Classifying Dementia Using Local Binary Patterns from Different Regions in Magnetic Resonance Images by Ketil Oppedal, Trygve Eftestøl, Kjersti Engan, Mona K. Beyer, Dag Aarsland

“…In the three-class problem AD versus LBD versus NC and the two-class problem AD versus LBD, we achieved 0.87 (0.08) and 0.74 (0.16), respectively. …”
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A review of studies assessing the benefits of clean air and climate mitigation policies for child and adult health by Frederica Perera, Kathleen Lau

“…Objective: We sought to review the body of evidence on the health benefits of climate mitigation and clean air policies aimed at curbing emissions from fossil fuel sources. …”
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ISSUES AND CHALLENGES OF INTEGRATING TOURISM INTO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS by Alexandra-Carmen HODISAN, Alina BADULESCU, Elena HERTE

“…We completed our analysis with the main challenges and difficulties of integrating tourism into development models and plans, highlighting relevant solutions and experiences. …”
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Focusing on the recent progress of tea polyphenol chemistry and perspectives by Shiming Li, Liang Zhang, Xiaochun Wan, Jianfeng Zhan, Chi-Tang Ho

“…Additionally, we detail the up-to-date research results of tea polyphenols regarding their ability to trap RCS and their in vivo aminated metabolites to suppress advanced glycation ends products (AGEs). …”
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Distribution of Adiponectin Receptors 1 and 2 in the Rat Olfactory Bulb and the Effect of Adiponectin Injection on Insulin Receptor Expression by Alfredo Miranda-Martínez, Octavio Fabián Mercado-Gómez, Virginia Arriaga-Ávila, Rosalinda Guevara-Guzmán

“…APN injection was performed to analyze its possible effect on the insulin pathway. Results. We found that AdipoRs were localized in all cell layers and in both neurons and astrocytes. …”
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Transforming end-of-life SWRO desalination membranes into nanofiltration membranes for the treatment of brackish water and wastewater by Anissa Somrani, Zaineb Mohamed, Kholoud Abohelal, Sara Larhrib, Noreddine Ghaffour, Maxime Pontié

“…Abstract In this study, we explore the possibility of reusing end-of-life seawater reverse osmosis (RO) membranes to treat brackish water and industrial effluent. …”
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Fine structures in interlaced magnetic flux ropes via Hall-MHD simulations by Ying-Dong Jia, Hairong Lai, Hanying Wei, Yi Qi, C. T. Russell, Yasong Ge, Tielong Zhang

“…Magnetic flux ropes are a fundamental component in both space and laboratory plasmas. We present a Hall-MHD simulation exploring the interaction between two isolated magnetic flux ropes under mesoscale solar wind conditions. …”
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An adaptive least-squares algorithm for the elliptic Monge–Ampère equation by Caboussat, Alexandre, Gourzoulidis, Dimitrios, Picasso, Marco

“…We address the numerical solution of the Dirichlet problem for the two-dimensional elliptic Monge–Ampère equation using a least-squares/relaxation approach. …”
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Assessing Basin’s Dynamic Hydrological Characteristics Using Statistical Analysis on Rainfall – River Discharge Observation Data by Steven Reinaldo Rusli, Theo Senjaya

“…After defining baseflow separation, we quantify the basin’s baseflow using simple statistical analysis. …”
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Effect of eDNA metabarcoding temporal sampling strategies on detection of coastal biodiversity by Maelle Sevellec, Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel, Eric Normandeau, Louis Bernatchez, Kimberly Lynn Howland

“…However, monthly sampling was the most efficient for capturing holistic biodiversity.DiscussionWe provide recommendations for optimal eDNA metabarcoding sampling design based on our observations. …”
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Neuroimaging Findings of Psychosis in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review by Fardin Nabizadeh, Shadi Sheykhlou, Sara Mahmoodi, Elham Khalili, Rasa Zafari, Helia Hosseini

“…We included studies that reported neuroimaging features of AD patients with delusion, hallucination, or psychosis. …”
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Rapid Multi-Well Evaluation of Assorted Materials for Hydrogel-Assisted Giant Unilamellar Vesicle Production: Empowering Bottom-Up Synthetic Biology by Cherng-Wen Darren Tan, Magdalena Schöller, Eva-Kathrin Ehmoser

“…Exploiting this, we rapidly evaluated assorted biomedical hydrogels, including PEG-DA, cross-linked hyaluronic acid, Matrigel, and cross-linked DNA. …”
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Multimodal Elimination for Intoxication with a Lethal Dose of Organic Mercury by L. C. Napp, C. Moelgen, F. Wegner, P. Heitland, H. D. Koester, M. Klintschar, M. Hiss, A. Schaper, B. Schieffer, J. Bauersachs, A. Schäfer, J. Tongers

“…We here report on a case of massive organic mercury intoxication in a 40-year-old man that resulted in progressive multiorgan failure. …”
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The Motives behind the Skepticism of Conventional Medicine Advocates towards Traditional Persian Medicine: An Expert Opinion by Majid Nimrouzi, Zahra Salehi, Faranak Alembizar

“…Various factors contribute to this dissent. In our study, we have explained that there are several denunciations about traditional medicine mentioned by proponents of conventional medicine. …”
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Few-Shot Graph Anomaly Detection via Dual-Level Knowledge Distillation by Xuan Li, Dejie Cheng, Luheng Zhang, Chengfang Zhang, Ziliang Feng

“…In our approach, we initially train a teacher model to generate prediction distributions as soft labels, capturing the entropy of uncertainty in the data. …”
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The impact of PD-L1 polymorphisms on the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors depends on the tumor proportion score: a retrospective study by Keiichiro Suminaga, Takashi Nomizo, Hironori Yoshida, Hiroaki Ozasa

“…We retrospectively extracted data on age, sex, smoking history, driver mutations, TPS, progression-free survival (PFS), and best response to ICI from medical records. …”
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Developing an Intelligent System for Efficient Botnet Detection in IoT Environment by Ramesh Singh Rawat, Manoj Diwakar, Umang Garg, Prakash Srivastava

“…We have also achieved a high attack detection rate.…”
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Observation and evaluation of surface and underground space changes in well salt mining based on InSAR: a case study of Qingjiang salt mine, Zhangshu, China by Hua Gao, Xiaoliang Luo, Hui Lin, Guangcai Feng, Lvchun Wang

“…Employing the Mogi model, we conducted an inversion analysis to estimate the subsurface material loss rate. …”
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Genomic analysis of three medieval parchments from German monasteries by Felix Heinrich, Henner Simianer, Jörg Bölling, Hedwig Röckelein, Christian Roos, Christian Reimer, Armin O. Schmitt

“…The source animal of the parchments could be identified as cattle and we compared their genome sequences with those of modern populations that are part of the 1000 Bull Genomes Project. …”
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Treatment outcomes among children and adolescents with extensively drug-resistant (XDR) and pre-XDR tuberculosis: Systematic review and meta-analysis. by Jayadeep Patra, Hyacinth Irving, Pranshu Maini, Jady Liang, Anwesh Patra, Mandar Paradkar, Jurgen Rehm

“…Clinical management is challenging; recommendations are based on limited evidence. We assessed the clinical outcomes for children and adolescents treated for XDR-and pre-XDR-TB. …”
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