BACKGROUND This study was designed to comparatively assess laryngeal function and quality of life (QOL) of patients after laser surgery (LS) or radiotherapy (RT) for early glottic cancer. METHODS Sixty-four patients with T1 glottic cancer treated with RT or type II cordectomy underwent both subjective and objective vocal assessments. The LS group was divided into the following: (1) vaporizati...

The noninvasive quantitation of liver stiffness (LS) by ultrasound based transient elastography using FibroScan® has revolutionized the diagnosis of liver diseases, namely liver cirrhosis. Alternative techniques such as acoustic radiation impulse frequency imaging or magnetic resonance elastography are currently under investigation. LS is an excellent surrogate marker of advanced fibrosis (F3) ...

AIM The morbidity of surgical site infections (SSIs) were compared in patients who underwent open (OS) vs laparoscopic (LS) colorectal surgery. METHOD Data from 603 consecutive LS patients and 2246 consecutive OS patients were prospectively recorded. Morbidity of SSIs was assessed by the need for emergency department (ED) evaluation, subsequent hospital re-admission and re-operation. The cost...

This paper proposes the least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) as an intelligent method applied on absorption spectra for the simultaneous determination of paracetamol (PCT), caffeine (CAF) and ibuprofen (IB) in Novafen. The signal to noise ratio (S/N) increased. Also, In the LS - SVM model, Kernel parameter (σ2) and capacity factor (C) were optimized. Excellent prediction was shown usin...

Loosely speaking, a stationary time series is one whose statistical properties remain constant over time, whereas the statistical properties of locally stationary (LS) time series change slowly over time. As a consequence, LS series can appear stationary when examined close up, but appear nonstationary when examined on a larger scale. Priestley (1983) and Nason and von Sachs (1999) review local...

A single interface for accessing life sciences (LS) data is a natural need to master the data deluge in this domain. The data in the LS requires integration and current integrative solutions increasingly rely on the federation of queries for distributed resources. This paper demonstrates BioFed, a federated SPARQL query processing system customised for LS-LOD. BioFed enables user to formulate a...