Academic Articles & Research Papers

Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Factors in Addis Ababa Public Health Facilities, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2016

Addisu Tadesse Sahile,1 Getabalew Endazenew Bekele2 1Department of Public Health, Unity University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 2Department of Social and Population Health, Yekatit12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaCorrespondence:...

Hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspective of challenges and their coping mechanisms in Mukono and Buikwe districts in Uganda – a qualitative study

Background: In sub-Saharan Africa, the burden of non-communicable diseases is steadily rising amidst a high prevalence of communicable diseases stretching the healthcare system. This study explored hypertension and diabetes patients’ perspe...

Serum Bilirubin Level Changes in Multiple Sclerosis Patients

Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disorder of the Central Nervous System (CNS). In addition to the role of immune mediated mechanisms, oxidative and nitrosative stress also play an important role in neuropathology of MS...

Organic cage-anchored ultrafine palladium nanoparticles enable direct C(sp2)-H arylation of benzothiazole.

Application of Convolutional Neural Network for Fault Diagnosis of Bearing Scratch of an Induction Motor

The demand for the condition monitoring of induction motors is increasing in various fields, such as industry, transportation, and daily life. Bearing faults are the most common faults, and many fault diagnosis methods have been proposed us...

Axial Function Reflects Global Severity in Inherited Ataxias: The Upright Stability Score in Ambulatory Friedreich vs. Spinocerebellar Ataxia.

Decision-Making Within Forensic Psychiatric Investigations: The Use of Various Information Sources by Different Expert Groups to Reach Conclusions on Legal Insanity

BackgroundWhich type of information experts use to make decisions regarding legal insanity within forensic psychiatric investigations (FPI) is relatively unknown, both in general and when considering variations due to case context. It is im...

End-of-life decisions and involvement of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Physicians in Europe

Objective: As Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine physicians are experts in functional prognoses of disabling health conditions, the aim of this study was to gain insight into their involvement in end-of-life decisions in patients with neu...

Co-Regulation of Protein Coding Genes by Transcription Factor and Long Non-Coding RNA in SARS-CoV-2 Infected Cells: An In Silico Analysis

Altered expression of protein coding gene (PCG) and long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) have been identified in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells and tissues from COVID-19 patients. The functional role and mechanism (s) of transcriptional regulation of de...

A distinct gut microbiota composition in patients with ankylosing spondylitis is associated with increased levels of fecal calprotectin

Abstract Background Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) shares many characteristics with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Intestinal microbiota most likely plays an important role in the development of IBDs and may also be involved in the pathogen...

Exploring innovation landscapes: a national cross-sectional study of Swedish primary care from the viewpoint of primary care managers

Abstract Background Innovation is increasingly necessary in primary care policy, and healthcare managers play a pivotal role in translating policy ambitions into practice and shaping organisational conditions that foster innovation. The aim...

Effects of Lactobacillus crispatus-Containing Probiotics and Metformin on Insulin Resistance, Inflammation, and Gut Microbiome in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome: Protocol for an Open-Label Randomized Controlled Trial.

Identification and reporting of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction in Sub-Saharan Africa: a scoping review of diagnostic approaches, echocardiographic assessment, and evidence gaps

Abstract Background Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is increasingly recognized as a major heart failure phenotype globally; however, its diagnosis is complex and is recommended to require integrated assessment of clin...

Toward a Fit-for-purpose Policy Architecture on Long-term Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: Impasse and a Research Agenda to Overcome it

Context: Perspectives from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) have featured little in the expanding global debate on long-term care (LTC) policy thus far – despite SSA countries’ embrace of global commitments on the development of equitable and susta...

TweetNLP: Cutting-Edge Natural Language Processing for Social Media

Jose Camacho-collados, Kiamehr Rezaee, Talayeh Riahi, Asahi Ushio, Daniel Loureiro, Dimosthenis Antypas, Joanne Boisson, Luis Espinosa Anke, Fangyu Liu, Eugenio Martínez Cámara. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Nat...

BERT applications in natural language processing: a review

BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) has revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP) by significantly enhancing the capabilities of language models. This review study examines the complex nature of BERT, inclu...

Natural Language Processing-Based Financial Time Series Forecasting: Utilizing Sentiment Analysis for Improved Stock Price Prediction

This study explores the application of natural language processing (NLP) techniques in financial time series forecasting, specifically in predicting stock prices. Historical stock price data and textual data from financial news articles and...

Feasibility of Hemolytic Disease of the Fetus and Newborn Case Ascertainment and Assessing Its Impact on Prenatal and Postnatal Outcomes: Protocol for Observational Studies

BackgroundHemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) is a rare but serious condition caused by maternal-fetal red blood cell antigen incompatibility. In an affected pregnancy, maternal immunoglobulin G antibodies cross the placenta a...

Post-democratic discursive hegemony – a natural language processing-based analysis of Hungarian parliamentary discourses between 1998-2020

The parliament, as a key component of the public sphere, is both a reflection of and a stage for the post-democratic transition. Our study examines Hungarian parliamentary discourse as an indicator of a transition in which democratic instit...

Machine learning and computer vision approaches for phenotypic profiling

With recent advances in high-throughput, automated microscopy, there has been an increased demand for effective computational strategies to analyze large-scale, image-based data. To this end, computer vision approaches have been applied to ...