Extracting the latent needs of dementia patients and caregivers from transcribed interviews in japanese: an initial assessment of the availability of morpheme selection as input data with Z-scores in machine learning.

Background: Given the increasing number of dementia patients worldwide, a new method was developed for machine learning models to identify the 'latent needs' of patients and caregivers to facilitate patient/public involvement in societal decision making.

Methods: Japanese transcribed interviews with 53 dementia patients and caregivers were used. A new morpheme selection method using Z-scores was developed to identify trends in describing the latent needs.

The Role of in the Puromycin Aminonucleoside-Induced Morphological Change of Podocytes.

Podocytes, alternatively called glomerular epithelial cells, are terminally differentiated cells that wrap around glomerular capillaries and function as a part of the glomerular filtration barrier in the kidney. Therefore, podocyte injury with morphological alteration and detachment from glomerular capillaries leads to severe proteinuria and subsequent renal failure through glomerulosclerosis. Previous RNA sequencing analysis of primary rat podocytes exposed to puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN), a well-known experimental model of injured podocytes, identified several transcripts as being aberrantly expressed.