Surveys

A connectionist modeling study of the neural mechanisms underlying pain's ability to reorient attention.

Connectionist modeling was used to investigate the brain mechanisms responsible for pain's ability to shift attention away from another stimulus modality and toward itself. Different connectionist model architectures were used to simulate the different possible brain mechanisms underlying this attentional bias, where nodes in the model simulated the brain areas thought to mediate the attentional b...

Evaluation of a Technology-Based Adaptive Learning and Prevention Program for Stress Response-A Randomized Controlled Trial.

To prevent deployment-related disorders, Chaos Driven Situations Management Retrieval System (CHARLY), a computer-aided training platform with a biofeedback interface has been developed. It simulates critical situations photorealistic for certain target and occupational groups. CHARLY was evaluated as a 1.5 days predeployment training method comparing it with the routine training. The evaluation w...

[Salvage external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer recurrence after high-intensity focused ultrasound ablation].

The article outlines oncological and functional outcomes of salvage external beam radiation therapy after HIFU-ablation in 49 patients. The study dete...

Robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy for women with endometrial cancer - complications, women´s experiences, quality of life and a health economic evaluation.

This thesis contains four studies all focusing on women with endometrial cancer undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy (RALH). Women wi...

Dynamic Parameter Identification of Subject-Specific Body Segment Parameters Using Robotics Formalism: Case Study Head Complex.

Accurate knowledge of body segment inertia parameters (BSIP) improves the assessment of dynamic analysis based on biomechanical models, which is of pa...

Colorectal Cancer Staging Using Three Clustering Methods Based on Preoperative Clinical Findings.

Determination of the colorectal cancer stage is possible only after surgery based on pathology results. However, sometimes this may prove impossible. ...

Automated Tracking and Quantification of Autistic Behavioral Symptoms Using Microsoft Kinect.

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has risen significantly in the last ten years, and today, roughly 1 in 68 children has been diagnosed...

[Reliability and validity of the FACIT-AI Chinese-version for assessing quality of life in patients with malignant ascites].

Comfort and learnability assessment of a new soft robotic manipulator for minimally invasive surgery.

Laparoscopic surgeons perform precise and time consuming procedures while holding awkward poses in their upper body and arms. There is an ongoing effo...

Yeast Proteome Dynamics from Single Cell Imaging and Automated Analysis.

Proteomics has proved invaluable in generating large-scale quantitative data; however, the development of systems approaches for examining the proteom...

Retrospective assessment of the validity of robotic surgery in comparison to open surgery for pediatric choledochal cyst.

PURPOSE: We evaluated the validity of robotic surgery (RS) for pediatric choledochal cyst (CC) in comparison to open surgery (OS).

Knowledge-Based Personal Health System to empower outpatients of diabetes mellitus by means of P4 Medicine.

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide and it imposes a large economic burden on healthcare systems. We present a web...

Automatic extraction of reference gene from literature in plants based on texting mining.

Real-Time Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT-PCR) is widely used in biological research. It is a key to the availability of qRT-PCR experimen...

AIDS causes sharp rise in number of Brazilian orphans.

An estimated 183,000 Brazilian children are at risk of losing their mothers to AIDS, according to a survey released. The survey, sponsored by UNICEF, ...