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Clinical functional analysis is the first step in the diagnostic cascade in the diagnosis of craniomandibular dysfunction (CMD). This examination comprises palpation of the muscles, auscultation of noises in the temporomandibular joint, registration of jaw mobility as well as the search for dysfunct...
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PMID: 20648739
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We describe the IMEter, a word-based algorithm for analyzing introns and their effect on gene expression. The IMEter demonstrates that introns located near the beginning of genes are compositionally distinct from later introns and that these differences are closely related to the ability of some int...
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PMID: 19588111
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Long weekly hours of keyboard use may lead to or aggravate carpal tunnel syndrome. The effects of typing on fluid pressure in the carpal tunnel, a possible mediator of carpal tunnel syndrome, are unknown. Twenty healthy subjects participated in a laboratory study to investigate the effects of typing...
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PMID: 18383144
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For the movement task, movement time was lowest for shapes with higher shape-controller compatibility. For the visual search task, search time and accuracy were best on the alphabetic arrangement. In the combined task, shape did not significantly influence performance at different levels of practice...
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PMID: 18767526
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This study determined differences between computer workers with varying levels of neck pain in terms of work stressors, employee strain, electromyography (EMG) amplitude and heart rate response to various tasks. Participants included 85 workers (33, no pain; 38, mild pain; 14, moderate pain) and 22...
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PMID: 18293008
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Sitting on a therapy ball or standing may be a passive means of increasing energy expenditure throughout the workday. The purpose of this study was to determine the energy expenditure and liking of performing clerical work in various postures. Subjects included 24 men and women employed in sedentary...
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PMID: 18351381
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We describe GenomeVx, a web-based tool for making editable, publication-quality, maps of mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes and of large plasmids. These maps show the location of genes and chromosomal features as well as a position scale. The program takes as input either raw feature positions or...
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PMID: 18227121
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We propose a method that copes with such variabilities through an ensemble of classifiers approach. Each classifier is composed of a linear support vector machine trained on a small part of the available data and for which a channel selection procedure has been performed. Performances of our algorit...
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PMID: 18334407
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We surveyed resident and faculty physicians within two affiliated academic medical centers in order to describe physicians' CPF use, perceptions of its impact on notes and patient care, and opinions regarding its future use....
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PMID: 18998806
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We created such a large database that reflects the demographic distribution of a typical population and contains typographical errors commonly made during data entry. This database can be used with high confidence as a test bed to evaluate various record linkage algorithms....
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PMID: 18998880
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Two years ago, faculty and students at this rural university setting collaborated to implement a virtual clinical evaluation tool. In recognition of the frustrations involved in coordinating instructor and student input to a hard copy tool, a virtual clinical evaluation tool was created in the form...
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PMID: 18232613
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We have generated a nucleotide sequence alignment editor (DNAAlignEditor) that provides an intuitive, user-friendly interface for manual editing of multiple sequence alignments with functions for input, editing, and output of sequence alignments. The color-coding of nucleotide identity and the displ...
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PMID: 18366684
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Word processing using a keyboard is an option for children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) who have printing/ handwriting difficulties. A five-replication single-subject ABA design was used to explore the ability of 6 children with DCD (entering Grades 3-5) experiencing problems with...
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PMID: 18399044
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Translating clinical research into practical applications that are cost effective has received significant attention as staff nurses attempt to expand new knowledge into an already complex daily workflow. spreadsheet/table template created in a word processing format can assist with setting up and c...
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PMID: 18389846
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349 participants met the authors' criteria for being an arm case and 249 were elbow cases. Among the 1369 participants the prevalence of at least mild palpation tenderness and indirect tenderness at the lateral epicondyle was 5.8%. The occurrence of physical findings increased markedly by level of p...
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PMID: 17522132
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There is a wide variety of free (open-source) software available via the Internet which may be of interest to radiologists. This article will explore the use of open-source software in radiology to help streamline academic workflow and improve general efficiency and effectiveness by highlighting a n...
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PMID: 17207693
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Physicians in Kentucky have been slow to endorse and implement electronic medical records and other forms of information technology (IT), although this technology is available to them. Information was ob tained from medical relicensure data for all licensed Kentucky physicians and through two sample...
