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Robot-Based Measures of Upper Limb Cognitive-Motor Interference Across the HIV-Stroke Spectrum.

Robot-based neurorehabilitation strategies often ignore cognitive performance during treatment, but this is a need in populations dealing with a wide variety of cognitive and motor impairments, such as the stroke and HIV populations, for which an association between the two have been established. In this study, we concurrently measure cognitive and motor performance on a robotic cognitive-motor ta...

Systematic analysis and prediction of type IV secreted effector proteins by machine learning approaches.

In the course of infecting their hosts, pathogenic bacteria secrete numerous effectors, namely, bacterial proteins that pervert host cell biology. Many Gram-negative bacteria, including context-dependent human pathogens, use a type IV secretion system (T4SS) to translocate effectors directly into the cytosol of host cells. Various type IV secreted effectors (T4SEs) have been experimentally validat...

Victors: a web-based knowledge base of virulence factors in human and animal pathogens.

Virulence factors (VFs) are molecules that allow microbial pathogens to overcome host defense mechanisms and cause disease in a host. It is critical t...

Real-time Epidemic Forecasting: Challenges and Opportunities.

Infectious disease outbreaks play an important role in global morbidity and mortality. Real-time epidemic forecasting provides an opportunity to predi...

Vision-referential speech enhancement of an audio signal using mask information captured as visual data.

This paper describes a vision-referential speech enhancement of an audio signal using mask information captured as visual data. Smartphones and tablet...

Application of a long short-term memory neural network: a burgeoning method of deep learning in forecasting HIV incidence in Guangxi, China.

Guangxi, a province in southwestern China, has the second highest reported number of HIV/AIDS cases in China. This study aimed to develop an accurate ...

Machine Learning to Predict Binding Affinity.

Recent progress in the development of scientific libraries with machine-learning techniques paved the way for the implementation of integrated computa...

[A real-world study of paritaprevir/ritonavir-ombitasvir combined with dasabuvir in the treatment of genotype 1b chronic hepatitis C].

To recognize the efficacy and safety of paritaprevir/ritonavir-ombitasvir combined with dasabuvir (OBV/PTV/RTV+DSV) in the treatment of genotype 1b c...

Prediction of human-Bacillus anthracis protein-protein interactions using multi-layer neural network.

MOTIVATION: Triplet amino acids have successfully been included in feature selection to predict human-HPV protein-protein interactions (PPI). The util...

[A Case of Multiple Lung Metastases after Liver Resection for Multiple Hepatocellular Carcinomas with Remarkable Effects of Regorafenib].

The patient was a 63-year-old man with hepatitis C. He discontinued combination therapy containing interferon and ribavirin because of the development...

Durability of dolutegravir plus boosted darunavir as salvage or simplification of salvage regimens in HIV-1 infected, highly treatment-experienced subjects.

BACKGROUND: Dolutegravir (DTG) plus boosted darunavir (bDRV) is a compact, adherence-friendly salvage regimen with the highest genetic barrier to HIV-...

Factors associated with viral suppression among HIV-positive Kenyan gay and bisexual men who have sex with men.

The UNAIDS 90-90-90 target has prioritized achieving high rates of viral suppression. We identified factors associated with viral suppression among HI...

An mRMR-SVM Approach for Opto-Fluidic Microorganism Classification.

The detection of microorganisms is important in numerous applications such as water quality monitoring, blood analysis, and food testing. The conventi...

Towards Robot-Based Cognitive and Motor Assessment Across the HIV-Stroke Spectrum.

There is an increasing population of people living with both HIV and stroke around the world with no effective neurorehabilitation strategies to deal ...

False-positive Troponin I Assay elevation due to occult Mixed Cryoglobulinemic Vasculitis.

A 53-year-old man with active hepatitis C and cirrhosis presented with a vasculitic rash, myalgias, and fatigue, and was found to have an elevated car...

Using Clinical Notes and Natural Language Processing for Automated HIV Risk Assessment.

OBJECTIVE: Universal HIV screening programs are costly, labor intensive, and often fail to identify high-risk individuals. Automated risk assessment m...

AI Tackles Hospital Infections: Machine Learning Is Helping Clinicians.

For Ashley Zappia (Figure 1), getting her hands dirty was part of her job. Even though she always tried to remain as clean as possible, her work as a ...

Near Full-length Genomic Sequencing and Molecular Analysis of HIV-Infected Individuals in a Network-based Intervention (TRIP) in Athens, Greece: Evidence that Transmissions Occur More Frequently from those with High HIV-RNA.

BACKGROUND: TRIP (Transmission Reduction Intervention Project) was a network-based, contact tracing approach to locate and link to care, mostly people...

The Spontaneous Control of HIV Replication is Characterized by Decreased Pathological Changes in the Gut-associated Lymphoid Tissue.

BACKGROUND: HIV infection induces alterations in the gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) that constitutes the most important site for viral replicat...

Real World Patient-reported Outcomes in HIV-infected Adults Switching to EVIPLERA®, Because of a Previous Intolerance to cART. PRO-STR Study.

BACKGROUND: To investigate the impact of switching from stable Combined Antiretroviral Therapy (cART) to single-tablet regimen (RPV/FTC/TDF=EVIPLERA® ...