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Comparing the Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Opinions Trends from Different Twitter User Groups with a Machine Learning Based System and Semiparametric Nonlinear Regression.

HPV vaccination refusal is a serious public health issue. Opinions on Twitter have are influential to potential consumers on vaccination behaviours. Public opinions toward HPV vaccination were extracted from Twitter by leveraging machine learning models. We used semiparametric nonlinear regression models to study the association between people's public opinions on HPV vaccination at Twitter and th...

Classification of Helpful Comments on Online Suicide Watch Forums.

Among social media websites, Reddit has emerged as a widely used online message board for focused mental health topics including depression, addiction, and suicide watch (SW). In particular, the SW community/subreddit has nearly 40,000 subscribers and 13 human moderators who monitor for abusive comments among other things. Given comments on posts from users expressing suicidal thoughts can be writ...

Automatic tissue characterization of air trapping in chest radiographs using deep neural networks.

Significant progress has been made in recent years for computer-aided diagnosis of abnormal pulmonary textures from computed tomography (CT) images. S...

Unsupervised selection of RV144 HIV vaccine-induced antibody features correlated to natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxic reactions.

HIV-1 vaccine injection has been shown less effective due to the diversity of antigens. Increasing the knowledge of the associations between immune sy...

The power of data mining in diagnosis of childhood pneumonia.

Childhood pneumonia is the leading cause of death of children under the age of 5 years globally. Diagnostic information on the presence of infection, ...

Towards a HPV Vaccine Knowledgebase for Patient Education Content.

Human papillomavirus is a widespread sexually transmitted infection that can be prevented with vaccination. However, HPV vaccination rates in the Unit...

Immune Response And Anamnestic Immune Response In Children After A 3-Dose Primary Hepatitis B Vaccination.

BACKGROUND: Diseases caused by Hepatitis B virus (HBV) have a worldwide distribution. Pakistan adopted the recommendations of World Health Organizatio...

[New FP Therapy Was Effective for a Case of Massive Hepatocellular Carcinoma].

A 62 year-old woman was hospitalized with the diagnosis of pneumonia, and a huge mass was recognized in the right lobe of the liver during a CT scan. ...

[Reproduction of a model of "two-hit" sepsis model with complication of pneumonia in rat].

OBJECTIVE: To reproduce a clinically relevant "two-hit" model of sepsis complicated by pneumonia and to explore the correlation between "two-hit" and ...

The drug prescription network: a system-level view of drug co-prescription in community-dwelling elderly people.

Networks are well suited to display and analyze complex systems that consist of numerous and interlinked elements. This study aimed at: (1) generating...

Predicting bacterial community assemblages using an artificial neural network approach.

Microbial communities are found in nearly all environments and play a critical role in defining ecosystem service. Understanding the relationship betw...

Participatory design and validation of mobility enhancement robotic wheelchair.

The design of the mobility enhancement robotic wheelchair (MEBot) was based on input from electric powered wheelchair (EPW) users regarding the condit...

Establishment of hepatitis A vaccine (inactivated, non-adsorbed) BRP batches 2 and 3.

The current hepatitis A vaccine (HAV), inactivated, non-adsorbed, European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) Biological Reference Preparation (BRP) is used for...