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Real‐World Performance of CSF Kappa Free Light Chains in the 2024 McDonald Criteria

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Kappa free light chains (KFLCs) in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have a similar performance to CSF‐restricted oligoclonal bands (OCB) for multiple sclerosis (MS) diagnosis. To help with implementation, we set out to resolve several remaining uncertainties: (1) performance in a real‐world cohort and the 2024 McDonald criteria; (2 ...
Maya M. Leibowitz, Ryan Cooper, Stefania Kaninia, Kathryn I. Challis, Will Greenway, Maria Bonello, Mahmoud Elbahnasawi, Deborah T. Shode, Dominika Gajdasik, Victor Iliev, Alison M. E. Whitelegg, Ian Galea   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Use of Videoconferencing as a Medium for the Qualitative Interview

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2009
Qualitative data collection, especially conducting in-person interviews, presents challenges for researchers whose participants are geographically dispersed. Often alternative means of interviewing using communication technology are necessary.
Monique Sedgwick RN, PhD, Jude Spiers RN, PhD   +1 more
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Monodisperse atomizers for agricultural aviation applications [PDF]

Conceptual designs of two monodisperse spray nozzles are described and the rationale used in each design is discussed. The nozzles were designed to eliminate present problems in agricultural aviation applications, such as ineffective plant coverage ...
Christensen, L. S., Steely, S. L.
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Whole‐Body Pattern of Muscle Degeneration and Progression in Sarcoglycanopathies

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To characterize whole‐body intramuscular fat distribution pattern in patients with sarcoglycanopathies and explore correlations with disease severity, duration and age at onset. Methods Retrospective, cross‐sectional, multicentric study enrolling patients with variants in one of the four sarcoglycan genes who underwent whole‐body ...
Laura Costa‐Comellas, Mauro Monforte, Angel Sanchez‐Montañez, Penélope Romero‐Duque, Elena Pegoraro, Jordi Díaz‐Manera, Dmitry Vlodavets, Lorenzo Maggi, Marco Moscatelli, Adele D‘Amico, Montse Olivé, Jorge Alonso‐Pérez, Giacomo Comi, José Miguel Escudero‐Fernández, Gabriela S. Urcuyo, Anna Pichiecchio, Angela Berardinelli, Kristl G. Claeys, Claudio Bruno, Chiara Panicucci, Sara Bortolani, Eleonora Torchia, Enzo Ricci, Soledad Monges, Jorge A. Bevilacqua, Jorge Diaz‐Jara, Maggie C. Walter, Simone Thiele, Nicoline Løkken, John Vissing, Susana Quijano‐Roy, Robert Y. Carlier, Nicol C. Voermans, Chiara Marini‐Bettolo, Michela Guglieri, Volker Straub, Lea Leonardis, Francina Munell, David Gómez‐Andrés, Giorgio Tasca   +39 more
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INFORMATIONAL TRANSPARENCY OF LISTED AND NON-LISTED COMPANIES [PDF]

Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie, 2018
Transparency regarding the economic and financial information of economic entities is a necessary condition for substantiating stakeholders decisions, but it is sometimes viewed as a way of compromising the image of the company, especially if that ...
MIHALCEA MIHAELA MARIA, BURJA VASILE
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Central Bank's Two-Way Communication with the Public and Inflation Dynamics [PDF]

Using a model of island economy where financial markets aggregate dispersed information of the public, we analyze how two-way communication between the central bank and the public affects inflation dynamics.
Kosuke Aoki, Takeshi Kimura
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First astrophysical results from AMBER/VLTI

, 2006
The AMBER instrument installed at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) combines three beams from as many telescopes to produce spectrally dispersed fringes from milli-arcsecond angular scale in the near infrared.
Collaboration, the AMBER consortium, De Souza, Armando Domiciano, Malbet, Fabien, Millour, Florentin, Petrov, Romain G., Stee, Philippe, Tatulli, Eric, Weigelt, Gerd   +7 more
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Brainstem and Cerebellar Volume Loss and Associated Clinical Features in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP) is a neurodegenerative ‘tauopathy’ with predominating pathology in the basal ganglia and midbrain. Caudal tau spread frequently implicates the cerebellum; however, the pattern of atrophy remains equivocal.
Chloe Spiegel, Timothy P. Siejka, Cassandra Marotta, Josh J. Y. Lee, Kelly Bertram, Terence J. O'Brien, Meng Law, Lucy Vivash, Ian H. Harding   +8 more
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Diffusion Spectrum Imaging Maps Early Axonal Loss and a Unique Progressive Signal in Neuronal Intranuclear Inclusion Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To delineate specific in vivo white matter pathology in neuronal intranuclear inclusion disease (NIID) using diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) and define its clinical relevance. Methods DSI was performed on 42 NIID patients and 38 matched controls.
Kaiyan Jiang, Yixiu Pei, Xiaobao Hu, Ying Xiong, Fang Wang, Yanyan Yu, Min Zhu, Dandan Tan, Meihong Zhou, Daojun Hong, Fuqing Zhou   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dispersion for Data-Driven Algorithm Design, Online Learning, and Private Optimization

, 2018
Data-driven algorithm design, that is, choosing the best algorithm for a specific application, is a crucial problem in modern data science. Practitioners often optimize over a parameterized algorithm family, tuning parameters based on problems from their
Balcan, Maria-Florina, Dick, Travis, Vitercik, Ellen   +2 more
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