Introduction and Aims: Atherosclerosis is a systemic disease that can affect the cerebrovascular system, kidneys and peripheral vessels. Comprehensive evaluation of the entire arterial system is therefore favourable and Whole Body MRI Angiography (WBA) has proven to be a useful clinical tool in assessing disease extent [1,2]. WBA acquires contrast-enhanced images of the entire arterial tree fro...

Traditional psychometric approaches towards assessment tend to focus exclusively on quantitative properties of assessment outcomes. This may limit more meaningful educational approaches towards workplace-based assessment (WBA). Cognition-based models of WBA argue that assessment outcomes are determined by cognitive processes by raters which are very similar to reasoning, judgment and decision m...

During the global COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of mortality and morbidity was fairly low in Pakistan compared to western countries. Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccination provides cross-protection for a broad range of related and unrelated pathogens. This protection is attributed to the recognition of broadly cross-reactive Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern (PAMPS) like molecules. We inve...

Inhalation exposure to particulate matter containing endotoxin (or lipopolysaccharide (LPS)) occurs in a variety of occupations. Nasal lavage and induced sputum have been used to evaluate lung inflammation resulting from such exposures. Whole blood assay (WBA) measures cytokine production of leukocytes after ex vivo stimulation with LPS. The present study examined the effectiveness of WBA for e...

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that, even in patients taking aspirin, the variance of preoperative platelet response to collagen might be associated with myocardial injury during coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Therefore, we evaluated the relationship between preoperative whole-blood aggregometry (WBA) by collagen and the postoperative myocardial injuries. METHODS For 44 patients who...

Abstract The paper presents a multi-faceted data-driven computational approach to analyse workplace-based assessment (WBA) of clinical skills in medical education. Unlike formal university-based part the degree, setting WBA can be informal and only loosely regulated, as students are encouraged take every opportunity learn from setting. For educators placement coordinators it is vital follow stu...

OBJECTIVES To test whether a summative workplace-based assessment (WBA) is feasible and acceptable for international medical graduates (IMGs). DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A 6-month trial with 27 IMGs from teaching hospitals in Newcastle, Australia. IMGs were assessed by 65 trained assessors from different disciplines, using blueprinted, preset criteria. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Mini-clini...

This paper investigates the utility of weighted Birkhoff average (WBA) for distinguishing between regular and chaotic orbits flows, extending previous results that applied WBA to maps. It is shown can be super-convergent flows when dynamics phase space function are smooth, conjugate a rigid rotation with Diophantine vector. The dependence accuracy on orbit length width weight investigated. In p...

Software quality is a complex concept containing a large number of quality criteria. These quality criteria are usually interactive where preference outcome of one criterion over another criterion is always influenced by the remaining criteria. However, to avoid complexity researchers always tend to construct independent criteria which causing some bias effect in evaluation. This paper presents...