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The 12-item Multiple Sclerosis Walking Scale (MSWS-12) is currently the most widely validated, patient-reported outcome measure assessing patients' perception of the impact of multiple sclerosis (MS) on walking ability. To date, the majority of previous studies investigating the MSWS-12 have focused on the total score despite individual items being potentially informative. Therefore, our objective was to examine the associations between the individual items of the MSWS-12 and mobility and whether these associations depend on disability level.

Participants completed the MSWS-12, Two-Minute Walk Test (2MWT), Timed 25-Foot Walk (T25FW), Timed Up and Go Test (TUG) and the Four Square Step Test (FSST). Subsequently, they were divided into two groups according to their disability level, classified as either "mildly" or "moderately-severely" disabled. The correlation between individual items of the MSWS-12 and clinical measures of mobility were separately examined by Spearman's correlation coefficients; linear r of the MSWS-12 focusing on the patient's use of walking support in and outdoors, provide a robust indicator of mobility capabilities for mildly and moderately-severely disabled PwMS.Spontaneous motor cortical activity during passive perception of action has been interpreted as a sensorimotor simulation of the observed action. There is currently interest in how sensorimotor simulation can support higher-up cognitive functions, such as memory, but this is relatively unexplored in the auditory domain. In the present study, we examined whether the established memory advantage for vocal melodies over non-vocal melodies is attributable to stronger sensorimotor simulation during perception of vocal relative to non-vocal action. Participants listened to 24 unfamiliar folk melodies presented in vocal or piano timbres. These were encoded during three interference conditions whispering (vocal-motor interference), tapping (non-vocal motor interference), and no-interference. Afterwards, participants heard the original 24 melodies presented among 24 foils and judged whether melodies were old or new. A vocal-memory advantage was found in the no-interference and tapping conditions; however, the advantage was eliminated in the whispering condition. This suggests that sensorimotor simulationduring the perception of vocal melodies is responsible for the observed vocal-memory advantage.Vitiligo is a typical pigmented skin disorder, which affects up to 1% of the global population, and the appearance of the patient is severely affected. Its lesions are often characterized by large affected areas, irregular shapes, low contrast, and the difficulty of identifying under natural light. This paper proposes a weakly supervised vitiligo segmentation framework using only image-level annotation to perform segmentation. We first roughly locate the lesion region through the class activation map - the byproduct of a CNN-based classification model. By further exploring the class activation map and leveraging the local information of the image, we perform saliency propagation to produce segmentation with accurate boundaries and strong interpretability. Moreover, we collect a vitiligo image dataset named Vit2019, which contains 2000 images; to our best knowledge, this is so far the largest image dataset for vitiligo. The experiment shows our method not only achieves good results on Vit2019 with IoU of 72.7%, but also on the ISIC-2017 dataset, which contains other types of pigmented skin diseases (e.g., nevus, melanoma and seborrheic keratoses), our method achieves IoU of 54.2%. Our experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed model over the state-of-the-art.This study examines the use of AI methods and deep learning (DL) for prescreening skin lesions and detecting the characteristic erythema migrans rash of acute Lyme disease. Accurate identification of erythema migrans allows for early diagnosis and treatment, which avoids the potential for later neurologic, rheumatologic, and cardiac complications of Lyme disease. We develop and test several deep learning models for detecting erythema migrans versus several other clinically relevant skin conditions, including cellulitis, tinea corporis, herpes zoster, erythema multiforme, lesions due to tick bites and insect bites, as well as non-pathogenic normal skin. We consider a set of clinically-relevant binary and multiclass classification problems of increasing complexity. We train the DL models on a combination of publicly available images and test on public images as well as images obtained in the clinical setting. We report performance metrics that measure agreement with a gold standard, as well as a receiver operating characteristic curve and associated area under the curve. EN450 molecular weight On public images, we find that the DL system has an accuracy ranging from 71.58% (and 95% error margin equal to 3.77%) for an 8-class problem of EM versus 7 other classes including other skin pathologies, insect bites and normal skin, to 94.23% (3.66%) for a binary problem of EM vs. non-pathological skin. On clinical images of affected individuals, the DL system has a sensitivity of 88.55% (2.39%). These results suggest that a DL system can help in prescreening and referring individuals to physicians for earlier diagnosis and treatment, in the presence of clinically relevant confusers, thereby reducing further complications and morbidity.Struvite precipitated from wastewaters is an important fertilizer. However, struvite derived from wastewater usually contains toxic Pb, which can bring contamination to soil and even plants. Thus, understanding the incorporation mechanisms of Pb2+ during struvite precipitation is critical to its safe application. Here the influence of Pb concentration on struvite precipitation was assessed. When the initial Pb concentrations were at the range of 0.1-1 mg/L, the formation of pitting and roughening on struvite crystal surfaces was observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), indicating a surface interaction between Pb and struvite. Combined with X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS), the results confirmed that the formed Pb-enriched layer with Pb-OH and Pb-PO4 bonds was absorbed on struvite surface during precipitation. When Pb concentrations were increased to 10-100 mg/L, the precipitation of dominating Pb phase, crystalline Pb10(PO4)6(OH)2, was confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD). Combined with XPS, the amorphous Pb hydroxide/phosphate and Mg phosphate were also detected in struvite solids.