conclusion pacs is highly accepted in all three emergency departments especially among specialists. pu, peu and change are factors influencing pacs acceptance. our study can be used as an evidence of pacs acceptance in emergency wards. results mean age of participants was 32.9 years (standard deviation [sd] = 6.08). participants with the specialty degree got a higher acceptance score than the t...

Ultrasonography has achieved acceptance as a routine clinical tool for clinicians managing pleural disease. This article provides an overview of the field of pleural ultrasonography with an emphasis on clinical applicability and procedure guidance.

BACKGROUND In developed countries, health care utilization among immigrant groups differs where the dominant interpretation is unjustified overutilization due to lack of acculturation. We investigated utilization of prescribed drugs in native Dutch and various groups of immigrant elderly. METHODS Cross-sectional study using data from the survey "Social Position, Health and Well-being of Elder...

AIMS: To evaluate the main barriers and motivations for metabolic control in patients with Diabetes Mellitus.
 
 METHODS: 101 assisted at Endocrinology Metabology service clinical laboratory diagnosis of Type 2 were invited to participate research answer a questionnaire developed by authors, consisting 65 questions, assess treatment motivations.
 RESULTS: There was predominance f...

INTRODUCTION Chronic inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis have undoubtedly a negative impact on the patients' quality of life. Many of them may face various limitations in their psychosocial lives because of symptoms indicating the presence of psychopathological phenomena. Mental disorders in patients with skin diseases occur much more frequently than in the general population. Studies ...

The coronavirus disease 2019 or COVID-19 pandemic is the nastiest public health, economic, and societal crisis of our lifetime. When this global emergency hit, entire institution quickly pivoted to deliver actionable science that decision-makers need in times crisis. steps taken at beginning solve immediate, day-to-day challenges posed by eventually rebuild a healthier, more robust resilient na...

This paper proposes a new way to study traffic flow at an urban unsignalised intersection, through detailed space considerations, using cellular automata (CA). Heterogeneity and inconsistency are simulated by incorporation of different categories of driver behaviour and reassignment of categories with given probabilities at each time step. The method is able to reproduce many features of urban ...

We present work towards a spoken-dialogue embodied companion system that behaves in a socially cooperative fashion, i.e., being attentive to communicative and social cues emitted by the user, inferring internal cognitive, affective and interactional states, and reciprocating with appropriately adapted behavior. It is argued that this capability is vital for fostering cooperative, effortless, an...