Recurrent urinary tract infection and estrogen shape the taxonomic ecology and function of the postmenopausal urogenital microbiome (open access)

Recurrent urinary tract infection and estrogen shape the taxonomic ecology and function of the postmenopausal urogenital microbiome

Article describes how postmenopausal women are severely affected by recurrent urinary tract infection (rUTI). The authors perform shotgun metagenomics and advanced culture on urine from a controlled cohort of postmenopausal women to identify urogenital microbiome compositional and function changes linked to rUTI susceptibility.
Date: October 18, 2022
Creator: Neugent, Michael D.; Kumar, Ashwani; Hulyalkar, Neha V.; Lutz, Kevin C.; Nguyen, Vivian H.; Fuentes, Jorge L. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Autoencoder Composite Scoring to Evaluate Prosthetic Performance in Individuals with Lower Limb Amputation (open access)

Autoencoder Composite Scoring to Evaluate Prosthetic Performance in Individuals with Lower Limb Amputation

Authors of the article created an overall assessment metric using a deep learning autoencoder to directly compare clinical outcomes in a comparison of lower limb amputees using two different prosthetic devices—a mechanical knee and a microprocessor-controlled knee. The proposed methods were used on data collected from ten participants with a dysvascular transfemoral amputation recruited for a prosthetics research study.
Date: October 18, 2022
Creator: Tabashum, Thasina; Xiao, Ting; Jayaraman, Chandrasekaran; Mummidisetty, Chaithanya K.; Jayaraman, Arun & Albert, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library