Browsing by Subject "Humans"
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25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations and Clostridium difficile Infection: A Meta-Analysis
( SAGE Publications Inc. , 2017 , Article)Background: Well-known risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) are exposure to antibiotics and gastric acid suppressants. Recent studies have provided some evidence of an association between hypovitaminosis ... -
A Critical Review of the Current Evidence for Measuring Drug Concentrations of First-Line Agents Used to Treat Tuberculosis in Children
( Springer International Publishing , 2016 , Article Review)Tuberculosis is a leading cause of infectious disease-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. Additionally, treatment is complex with most patients requiring combination therapy of first-line agents for multiple months. ... -
A cross-sectional study on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on psychological outcomes: Multiple indicators and multiple causes modeling
( Public Library of Science , 2022 , Article)Although the psychological impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been evaluated in the literature, further research is needed, particularly on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and psychological outcomes, ... -
A Fitness Index model for Italian adolescents living in Southern Italy: The ASSO project
( Edizioni Minerva Medica , 2016 , Article)BACKGROUND: Strong relations between physical fitness and health in adolescents have been established in the last decades. The main objectives of the present investigation were to assess major physical fitness components ... -
A Social Distance Estimation and Crowd Monitoring System for Surveillance Cameras
( MDPI , 2022 , Article)Social distancing is crucial to restrain the spread of diseases such as COVID-19, but complete adherence to safety guidelines is not guaranteed. Monitoring social distancing through mass surveillance is paramount to develop ... -
Albumin administration in patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis: A meta-analytic update
( Lippincott Williams and Wilkins , 2021 , Article Review)End-stage liver disease and its related complications exert a huge disease burden and reduce the survival rates of many patients. Albumin administration for patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis has been a controversial ... -
An efficient model checker based on theaxiomatization of Propositional Temporal Logic in rewriting logic
( IEEE , 2003 , Conference Paper)In this paper, we propose an efficient Model Checker for the Propositional Temporal Logic denoted by PTL. This logic is hown to be well suited to verify electronic circuits and reactive systems. A typical verification ... -
An intelligent and low-cost eye-tracking system for motorized wheelchair control
( MDPI AG , 2020 , Article)In the 34 developed and 156 developing countries, there are ~132 million disabled people who need a wheelchair, constituting 1.86% of the world population. Moreover, there are millions of people suffering from diseases ... -
ANFIS-Net for automatic detection of COVID-19
( Nature Research , 2021 , Article)Among the most leading causes of mortality across the globe are infectious diseases which have cost tremendous lives with the latest being coronavirus (COVID-19) that has become the most recent challenging issue. The extreme ... -
BEMD-3DCNN-based method for COVID-19 detection
( Elsevier Ltd , 2022 , Article)The coronavirus outbreak continues to spread around the world and no one knows when it will stop. Therefore, from the first day of the identification of the virus in Wuhan, China, scientists have launched numerous research ... -
BIAN N-heterocyclic gold carbene complexes induced cytotoxicity in human cancer cells via upregulating oxidative stress
( Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention , 2015 , Article)Background: Nanoparticles of gold and silver are offering revolutionary changes in the field of cancer therapy. N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) metal complexes possess diverse biological activities and are being investigated ... -
Clinical pharmacokinetic drug interactions associated with artemisinin derivatives and HIV-antivirals
( Springer International Publishing , 2014 , Article Review)Management of HIV and malaria co-infection is challenging due to potential drug-drug interactions between antimalarial and HIV-antiviral drugs. Little is known of the clinical significance of these drug interactions, and ... -
Composition and characteristics of trabecular bone in osteoporosis and osteoarthritis
( Elsevier Inc. , 2020 , Article)Background Bone strength depends on multiple factors such as bone density, architecture and composition turnover. However, the role these factors play in osteoporotic fractures is not well understood. Purpose The aim ... -
Consequences of a Great Crisis on Chronic Diseases: How Childhood Exposures May Shape Future Health
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Convolutional Neural Networks for patient-specific ECG classification
( IEEE , 2015 , Conference Paper)We propose a fast and accurate patient-specific electrocardiogram (ECG) classification and monitoring system using an adaptive implementation of 1D Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that can fuse feature extraction and ... -
Convolutional Sparse Support Estimator-Based COVID-19 Recognition from X-Ray Images
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been the main agenda of the whole world ever since it came into sight. X-ray imaging is a common and easily accessible tool that has great potential for COVID-19 diagnosis and prognosis. ... -
Could Vagus nerve stimulation influence bone remodeling?
( International Society of Musculoskeletal and Neuronal Interactions , 2021 , Article)Objectives: To investigate the effect of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) on the bone mineral density (BMD) in epileptic patients. Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted on individuals with refractory seizures who ... -
COVID-19 infection localization and severity grading from chest X-ray images
( Elsevier Ltd , 2021 , Article)The immense spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has left healthcare systems incapable to diagnose and test patients at the required rate. Given the effects of COVID-19 on pulmonary tissues, chest radiographic ... -
Cytotoxic Homoisoflavones from the Bulbs of Bellevalia eigii
( American Chemical Society , 2015 , Article)Eight new and 10 known compounds were isolated from an organic extract of the bulbs of Bellevalia eigii as part of a search for anticancer leads from native plants of Jordan. Of these, the series of 16 homoisoflavonoids ... -
Denial-of-service attack on iec 61850-based substation automation system: A crucial cyber threat towards smart substation pathways
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)The generation of the mix-based expansion of modern power grids has urged the utilization of digital infrastructures. The introduction of Substation Automation Systems (SAS), advanced networks and communication technologies ...