Discriminant validity of the Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS) under conditions of simulating symptoms [PDF]
Background/Aim. The Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology (SIMS) is a self-report measure to be used with adults, which may be utilized to assess the potential malingering of psychosis, neurologic impairment, amnesia, low intelligence, or ...
Oljača Milan+2 more
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Mathematical procedure for prediction of dental anxiety in children with inherited bleeding disorders [PDF]
Background/Aim. The dental anxiety in children is commonly measured applying the Dental Anxiety Scale (DAS) and the level is statistically treated. However, there are no studies on prediction of development of dental anxiety. The aim of this study was to
Vujkov Sanja+5 more
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Dosimetric verification of clinical radiotherapy treatment planning system [PDF]
Background/Aim. In the past two decades, we have witnessed the emergence of new radiation therapy techniques, radiotherapy treatment planning system (TPS) with calculating algorithms for the dosage calculation in a patient, units for multislice computed ...
Kolarević Goran+4 more
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Glucose Effectiveness from Short Insulin-Modified IVGTT and Its Application to the Study of Women with Previous Gestational Diabetes Mellitus [PDF]
BackgroundThis study aimed to design a simple surrogate marker (i.e., predictor) of the minimal model glucose effectiveness (SG), namely calculated SG (CSG), from a short insulin-modified intravenous glucose tolerance test (IM-IVGTT), and then to apply ...
Micaela Morettini+6 more
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Indicators of the effectiveness of the health care financing system in the Western Balkan countries-critical analyze [PDF]
Background/Aim. The main objective of the health system is to preserve and improve the general level of health of the population. Every country is making considerable efforts to ensure a sustainable healthcare financing system that would enable the ...
Stojić Vladislava+2 more
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A common gene drive language eases regulatory process and eco-evolutionary extensions
Background Synthetic gene drive technologies aim to spread transgenic constructs into wild populations even when they impose organismal fitness disadvantages. The extraordinary diversity of plausible drive mechanisms and the range of selective parameters
Prateek Verma+2 more
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A novel framework for fluid/structure interaction in rapid subject specific simulations of blood flow in coronary artery bifurcations [PDF]
Background/Aim. Practical difficulties, particularly long model development time, have limited the types and applicability of computational fluid dynamics simulations in numerical modeling of blood flow in serial manner.
Blagojević Milan+4 more
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Elastic network models: theoretical and empirical foundations. [PDF]
Fifteen years ago, Monique Tirion showed that the low-frequency normal modes of a protein are not significantly altered when nonbonded interactions are replaced by Hookean springs, for all atom pairs whose distance is smaller than a given cutoff value ...
Y. Sanejouand
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The operative risk stratification models in cardiac surgery: EuroSCORE II model - risk groups categorization [PDF]
Background/Aim. The treshold that defines a low, moderate or high-risk patients is not uniformly determined for the European System for Cardiac Operative Risk Evaluation (EuroSCORE II) by literature at present.
Nežić Duško+4 more
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A quantitative analysis of two-dimensional manually segmented transrectal ultrasound axial images in planning high dose rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer [PDF]
Background/Aim. Prostate delineation, pre-planning and catheter implantation procedures, in high-dose rate brachytherapy (HDR-BT), are commonly based on the prostate manually segmented transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) images.
Dabić-Stanković Kata+4 more
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