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  1. Article ; Online: The Joe-Lin Operative Classification System for Pediatric Lumbosacral Spondylolysis and Spondylolisthesis.

    Lin, Tao / Zhang, Zheng / Jiang, Qingjun / Yin, Jia / Ma, Xiao / Wang, Ce / Zhou, Xuhui

    World neurosurgery

    2020  Volume 142, Page(s) e18–e31

    Abstract: Objective: To propose and validate a novel and comprehensive classification of lumbosacral spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis in the pediatric population according to surgical managements.: Methods: Cases of pediatric lumbosacral (L5/S1 level) ... ...

    Abstract Objective: To propose and validate a novel and comprehensive classification of lumbosacral spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis in the pediatric population according to surgical managements.
    Methods: Cases of pediatric lumbosacral (L5/S1 level) spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis were reviewed. Lumbar Japanese Orthopedics Association score, health-related quality of life, spondylolisthesis, lumbosacral disc degeneration, and dysplastic features were included for evaluation of outcomes after surgery. We also conducted a reliability study to assess the classification.
    Results: A classification containing 4 types and a tentative treatment algorithm were proposed: type 1, direct pars repair without segmented fusion, for which the pedicle screw-U rod system is suitable; type 2, simple L5-S1 fusion; type 3, simple L4-S1 fusion; and type 4, simple L5-S2 fusion. All types of spondylolisthesis were suggested to achieve complete reduction and decompression. A total of 162 patients were included and we also reviewed the outcomes of patients in each type. All patients achieved satisfied outcomes. The reliability study showed that the average interobserver agreement was 89.5% (range, 85.2%-92.6%), with κ value of 0.862 (range, 0.802-0.901). Intraobserver agreement ranged from 88.9% to 92.6%, with an average κ value of 0.868 (range, 0.835-0.901).
    Conclusions: In our study, we proposed and validated a novel comprehensive classification of pediatric lumbosacral spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis. The pedicle screw-U rod system provided more benefits in the treatment of simple lumbosacral spondylolysis, and fusion from L5 to S2 combined with S2 screw would also benefit patients with high-degree spondylolisthesis.
    MeSH term(s) Adolescent ; Child ; Female ; Humans ; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration/classification ; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration/diagnostic imaging ; Intervertebral Disc Degeneration/surgery ; Lumbar Vertebrae/diagnostic imaging ; Lumbar Vertebrae/surgery ; Male ; Pedicle Screws ; Quality of Life ; Reproducibility of Results ; Sacrum/diagnostic imaging ; Sacrum/surgery ; Spinal Fusion/methods ; Spondylolisthesis/classification ; Spondylolisthesis/diagnostic imaging ; Spondylolisthesis/surgery ; Spondylolysis/classification ; Spondylolysis/diagnostic imaging ; Spondylolysis/surgery ; Treatment Outcome
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-05-17
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2534351-8
    ISSN 1878-8769 ; 1878-8750
    ISSN (online) 1878-8769
    ISSN 1878-8750
    DOI 10.1016/j.wneu.2020.05.101
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  2. Article: Registration of ‘Joe’ Hard White Winter Wheat

    Zhang, Guorong / Martin, Terry J / Fritz, Allan K / Miller, Rebecca / Chen, Ming-Shun / Bowden, Robert L / Bai, Guihua

    Journal of plant registrations. 2016 Sept., v. 10, no. 3

    2016  

    Abstract: Joe’ (Reg. No. CV-1119, PI 676270) hard white winter wheat (L.) was developed at the Agricultural ... in 2015. Joe was selected from a single cross of KS04HW101-3/KS04HW119-3 made in 2005 at Hays, KS ... production in western Kansas. Joe was developed using a modified bulk breeding method. Joe is an F–derived ...

    Abstract Joe’ (Reg. No. CV-1119, PI 676270) hard white winter wheat (L.) was developed at the Agricultural Research Center-Hays, Kansas State University, and released by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station in 2015. Joe was selected from a single cross of KS04HW101-3/KS04HW119-3 made in 2005 at Hays, KS. The objective of this cross was to develop a hard white winter wheat cultivar with adaptation to dryland production in western Kansas. Joe was developed using a modified bulk breeding method. Joe is an F–derived line with experimental number KS11HW39-5-4, and it was tested in yield trials from 2010 to 2015. Joe is medium late and medium tall with a medium high test weight and medium protein concentration. Its milling and baking quality is acceptable to good. Joe was released because of its high grain yield potential in western Kansas and its good resistance to stripe rust (caused by f. sp. Westend.), leaf rust (caused by f. sp. Ericks.), and .
    Keywords Puccinia recondita ; Puccinia striiformis ; Triticum aestivum ; Wheat streak mosaic virus ; arid lands ; cultivars ; disease resistance ; germplasm releases ; grain yield ; leaf rust ; stripe rust ; winter wheat ; Kansas
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2016-09
    Size p. 283-286.
    Publishing place The Crop Science Society of America, Inc.
    Document type Article
    Note epub
    ZDB-ID 2381569-3
    ISSN 1940-3496 ; 1936-5209
    ISSN (online) 1940-3496
    ISSN 1936-5209
    DOI 10.3198/jpr2016.02.0007crc
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  3. Article ; Online: A controversial new federated data platform for the NHS in England.

