A holistic rat model to investigate therapeutic interventions in Parkinson’s disease: viral induction of a slow-progressing motor phenotype, dopaminergic degeneration and early mic... by Ekaterini Kefalakes, Franziska J. Mewes, Diana Peristich, Clara Plötner, Volodymyr Shcherbatyy, Julia Schipke, Friederike Schneider, Christopher Käufer, Regina Rumpel

“…Evaluation of different adeno-associated viral serotypes overexpressing the human α-synuclein protein revealed that both AAV/6 and AAV/DJ equally transduce primary dopaminergic neurons in vitro with the latter being more efficient. …”
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Machine learning-based model for acute asthma exacerbation detection using routine blood parameters by Youpeng Chen, Junquan Sun, Yabang Chen, Enzhong Li, Jiancai Lu, Huanhua Tang, Yifei Xie, Jiana Zhang, Lesi Peng, Haojie Wu, Zhangkai J. Cheng, Baoqing Sun

“…Background: Acute asthma exacerbations (AAEs) are a leading cause of asthma-related morbidity and mortality, especially in resource-limited settings where pulmonary function tests are unavailable or when patients are unable to cooperate with testing. …”
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Ruthenium-based MOF catalysts for methanation of CO2 derivatives by Itziar Arnaiz, Carlos Márquez-Álvarez, Marcos Zubimendi, M. Asunción Molina, Andrew M. Beale, Manuel Sánchez-Sánchez, Joaquín Pérez-Pariente

“…Both Ru-MOFs catalyzed the hydrogenation of N,N’-dimethylurea under relatively mild conditions, giving methane as the main product. …”
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Deep learning based detection of enlarged perivascular spaces on brain MRI by Tanweer Rashid, Hangfan Liu, Jeffrey B. Ware, Karl Li, Jose Rafael Romero, Elyas Fadaee, Ilya M. Nasrallah, Saima Hilal, R. Nick Bryan, Timothy M. Hughes, Christos Davatzikos, Lenore Launer, Sudha Seshadri, Susan R. Heckbert, Mohamad Habes

“…However, in many scenarios, the number of imaging sequences capturing information related to small vessel disease lesions is insufficient to support data-driven techniques. …”
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Descriptive Epidemiology of Somatising Tendency: Findings from the CUPID Study. by Sergio Vargas-Prada, David Coggon, Georgia Ntani, Karen Walker-Bone, Keith T Palmer, Vanda E Felli, Raul Harari, Lope H Barrero, Sarah A Felknor, David Gimeno, Anna Cattrell, Matteo Bonzini, Eleni Solidaki, Eda Merisalu, Rima R Habib, Farideh Sadeghian, M Masood Kadir, Sudath S P Warnakulasuriya, Ko Matsudaira, Busisiwe Nyantumbu, Malcolm R Sim, Helen Harcombe, Ken Cox, Leila M M Sarquis, Maria H Marziale, Florencia Harari, Rocio Freire, Natalia Harari, Magda V Monroy, Leonardo A Quintana, Marianela Rojas, E Clare Harris, Consol Serra, J Miguel Martinez, George Delclos, Fernando G Benavides, Michele Carugno, Marco M Ferrario, Angela C Pesatori, Leda Chatzi, Panos Bitsios, Manolis Kogevinas, Kristel Oha, Tiina Freimann, Ali Sadeghian, Roshini J Peiris-John, Nalini Sathiakumar, A Rajitha Wickremasinghe, Noriko Yoshimura, Helen L Kelsall, Victor C W Hoe, Donna M Urquhart, Sarah Derrett, David McBride, Peter Herbison, Andrew Gray, Eduardo J Salazar Vega

“…To explore its epidemiological characteristics, and how it can be specified most efficiently, we analysed data from an international longitudinal study. …”
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Deciphering the genetic basis of novel traits that discriminate useful and non‐useful biomass to enhance harvest index in wheat by Dipendra Shahi, Jia Guo, Md Ali Babar, Sumit Pradhan, Muhsin Avci, Naeem Khan, Jordan McBreen, Smita Rayamajhi, Zhao Liu, Guihua Bai, Paul St. Amand, Amy Bernardo, Matthew Reynolds, Gemma Molero, Sivakumar Sukumaran, John Foulkes, Jahangir Khan

“…Genome‐wide association study (GWAS) identified 114 unique significant marker‐trait associations (MTAs) for 12 traits, and 58 MTAs were found within genes that encode different proteins related to biotic/abiotic stress tolerance and other functions. …”
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Nanoindentation measurements of mechanical properties and creep behavior of Niutitang formation shale rocks, China by Jianfeng Wang, Jianfeng Wang, Jungang Niu, Chao Yang, Wenmin Jiang, Wenmin Jiang, Yun Li, Yun Li, Yijun Zheng, Yijun Zheng, Yuhong Liao, Yuhong Liao, Dingyu Feng, Ping’an Peng, Ping’an Peng, Yongqiang Xiong, Yongqiang Xiong

“…The constituent content has a relatively stronger controlling effect on the contact creep modulus than the Young’s modulus for the Niutitang Formation shale. …”
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Bridging verbal coordination and neural dynamics by Isaïh Schwab-Mohamed, Manuel R Mercier, Agnès Trebuchon, Benjamin Morillon, Leonardo Lancia, Daniele Schön

