Validating experimental results in the field of computer systems is a challenging task, mainly due to the many changes in software and hardware that computational environments go through. Determining if an experiment is reproducible entails two separate tasks: re-executing the experiment and validating the results. Existing reproducibility efforts have focused on the former, envisioning techniq...

â  â  no treatment has been proven to be effective in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) and/or steatohepatitis (nash). numerous studies have addressed this issue. however conclusive recommenâ­dations cannot be drawn solely from the currently available studies. hence we performed this systematic review to determine which of the available therapeutic modalities are supported by adequate ev...

OBJECTIVE To compare the performance of two approaches, one based on the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS) and another on the Standards for Reporting Studies of Diagnostic Accuracy (STARD), in evaluating the quality of studies validating the OptiMal® rapid malaria diagnostic test. METHODS Articles validating the rapid test published until 2007 were searched in the Med...

This paper suggests an application of blockchain as energy open data ledger, designed to save and track regarding the footprint public buildings communities. The developed platform permits writing production consumption using blockchain-enabled smart meters. Once authenticated on blockchain, this can be made available domain for techno-economic analyses either research studies internal or third...

Hemodynamic monitoring in critically ill patients has been considered part of the standard of care in managing patients with shock and/or acute lung injury, but outcome benefit, particularly in pediatric patients, has been questioned. There is difficulty in validating the reliability of monitoring devices, especially since this validation requires comparison to the pulmonary artery catheter, wh...

The technologies monitoring the transcriptome are under a continuous status of development and implementation, producing high amounts of expression data which require reliable and well structured databases. This chapter provides a general overview and a reliable guide of these technologies, as developed from the early ‘90s until today, and of the most important available expression databases. T...