OBJECTIVE To evaluate two alternatives to the fasting plasma glucose (FPG) test for diabetes screening in Latin America. METHODS Eight hundred adults without diabetes were recruited in a primary care clinic in Honduras. An equation-based screening formula, incorporating a random capillary glucose test and other risk factors, was used for initial screening. All patients with a screening-based ...

Ohio University is continuing to conduct research to improve its system for weather data dissemination to aircraft. The current experimental system transmits compressed weather radar reflectivity patterns from a ground based station to aircraft. qlthough an effective system, the limited frequency spectrum does not provide a channel for transmission. This introduces the idea of a hybrid modulati...

BACKGROUND Countries with centralized, high-volume mammography screening programs, such as the U.K. and Sweden, emphasize high specificity (low percentage of false positives) and high sensitivity (high percentage of true positives). By contrast, the United States does not have centralized, high-volume screening programs, emphasizes high sensitivity, and has lower average specificity. We investi...

Current strategy of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance evaluates individual risks of HCC for defining candidates for surveillance, but estimated risks are not utilized for clinical decision-making during actual screening. We sought to determine whether consideration of individual risks improve the performance of ultrasound (US)-based HCC screening in a real-world chronic hepatitis B (C...

Memristive devices exhibiting improved performance and memory characteristics are revealed by using a combinatorial screening approach. An Nb-Ta thin film library, with total compositional spread ranging between 13 80 at.% Ta, is co-sputtered as the bottom electrode, while their anodic oxides served active layers. Such metal–insulator-metal (MIM) specimens under investigation finalized patterne...

background: major attention has been drawn to the prognostic value of plasma/serum neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (ngal) in detection of acute kidney injury (aki) in children, but still no consensus has been reached. accordingly, the present study aimed to assess the diagnostic value of this biomarker in detection of acute kidney injury in children through a systematic review and me...

BACKGROUND Previous studies of alcohol use have recognized several trends in consumption patterns among gender and age yet few have examined ethnic differences. This study examines the intra- and inter-ethnic differences in alcohol consumption among a population of patients seen in the emergency department. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study conducted in the emergency department in a lar...

All women aged 50--79 were invited by two group practices to undergo screening and 57% accepted. Women of the same age range in other practices, who referred themselves, were also screened. Interview with random samples of 100 invited screened women (acceptors), 100 invited unscreened women (rejectors), and 50 self-referred women enabled comparisons to be made of personal and social characteris...

This paper presents methodologies to select equities based on soft-computing models which focus on applying fundamental analysis for equities screening. This paper compares the performance of three soft-computing models, namely Multilayer Perceptrons (MLP), Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference Systems (ANFIS) and General Growing and Pruning Radial Basis Function (GGAP-RBF). It studies their computati...

BACKGROUND Increasing colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) is important for attaining the Healthy People 2020 goal of reducing CRC-related morbidity and mortality. Evaluating CRCS trends can help identify shifts in CRCS, and specific groups that might be targeted for CRCS. METHODS We utilized medical records to describe population-based adherence to average-risk CRCS guidelines from 1997 to 200...