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PMID: 17390734
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The study investigated the natural work-pause pattern of computer users and the possible effects of imposing pause regimes on this pattern. Hereto, the precise timing of computer events was recorded across a large number of days. It was found that the distribution of the pause durations was extremel...
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PMID: 17419153
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Psychosocial factors are hypothesized to contribute to work-related musculoskeletal disorder (WMSD) development, although previous research has been largely epidemiological or has focused primarily on the shoulders, back and neck. The objective of this study was to quantify the effects of mental wor...
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PMID: 17419158
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We studied Brain-Computer-Interface recognition of different intended words by P300 wave in the VEP. The set of optimal characteristics of visual stimulation which rise reliability of recognition up to 100 %, as well as effective registration locus (Pz) were determined. It was found that the best pr...
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PMID: 17461017
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Majority of technical writing is done by groups of experts and various web based applications have made this collaboration easy. Email exchange of word processor documents with tracked changes used to be the standard technique for collaborative writing. However web based tools like Google docs and S...
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PMID: 18032878
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Recent developments in online collaborative technologies such as Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org) have demonstrated the potential usefulness of an online reference resource produced as the collective effort of many users. Although this type of resource has enjoyed success in the public arena, however,...
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PMID: 17620476
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A technical description of how to develop interactive content for the iPod was created. The results of the student survey indicate a favourable shift in student attitudes after viewing the interactive case. Despite only 15% of the students owning an iPod, 57% of the students were positive about havi...
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PMID: 17888168
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John Alcock and Ron Iphofen examine a method to assist with interview transcription using free, open source computer software and digital recordings, and consider some underlying practical, ethical and philosophical issues.
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PMID: 17992812
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We propose a framework for editing DVRIs, which can also be used for interactive transfer function (TF) design. Our approach allows users to fuse multiple features in distinct DVRIs into a comprehensive one, to blend two DVRIs, and/or to delete features in a DVRI. We further present how these editin...
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PMID: 17622685
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We apply fuzzy memberships to each point, and provide different contributions to the decision learning function for support vector machines. Statistical analyses demonstrated that the proposed method elicited a higher recognition rate than other algorithms in the literature....
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PMID: 16807054
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This study aimed to compare and analyse rubber-dome desktop, spring-column desktop and notebook keyboards in terms of key stiffness and fingertip typing force. The spring-column keyboard resulted in the highest mean peak contact force (0.86N), followed by the rubber dome desktop (0.68N) and the note...
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PMID: 16803729
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The internet has become an essential part of daily life for almost all radiologists and yet few fully understand how this works or how best to harness the technology within the workplace. This article will explore the basics of computer networking which has allowed the internet to become a valuable...
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PMID: 16679109
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We investigated the effects of active versus passive pauses implemented during computer mouse work on muscle oxygenation and EMG of the forearm extensor carpi radialis muscle, and on wrist position sense. Fifteen healthy female subjects (age: 19-24 years) performed a 60-min mouse-operated computer t...
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PMID: 16468061
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The cognitive mechanisms involved in polysyllabic pseudo-word processing -- and their neurobiological correlates -- were studied through the analysis of length effects on French words and pseudo-words in reading and lexical decision. Connectionist simulations conducted on the ACV98 network parallele...
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PMID: 16574082
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We developed an Electronic Student Encounter Log, ESEL, allowing students to tap or type to record problems observed in ambulatory patients. The tapping interface comprises collections of related disease checkboxes organized in a shallow, broad tree structure, making 983 diagnoses visible with 2 tap...
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PMID: 17238313
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he emerging discipline of Affective Computing pursues the development of computers that could interact with their users taking their affective states into account. For example, if a computer could detect when its user is experiencing stress, it could change the colors and sounds of its user interfac...
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PMID: 16817657
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Work-related neck and upper limb disorders (WRNULD) are common problems among office workers who use computers intensively and maintain prolonged static postures. These disorders have often been attributed to result from sustained muscle activity in the neck-shoulder musculature. The present study e...
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PMID: 15998595
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We describe a very simple and easily extendable mechanism using Web Services to enrich standard MS Office applications with internet resources. We demonstrate its capabilities by providing a Web-based thesaurus for biological objects, which maps names to database identifiers and vice versa via an ap...
