DEFINITIONS The following are basic concepts and definitions related to toxicology: ● Toxicant. An alternative term for poison. ● Toxin. A poison that originates from biological processes; also called a biotoxin. Mycotoxins (fungal toxins) and zootoxins (animal toxins) are common examples of ...
Accessing useful and relevant information from these OMRs in a timely manner is a challenging task due to a combination of the presence of machine-illegible information and the limited system interoperability inherent in healthcare. Little research has been done on investigating information in OMRs....
Disease progression patterns of patients with more than one disease have recently received increasing attention, as disease co-occurrences can help to elucidate the interaction between the molecular level and external exposures such as diet, lifestyle and patient care. Additionally, they can provide inf...
Since the brain was found to be somehow flexible, plastic, researchers worldwide have been trying to comprehend its fundamentals to better understand the brain itself, make predictions, disentangle the neurobiology of brain diseases, and finally propose
This may help to identify treatable traits leading to personalised therapy with anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial drugs in the future. Clinical Aspects and Diagnosis of Bronchiectasis Bronchiectasis is a clinical condition defined as a chronic, abnormal dilation of the bronchi accom...
Definitionsupports data consistency, requiring elements in medical documents to be well-defined and have a range of acceptable values. In other words, users must clearly understand what a particular piece of information describes. Precisiondefines a range of values for each attribute. For instance, ...
As indicated, several issues remain unresolved: (1) whether circulating cytokines cross the blood-brain barrier or have to be produced within the central nervous system to activate thermosensitive neurons; (2) whether each of the pyrogenic cytokines is capable of raising the thermoregulatory set ...
Interval scales are a rarity, and it’s difficult to think of a common example other than the Fahrenheit scale. For this reason, the term “interval data” is sometimes used to describe both interval and ratio data (discussed in the next section). Ratio Data Ratio data has all the ...
(GRUs) and long short-term memory (LSTM) approaches. The main advantage of this technique is the ability to collect data or generate a data output from the prior knowledge. However, the disadvantage of this technique is that decision boundary might be overstrained when training set doesn’t ...
She was born after an uneventful term pregnancy to a 29-year-old G2P2 woman. Mother reports that the infant is feeding well and seems active. No evidence of any fever. The parents are worried about the ‘rash’ that appeared over the infant’s left cheek. On examination, a lesion is ...