Objective: The electronic medical records (EMRs) corpus for cerebral palsy rehabilitation and its application in downstream tasks, such as named entity recognition (NER), requires further revision and testing to enhance its effectiveness and reliability.
Methods: We have devised an annotation principle and have developed an EMRs corpus for cerebral palsy rehabilitation. The introduction of test-retest reliability was employed for the first time to ensure consistency of each annotator.
Background: Simulation-based medical education (SBME) is a widely used method in medical education. This study aims to analyze publications on SBME in terms of countries, institutions, journals, authors, and keyword co-occurrence, as well as to identify trends in SBME research.
Methods: We retrieved the Publications on SBME from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC) database from its inception to January 27, 2024.
The vertical motion configuration is a common design in triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) for energy harvesting; however, the performance optimization and comparison are still vague between various vertical motion-based structures. In this paper, time-averaged power density is defined as a metric to compare the power output performances of vertically structured TENGs, including contact mode and freestanding mode. To ensure comparisons under the same circumstances, a novel sandwich-structured dielectric layer was designed to maintain a stable and consistent surface charge density, with an extra rotating triboelectric nanogenerator working as a charge pump.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The association between intestinal microbiota and lipids has garnered significant scholarly interest. This study analyzes pertinent literature on intestinal microbiota and lipids to offer scientific guidance for future advancements and research directions.
Methods: Articles focusing on intestinal microbiota and lipids were obtained from the Web of Science Core Collection (WoSCC).
Nanomaterials (Basel)
March 2024
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have received significant attention for their potential use in next-generation electronics, particularly in nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing. This is due to their simple metal-insulator-metal (MIM) sandwiched structure, excellent switching performance, high-density capability, and low power consumption. In this work, using comprehensive material simulations and device modeling, the thinnest monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) atomristor is studied by using a MIM configuration with Ta electrodes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: While observational studies link immune cells with post-stroke functional outcome, the underlying immune mechanisms are not well understood. Immune cell surface antigens are actively involved in the biological behavior of immune cells, investigating immune cell surface antigens could deepen our comprehension of their role and biological processes in stroke recovery. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the immunological basis of stroke outcome by exploring the causal relationship between immune cell surface antigens and functional outcome after ischemic stroke in a Mendelian randomization study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study determined the surface electromyography (sEMG) characteristics of healthy Chinese adults during swallowing to provide a reference for the clinical differential diagnosis of swallowing and dysphagia. sEMG was performed on 187 healthy adults to obtain quantitative information on normal pharyngeal swallowing. The evaluated parameters included the timing and amplitude of sEMG activity in the submental and infrahyoid muscles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: This study aims to review the documents on dysphagia, summarize the research direction, analyze the research hot spots and frontiers, report the research trends, and provide new ideas for future development in the field CiteSpace.
Methods: We retrieved articles on dysphagia published between 2012 and 2021 from the Web of Science Core Collection database. We downloaded the entire data and utilized CiteSpace version 5.
Introduction: Post-stroke fatigue (PSF) is an abnormal, persistent, and unexplained physical and psychological tiredness in patients after stroke. It is a common symptom of stroke patients with poor quality of life and bleak prognosis, and the incidence rate is up to 39% to 72%. It has been widely reported that medicine treatments achieved a lot of progress, there still needs to develop more powerful new strategies to more powerful effect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Post-stroke fatigue seriously affects the quality of life for stroke patients. There is no effective treatment at present. transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation which may have therapeutic effect on post-stroke fatigue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObesity is considered an important factor for many chronic diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. The expansion of adipose tissue in obesity is due to an increase in both adipocyte progenitor differentiation and mature adipocyte cell size. Adipocytes, however, are thought to be unable to divide or enter the cell cycle.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury (CIRI) can cause brain tissue inflammation, neuronal degeneration, and apoptosis. There is increasing evidence that microRNAs (miRNA) exert neuroprotective effects by regulating the inflammatory process during cerebral ischemia-reperfusion injury. Additionally, it is increasingly acknowledged that neuroinflammation is regulated by Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To simulate the process of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on patients after decompressive craniectomy (DC), and to model cortical electric field distributions under different electrode montages, we constructed a finite element model that represented the human head at high resolution.
Methods: Using computed tomography images, we constructed a human head model with high geometrical similarity. The removed bone flap was simplified to be circular with a diameter of 12 cm.
J Nanosci Nanotechnol
August 2020
Nanotechnologies have changed this world in various aspects including the oral medicine. It has been demonstrated that silver (Ag) nanomaterials can exhibit strong inhibition and killing effect on oral bacteria. Furthermore, the Ag nanomaterials have superb antimicrobial activity and nonacute toxic effects on human cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Disorders of consciousness (DOC) after traumatic brain injury (TBI) raise the mortality of patients, restrict the rehabilitation of patients with TBI, and increase the physical and economic burden that TBI imposes on patients and their families. Thus, treatment to promote early awakening in DOC after TBI is of vital importance. Various treatments have been reported, but there is no advanced evidence base to support them.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeural Regen Res
December 2016
Paraplegic gait orthosis has been shown to help paraplegic patients stand and walk, although this method cannot be individualized for patients with different spinal cord injuries and functional recovery of the lower extremities. There is, however, a great need to develop individualized paraplegic orthosis to improve overall quality of life for paraplegic patients. In the present study, 36 spinal cord (below T4) injury patients were equally and randomly divided into control and observation groups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough potential neutralization epitopes on the fiber knob of adenovirus (AdV) serotype 2 (Ad2) and Ad5 have been revealed, few studies have been carried out to identify neutralization epitopes on the knob from a broader panel of AdV serotypes. In this study, based on sequence and structural analysis of knobs from Ad1, Ad2, Ad5 and Ad6 (all from species C), several trimeric chimeric knob proteins were expressed in Escherichia coli to identify the locations of neutralization epitopes on the knobs by analysing their reactivity with mouse and rabbit polyclonal sera raised against AdVs and human sera with natural AdV infection. The dominant neutralization epitopes were located mainly in the N-terminal part of knobs from Ad1, Ad2 and Ad5, but they seemed to be located in the C-terminal part of the Ad6 knob, with some individual differences in rabbit and human populations.
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