Background and objectives: In the last couple of years, pharmacological management of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) have been markedly renewed. The aim of this study was to analyse the changes in prescribing patterns of antidiabetic d...
Historic buildings are often assumed to have poor energy performance, and energy optimization of the buildings is perceived as threatening their cultural values. This study tests these assumptions. First, it examines the energy performance of Danish...
In this paper, we propose a novel Dynamic Cipher Composition (DCC) based on multi-algorithm approach using the Library of Image Encryption Methods (LIEM). Unlike conventional static encryption schemes, the proposed DCC randomly selects and applies di...
(1) Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) requires lifelong specialized care. Failure to follow up and gaps in care are common in this group and lead to increased morbidity/mortality. We evaluated patients’ perceived needs and expectations regar...
There is a lack of consensus on what physicians can recommend and what patients can expect concerning sports activity after reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA). The purpose of this retrospective register-based observational study was to investigate t...
This study explored and compared the functional status of polymedicated and non-polymedicated geriatric inpatients at hospital discharge. We used a cross-sectional registry of geriatric patients’ hospital records from a multi-site public hospital cen...
Background and Objectives: Hip and knee replacement joint surgeries are experiencing constant growth, and anticipating future needs allows decision-makers and stakeholders involved in the healthcare system to allocate the necessary resources for safe...
At the end of the 20th century, the phenomenon of urban shrinkage received widespread attention, with population decline as its core characteristic. In 2020, the Taiwanese population had negative growth and faced a low fertility rate and an aging pop...
Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) in patients with carpometacarpal osteoarthritis of the thumb. Methods: In this cross-sectional register-based study of 253 patients...
Background: Lichen Sclerosus (LSc) is a chronic inflammatory skin condition predominantly affecting the anogenital regions, with a well-recognised potential for malignancy. This study examines the incidence, demographic characteristics, and regional...
Delayed gastric emptying (DGE) ranks as one of the most frequent complications in pancreatic surgery. It leads to increased costs for healthcare systems, lengthened hospital stays and reduced quality of life. Data about DGE after distal pancreatectom...
Background: Thromboelastometry like ROTEM® is a point-of-care method used to assess the coagulation status of patients in a rapid manner being particularly useful in critical care settings, such as trauma, where quick and accurate assessment of c...
11 June 2022
Background: This study investigates the association between the implementation of new technology in the workplace and the subsequent loss of paid employment among older workers. Methods: We estimated the prospective risk of loss of paid employment (r...
Inter-hospital transfers remain a significant part of emergency care service missions, even though efforts have been made to change this. We examined the use of prehospital emergency care units in inter-hospital patient transfers in one wellbeing ser...
Few studies have examined the role of maternal diet in relation to development of coeliac disease (CD). In Denmark, cancellation of mandatory vitamin D fortification of margarine in June 1985 provided this opportunity. This study examined if season o...
Objectives: Non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (BE) is a chronic airway disease with increasing prevalence, reduced quality of life, and increased mortality. Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are used in BE despite limited evidence of effect on lung func...
Speculative execution attacks significantly compromise the security of modern processors by enabling information leakage. These well-known attacks exploit speculative cache-based covert channels to effectively exfiltrate secret data by altering cache...
Background: Celiac disease (CD) is a systemic immune-mediated enteropathy with a broad spectrum of extraintestinal manifestations driven by aberrant mucosal IgA responses and increased intestinal permeability. These same mechanisms provide a compelli...
Objective: Postpartum maternal readmission is a significant burden for patients as well as the health system. Postpartum readmission rate is a known factor in evaluating quality of care and in guiding potential beneficial interventions. Use of the Ro...
Binary translation is an important technique for achieving cross-architecture software migration. However, mainstream dynamic binary translation frameworks, such as QEMU, often generate a large amount of redundant code, which degrades the efficiency...
Background: This institutional, register-based analysis aimed to evaluate the feasibility of using CT-based sacral Hounsfield units (HUs) for assessing bone density in pelvic fragility fractures and to explore their potential correlation with DEXA me...
Trastuzumab (T) and tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) are among the first-line treatments recommended for HER2-positive breast cancer. More recently, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) such as trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) and trastuzumab emtansine (T-...
This article analyzes diverse criteria for effectively implementing selective hardening against soft errors through software-based strategies. The goal is to obtain maximum fault coverage with the least amount of overhead for each specific applicatio...
To achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, Korea has been expanding its investment in renewal energy distribution and technology development. However, with this rapid expansion of renewable energy, public concern about it has grown. This study developed a...
3 April 2015
Radiofrequency emissions in the frequency range 30 kHz–300 GHz were evaluated to be Group 2B, i.e., “possibly”, carcinogenic to humans by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) at WHO in May 2011. The Swedish Cancer Register has not s...
