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Using an Individual-Centered Approach to Gain Insights From Wearable Data in the Quantified Flu Platform: Netnography Study.

Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Enric Senabre Hidalgo, Karolina Alexiou, Lukaz Baldy, Basile Morane, Ilona Bussod, Melvin Fribourg, Katarzyna Wac, Gary Wolf, Mad Ball · 2021

Wearables have been used widely for monitoring health in general, and recent research results show that they can be used to predict infections based on physiological symptoms. To date, evidence has be…

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Do we need robotics for coronary intervention more than ever in the COVID-19 era?

Hafeez Ul Hassan Virk, Vladimir Lakhter, Luai Tabaza, Jon C George · 2021
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Assessment of Damping Control Using Maximum Power Point Tracking Methods for Heaving Wave Energy Converters

Bisni Fahad Mon, Addy Wahyudie, Mohammed Abdi Jama, Siddiqul Akbar, Saad Mekhilef, Hussain Shareef, Khalifa Harib, Rachid Errouissi · 2021

There are not many studies conducted in the implementation of maximum power point tracking (MPPT) methods for heaving wave energy converters (WECs). An assessment of damping control using various MPPT…

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Corona pandemic: awareness of health care providers in Pakistan.

Sadia Minhas, Rabia Mushtaq Chaudhry, Aneequa Sajjad, Iram Manzoor, Atika Masood, Muhammad Kashif · 2020

Corona pandemic has resulted in a high mortality rate among health care professionals. The purpose of this study was to assess the knowledge and practices of health care providers during this pandemic…

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Semiquantitative assessment of subchondral bone marrow edema-like lesions and subchondral cysts of the knee at 3T MRI: a comparison between intermediate-weighted fat-suppressed spin echo and Dual Echo Steady State sequences.

 · 1970

BACKGROUND: Choice of appropriate MR pulse sequence is important for any research studies using imaging-derived data. The aim of this study was to compare semiquantitative assessment of subchondral bo…

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Skin movement errors in measurement of sagittal lumbar and hip angles in young and elderly subjects.

 · 1970

Errors in measurement of sagittal lumbar and hip angles due to skin movement on the pelvis and/or lateral thigh were measured in young (n = 21, age = 18.6 +/- 2.1 years) and older (n = 23, age = 70.9 …

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Novel, cyclic heat dissipation method for the correction of natural temperature gradients in sap flow measurements. Part 2. Laboratory validation.

 · 1970

Sap flow measurements conducted with thermal dissipation probes (TDPs) are vulnerable to natural temperature gradient (NTG) bias. Few studies, however, attempted to explain the dynamics underlying the…

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BetaIII-tubulin induces paclitaxel resistance in association with reduced effects on microtubule dynamic instability.

 · 1970

The development of resistance to paclitaxel in tumors is one of the most significant obstacles to successful therapy. Overexpression of the betaIII-tubulin isotype has been associated with paclitaxel …

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Investigations of the peripheral vascular mechanisms implicated in congestive heart failure by the non-invasive evaluation of radial artery compliance and reactivity.

 · 1970

The viscoelastic, muscular and endothelial components of the vessel wall may be altered in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). In order to investigate the relative contribution of each of th…

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Calix[4]arenes featuring a direct lower rim attachment of dansyl groups. Synthesis, fluorescence properties and first report on crystal structures.

 · 1970

A series of new fluorescent calix[4]arenes (2-7; 5 has been isolated as two not yet described conformational isomers) featuring two directly lower rim attached dansyl moieties besides other lower or u…

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Spatiotemporal image correlation spectroscopy (STICS) theory, verification, and application to protein velocity mapping in living CHO cells.

 · 1970

We introduce a new extension of image correlation spectroscopy (ICS) and image cross-correlation spectroscopy (ICCS) that relies on complete analysis of both the temporal and spatial correlation lags …

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Multidetector computed tomography coronary artery plaque predictors of stress-induced myocardial ischemia by SPECT.

 · 1970

BACKGROUND: Atherosclerosis imaging by multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) detects coronary artery plaque extent, distribution, location and composition. In contrast, functional imaging by single…

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Three-dimensional virtual model of the human temporal bone: a stand-alone, downloadable teaching tool.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: To develop a three-dimensional virtual model of a human temporal bone based on serial histologic sections.BACKGROUND: The three-dimensional anatomy of the human temporal bone is complex, an…

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The study of early human embryos using interactive 3-dimensional computer reconstructions.

 · 1970

Tracings of serial histological sections from 4 human embryos at different Carnegie stages were used to create 3-dimensional (3D) computer models of the developing heart. The models were constructed u…

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Distribution of MHC-II and CD1 molecules in the skin of lambs and changes during experimentally-induced contact hypersensitivity.

 · 1970

The presentation of antigen to specific T-cell populations is a crucial event during the elicitation phase of contact hypersensitivity (CHS). Significant changes in CD4(+) T-cell and gammadelta T-cell…

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Fred Hollows lecture: digital screening for eye disease.

 · 1970

The purpose of this study was to explore progress, in the adaptation to community screening for blinding eye disease, of digital imaging devices and technology for storage and transmission. Available …

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A cohort study evaluating robotic versus laparotomy surgical outcomes of obese women with endometrial carcinoma.

 · 1970

OBJECTIVE: Minimally invasive surgery offers advantages for management of obese patients, but technical difficulty often deters its utilization. Compared to laparotomy, robotic surgery should allow co…

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Decreases in regional cerebral blood flow with normal aging.

 · 1970

Positron emission tomographic (PET) images of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) from 30 normal, resting volunteers aged 30 to 85 years were analysed to identify areas where rCBF fell with age. Image…

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