Publications by authors named "R Scholz"
Sensory information mainly travels along a hierarchy spanning unimodal to transmodal regions, forming multisensory integrative representations crucial for higher-order cognitive functions. Here, we develop an fMRI based two-dimensional framework to characterize sensory integration based on the anchoring role of the primary cortex in the organization of sensory processing. Sensory magnitude captures the percentage of variance explained by three primary sensory signals and decreases as the hierarchy ascends, exhibiting strong similarity to the known hierarchy and high stability across different conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper examines the need for innovation in phosphorus fertilizer production. An important area requiring action is the use of sulfuric acid in the wet chemical process (WCP), which is the dominant process in phosphate fertilizer production. About 50 % of the sulfuric acid produced worldwide is used for fertilizers, and ~95 % of the world's fertilizers are based on sulfuric acid.
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- * From May 12 to July 13, 2024, 38 states participated in testing, with 11 sites showing high levels of influenza A virus and 24 sites detecting the H5 subtype.
- * Investigations revealed that many high-level detections corresponded with human influenza activity and identified possible animal sources, providing valuable data for future respiratory illness monitoring.
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- Chronic HCV infection can lead to serious immune complications like B cell dyscrasias, and while antiviral therapy has reduced liver damage, its effects on these complications are still unclear.
- Researchers sequenced B cell receptors in patients with chronic HCV and those who achieved sustained virological response (SVR) after treatment, identifying patterns in neutralizing antibodies and comparing them to lymphoma data.
- Findings indicated that specific mutations in B cell receptors associated with high neutralizing activity were also found in lymphoma cases, suggesting a connection between the immune response to HCV and the persistence of potential lymphoma-like cells even after successful treatment.
In 2020, an outbreak of Hadar illnesses was linked to contact with non-commercial, privately owned (backyard) poultry including live chickens, turkeys, and ducks, resulting in 848 illnesses. From late 2020 to 2021, this Hadar strain caused an outbreak that was linked to ground turkey consumption. Core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST) analysis determined that the Hadar isolates detected during the outbreak linked to backyard poultry and the outbreak linked to ground turkey were closely related genetically (within 0-16 alleles).
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