Based on a newly adopted “Rulebook on the records of identified changes on buildings in Serbia” (2020) that regulates the content, establishment, maintenance and use of records on identified changes on buildings, it is expected that the geodetic-cada...
There is a plethora of food products with geographical indications registered in the European Union without any study about their discrimination from other similar products. This is also the case for Greek currants. This paper aims to analyze if stab...
Recently, an increasing number of studies have applied deep learning algorithms for extracting information from handwritten historical documents. In order to accomplish that, documents must be divided into smaller parts. Page and line segmentation ar...
30 July 2020
In Australia, disease registers for acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) were previously established to facilitate disease surveillance and control, yet little is known about the extent of case-ascertainment. We compared ARF/...
Historical document analysis systems gain importance with the increasing efforts in the digitalization of archives. Page segmentation and layout analysis are crucial steps for such systems. Errors in these steps will affect the outcome of handwritten...
A registered trademark represents one of a company’s most valuable intellectual assets, acting as a safeguard against possible reputational damage and financial losses resulting from infringements of this intellectual property. To be registered...
28 August 2023
During the last few decades, there has been an increase in the number of natural disasters in Greece, triggering consequences and raising public awareness. This research highlights air masses trajectories during flash floods and meteorological disast...
26 July 2011
The Norwegian Food Allergy Register was established at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in 2000. The purpose of the register is to gain information about severe allergic reactions to food in Norway and to survey food products in relation to a...
Objective: To characterize academic urology Twitter presence and interaction by subspecialty designation. Methods: Using Twitter application programming interface of available data, 94 000 specific tweets were extracted for the analysis through the T...
Background: Various methods for preventing pressure injury have been developed across the globe, particularly in Saudi Arabia. Current available research has investigated the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding pressure injury prevention. H...
This paper focuses on a detailed analysis of coastal waters under the conditions of the intense anthropogenic impacts of submerged wastewater discharges, using optical and radar satellite images. The features of the intense anthropogenic impacts on t...
Campylobacteriosis causes a significant disease burden in humans worldwide and is the most common type of zoonotic gastroenteritis in Finland. To identify infection sources for domestic Campylobacter infections, we analyzed Campylobacter case data fr...
The medical service is a special credit commodity, and trust plays a very important role in patients’ online medical choice behavior. By collecting information about the doctors on China’s leading online medical platform (Platform A), a r...
(1) Background: The assessment and application of registered nurses’ professional skills are essential to providing quality and safe care. Self-efficacy can positively affect the professional competence of registered nurses. This study analysed...
Background: The study aimed to define the burden and underlying risk factors of malnutrition among children with cerebral palsy (CP) in Gorkha district, Nepal. Methods: The first population-based register of children with CP in Gorkha, Nepal (i.e., N...
The utility network cadastre in Serbia is the main register of utility lines and the rights to them. The Law on State Survey and Cadastre states the necessity for implementing a unified information system of both a real estate and utility network cad...
SAR data from the lunar spaceborne Reconnaissance Orbiter’s (LRO) Mini-RF and Chandrayaan-1’s Mini-SAR provide valuable insights into the properties of the lunar surface. However, public lunar SAR data products are not properly registered...
Based on the 1% sample survey of the National Population Census (2015), this paper empirically analyzes the impact of intergenerational occupational mobility levels on labor migration in terms of push and pull factors. We found that increasing the de...
Image registration is an important task in many computer vision applications such as fusion systems, 3D shape recovery and earth observation. Particularly, registering satellite images is challenging and time-consuming due to limited resources and la...
Inter-professional collaboration is a process in which health professionals from different disciplines work together, sharing their ideas and opinions to plan evidence-based care. Nurses and doctors spend most of their time providing direct patient c...
Authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) schemes based on stream ciphers, such as ASCON and MORUS, typically use nonlinear feedback shift registers (NFSRs) and linear feedback shift registers (LFSRs) to generate variable-length key stream...
We develop a digitization-based analysis workflow for characterizing the entropy and correlation structure of truncated bosonic quantum fields after embedding them into small qubit registers, and illustrate it on the steady state of a coherently pump...
The aim of this paper is to share innovations and some key lessons learned in the use of non-traditional data sources to improve data quality and enable more accurate and efficient data use in the field of tourism. Research on visitor traffic is base...
The AA6082-T6 and AA5754-H22 aluminium alloys were selected as the base materials to fabricate similar and dissimilar friction stir lap welds. Three lap configurations, AA6082/AA5754, AA5754/AA6082 and AA6082/AA6082, were produced using three pin pro...
A pseudorandom sequence is a repeatable sequence with random statistical properties that is widely used in communication encryption, authentication and channel coding. The pseudorandom sequence generator based on the linear feedback shift register ha...
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