Infection control / Modes of transmission

Previous prescribed burns saved thousands of ancient sequoias during historically unprecedented wildfires.

Wildfires in California's Sierra Nevada during 2020-2021 killed giant sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) at rates unseen for millennia, underscoring the vulnerability of highly fire-adapted trees to ongoing environmental change. Following a century of fire exclusion and fuel accumulation, the effectiveness of prescribed burns in reducing giant sequoia mortality from wildfire remained poorly quant...

Modeling multidimensional perceived risk in HIV-related social media: a multi-label transformers framework with longitudinal analysis.

This paper presents a supervised multi-label framework for detecting multidimensional perceived risk in HIV-related Reddit discourse. A longitudinal corpus of 329,707 texts collected from r/hivaids and r/HIV between 2015 and 2025 was analyzed to identify three risk dimensions: transmission risk, health deterioration risk, and social stigma risk. A stratified sample of 2,000 texts was annotated by ...

Quantitative Investigation of Tibiofemoral Cartilage Early Degeneration After ACL Reconstruction: An Integrated Biomechanical and Longitudinal MRI Analysis.

BACKGROUND: Anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) restores stability but is often followed by early cartilage degeneration. The contributio...

Machine learning-based analysis of drug resistance mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is a deadly airborne disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Drug-resistant tuberculosis presents significant challenges for treatm...

Characterizing spatiotemporal spread of infectious diseases using ellipse-shaped transmission hotspots: application to dengue virus outbreaks.

BACKGROUND: Identifying transmission hotspots associated with micro-clustering patterns at the early stages of epidemics is helpful to characterize sp...

Infection prevention and control measures for Ebola and Marburg disease: a series of rapid reviews.

OBJECTIVES: An evidence synthesis informed the 2023 WHO infection prevention and control (IPC) guideline for Ebola disease (EBOD) and Marburg disease ...

Ultrasound assisted persulfate for enhanced degradation of Alizarin Red S with experimental design and AI driven optimization.

This study investigates the enhanced degradation of Alizarin Red S (ARS) from aqueous solutions using an ultrasound-assisted persulfate (PS/US) system...

Neural Network-Driven Finite Element Modeling for Estimating Knee Joint Cartilage Mechanical Responses.

Low-fidelity, artificial intelligence (AI)-generated approaches are increasingly used to estimate kinematics and kinetics of human movement, which are...

Emerging Novel SARS-CoV-2 Subvariants and the Advantages of AI-ML in Deciphering the Mutation Trends, Genomic Surveillance and Vaccine Development.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The world witnessed COVID-19 in 2025 yet again, a resurgence driven by LF.7 and NB.1.8.1 subvariants of JN.1. With Singapore, Hong...

Anthropogenic landscapes and vector-borne disease dynamics: Unveiling the complex interplay between Human Footprint and disease transmission in Colombia.

Anthropogenic landscape transformations are fundamentally reshaping the epidemiology of vector-borne diseases (VBDs), yet their causal impacts remain ...

New healthcare management framework informed by peri-body perception space: a perspective.

The rising prevalence of chronic diseases demands a more effective healthcare management approach to overcome the constraints of existing health monit...

Long Distance Non-Contact Dermoscopy: Technological Foundations, Clinical Applications, and Future Directions.

Recent advances in dermoscopic imaging have expanded diagnostic capabilities beyond conventional contact devices. Non-contact modalities, including sh...

Identifying the Presence and Characteristics of Mid-Myocardial and Epicardial Fibrosis From Intracardiac Electrograms in Patients Undergoing Ventricular Arrhythmia Ablation Using a Transformer-Based Self-Supervised Classifier.

BACKGROUND: Catheter ablation is an essential tool for ventricular arrhythmia management, yet sustained procedural success is hindered by the limited ...

Bioactive environments to combat antimicrobial resistance: artificial intelligence and model-driven microbial biocontrol for living materials.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to outpace development of new therapeutics. Many interventions focus on treating infection after it occurs, b...

Hidden pathways of antimicrobial resistance: A review of environmental metagenomics and exposure risks in low-resource settings.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is increasingly recognised as a One Health challenge in which environmental reservoirs play an important role in the pe...

PFA-Net: a physics-informed feature enhancement and attention network for interpretable bearing fault diagnosis under strong noise.

As critical components in rotating machinery, the operational status of rolling bearings directly affects the safety and reliability of equipment. How...

Seamless human electronics interfacing through advanced skin attachable and implantable sensor technologies.

The transition from episodic clinical assessment to continuous physiological monitoring represents a transformative shift in biomedical engineering. T...

Machine learning reveals distinct temperature thresholds and environmental modulators for atopic dermatitis and allergic contact dermatitis prevalence in South Korea.

Atopic dermatitis (AD) and allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) are common inflammatory skin diseases influenced by environmental factors, but disease-sp...

A hybrid machine learning framework with two-step feature selection for identifying key biomarkers and drug targets in monkeypox.

Monkeypox (Mpox) is a viral disease that has garnered global attention due to its human-to-human transmissibility and cross-species transmission. Rece...

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy for Quantitative Determination of Drug Purity in Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms: Recent Advances, Validation Strategies, and Chemometric Applications.

The quantitative determination of drug purity is a critical aspect of pharmaceutical quality control, ensuring the safety, efficacy, and regulatory co...