• DeepReco: Deep Learning Based Health Recommender System Using Collaborative Filtering 

  Sahoo, A. K.; Pradhan, C.; Barik, R. K.; Dubey, Harishchandra (MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-05-22)

  In today's digital world healthcare is one core area of the medical domain. A healthcare system is required to analyze a large amount of patient data which helps to derive insights and assist the prediction of diseases. ...

• Progress Update from the Hippocampal Subfields Group 

  Olsen, R. K.; Carr, V. A.; Daugherty, A. M.; La Joie, R.; Amaral, R. S. C.; Amunts, K.; Augustinack, J. C.; Kennedy, Kristen M.; Rodrigue, Karen M.; Hippocampal Subfields Group (Elsevier Inc., 2019-06-13)

  Introduction: Heterogeneity of segmentation protocols for medial temporal lobe regions and hippocampal subfields on in vivo magnetic resonance imaging hinders the ability to integrate findings across studies. We aim to ...

• Orthogonal Pattern of Spinnable Multiwall Carbon Nanotubes for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Effectiveness 

  Lee, D. W.; Kim, H.; Moon, J. H.; Jeong, J. -H; Sim, H. J.; Kim, B. J.; Hyeon, J. S.; Baughman, Ray H.; Kim, S. J. (Elsevier Ltd, 2019-05-02)

  The need for thin and lightweight electromagnetic interference shielding materials is rapidly increasing in several industries, such as aerospace and telecommunication. This research finds that a shielding material, which ...

• Implementation and Analysis of a Free Water Protocol in Acute Trauma and Stroke Patients 

  Kenedi, Helen; Campbell-Vance, J.; Reynolds, J.; Foreman, M.; Dollaghan, Cristine A.; Graybeal, D.; Warren, A. M.; Bennett, M. (American Association of Critical Care Nurses, 2019-06-01)

  Background Free water protocols allow patients who aspirate thin liquids and meet eligibility criteria to have access to water or ice according to specific guidelines. Limited research is available concerning free water ...

• High-Fidelity Mapping of Repetition-Related Changes in the Parietal Memory Network 

  Gilmore, A. W.; Nelson, Steven M.; Laumann, T. O.; Gordon, Evan M.; Berg, J. J.; Greene, D. J.; Gratton, C.; Nguyen, A. L.; Ortega, M.; Hoyt, C. R.; Coalson, R. S.; Schlaggar, B. L.; Petersen, S. E.; Dosenbach, N. U. F.; McDermott, K. B. (Academic Press Inc., 2019-06-05)

  fMRI studies of human memory have identified a “parietal memory network” (PMN) that displays distinct responses to novel and familiar stimuli, typically deactivating during initial encoding but robustly activating during ...

• Engineering Repressors with Coevolutionary Cues Facilitates Toggle Switches with a Master Reset 

  Dimas, R. P.; Jiang, Xian-Li; Alberto de la Paz, Jose; Morcos, Faruck; Chan, C. T. Y. (Oxford University Press, 2019-04-24)

  Engineering allosteric transcriptional repressors containing an environmental sensing module (ESM) and a DNA recognition module (DRM) has the potential to unlock a combinatorial set of rationally designed biological ...

• RNA Control in Pain: Blame it on the Messenger 

  de la Peña, June Bryan I.; Song, Jane J.; Campbell, Zachary T. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2019-05-14)

  mRNA function is meticulously controlled. We provide an overview of the integral role that posttranscriptional controls play in the perception of painful stimuli by sensory neurons. These specialized cells, termed nociceptors, ...

• Automatic Speech Activity Recognition from MEG Signals Using Seq2Seq Learning 

  Dash, Debadatta; Ferrari, P.; Malik, S.; Wang, Jun (IEEE Computer Society, 2019-03)

  Accurate interpretation of speech activity from brain signals is critical for understanding the relationship between neural patterns and speech production. Current research on speech activity recognition from the brain ...

• Relative Activation Patterns Associated with Self-Transcendent and Self-Enhancement Core Values: An fMRI Study of Basic Human Values Theory Concepts in Males 

  Teed, Adam R.; Rakic, Jelena; Mark, D. B.; Krawcyzk, Daniel C. (Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2019-04-13)

  Core values have been shown to influence a variety of social behaviors, but research on the brain networks supporting their effects is sparse. While undergoing fMRI scanning, twenty male participants evaluated descriptions ...

• Vagus Nerve Stimulation Reverses the Extinction Impairments in a Model of PTSD with Prolonged and Repeated Trauma 

  Souza, Rimenez R.; Robertson, Nicole M.; Pruitt, David T.; Gonzales, Phillip A.; Hays, Seth A.; Rennaker, Robert L.; Kilgard, Michael P.; McIntyre, Crista K. (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2019-04-23)

  We have shown that vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) enhances extinction of conditioned fear and reduces anxiety in rat models of PTSD using moderate stress. However, it is still unclear if VNS can be effective in enhancing ...

