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Blockchain Adoption for Provenance and Traceability in the Retail Food Supply Chain
Blockchain has evolved as one of the disruptive technologies in the landscape of business. The study aims to investigate drivers of consumer adoption of blockchain for product origin and track to trace history before making a...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Short physical performance battery as a practical tool to assess mortality risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Risk assessment for hospital admission in patients with COPD; a multi-centre UK prospective observational study
Risk assessment for hospital admission in patients with COPD; a multi-centre UK prospective observational study.
Jilles M Fermont, Charlotte E Bolton, Marie Fisk, Divya Mohan, William MacNee, John R Cockcroft, Carmel McEniery, Jonathan Fuld, Joseph Cheriyan, Ruth Tal-Singer, Ian B Wilkinson, Angela M Wood, Michael I Polkey, Hana Müllerova
Mar 12, 2020
In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), acute exacerbation of COPD requiring hospital admission is associated with mortality and healthcare costs. The ERICA study assessed multiple clinical measures in people with COPD...
Published by: PLOS ONE
Risk assessment for hospital admission in patients with COPD; a multi-centre UK prospective observational study.
How Lean principles can be applied to the development process of educational programs?
Lean is an approach to improving business processes such as production. The overall objective of lean principles is to reduce waste and increase value. These principles have been developed and successfully applied within...
Published by: University of Salford
Measuring CRM Effectiveness in Indian Stock Broking Services
The article tried to develop a multi-item scale for analyzing CRM effectiveness (CRME) from the customer perspective in the Indian stock broking context. The results revealed that customer satisfaction could be improved through...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Acute rejection and growth outcomes in paediatric kidney allograft recipients treated with a corticosteroid minimisation immunosuppressive protocol.
BACKGROUND: Corticosteroid minimisation immunosuppressive protocols (CMP) for children are an approach to safely reduce unwanted medication side effects associated with long-term exposure following kidney transplantation. Here...
BK virus infection and outcome following kidney transplantation in childhood.
BK virus associated nephropathy (BKN) is an important cause of kidney allograft failure. In a cohort of paediatric kidney transplant recipients, we aimed to understand the incidence and clinical outcome associated with BKN, as...
Detecting Fake News Over Job Posts via Bi-Directional Long Short-Term Memory (BIDLSTM)
Fake news detection on job advertisements has grabbed the attention of many researchers over past decade. Various classifiers such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), XGBoost Classifier and Random Forest (RF) methods are greatly...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Cardiovascular risk prediction using physical performance measures in COPD
Cardiovascular risk prediction using physical performance measures in COPD
The p38 mitogen activated protein kinase inhibitor losmapimod in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with systemic inflammation, stratified by fibrinogen
Marie Fisk, Joseph Cheriyan, Divya Mohan, Julia Forman, Kaisa M Mäki-Petäjä, Carmel M McEniery, Jonathan Fuld, James HF Rudd, Nicholas S Hopkinson, David A Lomas, John R Cockcroft, Ruth Tal-Singer, Michael I Polkey, Ian B Wilkinson
Jun 18, 2018
BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in COPD patients. Systemic inflammation associated with COPD, is often hypothesised as a causal factor. p38 mitogen-activated protein kinases play a...
BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE E-BANKING SYSTEMS IN INDIA
DIVYA NALLURI
Jan 01, 0001
The paper seeks to explore how internet or e-banking has improvised the efficiency and adequacy in the banking sector within a very short span of time, Research Design/Process in Financial Organization, Methods of Data...
e-banking Banking Sector Security Measures Human Resources Management Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Management Information Systems Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods
Published by: Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
A multisource energy harvesting utilizing highly efficient ferroelectric PMN-PT single crystal
This paper demonstrates a multi-source energy harvester that is able to utilize simultaneously both piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects in lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT) single crystal. The paper presents a...
