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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ivan B Djordjevic, Vijay Nafria
An entanglement-based continuous variable (CV) QKD scheme is proposed, performing information reconciliation over an entanglement-assisted link. The same entanglement generation source is used in both raw key transmission and information reconciliation. The entanglement generation source employs only low-cost devices operated in the C-band. The proposed CV-QKD scheme with information reconciliation over an entanglement-assisted link significantly outperforms the corresponding CV-QKD scheme with information reconciliation over an authenticated public channel...
March 29, 2024: Entropy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Di Pei, Jianhai Yue, Jing Jiao
Vibration signal analysis is an important means for bearing fault diagnosis. Affected by the vibration of other machine parts, external noise and the vibration transmission path, the impulses induced by a bearing defect in the measured vibrations are very weak. Blind deconvolution (BD) methods can counteract the effect of the transmission path and enhance the fault impulses. Most BD methods highlight fault features of the filtered signals by impulse-featured objective functions (OFs). However, residual noise in the filtered signals has not been well tackled...
March 29, 2024: Entropy
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Bartosz Biczuk, Szymon Buś, Sebastian Żurek, Jarosław Piskorski, Przemysław Guzik
BACKGROUND: Early detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) is essential to prevent stroke and other cardiac and embolic complications. We compared the diagnostic properties for AF detection of the percentage of successive RR interval differences greater than or equal to 30 ms or 3.25% of the previous RR interval (pRR30 and pRR3.25%, respectively), and asymmetric entropy descriptors of RR intervals. Previously, both pRR30 and pRR3.25% outperformed many other heart rate variability (HRV) parameters in distinguishing AF from sinus rhythm (SR) in 60 s electrocardiograms (ECGs)...
March 28, 2024: Entropy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Alicia Duval, Anne L Beatty-Martínez, Stamatoula Pasvanis, Arielle Crestol, Jamie Snytte, M Natasha Rajah, Debra A Titone
Menopause is associated with declines in cognitive control. However, there is individual variability in the slope of this decline. Recent work suggests that indices of cognitive control are mediated by communicative demands of the language environment. However, little is known about how the impact of bilingual experience generalizes across the lifespan, particularly in females who exhibit steeper cognitive decline due to increasing age and menopausal transition. Thus, we investigated whether diversity of language use in distinct communicative contexts modulated the effects of aging and menopause on cognitive control in an adult lifespan sample of healthy females...
April 25, 2024: Journal of Experimental Psychology. General
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Lisa Pilgram, Thierry Meurers, Bradley Malin, Elke Schaeffner, Kai-Uwe Eckardt, Fabian Prasser
BACKGROUND: Sharing data from clinical studies can accelerate scientific progress, improve transparency, and increase the potential for innovation and collaboration. However, privacy concerns remain a barrier to data sharing. Certain concerns, such as reidentification risk, can be addressed through the application of anonymization algorithms, whereby data are altered so that it is no longer reasonably related to a person. Yet, such alterations have the potential to influence the data set's statistical properties, such that the privacy-utility trade-off must be considered...
April 24, 2024: Journal of Medical Internet Research
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jianlin Wang, Zhanglan You, Pengfei Song, Zhong Fang
The quest to eradicate poverty, central to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), poses a significant global challenge. Advancement in sustainable rural development is critical to this effort, requiring the seamless integration of environmental, economic, and governmental elements. Previous research often omits the complex interactions among these factors. Addressing this gap, this study evaluates sustainable rural development in China by examining the interconnection between agricultural production and government-led poverty reduction, with annual rainfall considered an influential factor of climate change impacts on these sectors and overall sustainability...
April 23, 2024: Scientific Reports
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Michał Jurczyk, Magdalena Król, Aleksandra Midro, Katarzyna Dyląg, Magdalena Kurnik-Łucka, Kamil Skowron, Krzysztof Gil
BACKGROUND: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is a consequence of prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) associated with a range of effects, including dysmorphic features, prenatal and/or postnatal growth problems, and neurodevelopmental difficulties. Despite advances in treatment methods, there are still gaps in knowledge that highlight the need for further research. The study investigates the effect of PAE on the autonomic system, including sex differences that may aid in early FASD diagnosis, which is essential for effective interventions...
April 9, 2024: Pediatric Reports
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tiantian Che, Jia Li, Jun Li, Xiaobo Chen, Zangyi Liao
BACKGROUND: With the rapid aging of the population, the health needs of the older adult have increased significantly, resulting in the frequent occurrence of the "social hospitalization" problem, which has led to a rapid increase in hospitalization costs. This study investigates whether the "social hospitalization problem" arising from the long-term care needs can be solved through the implementation of long-term care insurance, thereby improving the overall health of the older adults and controlling the unreasonable increase in hospitalization costs...
