With the continuous improvement of medical testing and instrumentation engineering technologies, the design, testing and development methods of in vitro diagnostic instruments are developing rapidly. In vitro diagnostic instruments are also gradually...
This article presents an evaluation of Prony method estimation and its implementation considerations for surge comparison test application in turn insulation diagnostics for three-phase stator windings. Surge testing diagnostics compares recorded sur...
A new fault diagnosis method for rotating machinery based on adaptive statistic test filter (ASTF) and Diagnostic Bayesian Network (DBN) is presented in this paper. ASTF is proposed to obtain weak fault features under background noise, ASTF is based...
Managing blood cholesterol levels is important for the treatment and prevention of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and obesity. An easy-to-use, portable cholesterol blood test could accelerate more frequent testing by patients and at-risk populatio...
Background: The diagnostic test for malaria is mostly based on Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) and detection by microscopy. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is also a sensitive detection method that can be considered as a diagnostic tool. The outcome of m...
In medical care, it is important to evaluate any new diagnostic test in the form of diagnostic accuracy studies. These new tests are compared to gold standard tests, where the performance of binary diagnostic tests is usually measured by sensitivity...
The nematode Dirofilaria immitis is responsible for a vector-borne disease affecting canines and humans worldwide, known as cardiopulmonary dirofilariasis. An accurate and early diagnosis is of the utmost importance for effective disease management....
Background/Objectives: Intestinal schistosomiasis caused by Schistosoma mansoni is often underestimated in low-transmission settings due to the limited sensitivity of traditional stool microscopy. More sensitive approaches, including antigen detectio...
Conveyor belts are among the most critical components of material transport systems across various industrial sectors, including mining, energy, cement production, metallurgy, and logistics. Their reliability directly affects the continuity and opera...
Existing buildings, especially historical buildings, require periodic or situational diagnostic tests. If a building is in use, advanced non-destructive or semi-destructive methods should be used. In the diagnosis of reinforced concrete structures, t...
Precise classification of sarcomas is crucial to optimal clinical management. In this prospective, multicenter, observational study within the Hellenic Group of Sarcoma and Rare Cancers (HGSRC), we assessed the effect of expert pathology review, coup...
This article presents diagnostic tests of wire ropes using passive magnetic methods. The study used two types of wire ropes with different constructions and diameters. Defects of various depths were modeled in the ropes, which reflected the degree of...
ONCOBREAST-TEST is a diagnostic and therapeutic procedure that is part of the comprehensive care of a patient with breast cancer.: Chemosensitivity of cancer cells was assessed using the MTT test, morphological assessment of cells, LDH activity in th...
A new virus was identified in late December 2019 when China reported the first cases of pneumonia in Wuhan, and a global COVID-19 pandemic followed. The world was not late to respond, with a number of sweeping measures ranging from social distancing...
The translation of nucleic acid amplification into practical point-of-care and biosensor-integrated diagnostics is still significantly impeded by the necessity for rapid sample preparation. For this reason, a broad comparison of seven commercially av...
Color Doppler (CD) imaging is widely used in diagnostics since it allows real-time detection and display of blood flow superimposed on the B-mode image. Nevertheless, to date, a shared worldwide standard on Doppler equipment testing is still lacking....
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive irreversible neurodegenerative disorder that represents a major global public health concern. Traditionally, AD is diagnosed using cerebrospinal fluid biomarker analysis or brain imaging modalities. Rec...
Background/Objectives: Light-chain amyloidosis (AL Amyloidosis) is a rare systemic plasma cell disorder in which misfolded light chains form amyloid fibrils that damage vital organs. Diagnosis is often delayed because of variable presentation and ove...
This study extends the Absement Method to leaky-aquifer pumping-test analysis by time integrating the Hantush–Jacob governing equation and deriving four complementary operators. Time integrating the Hantush–Jacob equation yields S·...
The Time-Stepped Linear Superposition Method (TLSM) has been used previously to model and analyze the propagation of multiple competitive hydraulic fractures with constant internal pressure loads. This paper extends the TLSM methodology, by including...
Background/Objectives: Syphilis remains a significant public health challenge worldwide. Accurate and efficient diagnostic tools are essential to controlling the spread of the disease. Current diagnostic approaches primarily rely on serologic trepone...
Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading causes of death from a single infectious agent worldwide, a burden further exacerbated by HIV co-infection and the increasing prevalence of drug-resistant strains. Although a wide range of laboratory diagn...
Background/Objectives: Rabies is almost invariably fatal once clinical symptoms manifest. Timely and accurate diagnosis is essential for effective treatment and prevention. Dogs are the principal reservoirs of the virus, particularly in developing na...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition diagnosed in approximately 2% of children. Reliance on the emergence of clinically observable behavioral patterns only delays the mean age of diagnosis to approximately 4 years. However...
Malaria remains a major public health threat in Cameroon, with an estimated 3 million new cases of Plasmodium spp. infections reported each year. The aim of this study was to assess the occurrence of Plasmodium infections in Cameroon in a group of sy...
