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Behçet disease (BD) is a debilitating multi-systemic vasculitis with a litany of muco-cutaneous manifestations and potentially lethal complications. Meanwhile, psoriasis (PSO) is a cutaneous and systemic inflammatory disorder marked by hyperplastic epidermis and silvery scales, which may be accompanied by a distinct form of arthropathy called psoriatic arthritis (PsA). While the clinical pictures of these two are quite different, they feature some important similarities, most of which may stem from the autoinflammatory components of BD and PSO. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the prospective link between BD and cutaneous and articular manifestations of psoriasis. BD, PSO, and PsA cohorts were extracted using the National Health Insurance Service of Korea database. Using χ2 tests, prevalence of PSO and PsA with respect to BD status was analysed. Relative to non-BD individuals, those with personal history of BD were nearly three times more likely to be diagnosed with PSO. The adjusted odds rle PsA cohort (aOR = 2.02, 95% CI 1.88-2.16, p  less then  0.001). As with PSO, older BD patients were exposed to a significantly higher risk of developing PsA (aOR = 3.13, 95% CI 2.90-3.40, p  less then  0.001). Behçet disease may place an individual at a significantly increased risk of psoriasis, and still greater hazard of being affected with psoriatic arthritis. This added risk was pronounced in the male cohort, and tended to impact senile population, and this phenomenon may be related with the relatively poor prognosis of BD in males and PSO in older patients.Biological computation requires in vivo control of molecular behavior to progress development of autonomous devices. miRNA switches represent excellent, easily engineerable synthetic biology tools to achieve user-defined gene regulation. Here we present the construction of a synthetic network to implement detoxification functionality. We employed a modular design strategy by engineering toxin-induced control of an enzyme scavenger. Our miRNA switch results show moderate synthetic expression control over a biologically active detoxification enzyme molecule, using an established design protocol. However, following a new design approach, we demonstrated an evolutionarily designed miRNA switch to more effectively activate enzyme activity than synthetically designed versions, allowing markedly improved extrinsic user-defined control with a toxin as inducer. Our straightforward new design approach is simple to implement and uses easily accessible web-based databases and prediction tools. The ability to exert control of toxicity demonstrates potential for modular detoxification systems that provide a pathway to new therapeutic and biocomputing applications.The aim of our study was to asses the long-term prognostic impact of post-acute, pre-discharge echocardiographic assessment of right ventricular (RV) dysfunction in patients with low- and intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism (PE). Consecutive patients with acute PE underwent post-acute, pre-discharge echocardiographic assessment of RV dysfunction (defined by RV dilation, tricuspid anulus peak systolic excursion, or tricuspid regurgitation systolic velocity). A Cox multivariate survival mode was constructed to determine the prognostic impact of post-acute, pred-discharge RV dysfunction on all-cause mortality. 615 patients were included 330 (54%) women, mean age 64 ± 18 years, 265 (43.1%) with post-acute, predischarge RV dysfunction. During follow-up (median 1068 days), 88 (14.3%) patients died. On Cox multivariate analyis, pre-discharge post-acute tricuspid regurgitation systolic velocity emerged as the only independent echocardiographic predictor of mortality (HR 1.73 for every 1 m/s increase; 95% confidence interval 1.033-2.897; p = 0.037). RV dysfunction persists in almost one half of PE patients in the post-acute phase on pre-discharge echocardiography; however, only tricuspid regurgitation systolic velocity independently predicts long-term prognosis.Maize protein quality is determined by the composition of its endosperm proteins, which are classified as nutritionally poor zeins (prolamin and prolamin-like) and nutritionally rich non-zeins (albumin, globulin, glutelin-like, and glutelin). Protein quality is considerably higher in opaque-2 mutants due to increased content of non-zeins over zeins. However, the opaque-2 endosperm is soft, which leads to poor agronomic performance and post-harvest infestation. Endosperm modification of opaque-2 had led to the development of Quality Protein Maize (QPM), which has higher protein quality along with hard kernel endosperm. The present study was planned to analyze the expression dynamics of different protein fractions in the endospem of developing maize kernel in normal, opaque-2 and QPM in response to the introgression of endosperm modifiers. Results revealed that albumin and globulin content decreases, whereas, prolamin, prolamin-like, glutelin-like, and glutelin content increases with kernel maturity. It has been observed that opaque-2 mutation affects protein expression at initial stages, whereas, the effect of endosperm modifiers was observed at the intermediate and later stages of kernel development. It has also been noted that prolamin, glutelin, and glutelin-like fractions can be used as quick markers for quality assessment for differentiating QPM varieties, even at the immature stage of kernel development. Overall, the present study implicates the role of different protein fractions in developing and utilizing nutritionally improved maize varieties.Patients with strong clinical features of COVID-19 with negative real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) SARS-CoV-2 testing are not currently