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Efficient waste management is essential to minimizing environmental harm as well as encouraging sustainable progress. The escalating volume and sophistication of waste present significant challenges, prompting innovative methods for effective waste categorization and management. Deep learning models have become highly intriguing tools for automating trash categorization activities, providing effective ways to optimize processes for handling waste.

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The effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in patients with catatonia associated with another mental disorder: A systematic review.

Asian J Psychiatr

January 2025

Department of Psychiatry, University of Saskatchewan, Royal University Hospital, Ellis Hall,  103 Hospital Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W8, Canada. Electronic address:

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  • Catatonia is a serious condition with psychomotor disturbances, often treated with benzodiazepines and electroconvulsive therapy, but some cases don't respond to these treatments.
  • A study examined the use of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for catatonia, identifying 12 cases where 9 showed improvement, but there was significant variation in the clinical details and treatment methods.
  • While results are inconclusive, rTMS may be considered if first-line treatments fail, highlighting the need for more standardized, larger clinical trials to confirm its effectiveness.
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Examining Drinking Water Preferences among University Students: A Comparative Assessment.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

September 2024

Department of Quality, Patient Experience and Health Informatics, Sidra Medicine, Doha P.O. Box 26999, Qatar.

In recent years, there has been a clear increase in bottled water consumption globally, which has led to significant health and environmental concerns. This cross-sectional study aims to understand the attitude and preferences of university students in Qatar towards the use of bottled and tap drinking water using an online survey questionnaire (September and October 2022). The number of students who responded to the online survey was 14% ( = 688) of the student population, with a mean age of 22.

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Background Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a highly infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and it has resulted in a global pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in numerous reports on clinical outcomes and risk factors associated with morbidity and mortality. However, the extent to which nationality influences the severity of COVID-19 is not fully understood.

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Aims: The aims of this study was to determine the prevalence and to compare depression and anxiety screening scores by type of diabetes: type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), and pre-diabetes. The secondary aim was to examine sex differences in screening scores by type of diabetes.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Doha, Qatar using primary data collection (N = 150), and stratified random sampling at a diabetes primary healthcare center.

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  • The growth of cities and populations has led to increasing waste, creating a demand for improved waste sorting and recycling technologies.
  • Deep learning models show promise for waste sorting, using a dataset of 25,000 images to effectively classify various types of waste through a new approach called GCDN-Net.
  • GCDN-Net achieved high performance metrics, such as 95.77% accuracy, in waste classification tasks, outperforming existing methods and demonstrating the potential for automating waste management processes.
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Unlabelled: Nowadays, quick, and accurate diagnosis of COVID-19 is a pressing need. This study presents a multimodal system to meet this need. The presented system employs a machine learning module that learns the required knowledge from the datasets collected from 930 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Italy during the first wave of COVID-19 (March-June 2020).

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  • Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-A. baumannii (ACB) complex pathogens are prevalent in hospital infections and show significant antimicrobial resistance, with limited genomic information available from Bangladesh.
  • In this study, researchers analyzed 63 ACB strains from Dhaka, finding that 84% were extensively drug-resistant (XDR), with draft genomes confirming 14 as A. baumannii, identified within major global clonal complexes.
  • The research underscores the diversity of beta-lactamase genes and variances in virulence genes among Acinetobacter strains, marking it as the first comparative genomic analysis of XDR strains in Bangladesh.
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Haemoglobin (Hb) electrophoresis is a method of blood testing used to detect thalassaemia. However, the interpretation of the result of the electrophoresis test itself is a complex task. Expert haematologists, specifically in developing countries, are relatively few in number and are usually overburdened.

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In this paper, proposes a microwave brain imaging system to detect brain tumors using a metamaterial (MTM) loaded three-dimensional (3D) stacked wideband antenna array. The antenna is comprised of metamaterial-loaded with three substrate layers, including two air gaps. One 1 × 4 MTM array element is used in the top layer and middle layer, and one 3 × 2 MTM array element is used in the bottom layer.

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The reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test is considered the current gold standard for the detection of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), although it suffers from some shortcomings, namely comparatively longer turnaround time, higher false-negative rates around 20-25%, and higher cost equipment. Therefore, finding an efficient, robust, accurate, and widely available, and accessible alternative to RT-PCR for COVID-19 diagnosis is a matter of utmost importance. This study proposes a complete blood count (CBC) biomarkers-based COVID-19 detection system using a stacking machine learning (SML) model, which could be a fast and less expensive alternative.

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