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PMID: 16204117
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The analysis of mutations in immunoglobulin heavy chain variable (IGHV) region genes is a tedious process when performed by hand on multiple sequences. This report describes a set of linked Microsoft Excel files that perform several common analyses on large numbers of IGHV sequences. The spreadsheet...
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PMID: 16206907
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The arguments for and against the Palmer dental notation system are briefly discussed, including the perceived difficulty of reproducing this on personal computers. Some technical solutions to the problems encountered in everyday Windows-based programs are outlined, with suggestions as to possible f...
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PMID: 15895048
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This double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study investigated the effect of blackcurrant anthocyanin (BCA) intake on peripheral circulation during rest and during typing work by using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), and it also assessed improvement in shoulder stiffness caused by poor local...
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PMID: 15605279
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We developed a Bayesian network coding scheme for annotating biomedical content in layperson-oriented clinical genetics documents. The coding scheme supports the representation of probabilistic and causal relationships among concepts in this domain, at a high enough level of abstraction to capture c...
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PMID: 15797002
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The aim of this study was to investigate the current knowledge, skills, and opinions of undergraduate dental students at the University of Jordan with respect to information communication technology (ICT). Dental students from the second, third, fourth, and fifth years were asked to complete a quest...
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PMID: 15749951
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COBrA is a Java-based ontology editor for bio-ontologies that distinguishes itself from other editors by supporting the linking of concepts between two ontologies, and providing sophisticated analysis and verification functions. In addition to the Gene Ontology and Open Biology Ontologies formats, C...
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PMID: 15513995
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We found that some GO-updating operations are not easily traceable by the current biological databases and GO browsers. Consequently, numerous annotation errors arise and are propagated throughout biological databases and GO-based high-level analyses. GOChase is a set of web-based utilities to detec...
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PMID: 15513987
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The curriculum vitae (CV) has been the traditional method for radiologists to illustrate their accomplishments in the field of medicine. Despite its presence in medicine as a standard, widely accepted means to describe one's professional career and its use for decades as an accomplice to most applic...
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PMID: 17411789
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A criterion for design of optimal binary spelling interfaces (SI)--the average expectation of number of writing steps (trials) required to write one letter--is presented and discussed. This criterion is relevant for practical usage of any menu-oriented alternative communication system, mechanical de...
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PMID: 15709667
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SUMMARY: Production of high quality multiple sequence alignments of structured RNAs relies on an iterative combination of manual editing and structure prediction. An essential feature of an RNA alignment editor is the facility to mark-up the alignment based on how it matches a given secondary struct...
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PMID: 15377506
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We describe a 16-year-old boy who utilized automatic word processing (AWP) and self-hypnosis techniques in treatment of his binge eating, and associated anxiety, insomnia, migraine headaches, nausea, and stomachaches. He was able to reduce his anxiety by gaining an understanding that it originated a...
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PMID: 16482846
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We are developing GenIE, a prototype intelligent system to create first drafts of genetic counseling patient letters. GenIE will apply natural language generation techniques to construct the first draft of a letter for subsequent review and editing, if needed, by the genetic counselor. For purposes...
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PMID: 16779256
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A literature review is presented regarding keyboarding for school students experiencing handwriting difficulties. Despite the overall dearth of research, some general conclusions appear warranted. Students need to be able to keyboard at least as fast as they can handwrite and should learn the touch-...
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PMID: 15760827
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This article describes the development, use, and student response to an online manual developed with off-the-shelf software and made available using a web-based course management system (Blackboard) that was used to transform a freshman restorative preclinical technique course from a lecture-only co...
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PMID: 15576813
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This paper presents the interpretation of digits and commands using a modified neural network and the genetic algorithm. The modified neural network exhibits a node-to-node relationship which enhances its learning and generalization abilities. A digit-and-command interpreter constructed by the modif...
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PMID: 15619928
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Reduced blood flow may contribute to the pathophysiology of upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders (UEMSD), such as tendinitis and carpal tunnel syndrome. The study objective was to characterize potential differences in cutaneous temperature, among three groups of office workers assessed by dynam...
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PMID: 15338221
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SUMMARY: newicktree is a PSTricks-based LATEX package which enables phylogenetic trees described in the Newick format to be drawn directly into LATEX documents. mswordtree is a macro for producing phylogenetic trees using the drawing elements available in Microsoft Word. AVAILABILITY: Both programs...
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PMID: 15059821
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