1,243 Results Found

Flip-flow vibrating screens (FFVSs) effectively tackle the challenges posed by the dry deep-screening of wet, fine, low-grade bituminous coal, thereby facilitating advancements in the thermal coal preparation process. The tensile lengths of the scree...

Structural breaks are often encountered in empirical studies with large panels. This paper considers the estimation of multiple breaks in the mean of panel data model based on a modified screening and ranking algorithm. This algorithm satisfies symme...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) newborn screening (NBS) aims to improve outcomes through early diagnosis, yet disparities in time to diagnosis remain. This study examines CFTR allele frequencies and variant panel performance among a diverse CF population in Geo...

Human-relevant systems that mimic the 3D tumor microenvironment (TME), particularly the complex mechanisms of immuno-modulation in the tumor stroma, in a reproducible and scalable format are of high interest for the drug discovery industry. Here, we...

A greater number of screened conditions is often considered to equate to better screening, whereas it may be due to conditions being counted differently. This manuscript describes a harmonised Australasian approach to listing target conditions found...

It is demonstrated that the heart-rate can be sensed capacitively on a touch screen panel (TSP) together with touch signals. The existing heart-rate sensing systems measure blood pulses by tracing the amount of light reflected from blood vessels duri...

This paper presents a fully-differential touch screen panel (TSP) self-capacitance sensing (SCS) system with a self-capacitance mismatch calibration technique. Due to the self-capacitance mismatch of TSP, the analog front-end (AFE) of the receiver (R...

The SiO2 generated by low-temperature oxidation of ultra-thin metallic silicon (thickness = 50 nm) film was evaluated for implementation in one-glass-solution capacitive touch-screen panels (OGS-TSPs) on sapphire-based substrates. Our results show th...

It has recently been announced that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has approved the recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders in Newborns and Children (ACHDNC) to add mucopolysaccharidosis type...

Background: The dysregulation of gene expression is one of the key molecular features of colorectal cancer (CRC) development. This study aimed to investigate whether such dysregulation is reflected in rectal swab specimens of CRC patients and to eval...

The commercial category of virgin olive oil is currently assigned on the basis of chemical-physical and sensory parameters following official methods. Considering the limited number of samples that can be analysed daily by a sensory panel, an instrum...

Although ovarian cancer, a gynecological malignancy, has the highest fatality rate, it still lacks highly specific biomarkers, and the differential diagnosis of ovarian masses remains difficult to determine for gynecologists. Our study aimed to obtai...

Sensory evaluation, carried out by panel tests, is essential for quality classification of virgin olive oils (VOOs), but is time consuming and costly when many samples need to be assessed; sensory evaluation could be assisted by the application of sc...

This study presents a rapid and comprehensive method for screening mushroom extracts for the putative discovery of bioactive molecules, including those exhibiting antimicrobial activity. This approach utilizes a panel of bioluminescent bacteria, whos...

Determining the scope of a newborn screening program is a challenging health policy issue. Our study aimed to explore the attitudes of specialists in pediatrics, neonatology, medical genetics, and biochemistry regarding the prospects for expanding th...

Galactosaemia has been included in various newborn screening programs since 1963. Several methods are used for screening; however, the predominant methods used today are based on the determination of either galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase (GA...

Neonatal screening programmes have been introduced in almost all European countries. In practice there are large differences, especially in the panel of conditions that are screened for, often without clear reasons. Policy making on a European level...

The goal of newborn screening (NBS) has remained the same despite its significant expansion from its inception as a public health initiative. This goal is to identify infants that are at risk for a set list of conditions and to implement a care plan...

We introduce an innovative, non-invasive prenatal screening approach for detecting fetal monogenic alterations and copy number variations (CNVs) from maternal blood. Method: Circulating free DNA (cfDNA) was extracted from maternal peripheral blood an...

Transparent conducting electrode film is highly desirable for application in touch screen panels (TSPs), flexible and wearable displays, sensors, and actuators. A sputtered film of indium tin oxide (ITO) shows high transmittance (90%) at low sheet re...

Rapid advances in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of genetic disorders have increased the number of conditions that can be detected through universal newborn screening (NBS). However, the addition of conditions to the Recommended Uniform Scre...

In order to expand the range of pot materials for induction cookers, a kind of sandwich structural composite ceramic panel that consists of an Al2O3 ceramic substrate, magnetic heating interlayer, and ZrO2 ceramic substrate was developed by combining...

This study investigated the potential of using a nonuniform woven panel with nonuniform strips—thick sticks and thin battens—as an external solar shading screen that addressed daylighting, shading, and mechanical performance factors. The...

Although mutation profiling of defined genes is recommended for classification of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients, screening of targeted gene panels using next-generation sequencing (NGS) is not always routinely used as standard of care. The ob...

The purpose of this article is to highlight the new advancements in molecular and diagnostic genetic testing and to properly classify all ovarian cancers. In this article, we address statistics, histopathological classification, molecular pathways im...

