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PSFC: a Pathway Signal Flow Calculator App for Cytoscape

Cell signaling pathways are sequences of biochemical reactions that propagate an input signal, such as a hormone binding to a cell-surface receptor, into the cell to trigger a reactive process. Assessment of pathway activities is crucial for determining which pathways play roles in disease versus normal conditions. To date various pathway flow/perturbation assessment tools are available, howeve...

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Rotterdam Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator: Development and Usability Testing of the Mobile Phone App

BACKGROUND The use of prostate cancer screening tools that take into account relevant prebiopsy information (ie, risk calculators) is recommended as a way of determining the risk of cancer and the subsequent need for a prostate biopsy. This has the potential to limit prostate cancer overdiagnosis and subsequent overtreatment. mHealth apps are gaining traction in urological practice and are used...

Calculator for Fuzzy Numbers

‎This paper has been discussed and reviewed two R packages FuzzyNumbers and Calculator.LR.FNs‎. ‎These packages have the ability of installation on R software‎, ‎and in fact they propose some useful instruments and functions to the users for draw and easily using arithmetic operators on LR fuzzy numbers‎. ‎For the convenience of the readers‎, ‎the proposed methods and functions have been presen...

Can a smartphone app improve medical trainees’ knowledge of antibiotics?

Objectives To determine whether a smartphone app, containing local bacterial resistance patterns (antibiogram) and treatment guidelines, improved knowledge of prescribing antimicrobials among medical trainees. Methods We conducted a prospective, controlled, pre-post study of medical trainees with access to a smartphone app (app group) containing our hospital's antibiogram and treatment guidel...