Factors associated with seizure response in adults with epilepsy on a modified Atkins diet.

Purpose: This study investigated factors associated with improved seizure control in adults with epilepsy following a modified Atkins diet (MAD).

Methods: Follow-up data collected from participants enrolled in a prospective study between March 2016 and November 2023 was analyzed. Demographic and clinical differences between diet responders and non-responders were evaluated.

Removing Artifacts in Transcranial Photoacoustic Imaging With Polarized Self-Attention Dense-UNet.

Objective: Photoacoustic imaging (PAI) is a promising transcranial imaging technique. However, the distortion of photoacoustic signals induced by the skull significantly influences its imaging quality. We aimed to use deep learning for removing artifacts in PAI.

Photocatalytic hydrogel film assisted forward osmosis (PFO) for water treatment: Sustainable performance and contaminant control.

The integration of catalytic oxidation with forward osmosis (FO) holds promising potential to address two crucial challenges encountered by FO: fouling and unsustainable performance, but suitable approaches are still rare. Herein, we have successfully developed a photocatalysis-assisted forward osmosis (PFO) system. In the PFO, a self-made porous carbon nitride doped functional carbon nanotube photocatalytic hydrogel film (PCN@CNTM) was engaged in the FO process in an inventive way by simply sticking to the commercial FO membrane surface, preventing damage to the membrane from the catalyst's direct insertion and delaying the assault from the oxidation groups.

Association of Sodium and Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Intake With Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Adolescents and Young Adults With Obesity.

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in children have increased in prevalence. Dietary intake may modify risk. Data collected during a randomized trial testing the effect of a behavioral intervention on adiposity, blood pressure (BP), and left ventricular mass index (LVMI) were analyzed using multivariable regression to determine independent associations of sodium, sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB), and artificially sweetened beverage (ASB) intake with outcomes.

The collaborative incentive effect in adsorption-photocatalysis: A special perspective on phosphorus recovery and reuse.

Achieving efficient recovery and direct utilization of phosphorus as one of the important components of the green economy is a huge challenge. Herein, we innovatively constructed a coupling adsorption-photocatalytic (CAP) process using synthetic dual-functional Mg-modified carbon nitride (CN-MgO). The CAP could utilize the recovered phosphorus from wastewater to promote the in-situ degradation of refractory organic pollutants via CN-MgO, where its phosphorus adsorption capacity and photocatalytic activity were significantly and synergistically increased.

The molecular mechanisms of ferroptosis and its role in glioma progression and treatment.

Ferroptosis is one of the programmed modes of cell death that has attracted widespread attention recently and is capable of influencing the developmental course and prognosis of many tumors. Glioma is one of the most common primary tumors of the central nervous system, but effective treatment options are very limited. Ferroptosis plays a critical role in the glioma progression, affecting tumor cell proliferation, angiogenesis, tumor necrosis, and shaping the immune-resistant tumor microenvironment.

Artifact removal in photoacoustic tomography with an unsupervised method.

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is an emerging biomedical imaging technology that can realize high contrast imaging with a penetration depth of the acoustic. Recently, deep learning (DL) methods have also been successfully applied to PAT for improving the image reconstruction quality. However, the current DL-based PAT methods are implemented by the supervised learning strategy, and the imaging performance is dependent on the available ground-truth data.

Energy Migration Control of Multimodal Emissions in an Er -Doped Nanostructure for Information Encryption and Deep-Learning Decoding.

Modulating the emission wavelengths of materials has always been a primary focus of fluorescence technology. Nanocrystals (NCs) doped with lanthanide ions with rich energy levels can produce a variety of emissions at different excitation wavelengths. However, the control of multimodal emissions of these ions has remained a challenge.

Effectiveness of Melodic Intonation Therapy in Chinese Mandarin on Non-fluent Aphasia in Patients After Stroke: A Randomized Control Trial.

Melodic intonation therapy (MIT) positively impacts the speech function of patients suffering from aphasia and strokes. Fixed-pitch melodies and phrases formulated in MIT provide the key to the target language to open the language pathway. This randomized controlled trial compared the effects of music therapy-based MIT and speech therapy on patients with non-fluent aphasia.

Deep Learning for Ultrasound Localization Microscopy.

By localizing microbubbles (MBs) in the vasculature, ultrasound localization microscopy (ULM) has recently been proposed, which greatly improves the spatial resolution of ultrasound (US) imaging and will be helpful for clinical diagnosis. Nevertheless, several challenges remain in fast ULM imaging. The main problems are that current localization methods used to implement fast ULM imaging, e.