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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38632686/magnetic-resonance-imaging-images-based-brain-tumor-extraction-segmentation-and-detection-using-convolutional-neural-network-and-vgc-16-model
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ganesh Shunmugavel, Kannadhasan Suriyan, Jayachandran Arumugam
BACKGROUND: In this paper, we look at how to design and build a system to find tumors using 2 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models. With the help of digital image processing and deep Learning, we can make a system that automatically diagnoses and finds different diseases and abnormalities. The tumor detection system may include image enhancement, segmentation, data enhancement, feature extraction, and classification. These options are set up so that the CNN model can give the best results...
April 18, 2024: American Journal of Clinical Oncology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38632508/patient-and-relative-experiences-of-the-respect-process-in-the-community-an-interview-based-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Karin Eli, Jenny Harlock, Caroline J Huxley, Celia Bernstein, Claire Mann, Rachel Spencer, Frances Griffiths, Anne-Marie Slowther
BACKGROUND: The Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) was launched in the UK in 2016. ReSPECT is designed to facilitate meaningful discussions between healthcare professionals, patients, and their relatives about preferences for treatment in future emergencies; however, no study has investigated patients' and relatives' experiences of ReSPECT in the community. OBJECTIVES: To explore how patients and relatives in community settings experience the ReSPECT process and engage with the completed form...
April 17, 2024: BMC Prim Care
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38631197/exploring-patient-ideas-concerns-and-expectations-in-surgeon-patient-consultations
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah J White, Ji Woo Kim, Harkirti Rakhra, Devindee Ranatunga, Rhiannon B Parker, Peter Roger, John A Cartmill
OBJECTIVES: This study explores patient perspectives (ideas, concerns, and expectations) in surgeon-patient consultations. METHODS: We examined 54 video-recorded consultations using applied conversation analysis. Consultations took place from 2012 to 2017 in an Australian metropolitan hospital clinic centre and involved seven surgeons across six specialties. RESULTS: Patient perspectives emerged in less than one third of consultations. We describe the initiation of and response to potential perspectives sequences, demonstrating how patients and surgeons co-construct these sequences when they do occur...
April 12, 2024: Patient Education and Counseling
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38630776/editorial-are-government-early-years-learning-and-development-frameworks-evidence-based-a-scientist-s-perspective
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EDITORIAL
Angelica Ronald
Not all young children attend nurseries, childminders or other group settings before they start school, but many do. It is common for countries to set out a framework to guide practice for early years providers (such as nurseries) to follow. The conundrum regarding these frameworks for young children is that proving evidence of a causal link between early environments and later outcomes is very challenging scientifically. So how do governments choose what learning and development practices and goals to make mandatory for childcare providers? And is it realistic to expect early years providers to meet the legal requirements that these frameworks impose? We do not know which learning and development practices impact positively on later outcomes, and we certainly do not know if there is a one-size-fits-all approach for an early years framework that is guaranteed to work...
May 2024: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, and Allied Disciplines
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38630766/literacy-overrides-effects-of-animacy-a-picture-naming-study-with-pre-literate-german-children-and-adult-speakers-of-german-and-arabic
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah Dolscheid, Judith Schlenter, Martina Penke
Animacy plays a key role for human cognition, which is also reflected in the way humans process language. However, while experiments on sentence processing show reliable effects of animacy on word order and grammatical function assignment, effects of animacy on conjoined noun phrases (e.g., fish and shoe vs. shoe and fish) have yielded inconsistent results. In the present study, we tested the possibility that effects of animacy are outranked by reading and writing habits. We examined adult speakers of German (left-to-right script) and speakers of Arabic (right-to-left script), as well as German preschool children who do not yet know how to read and write...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38630088/breast-cryoablation-from-the-ajr-how-we-do-it-special-series
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REVIEW
Jothika V Challapalli, Jessica H Yoon, Robert C Ward
Breast cryoablation is a minimally invasive image-guided percutaneous procedure to treat fibroadenomas and early-stage breast cancer utilizing liquid nitrogen or argon gas to create extremely cold temperatures that devitalize targeted tissue. Although more long term data are needed, this outpatient procedure is well tolerated and carries minimal risks, including non-target thermal injury that can be mitigated by careful planning and proper technique. Building a sustainable breast cryoablation service in a radiology practice poses several practical considerations, such as training proceduralists, purchasing equipment, recruiting patients, and understanding the revenue cycle...
