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Differentiating Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia from community-acquired pneumonia using clinical features and computed tomography findings

Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia (CPP) is a rare disease that is difficult to diagnose. Its clinical manifestations and chest imaging findings often overlap with those of other types of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), and nonspecific treatment is likely to lead to rapid disease p...

Development of Interference Eliminating Circuit Embedded Multi-component Sensor

Multi-component force sensors often encounter to undesirable interference between force and moment components due to design limitation and manufacturing capabilities. Although iterative design can reduce interference, it is difficult to eliminate completely, and conventional comm...

Fundamentals of Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) and Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) and Safety Management of Chemical SubstancesPart 5 : Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) Methods, Digital CVD Methods

Atomic layer deposition (ALD) methods are attracting attention because these can achieve surface reactions by chemically reacting only with raw material molecules adsorbed to solid surfaces. Two highly chemically reactive raw material gases are injected alternately, and a vacuum...

Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Pediatric Patients With Long QT Syndrome: A Korean Multicenter Cohort Study

This multicenter nationwide cohort study comprehensively analyzed the clinical features, genetic architecture, and outcomes of Korean pediatric patients with long QT syndrome (LQTS).Prolonged QT intervals, fetal arrhythmia, and LQT2/3 genotypes compared to LQT1 were independent r...

Electrochemical Imaging of Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Sites at Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanosheets

Understanding spatial heterogeneity in catalytic activity is essential for designing efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts. In this study, scanning electrochemical cell microscopy (SECCM) was employed to directly image local HER activity on transition metal dichal...

BRAF/MEK Inhibitor Therapy for Recurrent Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Encasing the Common Carotid Artery

従来，根治切除不能なRAI不応再発転移分化型甲状腺癌に対して使用されてきた多標的チロシンキナーゼ阻害薬のレンバチニブは，出血リスクから大血管浸潤が疑われる例では使用回避が望まれるが，BRAF/MEK阻害薬は明確な禁忌は示されていない。今回われわれは，総頸動脈を全周性に取り囲む甲状腺乳頭癌再...

Hierarchical Viewpoint Refinement for Active 3D Reconstruction With Local Visibility Awareness

Active 3D reconstruction aims to recover a scene efficiently within a limited exploration time budget by selecting informative viewpoints. Existing methods improve reconstruction quality by prioritizing unexplored and low-confidence regions. However, in complex indoor environment...

Exploring Patient Needs and Respective Contributing Factors Regarding Hospital and Community Pharmacists for Outpatients with Cancer

Improving the quality and safety of outpatient chemotherapy requires effective information sharing between hospitals and community pharmacies. However, achieving truly patient-centered care necessitates pharmacists to go beyond information exchange and develop a deeper understand...

Efficient HD Map Generation for Autonomous Driving With Spline

This study proposes a novel framework for generating vectorized high-definition (HD) maps with maximized representational efficiency from multiview images. While existing end-to-end methods have shown promise, they often predict a fixed, dense set of points, leading to data redun...

Ag-stripe Formation on the Ni(110) Surface

Ag stripe formation on the Ni(110) surface was studied using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) and first-principles calculations. Ag forms self-limited one-dimensional stripes with fluctuating edges. The stripes consist of one-dimensional...

Experimental causal inference from measurements alone in the presence of spatial and temporal quantum correlations

The causal structure of a set of events specifies which events influence which others. Determining this structure, known as causal inference, is a fundamental task in science. Reset-style intervention is commonly used to determine causal structure in classical scenarios. However,...

From fear to bonding: a randomized controlled trial of CBT-based group counseling on the experience of becoming a mother in marginalized adolescent mothers

Adolescent motherhood, especially in marginalized populations, presents psychological and emotional challenges that can affect maternal-infant bonding and maternal self-efficacy. This study evaluated the effect of cognitive-behavioral group counseling on the experience of becomin...

Promotion of Lead-induced Cytotoxicity in Differentiating Neural Cells and Protective Effects of Selenium

Lead (Pb) exposure remains a global health concern, particularly because of its adverse effects on neurodevelopment during fetal development and childhood. Early-life exposure to Pb during neuronal differentiation can impair neurodevelopment, although the underlying molecular mec...

Swimming and Electrical Muscle Stimulation Attenuate Early Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling Without Restoring Circulating Irisin in Monocrotaline-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive and life-threatening disease with limited therapeutic options. Exercise exerts beneficial cardiovascular effects partly through myokines such as irisin. This study investigated the preventive/early-intervention effects of swi...

Distinctive subcortical connectivity predicts treatment response in first-episode schizophrenia

Background Subcortical regions are widely implicated in the pathological mechanisms and treatment of schizophrenia, and accumulating evidence, including our prior findings, suggests that subcortical functional dysconnectivity is closely associated with treatment response. Accordi...

Effects of SO(3) Action Representations on Observation-based Imitation Learning for Robotic Manipulation

This study examines how 3D rotation action representations affect observation-based imitation learning for robotic manipulation. In behavioral cloning from observation (BCO), expert actions are unavailable, so an inverse dynamics model (IDM) estimates pseudo-actions from consecut...

Label Refinement for Robot Vision Object Detection via Dynamic Threshold Estimation and Optimal Refinement Model Selection

This study proposes a label refinement method for robot vision object detection utilizing multi-model-based dynamic threshold estimation. The ultimate goal of this research is to improve the recognition accuracy and robustness of intelligent waste-sorting robotic arm vision syste...

Investigating predictive value of Q-waves and inverted T-waves in anterior STEMI patients undergoing primary PCI: a prospective cohort study

This study investigated the prognostic role of pathological Q waves and T-wave inversions (TWI) in patients with anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Prospective cohort study of 658 anterior STEMI patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI...

Artificial intelligence anxiety: a narrative review of psychiatric conceptualization and clinical management

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gradually permeating every aspect of daily life. AI is now more than a mere tool; it significantly influences individual capabilities, professional values, social status, and our perspectives on the future. Amid these AI-driven changes, the concept...

Milk-derived exosomes (MDEs) as emerging nanotherapeutics in regenerative medicine

Milk-derived exosomes (MDEs) are naturally occurring nanoscale extracellular vesicles with unique biocompatibility, stability, and intrinsic capacity to carry diverse bioactive cargoes such as proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids. Recent studies have underscored their remarkable t...