Health Policy

Prediction of banana quality indices from color features using support vector regression.

Banana undergoes significant quality indices and color transformations during shelf-life process, wh...

Novel biopreservatives to enhance the safety and quality of strawberry juice.

Pomegranate extract, vanillin and geraniol were studied as natural antimicrobials on strawberry juic...

Characterizing air quality data from complex network perspective.

Air quality depends mainly on changes in emission of pollutants and their precursors. Understanding ...

Robotic Mitral Valve Repair for Simple and Complex Degenerative Disease: Midterm Clinical and Echocardiographic Quality Outcomes.

BACKGROUND: Severe primary (degenerative) mitral regurgitation (MR) is repaired with durable results...

Ginsenoside Rg1 Improves In vitro-produced Embryo Quality by Increasing Glucose Uptake in Porcine Blastocysts.

Ginsenoside Rg1 is a natural compound with various efficacies and functions. It has beneficial effec...

Effect of high pressure and thermal processing on quality changes of aloe vera-litchi mixed beverage (ALMB) during storage.

The effect of high pressure processing (HPP) (600 MPa/15 min/56 °C) and thermal processing (TP) (95 ...

Estimation of ground reaction forces and ankle moment with multiple, low-cost sensors.

BACKGROUND: Wearable sensor systems can provide data for at-home gait analyses and input to controll...

Cost-Sensitive Local Binary Feature Learning for Facial Age Estimation.

In this paper, we propose a cost-sensitive local binary feature learning (CS-LBFL) method for facial...

Development of hypoimmunogenic muffins: batter rheology, quality characteristics, microstructure and immunochemical validation.

A high demand exists for gluten free and hypoimmunogenic products from gluten sensitive population. ...

Feasibility of 30-day hospital readmission prediction modeling based on health information exchange data.

INTRODUCTION: Unplanned 30-day hospital readmission account for roughly $17 billion in annual Medica...

Seminal Plasma Heparin Binding Proteins Improve Semen Quality by Reducing Oxidative Stress during Cryopreservation of Cattle Bull Semen.

Heparin binding proteins (HBPs) are produced by accessory glands. These are secreted into the semina...

Machine learning classification of medication adherence in patients with movement disorders using non-wearable sensors.

Medication non-adherence is a major concern in the healthcare industry and has led to increases in h...

Going beyond a First Reader: A Machine Learning Methodology for Optimizing Cost and Performance in Breast Ultrasound Diagnosis.

The goal of this study was to devise a machine learning methodology as a viable low-cost alternative...

Multi-Objective Particle Swarm Optimization Approach for Cost-Based Feature Selection in Classification.

Feature selection is an important data-preprocessing technique in classification problems such as bi...

Trans-oral robotic cleft surgery (TORCS) for palate and posterior pharyngeal wall reconstruction: A feasibility study.

BACKGROUND/AIM: Robot-assisted surgery has become increasingly routine, replacing open and laparosco...

FIR: An Effective Scheme for Extracting Useful Metadata from Social Media.

Recently, the use of social media for health information exchange is expanding among patients, physi...

Editorial Comment to Long-term quality of life outcomes and retreatment rates after robotic sacrocolpopexy.

How to build up the actionable knowledge base: the role of 'best fit' framework synthesis for studies of improvement in healthcare.

Increasing recognition of the role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare offers the ...

"Body-In-The-Loop": Optimizing Device Parameters Using Measures of Instantaneous Energetic Cost.

This paper demonstrates methods for the online optimization of assistive robotic devices such as pow...

The potential of random forest and neural networks for biomass and recombinant protein modeling in Escherichia coli fed-batch fermentations.

Product quality assurance strategies in production of biopharmaceuticals currently undergo a transfo...

Cost-efficient FPGA implementation of basal ganglia and their Parkinsonian analysis.

The basal ganglia (BG) comprise multiple subcortical nuclei, which are responsible for cognition and...