This paper presents a comparative study of conventional Experimental Modal Analysis (EMA) and output-only Operational Modal Analysis (OMA) techniques for estimating the modal parameters of a moderately damped truck chassis. The OMA, without its need to measure input forces, would serve as a convenient methodology to test vehicle structures when response data alone is available. Data has been ac...

Emergency Management Agencies (EMA) are increasingly adopting online social network (OSN) such as Twitter and Facebook for interacting with partner institutions and citizens for sourcing and distributing of vital crisis information. However, EMA need to study and analyze how well they are using and, how they should be using the OSN. This paper adopts a holistic social architecture driven approa...

BACKGROUND Alcohol abuse, other substance use disorders, and risk behaviors associated with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) represent three of the top 10 modifiable causes of mortality in the US. Despite evidence that continuing care is effective in sustaining recovery from substance use disorders and associated behaviors, patients rarely receive it. Smartphone applications (apps) have b...

One of the objectives of the Paediatric Regulation (EC) No 1901/2006, is to foster high quality ethical research on medicinal products to be used in children. To achieve this objective, the EMA is responsible for developing a European paediatric network of existing national and European networks and centres with specific expertise in research and clinical trials relating to paediatric medicines...

PSS67 DoeS HealtH-RelateD Quality of life evaluation in PSoRiaSiS MatteR? a Review of labelS of PSoRiaSiS PRoDuctS aPPRoveD by tHe fDa anD tHe eMa Acquadro C1, Perret C1, Arnould B2 1Mapi Research Trust, Lyon, France, 2Patient-Centered Outcomes Mapi, Lyon, France Objectives: Psoriasis is a papulosquamous skin disease characterized by recurring thick, itchy and dry red patches covered with silve...

OBJECTIVE An immunoglobulin A (IgA) anti-tissue transglutaminase antibody assay (anti-tTG) was compared with the conventional IgA anti-endomysium antibody assay (EMA) to assess its reliability as a screening test for celiac disease (CD) in a pediatric population. METHODS Seventy-five IgA-sufficient and 2 IgA-deficient children who were scheduled for small intestinal biopsy for the evaluation ...

Electromagnetic articulography (EMA) data provides the movement of sensors attached to different articulators of a subject when the subject is speaking. EMA data often contains missing segments due to sensor failure. In this work, we propose an equality constrained Kalman smoother to estimate the missing samples in the EMA data. We incorporate the dynamics of the articulatory movement for missi...

Perivascular epithelioid cell neoplasm/tumor (PEComa) was a relatively uncommon lesion of mesenchymal origin characterized by perivascular epithelioid cells with distinctive histological and immunohistochemical features. The occurrence in the sacral ligament was exceptional rare. Cytokeratin and epithelial membrane antigen (EMA) were considered as commonly useful epithelial markers to distingui...

Recurrent aphthous stomatitis is a common disease of the oral mucous membranes. Currently a hypothesis is being discussed that it might be pathogenetically related to coeliac disease. We evaluated the frequency of coeliac disease anti-endomysial (or anti-transglutaminase) antibodies in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis. Blood samples from 42 patients were evaluated and 2/42 (4.7%) wer...

N. Servant , E. Gravier , P. Gestraud , C. Laurent , C. Paccard , A. Biton , I. Brito , J. Mandel , B. Asselain , E. Barillot , P. Hupé . Institut Curie, Paris F-75248, France, INSERM U900, Paris F-75248, France, Ecole des Mines ParisTech, Fontainebleau, F-77300 France, Institut Curie, Deṕartement de Transfert, Paris F-75248, France, CNRS, UMR144, Paris F-75248, France CNRS, UMR146, Paris F-752...