13 results for "Ghaffar, Muhammad"
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Antiphagocytic protein 1 increases the susceptibility of Cryptococcus neoformans to amphotericin B and fluconazole
Cryptococcus neoformans is a facultative intracellular pathogen responsible for the most common cause of fungal meningioencephalitis, occurring primarily in immunocompromised individuals. Antiphagocytic protein 1 (App1) is a virulence factor produced by C. neoformans that inhibits phagocytosis of…
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YOLO-Night: Lighting the Path for Autonomous Vehicles with Robust Nighttime Perception
HIGHLIGHTS: What are the main findings? A nighttime-oriented YOLO framework (YOLO-Night) is proposed, integrating feature conditioning, adaptive receptive fields, and staged multi-scale fusion to improve detection robustness under low-illumination conditions. YOLO-Night achieved substantially…
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Statin-induced necrotising autoimmune myopathy: a rare complication of statin therapy
Statin-induced necrotising autoimmune myopathy (SINAM), a rare complication of statin use, presents with significant proximal muscle weakness and raised creatine kinase (CK) levels (50–100 times). This is different from other musculoskeletal conditions caused by statin use…
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Adaptive Cross-Modal Denoising: Enhancing LiDAR–Camera Fusion Perception in Adverse Circumstances
HIGHLIGHTS: What are the main findings? An Adaptive Cross-Modal Denoising (ACMD) framework is presented, introducing a reliability-driven uni-directional fusion mechanism that selectively refines the noisy modality using semantic cues from the cleaner sensor. A novel attention-based ABC + CMD…
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Pengaruh Plugging Terhadap Kinerja High Pressure Heater Tipe Shell and U-Tube Heat Exchanger (Studi Kasus: Unit 1- 4 di PT ABC)
High Pressure Heater (HPH) is an auxiliary component used to be required in regenerative steam power plants. The component is a heat exchanger utilized to enhance the power plant’s efficiency by enabling high pressure heating process for feedwater before entering the economizer in boiler using bled…
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Analytical Study on Urban Expansion Using the Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Land Use Change in Faisalabad City, Pakistan
Urban expansion and unparalleled rural to urban conversion, along with an enormous population growth are influential forces changing land use in metropolitan areas. The current work determined temporal and spatial alteration in built-up area, agriculture land, barren land and water area by using…
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iDocChip: A Configurable Hardware Accelerator for an End-to-End Historical Document Image Processing
In recent years, there has been an increasing demand to digitize and electronically access historical records. Optical character recognition (OCR) is typically applied to scanned historical archives to transcribe them from document images into machine-readable texts. Many libraries offer special…
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The NWRD Dataset: An Open-Source Annotated Segmentation Dataset of Diseased Wheat Crop
Wheat stripe rust disease (WRD) is extremely detrimental to wheat crop health, and it severely affects the crop yield, increasing the risk of food insecurity. Manual inspection by trained personnel is carried out to inspect the disease spread and extent of damage to wheat fields. However, this is…
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Intratendinous Ganglionic Cyst of Semimembranosus: A Rare Cause of Thigh Swelling
Ganglionic cysts are common swellings of the hands. Various mechanisms are thought to generate these lesions, such as cystic mucoid degeneration and inflammation. Typically, ganglionic cysts are asymptomatic but can cause pain. They usually originate from soft tissues like ligaments, joint…
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IL28B rs12979860 polymorphism and zinc supplementation affect treatment outcome and liver fibrosis after direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C therapy
BACKGROUND: Impact of interleukin 28B (IL28B) rs12979860 polymorphism on response to direct-acting antivirals agents in HCV genotype 4-infected patients is under investigation. Zinc may have an advantage in improvement of liver damage and treatment outcome. We aimed to evaluate IL28B polymorphism…
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Survival and outcomes for co-infection of chronic hepatitis C with and without cirrhosis and COVID-19: A multicenter retrospective study
BACKGROUND: Chronic liver disease, particularly cirrhosis, is associated with worse outcomes in patients infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). AIM: To assess outcomes of COVID-19 infection among patients with pre-existing hepatitis C with or without liver cirrhosis. METHODS: This…
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Predictors of severity and development of critical illness of Egyptian COVID-19 patients: A multicenter study
OBJECTIVES: We conducted the present multicenter, retrospective study to assess the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and radiological characteristics associated with critical illness among patients with COVID-19 from Egypt. METHODS: The present study was a multicenter, retrospective study…
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COVID-19 Pandemic Preparedness in Egypt's Teaching Hospitals: A Needs Assessment Study
INTRODUCTION: Regular collection and monitoring of data describing the dynamics of the utilization of healthcare services, especially in teaching hospitals (TH), which provide model quality medical services, are critical for COVID-19 pandemic preparedness. METHODS: The researchers analyzed data and…