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Eleonora Ortu, Sara Di Nicolantonio, Alessandra Mummolo, Ruggero Cattaneo, Davide Pietropaoli and Annalisa Monaco
Introduction: The traditional diagnosis of functional lateral deviation is based on a clinical evaluation and dental casts, supported by an instrumental analysis through X-rays; however, these diagnostic techniques do not provide any information about th...
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Adriana Assunta De Stefano, Ana Maria Boboc, Martina Horodynski, Alessandra Impellizzeri, Emanuela Serritella and Gabriella Galluccio
Background: This study aimed to investigate the association between the internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), in particular the severity of disc displacement (DD), and the presence of generalized joint hypermobility (GJH) in growing ...
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Muhammad Nadeem, Henry Shen, Lincoln Choy and Julien Moussa H. Barakat
Growing obesity has been a worldwide issue for several decades. This is the outcome of common nutritional disorders which results in obese individuals who are prone to many diseases. Managing diet while simultaneously dealing with the obligations of a wo...
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Dougho Park and Injung Kim
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) is being applied to a wide range of surgical fields as a diagnostic tool to protect patients from neural injuries that may occur during surgery. However, several contributing factors complicate the inte...
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Usharani Bhimavarapu, Nalini Chintalapudi and Gopi Battineni
The importance of online recommender systems for drugs, medical professionals, and hospitals is growing. Today, the majority of people use online consultations for drug recommendations for all types of health issues. Emergencies such as pandemics, floods...
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Joshua Vendrow, Jamie Haddock, Deanna Needell and Lorraine Johnson
Lyme disease is a rapidly growing illness that remains poorly understood within the medical community. Critical questions about when and why patients respond to treatment or stay ill, what kinds of treatments are effective, and even how to properly diagn...
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Sabrina Azzi, Stéphane Gagnon, Alex Ramirez and Gregory Richards
Healthcare is considered as one of the most promising application areas for artificial intelligence and analytics (AIA) just after the emergence of the latter. AI combined to analytics technologies is increasingly changing medical practice and healthcare...
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Eko Ihsanto, Kalamullah Ramli, Dodi Sudiana and Teddy Surya Gunawan
The electrocardiogram (ECG) is relatively easy to acquire and has been used for reliable biometric authentication. Despite growing interest in ECG authentication, there are still two main problems that need to be tackled, i.e., the accuracy and processin...
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Diane Skiba
In a connected care environment, more citizens are engaging in their health care through mobile apps and social media tools. Given this growing health care engagement, it is important for health care professionals to have the knowledge and skills to eval...
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Javier Domingo-Espiñeira, Oscar Fraile-Martínez, Cielo Garcia-Montero, María Montero, Andrea Varaona, Francisco J. Lara-Abelenda, Miguel A. Ortega, Melchor Alvarez-Mon and Miguel Angel Alvarez-Mon
Neurological disorders represent the primary cause of disability and the secondary cause of mortality globally. The incidence and prevalence of the most notable neurological disorders are growing rapidly. Considering their social and public perception by...
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Kanza Gulzar, Muhammad Ayoob Memon, Syed Muhammad Mohsin, Sheraz Aslam, Syed Muhammad Abrar Akber and Muhammad Asghar Nadeem
In the public health sector and the field of medicine, the popularity of data mining and its usage in knowledge discovery and databases (KDD) are rising. The growing popularity of data mining has discovered innovative healthcare links to support decision...
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Jong-Chan Baik, Youn-Kyung Choi, Hyeran Helen Jeon, Sung-Hun Kim, Seong-Sik Kim, Soo-Byung Park and Yong-Il Kim
Introduction: This retrospective study aimed to determine skeletal and dental changes after a growth spurt and shortly after treatment using a facemask in skeletal Class III malocclusion with maxillary deficiency. Methods: We retrospectively studied 50 p...
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Prawej Ansari, Samia Akther, Joyeeta T. Khan, Sara S. Islam, Md. Samim R. Masud, Anisur Rahman, Veronique Seidel and Yasser H. A. Abdel-Wahab
Diabetes mellitus, a major cause of mortality around the globe, can result in several secondary complications, including diabetic foot syndrome, which is brought on by diabetic neuropathy and ischemia. Approximately 15% of diabetic patients suffer from d...
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Berit Irene Helgheim and Birgithe Sandbaek
(1) Background: This paper investigates the distribution of work hours by activity, for the main staff categories in home care services in three rural Norwegian municipalities. In Norway these categories are registered nurses, assistant nurses and assist...
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David Vallejo, Cristian Gmez-Portes, Javier Albusac, Carlos Glez-Morcillo and José Jesús Castro-Schez
Physical rehabilitation of stroke patients is based on the daily execution of exercises with face-to-face supervision by therapists. This model cannot be sustained in the long term, due to the involved economic costs, the growing number of patients, and ...
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Kang-Lung Lee, An-Min Lynn, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Ling-Yu Yang and Shu-Chiung Chiang
Pediatricians are trained to provide non-surgical medical care to children. Improvements in medical treatments and surgical techniques have extended the survival of children with congenital diseases and chronic illnesses. Consequently, pediatricians may ...
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Yi-Ting Chen, Yung-Hsiang Ying, Koyin Chang and Ya-Hui Hsieh
Objectives: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is one of the fastest growing causes of death worldwide. However, few studies, if any, have been conducted that have investigated patient profiles in Asia. This paper analyzes patient willingness t...
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Nicolás Saavedra, Leticia Barrientos, Christian L. Herrera, Marysol Alvear, Gloria Montenegro, Luis A. Salazar
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Dental caries is an infectious disease of worldwide public health concern. Among the bacteria involved in this pathology are Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus sobrinus and organisms belonging to the genera Actinomyces and Lactobacillus. The pharmaceut...
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Riccardo Iandolo, Francesca Marini, Marianna Semprini, Matteo Laffranchi, Maddalena Mugnosso, Amel Cherif, Lorenzo De Michieli, Michela Chiappalone and Jacopo Zenzeri
The development of robotic devices for rehabilitation is a fast-growing field. Nowadays, thanks to novel technologies that have improved robots? capabilities and offered more cost-effective solutions, robotic devices are increasingly being employed durin...
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Pedro Henrique Franca Gois, Martin Wolley, Dwarakanathan Ranganathan and Antonio Carlos Seguro
Vitamin D (VD) is a pro-hormone essential for life in higher animals. It is present in few types of foods and is produced endogenously in the skin by a photochemical reaction. The final step of VD activation occurs in the kidneys involving a second hydro...
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