Medical readiness education and training exercises (MEDRETEs) provide acute, primary, and preventative medicine services to populations in countries other than the United States. MEDRETEs provide training in deployment, redeployment, austere environment medicine, supply, security, and defense for our active duty and reserve component personnel. MEDRETEs also improve public relations, advance U.S. foreign policy, and build confidence in the partner nation services. This article documents the great increase in ability to see multiple patients provided when a Special Forces unit is augmented by assistance from Civil Affairs attachments.
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Am J Otolaryngol
December 2024
Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Tianjin 300192, China; Institute of Otolaryngology of Tianjin, Tianjin, China; Key Laboratory of Auditory Speech and Balance Medicine, Tianjin, China; Key Clinical Discipline of Tianjin (Otolaryngology), Tianjin, China; Otolaryngology Clinical Quality Control Centre, Tianjin, China.
Purpose: To use deep learning technology to design and implement a model that can automatically classify laryngoscope images and assist doctors in diagnosing laryngeal diseases.
Materials And Methods: The experiment was based on 3057 images (normal, glottic cancer, granuloma, Reinke's Edema, vocal cord cyst, leukoplakia, nodules and polyps) from the dataset Laryngoscope8. A classification model based on deep neural networks was developed and tested.
Nanomaterials (Basel)
December 2024
Institute of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China.
With the development of industry, agriculture, and aquaculture, excessive ammonia nitrogen mainly involving ionic ammonia (NH) and molecular ammonia (NH) has inevitable access to the aquatic environment, posing a severe threat to water safety. Photocatalytic technology shows great advantages for ammonia nitrogen removal, such as its efficiency, reusability, low cost, and environmental friendliness. In this study, CP (g-CN/CoP) composite materials, which exhibited high-efficiency ammonia nitrogen removal, were synthesized through a simple self-assembly method.
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January 2025
School of Physical Education, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.
Long-term training enables professional athletes to develop concentrated and efficient neural network organizations for specific tasks. This study used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to investigate task performance, brain functional characteristics, and their relationships in footballers during sport-specific motor-cognitive processes. Twenty-four footballers (athlete group, with 18 remaining of good signal quality) and 20 non-footballers (control group, with 16 remaining) completed four tasks: a single task (trigger buttons corresponding to the appearance direction of teammates with kicking actions), an N-back direction task, a dual task, and an N-back digit task.
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December 2024
Law School, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States.
This article examines the landscape of Science, Technology, and Innovation policies in Central America, focusing on Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. These nations face significant challenges in leveraging STI for sustainable development, including financial constraints and limited resources. Additionally, Central America struggles with systemic issues such as corruption, violence, and high levels of emigration, further complicating efforts to advance STI.
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December 2024
Key Laboratory of Agro-Environment in the Tropics, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Department of Ecology, College of Natural Resources and Environment, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China. Electronic address:
A 90-d laboratory experiment was carried out using Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) rice straws (BTTY and GK775) and non-Bt rice straws (MXZ2, HH1179, and HH38). The objective was to investigate the differences in the effects of Bt and non-Bt rice straws on the earthworm Eisenia fetida. The analytic hierarchy process was applied to assess the risk of returning rice straw to soil on E.
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