included in official statistics. The scale, characteristics and clinical relevance of this group are not well described. We performed a retrospective cohort study in two large London hospitals to characterize the demographic, clinical, and hospitalization outcome characteristics of swab-negative clinical COVID-19 patients. Salvianolic acid B We found 1 in 5 patients with a negative swab and clinical suspicion of COVID-19 received a clinical diagnosis of COVID-19 within clinical documentation, discharge summary or death certificate. We compared this group to a similar swab positive cohort and found similar demographic composition, symptomology and laboratory findings. Swab-negative clinical COVID-19 patients had better outcomes, with shorter length of hospital stay, reduced need for > 60% supplementary oxygen and reduced mortality. Patients with strong clinical features of COVID-19 that are swab-negative are a common clinical challenge. Health systems must recognize and plan for the management of swab-negative patients in their COVID-19 clinical management, infection control policies and epidemiological assessments.Vibrational sum-frequency generation (vSFG) spectroscopy allows the study of the structure and dynamics of interfacial systems. In the present work, we provide a simple recipe, based on a narrowband IR pump and broadband vSFG probe technique, to computationally obtain the two-dimensional vSFG spectrum of water molecules at the air-water interface. Using this technique, to study the time-dependent spectral evolution of hydrogen-bonded and free water molecules, we demonstrate that at the interface, the vibrational spectral dynamics of the free OH bond is faster than that of the bonded OH mode.Compared to the abilities of the animal brain, many Artificial Intelligence systems have limitations which emphasise the need for a Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence paradigm. This paper proposes a novel Brain-Inspired Spiking Neural Network (BI-SNN) model for incremental learning of spike sequences. BI-SNN maps spiking activity from input channels into a high dimensional source-space which enhances the evolution of polychronising spiking neural populations. We applied the BI-SNN to predict muscle activity and kinematics from electroencephalography signals during upper limb functional movements. The BI-SNN extends our previously proposed eSPANNet computational model by integrating it with the 'NeuCube' brain-inspired SNN architecture. We show that BI-SNN can successfully predict continuous muscle activity and kinematics of upper-limb. The experimental results confirmed that the BI-SNN resulted in strongly correlated population activity and demonstrated the feasibility for real-time prediction. In contrast to the majority of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) that constitute a 'black box', BI-SNN provide quantitative and visual feedback about the related brain activity. This study is one of the first attempts to examine the feasibility of finding neural correlates of muscle activity and kinematics from electroencephalography using a brain-inspired computational paradigm. The findings suggest that BI-SNN is a better neural decoder for non-invasive BCI.The improper handling of smelting slag will seriously pollute the environment, and the unfilled roof of the goaf of the mine will threaten the safety of the mine. Expansion materials have attracted more and more attention because of their excellent properties. In this paper, copper-nickel smelting slag that has some active ingredients of gelling is used instead of traditional aggregate and some part of cement in order to reduce its pollution to the environment and its costs. For safety reasons, hydrogen peroxide was chosen as the foaming agent. Sodium silicate and hexadecyl trimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) are used as additives. Our results showed that after 28 days of curing, the material has better mechanical properties and the early compressive strength of the material was enhanced by sodium silicate. The efficiency of foaming was improved by CTAB. It also proves that copper-nickel smelting slag can be used in expansion material. At the same time, the utilization rate of the copper-nickel smelting slag of this formula can reach 70%, reduce its pollution to the environment.Preterm newborns with germinal matrix-intraventricular hemorrhage (GM-IVH) are at a higher risk of evidencing neurodevelopmental alterations. Present study aimed to explore the long-term effects that GM-IVH have on hippocampal subfields, and their correlates with memory. The sample consisted of 58 participants, including 36 preterm-born (16 with GM-IVH and 20 without neonatal brain injury), and 22 full-term children aged between 6 and 15 years old. All participants underwent a cognitive assessment and magnetic resonance imaging study. GM-IVH children evidenced lower scores in Full Intelligence Quotient and memory measures compared to their low-risk preterm and full-term peers. High-risk preterm children with GM-IVH evidenced significantly lower total hippocampal volumes bilaterally and hippocampal subfield volumes compared to both low-risk preterm and full-term groups. Finally, significant positive correlations between memory and hippocampal subfield volumes were only found in preterm participants together; memory and the right CA-field correlation remained significant after Bonferroni correction was applied (p = .002). In conclusion, memory alterations and both global and regional volumetric reductions in the hippocampus were found to be specifically related to a preterm sample with GM-IVH. Nevertheless, results also suggest that prematurity per se has a long-lasting impact on the association between the right CA-field volume and memory during childhood.