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A comment on the Revised Diffusion Model for Conflict tasks (RDMC).

Psychon Bull Rev

October 2024

Psychological Research Methods and Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Bremen, Hochschulring 18, D-28359, Bremen, Germany.

In conflict tasks, such as the Simon, Eriksen flanker, or Stroop task, a relevant and an irrelevant feature indicate the same or different responses in congruent and incongruent trials, respectively. The congruency effect refers to faster and less error-prone responses in congruent relative to incongruent trials. Distributional analyses reveal that the congruency effect in the Simon task becomes smaller with increasing RTs, reflected by a negative-going delta function.

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Objective: Closed reduction and dynamic hip screw (DHS) osteosynthesis are preferred as joint-preserving therapy in case of medial femoral neck fractures (MFNFs). A change in the femoral offset (CFO) can cause gait abnormality, impingement, or greater trochanteric pain syndrome. It is unknown whether the femoral offset (FO) can be postoperatively fully restored.

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Climatic and environmental changes of ~100 thousand years: The mammals from the early Middle Pleistocene sequence of Notarchirico (southern Italy).

PLoS One

October 2024

UMR 7194 HNHP (MNHN-CNRS-UPVD), Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France.

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  • The study examines paleontological samples from Notarchirico, highlighting its importance in understanding human evolution and ecosystem changes during the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition.
  • The site contains significant fossils, including the oldest human remains in Italy and early evidence of Homo heidelbergensis, along with links to the Acheulean tool technology.
  • Findings reveal three distinct mammal faunal complexes that correlate with climatic changes, documenting shifts from wooded areas and lakes to glacial conditions and back to a warmer climate through various stages of the Middle Pleistocene.
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The RSNA Abdominal Traumatic Injury CT (RATIC) Dataset.

Radiol Artif Intell

November 2024

From the Department of Radiology, Scripps Clinic Medical Group and University of California, San Diego, 200 W Arbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92103-8749 (J.D.R.); Department of Medical Imaging, St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Canada (H.M.L., S.H., S.M., E.C.); The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine (R.L.B.); Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada (S.J., S.N.); Department of Radiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (L.M.P.); Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (B.S.M.); Department of Radiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pa (A.E.F.); Department of Radiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC (K.M.); Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY (G.S.); Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn (M.A.D.); Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif (J.M.); Departments of Radiological Sciences and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, Calif (P.D.C.); Department of Imaging, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (F.H.B.); Department of Radiology, Alfred Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia (M.L.); Department of Radiology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (T.R.); Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (J.P.G., A.S.K.); Department of Medical Imaging, Mater Dei Hospital, Msida, Malta (S.G.S.); Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Kingston Health Sciences Center, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada (A.D.C.); Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (S.A.); Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital and College of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan (C.C.K.); Big Data Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (C.C.K.); AKI-CARE (Clinical Advancement, Research and Education) Center, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan (C.C.K.); Department of Medical Imaging, Liverpool Hospital, Sydney, Australia (L.A.); Department of Radiology, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain (A.V.C.); Department of Radiology, Gold Coast University Hospital, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia (A.S.); Department of Medical Imaging, Clínica Santa María, Santiago, Chile (F.A.S.T.); Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand (A.J.); Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio (L.K.B.); Department of Radiology, Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland (M. Brassil); Department of Radiology, Arrazi Hospital, CHU Mohamed VI Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco (A.E.H.); Department of Radiology, Koç University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey (H.D.); Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (M. Becircic); Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis (A.G.B.); Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (E.M.J.d.M.F.); and Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (S.M., S.H., E.C.).

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  • Muscle gearing occurs when both fascicle shortening and changes in pennation angle happen during muscle contraction, resulting in faster muscle contractions than fascicle contractions.
  • Research aims to understand how varying contraction intensities and ankle joint angles affect these changes in the triceps surae.
  • A study involving ten sport students revealed a nonlinear relationship between fascicle length and pennation angle, indicating that muscle gearing increases with higher contraction intensities and different ankle joint angles.
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CuBe: a geminivirus-based copper-regulated expression system suitable for post-harvest activation.

Plant Biotechnol J

January 2025

Instituto de Biología Molecular y Celular de Plantas, CSIC-UPV, Valencia, Spain.

