Comparison of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Metrics in Normal-Appearing White Matter to Cerebrovascular Lesions and Correlation with Cerebrovascular Disease Risk Factors and Severity by Seyyed M. H. Haddad, Christopher J. M. Scott, Miracle Ozzoude, Courtney Berezuk, Melissa Holmes, Sabrina Adamo, Joel Ramirez, Stephen R. Arnott, Nuwan D. Nanayakkara, Malcolm Binns, Derek Beaton, Wendy Lou, Kelly Sunderland, Sujeevini Sujanthan, Jane Lawrence, Donna Kwan, Brian Tan, Leanne Casaubon, Jennifer Mandzia, Demetrios Sahlas, Gustavo Saposnik, Ayman Hassan, Brian Levine, Paula McLaughlin, J. B. Orange, Angela Roberts, Angela Troyer, Sandra E. Black, Dar Dowlatshahi, Stephen C. Strother, Richard H. Swartz, Sean Symons, Manuel Montero-Odasso, null ONDRI Investigators, Robert Bartha

“…Mean DTI metrics were measured in each tissue region using a previously developed DTI processing pipeline and compared between tissues using multivariate analysis of covariance. …”
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Importance of EQA/PT for the detection of genetic variants in comprehensive cancer genome testing by Kazuyuki Matsushita, Takayuki Ishige, Kousuke Watanabe, Toshiaki Akahane, Akihide Tanimoto, Michiko Yoshimoto, Munekazu Yamakuchi, Teruto Hashiguchi, Yoshinaga Okugawa, Makoto Ikejiri, Toshikazu Yamaguchi, Tadashi Yamasaki, Mayu Takeda, Masaaki Hibi, Naoki Akiyama, Kaho Shimizu, Naonori Hashimoto, Hiroko Sato, Yoshinori Tanaka, Fumie Amari, the EQA working group of Japan Association for Clinical Laboratory Science(JACLS)

“…In conclusion, the EQA/PT among 10 institutes with common samples revealed the importance of VAF in pre-analysis and helped us understand the significance of the pipeline and common pitfalls usually ignored by the internal quality control in a single institute.…”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…Using a modified version of their pedagogy—one self-consciously infused with a racial sensibility—BBAs will be able to extend the pipeline to leadership, normally available to upper-income and even middle-income African American students, to low-income African American students. …”
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Black Boarding Academies as a Prudential Reparation by Roy Brooks

“…Using a modified version of their pedagogy—one self-consciously infused with a racial sensibility—BBAs will be able to extend the pipeline to leadership, normally available to upper-income and even middle-income African American students, to low-income African American students. …”
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Restructuring of small-scale constructed wetland systems and treatability of individual household wastewater through natural process by S. Mokatip, K. Chunkao, W. Wararam, S. Bualert, O. Phewnil, T. Pattamapitoon, N. Semvimol, P. Maskulrath, P. Rollap, S. Thaipakdee

“…After the implementation of this primary system, the reduction in highly contaminated domestic wastewater could enhance the treatment loading of other secondary treatment systems or even facilitate its release into natural pathways.METHODS: In the sampling collection process, the dynamics of the collection points were categorized into three different zones: 1) the point sources of domestic wastewater within a municipality, where 15 sample points were selected to represent the municipality; 2) the collection pond within the municipality and the transfer pipeline, comprising three collection points of the system; 3) the constructed wetland treatment system, where five water samples were collected in relation to the length of the existing 100-meter plot. …”
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Identification of Southeast Asian Anopheles mosquito species with matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry using a cross-correlation approach by Victor Chaumeau, Sunisa Sawasdichai, Thu Zar Ma Ma Moe Min, Thithiwarada Kularbkeeree, Naw Jaruwan, Naw Gloria, Naw Yu Lee, Muesuwa Trackoolchengkaew, Monticha Phanaphadungtham, Patcharamai Rongthong, Aritsara Inta, Wanitda Watthanaworawit, François Nosten

“…The objective of this study was to develop a free open-source data analysis pipeline for Anopheles species identification with MALDI–TOF MS. …”
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LoCS-Net: Localizing convolutional spiking neural network for fast visual place recognition by Ugur Akcal, Ugur Akcal, Ugur Akcal, Ivan Georgiev Raikov, Ekaterina Dmitrievna Gribkova, Ekaterina Dmitrievna Gribkova, Anwesa Choudhuri, Anwesa Choudhuri, Seung Hyun Kim, Mattia Gazzola, Rhanor Gillette, Rhanor Gillette, Ivan Soltesz, Girish Chowdhary, Girish Chowdhary, Girish Chowdhary

