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Cannabis sativa has been attributed to different pharmacological properties. A number of secondary metabolites such as tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabinol (CBD), and different analogs, with highly promising biological activity on CB
and CB
receptors, have been identified.

Thus, this study aimed was to evaluate the activity of THC, CBD, and their analogs using molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulations (MD) methods. Initially, the molecules (ligands) were selected by bioinformatics searches in databases. Subsequently, CB
and CB
receptors were retrieved from the protein data bank database. Afterward, each receptor and its ligands were optimized to perform molecular docking. Then, MD Simulation was performed with the most stable ligand-receptor complexes. Finally, the Molecular Mechanics-Generalized Born Surface Area (MM-PBSA) method was applied to analyze the binding free energy between ligands and cannabinoid receptors.

The results obtained showed that ligand LS-61176 presented the bolecule for experimental evaluation since it could have no central side-effects on CB1 and have effects of CB2 useful in pain, inflammation, and some immunological disorders. Docking results were validate using ROC curve for both cannabinoids receptor where AUC for CB1 receptor was 0.894±0.024, and for CB2 receptor AUC was 0.832±0032, indicating good affinity prediction.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common persistent cardiac arrhythmia in clinical practice, and its accurate screening is of great significance to avoid cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Electrocardiogram (ECG) is considered to be the most commonly used technique for detecting AF abnormalities. However, previous ECG-based deep learning algorithms did not take into account the complementary nature of inter-layer information, which may lead to insufficient AF screening. This study reports the first attempt to use hybrid multi-scale information in a global space for accurate and robust AF detection.

We propose a novel deep learning classification method, namely, global hybrid multi-scale convolutional neural network (i.e., GH-MS-CNN), to implement binary classification for AF detection. Unlike previous deep learning methods in AF detection, an ingenious hybrid multi-scale convolution (HMSC) module, for the advantage of automatically aggregating different types of complementary inter-layer multi-scale featuthat this research has made significant improvements in AF screening and has great potential for long-term monitoring of wearable devices.
The proposed GH-MS-CNN method has promising capabilities and great advantages in accurate and robust AF detection. It is assumed that this research has made significant improvements in AF screening and has great potential for long-term monitoring of wearable devices.Developing an efficient stent frame for transcatheter aortic valves (TAV) needs thorough investigation in different design and functional aspects. In recent years, most TAV studies have focused on their clinical performance, leaflet design, and durability. Although several optimization studies on peripheral stents exist, the TAV stents have different functional requirements and need to be explicitly studied. The aim of this study is to develop a cost-effective optimization framework to find the optimal TAV stent design made of Ni-Ti alloy. The proposed framework focuses on minimizing the maximum strain occurring in the stent during crimping, making use of a simplified model of the stent to reduce computational cost. The effect of the strut cross-section of the stent, i.e., width and thickness, and the number and geometry of the repeating units of the stent (both influencing the cell size) on the maximum strain is investigated. Three-dimensional simulations of the crimping process are used to verify the validity of the simplified representation of the stent, and the radial force has been calculated for further evaluation. The results suggest the key role of the number of cells (repeating units) and strut width on the maximum strain and, consequently, on the stent design. The difference in terms of the maximum strain between the simplified and the 3D model was less than 5%, confirming the validity of the adopted modeling strategy and the robustness of the framework to improve the TAV stent designs through a simple, cost-effective, and reliable procedure.The accurate diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a common mental disease in children, has always been an important task in clinical practice. In recent years, the use of graph neural network (GNN) based on functional brain network (FBN) has shown powerful performance for disease diagnosis. The challenge to construct "ideal" FBN from resting-state fMRI data remained. Moreover, it remains unclear whether and to what extent the non-Euclidean structure of different FBNs affect the performance of GNN-based disease classification. In this paper, we proposed a new method named Pearson's correlation-based Spatial Constraints Representation (PSCR) to estimate the FBN structures that were transformed to brain graphs and then fed into a graph attention network (GAT) to diagnose ASD. Extensive experiments on comparing different FBN construction methods and classification frameworks were conducted on the ABIDE I dataset (n = 871). The results demonstrated the superiority of our PSCR method and the influence of different FBNs on the GNN-based classification results. The proposed PSCR and GAT framework achieved promising classification results for ASD (accuracy 72.40%), which significantly outperformed competing methods. This will help facilitate patient-control separation, and provide a promising solution for future disease diagnosis based on the FBN and GNN framework.Following the research question and the relevant dataset, feature extraction is the most important component of machine learning and data science pipelines. The wavelet scattering transform (WST) is a recently developed knowledge-based feature extraction technique and is structurally like a convolutional neural network (CNN). It preserves information in high-frequency, is insensitive to signal deformations, and generates low variance features of real-valued signals generally required in classification tasks. With data from a publicly-available UCI database, we investigated the ability of WST-based features extracted from multichannel electroencephalogram (EEG) signals to discriminate 1.0-s EEG records of 20 male subjects with alcoholism and 20 male healthy subjects. Using record-wise 10-fold cross-validation, we found that WST-based features, inputted to a support vector machine (SVM) classifier, were able to correctly classify all alcoholic and normal EEG records. Similar performances were achieved with 1D CNN. In contrast, the highest independent-subject-wise mean 10-fold cross-validation performance was achieved with WST-based features fed to a linear discriminant (LDA) classifier. The results achieved with two 10-fold cross-validation approaches suggest that the WST together with a conventional classifier is an alternative to CNN for classification of alcoholic and normal EEGs. WST-based features from occipital and parietal regions were the most informative at discriminating between alcoholic and normal EEG records.
Post-overdose outreach programs engage survivors in harm reduction and treatment to prevent future overdoses. In Massachusetts, these emerging programs commonly deploy teams comprised of police and public health professionals based on 911 call information. check details Some teams use name/address data to conduct arrest warrant checks prior to outreach visits. We used mixed methods to understand approaches to outreach related to warrant checking, from the perspectives of police and public health outreach agencies and staff.

