Background Policies assigning low-priority patients treatment delays for care, in order to make room for patients of higher priority arriving later, are common in secondary healthcare services today. Alternatively, each new patient could be granted the first available appointment. We aimed to investigate whether prioritisation can be part of the reason why waiting times for care are often...

Protein biomarkers in nasal secretions can be used as a measure to differentiate between allergies, airway diseases and infections for non-invasive diagnostics. The point-of-care quantification of biomarker levels using flow-based microarray facilitates precise rapid diagnosis displays the potential targeted effective treatment. For first time, we developed chemiluminescence sandwich immunoassa...

Recently we introduced interactive dose shaping (IDS) as a new IMRT planning strategy. This planning concept is based on a hierarchical sequence of local dose modification and recovery operations. The purpose of this work is to provide a feasibility study for the IDS planning strategy based on a small set of six prostate patients. The IDS planning paradigm aims to perform interactive local dose...

Introduction: A review of the literature yielded 11 supratentorial regions of interest (ROI) related to swallowing in healthy individuals. To assess the relevance of these structures for transient or prolonged dysphagia we performed a lesion study in ischemic stroke patients. Methods: Atlas-based localization analysis was performed using Talairach alignment of brain scans in consecutive patient...

Modeling of electromagnetic wave scatterings by random discrete scatterers and rough surfaces play an important role in geoscience and remote sensing research. Since the 1970s, considerable theoretical efforts have been made to elucidate and understand the scattering processes involved in such problems, and various models have been developed for microwave active and passive remote sensing appli...

α-Amylase production by thermophilic Bacillus sp strain SMIA-2 cultivated in liquid cultures containing soluble starch as a carbon source and supplemented with 0.05% whey protein and 0.2% peptone reached a maximum activity at 32 h, with levels of 37 U/mL. Studies on the amylase characterization revealed that the optimum temperature of this enzyme was 90°C. The enzyme was stable for 1 h at tempe...

Microbial proteases, especially from Bacillus spp., have been widely exploited for a broad variety of applications, such as the improvement cleaning efficiency conventional detergents. In this work, statistical design experiment was used to optimize concentrations three-component mixture: licheniformis SMIA-2 protease, Linear Alkylbenzene Sulphate and hydrogen peroxide, in an attempt prepare en...

The scattering of rough surface and vegetation structure are studied with the 3-dimensional numerical simulations. For the rough surface scattering, the study is focused on the angular, frequency, and polarimetric dependence of the scattering. The simulation results are compared well with the experimental measurements from real-life soil surface at L and C frequency bands with the fixed surface...