Indirect-immunofluorescence (IIF) of Human Epithelial-2 (HEp-2) cells is a commonly-used method for the diagnosis of autoimmune diseases. Traditional approach relies on specialists to observe HEp-2 slides via the fluorescence microscope, which suffers from a number of shortcomings like being subjective and labor intensive. In this paper, we proposed a hybrid deep learning network combining the ...

BACKGROUND Children are participating in sports at an increasingly younger age, which has contributed to an increased incidence of knee injuries among this population. Because of increased interest in the application of patient-reported outcome measures in orthopaedic surgery to evaluate treatment results, numerous knee outcome scores, including the International Knee Documentation Committee Su...

and participants in a seminar at the American Enterprise Institute for suggestions and comments on earlier drafts. I also thank Mary Barth of OMB and Geoff Lubien of DRI for providing forecast data from their respective organizations, and the Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance for financial support. Any views expressed are my own, and not necessarily those of any organization with w...

Our main objective is to improve an operational model for wind-generated surface gravity waves (WAVEWATCH III ®) such that it can accurately predict the attenuation and scattering of waves by interaction with ice in the Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ). The wave model physics developed here will later be part of an operational coupled model system, allowing feedback to ice, ocean, and atmospheric models...

To assess the changes in drug resistance index (DRI), a composite measure that combines level of individual pathogens with extent antimicrobial drugs consumption multidisciplinary hospital, after implementation stewardship program (AMSP) and during COVID-19 pandemic.

The aim of this work was to evaluate the effects of short full scale MBT process (28 d) getting a biological stability of DRI < 1000 mg O(2) kg VS(-1) h(-1), on the impact of leachate produced in simulated landfill. As consequence of that, waste was processed by full scale MBT and both untreated and treated waste were successively incubated in simulated landfills for 1 year. Leachates were coll...

Pancreatitis is a common exocrine pancreatic disease in dogs, and the pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity (PLI) test is used for diagnosis. Enzyme catalytic assay is thought to have low specificity, but a lipase activity assay with increased specificity has been developed in human clinical chemistry. We measured serum lipase activity of 65 client-owned dogs using the newly developed FUJI DRI-CHE...

Pancreatitis is a common exocrine pancreatic disease in dogs, and the pancreatic lipase immunoreactivity (PLI) test is used for diagnosis. Enzyme catalytic assay is thought to have low specificity, but a lipase activity assay with increased specificity has been developed in human clinical chemistry. We measured serum lipase activity of 65 client-owned dogs using the newly developed FUJI DRI-CHE...