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Effect of voice-region-of-interest bolus-tracking protocol for pre-procedural (catheter ablation) cardiac computed tomography in atrial fibrillation patient
We compared the arterial contrast enhancement and image noise reduction between the conventional bolus-tracking and voice-region-of-interest (ROI) bolus-tracking techniques in cardiac computed tomography (CCT)...
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The effect of the scatter correction obtained using single scatter simulations with CT- and MR-based attenuation maps for 18F-FDG brain PET
Attenuation correction (AC) and scatter correction (SC) are essential steps for accurate PET quantification in positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) and PET/magnetic resonance (MR) imagin...
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Open AccessEmotional well-being and gut microbiome profiles by enterotype
With increasing attention being paid to improving emotional well-being, recent evidence points to gut microbiota as a key player in regulating mental and physical health via bidirectional communication between...
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UBCG: Up-to-date bacterial core gene set and pipeline for phylogenomic tree reconstruction
Genome-based phylogeny plays a central role in the future taxonomy and phylogenetics of Bacteria and Archaea by replacing 16S rRNA gene phylogeny. The concatenated core gene alignments are frequently used for suc...
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A large-scale evaluation of algorithms to calculate average nucleotide identity
Average nucleotide identity (ANI) is a category of computational analysis that can be used to define species boundaries of Archaea and Bacteria. Calculating ANI usually involves the fragmentation of genome seq...
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Open AccessA single gene of a commensal microbe affects host susceptibility to enteric infection
Indigenous microbes inside the host intestine maintain a complex self-regulating community. The mechanisms by which gut microbes interact with intestinal pathogens remain largely unknown. Here we identify a co...
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Open AccessMucosal and salivary microbiota associated with recurrent aphthous stomatitis
Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is a common oral mucosal disorder of unclear etiopathogenesis. Although recent studies of the oral microbiota by high-throughput sequencing of 16S rRNA genes have suggested ...
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Fungal community associated with genetically modified poplar during metal phytoremediation
Due to the increasing demand for phytoremediation, many transgenic poplars have been developed to enhance the bioremediation of heavy metals. However, structural changes to indigenous fungal communities by gen...
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Comparative approach to capture bacterial diversity of coastal waters
Despite the revolutionary advancements in DNA sequencing technology and cultivation techniques, few studies have been done to directly compare these methods. In this study, a 16S rRNA gene-based, integrative a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Supporting both client-server and peer-to-peer models in a framework of a distributed object management system
Application models of distributed applications are various so that a model appropriate for an application can be inappropriate for other applications. For example, client-server model is the most generally use...
