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Parametric distortion-adaptive neighborhood for omnidirectional camera
Catadioptric omnidirectional images exhibit serious nonlinear distortion due to the involved quadratic mirror. Conventional pinhole model-based methods perform poorly when... -
Risk factors for endometrial carcinoma among postmenopausal women in Sri Lank...
Abstract Background Endometrial carcinoma burden is on the rise globally. The objective of this study was to determine the risk factors for endometrial carcinoma among... -
Knowledge of obstetric danger signs and associated factors among pregnant wom...
Abstract Background Knowledge of danger signs of obstetric complications is first step in the appropriate and timely referral to essential obstetric care. Although women’s... -
Nutritional status and Cardiometabolic health among adolescents; findings fro...
Abstract Background Obesity has been associated with an increased risk for cardio-metabolic diseases. The prevalence of obesity among adolescents is increasing worldwide,... -
Development of predictive risk models for major adverse cardiovascular events...
Abstract Background There exist several predictive risk models for cardiovascular disease (CVD), including some developed specifically for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus... -
A Bayesian Sequential Design for Clinical Trials with Time-to-Event Outcomes
There is increasing interest in Bayesian group sequential design because of its potential to improve efficiency in clinical trials, to shorten drug development time, and to... -
Access and utilization of maternal healthcare in a rural district in the fore...
Abstract Background Poor maternal health delivery in developing countries results in more than half a million maternal deaths during pregnancy, childbirth or within a few weeks... -
Prospective observations study protocol to investigate cost-effectiveness of ...
Abstract Background Among the non-invasive screening methods for the identification of fetal aneuploidy, NIPT (non-invasive prenatal testing) shows the highest sensitivity and... -
Differences in reported sepsis incidence according to study design: a literat...
Abstract Background Sepsis and severe sepsis are common conditions in hospital settings, and are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality, but reported incidences... -
Spatial patterns of unemployment in Central Europe: emerging development axes...
In this paper, we focus on mapping and analysing the spatial patterns of unemployment in four Central European countries – Austria, Czechia, Germany, and Poland, on municipal... -
ISSEC: inferring contacts among protein secondary structure elements using de...
Abstract Background The formation of contacts among protein secondary structure elements (SSEs) is an important step in protein folding as it determines topology of protein... -
Development of a prediction model for bacteremia in hospitalized adults with ...
Abstract Background Cellulitis is a common infectious disease. Although blood culture is frequently used in the diagnosis and subsequent treatment of cellulitis, it is a... -
UK national clinical audit: management of pregnancies in women with HIV
Abstract Background The potential for HIV transmission between a pregnant woman and her unborn child was first recognized in 1982. Since then a complex package of measures to... -
Probiotics may not prevent the deterioration of necrotizing enterocolitis fro...
Abstract Background Probiotic therapy can reduce the incidence of NEC. Therapeutic use of probiotics after NEC diagnosis reduces the severity of NEC in preterm infants or... -
Increased calcium intake is associated lower serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels...
Abstract Background There are indications that an increased intake of calcium has a vitamin D sparing effect, which might be explained by a decreased catabolism of... -
A method for sensitivity analysis to assess the effects of measurement error ...
Abstract Background Measurement error in self-reported dietary intakes is known to bias the association between dietary intake and a health outcome of interest such as risk of a... -
Climate factors driven typhus group rickettsiosis incidence dynamics in Xishu...
Abstract Background Typhus group rickettsiosis (TGR), which is a neglected vector-borne infectious disease, including epidemic typhus and endemic typhus. We explored the lag... -
Using predicate and provenance information from a knowledge graph for drug ef...
Abstract Background Biomedical knowledge graphs have become important tools to computationally analyse the comprehensive body of biomedical knowledge. They represent knowledge... -
Antenatal care and women’s decision making power as determinants of instituti...
Abstract Background Delivery by skilled birth attendance serves as an indicator of progress towards reducing maternal mortality. In Ethiopia, the proportions of births attended... -
Appendectomy, cholecystectomy and diagnostic laparoscopy conducted before pre...
Abstract Background Non-obstetric surgery conducted during pregnancy may increase the risk of adverse birth outcomes like small for gestational age, preterm birth, and...
