Pilot Programs in Medical Research

Repeated use and steam sterilization up to three-hundred cycles did not adversely affect the tensile strength of the rubber dam clamps. The clamps, in fact, demonstrated a higher tensile strength.

None of the tested intraoral scanning systems in this study were capable of recording a clear impression when the cervical margin for a posterior partial crown was located at a distance of less than 0.5 mm from the interproximal neighbor.

A decent guidewire behavior simulation is vital to the virtual vascular intervention training. The influence of blood flow has rarely been taken into consideration in former works of guidewire simulation. This paper addresses the problem by integrating blood flow analysis and proposes a novel guidew …

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Bedside monitors in hospital intensive care units (ICUs) are known to produce excessive false alarms that could desensitize caregivers, resulting in delayed or even missed clinical interventions to life-threatening events. Our previous studies proposed a framework aggregating information in monitor …

Using self-report measures of lateness and absence on pilot and main study samples, this study applied Dalton and Mesch's (1991) measurement approach to successfully "dissect" avoidable absence and avoidable lateness behaviors. Avoidable absence behavior was calculated by subtracting unavoidable abs …

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At the completion of the boot camp curriculum, EM interns had improvement in self-reported confidence across all surveyed skills and procedures. The described EM boot camp curriculum was effective, feasible and provided a foundation to our trainees during their first month of residency.

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This six-month prospective, multi-site study incorporated no dressing coverage over hemodialysis central venous catheter exit sites and compared the outcomes of two groups of patients receiving incenter hemodialysis: a shower group and a non-shower group. Outcomes included exit site infection rates, …

The implementation of reverse osmosis (RO) process is a solution for increasing water demand. In this work the treatment feasibility of effluent wastewater in Tabriz Petrochemical Complex was evaluated using RO pilot plant. After a pretreatment with cartridge filters, wastewater was introduced to RO …

The "joint assignment" is a creative bachelor education project for Biomedical Engineering (BME) in Shanghai University (SHU), China. The objective of this project is to improve students' capabilities in design thinking and teamwork through practices in the process of the design and development of c …

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The production of granules by wet granulation in a fluidized bed was assessed after the construction of a quality index based on a file of attributes (relevant factors). These attributes are combined by a methodology relying on Correspondence Analysis, as a discriminant procedure, using two extreme …

We developed and evaluated a model for predicting the flow packing of nonrigid chromatographic resins. The model is based on elasticity theory and accounts for resin rigidity and column diameter. When a modulus determined from a standard mechanical compression (consolidation) test is used, the model …

The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies initiative has a reported 50 percent recovery rate. Recently, Scott published a scathing report asserting that 9.2 percent is the correct rate. This alarming assertion requires a closer look and further scrutiny of the Improving Access to Psychological …

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The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award was established in 1987. Although primarily an award for business and industry, pilot criteria for healthcare settings have been developed. These criteria can be used by healthcare organizations to conduct internal evaluations of their institutions. Benefi …