2024: Frontiers in Public Health
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Sara Monzón, Sarai Varona, Anabel Negredo, Santiago Vidal-Freire, Juan Angel Patiño-Galindo, Natalia Ferressini-Gerpe, Angel Zaballos, Eva Orviz, Oskar Ayerdi, Ana Muñoz-Gómez, Alberto Delgado-Iribarren, Vicente Estrada, Cristina García, Francisca Molero, Patricia Sánchez-Mora, Montserrat Torres, Ana Vázquez, Juan-Carlos Galán, Ignacio Torres, Manuel Causse Del Río, Laura Merino-Diaz, Marcos López, Alicia Galar, Laura Cardeñoso, Almudena Gutiérrez, Cristina Loras, Isabel Escribano, Marta E Alvarez-Argüelles, Leticia Del Río, María Simón, María Angeles Meléndez, Juan Camacho, Laura Herrero, Pilar Jiménez, María Luisa Navarro-Rico, Isabel Jado, Elaina Giannetti, Jens H Kuhn, Mariano Sanchez-Lockhart, Nicholas Di Paola, Jeffrey R Kugelman, Susana Guerra, Adolfo García-Sastre, Isabel Cuesta, Maripaz P Sánchez-Seco, Gustavo Palacios
The 2023 monkeypox (mpox) epidemic was caused by a subclade IIb descendant of a monkeypox virus (MPXV) lineage traced back to Nigeria in 1971. Person-to-person transmission appears higher than for clade I or subclade IIa MPXV, possibly caused by genomic changes in subclade IIb MPXV. Key genomic changes could occur in the genome's low-complexity regions (LCRs), which are challenging to sequence and are often dismissed as uninformative. Here, using a combination of highly sensitive techniques, we determine a high-quality MPXV genome sequence of a representative of the current epidemic with LCRs resolved at unprecedented accuracy...
April 18, 2024: Nature Communications
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vincenzo E Di Bacco, William H Gage
BACKGROUND: The nonlinear variability present during steady-state gait may provide a signature of health and showcase one's walking adaptability. Although treadmills can capture vast amounts of walking data required for estimating variability within a small space, gait patterns may be misrepresented compared to an overground setting. Smartphones may provide a low-cost and user-friendly estimate of gait patterns among a variety of walking settings. However, no study has investigated differences in gait patterns derived from a smartphone between treadmill walking (TW) and overground walking (OW)...
April 17, 2024: Gait & Posture
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Rabeea Maqsood, Susie Schofield, Alexander N Bennett, Ahmed Khattab, Anthony M J Bull, Nicola T Fear, Christopher J Boos
BACKGROUND: Respiration is a crucial determinant of autonomic balance and heart rate variability (HRV). The comparative effect of spontaneous versus paced breathing on HRV has been almost exclusively explored in healthy adults and never been investigated in an injured military cohort. OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of spontaneous versus paced breathing on HRV in veterans with combat-related traumatic injury (CRTI). DESIGN: Observational cohort study...
April 18, 2024: PM & R: the Journal of Injury, Function, and Rehabilitation
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Laura Guislain, Eric Bertin
We study a nonequilibrium ferromagnetic mean-field spin model exhibiting a phase with spontaneous temporal oscillations of the magnetization, on top of the usual paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases. This behavior is obtained by introducing dynamic field variables coupled to the spins through nonreciprocal couplings. We determine a nonequilibrium generalization of the Landau free energy in terms of the large deviation function of the magnetization and of an appropriately defined smoothed stochastic time derivative of the magnetization...
March 2024: Physical Review. E
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Xiangjun Xing, Mingnan Ding
We further develop the strong-coupling theory of thermodynamics and stochastic thermodynamics for continuous systems, constructed in the previous work [Phys. Rev. Res. 4, 013015 (2022)2643-156410.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013015]. A small system strongly interacting with a its environment, the dynamics of the system is assumed to be much slower than that of the bath. The system Hamiltonian is defined to be the Hamiltonian of mean force, whereas the system entropy is defined as the Gibbs-Shannon entropy. Equilibrium ensemble theories and thermodynamic theories are established for the system...