“…Our approach offers a simpler training pipeline while yielding significant improvements in both training and inference times compared to SOTA SNNs for VPR. …”
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Effects of a periodic intermittent theta burst stimulation in Alzheimer’s disease by Yue Wu, Lu Wang, Kai Wang, Shanshan Zhou, Pan Wu, Yibing Yan, Ling Wei, Bensheng Qiu, Yanghua Tian, Zhi Geng, Xingqi Wu, Panpan Hu, Guixian Xiao, Gongjun Ji, Hesheng Liu

“…Patients were evaluated at baseline and after follow-up. The longitudinal pipeline of the Computational Anatomy Toolbox for SPM was used to detect significant treatment-related changes over time.Results The iTBS group maintained MoCA scores relative to the control group (t=3.26, p=0.013) and reduced hippocampal atrophy, which was significantly correlated with global degeneration scale changes. …”
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Signature for Pain Recovery IN Teens (SPRINT): protocol for a multisite prospective signature study in chronic musculoskeletal pain by Fiona Campbell, Jennifer Stinson, Sara E Williams, Christopher D King, Laura Simons, Massieh Moayedi, Robert C Coghill, Martin S Angst, Nima Aghaeepour, Brice Gaudilliere, Marina López-Solà, Marie-Eve Hoeppli, Emma Biggs, Ed Ganio, Kenneth R Goldschneider, Danielle Ruskin, Elliot J Krane, Suellen Walker, Gillian Rush, Marissa Heirich

“…Given that chronic pain is a biopsychosocial process, this study aims to discover and validate a robust prognostic signature that measures across multiple dimensions in the same adolescent patient cohort with a computational analysis pipeline. This will facilitate risk stratification in adolescent patients with chronic MSK pain and more resourceful allocation of patients to costly and potentially burdensome multidisciplinary pain treatment approaches.Methods and analysis Here we describe a multi-institutional effort to collect, curate and analyse a high dimensional data set including epidemiological, psychometric, quantitative sensory, brain imaging and biological information collected over the course of 12 months. …”
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Role of Cylindrospermopsis sp. in vertical nitrogen changes observed in tropical oxidation wastewater treatment ponds by M. Srichomphu, O. Phewnil, T. Pattamapitoon, Ratcha Chaichana, K. Chunkao, W. Wararam, N. Dampin, P. Maskulrath

“…These benefits can be applied in five consecutive nature-by-nature oxidation ponds for the treatment of community wastewater coming through a high density polyethylene pipeline from the Phetchaburi Municipality located at the King’s Royally Initiated Laem Phak Bia Environmental Research and Development Project, Ban Laem District, Phetchaburi Province (Universal Transverse Mercator 47P 1442725 North 617774 East). …”
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Ocular Biometry OCR: a machine learning algorithm leveraging optical character recognition to extract intra ocular lens biometry measurements by Anish Salvi, Leo Arnal, Kevin Ly, Gabriel Ferreira, Sophia Y. Wang, Sophia Y. Wang, Curtis Langlotz, Curtis Langlotz, Vinit Mahajan, Vinit Mahajan, Chase A. Ludwig, Chase A. Ludwig

“…For each patient eye, our text extraction pipeline, referred to as Ocular Biometry OCR, involves 1) cropping the report to the biometric data, 2) extracting the text via the optical character recognition model, 3) post-processing the metrics and values into key value pairs, 4) correcting erroneous angles within the pairs, 5) computing the number of errors or missing values, and 6) selecting the window specific results with fewest errors or missing values. …”
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Targeting the G-quadruplex as a novel strategy for developing antibiotics against hypervirulent drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Maria Sultan, Maria Razzaq, Joohyun Lee, Shreyasi Das, Shrute Kannappan, Vinod Kumar Subramani, Wanki Yoo, Truc Kim, Hye-Ra Lee, Akhilesh K. Chaurasia, Kyeong Kyu Kim

“…Abstract Background The rapid emergence of multiple drug-resistant (MDR) bacterial pathogens and the lack of a novel antibiotic pipeline pose a serious threat to global healthcare. …”
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Modification and analysis of context-specific genome-scale metabolic models: methane-utilizing microbial chassis as a case study by M. A. Kulyashov, R. Hamilton, Y. Afshin, S. K. Kolmykov, T. S. Sokolova, T. M. Khlebodarova, M. G. Kalyuzhnaya, I. R. Akberdin

“…We demonstrate that this pipeline can help reconstruct metabolic models that are similar to manually curated networks. …”
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The impact of channel density, inverse solutions, connectivity metrics and calibration errors on OPM-MEG connectivity analysis: A simulation study by Shengjie Qi, Xinda Song, Le Jia, Hongyu Cui, Yuchen Suo, Tengyue Long, Zhendong Wu, Xiaolin Ning

