Association Between Stroke Lesion Size and Atrial Fibrillation Detected After Stroke: An Observational Cohort Study.

Background: Atrial fibrillation detected after stroke (AFDAS) is considered to be a distinct entity influenced by cardiogenic and neurogenic factors. We hypothesized that patients with AFDAS have larger stroke lesions than patients without atrial fibrillation (AF) and with known AF (KAF).

Methods And Results: Consecutive patients with magnetic resonance imaging-confirmed acute ischemic stroke admitted to a university hospital between October 2020 and January 2023 were prospectively registered.

Spike-based dynamic computing with asynchronous sensing-computing neuromorphic chip.

By mimicking the neurons and synapses of the human brain and employing spiking neural networks on neuromorphic chips, neuromorphic computing offers a promising energy-efficient machine intelligence. How to borrow high-level brain dynamic mechanisms to help neuromorphic computing achieve energy advantages is a fundamental issue. This work presents an application-oriented algorithm-software-hardware co-designed neuromorphic system for this issue.

Local terrestrial snails as natural intermediate hosts of the zoonotic parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis in the new European endemic area of Valencia, Spain.

Aim: The rat lungworm, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, has recently been found in the city of Valencia, parasitizing rats, Rattus norvegicus and Rattus rattus, its natural definitive hosts. This is the first finding of this zoonotic nematode in continental Europe. After informing local and national health authorities, the collection of local terrestrial snails took place with the aim of elucidating their potential role as intermediate hosts of A.

Application of reaction-diffusion equations for modeling human and breeding site attraction movement behavior of mosquito.

This paper shows how biological population dynamic models in the form of coupled reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear reaction terms can be applied to heterogeneous landscapes. The presented systems of coupled partial differential equations (PDEs) combine the dispersal of disease-vector mosquitoes and the spread of the disease in a human population. Realistic biological dispersal behavior is taken into account by applying chemotaxis terms for the attraction to the human host and the attraction of suitable breeding sites.