Technology Assessment in Social Context (TASC) is a research project funded by the Australian Research Council from 2006 to 2008. Its primary aim is to develop a framework for technology assessment (TA) for Australia. Drawing on international TA practice and ‘Social Impact Assessment’, TASC also presents a new TA approach for the international TA community. The novelty of TASC is its emphasis o...

Recent technological breakthroughs have made it possible to measure RNA expression at the single-cell level, thus paving the way for exploring expression heterogeneity among individual cells. Current single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) protocols are complex and introduce technical biases that vary across cells, which can bias downstream analysis without proper adjustment. To account for cell...

G. Pinato CNR, Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM), Laboratorio TASC, Area Science ParkBasovizza, S.S. 14, Km 163.5, 34149, Trieste, Italy L. T. Lien International School for Advanced Studies (ISAS-SISSA), Neurobiology Sector, Via Bonomea 265, 34136, Trieste, Italy E. D’Este CNR, Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM), Laboratorio TASC, Area Science ParkBasovizza, S.S. 14, Km 163.5, 34149, Tri...

Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty has become widely spread as the initial treatment in patients with iliac occlusive disease. Although not confirmed by the current TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC) II recommendations, endovascular repair of complex aortoiliac lesions is feasible and gives similar angiographic and clinical outcome compared with open surgery at both shortand long-t...

BACKGROUND Open surgery is the preferred approach for the treatment of type D lesions according to the Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC) II guideline, but endovascular solutions also appear to be a valid option in selected patients. The study aimed to identify the risk factors of restenosis after open and endovascular reconstruction of symptomatic TASC II D aortoiliac occlusive lesi...

TASC has recently developed a technology for learning scenario-templateextraction grammars from examples provided by end-users with no special computational or linguistic knowledge. For straightforward scenario-template problems, complete extraction systems can be learned from scratch in a few hours. The learned systems are fast, robust, and as accurate as carefully handcrafted systems. For mor...

Methods Twenty-four of patients were treated with endovascular method. Nineteen of the patients had intermittent claudication, 4 had rest pain and one patient with bilateral popliteal artery aneurysms had pain at the back of bilateral knee joints. Twenty patients were male and 3 were female. The mean age was 64,05 (range 40-82 years) years. Nine of the patients who underwent endovascular therap...

avorable results have been obtained with endovascular treatment (EVT) for iliac artery lesions, compared with lesions of the femoral artery, even in the follow-up period.1–5 The therapeutic strategy for peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is generally selected according to the lesion type based on the morphological stratification of the TransAtlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC-I).6 In 2007, th...

Towards a Safer Culture (TASC) aims to provide a safer culture in hospital departments by introducing clinical pathways for the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes or stroke. Specific clinical pathways have been implemented for patients with different levels of risk to guide the most appropriate evidence-based medical care for each patient. Pathways facilitate continuity of car...