Prodromal features of asthma.

Prodromal features of asthma.

One hundred and thirty four ambulatory children with bronchial asthma were investigated in the Pediatric Pulmonary-Allergic Service. In 95 patients an interval characterised by prodromal respiratory symptoms (cough, rhinorrhoea, and wheezing), behavioural changes (irritability, apathy, anxiety, and sleep disorders), gastrointestinal symptoms (abdominal pain and anorexia), fever, itching, skin e...

Thickness NETwork (ThickNet) Features for the Detection of Prodromal AD

Regional analysis of cortical thickness has been studied extensively in building imaging biomarkers for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but not its inter-regional covariation. We present novel features based on the inter-regional co-variation of cortical thickness. Initially the cortical labels of each patient is partitioned into small patches (graph nodes) by spatial k-means clust...

the impact of skopos on syntactic features of the target text

the present study is an experimental case study which investigates the impacts, if any, of skopos on syntactic features of the target text. two test groups each consisting of 10 ma students translated a set of sentences selected from advertising texts in the operative and informative mode. the resulting target texts were then statistically analyzed in terms of the number of words, phrases, si...

THE PRODROMAL PHASE OF WHAT? THE PRODROMAL PHASE OF WHAT? A Metapsychiatric Analysis of the Prodromal Phase of Schizophrenia

Dissection of prodromal Alzheimer's disease.

Pathophysiological changes of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) begin decades before clinical symptoms become apparent, providing an important window for early diagnosis and intervention. Prodromal stage of AD, a great opportunity for effective treatment and postponing the disease onset, has drawn extensive attention. The application of different biomarkers including neuroimaging, biochemical substances...