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We preliminarily summarized and discussed the basic theory and method system of the research on carrying capacity of regional resources and environment. Furthermore, we advocated to develop the cascade relations of "carrying capacity of biological population development-carrying capacity of environmental stress in ecosystems-natural resources supply carrying capacity-natural environment carrying capacity-carrying capacity of social and economic development". Finerenone antagonist Moreover, the calculation method and conceptual model of multi-dimensional resource and environmental carrying capacity were put forward under each concept framework. This study provided new ideas for the research on the method of resources and environment carrying capacity.The carrying capacity of resources and environment is an essential concept in ecology, the theoretical and practical research of which has become an important basis for measuring regional sustainable development. However, the scientific connection between the ecological foundation and the carrying capacity of resources and environment is still unclear. Moreover, it remains unknown which ecological theories played a supporting role in the development of the resources and environment carrying capacity, which makes the scientific concept of carrying capacity very vague. Based on the discussion of the scientific concepts and development of the carrying capacity of resources and environmen, we systematically discussed the basic concepts, such as the niche volume that organisms can occupy, the ecological threshold of ecosystems to withstand environmental stress, the potential resource capacity (supply capacity) of sustainable supply such as climate, water and nutrition, and the environmental capacity of buffering ation, protection and social and economic sustainable development.
Data on the prevalence of chronic pulmonary aspergillosis (CPA) in patients with active or cured tuberculosis (TB) are scarce, mainly due to diagnostic difficulties. The diagnosis of CPA is based on pulmonary symptoms and chest computed tomography (CT) scans and is considered confirmed when there is microbiological or serological evidence of Aspergillus spp.
To estimate the prevalence of CPA in patients treated or undergoing treatment for PTB, seen in two referral hospitals in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
A total of 193 consecutive patients who were treated or previously treated for pulmonary tuberculosis underwent prospective evaluation (a) clinical evaluation; (b) chest CT scan; (c) sputum examination-culture for fungi and smears for direct mycology; (d) detection of anti-Aspergillus fumigatus antibodies using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay Platelia® test; and (e) anti-Aspergillus spp. antibodies were assessed via a DID test.
The global prevalence of CPA was 10.9% (95% confidence interval, 7.2%-16.1%), but it increased with the time of TB diagnosis. The variables independently associated with CPA were previous pulmonary tuberculosis over 4 years ago and haemoptysis. Cavities, pleural thickening and the presence of a fungal ball were the most frequent tomographic findings in patients with CPA.
The high prevalence observed and its increase over time suggest the need for continuous surveillance of CPA in patients with active or previous pulmonary tuberculosis and throughout life, with clinical, tomographic and serological evaluations (ELISA) for a timely diagnosis and a better prognosis.
The high prevalence observed and its increase over time suggest the need for continuous surveillance of CPA in patients with active or previous pulmonary tuberculosis and throughout life, with clinical, tomographic and serological evaluations (ELISA) for a timely diagnosis and a better prognosis.
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC) has a high degree of sensitivity and specificity for the diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) and this has led to its being included in revised European CJD Surveillance Network diagnostic criteria for sCJD. As CSF RT-QuIC becomes more widely established, it is crucial that the analytical performance of individual laboratories is consistent. The aim of this ring-trial was to ascertain the degree of concordance between European countries undertaking CSF RT-QuIC.
Ten identical CSF samples, seven from probable or neuropathologically confirmed sCJD and three from non-CJD cases, were sent to 13 laboratories from 11 countries for RT-QuIC analysis. A range of instrumentation and different recombinant prion protein substrates were used. Each laboratory analysed the CSF samples blinded to the diagnosis and reported the results as positive or negative.
All 13 laboratories correctly identified five of the seven sCJD cases and the remaining two sCJD cases were identified by 92% of laboratories. Of the two sCJD cases that were not identified by all laboratories, one had a disease duration >26 months with a negative 14-3-3, whilst the remaining case had a 4-month disease duration and a positive 14-3-3. A single false positive CSF RT-QuIC result was observed in this study.
This study shows that CSF RT-QuIC demonstrates an excellent concordance between centres, even when using a variety of instrumentation, recombinant prion protein substrates and CSF volumes. The adoption of CSF RT-QuIC by all CJD surveillance centres is recommended.
This study shows that CSF RT-QuIC demonstrates an excellent concordance between centres, even when using a variety of instrumentation, recombinant prion protein substrates and CSF volumes. The adoption of CSF RT-QuIC by all CJD surveillance centres is recommended.
