the traceability and detection of Astragalus . Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture . 2024 ; 104 ( 10 ): 5930 – 5943 . Doi : 10.1002 / jsfa . 13450 .
Background : Astragalus is a widely used traditional Chinese medicine material that is easily confused due to its quality , price and other factors derived from different origins . This article describes a novel method for the rapid tracing and detection of Astragalus via the joint application of an electronic tongue ( ET ) and an electronic eye ( EE ) combined with a lightweight convoluted neural network ( CNN ) -transformer model . First , ET and EE systems were employed to measure the taste fingerprints and appearance images , respectively , of different Astragalus samples . Three spectral transform methods - the Markov transition field , short-time Fourier transform and recurrence plot - were utilized to convert the ET signals into 2D spectrograms . Then , the obtained ET spectrograms were fused with the EE image to obtain multimodal information . A lightweight hybrid model , termed GETNet , was designed to achieve pattern recognition for the Astragalus fusion information . The proposed model employed an improved transformer module and an improved Ghost bottleneck as its backbone network , complementarily utilizing the benefits of CNN and transformer architectures for local and global feature representation . Furthermore , the Ghost bottleneck was further optimized using a channel attention technique , which boosted the model ' s feature extraction effectiveness .
Results : The experiments indicate that the proposed data fusion strategy based on ET and EE devices has better recognition accuracy than that attained with independent sensing devices .
Conclusion : The proposed method achieved high precision ( 99.1 %) and recall ( 99.1 %) values , providing a novel approach for rapidly identifying the origin of Astragalus , and it holds great promise for applications involving other types of Chinese herbal medicines .
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Sagheer ZS , Dawood HA . Effectiveness of foot massage on selected physiological parameters among patients with acute coronary syndrome . Current Problems in Cardiology . 2024 ; 49 ( 11 ): 102780 . https :// doi . org / 10.1016 / j . cpcardiol . 2024.102780
Background : Acute coronary syndrome characterizes the spectrum of myocardial ischemia states , which include non-ST elevated myocardial infarction ( MI ), and angina .
Objective : The aim of the present study is to determine the effectiveness of foot massage on selected physiological parameters among patients with acute coronary syndrome .
Methods : A quasi-experimental study was conducted in Karbala Center for Cardiac Diseases and Surgery from December 25th , 2023 , to May 7th , 2024 . A nonprobability purposive sampling consisted of 60 patients with acute coronary syndrome in the intervention group were instructed to performed four-step foot massage similarly 5 min for each foot . While patients in the control group just received routine medical treatment . The physiological parameters were checked in the two groups before , after 5 min , and 10 min after the foot massage . The study instrument consisted of two main parts : part one included patient ' s socio demographics and clinical data , and the second part was used to assess the physiological parameters . Statistical tests were conducted using the software SPSS , version 24 , with a level of significance of 5 % ( p value < 0.05 ).
Results : That are a significant statistical differences between the mean of the selected physiological parameters readings for the study group except reading of pulse pressure , while there is no significant statistical difference between the mean of the readings of the selected physiological parameters for the control group except the reading of heart rate .
Conclusion : The study found that the foot massage is effective for improving the blood pressure , heart rate , mean arterial pressure .
Hou Y , Liu F , Lin N , Gao S . Systematic review and meta-analysis of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation ( rTMS ) for activities of daily living in Alzheimer ’ s disease . Neurological Sciences : Official Journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology . . 2024 . Doi : 10.1007 / s10072-024-07709-z .
Objective : This systematic review of randomized controlled trials ( RCTs ) was conducted to assess the effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation ( rTMS ) on activities of daily living ( ADLs ) in Alzheimer ' s disease ( AD ) patients .
Data Sources : Ten databases were retrieved for pertinent Chinese and English literatures published up until January 2024 .
Review Methods : All RCTs of rTMS for ADLs in AD were included in this meta-analysis . Two researchers independently selected the literatures , retrieved the data of included literatures , accessed risk-of-bias of literatures with the Cochrane Collaboration ' s quality criteria and then cross-checked . Metaanalysis was carried out with Cochrane ' s Review Manager ( RevMan , version 5.4 ). The PRISMA guidelines were followed in this systematic review .
Results : The 37 literatures involving 2461 patients with AD were included in this study . Compared with the control groups received the interventions such as routine pharmacotherapy , cognitive training , ect ., with / without sham-rTMS , the experiment groups received the interventions of the control groups and rTMS . The findings were as follows : ADL scale [ mean difference ( MD ) = -3.92 , 95 % CI ( -4.93 , -2.91 ), P < 0.00001 ]; Barthel Index ( BI ) [ MD = 9.75 , 95 % CI ( 6.66 , 12.85 ), P < 0.00001 ]; Modified Barthel Index ( MBI ) [ MD = 5.43 , 95 % CI ( 3.13 , 7.73 ), P < 0.00001 ]. The differences were statistically significant for all indicators .
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