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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38472710/a-review-biomechanical-aspects-of-the-fallopian-tube-relevant-to-its-function-in-fertility
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REVIEW
Hasan Seraj, Mohammad Ali Nazari, Ali Asghar Atai, Saeid Amanpour, Mojtaba Azadi
The fallopian tube (FT) plays a crucial role in the reproductive process by providing an ideal biomechanical and biochemical environment for fertilization and early embryo development. Despite its importance, the biomechanical functions of the FT that originate from its morphological aspects, and ultrastructural aspects, as well as the mechanical properties of FT, have not been studied nor used sufficiently, which limits the understanding of fertilization, mechanotrasduction, and mechanobiology during embryo development, as well as the replication of the FT in laboratory settings for infertility treatments...
March 12, 2024: Reproductive Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38467703/determinants-and-their-spatial-heterogeneity-of-carbon-emissions-in-resource-based-cities-china
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Chenchen Guo, Jianhui Yu
Global climate change associated with increased carbon emissions has become a global concern. Resource-based cities, by estimations, have emerged as major contributors to carbon emissions, accounting for approximately one-third of the national total. This underscores their pivotal role in the pursuit of carbon neutrality goals. Despite this, resource-based cities have long been neglected in current climate change mitigation policy discussions. Accordingly, using exploratory spatial data analysis and Geographical Weighted Regression method, this study investigates the determinants of carbon emissions and their spatial pattern in 113 resource-based cities in China...
March 11, 2024: Scientific Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38466443/estimation-of-soil-health-in-the-semi%C3%A2-arid-regions-of-northwestern-iran-using-digital-elevation-model-and-remote-sensing-data
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mingli Zang, Xiaodong Wang, Yunling Chen, Seyedeh Ensieh Faramarzi
Nowadays, neglecting soil conservation issues is one of the most critical factors in reducing soil health (SH). In this regard, to facilitate the estimation of the SH in northwestern Iran, 292 soil samples were taken from a depth of 0-30 cm of this area, and a wide range of soil properties were determined. Then, soil health indices (SHIs) were calculated. Simultaneously, the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), surface water capacity index (SWCI), and a digital elevation model (DEM) were obtained from satellite data...
March 11, 2024: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38464147/inferring-neural-communication-dynamics-from-field-potentials-using-graph-diffusion-autoregression
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Felix Schwock, Julien Bloch, Karam Khateeb, Jasmine Zhou, Les Atlas, Azadeh Yazdan-Shahmorad
Estimating dynamic network communication is attracting increased attention, spurred by rapid advancements in multi-site neural recording technologies and efforts to better understand cognitive processes. Yet, traditional methods, which infer communication from statistical dependencies among distributed neural recordings, face core limitations: they do not model neural interactions in a biologically plausible way, neglect spatial information from the recording setup, and yield predominantly static estimates that cannot capture rapid changes in the brain...
February 28, 2024: bioRxiv
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38459849/-multiorgan-thromboembolism-due-to-thrombus-in-the-remnant-superior-pulmonary-vein-after-left-upper-division-segmentectomy-report-of-a-case
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kai Mizobuch, Hisashi Matsuoka, Ryo Yamada, Mitsuteru Yoshida, Nobuyuki Tanida
A 67 years old male had underwent left upper division segmentectomy. On the sixth day after surgery, he had developed unconsciousness, aphasia and unilateral spatial neglect. Brain MRI revealed a cerebral infarction, and percutaneous cerebral thrombectomy was performed. Enhanced computed tomography revealed thrombus formation in the remnant superior pulmonary vein (SPV), left renal infarction and right acute limb ischemia. After starting anticoagulant therapy with apixaban the thrombus reduced and neurological symptoms improved...
January 2024: Kyobu Geka. the Japanese Journal of Thoracic Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38440103/mdpg-a-novel-multi-disease-diagnosis-prediction-method-based-on-patient-knowledge-graphs
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Weiguang Wang, Yingying Feng, Haiyan Zhao, Xin Wang, Ruikai Cai, Wei Cai, Xia Zhang
Diagnosis prediction, a key factor in enhancing healthcare efficiency, remains a focal point in clinical decision support research. However, the time-series, sparse and multi-noise characteristics of electronic health record (EHR) data make it a great challenge. Existing methods commonly address these issues using RNNs and incorporating medical prior knowledge from medical knowledge bases, but they neglect the local spatial characteristics and spatial-temporal correlation of the data. Consequently, we propose MDPG, a diagnosis prediction model based on patient knowledge graphs...
December 2024: Health Information Science and Systems
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38438098/the-stromal-microenvironment-endows-pancreatic-neuroendocrine-tumors-with-spatially-specific-invasive-and-metastatic-phenotypes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zeng Ye, Qiang Li, Yuheng Hu, Haifeng Hu, Junfeng Xu, Muzi Guo, Wuhu Zhang, Xin Lou, Yan Wang, Heli Gao, Desheng Jing, Guixiong Fan, Yi Qin, Yue Zhang, Xuemin Chen, Jie Chen, Xiaowu Xu, Xianjun Yu, Mingyang Liu, Shunrong Ji
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) play an important role in a variety of cancers. However, the role of tumor stroma in nonfunctional pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (NF-PanNETs) is often neglected. Profiling the heterogeneity of CAFs can reveal the causes of malignant phenotypes in NF-PanNETs. Here, we found that patients with high stromal proportion had poor prognosis, especially for that with infiltrating stroma (stroma and tumor cells that presented an infiltrative growth pattern and no regular boundary)...
