AbstractMany important tasks such as forensic signature verification, calligraphy synthesis, etc., rely on handwriting trajectory recovery of which, however, even an appropriate evaluation metric is still missing. Indeed, existing metrics only focus the writing orders but overlook fidelity glyphs. Taking both facets into account, we come up with two new metrics, adaptive intersection union (AIo...

INTRODUCTION Previous studies have found higher rates of adherence in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) using insulin pens compared to vial and syringe administration; however, little evidence is available to support this observation in elderly patients. METHODS This was a retrospective claims database analysis of a predominantly elderly Medicare Advantage with Prescription Drug (...

Microbial growth inhibition assays are used to detect antimicrobial residues in meat. Postscreening methods may facilitate the selection of an appropriate chemical confirmatory method. Two such methods, the Charm II radioreceptor assay and High Voltage Electrophoresis (HVE), were evaluated for the detection of incurred β-lactam residues in pigmeat. Pig liver, kidney and muscle containing penici...

PURPOSE To examine the psychometric properties of the Injection Pen Assessment Questionnaire (IPAQ) including the following: 1) item and scale characteristics (e.g., frequencies, item distributions, and factor structure), 2) reliability, and 3) validity. METHODS Focus groups and one-on-one dyad interviews guided the development of the IPAQ. The IPAQ was subsequently tested in 136 parent-child...

Despite diverse applications, phospholipid membrane stacks generated by dip-pen nanolithography (DPN) still lack a thorough and systematic characterization that elucidates the whole ink transport process from writing to surface spreading, with the aim of better controlling the resulting feature size and resolution. We report a quantitative analysis and modeling of the dependence of lipid DPN fe...

The speed and pen-pressure while sketching a spiral are lower among Parkinson's disease (PD) patients with higher severity of the disease. However, the correlation between these features and the severity level (SL) of PD has been reported to be 0.4. There is a need for identifying parameters with a stronger correlation for considering this for accurate diagnosis of the disease. This study has p...