“…Several studies have attempted to use OPM-based MEG (OPM-MEG) for brain network estimation research; however, the choice of source connectivity analysis pipeline may lead to outcome variability. Several methods and related parameters must be selected carefully at each step of the analysis. …”
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Nursing of a patient with COPD complicated with type II respiratory failure treated by sequential non-invasive positive pressure ventilation via nasal high-flow oxygen therapy (经鼻高... by QIAO Xinli (乔新立), MA Hailian (马海莲), LI Na (李娜), CHEN Hong (陈宏), TANG Ling (唐玲), ZHANG Ning (张宁), WANG Jingjing (王晶晶), ZHANG Tingting (张婷婷), ZHOU Jie (周洁)

“…Nursing interventions were carried out in the following ways: non-invasive positive pressure ventilation, medication nursing, enteral nutrition support, pipeline maintenance, skin care and psychological nursing and other issues. …”
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A global Corynebacterium diphtheriae genomic framework sheds light on current diphtheria reemergence by Hennart, Mélanie, Crestani, Chiara, Bridel, Sébastien, Armatys, Nathalie, Brémont, Sylvie, Carmi-Leroy, Annick, Landier, Annie, Passet, Virginie, Fonteneau, Laure, Vaux, Sophie, Toubiana, Julie, Badell, Edgar, Brisse, Sylvain

“…Methods: We developed the bioinformatics pipeline diphtOscan (available at https://gitlab.pasteur.fr/BEBP/diphtoscan) to extract from genomes of Corynebacteria of the diphtheriae species complex, medically relevant features including tox gene presence and disruption. …”
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From the depths of the Java Trench: genomic analysis of Priestia flexa JT4 reveals bioprospecting and lycopene production potential by Ocky K. Radjasa, Ray Steven, Yosua Natanael, Husna Nugrahapraja, Septhy K. Radjasa, Tati Kristianti, Maelita R. Moeis, Joko P. Trinugroho, Haekal B. Suharya, Alfito O. Rachmatsyah, Ari Dwijayanti, Mutiara R. Putri, Charlie E. de Fretes, Zen L. Siallagan, Muhammad Fadli, Rafidha D. A. Opier, Jandinta D. Farahyah, Viana Rahmawati, Meirifa Rizanti, Zalfa Humaira, Ary S. Prihatmanto, Nugroho D. Hananto, R. Dwi Susanto, Agus Chahyadi, Elfahmi, Neil Priharto, Kamarisima, Fenny M. Dwivany

“…Moreover, our analysis uncovered eight biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) using the common genome mining pipeline, antiSMASH. Two non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) BGCs within these clusters exhibited the potential to generate novel biological compounds. …”
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Gas drainage and utilization in coal mines in China: History, technological advances, and prospects by Guofu LI, Chao LI, Bichuan ZHANG, Yun XU, Zheng WANG, Xianjun ZHOU

“…Prospects Gas drainage and utilization technologies for coal mines will focus on the development of the advanced gas pre-drainage technology system for ten-year planning areas, the expansion of the simultaneous extraction of coal and gas mode, the optimization of gas utilization processes from the source, the improvement in the intelligent level of gas drainage pipeline networks, and the implementation of gas utilization projects via government-industry-university-institute collaborations. …”
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Improvement and exploration of a water conservation system in the Central Sterile Supply Department (节水型消毒供应中心给水系统改进与探索) by WANG Yuena (王岳娜), REN Guquan (任顾群), LIU Jianrong (刘建荣), XU Yuanle (许远乐), RENG Xiajuan (任娟霞), MA Huan (马欢)

“…Once recovery requirements are met, the water pipes were modified to recover the concentrated water for storage, and the booster pump was used to pipeline the concentrated water to the water consuming point. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 excretion and genetic evolution in nasopharyngeal and stool samples from primary immunodeficiency and immunocompetent pediatric patients by Haifa Khemiri, Ilhem Ben Fraj, Alessio Lorusso, Najla Mekki, Iolanda Mangone, Mariem Gdoura, Adriano Di Pasqual, Cesare Cammà, Valeria Di Lollo, Asma Cherni, Henda Touzi, Amel Sadraoui, Zina Meddeb, Nahed Hogga, Imen Ben Mustapha, Mohamed-Ridha Barbouche, Monia Ouederni, Henda Triki, Sondes Haddad-Boubaker

“…Data analysis used the nextflow/viralrecon pipeline. Hotspot amino acid frequencies were investigated using GraphPad Prism v10. …”
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