Examining sea levels forecasting using autoregressive and prophet models.

Global climate change in recent years has resulted in significant changes in sea levels at both global and local scales. Various oceanic and climatic factors play direct and indirect roles in influencing sea level changes, such as temperature, ocean heat, and Greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions. This study examined time series analysis models, specifically Autoregressive Moving Average (ARIMA) and Facebook's prophet, in forecasting the Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL).

A deep learning framework for noninvasive fetal ECG signal extraction.

The availability of proactive techniques for health monitoring is essential to reducing fetal mortality and avoiding complications in fetal wellbeing. In harsh circumstances such as pandemics, earthquakes, and low-resource settings, the incompetence of many healthcare systems worldwide in providing essential services, especially for pregnant women, is critical. Being able to continuously monitor the fetus in hospitals and homes in a direct and fast manner is very important in such conditions.

LSTM-Modeling of Emotion Recognition Using Peripheral Physiological Signals in Naturalistic Conversations.

The automated recognition of human emotions plays an important role in developing machines with emotional intelligence. Major research efforts are dedicated to the development of emotion recognition methods. However, most of the affective computing models are based on images, audio, videos and brain signals.

Trends in Smart Helmets With Multimodal Sensing for Health and Safety: Scoping Review.

Background: As a form of the Internet of Things (IoT)-gateways, a smart helmet is one of the core devices that offers distinct functionalities. The development of smart helmets connected to IoT infrastructure helps promote connected health and safety in various fields. In this regard, we present a comprehensive analysis of smart helmet technology and its main characteristics and applications for health and safety.

Beyond Pathogen Filtration: Possibility of Smart Masks as Wearable Devices for Personal and Group Health and Safety Management.

Face masks are an important way to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the prolonged pandemic has revealed confounding problems with the current face masks, including not only the spread of the disease but also concurrent psychological, social, and economic complications. As face masks have been worn for a long time, people have been interested in expanding the purpose of masks from protection to comfort and health, leading to the release of various "smart" mask products around the world.

Arousal-Valence Classification from Peripheral Physiological Signals Using Long Short-Term Memory Networks.

The automated recognition of human emotions plays an important role in developing machines with emotional intelligence. However, most of the affective computing models are based on images, audio, videos and brain signals. There is a lack of prior studies that focus on utilizing only peripheral physiological signals for emotion recognition, which can ideally be implemented in daily life settings using wearables, e.

Treatment outcome and long-term stability of class II correction with forsus fatigue resistant device in non-growing patients.

Objectives: Forsus™ Fatigue Resistant Device (FRD) is one of the commonly used semirigid fixed functional devices. Purpose of the present study was to investigate effects and long-term stability of Class II correction following use of Forsus FRD in a retrospective clinical study.

Setting And Sample Population: Records of 20 patients (mean age 18.

Streptomyces cameroonensis sp. nov., a Geldanamycin Producer That Promotes Theobroma cacao Growth.

The taxonomy of an actinobacterial strain, designated JJY4, was established using a polyphasic approach. JJY4 was isolated from the rhizosphere of Chromolaena odorata in Yaoundé (Cameroon) during a project for the selection of biological control agents. Strain JJY4 exhibited antimicrobial activities against bacteria, fungi, and oomycetes.

Double diabetes in Saudi Arabia: A new entity or an underestimated condition.

Aim: To determine the clinical and biological characteristics of double diabetes (DD) among young people in Saudi Arabia.

Methods: This was a retrospective descriptive chart review study including 312 young newly diagnosed diabetic patients (aged 12-20 years), whom were admitted over a five year period (January 2009 to December 2013). Family history of diabetes mellitus (DM) (first degree), physical body mass index (BMI), acanthosis nigricans, history of auto-immune disease and laboratory information for glycosylated hemoglobin, basal C peptide level and diabetes autoantibody response (anti-GAD, anti-IA2 and anti-ICA) were collected from medical report.

Quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry analysis of glycerophospholipid molecular species in the two halophyte seed oils: Eryngium maritimum and Cakile maritima.

Future applications of lipids in clinical cohort studies demand detailed glycerophospholipid molecule information and the application of high-throughput lipidomics platforms. In the present work, a novel sensitive technique with high mass resolution and accuracy was applied to accomplish phospholipid analysis. Nanospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry was used to separate and quantify the glycerophospholipid classes as well as molecular species in two halophyte seed oils from Cakile maritima and Eryngium maritimum.

Azathioprine for glucocorticoid resistant noninfectious uveitis.

