This study addresses the concerns regarding the cross-sensitivity of metal oxide sensors by building an array of sensors and subsequently utilizing machine earning techniques to analyze the data from the sensor arrays. Sensors were built using InO Au-ZnO, Au-SnO, and Pt-SnO and they were operated simultaneously in the presence of 25 different concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), and their mixtures. To investigate the effects of humidity, experiments were conducted to detect 13 distinct CO and NO gas combinations in atmospheres with 40% and 90% relative humidity. Principal component analysis was performed for the normalized resistance variation collected for a particular gas atmosphere over a certain period, and the results were used to train deep neural network-based models. The dynamic curves produced by the sensor array were treated as pixelated images and a convolutional neural network was adopted for classification. An accuracy of 100% was achieved using both models during cross-validation and testing. The results indicate that this novel approach can eliminate the time-consuming feature extraction process.
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J Dent Sci
January 2025
School of Dentistry, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Background/purpose: Oral mucosal lesions are associated with a variety of pathological conditions. Most deep-learning-based convolutional neural network (CNN) systems for computer-aided diagnosis of oral lesions have typically concentrated on determining limited aspects of differential diagnosis. This study aimed to develop a CNN-based diagnostic model capable of classifying clinical photographs of oral ulcerative and associated lesions into five different diagnoses, thereby assisting clinicians in making accurate differential diagnoses.
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January 2025
Department of Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wannan Medical College (Yijishan Hospital of Wannan Medical College), Wuhu, Anhui, China.
Background: The purpose is to formulate a modified screening protocol for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in patients with respiratory support based on saturation of pulse oximetry (SpO) and inspired oxygen concentration (FiO).
Methods: This prospective observational study was conducted from August to October 2020 at the Department of Critical Care Medicine of Yijishan Hospital Affiliated with Wannan Medical College. All patients admitted during the study period and required arterial blood gas analysis and electrocardiogram monitoring were included in this study.
Environ Microbiol Rep
February 2025
Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Prairie wetland ponds on the Great Plains of North America offer a diverse array of geochemical scenarios that can be informative about their impact on microbial communities. These ecosystems offer invaluable ecological services while experiencing significant stressors, primarily through drainage and climate change. In this first study systematically combining environmental conditions with microbial community composition to identify various niches in prairie wetland ponds, sediments had higher microbial abundance but lower phylogenetic diversity in ponds with lower concentrations of dissolved organic carbon ([DOC]; 10-18 mg/L) and sulfate ([SO ]; 37-58 mg/L) in water.
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January 2025
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Integrated Surface Water-Groundwater Pollution Control, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, 518055, Guangdong, China.
The ecological niche separation of microbial interactions in forest ecosystems is critical to maintaining ecological balance and biodiversity and has yet to be comprehensively explored in microbial ecology. This study investigated the impacts of soil properties on microbial interactions and carbon metabolism potential in forest soils across 67 sites in China. Using redundancy analysis and random forest models, we identified soil pH and dissolved organic matter (DOM) aromaticity as the primary drivers of microbial interactions, representing abiotic conditions and resource niches, respectively.
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January 2025
Department of Microorganisms, Leibniz Institute DSMZ German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany.
An obligately anaerobic, spore-forming sulphate-reducing bacterium, strain SB140, was isolated from a long-term continuous enrichment culture that was inoculated with peat soil from an acidic fen. Cells were immotile, slightly curved rods that stained Gram-negative. The optimum temperature for growth was 28 °C.
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