Using AI and BES/MFC to decrease the prediction time of BOD measurement.

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) is one of the most important water/wastewater quality parameters. BOD is the amount of oxygen consumed in 5 days by microorganisms that oxidize biodegradable organic materials in an aerobic biochemical manner. The primary objective of this research is to apply microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to reduce the time requirement of BOD measurements.

Passive Microwave Radiometry and microRNA Detection for Breast Cancer Diagnostics.

Breast cancer prevention is an important health issue for women worldwide. In this study, we compared the conventional breast cancer screening exams of mammography and ultrasound with the novel approaches of passive microwave radiometry (MWR) and microRNA (miRNA) analysis. While mammography screening dynamics could be completed in 3-6 months, MWR provided a prediction in a matter of weeks or even days.

Dynamic Weight Agnostic Neural Networks and Medical Microwave Radiometry (MWR) for Breast Cancer Diagnostics.

Background And Objective: Medical microwave radiometry (MWR) is used to capture the thermal properties of internal tissues and has usages in breast cancer detection. Our goal in this paper is to improve classification performance and investigate automated neural architecture search methods.

Methods: We investigated extending the weight agnostic neural network by optimizing the weights using the bi-population covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy (BIPOP-CMA-ES) once the topology was found.

Passive Microwave Radiometry for the Diagnosis of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Lung Complications in Kyrgyzstan.

The global spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), could be due to limited access to diagnostic tests and equipment. Currently, most diagnoses use the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and chest computed tomography (CT). However, challenges exist with CT use due to infection control, lack of CT availability in low- and middle-income countries, and low RT-PCR sensitivity.

Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors and the kidney: Focus on ibrutinib.

Introduction: Tumor lysis syndrome is an oncologic emergency resulting from rapid and massive tumor cell death that may lead to serious clinical complications including acute kidney injury and cardiac arrest. Tumor lysis syndrome most often occurs after the initiation of cytotoxic therapy in patients with high-grade lymphomas and acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Case Report: We present a first case of patient with chemotherapy-resistant chronic lymphocytic leukemia and small lymphocytic lymphoma who developed tumor lysis syndrome upon treatment with ibrutinib (Imbruvica), a novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

Diversity and evolution of anuran trypanosomes: insights from the study of European species.

Background: Amphibian trypanosomes were the first ever described trypanosomatids. Nevertheless, their taxonomy remains entangled because of pleomorphism and high prevalence of mixed infections. Despite the fact that the first species in this group were described in Europe, virtually none of the trypanosomes from European anurans was analyzed using modern molecular methods.

High prevalence of trypanosome co-infections in freshwater fishes.

One thousand three hundred seventy three fish specimens of eight different species from the vicinity of Kyiv, Ukraine, were examined for the presence of trypanosomes and 921 individuals were found to be infected. The prevalence of infection ranged from 24% in freshwater bream, Abramis brama (Linnaeus), to 100% in spined loach, Cobitis 'taenia' Linnaeus. The level of parasitaemia also varied significantly between generally mild infections in pikeperch, Sander lucioperca (Linnaeus), and heavy ones in C.

Host specificity, pathogenicity, and mixed infections of trypanoplasms from freshwater fishes.

This work summarizes the results of the 8-year study focused on Trypanoplasma sp. parasitizing freshwater fishes in the vicinity of Kyiv, Ukraine. Out of 570 fish specimens of 2 different species analyzed, 440 individuals were found to be infected.