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Antibiotics ameliorate lupus-like symptoms in mice
(Nature, 2017-10-20)Gut microbiota and the immune system interact to maintain tissue homeostasis, but whether this interaction is involved in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is unclear. Here we report that oral antibiotics ... -
Application of Bayesian robust design model to assess the impacts of a hurricane on shorebird demography
(Ecological Society of America, 2018-08)The increasing use of Bayesian inference in population demography requires rapid advancements in modeling frameworks to approach the rigor and flexibility of the current suite of maximum-likelihood models. We developed an ... -
Applying GIS and Text Mining Methods to Twitter Data to Explore the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Topics of Interest in Kuwait
(MDPI, 2020-11-25)Researchers have developed various approaches for exploring the spatial information, temporal patterns, and Twitter content in topics of interest in order to generate a better understanding of human behavior; however, few ... -
Aquaculture-Mediated Invasion of the Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (Gift) into the Lower Volta Basin of Ghana
(MDPI, 2019-10-02)The need for improved aquaculture productivity has led to widespread pressure to introduce the Genetically Improved Farmed Tilapia (GIFT) strains of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) into Africa. However, ... -
Artificial Intelligence for the Future Radiology Diagnostic Service
(Frontiers Media, 2021-01-28)Radiology historically has been a leader of digital transformation in healthcare. The introduction of digital imaging systems, picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), and teleradiology transformed radiology ... -
Assessing Strontium and Vulnerability to Strontium in Private Drinking Water Systems in Virginia
(MDPI, 2020-04-08)A total of 1.7 million Virginians rely on private drinking water (PDW) systems and 1.3 million of those people do not know their water quality. Because most Virginians who use PDW do not know the quality of that water and ... -
Assessing Urban Community Gardens’ Impact on Net Primary Production using NDVI
(Access, 2017-05-25)Community gardens are one form of urban agriculture–growing of food and non-food products for sale or consumption within urban and peri-urban areas. Urban community gardens provide many benefits, including provisioning of ... -
Assessment and validation of total water storage in the Chesapeake Bay watershed using GRACE
(Elsevier, 2019-05-22)The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States, and its catchment has heterogeneous hydrological and geomorphologic characteristics. It includes seven major river basins: James, Patuxent, Potomac, Rappahannock, ... -
Assessment of Genetic Diversity and Population Structure in Iranian Cannabis Germplasm
(Nature Publishing Group, 2017-11-15)Cannabis sativa has a complex history reflected in both selection on naturally occurring compounds and historical trade routes among humans. Iran is a rich resource of natural populationswhich hold the promise to characterize ... -
Astrocyte Mechano-Activation by High-Rate Overpressure Involves Alterations in Structural and Junctional Proteins
(Frontiers, 2019-02-22)Primary blast neurotrauma represents a unique injury paradigm characterized by high-rate overpressure effects on brain tissue. One major hallmark of blast neurotrauma is glial reactivity, notably prolonged astrocyte ... -
Attempted Suicide in a Parkinsonian Patient Treated with DBS of the VIM and High Dose Carbidopa-Levodopa
(Hindawi Publishing Corp, 2019-03-26)Introduction. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a complex disease that is often treated with dopaminergic medications such as carbidopa-levodopa and now with innovative interventions such as deep brain stimulation (DBS). While ... -
Atypical presentation of Lyme neuroborreliosis related meningitis and radiculitis
(PAGEPress, 2019-10-11)Lyme disease related central and peripheral nervous system manifestations can occur in isolation or together. Radiculitis or inflammation of the nerve root can be seen 3-5% of the time in acute neuroborreliosis affecting ... -
Awareness and Attitude of College Students Majoring in Landscape Architecture towards the Sustainable Development
(MDPI, 2019-10-02)Reflecting the interest in sustainable development (SD), researches on the attitude toward SD have been steadily conducted for various groups. To explore the characteristics of awareness and attitude of college students ... -
Backbone Interactions Between Transcriptional Activator ExsA and Anti-Activator ExsD Facilitate Regulation of the Type III Secretion System in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(Springer Nature, 2020)The type III secretion system (T3SS) is a pivotal virulence mechanism of many Gram-negative bacteria. During infection, the syringe-like T3SS injects cytotoxic proteins directly into the eukaryotic host cell cytoplasm. In ... -
Baicalein Protects against Type 2 Diabetes via Promoting Islet β-Cell Function in Obese Diabetic Mice.
(Hindawi, 2014)In both type 1 (T1D) and type 2 diabetes (T2D), the deterioration of glycemic control over time is primarily caused by an inadequate mass and progressive dysfunction of β-cell, leading to the impaired insulin secretion. ... -
Bark and wood tissues of American elm exhibit distinct responses to Dutch elm disease
(Nature, 2017-08-02)Tolerance to Dutch elm disease (DED) has been linked to the rapid and/or high induction of diseaseresponsive genes after infection with the fungus Ophiostoma novo-ulmi. Although the fungal infection by O. novo-ulmi primarily ... -
A Bayesian Analysis of Copy Number Variations in Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization Data
(OMICS International, 2015-09-25)Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) has been widely used for detecting genomic copy number variations (CNVs). The central goal of array CGH data analysis is to accurately detect homogeneous regions of log intensity ... -
A Bayesian approach to multivariate adaptive localization in ensemble-based data assimilation with time-dependent extensions
(Copernicus Publications, 2019-06-14)Ever since its inception, the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) has elicited many heuristic approaches that sought to improve it. One such method is covariance localization, which alleviates spurious correlations due to finite ... -
A Bayesian Assignment Method for Ambiguous Bisulfite Short Reads
(PLOS, 2016-03-24)DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification critical for normal development and diseases. The determination of genome-wide DNA methylation at single-nucleotide resolution is made possible by sequencing bisulfite treated ... -
Beef heifer fertility: importance of management practices and technological advancements
(2020-10-01)The development of replacement heifers is at the core of cow-calf beef production systems. In 2020, the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service reported 5.771 million beef heifers, 500 pounds and over, are under ...
