BACKGROUND Ferric Carboxymaltose (FCM), Iron Sucrose (IS) and Oral Iron (OI) are alternative treatments for preoperative anaemia. OBJECTIVE To compare the cost implications, using a cost-minimization analysis, of three alternatives: FCM vs. IS vs. OI for treating iron-deficient anaemia before surgery in patients with colon cancer. METHODS Data from 282 patients with colorectal cancer and an...

As special aggregation functions, overlap functions have been widely used in the soft computing field. In this work, with aid of two new groups fuzzy mathematical morphology (FMM) operators were proposed and applied to image processing, they obtained better results than existing algorithms. First, based on structuring elements, first group FMM (called OSFMM operators) was proposed, their proper...

Abnormal immunophenotypes of hematopoietic cells can be detected by flow cytometry (FCM) to assist the diagnosis of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS). We previously established a FCM scoring system for the diagnosis of low-grade MDS. In this study, additional valuable antigens were involved in an updated FCM scoring system (u-FCMSS) for all MDS subtypes. The u-FCMSS showed better sensitivity and ...

Flow cytometry (FCM) is a rapid and sensitive technique that can determine cell numbers and measure various physiological characteristics of individual cells by using appropriate fluorescent probes. Previously, we developed an FCM assay with the viability probes carboxyfluorescein diacetate (cFDA) and TOTO-1 [1'-(4,4,7,7-tetramethyl-4,7-diazaundecamethylene)-bis-4-[3-methyl-2,3dihydro(benzo-1,3...

When the maternal environment is a good predictor of the offspring environment, maternal glucocorticoid (GC) levels might serve to pre-program offspring to express certain phenotypes or life-history characteristics that will increase their fitness. We conducted a field study to assess the effects of naturally occurring maternal GC levels on their offspring in yellow-bellied marmots (Marmota fla...

Fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) have been broadly employed to analyze complex and decidedly uncertain systems in modeling, forecasting, decision making, etc. Road traffic flow is also notoriously known as a highly nonlinear system. Even though applications of FCM risk analysis presented various engineering fields, this research aims at modeling road based on macroscopic characteristics through FCM. ...

Clustering is a predominant technique used in image segmentation due to its simple, easy and efficient approach. It very important for the analysis, extraction interpretation of images; which makes it multiple applications various fields. In this article, we propose different based on cooperation between an optimization algorithm Cuckoo Search Algorithm (CSA) clustering Fuzzy C-means (FCM). The...

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 Hammer test dianggap kurang akurat karena hanya menginformasikan kuat tekan beton pada permukaan saja. pelat arah vertikal ke atas dilakukan untuk menghindari pembongkaran penutup lantai. Jumlah titik pantul sesuai ketentuan dalam standar minimal 10, diupayakan dikurangi tanpa mengabaikan tingkat akurasi dengan variasi pola segiempat dan radial. Eksperimen bertujuan menentukan ber...

Protein-protein interactions (PPI) mediate the formation of intermolecular networks that control biological signaling. For this reason, PPIs are of outstanding interest in pharmacology, as they display high specificity and may represent a vast pool of potentially druggable targets. However, the study of physiologic PPIs can be limited by conventional assays that often have large sample requirem...

In recent past, vector quantization has been observed as an efficient technique for image compression. In general, image compression reduces the number bits required to represent an image. The main significance of image compression is that the quality of the image is preserved. This in turn increases the storage space and thereby the volume of the data that can be stored. Image compression is t...