INTRODUCTION Public health initiatives to immunize children and adults have effectively reduced the number of tetanus cases in the USA. However, in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), immigrants from Mexico had a 67% nonprotective anti-tetanus antibody (ATA) level. Less work has been conducted among other vulnerable populations such as human immunodeficiency...

The effects of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2) on eye movement abnormalities in 60 military servicemembers with at least one mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) from combat were examined in a single-center, randomized, double-blind, sham-controlled, prospective study at the Naval Medicine Operational Training Center. During the 10 wk of the study, each subject was delivered a series of 40, once a day, h...

Terminological acquisition is an important issue when learning about Natural Language Processing (NLP) due to the constant terminological renewal caused by technological changes. Terms play a key role in several NLP activities such as machine translation, automatic indexing, text understanding, and information retrieval. This is especially true at this time when corpora in electronic format kee...

Depression is a significant challenge for ambulatory care because it worsens health status and outcomes, increases health care utilizations and costs, and elevates suicide risk. An automatic telephonic assessment (ATA) system that links with tasks and alerts to providers may improve quality of depression care and increase provider productivity. We used ATA system in a trial to assess and monito...

For 18 years, the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) Annual International Meeting & Exposition has been the premier forum for professionals in telemedicine, telehealth and mHealth-and is one of the fastest growing meetings in the country. ATA 2013 is on course to be the largest ATA meeting ever, with over 6,000 projected attendees. The program will include 500 educational sessions and post...

Monkeys and dogs were used in a series of studies designed to assess the ability of aurin tricarboxylic acid (ATA) to provide protection against acute beryllium poisoning. The acute LD50 of ATA was found to be 344 mgA/g for monkeys and 164 mg/kg for dogs. Neither species exhibited significant hematological changes when given weekly ATA doses of 25 mg/kg over an 8-month period. The lethal intrav...

NLP methods for automatic information access to rich technological knowledge sources like patents are of great value. One important resource for accessing this knowledge is the technical terminology of the patent domain. In this paper, we address the problem of automatic terminology acquisition (ATA), i.e., the problem of automatically identifying all technical terms in a document. We analyze t...

This paper introduces a new data transport architecture and protocol for storage that is implemented on wireless devices and that can be accessed through a short-range wireless access technology such as Bluetooth or 802.11. We call the protocol WATA (Wireless ATA), as its architecture is similar to current ATA and ATA-based technologies. In this paper, we give basic technical details of the pro...

BACKGROUND The treatment of a rare, nontraumatic, fusiform aneurysm of the anterior temporal artery (ATA) via endovascular techniques is presented, and procedural nuances are highlighted. METHODS We performed a retrospective chart review and collected demographic and clinical data on the patient presented here; procedural details were extracted from operative notes. RESULTS Following succes...

Background Autoantibodies (Aab) are frequent in systemic sclerosis (SSc) [1]. Recently, it has been showed that immunoglobulins G (IgG) from SSc promoted proinflammatory and profibrotic phenotype monocyte secretome [2]. Fibroblasts (FB) key effectors cells data on FB proteins secretion the presence of IgG patients lacking. While recognized as potent biomarkers, pathogenic role Aab is much more ...