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Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in patients with diabetes. Cardiovascular disease in diabetes is multifactorial, and control of the cardiovascular risk factors leads to ...

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Abstract: This paper presents a no-reference image blur metric that is based on the study of human blur perception for varying contrast values. The metric utilizes a probabilistic model to estimate ...

The direct oral thrombin inhibitor dabigatran has a predictable anticoagulant effect and may be an alternative therapy to warfarin for patients who have acute venous thromboembolism. In a ...

We randomly assigned patients with stage IIIC or IV epithelial ovarian carcinoma, fallopian-tube carcinoma, or primary peritoneal carcinoma to primary debulking surgery followed by platinum-based ...

Objective An association between detectable faecal haemoglobin (f-Hb) and both the risk of death from colorectal cancer (CRC) and all-cause mortality has been reported. We set out to confirm or refute ...

eDepartment of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK fDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK ...

This article proposes two stator flux based model reference adaptive observers (SF-MRAOs) for the estimation of the rotor speed and position in a stand-alone DFIG. The cross product of the reference ...

Deciding when to return to sport after injury is complex and multifactorial—an exercise in risk management. Return to sport decisions are made every day by clinicians, athletes and coaches, ideally in ...

Thus, the FT-IR bands of liquid pyrolysate obtained by CONTROLPIR/FT-IR were evaluated, in comparison to the reference spectrum of CA. The characterization of CA was also possible, by the analysis of ...

Background Evidence on preventing Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is challenging to interpret due to varying study designs with heterogeneous endpoints and credibility. We completed a systematic review and ...