Social cognition (SC) deficits are included in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)-frontotemporal spectrum disorder revised diagnostic criteria. However, SC performance among ALS patients is heterogeneous due to the phenotypic variability of the disease and the wide range of neuropsychological tools employed. The aim of the present study was to assess facial emotion recognition and theory of mind in ALS patients compared to controls and to evaluate correlations with the other cognitive domains and degree of motor impairment.
Eighty-three patients and 42 controls underwent a cognitive evaluation and SC assessment through the Ekman 60 Faces Test (EK-60F), the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test-36 Faces (RMET-36), and the Story-Based Empathy Task (SET).
ALS patients showed significantly worse performance compared to controls in EK-60F global score (p< 0.001),recognition of disgust (p = 0.032), anger (p = 0.038), fear (p< 0.001), and sadness (p< 0.001); RMET-36 (p< 0.001), and SET influence on patients' quality of life.Brain abscess is a focal area of necrosis, which may occur after neurosurgical procedures. Transcranial color-coded duplex sonography (TCCS) is a valuable tool of monitoring in the intensive care unit (ICU), providing information in B-mode, color and pulsed wave Doppler mode. We describe the case of a critically ill patient with brain abscess diagnosed by TCCS.
In recent years, a large number of biological experiments have strongly shown that miRNAs play an important role in understanding disease pathogenesis. The discovery of miRNA-disease associations is beneficial for disease diagnosis and treatment. Since inferring these associations through biological experiments is time-consuming and expensive, researchers have sought to identify the associations utilizing computational approaches. Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), which exhibit excellent performance in link prediction problems, have been successfully used in miRNA-disease association prediction. However, GCNs only consider 1st-order neighborhood information at one layer but fail to capture information from high-order neighbors to learn miRNA and disease representations through information propagation. Therefore, how to aggregate information from high-order neighborhood effectively in an explicit way is still challenging.
To address such a challenge, we propose a novel method called mixed neighborhood i of MINIMDA.
https//github.com/chengxu123/MINIMDA and http//120.79.173.96/.
https//github.com/chengxu123/MINIMDA and http//120.79.173.96/.
To determine the long-term fetal cardiac effects of the SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnant women recovered from moderate COVID-19 with fetal echocardiography (ECHO).
Forty-five pregnant women that recovered from moderate COVID-19 (CRG) 4 weeks after the infection confirmation, were compared with 45 gestational and maternal age-matched control groups (CG) in terms of demographic features fetal cardiac morphological (sphericity index, cardiothoracic ratio), and functional (myocardial performance index, mitral E/A, tricuspid E/A, mitral and tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion) parameters.
There was no difference in demographic features between the groups. Fetal cardiac morphologic parameters were found to be similar between the two groups. When the fetal cardiac functional assessment of the two groups was compared, only mitral E/A ratio results were found to be statistically significantly lower in the CRG than in the control group (p=0.030).
The fetal heart does not seem to be negatively affected by COVID-19 after recovery from moderate infection. These results about the fetal effect of SARS-CoV-2 may improve our limited knowledge of the utility of fetal ECHO in pregnant women who recovered from COVID-19.
The fetal heart does not seem to be negatively affected by COVID-19 after recovery from moderate infection. These results about the fetal effect of SARS-CoV-2 may improve our limited knowledge of the utility of fetal ECHO in pregnant women who recovered from COVID-19.Clustering analysis is widely used in single-cell ribonucleic acid (RNA)-sequencing (scRNA-seq) data to discover cell heterogeneity and cell states. While many clustering methods have been developed for scRNA-seq analysis, most of these methods require to provide the number of clusters. However, it is not easy to know the exact number of cell types in advance, and experienced determination is not always reliable. Here, we have developed ADClust, an automatic deep embedding clustering method for scRNA-seq data, which can accurately cluster cells without requiring a predefined number of clusters. Specifically, ADClust first obtains low-dimensional representation through pre-trained autoencoder and uses the representations to cluster cells into initial micro-clusters. The clusters are then compared in between by a statistical test, and similar micro-clusters are merged into larger clusters. According to the clustering, cell representations are updated so that each cell will be pulled toward centers of its assigned cluster and similar clusters, while cells are separated to keep distances between clusters. This is accomplished through jointly optimizing the carefully designed clustering and autoencoder loss functions. This merging process continues until convergence. ADClust was tested on 11 real scRNA-seq datasets and was shown to outperform existing methods in terms of both clustering performance and the accuracy on the number of the determined clusters. More importantly, our model provides high speed and scalability for large datasets.
