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We contend that the combination of mental health, social and economic considerations may have contributed to the rise of COVID-19 infections in young adults, and ascribing blame to this group will not aid our efforts to regain control of the disease.

We contend that the combination of mental health, social and economic considerations may have contributed to the rise of COVID-19 infections in young adults, and ascribing blame to this group will not aid our efforts to regain control of the disease.

To evaluate the role of ultrasonography (US) in differentiating anastomotic biliary strictures (AS) and non-anastomotic biliary strictures (NAS) after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).

This retrospective study included 1259 OLT recipients between 2005-2018. Selnoflast cell line Seventy-six with anastomotic strictures (AS) and 103 with non-anastomotic strictures (NAS) were analyzed. The reference standard was cholangiography. The sensitivity, specificity, accuracy of US was evaluated.

There were significant differences between AS and NAS groups (p < 0.001) for skipped and irregular dilatation of intrahepatic bile duct and visualization of hilar biliary lumen. The better US imaging feature for NAS was poorly visualized and non- visible hilar bile duct luminal contour. The sensitivity, specificity and accuracy were 94.2 %, 84.2 % and 88.9 % respectively. Combined two predictors greatly increased the specificity to 93.4 % while diminished its sensitivity and accuracy.

US is useful and efficient to differentiate AS and NAS after OLT.

US is useful and efficient to differentiate AS and NAS after OLT.Most doctoral curriculums in Canada and in the United States include a mandatory comprehensive examination (CE) meant to evaluate, after a year, the students' ability to conduct research. Although the format differs between faculties, the CE has nevertheless been described by students as anxiety provoking because in most cases, a failure terminates doctoral training. A lack of scientific literature on the experiences of PhD nursing students with the CE motivated us to explore these experience and the students' needs with regard to this exam. For that purpose, a descriptive qualitative research study was conducted at a nursing faculty in Canada. Focus groups and individual semi-directed interviews were conducted with 15 PhD nursing students. Data analysis suggests that PhD nursing students' needs evolve throughout their doctoral studies. Initially, their needs focus on understanding the general process of the CE, such as its purpose and the possible outcomes. These needs gradually shift toward specific issues, such day-to-day organization during the CE. Finally, participants express frustration about variability in the support received and in the evaluation process. Results offer insights into strategies that can be implemented to optimize PhD nursing students' experience and to develop a feeling of support regarding the CE.A computer assisted system for automatic retrieval of medical images with similar image contents can serve as an efficient management tool for handling and mining large scale data, and can also be used as a tool in clinical decision support systems. In this paper, we propose a deep community based automated medical image retrieval framework for extracting similar images from a large scale X-ray database. The framework integrates a deep learning-based image feature generation approach and a network community detection technique to extract similar images. When compared with the state-of-the-art medical image retrieval techniques, the proposed approach demonstrated improved performance. We evaluated the performance of the proposed method on two large scale chest X-ray datasets, where given a query image, the proposed approach was able to extract images with similar disease labels with a precision of 85%. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first deep community based image retrieval application on large scale chest X-ray database.The stress responses of plant compete for resources with growth and development. Resource allocations among these processes may have been optimized in plants adapted to natural habitats. Here, nitrogen (N) allocations were compared in leaves of Arabidopsis and Chorispora bungeana, a cryophyte with strong freezing tolerance. The results showed that the two species differed not only in N partitions among N forms and allocations among leaves, but also in their responses to cold stress. Interestingly, leaf protein contents were enhanced in C. bungeana while reduced in Arabidopsis, though the N allocations to leaves were reduced in both plants upon cold stress. Profoundly, when grown at warm temperature, contents of total free amino acids (FAAs) in leaves of C. bungeana were 6-11 times higher than those in Arabidopsis. In contrast, cold treatment induced FAAs accumulation in leaves of Arabidopsis without having significant effect in any leaf of C. bungeana. Considerable discrepancy was also found between the two species in the expressions of nitrate transporter genes and the activities of nitrate assimilation enzymes. Correlation and network analysis showed that most NPFs were clustered in a single network module and had loose relations with protein synthesis in Arabidopsis, while they were distributed in different modules in a decentralized network in C. bungeana. Therefore, our results reveal that C. bungeana may have optimized its N allocation strategy by producing and storing amino acids as efficient N reserve and adopting a decentralized network for N utilization, which may equip the plant with powerful capabilities for environmental adaptions.Attempted infections of plants with fungi result in diverse outcomes ranging from symptom-less resistance to severe disease and even death of infected plants. The deleterious effect on crop yield have led to intense focus on the cellular and molecular mechanisms that explain the difference between resistance and susceptibility. This research has uncovered plant resistance or susceptibility genes that explain either dominant or recessive inheritance of plant resistance with many of them coding for receptors that recognize pathogen invasion. Approaches based on cell biology and phytochemistry have contributed to identifying factors that halt an invading fungal pathogen from further invasion into or between plant cells. Plant chemical defence compounds, antifungal proteins and structural reinforcement of cell walls appear to slow down fungal growth or even prevent fungal penetration in resistant plants. Additionally, the hypersensitive response, in which a few cells undergo a strong local immune reaction, including programmed cell death at the site of infection, stops in particular biotrophic fungi from spreading into surrounding tissue.