FBATCNet: A Temporal Convolutional Network With Frequency Band Attention for Decoding Motor Imagery EEG by Shuaishuai Ma, Jidong Lv, Wenjie Li, Yan Liu, Ling Zou, Yakang Dai

“…In the classification of subject dependent, the FBATCNet is better than the baseline methods mentioned in this paper. These results confirm that the FBATCNet is feasible and offer fresh insights for designing and applying FMI-BCI.…”
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Ciliary peristalsis flow of hydromagnetic Sutterby nanofluid through symmetric channel: Viscous dissipation in case of variable electrical conductivity by Sameh A. Hussein, Sameh E. Ahmed, Anas A.M. Arafa

“…Besides that, they provide a useful baseline for multi-physics simulations that are both experimental and numerical.…”
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Depression Following Thrombotic Cardiovascular Events in Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: Risk of Morbidity and Mortality by Christopher M. Blanchette, Linda Simoni-Wastila, Fadia T. Shaya, Denise Orwig, Jason Noel, Bruce Stuart

“…Time to death and first recurrent TCE were assessed using descriptive and multivariate statistics. …”
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Clinical trial participation, clinical care, and patient outcomes by practice setting: a real-world database analysis of patients with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia or Mantle Cell L... by Debora S. Bruno, Manoj Khanal, Xiaohong Li, Maricer P. Escalon, Katherine Winfree, Lisa M. Hess

“…Cox proportional hazards regression model was used to adjust for baseline covariates.Results A total of 6,372 patients with CLL and 3,411 with MCL met eligibility criteria for this analysis; 13.9% and 22.2%, respectively, were treated in academic settings. …”
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The effect of telenursing follow-up on blood glycosylated hemoglobin and quality of life in the elderly with diabetes type 2 by Elahe Asadi, Fariba Borhani, Abbas Abbaszadeh

“…The nursing follow-up test group intervention lasted for 12 weeks. In the first month, participants were contacted twice a week, and in the second and third months, they were contacted once a week by phone. …”
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The Effects of Pilot Structure on the Lean Ignition Characteristics of the Internally Staged Combustor by Zhengyan Guo, Yan Lu, Jingtao Yuan, Pimin Chen, Qibin Zhang, Wei Fan

“…Under the typical working conditions (the air mass flow rate is 46.7 g/s and the ignition energy is 4 J), for a pilot swirler with a rotating direction opposite to the main swirler, the diameter of the auxiliary fuel nozzles is 0.2 mm, the swirl number of first-stage of pilot swirler is 1.4, and the lean ignition fuel–air ratio was reduced to 0.0121, which is 32.78% lower than the baseline scheme, which further broadens the lean ignition boundary of the centrally staged combustion chamber.…”
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Human Motion Representation and Motion Pattern Recognition Based on Complex Fuzzy Theory by Xiangkun Li, Guoqing Sun, Yifei Li

“…In human behavior and action, recognition research based on behavior and action has the characteristics of convenience, intuition, strong interaction, rich expression information, and so on. It has become the first choice of many researchers for human behavior analysis. …”
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Longitudinal Assessment of Pain in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Increases in Pain and Their Relationship to Functional Declines and Medication Changes by Hallie M. Altwies, Leah M. Santacroce, Javier Marrugo, Jacklyn Stratton, Jack Ellrodt, Robert S. Rudin, Daniel H. Solomon

“…The median number of pain interference PROs answered per patient was 37 over 52 weeks. Using the first five pain interference PRO responses as the baseline, 60 (72%) patients experienced worsening of at least the MCID, with a median duration of 16 days. …”
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Comparison of the Efficacy and Safety of Temporary Spinal Cord Stimulation versus Pulsed Radiofrequency for Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial by Xiaohong Li, Pan Chen, Jian He, Xiang Huang, Dacheng Tang, Lumiao Chen, Xiaoping Wang

“…From September 1, 2019, to May 30, 2020, 44 PHN patients admitted to the Pain Department of the Foshan First People’s Hospital, China were enrolled in this study. …”
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Systemic Factors Associated with Treatment Response in Diabetic Macular Edema by Wendy Meihua Wong, Caroline Chee, Mayuri Bhargava, Charmaine Chai, Hazel Lin, Paul Zhao, Erlangga Ariadarma Mangunkusumo, Thet Naing, Yew Sen Yuen, Tien Yin Wong, Xinyi Su, Gopal Lingam

