“Programming-by-Demonstration” (PbD) is a very intuitive and efficient means for programming robots for a specific task. One approach for PbD uses manual guided robots to show the task the robot has to perform. Even though manual guidance is a lot more intuitive than traditional programming, first experiences showed that there is still training needed to make full use of such a system. This pap...

OBJECTIVE The pediatric bipolar disorder profile of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL-PBD), a parent-completed measure that avoids clinician ideological bias, has proven useful in differentiating patients with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We used CBCL-PBD profiles to distinguish patterns of comorbidity and to search for quantitative trait loci in a genomewide scan in a samp...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVE To study the role of myoepithelial (ME) cells in distinguishing benign, proliferative breast diseases (PBD) and frank malignant breast lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, histology proven 71 cases of fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) of palpable breast lesions were selected. There were 30 invasive carcinomas (24 infiltrating duct carcinoma and 6 infiltrating ...

Perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (pCC, also known as a Klatskin tumor) is the most common type of cholangiocarcinoma (CC). Preoperative biliary drainage (PBD) is indicated for pCC patients with acute cholangitis or patients who need portal vein embolization (PVE). However, the routine performance of PBD in other patients with pCC is still controversial. The current study retrospectively examined pa...

Pigmented tumors have similar clinical features that overlap and hamper diagnosis. Dermoscopy increases the diagnostic accuracy of doubtful melanocytic lesions and has been used as a noninvasive tool in the detection of pigmented lesions (PLs) like melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and pigmented Bowen's disease (pBD). Our objective was to show the dermoscopic features of 2 cases of pBD and compar...

CONTEXT Sentinel node (SN) biopsy has changed the surgical treatment of malignant melanoma. The literature has emphasized the importance of gamma probe detection (GPD) of the SN. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy of patent blue dye (PBD) and GPD for SN biopsy in different lymphatic basins. DESIGN Patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma in stages I and II were submitted...

Pentaksiran bilik darjah (PBD) merupakan satu corak penilaian yang diperkenalkan oleh Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia (KPM) bagi menggantikan pembelajaran berorientasikan peperiksaan di sekolah rendah. Ini kerana, pelaksanaan PBD dapat membantu guru menilai tahap penguasaan murid secara keseluruhan. Tujuan penulisan ini adalah untuk membincangkan sejauh mana kesediaan dalam Isu telah dikupas men...

17 18 Objective: Pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD) has attracted increasing attentions due to its high 19 prevalence and great influence on social functions of children and adolescents. However, the 20 pathophysiology underlying PBD remains unclear. In the present study, the resting-state 21 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to detect abnormalities of baseline brain 22 functi...

Two algorithms that combine Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations with mean-field partial differential equations (PDEs) are presented. This PDE-assisted Brownian dynamics (PBD) methodology provides exact particle tracking data in parts of the domain, whilst making use of a mean-field reaction-diffusion PDE description elsewhere. The first PBD algorithm couples BD simulations with PDEs by randomly ...

The rapid growth of the urban population and associated environmental concerns are challenging city planners developers to consider sustainable cost-efficient building systems. Timber-based buildings, such as systems, increasingly used. timber however, being lighter flexible, can be vulnerable earthquakes wind loads. This paper gives a state-of-the-art review on performance-based design (PBD) c...