Pediatrics

A comparative study of pediatric open pyeloplasty, laparoscopy-assisted extracorporeal pyeloplasty, and robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty.

PURPOSE: To compare the outcomes of open pyeloplasty (OP), laparoscopy-assisted extracorporeal (LEXP), and robotic-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty (RALP) for ureteropelvic junction obstruction in pediatric patients.

Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Urachal Excision in Children.

OBJECTIVE: To report the first exclusively pediatric series of robot-assisted urachal remnant excisions in children.

Health Care Burden in Patients With Adrenal Insufficiency.

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to estimate the annual health care burden for patients with adrenal insufficiency [AI; primary (PAI), secondary to pituita...

User recommendation in healthcare social media by assessing user similarity in heterogeneous network.

OBJECTIVE: The rapid growth of online health social websites has captured a vast amount of healthcare information and made the information easy to acc...

Effectiveness of robot-assisted gait training in children with cerebral palsy: a bicenter, pragmatic, randomized, cross-over trial (PeLoGAIT).

BACKGROUND: Walking ability is a priority for many children with cerebral palsy (CP) and their parents when considering domains of importance regardin...

Ontogenetic Shifts in Brain Organization in the Bluespotted Stingray Neotrygon kuhlii (Chondrichthyes: Dasyatidae).

Fishes exhibit lifelong neurogenesis and continual brain growth. One consequence of this continual growth is that the nervous system has the potential...

Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia.

In recent years, there has been a huge increase in the number of bots online, varying from Web crawlers for search engines, to chatbots for online cus...

Flow separation on flapping and rotating profiles with spanwise gradients.

The growth of leading-edge vortices (LEV) on analogous flapping and rotating profiles has been investigated experimentally. Three time-varying cases w...

Interpretable Deep Models for ICU Outcome Prediction.

Exponential surge in health care data, such as longitudinal data from electronic health records (EHR), sensor data from intensive care unit (ICU), etc...

Controlling testing volume for respiratory viruses using machine learning and text mining.

Viral testing for pediatric inpatients with respiratory symptoms is common, with considerable associated charges. In an attempt to reduce testing volu...

Ontology-based automatic identification of public health-related Turkish tweets.

Social media analysis, such as the analysis of tweets, is a promising research topic for tracking public health concerns including epidemics. In this ...

Online Gait Learning for Modular Robots with Arbitrary Shapes and Sizes.

Evolutionary robotics using real hardware is currently restricted to evolving robot controllers, but the technology for evolvable morphologies is adva...

Exploring temporal information in neonatal seizures using a dynamic time warping based SVM kernel.

Seizure events in newborns change in frequency, morphology, and propagation. This contextual information is explored at the classifier level in the pr...

The use of multi-criteria decision making models in evaluating anesthesia method options in circumcision surgery.

BACKGROUND: Determining the most suitable anesthesia method for circumcision surgery plays a fundamental role in pediatric surgery. This study is aime...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty in infants using 5-mm instruments.

BACKGROUND: Utilization of the robotic approach to pyeloplasty continues to grow in the field of pediatric urology. Adoption in the infant population ...

WAKE-Up Exoskeleton to Assist Children With Cerebral Palsy: Design and Preliminary Evaluation in Level Walking.

This paper presents the modular design and control of a novel compliant lower limbmulti-joint exoskeleton for the rehabilitation of ankle kneemobility...

Accuracy of intravenous and enteral preparations involving small volumes for paediatric use: a review.

BACKGROUND: Children often need to be administered very small volumes of medicines that are authorised for use in adults. Neonatal drug delivery is pa...

Basic fibroblast growth factor is critical to reprogramming buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) primordial germ cells into embryonic germ stem cell-like cells.

Primordial germ cells (PGCs) are destined to form gametes in vivo, and they can be reprogrammed into pluripotent embryonic germ (EG) cells in vitro. B...

Quantification of the 3α and 3β epimers of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in dried blood spots by LC-MS/MS using artificial whole blood calibration and chemical derivatization.

While the biological function of the 3α epimer of 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) remains unknown, its presence needs to be accurately captured and sepa...

Levels of Urinary Metabolites of Organophosphate Flame Retardants, TDCIPP, and TPHP, in Pregnant Women in Shanghai.

Flame retardants are widely used in consumer products to reduce their flammability. Previously used flame retardants have been sequentially banned due...