Secondary use of administrative claims data, electronic health and medical record (EHR/EMR) data, registry data, and other sources within the health data ecosystem provide rich opportunity and potential to study topics ranging from public health surveillance to comparative effectiveness research to identifying patients who may be eligible for inclusion in a specific study or for a specific inte...

background: human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) makes infected cases prone to opportunistic infections like tuberculosis (tb) due to impaired immunity of the body, especially multi drug resistant (mdr) ones which are a major concern. with hiv outbreak starting late in the 20th century, the international health community is observing a huge rise in the incidence of this complex disease. herein, w...

Quality assurance in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery requires a comparison of operative mortality against an accepted standard of care. Raw mortality statistics are unacceptable in this context, and risk factor analysis is essential. However, this principle has not been adequately demonstrated in previous reports. Our goal in this study was to develop a risk model of accepted CAB...

DNA complementary to prolactin-specific sequences was prepared using a method which did not require purification of the prolactin mRNA. cDNA was synthesized using total cytoplasmic mRNA from a prolactinproducing rat pituitary cell line (GH,) as a template for avian myeloblastosis virus reverse transcriptase. A cDNA species 840 nucleotides in length was purified by electrophoresis on formamide p...

AIMS To describe the utility of artificial neural networks in predicting communication risks. BACKGROUND In health care, effective communication reduces the risk of error. Therefore, it is important to identify the predictive factors of effective communication. Non-technical skills are needed to achieve effective communication. This study explores how artificial neural networks can be applied...

Silicon photonics is experiencing a dramatic increase in interest due to emerging application areas and several high profile successes in device and technology development (Liu et al Nature 427:615, 2004; Rong et al Nature 433:725, 2005; Almeida et al Nature 431:1081, 2004). Conventional waveguides in silicon photonics are designed for the telecom wavelengths. However, midand long-wave infrared...

Upconversion emission has been obtained from Er-focused ion-beam (FIB) implanted GaN. Visible green emission at the 522- and 546-nm range were excited with infrared (IR) laser sources at either 840 or 1000 nm, or with both lasers simultaneously. By implanting closely spaced patterns with the FIB, we demonstrated the concept of storing data in Er-implanted GaN. Information stored as data bits co...

Adenovirus type 7 (Ad7) early region 1 mRNA species transcribed in rat cell lines transformed by the HindIII-I . J fragment (the left 7.8% of the viral genome) and in human KB cells infected with Ad7 were mapped on the viral genome, using S1 nuclease gel and diazobenzyloxymethyl paper hybridization techniques. At the early stage of productive infection, two mRNA's (950 and 840 nucleotides long)...

In humans, genetically diverse forms of muscular dystrophy are associated with a disrupted sarcoglycan complex. The sarcoglycan complex resides at the muscle plasma membrane where it associates with dystrophin. There are six known sarcoglycan proteins in mammals whereas there are only three in Drosophila melanogaster. Using imprecise P element excision, we generated three different alleles at t...