We analyzed a 2019 statewide survey of post-overdose outreach programs in Massachusetts to classify approaches to warrant checking and identify program and community factors associated with particular approaches. Ethnographic analysis of qualitative interviews conducted with outreach staff helped further contextualize outreach program practices related to warrants.

A majority (57% - 79/138) of post-overdose outreach programs in Massachusetts conducted warrant checks prior to outreach. Among prograengage overdose survivors. With the public health imperative of engaging overdose survivors, programs should consider limiting warrant checking and police participation in field activities.
Checking warrants prior to post-overdose outreach visits can result in arrest, delayed outreach, and barriers to obtaining services for overdose survivors, which can undermine the goal of these programs to engage overdose survivors. With the public health imperative of engaging overdose survivors, programs should consider limiting warrant checking and police participation in field activities.The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of geometric design on crash risk on freeway segments with closely spaced entrance and exit ramps. Traffic flow, geometric design features and crash data from 80 segments on 14 freeways in the state of California, United States were applied. A multilevel logistic regression model with cross-level interactions was developed, where traffic variables were put on the case level, and their estimated coefficients were defined as a function of geometric design variables on the segment level. A basic logistic model and a multilevel logistic model without cross-level interactions were developed for comparison. The result shows that the one with cross-level interactions provides the best goodness of fit. The results indicate that six categories of geometric design variables are significantly associated with crash risk, i.e. lane configuration, basic number of lanes, ramp spacing, theoretical gore, inner shoulder width and speed limit. All but one (inner should width) geometric design variables have significant interaction terms with traffic flow variables. The effects of geometric design variables on crash risk are not fixed but vary with traffic conditions. The findings of this study can provide design guidance to improve road safety of freeway segments with closely spaced entrance and exit ramps.Preventing and mitigating high severity collisions is one of the main opportunities for Automated Driving Systems (ADS) to improve road safety. This study evaluated the Waymo Driver's performance within real-world fatal collision scenarios that occurred in a specific operational design domain (ODD). To address the rare nature of high-severity collisions, this paper describes the addition of novel techniques to established safety impact assessment methodologies. A census of fatal, human-involved collisions was examined for years 2008 through 2017 for Chandler, AZ, which overlaps the current geographic ODD of the Waymo One fully automated ride-hailing service. Crash reconstructions were performed on all available fatal collisions that involved a passenger vehicle as one of the first collision partners and an available map in this ODD to determine the pre-impact kinematics of the vehicles involved in the original crashes. The final dataset consisted of a total of 72 crashes and 91 vehicle actors (52 initiators and 39 responders) for simulations.
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