BIOMEDICINE: An Active Participant

An Analysis of Participant Responses

Advancing evidence-based practice in hospitals can be a challenge. To address this issue, a virtual journal club (VJC) was developed using available intranet technology. Research manuscripts are posted along with professional critiques and discussion questions. Comments from nurse VJC participants are reviewed by the hospital’s nursing research council and analyzed for practice implications. Re...

The adipocyte as an active participant in energy balance and metabolism.

Obesity is responsible for the mounting incidence of metabolic disease in adult and pediatric populations. Understanding of the pathogenesis and maintenance of the obese state has advanced rapidly over the past 10 years. Bodily energy reserves are managed actively by complex systems that regulate food intake, substrate partitioning, and energy expenditure. An underlying assumption that circulat...

Nitric oxide is a multifunctional biological mediator and an active participant in proinflammatory and bronchodilatory

The present study aimed to examine the role of exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) and serum surfactant protein D (SP‐D) level in the determination of radiation pneumonitis (RP) after thoracic radiotherapy (RT). The study included 34 treatments for 33 patients, including 16 three‐dimensional conformal and 18 stereotactic body RT treatments. eNO levels were measured prior to RT, immediately subsequent to...

An Update on Statistical Boosting in Biomedicine

Statistical boosting algorithms have triggered a lot of research during the last decade. They combine a powerful machine learning approach with classical statistical modelling, offering various practical advantages like automated variable selection and implicit regularization of effect estimates. They are extremely flexible, as the underlying base-learners (regression functions defining the typ...

Earthworm-An alternative approach to biomedicine