Depression is a significant challenge for ambulatory care because it worsens health status and outcomes, increases health care utilizations and costs, and elevates suicide risk. An automatic telephonic assessment (ATA) system that links with tasks and alerts to providers may improve quality of depression care and increase provider productivity. We used ATA system in a trial to assess and monito...

For 18 years, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual International Meeting & Exposition has been the premier forum for professionals in telemedicine, telehealth and mHealth-and is one of the fastest growing meetings in the country. ATA 2013 is on course to be the largest ATA meeting ever, with over 6,000 projected attendees. The program will include 500 educational sessions and post...

Monkeys and dogs were used in a series of studies designed to assess the ability of aurin tricarboxylic acid (ATA) to provide protection against acute beryllium poisoning. The acute LD50 of ATA was found to be 344 mgA/g for monkeys and 164 mg/kg for dogs. Neither species exhibited significant hematological changes when given weekly ATA doses of 25 mg/kg over an 8-month period. The lethal intrav...

NLP methods for automatic information access to rich technological knowledge sources like patents are of great value. One important resource for accessing this knowledge is the technical terminology of the patent domain. In this paper, we address the problem of automatic terminology acquisition (ATA), i.e., the problem of automatically identifying all technical terms in a document. We analyze t...

This paper introduces a new data transport architecture and protocol for storage that is implemented on wireless devices and that can be accessed through a short-range wireless access technology such as Bluetooth or 802.11. We call the protocol WATA (Wireless ATA), as its architecture is similar to current ATA and ATA-based technologies. In this paper, we give basic technical details of the pro...

BACKGROUND The treatment of a rare, nontraumatic, fusiform aneurysm of the anterior temporal artery (ATA) via endovascular techniques is presented, and procedural nuances are highlighted. METHODS We performed a retrospective chart review and collected demographic and clinical data on the patient presented here; procedural details were extracted from operative notes. RESULTS Following succes...

We discuss the problem of global invertibility of nonlinear maps defined on the finite dimensional Euclidean space via differential tests. We provide a generalization of the Fujisawa-Kuh global inversion theorem and introduce a generalized ratio condition which detects when the pre-image of a certain class of linear manifolds is non-empty and connected. In particular, we provide conditions that...

Background Autoantibodies (Aab) are frequent in systemic sclerosis (SSc) [1]. Recently, it has been showed that immunoglobulins G (IgG) from SSc promoted proinflammatory and profibrotic phenotype monocyte secretome [2]. Fibroblasts (FB) key effectors cells data on FB proteins secretion the presence of IgG patients lacking. While recognized as potent biomarkers, pathogenic role Aab is much more ...

Airway nitric oxide (NO) has been proposed to play a role in the development of high-altitude pulmonary edema. We undertook a study of the effects of acute changes of ambient pressure on exhaled and alveolar NO in the range 0.5-4 atmospheres absolute (ATA, 379-3,040 mmHg) in eight healthy subjects breathing normoxic nitrogen-oxygen mixtures. On the basis of previous work with inhalation of low-...