Health Policy

Assessing Quality of Care and Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes via Google Reviews.

BACKGROUND: It is challenging to assess the quality of care and detect elder abuse in nursing homes,...

Effects of hormonal stimulation on the concentration and quality of excreted spermatozoa in the critically endangered Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki).

Knowledge of basic gamete biology is critical to better protect and propagate endangered amphibian s...

In Vitro Antiproliferative and Antioxidant Effects of Extracts from Leaves and Their Quality Evaluation.

The present study was performed to evaluate the effect of different extracts and subfractions from ...

Quality stability and sensory attributes of apple juice processed by thermosonication, pulsed electric field and thermal processing.

Worldwide, apple juice is the second most popular juice, after orange juice. It is susceptible to en...

Comparing the analytical performances of Micro-NIR and FT-NIR spectrometers in the evaluation of acerola fruit quality, using PLS and SVM regression algorithms.

The main goal of this study was to investigate the analytical performances of a state-of-the-art dev...

Automated Quality Assessment of Structural Magnetic Resonance Brain Images Based on a Supervised Machine Learning Algorithm.

High-resolution three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (3D-MRI) is being increasingly used to ...

Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid supplementation of young post-pubertal dairy bulls alters the fatty acid composition of seminal plasma and spermatozoa but has no effect on semen volume or sperm quality.

The aim of this study was to examine the effects of dietary supplementation with rumen protected n-6...

Sperm quality and its freezing ability throughout the spawning season in Prochilodus lineatus and Brycon orbignyanus.

The aim of this study was to determine fresh and frozen sperm quality evaluated over two spawning se...

SnoReport 2.0: new features and a refined Support Vector Machine to improve snoRNA identification.

BACKGROUND: snoReport uses RNA secondary structure prediction combined with machine learning as the ...

MUMAL2: Improving sensitivity in shotgun proteomics using cost sensitive artificial neural networks and a threshold selector algorithm.

BACKGROUND: This work presents a machine learning strategy to increase sensitivity in tandem mass sp...

Clinical outcomes and quality of life in hemodialysis diabetic patients versus non-diabetics.

BACKGROUND: Diabetes is the leading cause of end stage renal disease (ESRD) worldwide.

Re: Hussein et al.: Development and Validation of a Quality Assurance Score for Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy: A 10-Year Analysis (Urology 2016;97:124-129).

DeepQA: improving the estimation of single protein model quality with deep belief networks.

BACKGROUND: Protein quality assessment (QA) useful for ranking and selecting protein models has long...

Tackling Missing Data in Community Health Studies Using Additive LS-SVM Classifier.

Missing data is a common issue in community health and epidemiological studies. Direct removal of sa...

Exoskeleton plantarflexion assistance for elderly.

Elderly are confronted with reduced physical capabilities and increased metabolic energy cost of wal...

Integrated Automatic Workflow for Phylogenetic Tree Analysis Using Public Access and Local Web Services.

At the present, coding sequence (CDS) has been discovered and larger CDS is being revealed frequentl...

Cancer Care Access and Outcomes for American Indian Populations in the United States: Challenges and Models for Progress.

Low socioeconomic and health care access realities of being American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) i...

A Natural Language Processing-based Model to Automate MRI Brain Protocol Selection and Prioritization.

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Incorrect imaging protocol selection can contribute to increased healthcar...

Assessing the quality of sardine based on biogenic amines using a fuzzy logic model.

There is an increasing concern about the quality and quality assessment procedures of seafood. In th...

Non-obvious correlations to disease management unraveled by Bayesian artificial intelligence analyses of CMS data.

OBJECTIVE: Given the availability of extensive digitized healthcare data from medical records, claim...

Age as A Predictor of Embryo Quality Regardless of The Quantitative Ovarian Response.

BACKGROUND: One determining factor of a successful fertilization (IVF) cycle is embryo quality. The...