BACKGROUND Multitrauma patients represent a difficult cohort of patients from a diagnostic standpoint. Current trauma recommendations do not advise whole-body computed tomography (CT) in hemodynamically stable patients. OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence of abnormal CT findings in areas other than the prime area of clinical interest in multitrauma patients. METHOD The records of 462 consec...

The first aim of this paper is to make a modeling framework of the interest area of a library patron by utilizing library’s loan records. In other words, to profile a person with his/her interest field. Interest area profiling is not only interesting of itself but also useful for library when it chooses the books to be purchased, for professors when they give lectures, and for other people. The...

Knowledge of the human visual system helps to develop better computational models of visual attention. State-of-the-art models have been developed to mimic the visual attention system of young adults that, however, largely ignore the variations that occur with age. In this paper, we investigated how visual scene processing changes with age and we propose an age-adapted framework that helps to d...

Many of the societal level factors that affect health – the ‘social determinants of health (SDH)’ – exist outside the health sector, across diverse portfolios of government, and other major institutions including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and the private sector. This has created growing interest in how to create and implement public policies which will drive better and fairer health...

Extracellular polymeric substances are defined as high molecular weight compounds secreted by the microorganisms in the surrounding area. Since these extracellular substances are mainly polysaccharide, they are named exopolysaccharide. Microbial exopolysaccharides composed of sugar residue have growing interest as a new class of microbial products which can be used in food, pharmaceutical, and ...