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Herpes simplex virus in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of medical intensive care unit patients: Association with lung injury and outcome.

PURPOSE: In intensive care unit (ICU) patients in whom bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) was analy...

Artificial neural network modeling enhances risk stratification and can reduce downstream testing for patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes, negative cardiac biomarkers, and normal ECGs.

Despite uncertain yield, guidelines endorse routine stress myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) for pa...

EHR based Genetic Testing Knowledge Base (iGTKB) Development.

BACKGROUND: The gap between a large growing number of genetic tests and a suboptimal clinical workfl...

Integrated analysis of oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma identifies key variants and pathways linked to risk habits, HPV, clinical parameters and tumor recurrence.

Oral tongue squamous cell carcinomas (OTSCC) are a homogeneous group of tumors characterized by aggr...

Validation of a six degree-of-freedom robotic system for hip in vitro biomechanical testing.

Currently, there exists a need for a more thorough understanding of native hip joint kinematics to i...

Multiple Testing of Gene Sets from Gene Ontology: Possibilities and Pitfalls.

The use of multiple testing procedures in the context of gene-set testing is an important but relati...

Feasibility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing and training using a robotics-assisted tilt table in dependent-ambulatory stroke patients.

BACKGROUND: We evaluated the feasibility of an augmented robotics-assisted tilt table (RATT) for inc...

A Tool for Predicting Regulatory Approval After Phase II Testing of New Oncology Compounds.

We developed an algorithm (ANDI) for predicting regulatory marketing approval for new cancer drugs a...

Stress Testing of an Artificial Pancreas System With Pizza and Exercise Leads to Improvements in the System's Fuzzy Logic Controller.

BACKGROUND: Under controlled conditions, the Dose Safety artificial pancreas (AP) system controller,...

Rich spectrum of neural field dynamics in the presence of short-term synaptic depression.

In continuous attractor neural networks (CANNs), spatially continuous information such as orientatio...

High frequency of neurosyphilis in HIV-positive patients diagnosed with early syphilis.

BACKGROUND: Syphilis is an infection frequently seen with HIV, and European guidelines on the manage...

Robotic axial lower leg testing: repeatability and reproducibility.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability and the repeatabilit...

Single-bundle ACL reconstruction with and without extra-articular reconstruction: evaluation with robotic lower leg rotation testing and patient satisfaction scores.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to compare the biomechanical characteristics and patient outc...

Design, testing and modelling of a novel robotic system for trans-oesophageal ultrasound.

BACKGROUND: Trans-oesophageal echocardiography (TOE) has been widely utilized for cardiac disease di...

Soluble CD163 and monocyte populations in response to antiretroviral therapy and in relationship with neuropsychological testing among HIV-infected children.

BACKGROUND: Monocytes play a central role in HIV neuropathogenesis, but there are limited data on mo...

Quantification of loading in biomechanical testing: the influence of dissection sequence.

Sequential dissection is a technique used to investigate loads experienced by articular tissues. Whe...

Development of a cervical cancer progress prediction tool for human papillomavirus-positive Koreans: A support vector machine-based approach.

OBJECTIVES: To develop a Web-based tool to draw attention to patients positive for human papillomavi...

Re: Artificial Hand for Minimally Invasive Surgery: Design and Testing of Initial Prototype.

Clinical evaluation of postoperative chemotherapy based on genetic testing in patients with stage IIIA non-small cell lung cancer.

BACKGROUND: We performed a retrospective analysis to evaluate whether a postoperative chemotherapy s...

Toll-like receptor signaling in vertebrates: testing the integration of protein, complex, and pathway data in the protein ontology framework.

The Protein Ontology (PRO) provides terms for and supports annotation of species-specific protein co...

Semantic network mapping of religious material: testing multi-agent computer models of social theories against real-world data.

Agent-based modeling allows researchers to investigate theories of complex social phenomena and subs...