Clinical Trials

Using the Social Robot NAO for Emotional Support to Children at a Pediatric Emergency Department: Randomized Clinical Trial.

BACKGROUND: Social robots (SRs) have been used for improving anxiety in children in stressful clinical situations, such as during painful procedures. However, no studies have yet been performed to assess their effect in children while waiting for emergency room consultations.

Data-Driven Construction Safety Information Sharing System Based on Linked Data, Ontologies, and Knowledge Graph Technologies.

Accident, injury, and fatality rates remain disproportionately high in the construction industry. Information from past mishaps provides an opportunity to acquire insights, gather lessons learned, and systematically improve safety outcomes. Advances in data science and industry 4.0 present new unprecedented opportunities for the industry to leverage, share, and reuse safety information more effici...

Fuzzy Risk-Based Maintenance Strategy with Safety Considerations for the Mining Industry.

Enterprises today are increasingly seeking maintenance management strategies to ensure that their machines run faultlessly. This problem is particular...

Acute Effects of Nicotine on Physiological Responses and Sport Performance in Healthy Baseball Players.

There is interest in whether nicotine could enhance attention in sporting performance, but evidence on the acute effect of nicotine on physical respon...

Impact of previous transurethral resection of prostate on robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a matched cohort analysis.

We aimed to compare surgical, oncological, and functional outcomes of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in prostate cancer patients with and...

Assessment of a hybrid decision support system using machine learning with artificial intelligence to safely rule out prescriptions from medication review in daily practice.

Background Medication review is time-consuming and not exhaustive in most French hospitals. We routinely use an innovative hybrid decision support sys...

Overtaking risk modeling in two-lane two-way highway with heterogeneous traffic environment of a low-income country using naturalistic driving dataset.

INTRODUCTION: Driver behavior related to overtaking maneuvers, which are considered a major safety risk determinant on two-lane two-way highway in low...

Understanding the potential of emerging digital technologies for improving road safety.

Each year, 1.35 million people are killed on the world's roads and another 20-50 million are seriously injured. Morbidity or serious injury from road ...

DNA-based artificial dendritic cells for in situ cytotoxic T cell stimulation and immunotherapy.

In immunotherapy, ex vivo stimulation of T cells requires significant resources and effort. Here, we report artificial dendritic cell-mimicking DNA mi...

Health and environmental safety of nanomaterials: O Data, Where Art Thou?

Nanotechnology keeps drawing attention due to the great tunable properties of nanomaterials in comparison to their bulk conventional materials. The gr...

AI-Enabled Predictive Maintenance Framework for Autonomous Mobile Cleaning Robots.

Vibration is an indicator of performance degradation or operational safety issues of mobile cleaning robots. Therefore, predicting the source of vibra...

Automated Segmentation of Spinal Muscles From Upright Open MRI Using a Multiscale Pyramid 2D Convolutional Neural Network.

STUDY DESIGN: Randomized trial.

The lesion detection efficacy of deep learning on automatic breast ultrasound and factors affecting its efficacy: a pilot study.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to investigate the detection efficacy of deep learning (DL) for automatic breast ultrasound (ABUS) and factors a...

Pharmacological, Technological, and Digital Innovative Aspects in Rhinology.

Innovation refers to the introduction of a product, a process, a service or a solution resulting in something new or significantly improved compared t...

Application of machine learning to the monitoring and prediction of food safety: A review.

Machine learning (ML) has proven to be a useful technology for data analysis and modeling in a wide variety of domains, including food science and eng...

A machine and human reader study on AI diagnosis model safety under attacks of adversarial images.

While active efforts are advancing medical artificial intelligence (AI) model development and clinical translation, safety issues of the AI models eme...

Do High-Volume Injections Affect the Ultrasonographic Neovascularization in Chronic Achilles Tendinopathy? A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial.

OBJECTIVE: High-volume injections (HVIs) are thought to target neovascularization in chronic midportion Achilles tendinopathy (AT), yet the mechanism ...

Adding Dexmedetomidine to Bupivacaine in Ultrasound-guided Thoracic Paravertebral Block for Pain Management after Upper Abdominal Surgery: A Double-blind Randomized Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: Paravertebral blocks are one of the possible postoperative pain management modalities after laparotomy. Adjuvants to local anesthetics, in...

User-Interactive Robot Skin With Large-Area Scalability for Safer and Natural Human-Robot Collaboration in Future Telehealthcare.

With the fourth revolution of healthcare, i.e., Healthcare 4.0, collaborative robotics is spilling out from traditional manufacturing and will blend i...

Corticosteroids and mycophenolic acid analogues in immunoglobulin A nephropathy with progressive decline in kidney function.

BACKGROUND: A randomized controlled trial demonstrated a beneficial effect of corticosteroids (CS) + cyclophosphamide followed by azathioprine in prog...