Sentences with phrase «as diagnostic methods»

Even as diagnostic methods advance, preventive therapies improve and disease awareness increases among veterinary professionals and pet owners, heartworm continues to present a serious threat to dogs» health.

TB Using Pleural Effusion as a Diagnostic Method for Tuberculosis Infection

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«The level of psychosocial morbidity and suicidality associated with BPD is as great, or greater, than that experienced by patients with bipolar disorder,» said Zimmerman, director of outpatient psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital and director of the Rhode Island Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) project.

In the case of diagnostic methods such as electrocardiogram (ECG) and electromyography (EMG), gel electrodes are the preferred method of transmitting electric impulses from the heart or muscle.

The members of the initiative hope to improve early detection of cancer by making an impact in a variety of areas, including doing epidemiologic studies on risk factors, developing new and improved methods of diagnostic imaging, discovering and verifying new biomarkers as indicators of cancer, and developing new technologies to aid early detection.

We are also exploring possible collaborations with industrial partners in order to make our method available as a diagnostic kit.»

The measurement method using the harmonic interferometer that we have developed does not depend upon gas composition used when plasma is produced, as compared to other electron density diagnostic methods for atmospheric pressure low - temperature plasma.

Using this method that has been developed by high - temperature plasma diagnostics, as shown in Image 2, we have succeeded in greatly reducing the influence of atmospheric pressure (gas), which was a problem in high - accuracy measurement of atmospheric pressure low - temperature plasma.

«Using broadly tunable laser sources rather than the fixed wavelength source used in this paper can extend this method to detection of other hydrocarbons, threat materials such as chemical warfare agents and explosives, and other biologically important substances used in healthcare and diagnostics,» said Hempler.

While improved diagnostic and treatment methods have reduced the overall death rate from breast cancer, the study authors note, that reduction has not been as pronounced among African American patients.

Moreover, he believes that investment in technologies such as chip - based methods to rapidly test blood or tissue samples for the presence of anthrax or smallpox would speed the development of related diagnostic tools for regular diseases.

Current methods associated with epigenetics research will be discussed, as well as how these technologies are advancing the development of new diagnostics and biomarkers.

Researchers from Lund University Sweden have through a new diagnostic method been able to show that the risk of developing Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease could be twice as high for women as it is for men.

A study published in JAMA Pediatrics supports the use of genetic testing, especially with sequencing, as first - line diagnostic method for young children with seizures.

CMR is accepted as a method with high diagnostic accuracy.

This presentation will review methods for which Nanopore sequencing and real - time antimicrobial resistance gene analysis can help to address the threat of CRO as a diagnostic tool in the Medical Microbiology Laboratory.

Knopp S, Salim N, Schindler T, Karagiannis Voules DA, Rothen J, Lweno O, Mohammed AS, Singo R, Benninghoff M, Nsojo AA, Genton B, Daubenberger C. Diagnostic Accuracy of Kato - Katz, FLOTAC, Baermann, and PCR Methods for the Detection of Light - Intensity Hookworm and Strongyloides stercoralis Infections in Tanzania.

The students have undergone a comprehensive education in life science emphasising cutting - edge methods in bioinformatic analysis of big data, high throughput techniques of molecular biology as well as how to translate biological findings into diagnostic tools and novel treatments.

Stress perfusion CMR is accepted as a method with high diagnostic accuracy.

In some embodiments, as noted above, outputs of the first method 100 can be used to generate diagnostics and / or provide therapeutic measures for an individual based upon an analysis of the individual's microbiome.

His knowledge of quantitative (statistical) and qualitative research methods in education led to 12 documents that evaluated existing achievement gaps in districts across the U.S. as diagnostic measures for future school action plans.

As result, a myriad of on - board diagnostic methods were implemented.

NVH performance, especially the exterior drive - by noise, is dramatically improved by using experimental methods such as Reciprocal Holography (to visualise noise reduction levels at certain frequency) and ADNA (Advanced Diagnostic Network Algorithm) to rank noise sources in the order of their identified transfer paths.

I find my own diagnostic method to be at least as reliable as a series of radiographs: first, I take into account the breed, and the second thing is to watch the dog walk, as other problems can give subtle differences in gait.

New diagnostic methods, such as improved imaging techniques, can help detect neoplasia earlier.

New diagnostic methods such as the PennHIP model can detect the potential for hip dysplasia as early as 16 weeks of age.

All AVMA accredited Veterinary Technology programs will include general chemistry and biology coursework, as well as more specialized courses in animal anatomy and physiology, clinical procedures, surgical procedures, diagnostic imaging, pharmacology, research methods, nutrition, anesthesiology, and more.

Another diagnostic method is a fecal flotation test performed with zinc sulfate as the floating medium used to reveal giardia cysts.

The wide range of studies conducted with the ISCCP datasets and the changing environment for accessing datasets over the Internet suggested the need for the Web site to provide: 1) a larger variety of information about the project and its data products for a much wider variety of users [e.g., people who may not use a particular ISCCP data product but could use some ancillary information (such as the map grid definition, topography, snow and ice cover)-RSB-; 2) more information about the main data products in several different forms (e.g., illustrations of the cloud analysis method) and more flexible access to the full documentation; 3) access to more data summaries and diagnostic statistics to illustrate research possibilities for students, for classroom use by educators, or for users with «simple» climatology questions (e.g., annual and seasonal means); and 4) direct access to the complete data products (e.g., the whole monthly mean cloud dataset is now available online).

To understand some of our approaches to what we do, we have provided this information about our recent case projects as examples of how our methods for plaintiff electronic discovery saves our clients hundreds of thousands of dollars in processing and diagnostic costs.

Represent a Sun City, Arizona - based medical research institute concerning (i) research collaboration agreements; (ii) patent prosecution (applications) involving new compounds, methods of treatment of disease, as well as diagnostics; (iii) corporate and commercial matters, including its corporate formation, its 501 (c)(3) tax - exempt status, ongoing corporate governance, and other tax matters

Updated equipment data, PM's (Preventive Maintenance), task lists and diagnostic methods as necessary to improve reliability

There is also inconsistency regarding studying anxiety and depressive symptoms as a single «internalizing domain» or as two clinically - distinct presentations.6, 7 Similar issues with how to classify symptoms are reflected in the lack of consensus as to whether emotional problems should be conceptualized and studied in a categorical versus dimensional fashion.8 Diagnostic criteria (DSM - IV - TR) 9 are often inappropriate for young children and do not capture developmentally - salient types of impairment (e.g., disruption in family routine), which make it difficult to apply psychiatric research methods.

Significant advances have been made in assessment methods and age - appropriate diagnostic criteria for emotional disorders in young children.29 - 31 Differentiation between symptoms of individual anxiety disorders (e.g., separation anxiety, generalized anxiety) has been found as early as two years of age.6 One novel assessment tool for children aged 3 - 5, the Preschool Anxiety Scale — Revised, captures these various dimensions of anxiety symptoms.32 In addition, attentional bias to threat has been identified as a possible candidate for assessment of risk for anxiety disorders.33