AIM The aim of this study was to systematically review the clinimetric properties of longitudinal neonatal neurobehavioural and neuromotor assessments for preterm infants. METHOD Twenty-seven assessment measures were identified. The following eight measures met the study inclusion criteria: Assessment of Preterm Infants' Behaviour (APIB), Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Network Neurobehavioural ...

General movements (GMs) are a distinct movement pattern carried out spontaneously without external stimulation and seen in fetuses of 9 weeks gestational age till 21 weeks postterm. GMs are helpful in the early diagnosis of an impaired central nervous system and the specific prediction of later neurological deficits. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder involving a li...

Since 2006, the German Society for Hospital Hygiene patronages the Journal “GMS (GermanMedical Science) Krankenhaushygiene Interdisziplinär”, an open access peer-reviewed PubMed listed e-journal. German Medical Science is a portal for online journals, meeting and research reports and offers all researchers in the field of medicine an open access to scientific articles and the possibility to pub...

In the study of 782 biopsy specimens from 1 95 patients during and after chemotherapy we compared the numbers of Mycobacterium /eprae stained by the Fite-Faraco (FF) and the Gomori methenamine-silver (GMS) techniques. In many patients large amounts of non-acid-fast M. /eprae or remnants thereof remained 66 months after starting effective multidrug therapy. The GMS stain is a useful method for a...

Algorithms for solving agreement problems can be classified in two categories: (1) those relying on failure detectors that we call FD-based, and (2) those that rely on a Group Membership Service that we call GMS-based. The paper discusses the advantages and limitations of these two approaches, and proposes an extension to the GMS-approach that combines the advantages of both approaches, without...

Understanding the underlying molecular mechanism of how graphene materials (GMs) interact with biological surfaces is key to develop safe and effective biomedical applications GMs. Here, a systematic comprehensive mechanistic perspective interactions between pristine GMs membranes provided. To this end, first known mechanisms interaction membrane components are summarized classified, focus on p...

This study presents the strength development and durability of heat non-heat-cured geopolymer mortars (GMs) produced using metakaolin (MK), ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBFS), silica fume (SF), calcined perlite (GCP), raw (RP), potassium hydroxide (KOH), sodium metasilicate (Na2SiO3), standard sand, tap water. An optimal combination MK with various pozzolans constant solid/liquid alka...

The Gibbs sampler is a particularly popular Markov chain used for learning and inference problems in Graphical Models (GMs). These tasks are computationally intractable in general, and the Gibbs sampler often suffers from slow mixing. In this paper, we study the SwendsenWang dynamics which is a more sophisticated Markov chain designed to overcome bottlenecks that impede the Gibbs sampler. We pr...