Modality Perception Learning-Based Determinative Factor Discovery for Multimodal Fake News Detection.

The dissemination of fake news, often fueled by exaggeration, distortion, or misleading statements, significantly jeopardizes public safety and shapes social opinion. Although existing multimodal fake news detection methods focus on multimodal consistency, they occasionally neglect modal heterogeneity, missing the opportunity to unearth the most related determinative information concealed within fake news articles. To address this limitation and extract more decisive information, this article proposes the modality perception learning-based determinative factor discovery (MoPeD) model.

Effect of artemisinin-piperaquine treatment on the electrocardiogram of malaria patients.

Introduction: Concern regarding the cardiotoxicity of antimalarials has been renewed because of their potential to cause QT/QTc interval prolongation related to torsade de pointes (TdP). Artemisinin-piperaquine (AP) is considered an effective artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for malaria.

Methods: This study involved a retrospective analysis of clinical data of 93 hospitalized malaria patients who had received AP orally.

Temporal changes in genetic diversity of msp-1, msp-2, and msp-3 in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from Grande Comore Island after introduction of ACT.

Background: Malaria is still one of the serious public health problems in Grande Comore Island, although the number of annual cases has been greatly reduced in recent years. A better understanding of malaria parasite population diversity and transmission dynamics is critical for assessing the effectiveness of malaria control measures. The objective of this study is to investigate temporal changes in genetic diversity of Plasmodium falciparum populations and multiplicity of infection (MOI) in Grande Comore 10 years after introduction of ACT.