BACKGROUND Setting fair health care priorities counts among the most difficult ethical challenges our societies are facing. OBJECTIVE To elicit through a discrete choice experiment the Belgian adult population's (18-75 years; N = 750) preferences for prioritizing health care and investigate whether these preferences are different for prevention versus cure. METHODS We used a Bayesian D-effi...

this paper concentrates on a new procedure which experimentally recognises gears and bearings faults of a typical gearbox system using a least square support vector machine (lssvm). two wavelet selection criteria maximum energy to shannon entropy ratio and maximum relative wavelet energy are used and compared to select an appropriate wavelet for feature extraction. the fault diagnosis method co...

paint cure oven is one of the most important parts of automobile production line. the cure speed and the magnitude of energy consumption are significant in auto manufacturing industry. the radiation oven has been of the interest by cure industry due to the reduction in energy consumption and appropriate cure. the design process of these ovens is really complex specially for bodies with complex ...

pulling force is one of the most important variables in pultrusion process which determines the capacity of the pultrusion machine. one of the characteristics of a desired pultrusion process is a low pulling force and a high line speed.among the important factors affecting the pulling force are the internal mold release agent (imr) and the content and particle size of the filler in resin formul...

In this paper we propose an ecological resilience point of view on cancer. This view is based on the analysis of a simple ODE model for the interactions between cancer and normal cells. The model presents two regimes for tumor growth. In the first, cancer arises due to three reasons: a partial corruption of the functions that avoid the growth of mutated cells, an aggressive phenotype of tumor c...

We propose a new class of survival models which naturally links a family of proper and improper population survival functions. The models resulting in improper survival functions are often referred to as cure rate models. This class of regression models is formulated through the Box-Cox transformation on the population hazard function and a proper density function. By adding an extra transforma...

BACKGROUND Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common cancer in the US population affecting approximately 2.8 million people per year. Basal cell carcinomas are usually slow-growing and rarely metastasize, but they do cause localized tissue destruction, compromised function, and cosmetic disfigurement. OBJECTIVE To provide clinicians with guidelines for the management of BCC based on evide...

Viruses are growing in number from day to day, so it is obvious that soon antivirus programs like NAV or MSAV will not be quite efficacious. Therefore, we started designing a program that would annihilate not individual infectors, but viruses in general, regardless of whether a virus is known or not, or whether it is old or new. The first outcome of our efforts in this direction, ADinf (Advance...

Background: Previous studies have shown that exposure to electromagnetic fields produced by magnetic resonance imaging or mobile phones can lead to increased microleakage of dental amalgam.Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of electromagnetic field of a commercial dental light cure device and a common GSM mobile phone on microleakage of amalgam restorations.Ma...

aim: the purpose of this study was to compare the difference in the output intensity of light emitting diode (led) light cure (lc) devices with and without a protective sleeve and its clinical significance.  materials and methods: the output intensity of 152 lc units in dental offices across the state of odisha were examined. the collection of related information included an average number of e...