Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) can lead to emotional and psychological distress between patients their family carers. Many people with ALS develop cognitive impairment, which limits ability process complex information, interact, communicate. This decline adds caregiver burden. Few studies have explored interpersonal relations carers. <...

Background: Reliable data on health care costs in Ireland are essential to support planning and evaluation of services. New unit high-quality utilisation offer the opportunity estimate individual-level for research policy. Methods: Our main dataset was The Irish Longitudinal Study Agein...

Background: In Malaysia, B40 communities are those with a median monthly household earning of under RM 3166. With the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and resulting lockdown, livelihoods in these areas has been severely impacted. This increased their vulnerability to psychological afflictions led poorer perception quality life (QoL) comparison rest population. We investig...

Background: A thermistor is a nonlinear sensor requiring precise calibration technique to achieve accurate temperature measurements. This paper attempts design employing artificial neural network (ANN) algorithms. The present work fulfills the following objectives: (i) cover 100% input range in linearity measurement; (ii) make measurement adaptiv...

Background: Natalizumab is a widely used anti-α4 integrin inhibitor for treating highly active multiple sclerosis. Although clinical and radiological relapses were observed in the pivotal natalizumab trials, severe disease activity after initiation of drug rare phenomenon has been reported only isolated cases. Objective: To present case patient who experienced paradoxi...

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its consequences are a serious global public health issue. By 2030, the number of people with type is predicted to reach 439 million. The purpose this study evaluate plasma levels glucose, HbA1c, insulin, lipid profile in Sudanese T2DM patients. Methods:...

introduction as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) is too expensive and time consuming, its frequent implementation is difficult. the aim of this study is to evaluate repeatability of detecting visual cortex activity in fmri. materials and methods in this study, 15 normal volunteers (10 female, 5 male; mean age±sd: 24.7±3.8 years) attended. functional magnetic resonance images were ob...