Doppler reflectometry is considered in slab plasma model in the frameworks of analytical theory. The diagnostics locality is analyzed for both regimes: linear and nonlinear in turbulence amplitude. The toroidal antenna focusing of probing beam to the cutoff is proposed and discussed as a method to increase diagnostics spatial resolution. It is shown that even in the case of nonlinear regime of ...

Security diagnostics expose vulnerabilities and privacy threats that exist in commercial Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA) - diagnostics offer the possibility of securer IVA ecosystems.

A good diagnostic procedure avoids wasting medical resources, is easy to use, resists contamination, and provides accurate information quickly to allow for rapid follow-up therapies. We developed a novel diagnostic procedure using a "cotton-based diagnostic device" capable of real-time detection, i.e., in vitro diagnostics (IVD), which avoids reagent contamination problems common to existing bi...

PURPOSE The clinical relevance of CA 19-9 as surrogate biomarker in advanced pancreatic cancer is a matter of debate. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN This retrospective multicenter study included patients with histologically confirmed advanced pancreatic cancer treated with first-line therapy. Analysis of CA 19-9 was done using the Elecsys assay (Roche Diagnostics). For an analysis of CA 19-9 kinetics, a...

OBJECTIVE To examine whether results of a polymerase chain reaction-based respiratory viral panel (RVP) are associated with changes in antibiotic use or differential clinical outcomes among children hospitalized with pneumonia. METHODS We retrospectively identified otherwise healthy children hospitalized over a 3-year period at a single institution with community-acquired pneumonia who had an...

Allergy – diagnostics – cockroach – tick – storage mite – arthropod Cockroach, tick, storage mite and other arthropod allergies: Where do we stand with molecular allergy diagnostics? Abstract Arthropods form a broad phylum within the animal kingdom, comprising widely varying members such as insects, arachnids, crabs and centipedes. In addition to common allergies to house dust mites or hy-menop...

In this study, we describe a simple and efficient method for on-chip storage of reagents for point-of-care (POC) diagnostics. The method is based on gelification of all reagents required for on-chip PCR-based diagnostics as a ready-to-use product. The result reported here is a key step towards the development of a ready and easy to use fully integrated Lab-on-achip (LOC) system for fast, cost-e...

We applied data-driven methods to carry out automatic acquisition of Dutch prepositional support verb constructions (SVCs) in corpora (e.g., iets in de gaten houden (“keep an eye on something”)). This paper addresses the question whether linguistic diagnostics help to discard noise from thenbest lists and how to (semi-)automatically apply such linguistic diagnostics to parsed corpora. We show t...

Background Bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) has a stable place in the diagnostics of various forms of the diffuse parenchymal lung disease. The analysis of cellular components of the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) informs us about inflammatory and immune processes in the alveolar space. This can be very helpful in the diagnostics of many interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), but also in the diagn...

Cell-based biosensors provide new horizons for medical diagnostics by adopting complex recognition elements such as mammalian cells in microfluidic devices that are simple, cost efficient and disposable. This combination renders possible a new range of applications in the fields of diagnostics and personalized medicine. The review looks at the most recent developments in cell-based biosensing m...