Effects of Dredge Material Placement on Macroinvertebrate Communities: Phase 1

ID: 8809; issued October 1, 1998INHS Technical Report prepared for Rock Island District, US Army Corps of Engineer

Alliance of Genome Resources Portal: unified model organism research platform

The Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance) is a consortium of the major model organism databases and the Gene Ontology that is guided by the vision of facilitating exploration of related genes in human and well-studied model organisms by providing a highly integrated and comprehensive platform that enables researchers to leverage the extensive body of genetic and genomic studies in these organisms. Initiated in 2016, the Alliance is building a central portal (www.alliancegenome.org) for access to data for the primary model organisms along with gene ontology data and human data. All data types represented in the Alliance portal (e.g. genomic data and phenotype descriptions) have common data models and workflows for curation. All data are open and freely available via a variety of mechanisms. Long-term plans for the Alliance project include a focus on coverage of additional model organisms including those without dedicated curation communities, and the inclusion of new data types with a particular focus on providing data and tools for the non-model-organism researcher that support enhanced discovery about human health and disease. Here we review current progress and present immediate plans for this new bioinformatics resource

Alliance of Genome Resources Portal: unified model organism research platform

The Alliance of Genome Resources (Alliance) is a consortium of the major model organism databases and the Gene Ontology that is guided by the vision of facilitating exploration of related genes in human and well-studied model organisms by providing a highly integrated and comprehensive platform that enables researchers to leverage the extensive body of genetic and genomic studies in these organisms. Initiated in 2016, the Alliance is building a central portal (www.alliancegenome.org) for access to data for the primary model organisms along with gene ontology data and human data. All data types represented in the Alliance portal (e.g. genomic data and phenotype descriptions) have common data models and workflows for curation. All data are open and freely available via a variety of mechanisms. Long-term plans for the Alliance project include a focus on coverage of additional model organisms including those without dedicated curation communities, and the inclusion of new data types with a particular focus on providing data and tools for the non-model-organism researcher that support enhanced discovery about human health and disease. Here we review current progress and present immediate plans for this new bioinformatics resource

The Long-Term Illinois River Fish Population Monitoring Program F-101-R-9 Annual Report

Report issued on: May 1998F-101-R-9 Annual Report issued May 1998INHS Technical Report prepared for Illinois Department of Natural Resource

The Long-Term Illinois River Fish Population Monitoring Program F-101-R-8 Annual Report

F-101-R-8 Annual Report issued December 1, 1997Report issued on: December 1997INHS Technical Report prepared for Illinois Department of Natural Resource

Retroperitoneal Fibrosis as a Cause of Positive FDG PET/CT

This article educates the reader on idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis and emphasizes the importance of considering conditions that mimic this disease on PET/CT through an illustrative case of a 58 year-old man presenting with intermittent abdominal, back, and scrotal pain undergoing successive PET/CT scans, both for diagnosis and following treatment

Moving upstream in the frailty trajectory

Frailty is a condition characterised by loss of biological reserves and vulnerability to a range of adverse outcomes[1, 2].The cumulative deficit and phenotype models of frailty are internationally established and validated, but both models mainly use performance-based or clinical and functional assessments to identify frailty[3, 4]. This approach provides an important framework around which to understand frailty, but consideration of frailty from a physiological approach may enable improved precision of diagnosis, including identification of subclinical frailty, allowing future upstream targeting of interventions. Efforts to identify subclinical frailty from a biological perspective are aligned with a life course approach to frailty[5], which may enable investigation of clustering of characteristics at different life stages, and help shape future health policy

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Calcified Lymph Nodes Causing Clinically Relevant Attenuation Correction Artifacts on PET/CT Imaging

There are several artifacts unique to PET/CT imaging, with CT-based attenuation correction (AC) artifacts being among the most commonly reported. AC artifacts from calcified lymph nodes represent clinically significant and easily misinterpreted PET/CT artifacts that have received little attention in the literature. In this case series, we report three cases of calcified lymph nodes causing an AC artifact and one case of a highly calcified lymph node without an AC artifact. All three cases of calcified lymph nodes causing an AC artifact would have resulted in a change in patient staging, and likely management, if the nodes had been misinterpreted as malignant nodes. In PET/CT imaging, this artifact needs to be considered as a potential cause of apparent FDG activity when calcified lymph nodes are present on the CT portion of a PET/CT study in order to avoid misinterpretation and potential patient mismanagement