Introduction: In March 2014, Brazil began its national HPV immunization campaign targeting girls ages 9-13. Objective: Describe determinants of parental decisions to vaccinate their daughters against HPV. Methods: In this qualitative study, thirty semi-structured interviews were conducted at five health posts in São Paulo, Brazil. Interview questions explored parental opinions of disease preven...

In this paper we presents the data mining and integration of environmental applications in EU IST project ADMIRE. It briefly presents the project ADMIRE and data mining of spatio-temporal data in general. The application, originally targeting flood simulation and prediction is now being extended into the broader context of environmental studies. We describe several interesting scenarios, in whi...

Seeking out information is a good start! And the fact that your partner has been open with you about her status also gets you off on the right foot. So fret not; while there are a few issues that a sero-discordant couple (where one person is HIV positive and the other is not) ought to consider, know that this can be a workable situation and that many couples before you have traversed this lands...

In this paper, we present the ADMIRE architecture; a new framework for developing novel and innovative data mining techniques to deal with very large and distributed heterogeneous datasets in both commercial and academic applications. The main ADMIRE components are detailed as well as its interfaces allowing the user to efficiently develop and implement their data mining applications techniques...

Purpose: This study explored whether romantic lovers differ in emotion-related inhibitory control capacity from those who are single. Methods: 88 healthy undergraduate college students participated in the study. Half were currently in love and in a romantic relationship (love group, LG), and half were single and had never been in a romantic relationship (single group, SG). Based on duration of ...

background : along with emersion of the internet, virtual education increasingly has been growing. many studies discussed this method and its impact on learning. present study investigated students’ attitude towards virtual education as well as its effect on learning. methods : this was a pretest-posttest quasi-experimental study. the nursing students, who had selected fluids and electrolyte di...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the image quality and sensitivity of ultralow radiation dose single-energy computed tomography (CT) with tin filtration for spectral shaping and iterative reconstructions for the detection of pulmonary nodules in a phantom setting. METHODS Single-energy CT was performed using third-generation dual-source CT (SOMATOM Force; 2 × 192 slices) at 7...

Easy access to multimedia information is important as the amount of information is exponentially growing. Content-based retrieval is a viable approach. Extensibility and flexibility of data models is another important issue as the field is constantly evolving. The ADMIRE framework applied in this paper satisfies both criteria. This we show in two practical cases, one in the field of clinical as...