Flexible and thin displays for smart devices have a large coupling capacitance between the sensor electrode of the touch screen panel (TSP) and the display electrode. This increased coupling capacitance limits the signal passband to less than 100 kHz...

This paper proposes a low-computing-complexity touch signal detection method and analog front-end (AFE) circuits based on cross-correlation technology for large mutual capacitance touch screen panels (TSPs). To solve the traditional touch signal dete...

New methods and demonstrations of feasibility guide future implementation of genomic population health screening programs. This is the first report of genomic population screening in a primary care, non-research setting using existing large carrier a...

This paper presents a mutual capacitance touch readout IC architecture for 120 Hz high-refresh-rate AMOLED displays. In high-refresh-rate AMOLED panels, whole pixels in a horizontal line should be updated without any time-sharing with each other, lea...

In-cell touch and display integrated panels, along with their integrated readout systems, are widely adopted in mobile devices for their cost-effectiveness and compact design. This paper proposes an analog Gaussian-shaped filter and a current mode co...

Graduate students often seek hands-on experiences in the international development field. Given that Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) provide hundreds of billions of dollars in aid each year, we expected that reviewing the design, implementation...

Breast cancer remains a major public health concern, and early detection is crucial for improving survival rates. Metabolomics offers the potential to develop non-invasive screening and diagnostic tools based on metabolic biomarkers. However, the inh...

The aim of this preliminary study was to investigate the potential of maternal serum to provide metabolomic biomarker candidates for the prediction of spontaneous preterm birth (SPTB) in asymptomatic pregnant women at 15 and/or 20 weeks’ gestat...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is an adult-onset progressive neurodegenerative disease due to motor neuron loss variably associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Next generation sequencing technology revealed an increasing number of rare a...

As today’s smartphone displays become thinner, the coupling capacitance between the display electrodes and touch screen panel (TSP) electrodes is increasing significantly. The increased capacitance easily introduces time-varying display signals...

Globally, 70 million people are annually affected by TBI. A significant proportion of all TBI cases are actually mild TBI (concussion, 70–85%), which is considerably more difficult to diagnose due to the absence of apparent symptoms. Current cl...

KLEPTOSE® CRYSMEB methylated cyclodextrin derivative displays less methylated group substitution than randomly methylated cyclodextrin. It has demonstrated an impact on atherosclerosis and neurological diseases, linked in part to cholesterol comp...

A flip-flow screen can effectively screen viscous particles, and its kinematic characteristics determine its screening performance. Since previous kinematic models have errors, a novel kinematics model of the flip-flow screen panel, namely the inclin...

Tapping panel dryness (TPD) syndrome is one of the latex yield affecting factors in the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis Mull. Arg.). Therefore, identification of a DNA marker will be highly useful for screening progenies in breeding programs. The maj...

Keratoconus (KC) is a serious disease that can affect people of any race or nationality, although the exact etiology and pathogenic mechanism are still unknown. In this study, thirty-two FDA-approved ophthalmic drugs were exposed to virtual screening...

In this study we performed a next generation sequencing of 210 genes in 140 patients with cardiac failure requiring a heart transplantation. We identified a total of 48 candidate variants in 47 patients. Forty-three patients (90%) presented a single...

Background: Otitis media includes several common inflammatory conditions of the middle ear that can have severe complications if left untreated. Correctly identifying otitis media can be difficult and a screening system supported by machine learning...

According to current guidelines, in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), only the TP53 molecular status must be evaluated prior to every treatment’s initiation. However, additional heterogeneous genetic events are known to confer a proliferative...

Pulses are a key source of dietary proteins in human nutrition. Despite several efforts to increase the production, various constraints, such as biotic and abiotic factors, threaten pulse production by various means. Bruchids (Callosobruchus spp.) ar...

PAN-gastrointestinal cancers (PAN-GI cancers), including the oral, esophageal, gastric, hepatocellular, pancreatic=, and colorectal cancers, are the leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Despite recent advances in identifying the molecular mecha...

The use of tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI) has been growing in veterinary oncology and in the past few years several TKI have been tested in dogs. However, different from human medicine, we lack strategies to select patients to be treated with each...

Broomrape (Orobanche crenata Forsk.) is a serious problem causing important losses to lentil (Lens culinaris Medik.) production and productivity in Mediterranean countries. Despite intensive breeding activities, no resistance sources against O. crena...

Part of the vision of the ISNS is ‘to enhance the quality of neonatal screening and medical services through dissemination of information, guidelines and best practices.’ Although newborn screening encompasses testing in the newborn perio...

It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of persistent, thoughtful parents and their importance in the development of treatments for their children’s rare disorders. Almost a century ago in Norway, observant parents led a brilliant...

A false negative can happen in many kinds of medical tests, regardless of whether they are screening or diagnostic in nature. However, it inevitably poses serious concerns especially in a prenatal setting because its sequelae can mark the birth of an...