Search results for " Features"

Atypical Antipsychotics in the Treatment of Acute Bipolar Depression with Mixed Features: A Systematic Review and Exploratory Meta-Analysis of Placeb…

2016

Evidence supporting the use of second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) in the treatment of acute depression with mixed features (MFs) associated with bipolar disorder (BD) is scarce and equivocal. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review and preliminary meta-analysis investigating SGAs in the treatment of acute BD depression with MFs. Two authors independently searched major electronic databases from 1990 until September 2015 for randomized (placebo-) controlled trials (RCTs) or open-label clinical trials investigating the efficacy of SGAs in the treatment of acute bipolar depression with MFs. A random-effect meta-analysis calculating the standardized mean difference (SMD) between SGA an…

Formal and Informal Features in CMMC. Some observation on Dctor-Patient Interaction in Online Communication

2012

A Case of Follicular Tumor of Uncertain Malignant Potential (FT-UMP) with Glomeruloid Features Showing Capsular Mucinous Degeneration

2021

The most recent revision of the World Health Organization (WHO) Classification of Tumours of Endocrine Organs introduced a new variant of follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC). It is characterized by a “glomeruloid” architectural pattern of growth. We present a case of follicular tumor with glomeruloid features, with Alcian Blue positive mucinous stromal degeneration in foci of questionable capsular microinvasion. At our knowledge, this the second case of glomeruloid follicular tumor in the literature and the first case in which Alcian Blue staining was used to investigate capsular invasion. Moreover, RAS mutation further supports that this is a variant of follicular tumor with uncertain malig…

Analysis of health communication texts: UK press coverage of debates about assisted dying

2015

Conventionally, social researchers analyse media messages by reading text and coding it. This is time consuming and restricts many studies to small samples. Nowadays very large amounts of text are available in electronic form, offering potential insights into the health messages they contain, but which appear daunting to the analyst with limited resources using conventional methods. I explain and illustrate methods for the computer-assisted analysis of media texts, using specialised software (Wordsmith Tools and Wordstat). These allow the analyst to provide a statistical overview of the key features of texts, to compare them (looking at change over time, for example) and to select illustrat…

"Kaikki haluu olla kingei mut kuka kruunataan" : the linguistic features of English in the Finnish rap artist Cheek's lyrics

2017

Englannin kielen rooli ja vaikutus on suuri useilla eri elämänalueilla tämän päivän Suomessa. Englantia käytetään laajasti esimerkiksi yritysten yhteisenä kielenä sekä median eri osa-alueilla. Englantia pidetään yleisesti modernina ja helposti lähestyttävänä kielenä, jonka osaaminen katsotaan nykyään ennemmin vaatimukseksi kuin lisäeduksi. Cheek on suurta suosiota saavuttanut suomalainen rap-artisti. Cheekin suosio näkyy niin myytyjen levyjen määrässä kuin erilaisten musiikintoistopalveluiden kuten Spotifyn kuuntelutilastoissa. Tämän lisäksi hän on esiintynyt kahdesti loppuunmyydyllä Olympiastadionilla sekä julkaissut omaelämäkerran. Vaikka Cheekin pääasiallinen esiintymiskieli on suomi, kä…

The expanding role of LC-MS in analyzing metabolites and degradation products of food contaminants

2008

Abstract Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has contributed significantly in advancing research in the analysis of metabolites and degradation products of food contaminants. Of particular interest is the comprehensive application of LC-MS to discovery of degradation products and metabolites. This review, covering research published between 2003 and 2008, describes how LC-MS has been used in this field, with the majority of work dealing with target-metabolite analysis and only a small fraction using LC-MS comprehensively. In considering the significance of this topic and the potential interest in it, we briefly describe state-of-the art mass analyzers applied for it (QtrAP, QqTO…

Stationary phase modulation in liquid chromatography through the serial coupling of columns: A review

2016

Liquid chromatography with single columns often does not succeed in the analysis of complex samples, in terms of resolution and analysis time. A relatively simple solution to enhance chromatographic resolution is the modulation of the stationary phase through the serial coupling of columns. This can be implemented with any type of column using compatible elution conditions and conventional instruments. This review describes the key features of column coupling and published procedures, where two or more columns were coupled in series to solve separation problems. In all reports, the authors could not resolve their samples with single columns, whereas significant enhancement in chromatographi…

Describing the gingival involvement in a sample of 182 Italian predominantly oral mucous membrane pemphigoid patients: A retrospective series

2016

Background The oral cavity has been frequently described as the only site of involvement or as the first manifestation of mucous membrane pemphigoid (MMP), being the gingival tissues often involved, but usually this has been effusively detailed in limited case series. This is a retrospective evaluation of the gingival involvement in 182 Italian patients with oral MMP. Material and Methods The diagnosis of MMP was established by both clinical morphology and direct immunofluorescence finding. Patient information (age, gender, risk factors and medical status) and parameters of manifestation (lesions’ distribution, site and type) were detailed. Results The mean age was 62 years for women (n=137…

PyDSC: a simple tool to treat differential scanning calorimetry data

2020

AbstractHerein, we describe an open-source, Python-based, script to treat the output of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) experiments, called pyDSC, available free of charge for download at https://github.com/leonardo-chiappisi/pyDSC under a GNU General Public License v3.0. The main aim of this program is to provide the community with a simple program to analyze raw DSC data. Key features include the correction from spurious signals, and, most importantly, the baseline is computed with a robust, physically consistent approach. We also show that the baseline correction routine implemented in the script is significantly more reproducible than different standard ones proposed by propriet…

Multimodal Images Classification using Dense SURF, Spectral Information and Support Vector Machine

2019

International audience; The multimodal image classification is a challenging area of image processing which can be used to examine the wall painting in the cultural heritage domain. In such classification, a common space of representation is important. In this paper, we present a new method for multimodal representation learning, by using a pixel-wise feature descriptor named dense Speed Up Robust Features (SURF) combined with the spectral information carried by the pixel. For classification of extracted features we have used support vector machine (SVM). Our database was extracted from acquisition on cultural heritage wall paintings that contain four modalities UV, Visible, IRR and fluores…