April 17, 2024: AJR. American Journal of Roentgenology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38630055/no-difference-in-how-i-work-with-a-hand-therapist-got-it-but-can-i-do-the-exercises-on-my-own-commentary-on-an-article-by-patrick-c-barrett-md-et-al-provision-of-a-home-based-video-assisted-therapy-program-is-noninferior-to-in-person-hand-therapy-after-thumb
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38629903/it-doesn-t-matter-if-i-feel-obliged-as-long-as-i-enjoy-it-the-associations-between-organized-leisure-time-activities-and-adolescents-mental-health-and-wellbeing
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Petr Badura, Karel Svacina, Britt Hallingberg
INTRODUCTION: There is a consensus that adolescents' participation in organized leisure-time activities (OLTAs) is pro-developmental and beneficial for youth mental health. While enjoyment in OLTA is commonly regarded as positive, the role of obligation in the context of adolescents' OLTA has been scarcely researched. The present study investigated how these theoretically contradictory experiences (enjoyment and/or obligation) in OLTA participation relate to adolescents' wellbeing and incidence of psychological complaints accounting for their possible co-occurrence...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Adolescence
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38629841/bacterial-surface-lipoproteins-mediate-epithelial-microinvasion-by-streptococcus-pneumoniae
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jia Mun Chan, Elisa Ramos-Sevillano, Modupeh Betts, Holly U Wilson, Caroline M Weight, Ambrine Houhou-Ousalah, Gabriele Pollara, Jeremy S Brown, Robert S Heyderman
Streptococcus pneumoniae , a common colonizer of the upper respiratory tract, invades nasopharyngeal epithelial cells without causing disease in healthy participants of controlled human infection studies. We hypothesized that surface expression of pneumococcal lipoproteins, recognized by the innate immune receptor TLR2, mediates epithelial microinvasion. Mutation of lgt in serotype 4 (TIGR4) and serotype 6B (BHN418) pneumococcal strains abolishes the ability of the mutants to activate TLR2 signaling. Loss of lgt also led to the concomitant decrease in interferon signaling triggered by the bacterium...
April 17, 2024: Infection and Immunity
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38629792/stabilization-of-prebiotic-vesicles-by-peptides-depends-on-sequence-and-chirality-a-mechanism-for-selection-of-protocell-associated-peptides
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Zachary R Cohen, Zoe R Todd, Lutz Maibaum, David C Catling, Roy A Black
Cells require oligonucleotides and polypeptides with specific, homochiral sequences to perform essential functions, but it is unclear how such oligomers were selected from random sequences at the origin of life. Cells were probably preceded by simple compartments such as fatty acid vesicles, and oligomers that increased the stability, growth, or division of vesicles could have thereby increased in frequency. We therefore tested whether prebiotic peptides alter the stability or growth of vesicles composed of a prebiotic fatty acid...
April 17, 2024: Langmuir: the ACS Journal of Surfaces and Colloids
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38629688/-it-spread-like-wildfire-as-these-things-do-exploring-mechanisms-of-harm-in-young-norwegians-experiences-of-image-based-sexual-abuse
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Stine Nygård, Ingela Lundin Kvalem, Bente Træen
It is widely reported that image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) victimization is linked to a wide range of detrimental outcomes, including anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation. However, knowledge about what shapes victims' experiences remains limited. To explore underlying mechanisms of harm in IBSA incidents, the present study drew on the concept of appraisal to elucidate the various meanings that victims attach to IBSA. For this purpose, we carried out a reflexive thematic analysis of 20 individual in-depth interviews with young male and female victims (ages 16-26) of IBSA...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Sex Research
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38629607/self-assembly-of-chemical-shakers
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Liyan Qiao, Raymond Kapral
Chemical shakers are active particles with zero propulsion velocity whose activity derives from chemical reactions on portions of their surfaces. Although they do not move, except through Brownian motion, the nonequilibrium concentration and velocity fields that they generate endow them with properties that differ from their equilibrium counterparts. In particular, collections of such shakers can actively move, reorient, and self-assemble into various cluster states, which are the subject of this paper. Elongated chemical shakers constructed from linked catalytic and noncatalytic spheres are considered, and it is shown how hydrodynamic, chemotactic, and shape-dependent interactions give rise to various self-assembled shaker structures...
April 21, 2024: Journal of Chemical Physics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38629591/exploring-adult-inpatients-perceptions-understanding-and-preferences-regarding-the-term-malnutrition-a-qualitative-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sarah Mackay, Liliana Botero, Jack Bell, Adrienne Young
AIMS: To explore adult inpatients' perceptions, understanding and preferences regarding the term 'malnutrition' and to identify the terms that adult inpatients report are used by themselves and health workers to describe malnutrition. DESIGN: This qualitative study was conducted using data collected for a separate qualitative study that investigated factors that influence the dietary intake of long-stay, acute adult inpatients. METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of current inpatients...
April 17, 2024: Journal of Clinical Nursing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38629288/still-a-boys-club-a-qualitative-analysis-of-how-gender-affects-a-career-in-anaesthesia-in-australia-and-aotearoa-new-zealand
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
J C Carter, N Purcell, C H Stewart, G C Pearce, M Balkin, K J Allen
Gender inequity remains an issue in anaesthesia despite increasing numbers of women training and achieving fellowship in the speciality. Women are under-represented in all areas of anaesthetic research, academia and leadership. The Gender Equity Subcommittee of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists recently conducted a survey asking "Does gender still matter in the pursuit of a career in anaesthesia in 2022?". The survey was distributed to a randomly selected sample of 1225 anaesthetic consultants and completed by 470 respondents (38% response rate) with 793 free-text comments provided...
