The occurrence and spread of multi-drug resistant bacteria is a pressing public health problem. The emergence of bacterial resistance to antibiotics is common in areas where antibiotics are heavily used, and antibiotic-resistant bacteria also increasingly occur in aquatic environments. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the impact of the wastewater treatment process on the prevale...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and the Canadian Neurological Scale (CNS) have been reported to be useful for the retrospective assessment of initial stroke severity. However, unlike the CNS, the NIHSS requires detailed neurological assessments that may not be reflected in all patient records, potentially limiting its applicability. We assessed the reliability of the retrosp...

PURPOSE Excessive movements during walking have been observed by gait analysis in children with arthrogryposis (AMC) using orthoses compared to children using only shoes. The aim of this study was to evaluate energy expenditure and functional exercise capacity in children with AMC. METHODS Twenty-four children with AMC and 25 typically developing (TD) children underwent oxygen measurement and...

Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) is a heterogeneous condition defined as multiple congenital joint contractures in two or more body areas. The common pathogenesis is impaired fetal movements. Amyoplasia, the most frequent form, is a sporadically occurring condition with hypoplastic muscles and joint contractures. Distal arthrogryposis (DA) syndromes are often hereditary, and joint invol...

OBJECTIVES The goal of this study was to assess the diagnostic performance of cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) compared with endomyocardial biopsy in patients with suspected acute myocarditis (AMC) and chronic myocarditis (CMC). BACKGROUND Several studies have reported an encouraging diagnostic performance of CMR in myocarditis. However, the comparison of CMR with clinical data only and the u...

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is an important component in non-cooperative wireless communication networks to identify the schemes of received signals. In this paper, considering multipath effect practical propagation environments, a distributed cooperative AMC (Co-AMC) network based on machine learning proposed scheme networks. Specifically, feature vectors are first obtained by ap...

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) is of crucial importance for realizing wireless intelligence communications. Many deep learning based models especially convolution neural networks (CNNs) have been proposed AMC. However, the computation cost very high, which makes them inappropriate beyond fifth generation communication that stringent requirements on accuracy and computing time. In ord...

Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) is an uncommon condition present from birth that marked by a combination of weakened muscles and multiple joint contractures. We case 2-year-old boy with AMC, who was born to consanguineous parents in Saudi Arabia. He presented musculoskeletal abnormalities all four limbs, including symmetric contractures joints the body, bilateral developmental dysplasi...

In this paper, a low-profile HF (high-frequency) meandered dipole antenna with ferrite-loaded artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) is proposed. To operate in the band while retaining compact size, ferrite high permeability applied to unit cell of AMC. The operating frequency bandwidth designed AMC 1.89:1 (19–36 MHz). Thereafter, by implementing binary genetic algorithm and combined overall size ...