• Ethics as a Rare Bird: A Challenge for Situated Studies of Ethics in the Engineering Lab 

  Lee, Eun Ah; Gans, N. R.; Grohman, Magdalena G.; Brown, Matthew J. (Routledge, 2019-04-25)

  Engineering ethics cannot be reduced to the ethics of individual engineers but must be considered in situ, within the sociocultural and environmental contexts of a research or design project. We studied teams in academic ...

• Gene Correction for SCID-X1 In Long-Term Hematopoietic Stem Cells 

  Pavel-Dinu, M.; Wiebking, V.; Dejene, B. T.; Srifa, W.; Mantri, S.; Nicolas, C. E.; Lee, C.; Bao, G.; Kildebeck, Eric J.; Punjya, N.; Sindhu, C.; Inlay, M. A.; Saxena, N.; DeRavin, S. S.; Malech, H.; Roncarolo, M. G.; Weinberg, K. I.; Porteus, M. H.

  Gene correction in human long-term hematopoietic stem cells (LT-HSCs) could be an effective therapy for monogenic diseases of the blood and immune system. Here we describe an approach for X-linked sSevere cCombined ...

• Transcriptome Analysis of the Human Tibial Nerve Identifies Sexually Dimorphic Expression of Genes Involved in Pain, Inflammation, and Neuro-Immunity 

  Ray, Pradipta R.; Khan, Jawad; Wangzhou, Andi; Tavares-Ferreira, Diana; Akopian, A. N.; Dussor, Gregory; Price, Theodore J.

  Sex differences in gene expression are important contributors to normal physiology and mechanisms of disease. This is increasingly apparent in understanding and potentially treating chronic pain where molecular mechanisms ...

• Photothermal Bimorph Actuators with In-Built Cooler for Light Mills, Frequency Switches, and Soft Robots 

  Li, J.; Zhang, Rui; Mou, L.; Jung de Andrade, Monica; Hu, X.; Yu, K.; Sun, J.; Jia, T.; Dou, Y.; Chen, H.; Fang, Shaoli; Qian, Dong; Liu, Z.

  Photothermal bimorph actuators are widely used for smart devices, which are generally operated in a room temperature environment, therefore a low temperature difference for actuation without deteriorating the performance ...

• Comparison among ECG Filtering Methods for Non-Linear Noise 

  Patwary, A. B.; Chowdhury, M. T. I.; Mamun, Nursadul

  Electrical functioning of the heart can be translated into a waveform known as Electrocardiography. Perfect diagnosis of heart is very much difficult due to different kinds of noise such as biological signal (EMG), power ...

• Environmental Dynamic Mechanical Analysis to Predict the Softening Behavior of Neural Implants 

  Hosseini, Seyed Mahmoud; Voit, Walter E.; Ecker, Melanie

  When using dynamically softening substrates for neural implants, it is important to have a reliable in vitro method to characterize the softening behavior of these materials. In the past, it has not been possible to ...

• Seasonal and Temporal Variations of Field-Aligned Currents and Ground Magnetic Deflections During Substorms 

  Forsyth, C.; Shortt, M.; Coxon, J. C.; Rae, I. J.; Freeman, M. P.; Kalmoni, N. M. E.; Jackman, C. M.; Anderson, B. J.; Milan, S. E.; Burrell, Angeline G.

  Field-aligned currents (FACs), also known as Birkeland currents, are the agents by which energy and momentum are transferred to the ionosphere from the magnetosphere and solar wind. This coupling is enhanced at substorm ...

• Neural Mechanisms of Behavioral Change in Young Adults with High-Functioning Autism Receiving Virtual Reality Social Cognition Training: A Pilot Study 

  Yang, Y. J. Daniel; Allen, Tandra; Abdullahi, Sebiha M.; Pelphrey, Kevin A.; Volkmar, Fred R.; Chapman, Sandra Bond

  Measuring treatment efficacy in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) relies primarily on behaviors, with limited evidence as to the neural mechanisms underlying these behavioral gains. This pilot study addresses ...

• Plasma Dynamics Associated with Equatorial Ionospheric Irregularities 

  Smith, Jonathon Matthew; Heelis, Roderick A.

  The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System satellite was operational from 2008, a period of deep solar minimum, to 2015, a period of moderate solar conditions. The behavior of the vertical plasma drift and the ...

• Optimization of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex for Tinnitus: A Non-Linear Dose-Response Effect 

  Shekhawat, Giriraj Singh; Vanneste, Sven; Shekhawat, Giriraj Singh

  Neuromodulation is defined as the process of augmenting neuroplasticity via invasive or non-invasive methods. Tinnitus is the perception of sound in the absence of its external source. The objective of this study was to ...

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