March 2, 2024: Cancer Letters
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38432323/the-line-bisection-bias-as-a-deficit-of-proportional-reasoning-evidence-from-number-line-estimation-in-neglect
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
S Smaczny, E Klein, S Jung, K Moeller, H-O Karnath
This study aimed to investigate whether neurological patients presenting with a bias in line bisection show specific problems in bisecting a line into two equal parts or their line bisection bias rather reflects a special case of a deficit in proportional reasoning more generally. In the latter case, the bias should also be observed for segmentations into thirds or quarters. To address this question, six neglect patients with a line bisection bias were administered additional tasks involving horizontal lines (e...
March 1, 2024: Neuropsychologia
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38425239/post-stroke-cognitive-impairment-remains-highly-prevalent-and-disabling-despite-state-of-the-art-stroke-treatment
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Laura Gallucci, Christoph Sperber, Adrian G Guggisberg, Christoph P Kaller, Mirjam R Heldner, Andreas U Monsch, Arsany Hakim, Norbert Silimon, Urs Fischer, Marcel Arnold, Roza Umarova
BACKGROUND: State-of-the-art stroke treatment significantly reduces lesion size and stroke severity, but it remains unclear whether these therapeutic advances have diminished the burden of post-stroke cognitive impairment (PSCI). AIMS: In a cohort of patients receiving modern state-of-the-art stroke care including endovascular therapy, we assessed the frequency of PSCI and the pattern of domain-specific cognitive deficits, identified risk factors for PSCI, and determined the impact of acute PSCI on stroke outcome...
March 1, 2024: International Journal of Stroke: Official Journal of the International Stroke Society
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38422263/spatial-analysis-of-the-risk-for-canine-visceral-leishmaniasis-in-an-urban-area-in-the-state-of-sergipe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
N A F Santos, F F Silva-Junior, F B R Silva, C D Tosta, K D Moura, V L S Jeraldo, R R Madi, M C Pinto, C M Melo
Visceral Leishmaniasis is included among the neglected tropical diseases, being directly related to conditions of social vulnerability, in urban environments, dogs act as important reservoirs. The aim of the study was to evaluate the distribution of dogs, related risk factors and identify of volatile organic compounds from infected dogs. Peripheral blood samples from 72 dogs were collected for detection using the ELISA test, in addition to hair samples for analysis by GC-MS. Of the evaluated dogs, 13 (18.05%/72) were reactive for canine VL, seven in Aracaju and six in Propriá...
2024: Brazilian Journal of Biology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38415109/csanet-a-lightweight-channel-and-spatial-attention-neural-network-for-grading-diabetic-retinopathy-with-optical-coherence-tomography-angiography
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Fei Ma, Xiao Liu, Shengbo Wang, Sien Li, Cuixia Dai, Jing Meng
BACKGROUND: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the most common eye diseases. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proven to be a powerful tool for learning DR features; however, accurate DR grading remains challenging due to the small lesions in optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images and the small number of samples. METHODS: In this article, we developed a novel deep-learning framework to achieve the fine-grained classification of DR; that is, the lightweight channel and spatial attention network (CSANet)...
February 1, 2024: Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38406985/neglecting-the-bottom-space-an-object-based-disorder-a-two-case-observational-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jennifer Martin, Patrik Vuilleumier, Frédéric Assal, Roberta Ronchi
Altitudinal neglect is an atypical form of spatial neglect where brain-damaged patients neglect the lower, or sometimes the upper, part of the space. Our understanding of this phenomena is limited, with unknown occurrence across different reference frames, such as distance (peripersonal vs. extrapersonal) and system of reference (egocentric vs. allocentric). Two patients with acute bilateral (P1) or right hemispheric (P2) stroke, with signs of bottom altitudinal neglect, underwent an extensive evaluation of neglect within 10 days post-stroke...
February 26, 2024: Neurocase
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38405910/the-lateral-habenula-is-required-for-maternal-behavior-in-the-mouse-dam
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Jessie Benedict, Robert H Cudmore, Diarra Oden, Aleah Spruell, David J Linden
UNLABELLED: Mammalian parenting is an unusually demanding commitment. How did evolution co-opt the reward system to ensure parental care? Previous work has implicated the lateral habenula (LHb), an epithalamic nucleus, as a potential intersection of parenting behavior and reward. Here, we examine the role of the LHb in the maternal behavior of naturally parturient mouse dams. We show that kainic acid lesions of the LHb induced a severe maternal neglect phenotype in dams towards their biological pups...
