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Among low-CU adolescents, neural response patterns while viewing fearful faces were most consistently similar early in the visual processing stream and among regions implicated in affective responding, but were more idiosyncratic as emotional face information moved up the cortical processing hierarchy. By contrast, high-CU adolescents' neural response patterns consistently aligned along the entire cortical hierarchy (but diverged among low-CU youths). Observed patterns varied across contexts, suggesting that interpretations of fearful expressions depend to an extent on neural response patterns and are further shaped by levels of CU traits.A growing body of research supports the value of a multimodal assessment approach, drawing on measures from different response modalities, for clarifying how core biobehavioral processes relate to various clinical problems and dimensions of psychopathology. Using data for 507 healthy adults, the current study was undertaken to integrate self-report and neurophysiological (brain potential) measures as a step toward a multimodal measurement model for the trait of affiliative capacity (AFF) - a biobehavioral construct relevant to adaptive and maladaptive social-interpersonal functioning. Individuals low in AFF exhibit a lack of interpersonal connectedness, deficient empathy, and an exploitative-aggressive social style that may be expressed transdiagnostically in antagonistic externalizing or distress psychopathology. Specific aims were to (1) integrate trait scale and brain potential indicators into a multimodal measure of AFF and (2) evaluate associations of this multimodal measure with criterion variables of different types. Results demonstrated (1) success in creating a multimodal measure of AFF from self-report and neural indicators, (2) effectiveness of this measure in predicting both clinical-diagnostic and neurophysiological criterion variables, and (3) transdiagnostic utility of the multimodal measure at both specific-disorder and broad symptom-dimension levels. Our findings further illustrate the value of psychoneurometric operationalizations of biobehavioral trait dimensions as referents for clarifying transdiagnostic relationships between biological systems variables and empirically defined dimensions of psychopathology.
The data in a patient's laboratory test result is a notable resource to support clinical investigation and enhance medical research. However, for a variety of reasons, this type of data often contains a non-trivial number of missing values. For example, physicians may neglect to order tests or document the results. Such a phenomenon reduces the degree to which this data can be utilized to learn efficient and effective predictive models. see more To address this problem, various approaches have been developed to impute missing laboratory values; however, their performance has been limited. This is due, in part, to the fact no approaches effectively leverage the contextual information 1) in individual or 2) between laboratory test variables.

We introduce an approach to combine an unsupervised prefilling strategy with a supervised machine learning approach, in the form of extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), to leverage both types of context for imputation purposes. We evaluated the methodology through a series of experiments on approximately 8,200 patients' records in the MIMIC-III dataset.

The results demonstrate that the new model outperforms baseline and state-of-the-art models on 13 commonly collected laboratory test variables. In terms of the normalized root mean square derivation (nRMSD), our model exhibits an imputation improvement by over 20%, on average.

Missing data imputation on the temporal variables can be largely improved via prefilling strategy and the supervised training technique, which leverages both the longitudinal and cross-sectional context simultaneously.
Missing data imputation on the temporal variables can be largely improved via prefilling strategy and the supervised training technique, which leverages both the longitudinal and cross-sectional context simultaneously.
Identify mechanisms associated with video-game-related gains in cognitive functioning.

Seventy-nine older adults (Mean age = 72.72,
= 7.16) participated in a pretest-posttest intervention study. A video game that required four cognitive abilities was developed. The game had two modes (1) variable priority training (VPT) and (2) single priority training (SPT). After a pretest session, participants completed a battery of cognitive tasks and 'were randomly assigned to either the VPT (
= 42) or the SPT mode (
= 37) for an average of 15.94 (
= 2.15) one-hour game play sessions. Post-testing was administrated within one week after completion of training.

Time (pretest/posttest) by game mode (VPT/SPT) interactions were examined using Multivariate Repeated Measure ANOVAs. No significant multivariate training effects were observed.

Results suggest that VPT may not be the underlying mechanism responsible for video-game-related gains in cognition. Our results also cast doubts on whether playing video games could lead to cognitive enhancements in older adults.
Results suggest that VPT may not be the underlying mechanism responsible for video-game-related gains in cognition. Our results also cast doubts on whether playing video games could lead to cognitive enhancements in older adults.Biuret, a common impurity in urea fertilizers, is toxic to plants, but little is known about the physiological mechanisms underlying its toxicity. Here, we analyzed biuret toxicity in rice (Oryza sativa) plants. We carried out uptake experiments using 15N-labelled biuret and demonstrated that biuret could reach sub millimolar concentrations in rice plants. We also demonstrated that the hydrolysis of biuret in plant cells could confer biuret tolerance to rice plants. This occurred because transgenic rice plants that overexpressed an exogenous biuret hydrolase cloned from a soil bacterium gained improved tolerance to biuret toxicity. Our results indicate that biuret toxicity is not an indirect toxicity caused by the presence of biuret outside the roots, and that biuret is not quickly metabolized in wild-type rice plants. Additionally, it was suggested that biuret was used as an additional nitrogen source in transgenic rice plants, because biuret hydrolase-overexpressing rice plants accumulated more biuret-derived N, as compared to wild-type rice.
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