The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has revolutionised public health microbiology. Given the potential impact of NGS, it is paramount to ensure standardisation of 'wet' laboratory and bioinformatic protocols and promote comparability of methods employed by different laboratories and their outputs. Therefore, one of the ambitious goals of the Global Microbial Identifier (GMI) initiati...

The Greenhouse gases Monitoring Instrument on GaoFen-5 satellite-II (GMI-II) uses spatial heterodyne spectroscopy (SHS) for quantitative monitoring of atmospheric greenhouse (GHG). Unlike the traditional SHS, interferometer component GMI-II was designed with zero optical path difference offset, effectively improving spectral resolution while maintaining same detector specifications. secondary i...

BACKGROUND In acupuncture practice, the most important step is to confirm the location of a sensitized acupoint which reflects a diagnosis and can be stimulated with a specialized needle to treat the disease. Abnormal symptoms such as hyperalgesia or allodynia at the sensitized acupoints in patients with visceral disorders are considered to be in relation with referred pain and neurogenic infla...

This paper introduces the Method of Microwave Rainfall Normalization (MMN) for Global Satellite Mapping Precipitation (GSMaP) algorithm in its latest version (V05, 8), released December 2021. The method aims to mitigate discrepancy GSMaP rainfall estimates among passive microwave (PMW) imagers/sounders (MWIs/MWSs) due differences sensor specifications and retrieval algorithms. basic idea MMN mo...

Diet has long been identified as a major determinant of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases. In this study, we assess the relation between adherence to different dietary patterns biochemical metabolic parameters well 10-year risk diseases (CVDs) in community blood donors Northern Italy. We their four patterns, namely, Dietary Approach Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, Mediterranean diet thro...

Accurate registration of 18F-FDG PET (positron emission tomography) and CT (computed tomography) images has important clinical significance in radiation oncology. PET and CT images are acquired from (18)F-FDG PET/CT scanner, but the two acquisition processes are separate and take a long time. As a result, there are position errors in global and deformable errors in local caused by respiratory m...

This paper presents several very interesting diagnostics for a comprehensive process-oriented validation of CCMs and CTMs in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) and their application to the GMI CTM. It hence is a valuable contribution to ongoing validation activities within the different communities (e.g. QUANTIFY or CCMVal). However, the presentation and discussion of some diagnost...