The Medicare Annual Wellness Visit (AWV), which includes comprehensive preventative assessments and screenings, is associated with improved services, including vaccination cancer screenings. However, the AWV alone does not promote whole-person care. Integrating within an Age-Friendly Health System (AFHS) contextualizes services a geriatric care framework that integrates “4Ms” (mentation, medica...

Abstract In the mid-1920s, Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje toured South African countryside showing films he brought from Tuskegee Institute in United States. Plaatje’s cinema tours complemented his educational talks on status of Africans Union Africa alongside material collected for books, speeches and political tours. Focusing itinerant as an element fieldwork, our article asks what can be learned ...

Most large-scale production processes in biotechnology are performed in fed-batch operational mode. In contrast, the screenings for microbial production strains are run in batch mode, which results in the microorganisms being subjected to different physiological conditions. This significantly affects strain selection. To demonstrate differences in ranking during strain selection depending on th...

Diabetic-related eye diseases are the most common cause of blindness in the world. So far the most effective treatment for these eye diseases is early detection through regular screenings. To lower the cost of such screenings, we employ state-of-the-art image processing techniques to automatically detect the presence of abnormalities in the retinal images obtained during the screenings. In this...

OBJECTIVES Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure is an important and preventable cause of mortality and morbidity among children; hospitalization represents a sentinel event that may offer opportunities for intervention. The goal of this study was to determine the frequency and validity of SHS exposure screenings by emergency department (ED) providers, residents, and nurses. METHODS A total of 140 ...