Background and Purpose— This study aimed to investigate the association between carotid plaque progression subsequent recurrent events using magnetic resonance imaging. Methods— Sixty-three symptomatic patients with ipsilateral atherosclerotic stenosis (30%–69% stenosis) determined by ultrasound underwent first second artery imaging for at baseline ≥6 months after scan, respectively. All had clinical follow-up scan ≤5 years until onset of transient ischemic attack or stroke. Presence/absence...

Optimizing molecular structures in oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is crucial for enhancing catalytic efficiency and stability, particularly with respect to the effective adsorption conversion of intermediates. Sulfur-containing heterocyclic compound thiophene can precisely modulate electronic states local charge densities, thereby fine-tuning reactivity microporous polymers, yet, it remains a largely unexplored area. Herein, thiophene-based building blocks featuring diversified linkers into...

Loading operations are a crucial part of container terminal activities and play key role in influencing shoreline operation efficiency. To overcome the challenge mismatched local ship decisions global yard during single-vessel operations, which often result conflicts related to retrieval yard, novel intelligent decision-making model for stack-yard positioning full loading is proposed. This seeks optimize balance between instructions quay crane instructions. An enhanced Constrained...

Sewage systems are important nodes to monitor enteric pathogens transmitted via water. The aim of this study was assess the presence rotaviruses in effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) and receiving streams Beijing, China, evaluate reductions WWTPs provide viral fate transport data for further epidemiological studies.Two PCR-based methods, including an RT-qPCR another quantitative RT-PCR (ICC-RT-qPCR), which integrated with cell culturing, were applied conduct a 1-year...

Organic small molecular photocatalysts with definite structures were developed by isomer engineering. The regulation endows charge localization, enables fast intermolecular transfer and significantly different photocatalytic activity.

It is still unknown that whether co-existing intracranial stenosis and extracranial carotid vulnerable plaques have higher predictive value for subsequent vascular events. This study aimed to determine the relationship between events utilizing cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) vessel wall imaging. Patients who had recent cerebrovascular symptoms in anterior circulation (< 2 weeks) were consecutively enrolled underwent multi-contrast CMR imaging arteries 3D time-of flight angiography at...

Identifying the mere presence of carotid intraplaque hemorrhage would be insufficient to accurately discriminate acute cerebral infarct. We aimed investigate association between signal intensity ratios on T1-weighted MR imaging and infarct in patients with hemorrhagic plaques using vessel wall imaging.Symptomatic were included. The against muscle T1-weighted, TOF, MPRAGE images measured. was determined hemisphere ipsilateral hemorrhage. analyzed.Of 109 included (mean, 66.8 ± 9.9 years age;...

It has been proved that multi-contrast cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) vessel wall imaging could be used to characterize carotid vulnerable plaque components according the signal intensity on different contrast images. The of is mainly dependent values T1 and T2 relaxation. mapping recently showed a potential in identifying but it not well validated by histology. This study aimed validate usefulness vivo assessing Thirty-four subjects (mean age, 64.0 ± 8.9 years; 26 males) with...

White matter hyperintensity (WMH) is prevalent in elderly populations. Ischemia characterized by a decline cerebral blood flow (CBF) and may play key role the pathogenesis of WMH. However, association between CBF reduction WMH progression remains controversial. This study aimed to investigate at 2-year follow-up community-based, asymptomatic adults longitudinal cohort across lifespan.Asymptomatic who participated community-based were recruited underwent brain structural perfusion magnetic...

Atherosclerosis (AS) is a common cause of coronary heart disease and stroke. The delivery exogenous H

Abstract Objectives To investigate the characteristics of atherosclerotic plaques in stroke‐related vascular beds and their relationship with stroke using three‐dimensional magnetic resonance ( MR ) vessel wall imaging. Methods Fifty‐two symptomatic patients (mean age: 56.3 ± 13.4 years; 38 males) were enrolled underwent imaging for including intracranial extracranial carotid arteries aortic arch routine brain. The maximum thickness (Max WT luminal stenosis each plaque measured....

To determine whether quantitative parameters derived from dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) were predictive of the aggressiveness oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (OTSCC) including pathologic stages, histologic differentiation, lymph node status, and perineural invasion (PNI).Between August 2019 March 2021, 93 patients (mean age, 54.6 ± 13.8 years; 66 men) with pathologically diagnosed OTSCC enrolled in this prospective study. Preoperative DECT was performed (e.g., slope spectral...

The aims of present study were to evaluate the abundances, genetic diversity total and microcystin‐producing Microcystis over temporal spatial scales, investigate relationships among water parameters in Tai Yang‐cheng lakes. Abundances varied across sampling periods locations, which assessed using qPCR with primers specific 16S rDNA mcyA genes. from two lakes relatively diverse. However, genes rather conservative >97% identical reference sequences. highly positive correlations between...

Lower extremity peripheral artery disease has become a significant health burden worldwide. Since the treatment strategies can be different if atherosclerotic involves femoral segments, it is important to assess plaque distribution among segments of arteries. We sought investigate longitudinal subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic elderly adults using cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) vessel wall imaging. Asymptomatic subjects underwent three-dimensional (3D) CMR imaging for The...

Rupture of an atherosclerotic plaque is the primary cause acute cardiovascular and cerebrovascular syndromes. Early non-invasive detection vulnerable plaques (VP) would be significant in preventing some aspects these As a new contrast agent, dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) modified ultra-small super paramagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) was synthesized used to identify VP rupture by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).Atherosclerosis induced male New Zealand White rabbits feeding high cholesterol diet...

To explore the association of low-level lead exposure with all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease (CVD) among hypertensive patients.This cohort study enrolled 6453 adults hypertension from National Health Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-2010 followed information through December 31, 2019. The baseline population were divided into four groups based on quartiles blood levels (Q1: < 1.2 μg/dL, Q2: 1.2-1.6 Q3: 1.7-2.4 Q4: 2.5-4.9 μg/dL). correlation to was investigated by Kaplan-Meier...

Accurate phenotypic analysis in aquaculture breeding necessitates the quantification of subtle morphological phenotypes. Existing datasets suffer from limitations such as small scale, limited species coverage, and inadequate annotation keypoints for measuring refined complex phenotypes fish body parts. To address this gap, we introduce FishPhenoKey, a comprehensive dataset comprising 23,331 high-resolution images spanning six species. Notably, FishPhenoKey includes 22 phenotype-oriented...

This study sought to investigate the relationship of atherosclerosis between intracranial and extracranial carotid arteries using three-dimensional multicontrast magnetic resonance (MR) vessel wall imaging.Patients with recent cerebrovascular symptoms in anterior circulation were recruited underwent MR imaging for arteries. The plaque burden, including maximum thickness (Max WT) stenosis, presence intraplaque hemorrhage (IPH) assessed. correlation characteristics was determined.In total, 107...

Fish morphological phenotypes are important resources in artificial breeding, functional gene mapping, and population-based studies aquaculture ecology. Traditional measurement of is rather expensive terms time labor. More importantly, manual highly dependent on operational experience, which can lead to subjective phenotyping results. Here, we developed 3DPhenoFish software extract fish from three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data. Algorithms for background elimination, coordinate...

Testing for causality is of critical importance many econometric applications. For bivariate AR(1) processes, the limit distributions tests based on least squares estimation depend presence nonstationary processes. When processes are present, such usually very complicated, and full-sample bootstrap method becomes inconsistent as pointed out in Choi (2005, Statistics Probability Letters 75, 39–48). In this paper, a profile empirical likelihood proposed to test causality. The statistic robust...