For the teaching of medicine and dentistry, a system for the development of 3D computer models of the human skull anatomy has been developed, together with a graphics interface for its presentation on screen. The task...
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Ultrasonic medical images is well established as an important diagnostic tool nowadays. Quantitative ultrasonic images, nevertheless, have not reached a clinical use. The cause of this are the peculiar propagation of ...
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In order to characterize ultrasonic (US) transducers, several aspects may be studied, such as the shape of the beam in space, the US intensity along the central axis and the US intensity parallel to the face of the tr...
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This work presents an analysis about the limitation of ultrasonic air-bubble detectors based on the measurement of the wave attenuation caused by the presence of air-bubbles in the blood circuit. Considering as a lowe...
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In the present work, the Event-Related Synchronization and Desynchronization (ERD/ERS) index was used for evaluating the cortical response to dynamic visual stimulation in an postural control protocol. EEG signals (O1...
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This work concerns a program (EFlow) that has been developed to assist experts in clustering flow cytometry multivariate data. EFlow aims to reduce subjectivity but keeping the expert's control over the analysis. ...
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The objective of this work was to identify the existence of biases on the reporting of Homeopathy efficacy in Brazilian newspapers. To this end, the online archives of two large newspapers - one in Rio de Janeiro city...
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The objective of this work was to identify the existence of biases on the reporting of Homeopathy efficacy in Brazilian newspapers. To this end, the online archives of two large newspapers - one in Rio de Janeiro city and one in São Paulo city - were searched for all news or reports concerning Homeopathy in the period January 2009-December 2010. The identified items were then classified as “favorable”, “unfavorable” or “neutral” in what concerns the efficacy of Homeopathic therapy. Paid advertisements and “passing” references were excluded. Thirty-one items were identified, and the results indicated an overall preponderance of “favorable”, as compared to “unfavorable“, reports (14 favorable, 7 unfavorable). In conclusion, newspaper reporting of homeopathic efficacy is not compatible with the most update scientific evidence on the topic.
Objective: This report investigates the use of linear and travelled route (transit network-based) distances in estimating the accessibility of hospitals to patients, for some selected hospital admission diagnostics. M...
Objective: This report investigates the use of linear and travelled route (transit network-based) distances in estimating the accessibility of hospitals to patients, for some selected hospital admission diagnostics. Methods: For patients admitted to 14 public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro City, during 1996, under the ICD-9 headings 'Complications of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Puerperium' and.'Disorders of the Circulatory System', average distances between the patient's district of residence and hospital of admission were calculated (both as Euclidean and as network-based distances). Data were obtained from the country's public health data processing agency. Geographic co-ordinates were obtained for districts of residence from the postal codes of the patients' residences. Distances were estimated with the TransCAD Geographical Information System, based on a map of the city transit network. There were 8654 patients admitted under the 'Complications of Pregnancy' heading and 3439 under 'Disorders of Circulatory System'. Results: Variations of up to a factor of 5.3, and up to 34km, could be identified between linear and network estimates. Conclusion: While recognizing that network estimates have advantages, the literature on accessibility frequently argues that aerial estimates are a good approximation for those. The present results show that this is not necessarily the case.
It is an accepted hypothesis that the amplitude of the respiratory-related oscillations of arterial partial pressure of oxygen (ΔPaO2) is primarily modulated by fluctuations of pulmonary shunt (Δs), the latter gener...
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