rust caused by phakopsora pachyrhizi syd. is a major constraint to soybean product in asia. early detection and possibilities of controlling plant diseases by the integration of several image processing methods has been the subject of extensive research. the main contribution of this paper is to present different methodologies for quantitatively detecting soybean rust at each stage of disease d...

Background and objective: Psoriasis is chronic inflammatory skin disorder with a wide variety of clinical presentations. Presence of anti-gliadin antibody (AGA) has been reported in 16% of psoriatic patients. This study was designed to determine the frequency of the presence of AGA in psoriatic patients. Materials and Methods: After recording the demographic data and the severity of disease acc...

Ferrets are the preferred animal model to assess influenza virus infection, virulence and transmission as they display similar clinical symptoms and pathogenesis to those of humans. Measures of disease severity in the ferret include weight loss, temperature rise, sneezing, viral shedding and reduced activity. To date, the only available method for activity measurement has been the assignment of...

Destruction of cartilage and bone is a poorly managed hallmark of human rheumatoid arthritis (RA). p38 Mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) has been shown to regulate key proinflammatory pathways in RA, including tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin (IL)-1beta, and cyclooxygenase-2, as well as the process of osteoclast differentiation. Therefore, we evaluated whether a p38alpha MAPK inhi...

Although there is great interest in the improving the ability to track patients' change over time in routine clinical care settings, no standardized transdiagnostic measure is currently available for busy clinicians to apply. The Clinical Global Impression (CGI) scales are simple measures widely used as outcomes in psychiatric clinical trials. However, the CGI suffers from poorly defined scorin...

Pneumonia Severity Index and CURB 65 are the two most important prognostic scoring tools to predict mortality for patients with CAP. These tools accurately predict mortality but do not directly measure disease severity. The clinical assessment is still required to decide hospital admission or ICU care. Prognostic scoring systems have been used to assist in the site-of-care decisions, with limit...

OBJECTIVES Coronary artery disease (CAD) severity is associated with patient prognosis. However, few efficient scoring systems have been developed to screen severe CAD in patients with stable angina and suspected CAD before coronary angiography. Here, we present a novel scoring system for CAD severity before elective coronary angiography. METHODS Five hundred fifty-one patients with stable an...

aim and background: the estimation systems of mortality based on severity of disease are increasingly popularin the last 20 years, especially in the field of medical care. the purpose of this study is to evaluate the prognosis ofhospitalized icu patients according to apache 2 scoring system in educational hospitals in ilam city during 2013.methods and materials: in order to perform this prospec...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) has a big impact on quality of life. The usefulness of health-related quality of life questionnaires for children with AD in general practice, and the relationship of quality of life to disease severity, as assessed by parents and by investigators, however, is not known. This study used the Infants' Dermatitis Quality of Life Index (IDQoL) to assess quality of life in chi...