The growing demand for sustainable platforms for biomolecule manufacturing has fuelled the development of plant-based production systems. Agroinfiltration, the current industry standard, offers several advantages but faces limitations for large-scale production due to high operational costs and batch-to-batch variability. Alternatively, here, we describe the CuBe system, a novel bean yellow dwarf virus (BeYDV)-derived conditional replicative expression platform stably transformed in Nicotiana benthamiana and activated by copper sulphate (CuSO), an inexpensive and widely used agricultural input.

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Building pangenome graphs.

Nat Methods

November 2024

Department of Genetics, Genomics and Informatics, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA.

Pangenome graphs can represent all variation between multiple reference genomes, but current approaches to build them exclude complex sequences or are based upon a single reference. In response, we developed the PanGenome Graph Builder, a pipeline for constructing pangenome graphs without bias or exclusion. The PanGenome Graph Builder uses all-to-all alignments to build a variation graph in which we can identify variation, measure conservation, detect recombination events and infer phylogenetic relationships.

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The German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) established a core data set (CDS) of clinical parameters relevant for diabetes research in 2021. The CDS is central to the design of current and future DZD studies. Here, we describe the process and outcomes of FAIRifying the initial version of the CDS.

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Cardiogenic shock (CS) is a devastating and fatal complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). CS can affect the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of medications. The unique properties of cangrelor make it the optimal P2Y12 inhibitor for CS-AMI, in terms of both efficacy and safety.

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Validation of a software-based torsional measurement method of the lower limb: A retrospective study.

Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc

October 2024

Klinikverbund Südwest, Kliniken Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany.

Article Synopsis
  • * A total of 58 lower limbs from 47 patients aged 19 to 97 were analyzed, assessing both femoral and tibial torsion using the mediCAD 3D Knee software, and evaluating reliability through intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC).
  • * Results indicated that both software and manual methods had high reliability for assessing torsional alignment, with software measurements often showing 'excellent reliability' and very strong validity correlating outcomes with no systematic deviations.
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Background: Time-resolved angiography with interleaved stochastic trajectories (TWIST) magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) may obscure smaller vessels and is highly susceptibility to motion artifacts, potentially reducing endoleak detection accuracy after endovascular aortic repair (EVAR). The novel golden-angle radial sparse parallel (GRASP) sequence enhances spatial and temporal resolution with continuous, motion-robust datasets, showing promise for accurate endoleak detection post-EVAR. This study aimed to compare the diagnostic effectiveness of contrast-enhanced compressed-sensing radial GRASP-volume interpolated breath-hold examination (VIBE) sequence with standard contrast-enhanced dynamic TWIST-VIBE sequence in patients with inconclusive computed tomography angiography (CTA) findings regarding endoleak after EVAR.

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Straddling the Line Between and Investigations.

Tissue Eng Part C Methods

October 2024

Faculty of Engineering, School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.

Tissue engineering research fundamentally relies on experiments to advance knowledge, utilizing various models for research on both humans and animals. With scientific progress, experimental models have become increasingly complex over time. This complexity sometimes blurs the distinction between categories, making terminology less consistent.

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Globally Distributed Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Associated With Invasive on Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos.

Ecol Evol

October 2024

Charles Darwin Research Station Charles Darwin Foundation Santa Cruz Galápagos Ecuador.

The presence of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) is essential for the survival and establishment of most plant species in nature. The reproductive success of invasive plant species in a particular habitat could also depend on these AM fungi. , commonly known as quinine, is highly invasive on Santa Cruz Island, Galápagos, but at the same time severely endangered in its native range on mainland Ecuador due to overexploitation in the past.

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Human biomonitoring studies typically capture only a small and unknown fraction of the entire chemical universe. We combined chemical analysis with a high-throughput in vitro assay for neurotoxicity to capture complex mixtures of organic chemicals in blood. Plasma samples of 624 pregnant women from the German LiNA cohort were extracted with a nonselective extraction method for organic chemicals.

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Patient-reported outcomes and comprehensive assessment of wrist function after scaphoid reconstruction: A single-center retrospective study on 162 patients.

J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg

December 2024

Department of Hand, Plastic, Reconstructive and Burn Surgery, BG Unfallklinik, Eberhard Karls University Tuebingen, Schnarrenbergstr. 95, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany. Electronic address:

A vast body of literature emphasizes the use of radiological data for assessing outcomes in scaphoid reconstruction. The goal of this single-center study was to examine patient-reported outcomes and wrist function after scaphoid reconstruction. A total of 162 of 370 patients who underwent scaphoid reconstruction between January 2007 and December 2020 were included in the study.

