A decision tree model for traffic accident prediction among food delivery riders in Thailand.

Objectives: Food delivery riders (FDRs) play a crucial role in the food delivery industry but face considerable challenges, including a rising number of traffic accidents. This study aimed to examine the incidence of traffic accidents and develop a decision tree model to predict the likelihood of traffic accidents among FDRs.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted with 257 FDRs in Chiang Mai and Lampang Province, Thailand.

Asymmetrical lineage introgression and recombination in populations of Aspergillus flavus: Implications for biological control.

Aspergillus flavus is an agriculturally important fungus that causes ear rot of maize and produces aflatoxins, of which B1 is the most carcinogenic naturally-produced compound. In the US, the management of aflatoxins includes the deployment of biological control agents that comprise two nonaflatoxigenic A. flavus strains, either Afla-Guard (member of lineage IB) or AF36 (lineage IC).

Using Body Ownership to Modulate the Motor System in Stroke Patients.

Recent findings suggest that body ownership can activate the motor system in the absence of movement execution. Here, we investigated whether such a process promotes motor recovery in stroke patients. A group of patients with left-hemisphere damage ( = 12) and chronic motor deficits completed an immersive virtual reality training (three sessions of 15 min each week for 11 weeks).

Conversational Therapy through Semi-Immersive Virtual Reality Environments for Language Recovery and Psychological Well-Being in Post Stroke Aphasia.

Aphasia is a highly disabling acquired language disorder generally caused by a left-lateralized brain damage. Even if traditional therapies have been shown to induce an adequate clinical improvement, a large percentage of patients are left with some degree of language impairments. Therefore, new approaches to common speech therapies are urgently needed in order to maximize the recovery from aphasia.

Voltage-gated proton channels exist in the plasma membrane of human oocytes.

Study Question: Do human oocytes express voltage-gated proton channels?

Summary Answer: Human oocytes exhibit voltage-gated proton currents.

What Is Known Already: Voltage-gated proton currents have been reported in human sperm, where they contribute to capacitation and motility. No such studies of human oocytes exist.