“…This synchronous speech task is efficient to highlight both the dorsal and ventral language pathways. …”
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GUESS-ing polygenic associations with multiple phenotypes using a GPU-based evolutionary stochastic search algorithm. by Leonardo Bottolo, Marc Chadeau-Hyam, David I Hastie, Tanja Zeller, Benoit Liquet, Paul Newcombe, Loic Yengo, Philipp S Wild, Arne Schillert, Andreas Ziegler, Sune F Nielsen, Adam S Butterworth, Weang Kee Ho, Raphaële Castagné, Thomas Munzel, David Tregouet, Mario Falchi, François Cambien, Børge G Nordestgaard, Fredéric Fumeron, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen, Philippe Froguel, John Danesh, Enrico Petretto, Stefan Blankenberg, Laurence Tiret, Sylvia Richardson

“…Here we propose a computationally efficient algorithm (GUESS) to explore complex genetic-association models and maximize genetic variant detection. …”
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331 A qualitative analysis of at-home central venous catheter (CVC) care by caregivers of children with intestinal failure by Atu Agawu, Rachel Carmen, Ceasar, Mark A, Frey, Lorraine Kelley-Quon

“…Facilitators and barriers may differ between English and Spanish speaking caregivers. …”
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Assessment of Oculomotor Functions as a Biomarker in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Ekaterina Lunkova, Jen-Kai Chen, Rajeet Singh Saluja, Alain Ptito

“…Comparing CSA with HCS, significant differences were observed in anti-saccades and OKN performance. …”
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Use of interviewer-administered telephone surveys during infectious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics: a scoping review by Valéry Ridde, Emmanuel Bonnet, Adama Faye, Mouhamadou Faly Ba, Sayaka Arita, Zoumana Traoré

“…Technical and financial challenges continue to exist, and assessments of inclusiveness and representativeness should be carefully conducted. A lack of details related to methods was observed, and this scoping review urges researchers using this data collection method in the future to specify how they executed IATS for better use and more efficient deployment.…”
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An e‐Reporting Tool for Facilitating Submission of Veterinary Adverse Drug Reaction Reports by Heather Davies, Steven Smyth, Gina Pinchbeck, Munir Pirmohamed, Roy Savory, P. J. Noble, David Killick

“…The button facilitated capture of pertinent information relating to AEs, including the ability to append clinical notes from the associated EHR. …”
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Deep fusion approach: Combining hyperspectral imaging and ground penetrating radar for accurate cornfield soil moisture mapping by Milad Vahidi, Sanaz Shafian, William Hunter Frame

“…The research focuses on assessing soil moisture at different soil depths, with an emphasis on accuracy of 10 cm and 30 cm of the root zone. …”
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Taenia solium Human Cysticercosis: A Systematic Review of Sero-epidemiological Data from Endemic Zones around the World. by Marco Coral-Almeida, Sarah Gabriël, Emmanuel Nji Abatih, Nicolas Praet, Washington Benitez, Pierre Dorny

“…Understanding the epidemiology of human cysticercosis (HCC) in endemic regions will help to expose critical information about the transmission of the disease, which could be used to design efficient control programs. This review gathered serological data on apparent prevalence of T. solium circulating antigens and/or seroprevalence of T. solium antibodies, apparent prevalence of human taeniasis and risk factors for HCC from endemic communities in order to understand the differences in exposure to the parasite and active infections with T. solium metacestodes in endemic areas around the world.…”
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Dual-Branch Neural Network-Based In-Loop Filter for VVC Intra Coding Using Spatial-Frequency Feature Fusion by Zhen Feng, Xu Liu, Cheolkon Jung

“…Thus, the dual-branch architecture processes the input data efficiently according to its unique characteristics, while reducing mutual interference. …”
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IndoGovBERT: A Domain-Specific Language Model for Processing Indonesian Government SDG Documents by Agus Riyadi, Mate Kovacs, Uwe Serdült, Victor Kryssanov

“…The most effective, in terms of the resultant model performance, but also most efficient, in terms of the computational resources required, methodology is determined and deployed for the development of the IndoGovBERT model. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of HER2-Targeted Agents for Breast Cancer with HER2-Overexpression: A Network Meta-Analysis. by Qiuyan Yu, Zhenli Zhu, Yan Liu, Jun Zhang, Ke Li

“…T-DM1 and PEHC were more efficient drug regimens with regard to overall survival as compared with LHC, LC, HC and PEC. …”
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Estimating Nurse Workload Using a Predictive Model From Routine Hospital Data: Algorithm Development and Validation by Paul Meredith, Christina Saville, Chiara Dall’Ora, Tom Weeks, Sue Wierzbicki, Peter Griffiths

“…A Bland-Altman plot of the differences between the predicted values and the assessment values showed 95% of them within 0.21 WTE per patient. …”
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Classification of the ICU Admission for COVID-19 Patients with Transfer Learning Models Using Chest X-Ray Images by Yun-Chi Lin, Yu-Hua Dean Fang

“…The developed AI models and training strategies may facilitate more effective and efficient patient management and resource allocation in future outbreaks of infectious respiratory diseases.…”
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