Domestic Violence

A cable-driven soft robot surgical system for cardiothoracic endoscopic surgery: preclinical tests in animals.

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive surgery attracts more and more attention because of the advantages of minimal trauma, less bleeding and pain and low complication rate. However, minimally invasive surgery for beating hearts is still a challenge. Our goal is to develop a soft robot surgical system for single-port minimally invasive surgery on a beating heart.

Classification of Porcine Cranial Fracture Patterns Using a Fracture Printing Interface^.

Distinguishing between accidental and abusive head trauma in children can be difficult, as there is a lack of baseline data for pediatric cranial fracture patterns. A porcine head model has recently been developed and utilized in a series of studies to investigate the effects of impact energy level, surface type, and constraint condition on cranial fracture patterns. In the current study, an autom...

Predicting early psychiatric readmission with natural language processing of narrative discharge summaries.

The ability to predict psychiatric readmission would facilitate the development of interventions to reduce this risk, a major driver of psychiatric he...

Image Segmentation and Machine Learning for Detection of Abdominal Free Fluid in Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma Examinations: A Pilot Study.

The objective of this pilot study was to test the feasibility of automating the detection of abdominal free fluid in focused assessment with sonograph...

Computational methods for prediction of in vitro effects of new chemical structures.

BACKGROUND: With a constant increase in the number of new chemicals synthesized every year, it becomes important to employ the most reliable and fast ...

Exploring trends of nonmedical use of prescription drugs and polydrug abuse in the Twittersphere using unsupervised machine learning.

INTRODUCTION: Nonmedical use of prescription medications/drugs (NMUPD) is a serious public health threat, particularly in relation to the prescription...

Chemogenomics knowledgebase and systems pharmacology for hallucinogen target identification-Salvinorin A as a case study.

Drug abuse is a serious problem worldwide. Recently, hallucinogens have been reported as a potential preventative and auxiliary therapy for substance ...

Chemical composition, acute toxicity, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of Moroccan L.

Hydro-distilled essential oil (EO) from the leaves of the western Mediterranean and Moroccan endemic plant was analyzed by GC/MS and examined for its...

A new algorithmic approach for the extraction of temporal associations from clinical narratives with an application to medical product safety surveillance reports.

The sheer volume of textual information that needs to be reviewed and analyzed in many clinical settings requires the automated retrieval of key clini...

Development of a compact continuum tubular robotic system for nasopharyngeal biopsy.

Traditional posterior nasopharyngeal biopsy using a flexible nasal endoscope has the risks of abrasion and injury to the nasal mucosa and thus causing...

Recent advancements in prosthetic hand technology.

Recently, significant advances over the past decade have been made in robotics, artificial intelligence and other cognitive related fields, allowing d...

The Virtual Screening of the Drug Protein with a Few Crystal Structures Based on the Adaboost-SVM.

Using the theory of machine learning to assist the virtual screening (VS) has been an effective plan. However, the quality of the training set may red...

A Systematic Strategy for Screening and Application of Specific Biomarkers in Hepatotoxicity Using Metabolomics Combined With ROC Curves and SVMs.

Current studies that evaluate toxicity based on metabolomics have primarily focused on the screening of biomarkers while largely neglecting further ve...

"It sounds like...": A natural language processing approach to detecting counselor reflections in motivational interviewing.

The dissemination and evaluation of evidence-based behavioral treatments for substance abuse problems rely on the evaluation of counselor intervention...

Single-Port Laparoscopic Liver Resection: Largest Turkish Experience.

Single-port laparoscopic surgery has the advantage of a hidden scar and reduced abdominal wall trauma. Although single-port laparoscopic surgery is wi...

Abdominal compartment syndrome in traumatic hemorrhagic shock: is there a fluid resuscitation inflection point associated with increased risk?

BACKGROUND: The volume of fluid administered during trauma resuscitation correlates with the risk of abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS). The exact v...

A Case of Post-Traumatic Pseudocyst in the Spleen Successfully Treated with Alcohol Sclerotherapy.

This report details a case of post-traumatic pseudocyst in the spleen that was successfully treated with sclerotherapy using ethanol. A sixteen-year-o...

GC-MS analysis of the designer drug α-pyrrolidinovalerophenone and its metabolites in urine and blood in an acute poisoning case.

α-Pyrrolidinovalerophenone (α-PVP) is a synthetic cathinone belonging to the group of "second generation" pyrrolidinophenones that becomes more and mo...

A Randomized, Double-Blind, Double-Dummy Study to Evaluate the Intranasal Human Abuse Potential and Pharmacokinetics of a Novel Extended-Release Abuse-Deterrent Formulation of Oxycodone.

OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the human abuse potential (HAP) of an experimental, microsphere-in-capsule formulation of extended-release oxycodone (oxycodone DE...

Intranasal Abuse Potential, Pharmacokinetics, and Safety of Once-Daily, Single-Entity, Extended-Release Hydrocodone (HYD) in Recreational Opioid Users.

OBJECTIVES: A once-daily, extended-release hydrocodone bitartrate tablet with abuse-deterrent properties (Hysingla ER® [HYD]) is available for the tre...