BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Treating MS with disease-modifying drugs relies on accurate MR imaging follow-up to determine the treatment effect. We aimed to develop and validate a semiautomated software platform to facilitate detection of new lesions and improved lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS We developed VisTarsier to assist manual comparison of volumetric FLAIR sequences by using interstudy regi...

for Communication Yearbook 15. The resourceful reader:Interpreting television characters and narratives The television viewer is an active interpreter, not a passive recipient, of programs. Viewers'interpretations of programs mediate television effects. The 'active viewer' is accepted by bothtraditional and critical mass communication scholars, allowing for a possible convergence<lb...

Comment The results of this study show that the likelihood of this particular group of pathologists or pathologists in general being capable of divining the sex or star sign of a patient, even with recourse to the perception of light, is no greater than chance. From this it is reasonable to deduce that pathologists do not possess extrasensory perception, at least as far as medical practice is c...

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a typical radio frequency identification system (rfid) includes one reader and a number of tags. the reader transmit to commands to the tags with interrogation radio signals, and tags receive the command and then respond with their identification. readers with interrogation signals can read tags’ responses. in rfid systems, when multiple tags respond to one reader simultaneously, tag collision ...

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest affects 326,200 persons in the United States each year. Mortality remains high despite advances in critical care and emergency response, with only 31.4% of patients surviving to hospital discharge. Survivors also face the prospect of disability due to hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Prognostication is an important aspect of care in these patients, so that decisions...