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The Determining Effective Testing in Emergency Departments and Care Coordination on Treatment Outcomes (DETECT) for Hepatitis C (Hep C) Linkage-to-Care Trial: rationale and design of an emergency department-based randomized clinical trial of linkage-to-care strategies for hepatitis C

Trials, 2023
Background Hepatitis C (HCV) poses a major public health problem in the USA. While early identification is a critical priority, subsequent linkage to a treatment specialist is a crucial step that bridges diagnosed patients to treatment, cure, and ...
Sarah E. Rowan, Jason Haukoos, Kevin F. Kamis, Emily Hopkins, Stephanie Gravitz, Carolynn Lyle, Alia A. Al-Tayyib, Edward M. Gardner, James W. Galbraith, Yu-Hsiang Hsieh, Michael S. Lyons, Richard E. Rothman, Douglas A. E. White, Jake R. Morgan, Benjamin P. Linas, Allison L. Sabel, David L. Wyles, for The DETECT Hep C Trials Investigators   +17 more
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Development of Robot Hands for Linear Parallel Pinching and Self-adaptive Grasping with Springs and Hoeckens Linkage

Jixie chuandong, 2022
Parallel pinching is an important grasping mode of robot hands. However，because the end phalange moves along the arc track，the robot hand needs the manipulator to cooperate with the lifting when pinching objects on the desktop，which increases the ...
Yankai Liu, Wenzeng Zhang
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Expanding the phenotypic spectrum of mutations in LRP2: a novel candidate gene of non-syndromic familial comitant strabismus

Journal of Translational Medicine, 2021
Background Comitant strabismus (CS) is a heterogeneous disorder that is a major contributing factor to unilateral childhood-onset visual impairment. Studies have confirmed that genetic factors play an important role in the development of CS.
Yue Wang, Xuejuan Chen, Tao Jiang, Yayun Gu, Xiaohan Zhang, Wenwen Yuan, Andi Zhao, Rui Li, Zijin Wang, Zhibin Hu, Hu Liu   +10 more
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Ecosystem condition underpins the generation of ecosystem services: an accounting perspective [PDF]

One Ecosystem, 2022
There is a linkage between the condition of ecosystems and the services they provide. In the accounting framework set by the United Nations System of integrated Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounts (SEEA EA), two different sets of ...
Alessandra La Notte, Bálint Czúcz, Sara Vallecillo, Chiara Polce, Joachim Maes   +4 more
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Scalable Secure Privacy-Preserving Record Linkage (PPRL) Methods Using Cloud-based Infrastructure

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction Bloom Filters (BFs) are a scalable solution for probabilistic privacy-preserving record linkage but BFs can be compromised. Yao’s garbled circuits (GCs) can perform secure multi-party computation to compute the similarity of two BFs without ...
Toan Ong, Ibrahim Lazrig, Indrajit Ray, Indrakshi Ray, Michael Kahn   +4 more
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Barriers and facilitators of cross-sectoral data linkage to inform healthy public policy and practice: lessons from three case study projects in Scotland.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives We sought to describe barriers and facilitators faced by three research projects aiming to link routinely-collected data across various sectors, to produce evidence to inform healthy public policy.
Kristina Cimova, David Henderson, Mirjam Allik, Denise Brown, Petra Meier, Charlie Mayor, Nick Watson, Peter Craig, Emily Tweed   +8 more
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Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, Hassan Adam Murtala, Halima Kabir, Khadija A. Shamsu, Sari A. Acra, Virginia A. Stallings, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Lauren J. Klein   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

NC-Link: A New Linkage Method for Efficient Hierarchical Clustering of Large-Scale Data

IEEE Access, 2017
In various disciplines, hierarchical clustering (HC) has been an effective tool for data analysis due to its ability to summarize hierarchical structures of data in an intuitive and interpretable manner.
Yongkweon Jeon, Jaeyoon Yoo, Jongsun Lee, Sungroh Yoon   +3 more
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Parents of Youth With Cancer Report on Their Psychosocial Care: iSTEPPP Survey Finds Alignment and Gaps With Standards

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Standards for Psychosocial Care for Children with Cancer and Their Families guide the provision of comprehensive psychosocial care. Parallel to research characterizing implementation of the Standards from the perspective of providers, this study examines implementation of the Standards from the perspective of parents of youth ...
Emily M. Pariseau, Kimberly Buff, Michele A. Scialla, Kimberly S. Canter, Lori Wiener, Victoria Sardi‐Brown, Julia B. Tager, Kamyar Arasteh, Anne E. Kazak   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exercise Capacity, Physical Activity, Fatigue, and Neurocognitive Function in Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of reduced exercise capacity, decreased physical activity levels, persistent fatigue, and neurocognitive deficits. The aim was to investigate exercise capacity and physical activity levels of adult survivors of childhood ALL and their associations with ...
Laura Jess, Gustaf Glavå, Simon Skau, Hans‐Georg Kuhn, Maria Bäck, Marianne Jarfelt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source