Background The aim of the present study was to determine prevalence non-fatal overdose among people who use illicit opioids (PWUIOs) and demographic behavioral characteristics associated with this population.Methods Studies in English published before February 1, 2021, were searched for on PubMed, Scopus, Cochrane, Web Science identify primary studies factors PWUIOs. After reviewing duplicates,...

Among other traditionally important application domains, bioinformatics has been recently recognized as a challenging field. The need to perform lots of processing of huge amounts of data within reasonable times demands the use of high performance computing systems. Although this kind of high performance architectures already exists and can indeed provide some speedup, efficiency levels keep be...

Department of Physics of Molecular Imaging Systems, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany For sub-millimeter PET the precise spatial location of each line of response (LOR) is crucial. Physical misalignments of detector modules, if not properly accounted for, can significantly degrade the spatial resolution. In this work, we investigate the applic...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important effectors in mediating host-pathogen interaction. In this report, coelomocytes miRNA libraries of three Japanese sea cucumbers Apostichopus japonicus were built by Illumina(®) Hiseq2000 from different time points after lipopolysaccharide challenge (at time 0 h, 6 h and 12 h). The clean data received from high throughput sequencing were used to sequences analysis...

Alcohol and other drugs are frequently used in combination. Based on data from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, Falk and colleagues (2006, 2008) reported that 21.7 percent of the sampled population used both alcohol and tobacco and 5.6 percent used alcohol and another drug. Among women aged 18 to 24 the rates were 25.5 percent and 12.5 percent, respectively. ...