Steel wire rope is essential to many rope transport devices. As steel ropes are used, they become damaged, the identification of which is often very difficult or time-consuming. The criteria for retiring steel wire ropes are rigorous—sometimes,...
This issue was proposed and organized as a means to present recent developments in the field of non-destructive testing of materials in civil engineering. For this reason, the articles highlighted in this editorial relate to different aspects of non-...
This work concerns the concept and verification of the experimental possibility of using a wavelet transform to assess a steel structure’s condition. In the research, a developed measuring stand was used. Mechanical waves in the metal plate wer...
Non-destructive testing of concrete for defects detection, using acoustic techniques, is currently performed mainly by human inspection of recorded images. The images consist of the inside of the examined elements obtained from testing devices such a...
The gastrointestinal microbiota of chickens plays a central role in health and performance. Cloacal swabs, due to their proximity to the ceca (a vital site of functional activity), are an alternative, non-invasive method used for assaying microbial c...
Studies investigating microRNAs as potential biomarkers for cancer, immune-related diseases, or cardiac pathogenic diseases, among others, have exponentially increased in the last years. In particular, altered expression of specific miRNAs correlates...
Lyme borreliosis (LB) is a tick-borne disease caused by a diverse and expanding group of spirochetes characterized by complex biology and advanced immune evasion mechanisms. It presents a wide range of clinical symptoms affecting multiple organ syste...
The article presents a testing platform named Hypothesis. The software was developed primarily for the purposes of experimental research in cartography and psychological diagnostics. Hypothesis is an event-logger application which can be used for the...
Classical pumping-test interpretation relies on instantaneous drawdown and its time derivative, both of which amplify measurement noise. This study introduces cumulative drawdown, or absement, as the primary state variable for confined aquifer pumpin...
Currently, there is a lack of standardized diagnostic criteria for gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), making it a subject of ongoing debate. The optimal diagnostic method and screening strategy for GDM remain contentious. In this review, we summari...
Anemia is a condition in which red blood cells or the hemoglobin in the blood is lower than in healthy people. Red blood cells transport and supply oxygen needed to various organs in the human body. Anemia is caused by hypoxemia due to the lack of re...
The paper describes the process of a prototype head optimisation for magnetic diagnostics of steel-polyurethane load-carrying belts. The prototype, validated on a number of cranes, was subject to an improvement and optimisation attempt using numerica...
Carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii group organisms (CRAB) are challenging because the choice between targeted, new antibiotic drug options and hygiene measures should be guided by a timely identification of resistance mechanisms. In CRAB, a...
Rapid diagnosis and treatment application in the early stages of H. pylori infection plays an important part in inhibiting the transmission of this infection as this bacterium is involved in various gastric pathologies such as gastritis, gastro-duode...
The accurate diagnosis of pulpal pathology in pediatric dentistry is essential for the success of vital pulp therapy. Pulp testing is often a challenging task due to understanding and cooperation issues of pediatric patients, as well as the particula...
Tick-borne diseases (TBDs) have become a significant public health concern in the United States over the past few decades. The increasing incidence and geographical spread of these diseases have prompted the implementation of robust surveillance syst...
In this paper, a novel method for high temperature fatigue strength assessment of nickel superalloy turbine blades after operation at different times (303 and 473 h) was presented. The studies included destructive testing (fatigue testing at temperat...
The paper puts forth a methodology for the arrangement of calculation control at the outputs of combinational digital devices based on utilizing multiple diagnostic features. The first diagnostic feature is the belonging of the formed codewords to a...
11 September 2024
Like many countries, Ukraine faces challenges with diagnosing tuberculosis (TB) in children due to the paucibacillary nature of the disease and difficulty obtaining respiratory samples. To improve diagnostic efficiency, stool testing is being integra...
Verification of the behaviour of new designs of rotor seals is a crucial phase necessary for their use in rotary machines. Therefore, experimental equipment for the verification of properties that have an effect on rotor dynamics is being developed i...
Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is a promising tool for the improvement of tumor molecular profiling in view of the identification of a personalized treatment in oncologic patients. To verify the potentiality of a targeted NGS (Ion AmpliSeq™ C...
Background/Objectives: Vulvovaginal candidosis (VVC) is a common condition among women, with current diagnostic methods relying on clinical evaluation and laboratory testing. These traditional methods are often limited by the need for specialized tra...
The average kappa coefficient of a binary diagnostic test is a measure of the beyond-chance average agreement between the binary diagnostic test and the gold standard, and it depends on the sensitivity and specificity of the diagnostic test and on di...
Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common cause of patient-reported vertigo. The accurate diagnosis of BPPV requires high-quality physician training and knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of different diagnostic method...
Malaria is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. According to the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) world malaria report for 2018, there were 228 million cases and 405,000 deaths worldwide. This paper reviews and highlights the...
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