13 results match your criteria: "Univ. of Thessaly[Affiliation]"

Lung alveoli are modeled as spherical caps, lined internally by a thin surfactant-laden liquid film, and the periodic wall shear stress exerted along the epithelium during small-amplitude radial oscillations of their wall is computed. A novel set of boundary conditions, applied at the rim, reveals the dominant role of Marangoni stresses. These stresses develop along the air/liquid interface due to spatial gradients of interfacial surfactant concentration and are transported to the wall by the action of viscosity.

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DIANA-miRPath is an online miRNA analysis platform harnessing predicted or experimentally supported miRNA interactions towards the exploration of combined miRNA effects. In its latest version (v4.0, http://www.

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Interpretable EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps.

Stud Health Technol Inform

May 2023

Dept of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, Univ. of Thessaly, Greece.

The brain is one of the most complex parts of the human body, consisting of billions of neurons and it is involved in almost all vital functions. To study the brain functionality, Electroencephalography (EEG) is used to record the electrical activity generated by the brain through electrodes placed on the scalp surface. In this paper, an auto-constructed Fuzzy Cognitive Map (FCM) model is used for interpretable emotion recognition, based on EEG signals.

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DIANA-microT 2023: including predicted targets of virally encoded miRNAs.

Nucleic Acids Res

July 2023

DIANA-Lab, Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, Univ. of Thessaly, Lamia 35131, Greece.

DIANA-microT-CDS is a state-of-the-art miRNA target prediction algorithm catering the scientific community since 2009. It is one of the first algorithms to predict miRNA binding sites in both the 3' Untranslated Region (3'-UTR) and the coding sequence (CDS) of transcripts, with increased performance. Its current version, DIANA-microT 2023 (www.

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Constructive Fuzzy Cognitive Map for Depression Severity Estimation.

Stud Health Technol Inform

May 2022

Dept of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, Univ. of Thessaly, Greece.

Depression is a common and serious medical disorder that negatively affects the mood and the emotions of people, especially adolescents. In this paper, a novel framework for automatically creating Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) is proposed. It is applied for the estimation of the severity of depression among adolescents, based on their electroencephalogram (EEG).

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AGAMEMNON: an Accurate metaGenomics And MEtatranscriptoMics quaNtificatiON analysis suite.

Genome Biol

January 2022

Cancer Research Institute | HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine | Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.

We introduce AGAMEMNON ( https://github.com/ivlachos/agamemnon ) for the acquisition of microbial abundances from shotgun metagenomics and metatranscriptomic samples, single-microbe sequencing experiments, or sequenced host samples. AGAMEMNON delivers accurate abundances at genus, species, and strain resolution.

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DIANA-miTED: a microRNA tissue expression database.

Nucleic Acids Res

January 2022

DIANA-Lab, Dept. of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, Univ. of Thessaly, 35131 Lamia, Greece.

microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (∼23nt) single-stranded non-coding RNAs that act as potent post-transcriptional gene expression regulators. Information about miRNA expression and distribution across cell types and tissues is crucial to the understanding of their function and for their translational use as biomarkers or therapeutic targets. DIANA-miTED is the most comprehensive and systematic collection of miRNA expression values derived from the analysis of 15 183 raw human small RNA-Seq (sRNA-Seq) datasets from the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA).

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  • Peryton is a newly developed database that contains over 7900 entries connecting 43 diseases with 1396 microorganisms, all curated from biomedical articles.
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Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is an umami substance widely used as flavor enhancer. Although it is generally recognized as being safe by food safety regulatory agencies, several studies have questioned its long-term safety. The purpose of this review was to survey the available literature on preclinical studies and clinical trials regarding the alleged adverse effects of MSG.

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The Role of Auditing, Food Safety, and Food Quality Standards in the Food Industry: A Review.

Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf

September 2017

Faculty of Agriculture, Univ. of Thessaly, Fytoko St., Nea Ionia Magnesias, 38446, Volos, Greece.

Food safety and quality audits are used widely in the food industry for various reasons (to evaluate management systems, obtain certifications to certain food safety and quality standards, assess the condition of premises and products, confirm legal compliance, and so on). Nowadays, the increased interest of consumers on food safety and quality matters, triggered mainly by recent food scandals, has enabled the public and private food sectors to develop a variety of food safety and quality standards. These standards have both advantages and disadvantages and their effectiveness depends on several factors such as the competency and skills of auditors and the standard used in each case.

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Increased immunoreactivity against human cytomegalovirus UL83 in systemic sclerosis.

Clin Exp Rheumatol

December 2017

Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece.

Objectives: To study immunoreactivity against human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in systemic sclerosis (SSc), since HCMV has been put forward as a candidate infectious cause.

Methods: Eighty four patients with SSc (67 females; median age 60 years, range 25-81), 30 patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) (23 females; median age 44, range 20-69 years) and 28 healthy controls (NCs), all pre-tested positive for IgG anti-HCMV antibodies, were studied. IgG anti-UL83 HCMV antibodies were tested by western immunoblotting and expressed in arbitrary units (AUs).

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Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) and Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders) are major pests of cotton in Greece and elsewhere. Analysing male captures in pheromone traps over two seasons, in two cotton producing sites in central Greece, the spatial and temporal variation in population dynamics were examined. In 2007, captures of male H.

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