Current methods for diagnosing early stage osteoarthritis (OA) based on the magnetic resonance imaging and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay methods are specific, but require specialized laboratory facilities and highly trained personal to obtain a definitive result. In this work, a user friendly and non-invasive quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) immunosensor method has been developed to detect...

The aim of this paper is to present the software development techniques used to build the EIS Patterns development framework, which is a testbed for a series of techniques that aim at giving more flexibility to EIS in general. Some of these techniques are customizations or extensions of practices created by the agile software development movement, while others represent new proposals. This pape...

Electronic institutions (EIs) have been proposed as a means of regulating open agent societies. EIs define the rules of the game in agent societies by fixing what agents are permitted and forbidden to do and under what circumstances. And yet, there is the need for EIs to adapt their regulations to comply with their goals despite coping with varying populations of self-interested external agents...

Electronic institutions (EIs) have been proposed as a means of regulating open agent societies. EIs define the rules of the game in agent societies by fixing what agents are permitted and forbidden to do and under what circumstances. And yet, there is the need for EIs to adapt their regulations to comply with their goals despite coping with varying populations of self-interested agents. In this...

Correspondence: Takahiro Sato Department of Gastroenterology, Sapporo Kosei General hospital, Kita 3 higashi 8, Chuo-ku, Sapporo 060-0033, Japan Tel +81 11 261 5331 Fax +81 11 261 6040 Email taka.sato@ja-hokkaidoukouseiren. or.jp Background and aims: The study’s aim was to evaluate the efficacy of endoscopic injection sclerotherapy (EIS) compared with endoscopic band ligation (EBL) in treating ...

In this paper, the effect of penicillin G drug as a green corrosion inhibitor on mild steel in 1.0 Mhydrochloric acid solution has been investigated using potentiodynamic polarization, electrochemicalimpedance spectroscopy (EIS) and electrochemical noise (EN) techniques. The inhibition efficiencywas found to increase with increasing inhibitor concentration. Potentiodynamic polarizationmeasureme...

CONTEXT Home environmental interventions (EIs) and assistive technology (AT) devices have the potential to increase independence for community-based frail elderly persons, but their effectiveness has not been demonstrated. OBJECTIVE To evaluate a system of AT-EI service provision designed to promote independence and reduce health care costs for physically frail elderly persons. DESIGN Rando...

BACKGROUND Bioimpedance is an electrical property of living tissue that has been shown to be a safe technique when used in a number of biomedical applications. The aim of this research was to assess the utility of bioimpedance measurement as a rapid, cost-effective, and noninvasive adjunct to digital rectal examination and PSA in differentiating tumor from normal prostatic tissue. METHODS Thr...

Introducing enterprise information systems (EIS) is usually associated with high costs. It is therefore crucial to understand those factors that determine or influence these costs. Existing cost analysis methods are difficult to apply. Particularly, these methods are unable to cope with the dynamic interactions of the many technological, organizational and project-driven cost factors, which spe...

OBJECTIVE To determine if electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) improves the diagnostic accuracy of colposcopy when used as an adjunct. DESIGN Prospective, comparative, multi-centre clinical study. SETTING Three colposcopy clinics: two in England and one in Ireland. POPULATION Women referred with abnormal cytology. METHODS In phase 1, EIS was assessed against colposcopic impression an...