Surrogate Markers of Cardiovascular Risk and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Marie Fisk, Carmel M McEniery, Nichola Gale, Kaisa Mäki-Petäjä, Julia R Forman, Margaret Munnery, Jean Woodcock-Smith, Joseph Cheriyan, Divya Mohan, Jonathan Fuld, Ruth Tal-Singer, Michael I Polkey, John R Cockcroft, Ian B Wilkinson, ERICA Consortium and ACCT Investigators
Feb 06, 2018
Cardiovascular disease is a common comorbidity and cause of mortality in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. A better understanding of mechanisms of cardiovascular risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients is...
Cardiovascular Diseases Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Case-Control Studies Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Pulse Wave Analysis Age Factors Aged Biomarkers Cardiovascular Diseases Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Case-Control Studies Comorbidity Female Hemodynamics Humans Incidence Male Middle Aged Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive Reference Values Respiratory Function Tests Retrospective Studies Risk Assessment Severity of Illness Index Sex Factors Smoking Survival Rate United Kingdom Vascular Stiffness
Quantitative 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography to assess pulmonary inflammation in COPD.
Laurence Vass, Marie Fisk, Joseph Cheriyan, Divya Mohan, Julia Forman, Adelola Oseni, Anand Devaraj, Kaisa M Mäki-Petäjä, Carmel M McEniery, Jonathan Fuld, Nicholas S Hopkinson, David A Lomas, John R Cockcroft, Ruth Tal-Singer, Michael I Polkey, Ian B Wilkinson
Oct 04, 2021
RATIONALE: COPD and smoking are characterised by pulmonary inflammation. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) imaging may improve knowledge of pulmonary inflammation in COPD...
How Lean principles can be applied to the development process of educational programs?
Lean is an approach to improving business processes such as production. The overall objective of lean principles is to reduce waste and increase value. These principles have been developed and successfully applied within...
Published by: University of Salford
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the kidney community
Duvuru Geetha, Andreas Kronbichler, Megan Rutter, Divya Bajpai, Steven Menez, Annemarie Weissenbacher, Shuchi Anand, Eugene Lin, Nicholas Carlson, Stephen Sozio, Kevin Fowler, Ray Bignall, Kathryn Ducharlet, Elliot K Tannor, Eranga Wijewickrama, Muhammad IA Hafidz, Vladimir Tesar, Robert Hoover, Deidra Crews, Charles Varnell, Lara Danziger-Isakov, Vivekanand Jha, Sumit Mohan, Chirag Parikh, Valerie Luyckx
Sep 24, 2022
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected patients with kidney disease, causing significant challenges in disease management, kidney research and trainee education. For patients, increased...
A multisource energy harvesting utilizing highly efficient ferroelectric PMN-PT single crystal
This paper demonstrates a multi-source energy harvester that is able to utilize simultaneously both piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects in lead magnesium niobate-lead titanate (PMN-PT) single crystal. The paper presents a...
A Novel Hybrid Approach for Chronic Disease Classification
A two-phase diagnostic framework based on hybrid classification for the diagnosis of chronic disease is proposed. In the first phase, feature selection via ReliefF method and feature extraction via PCA method are incorporated....
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Effect of surface treatment and built form on thermal profile of open spaces
The thermal environment in Recreational Open Spaces (ROS) is primarily a result of the surrounding built form which includes buildings, trees, and surface treatment materials. To study the impact of land surface treatment choice...
BK virus infection and outcome following kidney transplantation in childhood
Abstract: BK virus associated nephropathy (BKN) is an important cause of kidney allograft failure. In a cohort of paediatric kidney transplant recipients, we aimed to understand the incidence and clinical outcome associated with...
Clinical validation of a novel web-application for remote assessment of distance visual acuity.
Arun James Thirunavukarasu, Deborah Mullinger, Remi Mohan Rufus-Toye, Sarah Farrell, Louise E Allen
Oct 01, 2021
Background/objectives
Ophthalmic disorders cause 8% of hospital clinic attendances, the highest of any specialty. The fundamental need for a distance visual acuity (VA) measurement constrains remote consultation. A...
Encoding optical control in LCK kinase to quantitatively investigate its activity in live cells.
LCK is a tyrosine kinase that is essential for initiating T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) signaling. A complete understanding of LCK function is constrained by a paucity of methods to quantitatively study its function within live...
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