Robust diabetic prediction using ensemble machine learning models with synthetic minority over-sampling technique.

This paper addresses the pressing issue of diabetes, which is a widespread condition affecting a huge population worldwide. As cells become less responsive to insulin or fail to produce it adequately, blood sugar levels rise. This has the potential to cause severe health complications including kidney disease, vision impairment and heart conditions.

A Pleiotropic Nanomedicine Mitigates Splenic Hyperplasia, Ineffective Erythropoiesis, G6PDH Anomaly through Redox Buffering in Preclinical Mice Model.

Here, we present a pleiotropic nanomedicine-a smart, functionalized redox buffering nanoparticle-that may be used to treat hematological diseases, associated splenic hyperplasia, and issues related to restricted erythropoiesis. With a diameter of 5-7 nm, the spherical nanomaterial is made of manganese oxide and citrate. Here, we have produced the novel nanomaterial and, using cutting-edge electron microscopic and spectroscopic techniques, extensively assessed its redox buffering potential in vitro with its structural integrity.

Pneumonia detection on chest X-rays from Xception-based transfer learning and logistic regression.

Pneumonia is a dangerous disease that kills millions of children and elderly patients worldwide every year. The detection of pneumonia from a chest x-ray is perpetrated by expert radiologists. The chest x-ray is cheaper and is most often used to diagnose pneumonia.

Deubiquitinase JOSD1 tempers hepatic proteotoxicity.

Derangements in protein homeostasis and associated proteotoxicity mark acute, chronic, and drug-induced hepatocellular injury. Metabolic dysfunction-associated proteasomal inhibition and the use of proteasome inhibitors often underlie such pathological hepatic proteotoxicity. In this study, we sought to identify a candidate deubiquitinating enzyme (DUB) responsible for reversing the proteotoxic damage.

Adipose tissue-derived adipsin marks human aging in non-type 2 diabetes population.

Introduction: Adipsin or complement factor D is an adipokine that augments insulin secretion, is altered in various degrees of obesity, and is involved in alternative complement pathway. However, whether adipsin has any independent association with risk factors and biomarkers in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) remains elusive.

Research Design And Methods: We performed an oral glucose tolerance test on a subset of 43 patients with T2D from the community health cohort to access the role of adipsin in insulin secretion.

Corrigendum: Genomic surveillance and phylodynamic analyses reveal the emergence of novel mutations and co-mutation patterns within SARS-CoV-2 variants prevalent in India.

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Unifying aspect-based sentiment analysis BERT and multi-layered graph convolutional networks for comprehensive sentiment dissection.

Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA) represents a fine-grained approach to sentiment analysis, aiming to pinpoint and evaluate sentiments associated with specific aspects within a text. ABSA encompasses a set of sub-tasks that together facilitate a detailed understanding of the multifaceted sentiment expressions. These tasks include aspect and opinion terms extraction (ATE and OTE), classification of sentiment at the aspect level (ALSC), the coupling of aspect and opinion terms extraction (AOE and AOPE), and the challenging integration of these elements into sentiment triplets (ASTE).

Robust diagnosis and meta visualizations of plant diseases through deep neural architecture with explainable AI.

Deep learning has emerged as a highly effective and precise method for classifying images. The presence of plant diseases poses a significant threat to food security. However, accurately identifying these diseases in plants is challenging due to limited infrastructure and techniques.

Structure-Activity Relationship Study of Biselyngbyolide B Reveals Mitochondrial Fission-Induced Cytotoxicity in Cancer.

A systematic structure-activity relationship study of the potent anticancer marine macrolide biselyngbyolide B has been accomplished. A total of 11 structural variants of the parent natural product, of which 2 are natural analogues, have been studied against a human colorectal carcinoma cell line. The requisite functional units of the parent molecule responsible for the cytotoxic activities have been disclosed.

Recombination dynamics and manybody effect of excitons in large-area monolayer MoScapped with (111) NiO epitaxial layer.

CVD grown monolayer MoSfilms on c-sapphire substrates are vacuum annealed and capped with (111) NiO epitaxial films using pulsed laser deposition technique. Time, energy and polarization resolved optical techniques are used to understand the effect of capping on the excitonic properties of the monolayer MoS. It has been observed that trion contribution in the photoluminescence (PL) spectra increases after the capping, suggesting an enhancement of electron concentration in the conduction band.

Photoperiod manipulation improves growth performance, haematological indices and economic returns of Indian butter catfish, Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794).

Photoperiod manipulation is emerging as an effective approach for regulating physiological functions in fish. This study aimed to assess the impact of photoperiod on the growth performance, haematological responses, and economic returns of the endangered and highly valued Indian butter catfish, Ompok bimaculatus. Fish with an average body weight of 28.

Predicting Alzheimer's Disease Progression Using a Versatile Sequence-Length-Adaptive Encoder-Decoder LSTM Architecture.

