Is to determine whether dentures belong to one or different users. The results of a comparative visual comparison of two different-scale and different-angle photographs of removable dentures of the maxilla teeth are presented. The comparison was carried out by 20 experienced orthopedic dentists. The opinion of the overwhelming majority: with a high degree of probability, the dentures belong to one user. Experts based their judgment on 13 independent attributes. From a forensic medical point of view, the assessment contains elements of subjectivity. The conclusion about the possibility of solving the question posed on the basis of objective methods of forensic identification is formulated.
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JCI Insight
January 2025
Dianne Hoppes Nunnally Laboratory Research Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, United States of America.
Background: We aimed to characterize factors associated with the under-studied complication of cognitive decline in aging people with long-duration type 1 diabetes (T1D).
Methods: Joslin "Medalists" (n = 222; T1D ≥ 50 years) underwent cognitive testing. Medalists (n = 52) and age-matched non-diabetic controls (n = 20) underwent neuro- and retinal imaging.
Brief Bioinform
November 2024
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, 999077, China.
The complexity of T cell receptor (TCR) sequences, particularly within the complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3), requires efficient embedding methods for applying machine learning to immunology. While various TCR CDR3 embedding strategies have been proposed, the absence of their systematic evaluations created perplexity in the community. Here, we extracted CDR3 embedding models from 19 existing methods and benchmarked these models with four curated datasets by accessing their impact on the performance of TCR downstream tasks, including TCR-epitope binding affinity prediction, epitope-specific TCR identification, TCR clustering, and visualization analysis.
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December 2025
Department of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth, Rome, Italy.
New ultrathin bronchoscopes (UTBs) enable the inspection and biopsy of small airways, potentially offering diagnostic advantages in sarcoidosis. In this prospective study, patients with suspected sarcoidosis underwent airway inspection with a UTB. Observed airway abnormalities were categorised into six predefined patterns.
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January 2025
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, NewYork-Presbyterian Och Spine Hospital, New York, NY, 10032, USA.
Background: Alpine skiing requires flexibility, endurance, strength and rotational ability, which may be lost after long fusions to the pelvis for adult spinal deformity (ASD). ASD patients may worry about their ability to return to skiing (RTS) postoperatively. There is currently insufficient data for spine surgeons to adequately address questions about when, or if, their patients might RTS.
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January 2025
Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University Uttar Pradesh, Sector-125, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, 201313, India.
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the leading causes of infection worldwide due to its antimicrobial resistance. Plant-derived essential oils (EOs) have undergone extensive observational and clinical research to explore their antimicrobial properties. The present study aimed to check mec A positive MRSA isolates using sequencing analysis, determination of chemical composition using gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS), antioxidant, and antimicrobial activity of Anethum graveolens and Piper betle EOs against the infectious agent MRSA.
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