Longitudinal structural MRI-based deep learning and radiomics features for predicting Alzheimer’s disease progression by Sepehr Aghajanian, Fateme Mohammadifard, Ida Mohammadi, Shahryar Rajai Firouzabadi, Ali Baradaran Bagheri, Elham Moases Ghaffary, Omid Mirmosayyeb

“…The approach may enable earlier risk stratification and targeted interventions for individuals most likely to progress. limitations in sample size and computational resources warrant larger, more diverse studies to confirm these observations and explore additional improvements.…”
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Teens and opioids postsurgery (TOPS): protocol for a prospective observational study describing associations between sleep deficiency and opioid use following outpatient surgery in... by Tonya Palermo, Jennifer A Rabbitts, Cornelius B Groenewald, Rebecca L Flack, Sophia L Kreider

“…We will also examine behavioural, psychological, family and social factors linking sleep deficiency with opioid use and misuse.Methods and analysis Adolescents (10–19 years) undergoing outpatient orthopaedic surgery, along with one parent, will be recruited from two paediatric hospitals, for a sample of 400 dyads. …”
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Neutrosophic Wald Distribution with Applications to Reliability Analysis by Afrah Al Bossly, Adnan Amin

“…These functions provide an improved decision-making process for situations in which classical models are unable to capture the inbuilt uncertainties of systems. To make it even more applicable, we propose an approach to generate random samples from neutrosophic Wald distribution using quantile function so that neutrosophic Wald distribution can be simulated and empirically validated. …”
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Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli in diarrheic children in Egypt: molecular characterization and antimicrobial susceptibility by Mostafa Mohamed M Ali, Salwa Fouad Ahmed, John D Klena, Zienat Kamel Mohamed, Tarek AA Moussa, Khalifa Sifaw Ghenghesh

“…Multiple-antibiotic resistance (resistance to three or more drugs) was observed in more than 91% of EAEC. …”
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Determination and Comparison of Fat and Fibre Contents in Gluten-Free and Gluten-Containing Flours and Breads: Nutritional Implications by María Purificación González, Paloma López-Laiz, María Achón, Rocío de la Iglesia, Violeta Fajardo, Ángela García-González, Natalia Úbeda, Elena Alonso-Aperte

“…A total of 30 different flours and 24 types of bread were analysed using AOAC methods. GF cereal flours contain more fat than GC flours (3.5 ± 2.1% vs. 2.5 ± 2.1%, <i>p</i> < 0.001), as well as GF flours from pseudocereals, except for wholemeal buckwheat (2.6 ± 0.1%). …”
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The ReHand-BCI trial: a randomized controlled trial of a brain-computer interface for upper extremity stroke neurorehabilitation by Jessica Cantillo-Negrete, Martín Emiliano Rodríguez-García, Martín Emiliano Rodríguez-García, Paul Carrillo-Mora, Oscar Arias-Carrión, Oscar Arias-Carrión, Emmanuel Ortega-Robles, Emmanuel Ortega-Robles, Marlene A. Galicia-Alvarado, Raquel Valdés-Cristerna, Ana G. Ramirez-Nava, Claudia Hernandez-Arenas, Jimena Quinzaños-Fresnedo, Ma. del Refugio Pacheco-Gallegos, Norma Marín-Arriaga, Ruben I. Carino-Escobar

“…BackgroundBrain-computer interfaces (BCI) are a promising complementary therapy for stroke rehabilitation due to the close-loop feedback that can be provided with these systems, but more evidence is needed regarding their clinical and neuroplasticity effects.MethodsA randomized controlled trial was performed using the ReHand-BCI system that provides feedback with a robotic hand orthosis. …”
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Salt Used for the National School Nutrition Program (NSNP) in Rural Schools of Limpopo Province, South Africa, has Adequate Levels of Iodine by Mpho Ramugondo, Lindelani Fhumudzani Mushaphi, Ngoako Solomon Mabapa

“…Of 318 salt samples, 113 (71%) samples in Mopani and 104 (65%) in Vhembe had an iodine concentration of 15–64 ppm. …”
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Determination of the Critical Phases of the Experimental Research Using Laboratory Animals: Risk Analysis by S. V. Khodko, M. N. Makarova, V. G. Makarov, S. S. Salynov, N. V. Rodionova

“…A combination of incorrectly implemented procedures at two or more critical phases could pose an unacceptable risk and lead to complete loss of data or failure to process data, and, as a result, the need to repeat the study.Conclusions: the highest risk was identified for such critical phases as preparation and administration of final doses of test samples, performance of physiological tests, collection of biological material samples, and handling of biological material samples by other relevant departments. …”
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Etiological profile of early neonatal bacterial sepsis by multiplex qPCR by Walter P Silva-Junior, Almir S Martins, Paula C N Xavier, Kelly L A Appel, Silvio A Oliveira Junior, Durval B Palhares

