PFC/M1 activation and excitability: a longitudinal cohort study on fatigue symptoms in healthcare workers post-COVID-19.

Background: Fatigue is one of the most common neurological symptoms reported post coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. In order to establish effective early intervention strategies, more emphasis should be placed on the correlation between fatigue and cortical neurophysiological changes, especially in healthcare workers, who are at a heightened risk of COVID-19 infection.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted involving 29 COVID-19 medical workers and 24 healthy controls.

Correlation of bilateral M1 hand area excitability and overall functional recovery after spinal cord injury: protocol for a prospective cohort study.

Background: After spinal cord injury (SCI), a large number of survivors suffer from severe motor dysfunction (MD). Although the injury site is in the spinal cord, excitability significantly decreases in the primary motor cortex (M1), especially in the lower extremity (LE) area. Unfortunately, M1 LE area-targeted repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) has not achieved significant motor improvement in individuals with SCI.

Primary motor hand area corticospinal excitability indicates overall functional recovery after spinal cord injury.

Background: After spinal cord injury (SCI), the excitability of the primary motor cortex (M1) lower extremity area decreases or disappears. A recent study reported that the M1 hand area of the SCI patient encodes the activity information of both the upper and lower extremities. However, the characteristics of the M1 hand area corticospinal excitability (CSE) changes after SCI and its correlation with extremities motor function are still unknown.

Modified posterior fibular groove deepening procedure with repair of the superior peroneal retinaculum for peroneal tendon subluxation.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical results of modified peroneal sulcus deepening combined with superior peroneal retinaculum repair in peroneal tendon subluxation treatment.

Methods: From 2016 to 2020, 18 patients with peroneal tendon subluxation were diagnosed and treated; all patients underwent modified peroneal sulcus deepening combined with superior peroneal retinaculum repair. The visual analogue scale (VAS) score, American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society ankle-hindfoot (AOFAS-AH) score, and subjective patient satisfaction were evaluated before surgery and during follow-up.

Suppression of Gene Juvenile Hormone Diol Kinase Delays Pupation in Moore.

Juvenile hormone diol kinase (JHDK) is a critical enzyme involved in juvenile hormone degradation in insects. In this study, in the Moore (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) transcriptional library was cloned. Stage-specific expression patterns of , , and as well as juvenile hormone titers were determined.

Chitin deacetylase 1 and 2 are indispensable for larval-pupal and pupal-adult molts in Heortia vitessoides (Lepidoptera: Crambidae).

Heortia vitessoides Moore is a notorious defoliator of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg trees. Chitin deacetylases (CDAs) catalyze the N-deacetylation of chitin, which is a crucial process for chitin modification.

Identification and characterization of the catalase gene involved in resistance to thermal stress in Heortia vitessoides using RNA interference.

To elucidate the role of catalase (CAT) in Heortia vitessoides Moore, which is one of the most destructive defoliating pests in Aquilaria sinensis (Loureiro) Sprenger forests, a CAT gene (HvCAT) was identified in the transcriptome of adult H. vitessoides. Sequence analyses indicated that HvCAT encodes a protein containing 507 amino acids, including a proximal active site sequence (FXRERIPERVVHAKGXGA), heme-ligand sequence (RLFSYNDTX), heme-binding residues (H73, S112, N146, F151, F159, R352, and Y356), and NADPH-binding residues (P149, H192, Y196, G199, R201, N211, H233, K235, I300, W301, P302, H303, Q442, and L445).

Candidate olfactory genes identified in Heortia vitessoides (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) by antennal transcriptome analysis.

Heortia vitessoides Moore is the most severe defoliating pest of Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Gilg (Thymelaeaceae) forests. Olfaction in insects is essential for host identification, mating, and oviposition, in which olfactory proteins, including odorant-binding proteins (OBPs), chemosensory proteins (CSPs), olfactory receptors (ORs), ionotropic receptors (IRs), and sensory neuron membrane proteins (SNMPs), are responsible for chemical signaling.

Comparative study on serum levels of macro and trace elements in schizophrenia based on supervised learning methods.

The etiology and pathophysiology of schizophrenia (SCZ) remain obscure. This study explored the associations between SCZ risk and serum levels of 39 macro and trace elements (MTE). A 1:1 matched case-control study was conducted among 114 schizophrenia patients and 114 healthy controls matched by age, sex and region.

Characterization of the deoxyuridine triphosphatase gene of Ophiusa disjungens nucleopolyhedrovirus.

Unlabelled: Ophiusa disjungens is one of the main insect pests that attack Myrtaceae species. Nucleopolyhedroviruses (NPVs) of the Baculoviridae family have been used for decades as biological pesticides to control insect pests. A new NPV, named Ophiusa disjungens nucleopolyhedrovirus (OpdiNPV), was recently isolated from OpdiNPV-infected O.

Riemannian manifold learning.

Recently, manifold learning has been widely exploited in pattern recognition, data analysis, and machine learning. This paper presents a novel framework, called Riemannian manifold learning (RML), based on the assumption that the input high-dimensional data lie on an intrinsically low-dimensional Riemannian manifold. The main idea is to formulate the dimensionality reduction problem as a classical problem in Riemannian geometry, i.

Compound image compression for real-time computer screen image transmission.

We present a compound image compression algorithm for real-time applications of computer screen image transmission. It is called shape primitive extraction and coding (SPEC). Real-time image transmission requires that the compression algorithm should not only achieve high compression ratio, but also have low complexity and provide excellent visual quality.