Life-logging devices are becoming ubiquitous, yet still processing and extracting information from the vast amount of data that is being captured is a very challenging task. We propose a method to find discriminative regions which we define as regions that are salient, consistent, repetitive and discriminative. We explain our fast and novel algorithm to discover the discriminative regions and s...

BACKGROUND Work-related skin and respiratory disease still constitute an important part of the work-related ill-health (WRIH) burden of Great Britain (GB). It is therefore important to be able to accurately quantify the true incidence of these two groups of disease. AIMS To improve the accuracy of the methodology to estimate clinical specialist incidence rates, with a focus on skin and respir...

Purpose To clarify the clinical features of appendicitis in preschool children and to explore clinical appendicitis scoring systems in this age group. Methods We retrospectively collected data on 142 children, aged 10 years or younger, with confirmed diagnosis of appendicitis based on surgical and pathologic findings. Enrolled subjects were divided into two groups: Group 1 (preschool children...

oligohydramnios is frequently used to identify at risk fetuses. the purpose of this study was to assess adverse perinatal outcomes in oligohydramnios. subjects comprised pregnant women diagnosed either with (590) or without (597) oligohydramnios who delivered after hospital admittance from 2000 to 2010 . data, including the resuscitation of newborn, apgar score at 5 min, nicu admission, death i...

The form circle of rheumatic inflammatory systemic diseases includes a number of diseases, whose etiology is mostly unknown. Due to the fact that specific antibodies are often found, diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis are considered autoimmune diseases. Therefore, the diagnosis of antibodies plays a significant role in the diagnosis of rheumatic diseases. The following article features two d...

Successful control of onchocerciasis through mass distribution of ivermectin needs to be coupled with reliable, sensitive, specific, yet affordable diagnostic methods to monitor and ensure the efficacy of such measures. The effort put into the development of diagnostic methods for onchocerciasis that can substitute for or work in combination with the present "gold standard," the skin snip test,...

Hodgkin's disease is one of the first cancerous diseases for which effective treatment options have been developed. While this disease still ended lethally earlier, the prognosis is very good today. This is particularly due to the radiation sensitivity of lymphoma. 80 % of the patients can be cured permanently. This article provides a comprehensive overview of the hematologic disease, the sympt...

INTRODUCTION Tuberculosis infection may remain latent, but the disease is nevertheless a serious public health issue. Various epidemiological studies on pulmonary tuberculosis have considered the spatial component and taken it into account, revealing the tendency of this disease to cluster in particular locations. The aim was to assess the contribution of Knowledge Attitude and Practice (KAP) t...

PURPOSE Children with speech sound disorder (SSD) and reading disability (RD) have poor phonological awareness, a problem believed to arise largely from deficits in processing the sensory information in speech, specifically individual acoustic cues. However, such cues are details of acoustic structure. Recent theories suggest that listeners also need to be able to integrate those details to per...

Both heart rate variability (HRV) and heart rate turbulence (HRT) are established tools to study cardiac autonomic activity. Short-term studies of HRV had been reported to be stable for autonomic function assessment. However, there is little information on whether short-term HRT assessment is comparable to 24 h assessment. The aim of the study is to identify the relationship of HRT values betwe...