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Alternatives to conventional hospitalization for improving lack of access to inpatient beds: a 12-year cross-sectional analysis
(Sciedu Press, 2013-12-17)
Background/Objective: When hospitals cannot guarantee available hospital beds for inpatient admission, patients are exposed to prolonged waits, cancellations and diversions that negatively affect their ...
Practical aspects of modelling parameter uncertainty for risk capital calculation
(Springer Nature, 2019)
We assume that an insurance undertaking models its risk by a random variable X=X(¿0) with a fixed parameter (vector) ¿0. If the undertaking does not know ¿0 and can only estimate it from historical data, ...
Editorial: current challenges for targeting brown fat thermogenesis to combat obesity
(Frontiers Media, 2020-10-27)
Just over a decade has passed since metabolically active brown adipose tissue (BAT) was unequivocally identified in healthy adult humans. Since then, researchers have provided evidence of expression of ...
¿Aprender Medicina a distancia?: percepción de estudiantes confinados por la pandemia COVID-19
(SciELO, 2020-10)
Background: The suspension of face-to-face teaching activity due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced an abrupt transition to distance learning in Spanish universities. Aim: To know how medical students value ...
Machine learning to understand the immune-inflammatory pathways in fibromyalgia
(MDPI, 2019)
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic syndrome characterized by widespread musculoskeletal pain, and physical and emotional symptoms. Although its pathophysiology is largely unknown, immune-inflammatory pathways ...
Allergic contact dermatitis by beryllium chloride as unique sensitivity: a case report
(Openventio Publishers, 2019)
Beryllium can be found in silver alloy, in costume jewelry and in dental prosthesis. It is also used in aerospace industry and might be also found in precision instruments. Pure contact dermatitis to ...
Pneumococcal nasopharyngeal carriageamong Bhutanese children hospitalizedwith clinical pneumonia: serotypes andviral co-infection
(Springer Nature, 2020-12)
Background: Pneumococcal nasopharyngeal colonization (PNC) generally precedes pneumococcal disease. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of PNC and to identify the pneumococcal ...
Effect of different implant designs on strain and stress distribution under non-axial loading: a three-dimensional finite element analysis
(MDPI, 2020)
Implant design evolved alongside the development of implant therapy. The purpose of this finite element analysis (FEA) study was to analyze the influence of different implant designs on the stress and ...
Evaluation of RETICs glaucoma diagnostic calculators in preperimetric glaucoma
(Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 2018-11)
Purpose: To evaluate two glaucoma diagnostic calculators (GDC) in a group of eyes with preperimetric glaucoma (PPG).
Methods: All eyes (n = 265) included in this study had ocular hypertension with ...