February 16, 2024: bioRxiv
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38403827/a-dea-game-cross-efficiency-based-improved-method-for-measuring-urban-carbon-emission-efficiency-in-china
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jinfa Li, Jiahui Guo, Xiaoyun Du, Hongbing Jiang
An accurate evaluation of carbon emission efficiency (CEE) at the city level can provide guidelines for understanding low carbon performance, which is crucial to achieving dual carbon targets. Existing CEE studies focused on national, industrial, and provincial scales while neglecting the city level and failing to consider competing relationships among decision-making units in their measurement models. To fill these gaps, this paper introduces the data envelopment analysis game cross-efficiency model (DEA-GCE) to measure urban CEE performance and compares it with the traditional Super-SBM model using the data from 283 Chinese cities between 2006 and 2019...
February 26, 2024: Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38395847/a-clinical-3d-pointing-test-differentiates-spatial-memory-deficits-in-dementia-and-bilateral-vestibular-failure
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J Gerb, T Brandt, M Dieterich
BACKGROUND: Deficits in spatial memory, orientation, and navigation are often neglected early signs of cognitive impairment or loss of vestibular function. Real-world navigation tests require complex setups. In contrast, simple pointing at targets in a three-dimensional environment is a basic sensorimotor ability which provides an alternative measure of spatial orientation and memory at bedside. The aim of this study was to test the reliability of a previously established 3D-Real-World Pointing Test (3D-RWPT) in patients with cognitive impairment due to different neurodegenerative disorders, bilateral vestibulopathy, or a combination of both compared to healthy participants...
February 23, 2024: BMC Neurology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38393991/understanding-occupational-therapists-knowledge-and-confidence-when-assessing-for-spatial-neglect-a-special-issue-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Holden Gasque, Corey Morrow, Emily Grattan, Michelle Woodbury
IMPORTANCE: Spatial neglect (SN)-failure to respond to stimuli on the side of the body contralateral to a poststroke lesion-is one of the most disabling impairments for stroke survivors, and 80% of stroke survivors may have undetected SN. Occupational therapists' evaluations should include determining the impact of poststroke SN. OBJECTIVE: To investigate occupational therapists' confidence, knowledge, current practices, barriers, and facilitators when assessing for SN in adult stroke survivors...
March 1, 2024: American Journal of Occupational Therapy: Official Publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38379118/landmarks-beacons-or-panoramic-views-what-do-pigeons-attend-to-for-guidance-in-familiar-environments
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sebastian Schwarz, Antoine Wystrach, Ken Cheng, Debbie M Kelly
Birds and social insects represent excellent systems for understanding visually guided navigation. Both animal groups use surrounding visual cues for homing and foraging. Ants extract sufficient spatial information from panoramic views, which naturally embed all near and far spatial information, for successful homing. Although egocentric panoramic views allow for parsimonious explanations of navigational behaviors, this potential source of spatial information has been mostly neglected during studies of vertebrates...
February 20, 2024: Learning & Behavior
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38369162/enhancing-predictions-of-remedial-reagent-transport-via-a-vertical-groundwater-circulation-well-with-high-resolution-aquifer-characterization
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zaiyong Zhang, Jingbo Yang, Chengcheng Gong, Wenke Wang, Bin Ran, Guangqi Wang, Qian Zhang, Yu-Li Wang
The vertical groundwater circulation well (GCW) is a commonly used technique in contaminated sites to remove secondary contaminants from low permeable zones. Early GCW studies often used simple subsurface hydraulic properties, such as anisotropic homogeneous aquifers or low conductivity lens/blocks, to mimic the complex subsurface heterogeneity. Although studies based on simplified representations of aquifer heterogeneity provide straightforward flow and transport information for engineering design of a GCW, they may over- or under-estimate contaminant fate and transport in the field...
February 16, 2024: Science of the Total Environment
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38354196/human-risk-to-tick-encounters-in-the-southeastern-united-states-estimated-with-spatial-distribution-modeling
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rebecca A Butler, Mona Papeş, James T Vogt, Dave J Paulsen, Christopher Crowe, Rebecca T Trout Fryxell
Expanding geographic distribution and increased populations of ticks has resulted in an upsurge of human-tick encounters in the United States (US), leading to an increase in tickborne disease reporting. Limited knowledge of the broadscale spatial range of tick species is heightened by a rapidly changing environment. Therefore, we partnered with the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture and used passive tick surveillance to better understand spatiotemporal variables associated with foresters encountering three tick species (Amblyomma americanum L...
February 14, 2024: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38350546/quantifying-uncertainty-air-quality-forecasting-based-on-dynamic-spatial-temporal-denoising-diffusion-probabilistic-model
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Kehua Chen, Guangbo Li, Hewen Li, Yuqi Wang, Wenzhe Wang, Qingyi Liu, Hongcheng Wang
Air pollution constitutes a substantial peril to human health, thereby catalyzing the evolution of an array of air quality prediction models. These models span from mechanistic and statistical strategies to machine learning methodologies. The burgeoning field of deep learning has given rise to a plethora of advanced models, which have demonstrated commendable performance. However, previous investigations have overlooked the salience of quantifying prediction uncertainties and potential future interconnections among air monitoring stations...
February 11, 2024: Environmental Research
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