“…Multiplex qPCR of patients with clinical sepsis matched with 8.1% of the blood samples that tested positive by the microbiological method. …”
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Bacteriome of the Middle Ear in Children and Young Adults With Cholesteatoma and Retraction Pocket: A Pilot Study by Michal Bartos, Milan Urik, Lucie Buresova, Pavla Holochova, Eva Budinska, Petra Borilova Linhartova

“…Results Bacterial diversity was generally low in the middle ear samples from patients with COM, with DNA content from 1 or 2 bacteria usually dominating in the sample. …”
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Robust visual tracking using temporal regularization correlation filter with high-confidence strategy by Xiao-Gang Dong, Ke-Xuan Li, Hong-Xia Mao, Chen Hu, Tian Pu

“…Especially when the target appearance changes significantly, our method is more robust and can achieve a balance between precision and speed. …”
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SECOND PREMOLAR AGENESIS PATTERNS IN ROMANIAN PEDODONTIC PATIENTS by Aneta Munteanu, Mihaela Tănase, Arina Vinereanu, Ioana-Andreea Stanciu

“…Material and methods: Cross-sectional study on a sample of 210 patients (91 boys, 119 girls) aged between 6 and 17 years diagnosed with hypodontia in permanent teeth (excluding third molars). …”
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In vitro evaluation of octenidine as an antimicrobial agent against Staphylococcus epidermidis in disinfecting the root canal system by Jia Da Chum, Darryl Jun Zhi Lim, Sultan Omer Sheriff, Shaju Jacob Pulikkotil, Anand Suresh, Fabian Davamani

“…There were no significant differences among the CFU measurements of 2% CHX, 3% NaOCl, and 0.1% OCT showing complete elimination of S. epidermidis in all samples.ConclusionsThis study showed that OCT was comparable to or even more effective than CHX and NaOCl, demonstrating antimicrobial activity at low concentrations against S. epidermidis.…”
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Characteristics of Local Anisotropy Fields of Paper Structure and Deformation Properties by Mariya M. Lysachenkova, Yakov V. Kazakov, Dmitry G. Chukhchin

“…Non-destructive and destructive methods have been used to measure 60 g/m2 paper samples measuring 120×120 mm, divided into squares of 15×15 mm. …”
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Content Analysis for Postgraduate Theses Related to Teaching Turkish in the Balkan Countries by Sedat Maden, Kürşad Kara

“…The theses sampled were subjected to an analysis under the themes of country, year of preparation, distribution of doctoral or master’s theses, university, subject areas, and method. …”
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Microbiological indicators and heavy metal concentration in ecological assessment of urban soils of Saint Petersburg, Russia by Natalia N. Matinian, Anastasia L. Gusareva, Kseniia A. Bakhmatova, Anastasia A. Sheshukova

“…Lipolytic activity was almost the same in all samples. It was found that more sensitive biological methods are needed for environmental assessment of urban soils. …”
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Citizen science in eDNA monitoring for Mediterranean monk seal conservation by Sofia Bonicalza, Elena Valsecchi, Emanuele Coppola, Valeria Catapano, Harriet Thatcher

“…Results Results suggest the WET performs comparably to traditional methods, with minor technical issues. Despite some faults such as not folding or forgetting to change the filter, volunteers were generally reliable in sample processing. …”
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Label credibility correction based on cell morphological differences for cervical cells classification by Wenbo Pang, Yue Qiu, Shu Jin, Huiyan Jiang, Yi Ma

“…Firstly, a contrastive learning network is used to extract discriminative features from cell images to obtain more similar intra-class sample features. Subsequently, these features are fed into an unsupervised method for clustering, resulting in unsupervised class labels. …”
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Study of the anti-exudative activity of new 3-cyano-1,4- dihydropyridines, cyanotioacetamide derivatives, on the model of acute formalin edema by A. V. Bochev, E. Yu. Bibik, S. G. Krivokolysko, K. A. Frolov

“…It was found that some compounds exhibit anti-exudative activity, more pronounced or similar to the activity of reference drugs. …”
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Identification, Comparison, and Profiling of Selected Diarrhoeagenic Pathogens from Diverse Water Sources and Human and Animal Faeces Using Whole-Genome Sequencing by Arinao Murei, Maggy Ndombo Benteke Momba

“…This study applied whole-genome sequencing (WGS) to detect, identify, compare, and profile diarrhoeagenic pathogens (<i>Vibrio cholerae</i>, Shiga toxin-producing <i>Escherichia coli</i>, and <i>Escherichia coli</i> O157:H7) from 3168 water samples and 135 faecal samples (human and animal). …”
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