March 2024: Physical Review. E
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Minoru Toriyama, Atsuo Nakamae, Takumi Abe, Kazuhiko Hirata, Nobuo Adachi
BACKGROUND: The influence of vision on multi-joint control during dynamic tasks in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficient patients is unknown. Thus, the purpose of this study was to establish a new method for quantifying neuromuscular control by focusing on the variability of multi-joint movement under conditions with different visual information and to determine the cutoff for potential biomarkers of injury risk in ACL deficient individuals. METHODS: Twenty-three ACL deficient patients and 23 healthy subjects participated in this study...
April 17, 2024: BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation
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Priyanka Singh, Anam, Pushpa Singh, Saachi Chaurasia, D Kumar
BACKGROUND: Sugarcane juice, which has a short shelf life, is a popular thirst-quenching and rejuvenating beverage worldwide. The limited shelf life is due to changes in polyphenol oxidase (PPO) activity, total plate count (TPC) and color attributes (L*, a* and b* values). We hypothesized that chemical kinetics and thermodynamics of blanched sugarcane cane juice causing alterations in PPO, TPC and L, a*, b* values shall address the challenges of sugarcane juice preservation. RESULT: Sugarcane billets were blanched at variable time-temperature combinations in the range of 0-20 min and 70-90°C...
April 17, 2024: Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jiating Liang, Peng Liu
With the rise of the concept of sharing economy, the shared manufacturing model has gained widespread attention. The VIKOR shared manufacturing service evaluation approach is presented based on an intuitionistic fuzzy environment, which enables users to filter out acceptable shared manufacturing services from a wide pool of shared manufacturing services with similar functional qualities. Firstly, considering the QOS multi-indicator comprehensive evaluation of services by multiple stakeholders under the fundamental characteristics of shared manufacturing, the QOS evaluation index system is built from the two aspects of online and offline, which includes 2 first-level indicators and 10 second-level indicators...
April 30, 2024: Heliyon
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Gwen van der Wijk, Yaruuna Enkhbold, Kelsey Cnudde, Matt W Szostakiwskyj, Pierre Blier, Verner Knott, Natalia Jaworska, Andrea B Protzner
INTRODUCTION: To date, no robust electroencephalography (EEG) markers of antidepressant treatment response have been identified. Variable findings may arise from the use of group analyses, which neglect individual variation. Using a combination of group and single-participant analyses, we explored individual variability in EEG characteristics of treatment response. METHODS: Resting-state EEG data and Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) symptom scores were collected from 43 patients with depression before, at 1 and 12 weeks of pharmacotherapy...
2024: Frontiers in Psychiatry
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Chao Dong, Anbupalam Thalamuthu, Jiyang Jiang, Karen A Mather, Perminder S Sachdev, Wei Wen
The morphologic properties of brain regions co-vary or correlate with each other. Here we investigated the structural covariances of cortical thickness and subcortical volumes in the ageing brain, along with their associations with age and cognition, using cross-sectional data from the UK Biobank (N = 42,075, aged 45-83 years, 53% female). As the structural covariance should be estimated in a group of participants, all participants were divided into 84 non-overlapping, equal-sized age groups ranging from the youngest to the oldest...
April 16, 2024: Brain Structure & Function
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Ejigu Alemayehu Worku, Paul H Evangelista, Anagaw Atickem, Afework Bekele, Jakob Bro-Jørgensen, Nils Chr Stenseth
Habitat suitability models have become a valuable tool for wildlife conservation and management, and are frequently used to better understand the range and habitat requirements of rare and endangered species. In this study, we employed two habitat suitability modeling techniques, namely Boosted Regression Tree (BRT) and Maximum Entropy (Maxent) models, to identify potential suitable habitats for the endangered mountain nyala ( Tragelaphus buxtoni ) and environmental factors affecting its distribution in the Arsi and Ahmar Mountains of Ethiopia...
April 2024: Ecology and Evolution
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Gui-Fa Huang, Yu Luo, Wen-Feng Zhong, Qing-Yi Chen, Cheng-Cheng Deng, Ri-Jiang Mo, Wei-Xiong Lin, Qing-Qing Tian
To investigate the quality differences between the seeds and husks of Amomum villosum and explore the rationality of using the seeds without husks, this study determined the content of protocatechuic acid, vanillic acid, epicatechin, quercitrin, volatile oil, water extract, and ethanol extract. The 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl(DPPH), 2,2-azino-bis(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulfonic acid)(ABTS), and hydroxyl radical scavenging activities were determined to evaluate the antioxidant activities of seeds and husks...
March 2024: Zhongguo Zhong Yao za Zhi, Zhongguo Zhongyao Zazhi, China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
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