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re.Background Within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the WHO endorses facemask use to limit aerosol-spreading of the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). However, concerns have been raised regarding facemask-associated dyspnea, thermal distress and self-reported impairment of cognition. Accordingly, we tested how facemask-use affects motor-cognitive performances of relevance for occupational safety. We hypothesized that mask use would affect cognitively dominated performances and thermal discomfort, but not alter whole-body thermal balance. Methods Eight participants completed a facemask and a barefaced (control) trial, in a counterbalanced order, in 40°C and 20% humidity conditions. Motor-cognitive performance, physiological (rectal, mean skin and local facial temperatures) and perceptual (thermal comfort and dyspnea) measures were assessed at baseline and following 45 min of light work (100 W). Results Perceived dyspnea was aggravated with prolonged facemask use (p = 0.04), resulting in 36% greater breathlessness compared to control. However, no other differences were observed in motor-cognitive performance, physiological strain, or thermal discomfort. Conclusions Contradicting negative self-reported impacts of facemask-use, only dyspnea was aggravated in the present study, thereby reinforcing global recommendations of mask use, even in hot environments. (Funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the grant agreement No 668786).The kidneys' integrative responses to heat stress aid thermoregulation, cardiovascular control, and water and electrolyte regulation. Recent evidence suggests the kidneys are at increased risk of pathological events during heat stress, namely acute kidney injury (AKI), and that this risk is compounded by dehydration and exercise. This heat stress related AKI is believed to contribute to the epidemic of chronic kidney disease (CKD) occurring in occupational settings. It is estimated that AKI and CKD affect upwards of 45 million individuals in the global workforce. Water and electrolyte disturbances and AKI, both of which are representative of kidney-related pathology, are the two leading causes of hospitalizations during heat waves in older adults. Structural and physiological alterations in aging kidneys likely contribute to this increased risk. With this background, this comprehensive narrative review will provide the first aggregation of research into the integrative physiological response of the kidneys to heat stress. While the focus of this review is on the human kidneys, we will utilize both human and animal data to describe these responses to passive and exercise heat stress, and how they are altered with heat acclimation. Additionally, we will discuss recent studies that indicate an increased risk of AKI due to exercise in the heat. Lastly, we will introduce the emerging public health crisis of older adults during extreme heat events and how the aging kidneys may be more susceptible to injury during heat stress.The latest threat to global health is the COVID-19 outbreak. Although there exist large datasets of chest X-rays (CXR) and computed tomography (CT) scans, few COVID-19 image collections are currently available due to patient privacy. At the same time, there is a rapid growth of COVID-19-relevant articles in the biomedical literature, including those that report findings on radiographs. Here, we present COVID-19-CT-CXR, a public database of COVID-19 CXR and CT images, which are automatically extracted from COVID-19-relevant articles from the PubMed Central Open Access (PMC-OA) Subset. Selleckchem Inobrodib We extracted figures, associated captions, and relevant figure descriptions in the article and separated compound figures into subfigures. Because a large portion of figures in COVID-19 articles are not CXR or CT, we designed a deep-learning model to distinguish them from other figure types and to classify them accordingly. The final database includes 1,327 CT and 263 CXR images (as of May 9, 2020) with their relevant text. To deasily in the future. We believe that our work is complementary to existing resources and hope that it will contribute to medical image analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic. The dataset, code, and DL models are publicly available at https//github.com/ncbi-nlp/COVID-19-CT-CXR.We report a case of new onset pain and loss of forearm rotation 3 years after Sauvé-Kapandji (SK) procedure. A revision ulnar osteotomy with application of bone wax restored ROM through 17 months follow-up. A literature review of pseudarthrosis ossification after SK procedure was also performed.Speech enhancement in the time domain is becoming increasingly popular in recent years, due to its capability to jointly enhance both the magnitude and the phase of speech. In this work, we propose a dense convolutional network (DCN) with self-attention for speech enhancement in the time domain. DCN is an encoder and decoder based architecture with skip connections. Each layer in the encoder and the decoder comprises a dense block and an attention module. Dense blocks and attention modules help in feature extraction using a combination of feature reuse, increased network depth, and maximum context aggregation. Furthermore, we reveal previously unknown problems with a loss based on the spectral magnitude of enhanced speech. To alleviate these problems, we propose a novel loss based on magnitudes of enhanced speech and a predicted noise. Even though the proposed loss is based on magnitudes only, a constraint imposed by noise prediction ensures that the loss enhances both magnitude and phase. Experimental results demonstrate that DCN trained with the proposed loss substantially outperforms other state-of-the-art approaches to causal and non-causal speech enhancement.The performance of most speaker diarization systems with x-vector embeddings is both vulnerable to noisy environments and lacks domain robustness. Earlier work on speaker diarization using generative adversarial network (GAN) with an encoder network (ClusterGAN) to project input x-vectors into a latent space has shown promising performance on meeting data. In this paper, we extend the ClusterGAN network to improve diarization robustness and enable rapid generalization across various challenging domains. To this end, we fetch the pre-trained encoder from the ClusterGAN and fine tune it by using prototypical loss (meta-ClusterGAN or MCGAN) under the meta-learning paradigm. Experiments are conducted on CALLHOME telephonic conversations, AMI meeting data, DIHARD-II (dev set) which includes challenging multi-domain corpus, and two child-clinician interaction corpora (ADOS, BOSCC) related to the autism spectrum disorder domain. Extensive analyses of the experimental data are done to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed ClusterGAN and MCGAN embeddings over x-vectors.