Testing of the coincidence of a linear accelerators X-ray field and the light field as a quality control test is often done in a subjective method, involving the manual marking of pieces of film and the visual inspection of the film after irradiation. The purpose of this study was to develop an objective method for performing this test, while also increasing the accuracy, precision and the spee...

In an earthquake situation, medical response communities such as field and referral hospitals are being challenged with injured victims’ identification and tracking. In our project, we developed a patient tracking platform (PTP). In this platform, first responders triage the patients with an electronic tag that reports the location and some information of each patient during his or her movement...

Background and Objective: The medicinal plant Origanum vulgare. subsp. vulgare in the Lamiaceae family has been widely used by Iranian people for the treatment of respiratory, gastrointestinal and neurologic disorders. The present study was carried out to evaluate possible anxiolytic effects of aqueous extract of O. vulgare leaves and the flowering branches in rats.Materials and Methods: Anxiol...

This paper describes the winning entry to the ALTA Shared Task 2013. The theme of the shared task was recovery of casing and punctuation information from degraded English text. We tackle the task as a sequential labeling problem, jointly learning the casing and punctuation labels. We implement our sequential classifier using conditional random fields, trained using linguistic features extracted...

Introduction: The evaluation of X-ray and light field coincidence in linear accelerators as a quality control test is often performed subjectively, involving the manual marking of films and their visual inspection following the irradiation. Therefore, the present study aimed to develop an objective method for the performance of this test leading to the increased levels...

PURPOSE To explore the diagnostic performance of threshold visual field tests using subsets of the standard 24-2 test pattern in detecting early/moderate glaucomatous field loss. METHODS Normal (Brusini stage 0, n = 2344) and defective eyes (Brusini stage 2-3, n = 2222) from a database of visual field tests (6696 eyes/3586 patients, SITA standard 24-2 algorithm) were selected and resampled us...

This study evaluated the accuracy of the Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST) Battery to assist officers in making arrest decisions for DWI at blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) below 0.10 percent. NHTSA's SFST battery was validated at 0.10 percent BAC in 1981. The trend to reduce statutory DWI limits to 0.08 percent BAC prompted this research project. The research was composed of several p...