Hydrocephalus is a complex disorder of the formation, flow, and absorption cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), characterized by increased intracranial pressure, pathological dilatation cerebral ventricles, excessive accumulation CSF. This study describes correlation hydrocephalus degrees in children aged 0-12 with clinical manifestation through head CT scan to measure degree mild, moderate, severe using...

In order to evaluate the nomological network of associations between psychopathy and its sub-dimensions, and Big Five domains and dispositional aggression in adolescence, and its consistency across gender-based sub-groups, 1253 Italian high school students (F = 429, M = 824) were administered the Italian translations of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory (YPI), Big Five Inventory (BFI) and...

BACKGROUND Non-invasive imaging of the biodistribution of novel therapeutics including gene therapy vectors in animal models is essential. METHODS This study assessed the utility of high-frequency ultrasound (HF-US) combined with biofluoresence imaging (BFI) to determine the longitudinal impact of a Herpesvirus saimiri amplicon on human colorectal cancer xenograft growth. RESULTS HF-US imag...

OBJECTIVE To detect perfusion reductions in patients with acute cerebral infarcts using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) with indocyanine green (ICG) as tracer. METHODS Kinetics of an intravenous bolus of ICG were monitored by NIRS in 13 patients with acute infarction in the territory of the middle cerebral artery (mean (SD) age, 62.2 (13.0) years) and 12 controls (64.2 (9.1) years) at 2.8 (...

Hydrological investigation for major Java rivers remains research challenge todays, particularly in identification of runoff characteristics situated monsoonal climate. This study aims to investigate the value baseflow index Bengawan Solo river. We employed daily streamflow data period 1980-2010 derive (BFI) based on smoothed minima. utilized different approaches comprising non-overlapping 3 da...

Methods We conducted a randomised controlled trial, comparing acupuncture with a placebo and a wait list control. Inclusion criteria included: aged between 18 and 70 years, a diagnosis of breast cancer, a score of >4 on the Brief Fatigue Inventory (BFI), and completed chemotherapy at least one month previously. Acupuncture was based on Traditional Chinese Medicine using a semi standardised trea...

INTRODUCTION Fatigue and depression are commonly attributed to malignant and chronic benign diseases. However, these phenomena have been little investigated to date in prostatic diseases. Our aim was to compare fatigue and depression in prostate cancer patients treated with Androgen Deprivation Therapy (ADT) and in patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) / Benign Prostatic Syndrome. ...

This study presents a novel performance metric for feature selection algorithms that is unbiased and can be used comparative analysis across problems. The baseline fitness improvement (BFI) measure quantifies the potential value gained by applying selection. BFI to compare of datasets measuring change in classifier as result selection, with respect where all features are included. Empirical res...