Skin manifestations and related clinical characteristics of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: A descriptive retrospective cohort study at Texas Children's Hospital.

Background: Little is known about the dermatologic manifestations of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) in children and adolescents.

Objective: We sought to describe the demographic background, key clinical features, and the clinical consequences of developing rash manifestations in MIS-C patients at Texas Children's Hospital.

Methods: Descriptive retrospective cohort study of 290 hospitalized eligible patients between May 2020 and April 2022.

A muscle synergies-based controller to drive a powered upper-limb exoskeleton in reaching tasks.

This work introduces a real-time intention decoding algorithm grounded in muscle synergies (Syn-ID). The algorithm detects the electromyographic (EMG) onset and infers the direction of the movement during reaching tasks to control a powered shoulder-elbow exoskeleton. Features related to muscle synergies are used in a Gaussian Mixture Model and probability accumulation-based logic to infer the user's movement direction.

Segmented readout for Cherenkov time-of-flight positron emission tomography detectors based on bismuth germanate.

Positron emission tomography (PET) is the most sensitive biomedical imaging modality for non-invasively detecting and visualizing positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals within a subject. In PET, measuring the time-of-flight (TOF) information for each pair of 511-keV annihilation photons improves effective sensitivity but requires high timing resolution. Hybrid materials that emit both scintillation and Cherenkov photons, such as bismuth germanate (BGO), recently offer the potential for more precise timing information from Cherenkov photons while maintaining adequate energy resolution from scintillation photons.

Yeasts, arthropods, and environmental matrix: a triad to disentangle the multi-level definition of biodiversity.

Our understanding of the spread of yeasts in natural ecosystems remains somewhat limited. The recent momentum of yeast ecology research has unveiled novel habitats and vectors that, alongside human activities, impact yeast communities in their natural environments. Yeasts, as non-airborne microorganisms, rely on animal vectors, predominantly insects.

Decoding the inflammatory signature of the major depressive episode: insights from peripheral immunophenotyping in active and remitted condition, a case-control study.

Depression is a prevalent and incapacitating condition with a significant impact on global morbidity and mortality. Although the immune system's role in its pathogenesis is increasingly recognized, there is a lack of comprehensive understanding regarding the involvement of innate and adaptive immune cells. To address this gap, we conducted a multicenter case-control study involving 121 participants matched for sex and age.