Poor compliance can reduce the efficacy of treatments, resulting in worse health outcomes for patients. Using a randomised design, Gray et al (pp. 157–162) trained community psychiatric nurses for 80 hours in medication management. Independent researchers interviewed their patients and the patients of nurses who did not receive training, at recruitment and 6 months later. Patients who were care...

I. Disease Description Measles is an acute viral illness caused by a virus in the family paramyxovirus, genus Morbillivirus. Measles is characterized by a prodrome of fever (as high as 105°F) and malaise, cough, coryza, and conjunctivitis, followed by a maculopapular rash.1 The rash spreads from head to trunk to lower extremities. Measles is usually a mild or moderately severe illness. However,...

DNA/RNA Description 2573 base-pairs, starts at 7163223 and ends at 7165795 bp from pter with minus strand orientation. Transcription This gene contains 4 exons and 3 introns. The transcription produces 3 alternatively spliced mRNA variants: variant 1 (NM_001307.5) encodes the longer isoform; variant 2 (NM_001185022.1) has an alternate 5' UTR sequence; variant 3 (NM_001185023.1) lacks an exon in...

This paper describes tools and techniques for representing motion information in the context of MPEG-7 standardization for multimedia description interfaces. It first gives an overview of the current organization of the set of MPEG-7 motion descriptions, then illustrates this by presenting two of them, motion activity and motion trajectory, in more detail. It explains how to extract them from t...