Abstract Background Pigmented epithelioid melanocytomas (PEMs) pose a challenge in terms of diagnosis and management, this is due to the wide spectrum disease severity. Not only management grey area, but there controversy over follow up, their indeterminate malignant potential. Case An 11-year-old boy presented with six-month history rapidly changing pigmented naevus on his upper back. He had F...

Lengthening but not shortening history of paraspinal muscle spindles in the low back alters their 1 dynamic sensitivity 2 3 4 5 6 Dong-Yuan Cao and Joel G. Pickar* 7 8 9 Palmer Center for Chiropractic Research, Palmer College of Chiropractic,741 Brady Street, 10 Davenport, IA 52803,USA 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 * Corresponding author: 22 Dr. Joel G. Pickar 23 Palmer Center for Chiropract...

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Multimodal interaction is employed in a variety of contemporary information systems in order to enhance the flexibility and naturalness of the user interface. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive framework which allows the modeling and specification of multimodal interactions. To this end, we employ an extended notion of ‘dialogue acts’ which can be performed by linguistic or non-linguisti...

AIM: Colon cancer is one of the main health problems worldwide. Cancer stem cells (CSCs) are referred to as tumor-initiating involved in tumor heterogeneity and dormancy. CSCs can cause drug resistance, metastasis, recurrence primary metastatic cancers. The interactions survival trends colon with other may be an alternative route for effective treatment. In our study, we aimed evaluate effects ...

The secondary use of electronic health records opens up new perspectives. They provide researchers with structured data and unstructured data, including free text reports. Many applications been developed to leverage knowledge from free-text reports, but manual review of documents is still a complex process. We developed FASTVISU a web-based application to assist clinicians in reviewing documen...

Background: Sudden hearing loss is a result of various factors. Most therapies aim to improve the cochlear microcirculation but effectiveness is not sufficiently documented. Methods: 741 patients were included into the non-interventional observation thus far and analyzed with regard to various therapies and time progressions. The main outcome measure consisted of hearing threshold difference be...