Early detection and spectral signature identification of tomato fungal diseases ( and ) by RGB and hyperspectral image analysis and machine learning.

Early identification of plant fungal diseases is critical for timely treatment, which can prevent significant agricultural losses. While molecular analysis offers high accuracy, it is often expensive and time-consuming. In contrast, image processing combined with machine learning provides a rapid and cost-effective alternative for disease diagnosis.

Optimizing the Hospital Discharge Process: Perspectives of the Health Care Team.

Background: Prior research capturing pharmacists' perspectives on the discharge process has shown that their involvement is essential. Given the multidisciplinary nature of the hospital environment, it is important to understand the perspectives of nonpharmacist health care providers.

Objectives: To explore the perspectives of nonpharmacist health care providers concerning current discharge practices, components of an effective discharge plan, and perceived barriers to an optimal discharge, and to explore their expectations of pharmacists at discharge.

Clozapine clinical toolkit optimizes inpatient clozapine monitoring.

Introduction: Clozapine is the most effective antipsychotic in the management of treatment-resistant schizophrenia; however, its use is challenging due to the risk of severe adverse effects. Despite the risks associated with clozapine, there is no mandatory monitoring in Canada beyond hematologic testing for agranulocytosis surveillance. This study focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of a clozapine clinical toolkit (CTK) targeted at optimizing inpatient clozapine use.

Characterizing Current and Optimal Involvement of Hospital Pharmacists in the Discharge Process: A Survey of Pharmacists in British Columbia.

Background: Transitions of care represent a vulnerable time when patients are at increased risk of medication errors. Medication-related problems constitute one of the main contributors to hospital readmissions. Discharge interventions carried out by pharmacists have been shown to reduce hospital readmissions.

Adding the Optic Nerve in Multiple Sclerosis Diagnostic Criteria: A Longitudinal, Prospective, Multicenter Study.

Background And Objectives: The optic nerve is not one of the areas of the CNS that can be used to demonstrate dissemination in space (DIS) within the 2017 McDonald criteria for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS). Objectives were (1) to assess whether optic nerve-MRI (ON-MRI), optical coherence tomography (OCT), and visual evoked potentials (VEP) detect optic nerve involvement in clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) and (2) to evaluate the contribution of the optic nerve topography to the current diagnostic criteria in a prospective, multicenter cohort.

Methods: MAGNIMS centers were invited to provide prospective data on patients with CIS who underwent a visual assessment with at least 2 of 3 investigations (ON-MRI, OCT, or VEP) within 6 months of onset.

The Role of Neurophysiology in Managing Patients with Chiari Malformations.

Chiari malformation type 1 (CM1) includes various congenital anomalies that share ectopia of the cerebellar tonsils lower than the foramen magnum, in some cases associated with syringomyelia or hydrocephalus. CM1 can cause dysfunction of the brainstem, spinal cord, and cranial nerves. This functional alteration of the nervous system can be detected by various modalities of neurophysiological tests, such as brainstem auditory evoked potentials, somatosensory evoked potentials, motor evoked potentials, electromyography and nerve conduction studies of the cranial nerves and spinal roots, as well as brainstem reflexes.

Intraoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring in Syringomyelia Surgery: A Multimodal Approach.

Syringomyelia can be associated with multiple etiologies. The treatment of the underlying causes is first-line therapy; however, a direct approach to the syrinx is accepted as rescue treatment. Any direct intervention on the syrinx requires a myelotomy, posing a significant risk of iatrogenic spinal cord (SC) injury.

Retinal sensitivity and gaze fixation evaluated by microperimetry in subjects with type 2 diabetes: two independent parameters that explore different neuronal circuits.

Background And Aims: Retinal sensitivity (RS) and gaze fixation (GF) assessed by retinal microperimetry are useful and complementary tools for identifying mild cognitive impairment (MCI) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). The hypothesis is that RS and GF examine different neural circuits: RS depends only on the visual pathway while GF reflects white matter complex connectivity networks. The aim of the study is to shed light to this issue by examining the relationship of these two parameters with visual evoked potentials (VEP), the current gold standard to examine the visual pathway.

Adjustment and quantification of UV-visible spectrophotometry analysis: an accurate and rapid method for estimating Cladosporium spp. spore concentration in a water suspension.

