Background Alzheimer’s disease, the most common cause of dementia, goes unrecognized
in half of patients presenting to healthcare providers and is associated with increased acute …

Background: Research connecting patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs) with improved
quality and reduced utilization is inconsistent, possibly because individual domains of …

Purpose Since collecting outcome measure data from patients can be expensive, time-consuming,
and subject to memory and nonresponse bias, we sought to learn whether outcomes …

A pulsed dye laser lithotripter with optical feedback regulation was tested during experimental
laparoscopic treatments for common bile duct stones using human bile stones and the …

… ANN is used to map the response surface of the objective function and to estimate the …
In this paper, a discussion of the GLUE procedure is followed by a review of the GA and ANN …

… In this paper we have chosen for the multi-layer perceptron ANN (ANN-MLP) due to its
widely known robustness and accuracy. The output discharges from the fifteen HBV-S sub-basin …

Background and purpose There have been few long-term studies on the outcome of
chondrosarcoma and the findings regarding prognostic factors are controversial. We examined a …

The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are some of the most dark-matter-dominated
objects known. Due to their proximity, high dark matter content, and lack of …

Severe persistent post-surgical pain (PPP) affects 2–10% of adults undergoing surgery, 1
corresponding to at least 140 000 patients per year presenting with disabling pain in the UK. 2 …

Inadequacies in postoperative pain relief have been evident for decades (5, 6). The importance
of establishing an organization for the management of postoperative pain relief, with …