Abstract Background In causal analyses, some third Immune System Support factor may distort the relationship between the exposure and the outcome variables under study, which gives spurious results.In this case, treatment groups and control groups that receive and do not receive the exposure are different from one another in some other essential va

People’s demand for high-traffic applications and the need for Internet of Things (IoT) are enormous in smart cities.The amount of data generated by virtual reality, high-definition video, and other IoT applications is growing at an exponential rate that far exceeds our expectations, and the types of data are becoming more diverse.It has beco

Assessment of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) after neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy (nCRT) is essential in rectal cancer staging and treatment planning.However, when predicting the pathologic complete response (pCR) after nCRT for rectal cancer, existing works either rely on simple quantitative evaluation based on radiomics features or partiall

Airflow in a multi-zone building can be a major cause of pollutant transfer, excessive energy consumption, and occupants discomfort.The key to monitoring airflows and mitigating related problems is to obtain a comprehensive understanding of pressure relationships within the buildings.This study proposes a visualization method for representing press

Mathieu Chappuy,1– 3 Fadi Meroueh,4 Benoit Trojak,5,6 Jérôme Bachellier,7 Patrick Bendimerad,8 Margaux Kosim,9,10 Peter Hjelmström,11 Philippe Nubukpo,12,13 Georges Brousse,14,15 Benjamin Rolland1,2,16 1Service Universitaire d’Addictologie de Lyon (SUAL), CH Le Vinatier, Bron, 69500, France; 2Service d’Addictolog