indicative of mineralization. …”
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PET/CT acquisition and processing protocols in the Netherlands by Dennis B. M. Dieckens, Pepijn van Horssen, Koen A. J. van Gils, Arjon J. van Lange, Oleksandra V. Ivashchenko, Wouter J. H. Veldkamp, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, Niels C. Veltman

“…Variations in count statistics, reconstruction, and processing settings for similar-weight patients on comparable PET/CT systems should be further investigated for their impact on lesion detectability.…”
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Epidemiology of Coxiella burnetii infection in Africa: a OneHealth systematic review. by Sky Vanderburg, Matthew P Rubach, Jo E B Halliday, Sarah Cleaveland, Elizabeth A Reddy, John A Crump

“…<h4>Background</h4>Q fever is a common cause of febrile illness and community-acquired pneumonia in resource-limited settings. Coxiella burnetii, the causative pathogen, is transmitted among varied host species, but the epidemiology of the organism in Africa is poorly understood. …”
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LoRa Radius Coverage Map on Urban and Rural Areas: Case Study of Athens’ Northern Suburbs and Tinos Island, Greece by Spyridon Mitropoulos, Vasilios A. Orfanos, Dimitrios Rimpas, Ioannis Christakis

“…With the understanding of these variations in LoRa network performance in different environments, informed decisions can be made regarding the deployment of such networks, optimizing their efficiency and ensuring seamless data transmission in both urban and rural settings.…”
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Technology-Dependent Rehabilitation Involving Action Observation and Movement Imagery for Adults with Stroke: Can It Work? Feasibility of Self-Led Therapy for Upper Limb Rehabilita... by Sheree A. McCormick, Christopher Ireland, Abebaw M. Yohannes, Paul S. Holmes

“…To date, little is known about the feasibility of technology-dependent therapy in a home setting for this population. Objective. To develop a technology-dependent therapy that provides mental and physical training for older adults with stroke and assess feasibility. …”
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Advancing the Sensitivity Frontier in digital contact tracing: Comparative analysis of proposed methods toward maximized utility by Junko Ami, Yanbo Pang, Hiroshi Masui, Takashi Okumura, Yoshihide Sekimoto

“…However, its real performance has not been proven, and thus, this paper estimates the sensitivity and specificity of both BLE-based DCT and CIRCLE in a comparative setting. The estimation combines simulated movement patterns of residents with real-world data from app usage in Japan, utilizing both simulation and numerical modeling, with missing data supplemented through sensitivity analysis.The sensitivity of BLE-based DCT is severely limited by the application’s usage rate, with an estimated baseline of just 10.9%, and even under highly optimistic assumptions, it only reaches 27.0%. …”
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Association between the number of chronic pain sites and neuropathic-like symptoms in community-dwelling older adults with chronic pain: a cross-sectional study by Tao Chen, Xin Liu, Hiro Kishimoto, Takafumi Saito, Harukaze Yatsugi, Tianshu Chu

“…Objectives We investigated the relationship between the number of chronic pain sites and the prevalence and severity of neuropathic-like symptoms in community-dwelling older Japanese adults with chronic pain.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting The data analysed are from a study conducted in the city of Itoshima, Japan in 2017.Participants The study population was 988 participants (age 65–75 years) not in need of long-term care who completed questionnaires assessing sociodemographic factors, psychological factors and chronic pain.Primary outcome measures The primary outcome was the participants’ neuropathic-like symptoms evaluated by the PainDETECT Questionnaire (PD-Q). …”
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Replication of 6 obesity genes in a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies from diverse ancestries. by Li-Jun Tan, Hu Zhu, Hao He, Ke-Hao Wu, Jian Li, Xiang-Ding Chen, Ji-Gang Zhang, Hui Shen, Qing Tian, Marie Krousel-Wood, Christopher J Papasian, Claude Bouchard, Louis Pérusse, Hong-Wen Deng

“…The aim of this study was to verify the extent to which 6 confirmed obesity genes (FTO, CTNNBL1, ADRB2, LEPR, PPARG and UCP2 genes) could be replicated in 8 different samples (n = 11,161) and to explore whether the same genes contribute to obesity-susceptibility in populations of different ancestries (five Caucasian, one Chinese, one African-American and one Hispanic population). GWAS-based data sets with 1000 G imputed variants were tested for association with obesity phenotypes individually in each population, and subsequently combined in a meta-analysis. …”
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Effects of psychosocial interventions on wellbeing in individuals with severe mental illness: a systematic review by David Johansson, Mikael Skillmark, Monika Allgurin

“…Wellbeing ought to be a prioritized outcome in out-patient treatment policies, but today no recommendation as to which interventions are most effective are possible due to insufficient data. The implications of detecting changes in wellbeing in individuals with SMI, along with recommendations for future research, are discussed.…”
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A Highly Divergent Mitochondrial Genome in Extant Cape Buffalo From Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa by Deon deJager, Marlo Möller, Eileen Hoal, Paul vanHelden, Brigitte Glanzmann, Cindy Harper, Paulette Bloomer

“…While the Cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer) has been well‐studied across its range with traditional genetic markers over the last 25 years, researchers are building on this knowledge by generating whole genome, population‐level data sets to improve understanding of the genetic composition and evolutionary history of the species. …”
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Optimization of [C]Raclopride Positron Emission Tomographic Rat Studies: Comparison of Methods for Image Quantification by Èlia Torrent, Magí Farré, Ibane Abasolo, Olga Millan, Jordi LLop, Juan Domingo Gispert, Alba Ruiz, Deborah Pareto

“…The final aim was to determine if the results obtained with short-acquisition scanning were comparable to the results obtained with long-acquistion (conventional) scanning. We analyzed two rat data sets: a baseline versus a pretreatment study (with cold raclopride) and a young versus an old animal group comparison. …”
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Genetic profiling of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii from a tertiary care center in Malaysia by Aisyah Syakirah Shahari, Navindra Kumari Palanisamy, Fadzilah Mohd Nor

“…ST164 and ST642 were unique and represent a significant finding in Malaysia’s surveillance data. These STs are associated with acquired blaOXA-23, indicating an evolutionary adaptation of A. baumannii within the hospital setting.IMPORTANCEAcinetobacter baumannii is a ubiquitous Gram-negative coccobacillus bacterium that is primarily associated with nosocomial infections that can colonize biotic and abiotic surfaces to enhance cell-to-cell adhesion, ensuring the establishment of infections. …”
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Neural network-based three-phase state estimation for unobservable low voltage grids by Andrea Bragantini, Andreas Sumper, Vinicius Gadelha, Samuel Galceran-Arellano

“…Validation against real pilot data from previously published work demonstrates promising results in detecting voltage fluctuations, ultimately enhancing observability in LV systems. …”
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