Author(s): Ali HM; Xiao Y; Kersten-Oertel M;

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) is a technique that captures and processes information across a wide spectrum of wavelengths, providing detailed spectral data for each pixel in an image to identify and analyze materials or objects. In the surgical domain, it can provide quantitative and qualitative tissue information without the need of any contrast agent, th ...

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Author(s): Villeneuve S; Poirier J; Breitner JCS; Tremblay-Mercier J; Remz J; Raoult JM; Yakoub Y; Gallego-Rudolf J; Qiu T; Valdez AF; Mohammediyan B; Javanray M; Metz A; Sanami S; Ourry V; Wearn A; Pastor-Bernier A; Edde M; Gonneaud J; Strikwerda- ...

The PREVENT-AD is an investigator-driven study that was created in 2011 and enrolled cognitively normal older adults with a family history of sporadic AD. Participants are deeply phenotyped and have now been followed annually for more than 12 years [median follow-up 8.0 years,SD 3.1]. Multimodal ...

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Author(s): Sage O; Wang F; DiAngelo C; Marsden S; Faustini C; Grant S; Cohen TR;

BackgroundEvidence-based nutrition education resources are one way to help registered dietitians (RDs) translate scientific knowledge to consumers.AimTo develop a checklist based on suitability assessment of materials (SAM) and to assess its use to refine nutrition education resources.MethodsRDs were recruited online to assess two nutrition education reso ...

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Author(s): Carter F; Hobishi H; Chapman CA;

The parasubiculum is a component of the hippocampal formation that projects to the entorhinal cortex and plays an important role in spatial navigation. Dopamine has marked effects on excitatory synaptic transmission in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, and the present study investigated the effects of dopamine on evoked field excitatory postsynaptic ...

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Author(s): Francavilla R; Chattopadhyaya B; Damo Kamda JL; Jadhav V; Kourrich S; Michaud JL; Di Cristo G;

SYNGAP1 haploinsufficiency-related intellectual disability (SYNGAP1-ID) is characterized by moderate to severe ID, generalized epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder, sensory processing dysfunction, and other behavioral abnormalities. While numerous studies have highlighted a role of Syngap1 in corti ...

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Author(s): Sanz-Robinson J; Wang M; McPherson B; Chatelain Y; Kennedy D; Glatard T; Poline JB;

Researchers in brain imaging have access to a multitude of analysis tools, many of which carry out the same or similar tasks but yield different results when applied to the same data. This analytical flexibility often undermines reproducibility and raises concerns about the robustness of neuroimaging studies. However, the array of software packages to inv ...

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Author(s): Wang Z; Lyu L; Huang G; An C;

The increasing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is widely recognized as a pivotal strategy for mitigating climate change. However, the surge in EV usage brings significant challenges regarding the end-of-life management of lithium-ion batteries, particularly in geographically isolated islands, such as Vancouver Island, Canada. This study addresses the ...

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Author(s): Chowdhury R; Karimi N; Xu X; An C; Gitifar A; Ng KTW;

This study analyzes pesticide and fertilizer container collection trends across Canadian agricultural regions over a seven-year period from 2016 to 2022 through an analytical framework and proposed two land metrics. A 28.3 % decrease in the collection of small empty pesticide and fertilizer containers (EPFCs) coincides with a 41.4 % increase in the collec ...

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Author(s): Patel MA; Boribong BP; Sinha H; Xiao B; Xie K; Vo PQN; Chin AB; Ellouzi A; Little SR; Shih S; Wu H; Muller WJ; Hirukawa A;

High-efficiency gene editing in primary human cells is critical for advancing therapeutic development and functional genomics, yet conventional electroporation platforms often require high cell input and are poorly suited to parallelized experiments. Here we introduce a next-generation digital mi ...

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Author(s): Yuksel IB; Boudesh A; Ghanbarzadehchaleshtori M; Ozsoy SC; Bahrilli S; Mohammadi R; Altindag A;

Idiopathic osteosclerosis (IOS) and condensing osteitis (CO) represent radiopaque lesions often detected incidentally within the jaws, posing substantial diagnostic challenges due to their overlapping radiographic characteristics. The objective of this study was to assess the diagnostic efficacy ...

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Author(s): Koleilat T; Asgariandehkordi H; Rivaz H; Xiao Y;

Segmentation of anatomical structures and pathologies in medical images is essential for modern disease diagnosis, clinical research, and treatment planning. While significant advancements have been made in deep learning-based segmentation techniques, many of these methods still suffer from limitations in data efficiency, generalizability, and interactivi ...

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Author(s): Kairouz S; Savard AC; Murch WS; Dixon MR; Martin NB; Brodeur M; Dauphinais S; Ferland F; Hamel D; Dufour M; French M; Monson E; Van Mourik V; Morvannou A;

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic brought about an extraordinary societal context in which the gambling offer was modified to meet public health measures intended to curb viral transmission. With many land-based gambling venues being forced to close, gambling opportunities were left almost exclus ...

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