Background: the systemic steroids represent the first line treatment in the majority of the noninfectious uveitis, except some specific indications as the Behcet disease. Nevertheless, this treatment may be ineffective and immunosuppressive therapy is mandatory.

Purpose: to evaluate effectiveness and side effects of azathioprine (AZA) in corticosteroid resistant noninfectious uveitis (CRNIU).

Biochemical and molecular characterization of a thermostable chitosanase produced by the strain Paenibacillus sp. 1794 newly isolated from compost.

Chitosan raises a great interest among biotechnologists due to its potential for applications in biomedical or environmental fields. Enzymatic hydrolysis of chitosan is a recognized method allowing control of its molecular size, making possible its optimization for a given application. During the industrial hydrolysis process of chitosan, viscosity is a major problem; which can be circumvented by raising the temperature of the chitosan solution.

Spectrum of autoantibodies in Tunisian psychiatric inpatients.

One hundred and three psychiatric inpatients (74 men) were assessed for a wide spectrum of autoantibodies including antinuclear, antismooth muscle, antimitochondrial, antiDNA, anti-phospholipid, anti-cardiolipin IgG and IgM, antikeratin, rheumatoid factor, antithyroperoxydase, antigliadin IgA and IgG, antitransgutaminase, and antiendomysium antibodies. Four groups of patients were considered separately, including 47 with schizophrenia, 23 with schizoaffective disorder, 16 with bipolar disorder and 17 patients with other different psychiatric diagnosis. Forty one healthy, age- and sex-matched blood donors were used as a control group.

[Rosai -Dorfman disease: a two cases report].

Background: Rosai-Dorfman disease (RDD) is a benign lymphoproliferatif disorder characterized by cervical lymphadenopathies with a consistent risk of airways' compression and esthetical prejudice. Extra nodal localizations are also described.

Aim: To report two pediatric cases of RDD.

HLA class II alleles susceptibility markers of type 1 diabetes fail to specify phenotypes of ketosis-prone diabetes in adult Tunisian patients.

We aimed to characterize the different subgroups of ketosis-prone diabetes (KPD) in a sample of Tunisian patients using the Aβ scheme based on the presence or absence of β-cell autoantibodies (A+ or A-) and β-cell functional reserve (β+ or β-) and we investigated whether HLA class II alleles could contribute to distinct KPD phenotypes. We enrolled 43 adult patients with a first episode of ketosis. For all patients we evaluated clinical parameters, β-cell autoimmunity, β-cell function and HLA class II alleles.

Is the rapid whole blood test useful for diagnosis and monitoring celiac disease in children?

Aim: To evaluate a new whole blood rapid test for the detection of IgA anti-transglutaminase (ATG) for diagnosis and diet survey of celiac disease (CD).

Methods: 57 children, 20 of them were CD patients on a gluten-free diet and 37 were under suspicion of CD were enrolled. IgAATG was detected by the conventional ELISA test and the new rapid whole blood test.

Spectrum of autoantibodies other than anti-desmoglein in pemphigus patients.

Background: Pemphigus is a life-threatening autoimmune blistering disease mediated by autoantibodies against adhesion molecule of the skin. Its concurrence with systemic and organ-specific autoimmune disease was described in case reports.

Objectives: To evaluate the presence of a broad spectrum of organ-specific and non-organ-specific autoantibodies other than anti-desmoglein antibodies in pemphigus patients.

Ketosis-onset diabetes in Tunisian adults: immunological markers and beta-cell function.

The aim of this study in Tunisia was to classify ketosis-onset diabetes in adult patients. All patients aged > 30 years without known diabetes, presenting with ketosis and admitted to our department were studied. Patients with secondary or gestational diabetes and those on corticoid therapy or with coinciding infection were excluded.

HLA-B, DR and DQ antigens polymorphism in Tunisian patients with ankylosing spondylitis (a case-control study).

The objective of the study is to assess the distribution of HLA-B genes, HLA-B27 subtypes, HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1 alleles in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and in control subjects in the Tunisian population and to compare their distribution with that found in other countries. This is a case-control study that included 100 consecutive patients (85 males/15 females) with AS according to the modified New York criteria and 100 control individuals. HLA-B, B27 subtypes and class II (DR and DQ) typing of all subjects was performed by polymerase chain reaction amplification with sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP).

Expression of Notch family members in cultured murine articular chondrocytes.

The Notch family is involved in cell differentiation during embryogenesis. Osteoarthritic chondrocytes undergo morphological and biochemical changes leading to the de-differentiation process. In the study reported here, we were interested in the involvement of the Notch pathway in murine articular chondrocyte de-differentiation.