PURPOSE To develop a clinical score to discriminate patients with somatic symptom disorder (SSD) from those with medical disease (MD) for complaints of non-acute pain. METHODS We retrospectively examined the clinical records of consecutive patients with pain for a duration of ≥1 month in our department from April 2003 to March 2015. We divided the subjects according to the diagnoses of defini...

The plate loop count as described in Standard Methods for the Examination of Dairy Products, 13th Edition, was investigated as a simplified technique for determining total viable counts in single strength orange juice. This pro cedure requires the use of standardized loops (0.01 and 0.001) for making serial dilutions in stead of pipets and dilution bottles. Data have been presented to show ther...

The determination of CD4 cells is of crucial clinical importance for patients with AIDS. However, the high costs involved represent limitations for CD4 cell counting in developing countries. In order to provide an affordable technique, we introduced a simplified volumetric counting (SVC) technique without sample manipulations and investigated it in a multicentre study. Blood samples from 434 he...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness and cost-efficiency of a tailored message intervention compared with a non-tailored message intervention for increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among a non-adherent population, in a community-based client reminder program. METHODS After a baseline survey for psychological segmentation, 2140 eligible individu...

The study of complex reactive flows met in aeronautical engines is an experimental challenge that requires the development noninvasive and precise measurement techniques. Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) a standard spectroscopic technique used for temperature measurements, which provides unmatched reliability accuracy at high repetition rate thanks to its recent adaptation femtoseco...

the snp (rs11209026, arg381gln, r381q) in the il-23 receptor (il23r) confers protection against multiple inflammatory diseases, representing one of the most significant human genetic polymorphisms in inflammatory diseases. we, therefore, investigated the association between il-23 r r381q gene polymorphism and asthma.this case-control study was performed on 209 patients, and 200 healthy controls...

A Landscape Model analysis, adopted from the text processing literature, was run on transcripts of tutoring sessions, and a technique developed to count the occurrence of key physics points in the resulting connection matrices. This point-count measure was found to be well correlated with learning.

OBJECTIVES To develop and test an optimal ensemble configuration of two complementary probabilistic data matching techniques namely Fellegi-Sunter (FS) and Jaro-Wrinkler (JW) with the goal of improving record matching accuracy. METHODS Experiments and comparative analyses were carried out to compare matching performance amongst the ensemble configurations combining FS and JW against the two t...

BACKGROUND A tibial-pedal access method is needed for patients with advanced peripheral artery disease (PAD) unable to tolerate common femoral artery (CFA) access and intervention due to body habitus or comorbidities. This is the first case series reporting an alternative technique to revascularize such patients. Using ultrasound (US) and the tibio-pedal arterial minimally invasive retrograde r...