    Morley, Jessica / Zhang, Joe

    BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

    2023  Volume 383, Page(s) 2776

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; State Medicine ; England
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-29
    Publishing country England
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 1362901-3
    ISSN 1756-1833 ; 0959-8154 ; 0959-8146 ; 0959-8138 ; 0959-535X ; 1759-2151
    ISSN (online) 1756-1833
    ISSN 0959-8154 ; 0959-8146 ; 0959-8138 ; 0959-535X ; 1759-2151
    DOI 10.1136/bmj.p2776
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  4. Article ; Online: Case Report of Improvement in Long-COVID Symptoms in an Air Force Medic Treated With Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Using Electro-Magnetic Brain Pulse Technique.

    Zhang, Joe X / Zhang, Jianzhong J

    Military medicine

    2023  Volume 188, Issue 11-12, Page(s) e3711–e3715

    Abstract: Long-coronavirus disease (COVID) is an ill-defined set of symptoms persisting in patients following infection with COVID-19 that range from any combination of persistent breathing difficulties to anosmia, impaired attention, memory, fatigue, or pain. ... ...

    Abstract Long-coronavirus disease (COVID) is an ill-defined set of symptoms persisting in patients following infection with COVID-19 that range from any combination of persistent breathing difficulties to anosmia, impaired attention, memory, fatigue, or pain. Recently, noninvasive transcutaneous electrical brain stimulation techniques have been showing early signs of success in addressing some of these complaints. We postulate that the use of a stimulation technique with transcranial magnetic stimulation may also similarly be effective. A 36-year-old male suffering from symptoms of dyspnea, anosmia, and "brain fog" for 2 years following coronavirus infection was treated with 10 sessions of Electro-Magnetic Brain Pulse (EMBP®), a personalized transcranial magnetic stimulation protocol guided by the patient's electroencephalograph (EEG). At the conclusion of the treatment, the patient had improvements in mood, sense of smell, and brain fogging. Dyspnea also decreased with a gain of 11% forced expiratory volume 1/forced vital capacity. A high-sensitivity athletic training cognitive test showed an overall 27% increase in aggregate score. A significant portion of this was attributed to changes in visual clarity and decision-making speed. Post-treatment EEG showed a shift from predominantly delta waves to more synchronized alpha wave patterns during the resting state. Brain stimulation techniques appear to be showing early signs of success with long-COVID symptoms. This is the first case describing the use of a magnetic stimulation technique with quantitative test results and recorded EEG changes. Given the early success in this patient with cognition, dyspnea, and anosmia, this noninvasive treatment modality warrants further research.
    MeSH term(s) Male ; Humans ; Adult ; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation/methods ; Anosmia ; Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome ; COVID-19/complications ; COVID-19/therapy ; Brain/physiology ; Dyspnea/etiology ; Dyspnea/therapy ; Magnetic Phenomena
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-06-02
    Publishing country England
    Document type Case Reports ; Journal Article ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 391061-1
    ISSN 1930-613X ; 0026-4075
    ISSN (online) 1930-613X
    ISSN 0026-4075
    DOI 10.1093/milmed/usad182
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  5. Article ; Online: Extending Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion for Testing Conditional Independence.

    Zhang, Bingyuan / Suzuki, Joe

    Entropy (Basel, Switzerland)

    2023  Volume 25, Issue 3

    Abstract: The Conditional Independence (CI) test is a fundamental problem in statistics. Many nonparametric CI tests have been developed, but a common challenge exists: the current methods perform poorly with a high-dimensional conditioning set. In this paper, we ... ...

    Abstract The Conditional Independence (CI) test is a fundamental problem in statistics. Many nonparametric CI tests have been developed, but a common challenge exists: the current methods perform poorly with a high-dimensional conditioning set. In this paper, we considered a nonparametric CI test using a kernel-based test statistic, which can be viewed as an extension of the Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion (HSIC). We propose a local bootstrap method to generate samples from the null distribution H0:X⫫Y∣Z. The experimental results showed that our proposed method led to a significant performance improvement compared with previous methods. In particular, our method performed well against the growth of the dimension of the conditioning set. Meanwhile, our method can be computed efficiently against the growth of the sample size and the dimension of the conditioning set.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-26
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2014734-X
    ISSN 1099-4300 ; 1099-4300
    ISSN (online) 1099-4300
    ISSN 1099-4300
    DOI 10.3390/e25030425
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  6. Article ; Online: Extending Hilbert–Schmidt Independence Criterion for Testing Conditional Independence

    Bingyuan Zhang / Joe Suzuki

    Entropy, Vol 25, Iss 425, p

    2023  Volume 425

    Abstract: The Conditional Independence (CI) test is a fundamental problem in statistics. Many nonparametric CI tests have been developed, but a common challenge exists: the current methods perform poorly with a high-dimensional conditioning set. In this paper, we ... ...

