OBJECTIVE: Long-term immobilization brings about physiological and biomechanical adverse effects on organs and systems.For enabling patients to stand on their feet and to be mobilized in the early period, electric patient hoist system (EPHS) accelerates the recovery of systemic functions and allows the patient with neurological diseases to become i
Abstract Background Urothelial cancer (UC) includes carcinomas of the bladder, ureters, and renal pelvis.New treatments and biomarkers of UC emerged in this decade.To identify the key information in a vast amount of literature can be challenging.In this study, we use text mining to explore UC publications to identify important information that may
Abstract Background The annual recruitment of new graduate nurses and midwives is key to recruiting large numbers of staff with the right attitude, skills and knowledge who are the best fit for the organisation.Virtual interviews were undertaken in 2020 due to the surge worldwide in the COVID-19 crisis.This study evaluates those virtual interviews
Background and purpose: We developed an automatic method to segment cardiac substructures given a radiotherapy planning CT Hoodies/Fleece images to support epidemiological studies or clinical trials looking at cardiac disease endpoints after radiotherapy.Material and methods: We used a most-similar atlas selection algorithm and 3D deformation combi
The flammability of plant leaves influences the spread of fire through vegetation.Exotic plants invading native vegetation may increase the spread of bushfires if their leaves are more flammable than native leaves.We compared fresh-leaf and dry-leaf flammability (time to ignition) between 52 native and 27 exotic plant species inhabiting dry sclerop