Technology and Health Care

Brain white matter tractography is reconstructed via diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance images. Due to the complex structure of brain white matter fiber bundles, fiber crossing and fiber branching are abundant in human brain. And regular methods with ...

Photosynthetic responses to light environment can be useful measurements to determine favorable habitat conditions for the conservation and cultivation of medicinal species. The nonrectangular hyperbola model, rectangular hyperbola model, modified ...

The most populous country in the world, China needs more health care. Shenmu's practices show that National Free Health Care (NFHC) system has played an active role in fulfilling the citizen's needs of health care, and alleviating the difficulties in ...

This research aimed to compare antioxidant and anticancer activities of the essential oil from various habitats of Selaginella doederleinii Hieron. The results showed that antioxidative activities of the essential oil were the best from Guizhou province in 2,...

The metabolites from human plasma and follicular fluid in IVF-ET are related with the metabolic activity of follicular cells and further with oocyte quality. With liquid chromatography-time-of-flight-mass spectrometry (LC-TOF-MS) and organic extraction from ...

Although diagnostic expert systems using a knowledge base which models decision-making of traditional experts can provide important information to non-experts, they tend to duplicate the errors made by experts. Decision-Theoretic Model (DTM) is therefore ...

BACKGROUND: The rupture of aneurysm is quite common in the clinics, and is hazardous to patients. Its occurrence is considered to be related to the hemodynamic abnormalities.

OBJECTIVE: To construct the model of internal carotid artery aneurysm (ICA-A), and ...

BACKGROUND: For its function of catalysing the reaction of aldehyde to acetic acid, ALDH could be applied to antialcoholismic drug development. However, both of the production and activity of natural ALDH are too low to meet the demand.

OBJECTIVE: To ...

Knowledge acquisition plays very important role in the diagnostic expert system. It usually takes a long period to acquire disease knowledge using the traditional methods. To solve this problem, this paper describes relations between rough set theory and ...

To establish a finite element (FE) model of the pig head for simulating firearm wounds. An experimental study was carried out by measuring impact load parameters from 17 fresh pig heads that were shot at the right part of cranium by a standard 7.62 mm M43 ...

First, a replicated dynamic equation for the spread of an SIS epidemic was proposed using the game theory. It was concluded that evolutionary stable strategies of an epidemic are (Z, C). Based on the method of multi-agent simulation by swarm 2.2, an ...

Cerebral hemodynamic parameters are related to the occurrence and development of the cerebral vascular diseases. This paper proposes a new possible method for control treatment on cerebral circulation network diseases. Cerebral circulation is taken as a kind ...

Cerebral vascular diseases are associated with cerebral hemodynamic parameter, which is difficult to observe and examine. This paper has proposed a new modeling method based on network and hemodynamics. The harmonic solution to the 18 branches of the circle ...

BACKGROUND: Epidemiological and experimental carcinogenesis studies provide evidence that components of garlic have anticancer activity.

OBJECTIVE: In this study, the apoptotic effects of Garlic-derived compound S-allylmercaptocysteine (SAMC) were ...

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the changes of adiponection (ANP) and matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in patients with coronary heart diseases (CHD) of different types, to investigate the correlation between these changes and stability of coronary artery plague.

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A 76-year-old woman has got both lower limbs petechia and ecchymosis for 1 month, edema for 6 days and fever for 3 days. The patient suffered from purpura of both lower limbs, edema, arthralgia, recurrent fever, kidney damages, serositis, progressive ...

OBJECTIVE: To describe the feasibility and efficacy of CT-guided satellite ganglion block in the management of Prostatectomy pain in survivors of breast cancer.

METHODS: Twenty-six breast cancer survivors with the complex regional pain syndrome were included ...

A pychrotrophic bacterium secreing an extracellular alkaline cold-active lipase was isolated from refrigeratory. Based on morphology and 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the isolate which was named as PF16 was identified as a member of Pseudomonas. A novel ...

BACKGROUND: TGFβ 1 is very important in the synthesis and degradation of extracellular matrix (ECM), and also in the mediation of human pulmonary fibroblasts proliferation, and miR-29 plays an important role in this process.

OBJECTIVE: In the present study, ...

BACKGROUND: Accurately planning the procurement volume is an effective measure for controlling the medicine inventory cost. Due to uncertain demand it is difficult to make accurate decision on procurement volume. As to the biomedicine sensitive to time and ...

Medical information sharing is one of the most attractive applications of cloud computing, where searchable encryption is a fascinating solution for securely and conveniently sharing medical data among different medical organizers. However, almost all ...

BACKGROUND: With the rapid development of cloud computing techniques, it is attractive for personal health record (PHR) service providers to deploy their PHR applications and store the personal health data in the cloud. However, there could be a serious ...

OBJECTIVE: To analyze intima-media thickness (IMT) of carotid artery and lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A2 (Lp-PLA2) in patients with coronary heart diseases of different types.

METHODS: A total of 1000 patients with suspicious coronary heart diseases ...

BACKGROUND: Advanced intelligent methodologies could help detect and predict diseases from the EEG signals in cases the manual analysis is inefficient available, for instance, the epileptic seizures detection and prediction. This is because the diversity and ...

BACKGROUND: Because medical personnel share different work shifts (i.e., three work shifts) and do not have a fixed work schedule, implementing timely, flexible, and quick e-learning methods for their continued education is imperative. Hospitals are ...

BACKGROUND: The intrinsic mechanism of multimorbidity is difficult to recognize and prediction and diagnosis are difficult to carry out accordingly. Bayesian networks can help to diagnose multimorbidity in health care, but it is difficult to obtain the ...

At present, China has achieved an initial establishment and gradual implementation of a framework for national essential drugs policy. With the further implementation of the national essential drugs policy, it is not clear how the policy works, whether it ...