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Our results reveal that children who developed dyslexia demonstrate decreased 80 Hz ASSRs at the pre-reading stage. This effect is no longer present after the onset of reading instruction, due to an atypical developmental increase in 80 Hz ASSRs between the pre-reading and the beginning reading stage. A forward stepwise logistic regression analysis showed that literacy achievement was predictable with an accuracy of 90.4% based on a model including three significant predictors, i.e., family risk for dyslexia (R = .31), phonological awareness (R = .23), and 80 Hz ASSRs (R = .26). Given that (1) abnormalities in subcortical ASSRs preceded reading acquisition in children who developed dyslexia and (2) subcortical ASSRs contributed to the prediction of literacy achievement, subcortical auditory synchronization deficits may constitute a pre-reading risk factor in the emergence of dyslexia. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.BACKGROUNDS Robot-assisted surgery facilitated the possibility to evaluate the surgeon's skills by recording and evaluating the robot surgical images. The aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of using a computer programme (Kinovea) for objective assessment of surgical movements in previously recorded in existing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) videos. METHODS Twelve entire RARP procedures were analysed by a trained researcher using the computer programme "Kinovea" to perform semi-automated assessment of surgical movements. RESULTS Data analysis showed Kinovea was on average able to automatically assess only 22% of the total surgical duration per video of the robot-assisted surgery. On average, it lasted 4 hours of continued monitoring by the researcher to assess one RARP using Kinovea. CONCLUSION Although we proved it is technically possible to use the Kinovea system in retrospective analysis of surgical movement in robot-assisted surgery, the acquired data do not give a comprehensive enough analysis of the video to be used in skills assessment. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.In this study, we focus on the molecular mechanisms associated with the A57G (Ala57-to-Gly57) mutation in myosin essential light chains (ELCs), found to cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in humans and in mice. Specifically, we studied the effects of A57G on the super-relaxed (SRX) state of myosin that may contribute to the hypercontractile cross-bridge behavior and ultimately lead to pathological cardiac remodeling in transgenic Tg-A57G mice. The disease model was compared to Tg-WT mice, expressing the wild-type human ventricular ELC, and analyzed against Tg-Δ43 mice, expressing the N-terminally truncated ELC, whose hearts hypertrophy with time but do not show any abnormalities in cardiac morphology or function. Our data suggest a new role for the N terminus of cardiac ELC (N-ELC) in modulation of myosin cross-bridge function in the healthy as well as in HCM myocardium. LY2874455 supplier The lack of N-ELC in Tg-Δ43 mice was found to significantly stabilize the SRX state of myosin and increase the number of myosin heads occupying a low-energy state. In agreement, Δ43 hearts showed significantly decreased ATP utilization and low actin-activated myosin ATPase compared with A57G and WT hearts. The hypercontractile activity of A57G-ELC cross-bridges was manifested by the inhibition of the SRX state, increased number of myosin heads available for interaction with actin, and higher ATPase activity. Fiber mechanics studies, echocardiography examination, and assessment of fibrosis confirmed the development of two distinct forms of cardiac remodeling in these two ELC mouse models, with pathological cardiac hypertrophy in Tg-A57G, and near physiologic cardiac growth in Tg-Δ43 animals. © 2020 Federation of European Biochemical Societies.OBJECTIVE To discern and quantify the TB diagnostic cascade among patients registered under the Revised National TB Control Programme, Chennai city, Tamil Nadu, South India. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in metropolitan Chennai from February 2017 to March 2018. We interviewed TB patients retrospectively on their diagnostic attempt in different health facilities. RESULTS Of 455 TB patients, only 4.4% received their diagnosis at their first health facility. Of 1250 visits to health facilities, the vast majority (79.4 vs. 20.6%) was in the public rather than the private sector. 56% of patients went to a public facility as the first point of care, of whom 1.6% shifted to private facilities subsequently. The remaining 54.4% shifted between up to five government health facilities. Male patients and those with a higher family income were more likely to shift from private to public. CONCLUSION Most shifts between diagnostic facilities occurred in the public sector. This necessitates interventions at public health facilities for strengthening and extending services to TB patients at their first point of care. © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.Parametric response mapping (PRM) is a novel computed tomography (CT) technology that has shown potential for assessment of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HCT). The primary aim of this study was to evaluate whether variations in image acquisition under real-world conditions affect the PRM measurements of clinically diagnosed BOS. CT scans were obtained retrospectively from 72 HCT recipients with BOS and graft-versus-host disease from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Karolinska Institute, and the University of Michigan. Whole lung volumetric scans were performed at inspiration and expiration using site-specific acquisition and reconstruction protocols. PRM and pulmonary function measurements were assessed. Patients with moderately severe BOS at diagnosis (median forced expiratory volume at 1 second [FEV1] 53.5% predicted) had similar characteristics between sites. Variations in site-specific CT acquisition protocols had a negligible effect on the PRM-derived small airways disease (SAD), that is, BOS measurements. PRM-derived SAD was found to correlate with FEV1% predicted and FEV1/ forced vital capacity (R = -0.236, P = .046; and R = -0.689, P  less then  .0001, respectively), which suggests that elevated levels in the PRM measurements are primarily affected by BOS airflow obstruction and not CT scan acquisition parameters. Based on these results, PRM may be applied broadly for post-HCT diagnosis and monitoring of BOS. © 2020 The American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons.