Structural health monitoring techniques are widely used in industry applications to guarantee the integrity of several types of components. This article proposes a baseline-free damage imaging algorithm based on Spatial ...

Analysis of serum parameters provides information about body condition, nutritional state, and health status of individuals/species, and has broad application in ecological research and veterinary diagnosis. This study ...

Purpose: To determine the incidence of dental caries and evaluate the influence of socioeconomic, clinical and demographic variables on the time for disease to appear in the permanent teeth after 3 years of follow-up.Materials ...

Water, compared with plasma at a pH of 7.4, is a weak acid. The addition of free water to a patient should have an acidifying effect (dilutional acidosis) and the removal of it, an alkalinizing effect (concentrational ...

Water, compared with plasma at a pH of 7.4, is a weak acid. The addition of free water to a patient should have an acidifying effect (dilutional acidosis) and the removal of it, an alkalinizing effect (concentrational ...

Aims At present it is unknown what limits the arterial remodeling process during atherosclerotic plaque formation. In healthy arteries remodeling is regulated by the shear stress induced response by the endothelium. As ...

The research area of Affective Computing has been looking for ways to improve the detection of student confusion in computer-based learning environments. Environments capable of detecting student confusion can use different ...

The research area of Affective Computing has been looking for ways to improve the detection of student confusion in computer-based learning environments. Environments capable of detecting student confusion can use different ...

Objective: The aim was to study the role of leptin in the development of dementia. Methods: Follow-up of the ALEXANDROS cohorts, with baseline measurements in 2000. From 1,136 available subjects free of dementia at baseline, ...