Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) are prevalent among surgeons due to a variety of risk factors. Various subjective tools have been used to investigate the associations between these risk factors and their contributions to the development of WMSDs. This study aimed to provide a summary of a collection of popular subjective...
Nowadays, big data and data mining play a more and more important role in numerous industries. Hospital industry is no exception. Hospitals in China have one of the highest patient volumes throughout the world, and they start to take advantage of these data and information, but these valuable data are...
Marching band activities consist of both physically and cognitively demanding tasks. The demands that this activity has on players has largely been unstudied. The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of players’ experience level, role, and gender on the workload of marching band players via a field...
Most of the existing research on mathematical morphology is
restricted to the deterministic case. This thesis addresses the void
in the results on the stochastic properties of morphological filters.
The primary results include analysis of the stochastic
properties of morphological operations, such as dilation, erosion,
closing and opening. Two unbiased...
The genetic aspects of population health are critical, but frequently difficult to assess. Of concern has been the genetic constitution of Scandinavian wolves (Canis lupus), which represent an important case in conservation. We examined the incidence of different congenital anomalies for 171 Scandinavian wolves, including the immigrant founder female, born...
In today, information plays a more and more important role in business world. The companies are full of data, but poor of valuable information extracted from that diverse data. Data mining, as a process of transferring data from variety perspectives to useful information, is the new trend for businesses. It...
Exploring bioactive natural products has contributed largely to clinically approved drugs we have been using over the last 100 years. Especially among the anti-infective drugs, around 70% of currently used antibiotics were discovered or derived from microbial secondary metabolites, among them compounds like vancomycin, chloramphenicol, and erythromycin. Facing the unavoidable...
Part of the Y chromosome in humans is detectable as a brightly
fluorescing body in interphase nuclei stained with quinacrine dyes.
This fluorescent body when stained with quinacrine mustard dihydrochloride,
in cells from some 15 human subjects, was seen to manifest
a variable morphology which appeared to be related to...
Measurements on growth traits up to 41 years of age
from 68 progeny sites in eight first-generation breeding
zones of coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii
[MIRB.] FRANCO var. menziesii) in the US Pacific Northwest
were used to investigate age trends of genetic parameters
and to determine optimum age of selection. Heritabilities...