Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Aisling Ahlstrom, Kersti Lundin, Anna-Karin Lind, Kristina Gunnarsson, Goran Westlander, Hannah Park, Anna Thurin-Kjellberg, Steinunn A. Thorsteinsdottir, Snorri Einarsson, Mari Astrom, Kristina Lofdahl, Judith Menezes, Susanne Callender, Cina Nyberg, Jens Winerdal, Camilla Stenfelt, Brit-Randi Jonassen, Nan Oldereid, Lisa Nolte, Malin Sundler, Thorir Hardarson
Summary: The use of a commercially available time-lapse algorithm for Day 5 blastocyst selection did not improve ongoing pregnancy rates compared with morphology alone.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Jackson Steinkamp, Jacob Kantrowitz, Abhinav Sharma, Wasif Bala
Summary: The current paradigm for electronic medical notes is inefficient for clinicians and medical teams. A revised framework organizing notes by topic can lead to more accurate patient assessments and save time for clinicians on data input and retrieval, ultimately improving healthcare delivery effectiveness and efficiency.
JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Pharmacology & Pharmacy
Daniel J. Weiss
Summary: Advances in tissue engineering have provided new insights and methodologies for understanding cell and tissue homeostasis, disease pathogenesis, and potential therapeutic strategies. The field of lung biology and diseases, particularly diseases like COPD and IPF, can benefit from these advancements, as they currently lack effective cures. Lung regenerative medicine and engineering also offer hope for critical illnesses like ARDS.
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Editorial Material
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Amber Dance
Summary: After a series of well-publicized cases of tenure denials, American academics are reconsidering how to make this embattled academic process more fair.
Article
Business
Horst Treiblmaier, Elena Petrozhitskaya
Summary: Blockchain technology is expected to drive marketing transformation and has potential advantages over traditional loyalty programs in terms of usage, accrual, relevance, expiration, and transferability. Two empirical studies, analyzing Twitter tweets and conducting a survey, show that consumers have a preference for blockchain-based loyalty programs due to their innovative customer services and properties of a sharing economy.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Manuel Malfeito-Ferreira
Summary: Wine quality can be understood from both commercial and fine wine perspectives. The traditional tasting method may blur the assessment of a wine's aesthetic properties. To promote the recognition of fine wines, tasting should first acknowledge their aesthetic properties before proceeding to analytical steps.
FOOD RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL
(2023)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
M. J. Bayefsky, J. Shaw, D. Hamer, R. Martel, J. Reich, J. K. Blakemore
Summary: How often do patients undergoing frozen embryo transfer (FET) after preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) choose to select for sex and do sex selection rates differ before and after successful delivery of a first baby? When a choice was available between male and female embryos, patients selected the sex more frequently when trying to conceive the second child (62%) as compared to the first child (32.4%) and most commonly selected for the opposite sex of the first child.
HUMAN REPRODUCTION
(2023)
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Thomas Marjot, David W. Ray, Jeremy W. Tomlinson
Summary: Liver homeostasis is influenced by the circadian clock. Disruption of the clock has been implicated in metabolic dysfunction like NAFL and NASH. Although current NASH drug candidates target pathways under circadian control, little consideration has been given to chronopharmacology in NASH.
JOURNAL OF HEPATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Sebastian Hupfeld, Dennis Pischel, Doerthe Jechorek, Andrea Janicova, Maciej Pech, Frank Fischbach
Summary: The purpose of the study was to assess the clinical applicability of commercially available solutions for MR-based quantification of hepatic fat fraction and to compare their results with clinically established imaging methods. The findings showed that IP/OP imaging had a strong correlation with fAH, while multi-gradient echo imaging and multi-echo spectroscopy quantifications were insensitive to increased LIC. Both postprocessing solutions need improvement in segmentation quality and workflow, but all solutions are capable of bringing MRI-based hepatic fat quantification into clinical application.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Ecology
Rok Sturm, Juan Jose Lopez Diez, Jernej Polajnar, Jerome Sueur, Meta Virant-Doberlet
Summary: Our understanding of air-borne sounds in natural and urban habitats has led to the emergence of soundscape ecology and ecoacoustics as interdisciplinary fields of research. However, the ecological significance of substrate-borne vibrations, which are hidden to human senses, has been largely overlooked. These vibrations provide crucial information for the reproduction and survival of animals, particularly arthropods. Ecotremology is introduced as a discipline that aims to study substrate-borne vibrations for understanding ecological processes and biological conservation. It is argued that information from substrate vibrations can be used to assess and predict ecosystem changes.
FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Mathematics, Applied
Joseph D. Hart, Francesco Sorrentino, Thomas L. Carroll
Summary: This paper presents a technique for selecting time-shifts by maximizing the rank of the reservoir matrix, which is applicable to analog hardware reservoir computers without requiring a system model. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique on an optoelectronic reservoir computer and a traditional recurrent network with a tanh activation function, showing improved accuracy compared to random time-shift selection in almost all cases.
Article
Ecology
Andrew P. Woolnough, Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg, Phillip Cassey, Thomas A. A. Prowse
Summary: There is a global race to build more powerful and precise quantum computers, which have the potential to solve certain quantitative problems faster than classical computers. The current focus of quantum computing is on expanding the boundaries of fundamental quantum information and commercial applications, especially in profit-driven sectors like industry and finance. Ecologists can potentially benefit from the computational power of quantum computers, as the statistical approaches commonly used in ecology have already shown promise on quantum computers. If the hardware, opportunity, and creativity of quantitative ecologists align, quantum computing could greatly advance our understanding of complex ecological systems.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Yossi Mizrachi, Dana B. McQueen
Summary: This review summarizes the impact of individual physicians and techniques used in embryo transfer on the success rate of in vitro fertilization. The experience of the physician does not affect the outcome, but certain techniques can improve the success rate.
FERTILITY AND STERILITY
(2022)
Book Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Anthony J. Turner
Summary: This is a review of the book 'Alzheimer's Disease Research: What has guided research so far and why it is high time for a paradigm shift' written by Christian Behl. The book provides a personal viewpoint on the historical developments in dementia research and therapeutics, discussing the conflicting hypotheses, therapeutic trials, and successes and failures in understanding the underlying pathways of Alzheimer's disease. It stands out from other books by highlighting controversies and including personal discussions with leading researchers in the field.
JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY
(2023)
Review
Virology
Apostolos Koffas, Lung-Yi Mak, Upkar S. Gill, Patrick T. F. Kennedy
Summary: Chronic hepatitis B is a serious disease associated with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. Recent studies have shown that even in the presence of normal liver enzymes, HBeAg-positive chronic infection may still lead to active inflammation and fibrosis. Early antiviral therapy can slow disease progression and reduce the risk of developing liver cancer.