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ght regains at follow-up were 2.3 (95% credible interval [CrI], 1.2-3.4) kg in the individual telephone counseling group, 2.8 (95% CrI, 1.4-4.2) kg for the group telephone counseling group, and 4.1 (95% CrI, 3.1-5.0) kg for the education control group, with a significantly smaller weight regain observed in the individual telephone counseling group vs control group (posterior probability >.99). A larger proportion of participants in the individual telephone counseling group achieved at least 10% weight reductions (31.5% [95% CrI, 24.1%-40.0%]) than in the control group (19.1% [95% CrI, 14.1%-24.9%]) (posterior probability >.99). Conclusions and relevance This randomized clinical trial found that providing extended care for obesity management in rural communities via individual telephone counseling decreased weight regain and increased the proportion of participants who sustained clinically meaningful weight losses. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT02054624.This quality improvement study examines the effects of sterilization with hydrogen peroxide and chlorine dioxide on the filtration efficiency of N95, KN95, and surgical face masks.This survey study assesses the perceptions of e-cigarettes among current smokers in England before and after the US outbreak of vaping-associated lung injury.Motivation CircRNAs are an abundant class of noncoding RNAs with widespread, cell/tissue specific patterns. Previous work suggested that epigenetic features might be related to circRNA expression. However, the contribution of epigenetic changes to circRNA expression has not been investigated systematically. Here we built a machine learning framework named CIRCScan, to predict circRNA expression in various cell lines based on the sequence and epigenetic features. Results The predicted accuracy of the expression status models was high with area under the curve of ROC (AUC) values of 0.89∼0.92 and the false positive rates (FPR) of 0.17∼0.25. Predicted expressed circRNAs were further validated by RNA-seq data. The performance of expression level prediction models was also good with normalized root-mean-square errors (RMSE) of 0.28∼0.30 and Pearson's correlation coefficient r (PCC) over 0.4 in all cell lines, along with Spearman's correlation coefficient ρ of 0.33∼0.46. Noteworthy, H3K79me2 was highly ranked in modeling both circRNA expression status and levels across different cells. Further analysis in additional 9 cell lines demonstrated a significant enrichment of H3K79me2 in circRNA flanking intron regions, supporting the potential involvement of H3K79me2 in circRNA expression regulation. selleck kinase inhibitor Availability The CIRCScan assembler is freely available online for academic use at https//github.com/johnlcd/CIRCScan. Supplementary information Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.Vernal pools are unique in their isolation and the strong selection acting on their resident species. Vernal pool clam shrimp (Eulimnadia texana) are a promising model due to ease of culturing, short generation time, small genomes, and obligate desiccated diapaused eggs. Clam shrimp are also androdioecious (sexes include males and hermaphrodites), and here we use population scaled recombination rates to support the hypothesis that the heterogametic sex is recombination free in these shrimp. We collected short read sequence data from pooled samples from different vernal pools to gain insights into local adaptation. We identify genomic regions in which some populations have allele frequencies that differ significantly from the metapopulation. BayPass (Gautier 2015) detected 19 such genomic regions showing an excess of population subdivision. These regions on average are 550bp in size and had 2.5 genes within 5kb of them. Genes located near these regions are involved in malpighian tubule function and osmoregulation, an essential function in vernal pools. It is likely that salinity profiles vary between pools an