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Visualization method selection according to task and system characteristics for HMD-based AR task support
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Pretraining Language Models using Hyperlinks and Entity Relations for Multi-hop Question Answering
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Towards Automated Malware Analysis for Understanding Characteristics in Malicious Capability Using Dynamic Analysis
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Distinctive alterations in the mesocorticolimbic circuits in various psychiatric disorders
No full textAim: Increasing evidence suggests that psychiatric disorders are linked to alterations in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine-related circuits. However, the common and disease-specific alterations remain to be examined in schizophrenia (SCZ), major depressive disorder (MDD), and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Thus, this study aimed to examine common and disease-specific features related to mesocorticolimbic circuits.
Methods: This study included 555 participants from four institutes with five scanners: 140 individuals with SCZ (45.0% female), 127 individuals with MDD (44.9%), 119 individuals with ASD (15.1%), and 169 healthy controls (HC) (34.9%). All participants underwent resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging. A parametric empirical Bayes approach was adopted to compare estimated effective connectivity among groups. Intrinsic effective connectivity focusing on the mesocorticolimbic dopamine-related circuits including the ventral tegmental area (VTA), shell and core parts of the nucleus accumbens (NAc), and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) were examined using a dynamic causal modeling analysis across these psychiatric disorders.
Results: The excitatory shell-to-core connectivity was greater in all patients than in the HC group. The inhibitory shell-to-VTA and shell-to-mPFC connectivities were greater in the ASD group than in the HC, MDD, and SCZ groups. Furthermore, the VTA-to-core and VTA-to-shell connectivities were excitatory in the ASD group, while those connections were inhibitory in the HC, MDD, and SCZ groups.
Conclusion: Impaired signaling in the mesocorticolimbic dopamine-related circuits could be an underlying neuropathogenesis of various psychiatric disorders. These findings will improve the understanding of unique neural alternations of each disorder and will facilitate identification of effective therapeutic targets.journal articl
MOLASS: Software for automatic processing of matrix data obtained from small-angle X-ray scattering and UV$2013visible spectroscopy combined with size-exclusion chromatography
Get PDFRecent small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) for biological macromolecules (BioSAXS) is generally combined with size-exclusion chromatography (SEC-SAXS) at synchrotron facilities worldwide. For SEC-SAXS analysis, the final scattering profile for the target molecule is calculated from a large volume of continuously collected data. It would be ideal to automate this process; however, several complex problems exist regarding data measurement and analysis that have prevented automation. Here, we developed the analytical software MOLASS (Matrix Optimization with Low-rank factorization for Automated analysis of SEC-SAXS) to automatically calculate the final scattering profiles for solution structure analysis of target molecules. In this paper, the strategies for automatic analysis of SEC-SAXS data are described, including correction of baseline-drift using a low percentile method, optimization of peak decompositions composed of multiple scattering components using modified Gaussian fitting against the chromatogram, and rank determination for extrapolation to infinite dilution. In order to easily calculate each scattering component, the Moore-Penrose pseudo-inverse matrix is adopted as a basic calculation. Furthermore, this analysis method, in combination with UV$2013visible spectroscopy, led to better results in terms of accuracy in peak decomposition. Therefore, MOLASS will be able to smoothly suggest to users an accurate scattering profile for the subsequent structural analysis.data pape
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