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Degradation of DP accounted for 55.3% and 78.1% of total DP output in seawater and sediment, respectively, indicating that degradation mainly affected decline of DP in the environment.We place an upper bound on the degree to which policies aimed at improving the information deficiencies of patients may lead to greater adherence to clinical guidelines and recommended practices. To do so, we compare the degree of adherence attained by a group of patients that should have the best possible information on health care practices-i.e., physicians as patients-with that attained by a comparable group of non-physician patients, taking various steps to account for unobservable differences between the two groups. Our results suggest that physicians, at best, do only slightly better in adhering to both low- and high-value care guidelines than non-physicians.Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) is currently the most detrimental disease in the U.S swine industry. Clinical signs of PRRS virus (PRRSv) infection in breeding herds include reproductive failure with abortions, stillbirths, premature farrowings and increased pre-weaning mortality. Serum from due-to-wean piglets is considered the most suitable specimen to monitor PRRSv infection and stability in breeding herds. However, processing fluids (PF - the serosanguinous exudate resultant of the collection of tails and testicles during processing) are a new specimen proposed to monitor piglets at processing (3-5 days of age) and udder wipes (UW) of lactating sows is yet another specimen to monitor infection status of suckling piglets indirectly. Here, we assessed which specimen type (e.g. Fenretinide ic50 sera, testicles, tails or UW) should be used to accurately establish the PRRSv status of a litter. Twenty-four litters were conveniently selected on a farm at 10 weeks post PRRSv outbreak. Blood samples, tails anddy provides information on the contribution of each of the tissues collected at processing on the detection of PRRSv, which becomes relevant in countries were castration and/or tail docking is banned.This study aimed to assess the relationship between quantitative assessments of clinical signs of respiratory disease (recorded manually and automatically) and the prevalence of lung lesions at slaughter to validate the use of both in the management of respiratory disease on farm. This was an observational study where pigs (n = 1573) were monitored from 25 ± 5.3 kg (week 12) to slaughter at 114 ± 15.4 kg (week 24). Pigs were housed in eight rooms divided into six pens on a wean-to-finish farm. A manual pen-based coughing (CF) and sneezing (SF) frequency was recorded weekly, for ten consecutive weeks, and a SOMO box (SoundTalks®) was installed in each room, issuing a daily respiratory distress index (RDI) for 13 weeks. Lungs were individually scored for pneumonia, scarring and dorsocaudal (DC) and cranial (CP) pleurisy lesions at slaughter. Relationship between prevalence of lung lesions and weekly RDI and CF and SF was assessed using Spearman's rank correlations and multivariable linear and logit-normal models. Both coughing and lung lesions were largely pen-specific, which fit the disease presentation of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae. Results showed agreement between RDI and CF (rs = 0.5, P 0.70; P less then 0.050). In the earlier weeks of the finisher stage, coughing was recorded but was not reflected in a higher prevalence of lung lesions at slaughter. These findings highlight the benefit of including measurements of coughing frequency to complement post mortem findings, to improve the management of respiratory disease on farm.
To model the global test-retest variability of visual fields (VFs) in glaucoma.

Retrospective cohort study.

Test-retest VFs from 4044 eyes of 4044 participants.

We selected 2 reliable VFs per eye measured with the Humphrey Field Analyzer (Swedish interactive threshold algorithm 24-2) within 30 days of each other. Each VF had fixation losses (FLs) of 33% or less, false-negative results (FNRs) of 20% or less, and false-positive results (FPRs) of 20% or less. Stepwise linear regression was applied to select the model best predicting the global test-retest variability from 3 categories of features of the first VF (1) base parameters (age, mean deviation, pattern standard deviation, glaucoma hemifield test results, FPR, FNR, and FL); (2) total deviation (TD) at each location; and (3) computationally derived archetype VF loss patterns. The global test-retest variability was defined as root mean square deviation (RMSD) of TD values at all 52 VF locations.

Archetype models to predict the global test-retest ess normal VF results and superior paracentral defect.

Inclusion of archetype VF loss patterns and TD values based on first VF improved the prediction of the global test-retest variability than using traditional global VF indices alone.
Inclusion of archetype VF loss patterns and TD values based on first VF improved the prediction of the global test-retest variability than using traditional global VF indices alone.Knowledge graph reasoning aims to find reasoning paths for relations over incomplete knowledge graphs (KG). Prior works may not take into account that the rewards for each position (vertex in the graph) may be different. We propose the distance-aware reward in the reinforcement learning framework to assign different rewards for different positions. We observe that KG embeddings are learned from independent triples and therefore cannot fully cover the information described in the local neighborhood. To this effect, we integrate a graph self-attention (GSA) mechanism to capture more comprehensive entity information from the neighboring entities and relations. To let the model remember the path, we incorporate the GSA mechanism with GRU to consider the memory of relations in the path. Our approach can train the agent in one-pass, thus eliminating the pre-training or fine-tuning process, which significantly reduces the problem complexity. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. We found that our model can mine more balanced paths for each relation.
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