A preliminary repeated measures study of the effect of an imposed posture on the pose of the head and upper and lower neck of seated humans.

Background: Posture of the upper neck is considered by some to contribute to neck pain and headache. Infrared reflectors and cameras permit non-invasive three-dimensional (3D) evaluation of head and neck range of motion but have not been used to examine the relative pose (position and orientation) of the head, upper and lower neck.

Research Question: Can the relative 3D pose of the head, upper and lower neck regions of adult humans be non-invasively measured and perturbated while recording the characteristics of neck or head pain?

Methods: An optical motion capture system was used in a repeat measure descriptive analysis study.

NanoMGT: Marker gene typing of low complexity mono-species metagenomic samples using noisy long reads.

Rapid advancements in sequencing technologies have led to significant progress in microbial genomics, yet challenges persist in accurately identifying microbial strain diversity in metagenomic samples, especially when working with noisy long-read data from platforms like Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). In this article, we introduce NanoMGT, a tool designed to enhance marker gene typing in low-complexity mono-species samples, leveraging the unique properties of long reads. NanoMGT excels in its ability to accurately identify mutations amidst high error rates, ensuring the reliable detection of multiple strain-specific marker genes.

SpanSeq: similarity-based sequence data splitting method for improved development and assessment of deep learning projects.

The use of deep learning models in computational biology has increased massively in recent years, and it is expected to continue with the current advances in the fields such as Natural Language Processing. These models, although able to draw complex relations between input and target, are also inclined to learn noisy deviations from the pool of data used during their development. In order to assess their performance on unseen data (their capacity to ), it is common to split the available data randomly into development (train/validation) and test sets.

Predicting the response of a long-distance migrant to changing environmental conditions in winter.

Access to high-quality food is critical for long-distance migrants to provide energy for migration and arrival at breeding grounds in good condition. We studied effects of changing abundance and availability of a marine food, common eelgrass ( L.), on an arctic-breeding, migratory goose, black brant ( Lawrence 1846), at a key non-breeding site, Bahía San Quintín, Mexico.

Isolation and propagation of an Egyptian Theileria annulata infected cell line and evaluation of its use as a vaccine to protect cattle against field challenge.

Tropical theileriosis is an important protozoan tick-borne disease in cattle. Vaccination using attenuated schizont-infected cell lines is one of the methods used for controlling the disease. This study describes the production of attenuated schizont-infected cell lines from Egypt and an evaluation of its use as a vaccine to protect calves against clinical disease upon field challenge.