CONTEXT Although concern exists over the quality of emergency mental health services, little is known about the mental health care of adults who are admitted to emergency departments for deliberately harming themselves and then discharged to the community. OBJECTIVE To describe the predictors of emergency department discharge, the emergency mental health assessments, and the follow-up outpati...

A performance analysis procedure that analyses the properties of a class of iterative image thresholding algorithms is described. The image under consideration is modeled as consisting of two maximum-entropy primary images, each of which has a quasi-Gaussian probability density function. Three iterative thresholding algorithms identified to share a common iteration architecture are employed for...

BackgroundThe number of frozen Embryo transfers (FET) in invitro fertilization cycles (IVF) is increasing and has already surpassed numbers fresh stimulated IVF cycles. Increasing elective single ETs are also resulting more embryos available for subsequent FET Most commonly, medicated or hormone supplemented (HC) which the endometrium prepared by exogenous estrogen progesterone following pituit...

Background Inhibitors of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNFi) are central to management rheumatoid arthritis (RA) though continued use beyond initial failure is negatively associated with response subsequent TNFi treatment. Objectives To assess the patterns recurrent relative reasons for switch as observed in community rheumatology care US. Methods Data: PIONEER-Rheumatology, an EMR and open text...

Placement of a peripheral intravenous catheter is a routine procedure in clinical practice, but failure of intravenous cannulation regularly occurs. An accurate and reliable predictive scale for difficult venous access creates the possibility to use other techniques in an earlier time frame. We aimed to develop a predictive scale to identify adult patients with a difficult intravenous access pr...

Compressed sensing (CS) can recover sparse signals from undersampled measurements. In this work, we have developed an advanced CS framework for photoacoustic computed tomography (PACT). During the reconstruction, a small part of the nonzero signals’ locations in the transformed sparse domain is used as partially known support (PKS). PACT reconstructions have been performed with under-sampled in...

Chromatic aberrations are an important design consideration in high resolution, high bandwidth, refractive imaging systems that use visible light. Here, we present a fiberbased spectral/Fourier domain, visible light OCT ophthalmoscope corrected for the average longitudinal chromatic aberration (LCA) of the human eye. Analysis of complex speckles from in vivo retinal images showed that achromati...

The problem of short-term scheduling often involves the satisfaction of variable product demands at specific due dates within the time horizon under consideration. Ierapetritou and Floudas, [2, 3] presented a novel continuous time formulation to effectively address the problem of short-term scheduling in batch, continuous and mixed production facilities where product demands are specified at th...

Several studies have confirmed the function of Su(var)3–9, Enhancer zeste, and Trithorax (SET) domain-containing 5 (SETD5) in post-translational modifications nonhistone proteins. Mutation SETD5 gene has been implicated progression many human cancers, such as breast cancer (BC), but its functional role BC is still unknown. The current article investigates clinical significance BC. Our show that...