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Patients with severe or refractory disease were treated with autologous bone marrow transplantation, melphalan, or bortezomib with dexamethasone. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE Consideration of patient comorbidities, disease distribution, clinician experience, and treatment accessibility is mandatory in every therapeutic approach of scleromyxedema. © 2020 the International Society of Dermatology.Fire-induced changes in the abundance and distribution of organisms, especially plants, can alter resource landscapes for mobile consumers driving bottom-up effects on their population sizes, morphologies, and reproductive potential. We expect these impacts to be most striking for obligate visitors of plants, like bees and other pollinators, but these impacts can be difficult to interpret due to the limited information provided by forager counts in the absence of survival or fitness proxies. Increased bumble bee worker abundance is often coincident with the pulses of flowers that follow recent fire. However, it is unknown if observed postfire activity is due to underlying population growth or a stable pool of colonies recruiting more foragers to abundant resource patches. This distinction is necessary for determining the net impact of disturbance on bumble bees are there population-wide responses or do just a few colonies reap the rewards? We estimated colony abundance before and after fire in burned and unbuof populations. Given that the effects of fire on bumble bees acted indirectly through pulsed resource availability, it is likely our results are generalizable to other situations, such as habitat restorations, where resource density is enhanced within the landscape. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.Species loss is occurring globally at unprecedented rates, and effective conservation planning requires an understanding of landscape characteristics that determine biodiversity patterns. Habitat heterogeneity is an important determinant of species diversity, but is difficult to measure across large areas using field-based methods that are costly and logistically challenging. Satellite image texture analysis offers a cost-effective alternative for quantifying habitat heterogeneity across broad spatial scales. We tested the ability of texture measures derived from 30-m resolution Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) data to capture habitat heterogeneity and predict bird species richness across the conterminous USA. We used Landsat 8 satellite imagery from 2013-2017 to derive a suite of texture measures characterizing vegetation heterogeneity (available at http//silvis.forest.wisc.edu/webmaps/landsat8-evi-textures). Individual texture measures explained up to 21% of the variance in bird richness patterns in North Ames or land cover data. https://www.selleckchem.com/products/caerulein.html By generating 30-m resolution texture maps and modeling bird richness at a near-continental scale, we expand on previous applications of image texture measures for modeling biodiversity that were either limited in spatial extent or based on coarse resolution imagery. Incorporating texture measures into broad-scale biodiversity models may advance our understanding of mechanisms underlying species richness patterns and improve predictions of species responses to rapid global change. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.The pandemic of COVID-19 has brought day to day life at a standstill. During such difficult times, safety of medical staff becomes more important as they are on the frontlines in tackling the disease. Despite aggressive safety measures and use of personal protective equipment (PPE), infections and deaths have been reported among HCP's.1 This has led to a panic and stigma in the medical community. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.PURPOSE Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) is becoming increasingly used in clinical practice. In DBT, the microcalcification clusters may span across multiple slices, which makes it difficult for radiologists to directly assess these distributed clusters for diagnosis. We investigated a radiomics method to classify microcalcification clusters in DBT based on a semi-automatic segmentation process. METHODS We performed a retrospective study on a cohort of 275 patients (including 79 benign and 196 malignant cases) with a total of 550 DBT volumes. Our method consisted of three steps. The initial step was to semi-automatically segment the microcalcification clusters. Then, radiomics features were extracted from the initially segmented microcalcification clusters. Finally, the benign and malignant microcalcification clusters were differentiated by the random forest (RF) classifier using selected subset features. The radiomics models were evaluated both on view-based and case-based modes with features selected from different domains. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve and area under the ROC curve (AUC) were used to evaluate the classification performance. RESULTS 26 key features were selected from a total of 170 radiomics features and these features show promising classification performance. The highest AUC was 0.834 for view-based mode and 0.868 for case-based mode when using features selected from the 3D domain. The 2D domain radiomics features showed a statistically similar performance to the 3D features (p>0.05). CONCLUSION Radiomics models can provide encouraging performance in classification between malignant and benign microcalcification clusters which are semi-automatically segmented in DBT. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.BACKGROUND Leprosy can cause acute reactions, which may be type 1 (reverse reaction) or type 2 (erythema nodosum leprosum - ENL). ENL has been classified as mild, moderate, or severe. In order to standardize the classification, the Erythema Nodosum Leprosum International Study (ENLIST) Group has developed an objective scale, the ENLIST ENL Severity Scale (EESS), which was the first validated severity scale of ENL in the world. The goal of the study was to describe the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of patients with ENL attending a tertiary hospital in Piauí, Brazil, classifying them according to the EESS. METHODS A descriptive cross-sectional observational study was conducted on 26 patients recruited sequentially from May 2017 to February 2018. Their data were statistically analyzed and compared against each other through a structured questionnaire. RESULTS According to the score obtained in the scale, the patients were divided into two groups mild ENL and moderate/severe ENL. The extent and number of nodules were related to the severity of the cases, and these data were statistically significant.