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The exclusive asialoglycoprotein receptor (ASGR) expression on hepatocytes makes it an attractive target for imaging of the functional liver reserve. Here, we present a set of TRAP-based glycoside trimers and evaluate their imaging properties compared to the gold standard [Tc]Tc-GSA. The click-chemistry-based synthesis approach provided easy access to trimeric low-molecular-weight compounds.

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  • Rhino-orbital-cerebral mucormycosis is a severe fungal infection primarily affecting immunocompromised individuals, known for its ability to invade blood vessels and cause tissue death.
  • A case study discusses a 59-year-old man with poorly controlled diabetes who presented with neurological symptoms that were initially misdiagnosed and worsened with corticosteroid treatment, leading to a rapid decline in his condition.
  • The case emphasizes the urgent need for early diagnosis and treatment of mucormycosis to prevent severe complications and highlights the dangers of using corticosteroids without identifying underlying fungal infections.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly impacted healthcare systems worldwide, including the delivery of ophthalmic emergency services. This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the clinical presentation of emergencies and the accessibility of healthcare in ophthalmology. The study employed a single-center, consecutive case series design with historical controls to examine electronic health records over a 21-day period during the COVID-19 pandemic and a matched period from the preceding year.

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The incidence of reduction mammoplasty has been steadily increasing over recent decades. Surgical site infections (SSIs) represent a common yet preventable complication across surgical disciplines. Studies across various surgical specialties have indicated a seasonal influence on SSIs, primarily correlated with higher temperatures and humidity.

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Muscle Mass and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists: Adaptive or Maladaptive Response to Weight Loss?

Circulation

October 2024

Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospitals Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, OH (I.J.N.).

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  • * The article discusses whether the changes in muscle due to GLP-1 treatments are harmful, neutral, or beneficial, concluding that evidence suggests muscle changes are primarily adaptive and may actually improve muscle quality.
  • * Factors like age and frailty can affect who should use these weight loss treatments, and future developments in GLP-1 therapies should include better methods for assessing muscle health to ensure effective and safe treatment.
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Cluster-efficient pangenome graph construction with nf-core/pangenome.

Bioinformatics

November 2024

Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) Tübingen, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, 72076, Germany.

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  • Pangenome graphs are useful for capturing genomic variability but current methods often come with biases and resource inefficiencies.
  • The new nf-core/pangenome provides a reference-unbiased approach that is efficient, scalable, and uses biocontainers for easy deployment on high-performance computing (HPC) systems.
  • This tool has shown to be significantly faster than existing methods, managing to process extensive genomic data with a lower environmental impact, and is openly available on GitHub and Zenodo for public use.
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Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a severe retinal disease in premature infants characterized by pathological neovascularization, obliteration of retinal vessels and increased vessel tortuosity. Currently, there are no completely satisfactory treatments for ROP. Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF), a potent inhibitor of angiogenesis, appears late in gestation and its deficiency may be linked to development of ROP.

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  • The α-Gal syndrome (AGS) is linked to specific IgE antibodies against the carbohydrate galactose-α-1,3-galactose, primarily influenced by tick bites in those exposed to them, like forestry workers in Luxembourg.
  • A study analyzed blood samples and questionnaires from 219 forestry employees to determine their IgG and IgE responses to α-Gal compared to other groups, including food-allergic patients.
  • Results showed that 21% of forestry employees were sensitized to α-Gal, but both sensitized and non-sensitized exhibited high IgG levels, suggesting that tick bites promote strong immune responses, especially in AGS patients who had the highest IgG levels overall.
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  • Inhibitory control is crucial for daily functioning, yet traditional assessments often lack real-world relevance; this review advocates for a more ecological approach to evaluating cognition.
  • The study analyzes 64 research articles focusing on naturalistic methods for measuring inhibitory control, categorized into gamification, virtual reality, and ecological momentary assessments.
  • Findings show that while there's variability in task designs and reporting, naturalistic assessments yield similar outcomes to standardized tests and are user-friendly, showing high participant engagement and completion rates.
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