Cladosporium spp. are among the most important plant pathogens, plant endophytes, insect parasites and human pathogens in nature. The aim of this study was to increase the speed and accuracy of Cladosporium spp.

Induction of Wheat Resistance to STB by the Endophytic Fungus and .

Background: blotch (STB) caused by fungus , is one of the important wheat ( L.) diseases difficult to control because of the lack of wheat resistant cultivars. The use of biological control agents is one possible way for triggering host plant resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses.

LC-MS based identification of stylosin and tschimgine from fungal endophytes associated with .

Objectives: is an Iranian medicinal plant. Tschimgine and stylosin are two of its major monoterpene derivatives. In this study, we proceeded to investigate some fungal endophytes from that can produce plant secondary metabolites.

Optic Nerve Topography in Multiple Sclerosis Diagnosis: The Utility of Visual Evoked Potentials.

Objective: To assess the added value of the optic nerve region (by using visual evoked potentials [VEPs]) to the current diagnostic criteria.

Methods: From the Barcelona clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) cohort, patients with complete information to assess dissemination in space (DIS), the optic nerve region, and dissemination in time at baseline (n = 388) were selected. Modified DIS (modDIS) criteria were constructed by adding the optic nerve to the current DIS regions.

Quorum-quenching endophytic bacteria inhibit disease caused by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae in Citrus cultivars.

Two strains of 64 endophytic bacteria, Bacillus cereus Si-Ps1 and Pseudomonas azotoformans La-Pot3-3, isolated from Citrus sinensis and C. sinensis var. Thomson's leaves, respectively, reduced N-acyl homoserine-based quorum sensing in bioindicator strain Pseudomonas syringae pv.

Isolation and identification of L-asparaginase-producing endophytic fungi from the Asteraceae family plant species of Iran.

L-asparaginase is an important anticancer enzyme that is used in the first line treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. This study was conducted to isolate L-asparaginase-producing endophytic fungi from medicinal plants of family Asteraceae. Seven healthy medicinal plants from family Asteraceae were selected for the isolation of endophytic fungi using standard surface sterilization techniques.

Brainstem auditory and somatosensory evoked potentials: a methodological study to evaluate the reproducibility of two devices.

We aimed to determine whether statistical significant differences exist between the sets of results obtained from two devices used in our department for measuring brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEPs) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs). We obtained BAEP and median and posterior tibial nerve SEP values bilaterally in ten healthy subjects. The tests were performed on the same subject using two devices consecutively.

Brainstem auditory and somatosensory evoked potentials in relation to clinical and neuroimaging findings in Chiari type 1 malformation.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe the abnormalities found in the recordings of evoked potentials (EPs), in particular those of brainstem auditory evoked potentials and somatosensory evoked potentials, in a homogeneous series of patients with Chiari type 1 malformation (CM-1) and study their relationship with clinical symptoms and malformation severity. CM-1 is characterized by cerebellar tonsils that descend below the foramen magnum and may be associated with EP alterations. However, only a small number of authors have described these tests in CM-1, and the patient groups studied to date have been small and heterogeneous.

[Brainstem auditory evoked potentials and somatosensory evoked potentials in Chiari malformation].

Introduction: Chiari malformations (CM) include a series of congenital anomalies involving the descent of the cerebellar tonsils below the foramen magnum, which may be associated with compression in the brainstem, upper spinal cord, and cranial nerves, consequently altering the responses of brainstem auditory evoked potentials (BAEP) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP). However, only a small number of authors have described the indications of these tests in CM, and study groups to date have been small and heterogeneous.

Aim: To review the results of BAEPs and SSEPs in published studies of patients with Chiari type 1 malformation (CM-1) or Chiari type 2 malformation (CM-2) as well as the indications of both tests in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of both diseases, especially CM-1.

The effects of fungi pre-treatment of poplar chips on the kraft fiber properties.

Poplar chips were pre-treated by Trametes versicolor for 1, 2 and 3 weeks. Pre-treated chips, after washing, have been air dried for kraft pulping to achieve pulp kappa number of about 20. Pulp samples have been analyzed by Bauer Mc Nett, Kajaani analyzer and SEM.