April 17, 2024: Anaesthesia
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38628325/uterus-transplantation-what-the-world-s-religions-have-to-say
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Briget da Graca, Anji E Wall, Giuliano Testa, Liza Johannesson
Uterus transplantation (UTx) has evolved from a purely experimental procedure to a clinical treatment option available outside the clinical trial context, offering women with absolute uterine-factor infertility an opportunity to experience pregnancy. As UTx becomes better established and more widely known and performed, it is likely to be sought out by geographically and culturally diverse patients, particularly those whose religious beliefs impose barriers to other paths to achieve parenthood, such as gestational surrogacy and adoption...
2024: Proceedings of the Baylor University Medical Center
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38626664/warming-but-not-infection-with-borrelia-burgdorferi-increases-off-host-winter-activity-in-the-ectoparasite-ixodes-scapularis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Laura V Ferguson, Amal El Nabbout, Shelley A Adamo
Warming winters will change patterns of behaviour in temperate and polar arthropods, but we know little about the drivers of winter activity in animals such as ticks. Any changes in behaviour are likely to arise from a combination of both abiotic (e.g. temperature) and biotic (e.g. infection) drivers, and will have important consequences for survival and species interactions. Blacklegged ticks, Ixodes scapularis, have invaded Atlantic Canada and high proportions (30-50%) are infected with the bacteria causing Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi...
April 12, 2024: Journal of Thermal Biology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38626223/online-therapy-with-families-what-can-families-tell-us-about-how-to-do-this-well-a-qualitative-study-assessing-families-experience-of-remote-dyadic-developmental-psychotherapy-compared-to-face-to-face-therapy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Monica Blair, Leigh Tweedlie, Helen Minnis, Irene Cronin, Fiona Turner
Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) is a family-based therapy for adopted children aiming to achieve secure attachment between the child and parent. Due to restrictions under the COVID-19 pandemic, delivery of DDP transitioned from face-to-face to online methods. This study aimed to explore families experience of online DDP compared to face-to-face DDP, looking at the advantages and disadvantages of remote delivery methods and the implications this has on future service delivery for clinicians. Semi-structured interviews with 6 families were conducted online...
2024: PloS One
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38626029/common-questions-and-misconceptions-about-protein-supplementation-what-does-the-scientific-evidence-really-show
#38
REVIEW
Jose Antonio, Cassandra Evans, Arny A Ferrando, Jeffrey R Stout, Brandi Antonio, Harry Cinteo, Patrick Harty, Shawn M Arent, Darren G Candow, Scott C Forbes, Chad M Kerksick, Flavia Pereira, Drew Gonzalez, Richard B Kreider
Protein supplementation often refers to increasing the intake of this particular macronutrient through dietary supplements in the form of powders, ready-to-drink shakes, and bars. The primary purpose of protein supplementation is to augment dietary protein intake, aiding individuals in meeting their protein requirements, especially when it may be challenging to do so through regular food (i.e. chicken, beef, fish, pork, etc.) sources alone. A large body of evidence shows that protein has an important role in exercising and sedentary individuals...
December 2024: Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38625740/toxic-to-the-touch-the-makings-of-lethal-mantles-in-pitohui-birds-and-poison-dart-frogs
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sophie Zaaijer, Simon C Groen
How do chemically defended animals resist their own toxins? This intriguing question on the concept of autotoxicity is at the heart of how species interactions evolve. In this issue of Molecular Ecology (Molecular Ecology, 2024, 33), Bodawatta and colleagues report on how Papua New Guinean birds coopted deadly neurotoxins to create lethal mantles that protect against predators and parasites. Combining chemical screening of the plumage of a diverse collection of passerine birds with genome sequencing, the researchers unlocked a deeper understanding of how some birds sequester deadly batrachotoxin (BTX) from their food without poisoning themselves...
April 16, 2024: Molecular Ecology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38625597/microsurgical-resection-of-a-large-petroclival-meningioma-through-an-extended-retrosigmoid-approach-how-i-do-it
#40
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Beatrice C Bono, Francesca Faedo, Marco Riva, Federico Pessina
BACKGROUND: Petroclival meningiomas are challenging tumors. Several skull base approaches have been proposed in the last decades, with variable rates of postoperative morbidity and extent of resection. METHODS: We herein reported the step-by-step microsurgical resection of a large petroclival meningioma through an extended retrosigmoid approach. Detailed surgical technique has been accompanied by a 2D operative video. CONCLUSION: The extended retrosigmoid approach allowed for a safe gross total resection of the tumor, as confirmed by the postoperative MRI...
April 16, 2024: Acta Neurochirurgica
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