“…Better glycemic control is associated with a greater reduction in central macular thickness after the first injection of bevacizumab or ranibizumab in diabetic macular edema. …”
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Long-term cardiac MRI follow up of MANTICORE (Multidisciplinary Approach to Novel Therapies in Cardio-Oncology REsearch) by Dina Labib, Mark Haykowsky, Emer Sonnex, John R. Mackey, Richard B. Thompson, D. Ian Paterson, Edith Pituskin

“…We posit that the presence of HER2 overexpressing breast cancer influenced hypertrophic changes to cardiac geometry observed at baseline and one year, which resolved after completing HER2-blocking treatment. …”
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The influence of gender and waist circumference in the association of body fat with cardiometabolic diseases by Milad Bagheri, Mehran Nouri, Ali Kohanmoo, Reza Homayounfar, Masoumeh Akhlaghi

“…We investigated the association between body fat percentage (BF%), as an appropriate indicator of obesity, and prevalence of cardiometabolic diseases using baseline data of Fasa PERSIAN cohort study. Methods The cross-sectional study was performed on data obtained at the first phase of the Fasa cohort study in Iran (n = 4658: M/F: 2154/2504). …”
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Sublingual Buprenorphine and Methadone Maintenance Treatment: A Three-Year Follow-Up of Quality of Life Assessment by Salvatore M. Giacomuzzi, Markus Ertl, Georg Kemmler, Yyvonne Riemer, Alexander Vigl

“…Urine tests were carried out randomly to detect additional consumption. In the first study period, 53 opioid-dependent subjects were enrolled and 25 could be reached after 3 years. …”
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Effect of the Interaction between Depression and Sleep Disorders on the Stroke Occurrence: An Analysis Based on National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey by Jia Li, Leijun Li, Yan Lv, Yanhai Kang, Mingjin Zhu, Wenfeng Wang

“…Univariate analysis was first performed between the stroke and nonstroke patients, and then, multivariate logistic regression models were conducted to analyze the association of depression, sleep disorders, and their interactions with stroke occurrence. …”
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Associations of Abnormal Sleep Duration and Chronotype with Higher Risk of Incident Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A UK Biobank Prospective Cohort Study by Gan Zhang, Wen Cao, Zhuoya Wang, Kailin Xia, Binbin Deng, Dongsheng Fan

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Clinical, immune and genetic risk factors of malaria-associated acute kidney injury in Zambian children: A study protocol. by Chisambo Mwaba, Sody Munsaka, David Mwakazanga, David Rutagwerae, Owen Ngalamika, Suzanna Mwanza, Mignon McCulloch, Evans Mpabalwani

“…Serum creatinine is collected on Day 1 within 24 hours of admission, on Day 3 and then again on discharge or day 7, whichever comes sooner. Baseline biomarker concentrations will be determined using the Luminex multiplex Elisa system or high-sensitivity ELISA. …”
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Ranolazine Induced Bradycardia, Renal Failure, and Hyperkalemia: A BRASH Syndrome Variant by Syed Arsalan Akhter Zaidi, Danial Shaikh, Muhammad Saad, Timothy J. Vittorio

“…Ranolazine is a well-known antianginal drug, that was first licensed for use in the United States in 2006. …”
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Safety and efficacy of an Anti-CD20 Monoclonal antibody (RedituxTM) In Indian patients with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis by Arun Hegde, Vivek Vasdev, Krishnan Shanmuganandan, Kavita Singh, Sivasami Kartik, Abhishek Kumar

“…Background: Rituximab (RTX), an anti-CD 20 monoclonal antibody is one of the first line biological disease-modifying anti-rheumatoid drug indicated for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in patient's refractory to conventional Synthetic DMARDs (csDMARDs). …”
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Functional MRI-guided microsurgery of intracranial arteriovenous malformations: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial by Shuo Wang, Yuanli Zhao, Jun Wu, Bing Zhao, Yong Cao

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Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection by Saber Hassan, Rohit Samuel, Andrew Starovoytov, Carolyn Lee, Eve Aymong, Jacqueline Saw

“…These findings support the recommendation of conservative therapy as first-line management unless high-risk features are present.…”
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