Detecting Alzheimer's disease (AD) accurately at an early stage is critical for planning and implementing disease-modifying treatments that can help prevent the progression to severe stages of the disease. In the existing literature, diagnostic test scores and clinical status have been provided for specific time points, and predicting the disease progression poses a significant challenge. However, few studies focus on longitudinal data to build deep-learning models for AD detection.

Data analytics and modelling in context to determination of moisture susceptibility of reclaimed asphalt foamed bituminous mix.

The presence of water badly affects the moisture susceptibility of the reclaimed asphalt Foamed Bituminous Mix (FBM). The present study is mainly emphasized to assess the moisture susceptibility of reclaimed asphalt FBM, Where RAP is being incorporated as a replacement of fresh aggregates. Moisture susceptibility of the mix is evaluated in terms of tensile strength ratio (TSR) and resilient modulus ratio, subjected to different conditioning procedures namely AASHTO T283, modified IDOT, TG-2 guidelines, and MIST.

Overwintering site selection and associated microclimates for the redbanded stink bug (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae), a non-native pest of soybean.

Cold winter temperatures govern the distribution and abundance of many insect species, but refugia that provide microclimates can moderate temperature-driven mortality. Winter temperatures have been implicated in limiting the survival and range of Piezodorus guildinii (Westwood) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae; redbanded stink bug), an economically damaging invasive pest in the southeastern United States, but the role of refugia in overwintering survival of this pest is poorly understood. We conducted 2 studies in successive years to evaluate how leaf litter from hardwoods, pines, and soybeans modulate overwintering site selection and survival of P.

Germination and probiotic fermentation: a way to enhance nutritional and biochemical properties of cereals and millets.

Probiotics have become increasingly popular as consumers demand balanced nutrition and health benefits from their diet. However, lactose intolerance and allergies to milk proteins may make dairy-based probiotics unsuitable for some individuals. Thus, probiotics derived from cereals and millets have shown promise as an alternative to dairy probiotics.

Residual LSTM-based short duration forecasting of polarization current for effective assessment of transformers insulation.

The empirical application of polarization and depolarization current (PDC) measurement of transformers facilitates the extraction of critical insulation-sensitive parameters. This technique, rooted in time-domain dielectric response analysis, forms the bedrock for parameterization and insulation modeling. However, the inherently time-consuming nature of polarization current measurements renders them susceptible to data corruption.

Cost-effectiveness analysis of emicizumab prophylaxis in patients with haemophilia A in India.

Introduction: Emicizumab is the initial subcutaneously administered bispecific antibody approved as a prophylactic treatment for patients with haemophilia A (PwHA).

Aim: This study assessed the economic evaluation of emicizumab treatment for non-inhibitor severe haemophilia A (HA) patients in India.

Methods: A Markov model evaluated the cost-effectiveness of emicizumab prophylaxis compared to on-demand therapy (ODT), low-dose prophylaxis (LDP; 1565 IU/kg/year), intermediate-dose prophylaxis (IDP; 3915 IU/kg/year) and high-dose prophylaxis (HDP; 7125 IU/kg/year) for HA patients without factor VIII inhibitors.

Early diagnosis and meta-agnostic model visualization of tuberculosis based on radiography images.

Despite being treatable and preventable, tuberculosis (TB) affected one-fourth of the world population in 2019, and it took the lives of 1.4 million people in 2019. It affected 1.

Discovery and Development of Quinazolinones and Quinazolinediones for Ameliorating Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) by Modulating COP1-ATGL Axis.

E3 ubiquitin ligase, Constitutive Photomorphogenic 1 (COP1) regulates turnover of Adipose Triglyceride Lipase (ATGL), the rate-limiting lipolytic enzyme. Genetic perturbation in the COP1-ATGL axis disrupts lipid homeostasis, leading to liver steatosis. Using drug development strategies, we herein report quinazolinone and quinazolinedione based modulators for COP1-ATGL axis.

Accurate Prediction of Alzheimer's Disease Progression Trajectory via a Novel Encoder-Decoder LSTM Architecture.

With an increase in life expectancy, there has been an increase in the aged population globally, and around 10% of this population suffers from Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's hugely impacts the quality of life and well-being of older adults and their caregivers. Thus, it is an emerging challenge to improve the early diagnosis and prognosis of the disease.

Effect of photoperiod on serum biochemistry, electrolytic balance, acute phase response and histopathology of butter catfish, Ompok bimaculatus (Bloch, 1794).

The present study was executed to evaluate the effect of photoperiod on serum biochemical parameters (glucose, cortisol, ALT, AST and LDH), electrolytic balance (Sodium and potassium), acute phase response (CRP) and histopathology (liver, kidney and skin) of an endangered high valued catfish, Ompok bimaculatus. Catfish (21.00 ± 1.