    Abstract The Conditional Independence (CI) test is a fundamental problem in statistics. Many nonparametric CI tests have been developed, but a common challenge exists: the current methods perform poorly with a high-dimensional conditioning set. In this paper, we considered a nonparametric CI test using a kernel-based test statistic, which can be viewed as an extension of the Hilbert–Schmidt Independence Criterion (HSIC). We propose a local bootstrap method to generate samples from the null distribution <semantics> H 0 : X ⫫ Y ∣ Z </semantics> . The experimental results showed that our proposed method led to a significant performance improvement compared with previous methods. In particular, our method performed well against the growth of the dimension of the conditioning set. Meanwhile, our method can be computed efficiently against the growth of the sample size and the dimension of the conditioning set.
    Keywords conditional independence test ; dependence measure ; local bootstrap ; Science ; Q ; Astrophysics ; QB460-466 ; Physics ; QC1-999
    Subject code 310
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-02-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher MDPI AG
    Document type Article ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Article ; Online: Generative AI for medical research.

    Morley, Jessica / DeVito, Nicholas J / Zhang, Joe

    BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

    2023  Volume 382, Page(s) 1551

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Biomedical Research ; Artificial Intelligence
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-12
    Publishing country England
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 1362901-3
    ISSN 1756-1833 ; 0959-8154 ; 0959-8146 ; 0959-8138 ; 0959-535X ; 1759-2151
    ISSN (online) 1756-1833
    ISSN 0959-8154 ; 0959-8146 ; 0959-8138 ; 0959-535X ; 1759-2151
    DOI 10.1136/bmj.p1551
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  8. Article ; Online: Robotic Vectorial Field Alignment for Spin‐Based Quantum Sensors

    Joe A. Smith / Dandan Zhang / Krishna C. Balram

    Advanced Science, Vol 11, Iss 2, Pp n/a-n/a (2024)

    2024  

    Abstract: Abstract Developing practical quantum technologies will require the exquisite manipulation of fragile systems in a robust and repeatable way. As quantum technologies move toward real world applications, from biological sensing to communication in space, ... ...

    Abstract Abstract Developing practical quantum technologies will require the exquisite manipulation of fragile systems in a robust and repeatable way. As quantum technologies move toward real world applications, from biological sensing to communication in space, increasing experimental complexity introduces constraints that can be alleviated by the introduction of new technologies. Robotics has shown tremendous progress in realizing increasingly smart, autonomous, and highly dexterous machines. Here, a robotic arm equipped with a magnet is demonstrated to sensitize an NV center quantum magnetometer in challenging conditions unachievable with standard techniques. Vector magnetic fields are generated with 1° angular and 0.1 mT amplitude accuracy and determine the orientation of a single stochastically‐aligned spin‐based sensor in a constrained physical environment. This work opens up the prospect of integrating robotics across many quantum degrees of freedom in constrained settings, allowing for increased prototyping speed, control, and robustness in quantum technology applications.
    Keywords NV centers ; quantum technology ; robotics ; spin‐based sensors ; vectorial sensing ; Science ; Q
    Subject code 629
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z
    Publisher Wiley
    Document type Article ; Online
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  9. Article ; Online: The new era of cardiovascular research: revolutionizing cardiovascular research with 3D models in a dish.

    Yang, Yuan / Yang, Hao / Kiskin, Fedir N / Zhang, Joe Z

    Medical review (2021)

    2024  Volume 4, Issue 1, Page(s) 68–85

    Abstract: Cardiovascular research has heavily relied on studies using patient samples and animal models. However, patient studies often miss the data from the crucial early stage of cardiovascular diseases, as obtaining primary tissues at this stage is ... ...

    Abstract Cardiovascular research has heavily relied on studies using patient samples and animal models. However, patient studies often miss the data from the crucial early stage of cardiovascular diseases, as obtaining primary tissues at this stage is impracticable. Transgenic animal models can offer some insights into disease mechanisms, although they usually do not fully recapitulate the phenotype of cardiovascular diseases and their progression. In recent years, a promising breakthrough has emerged in the form of
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-02-20
    Publishing country Germany
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ISSN 2749-9642
    ISSN (online) 2749-9642
    DOI 10.1515/mr-2023-0059
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  10. Article ; Online: Failing IT infrastructure is undermining safe healthcare in the NHS.

    Zhang, Joe / Budhdeo, Sanjay / Ashrafian, Hutan

    BMJ (Clinical research ed.)

    2022  Volume 379, Page(s) e073166

    MeSH term(s) Humans ; State Medicine ; Health Facilities ; Delivery of Health Care
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-11-09
    Publishing country England
    Document type Editorial
    ZDB-ID 1362901-3
    ISSN 1756-1833 ; 0959-8154 ; 0959-8146 ; 0959-8138 ; 0959-535X ; 1759-2151
    ISSN (online) 1756-1833
    ISSN 0959-8154 ; 0959-8146 ; 0959-8138 ; 0959-535X ; 1759-2151
    DOI 10.1136/bmj-2022-073166
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