Bone Age Assessment Using Content-Based Image Retrieval System Using VGG-19 Deep Neural Network by Behnam Dorostkar yaghouti, Kambiz Rahbar, Fatemeh Taheri

“…These samples were selected from males and females and all four Asian, Black, Hispanic, and Caucasian races. …”
Get full text

Preventing kidney transplant failure by screening for antibodies against human leucocyte antigens followed by optimised immunosuppression: OuTSMART RCT by Stringer Dominic, Gardner Leanne, Shaw Olivia, Clarke Brendan, Briggs David, Worthington Judith, Buckland Matthew, Hilton Rachel, Picton Michael, Thuraisingham Raj, Borrows Richard, Baker Richard, Tinch-Taylor Rose, Horne Robert, McCrone Paul, Kelly Joanna, Murphy Caroline, Peacock Janet, Dorling Anthony

“…Patients were excluded if they were recipients of cross-match positive transplant requiring HLA desensitisation to remove Ab, recipients of additional solid organ transplants (e.g. pancreas, heart, etc.), had a history of malignancy (except non-melanomatous lesions restricted to the skin), had recent acute rejection, had a history of hepatitis B, C or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), were known to have HLA Ab and received specific treatment for that Ab, had known hypersensitivity to any of the investigational medicinal products (IMPs), had known hereditary disorders of carbohydrate metabolism, were pregnant at the time of consent, or were females who refused to consent to using suitable contraception through the trial. …”
Get full text

Decolonization Projects by Cornelius Ewuoso

“…Although many recognize and support the need to transform departments in South Africa, the rhetoric of transformation departs sharply from the lived experiences.[15] This misalignment between the plan and practice is evident in the underrepresentation of black people and females in senior management teams, professorships in many universities and health departments, and positions of power in some South African institutions. …”
Get full text

Decolonization Projects by Cornelius Ewuoso

“…Although many recognize and support the need to transform departments in South Africa, the rhetoric of transformation departs sharply from the lived experiences.[15] This misalignment between the plan and practice is evident in the underrepresentation of black people and females in senior management teams, professorships in many universities and health departments, and positions of power in some South African institutions. …”
Get full text

Factors which facilitate or impede patient engagement with pulmonary and cardiac rehabilitation: a rapid evaluation mapping review by Blank Lindsay, Cantrell Anna, Sworn Katie, Booth Andrew

“…Discussion Implications for service delivery Services should in particular, consider the barriers imposed for some patients by cultural and demographic factors which may require additional effort to: •make service alterations to improve engagement with specific patient groups (e.g. females, ethnic minorities) •consider the implications of group exercise on creating reluctance to attend for some individuals •provide patient educational interventions to alter perceptions of rehabilitation and ensure that patients have a good understanding of what it involves and how it is appropriate for their needs •provide staff training around engagement with specific patient groups, communication to encourage exercise and to better explain both the content and benefits of rehabilitation •consider the impact of location and timing of service provision on attendance, including whether the continued provision of online services may be appropriate in some instances. …”
Get full text

The Impact of Supplemental Instruction on the Performance and Attitudes of General Chemistry Students by Issa I. Salame, Sarah Nazir

“…We should note that Rabitoy and co-authors reported that SI enhanced students’ achievement in STEM fields and this was greater for females and students of color [22].   METHODS While researching the topic of SI as a whole, we were able to uncover many studies that were in favor of this new implementation in institutions. …”
Get full text

Gene therapy for choroideremia using an adeno-associated viral vector encoding Rab escort protein 1: the REGENERATE open-label trial by Jasmina Cehajic-Kapetanovic, Marco P Bellini, Laura J Taylor, Imran H Yusuf, Taha Soomro, Lyndon da Cruz, Robert E MacLaren

“…The disease usually affects males, although females can also develop the disease. In childhood, choroideremia patients initially experience ‘night blindness’, or difficulty in seeing in low light. …”
Get full text

Multi-cancer early detection tests for general population screening: a systematic literature review by Ros Wade, Sarah Nevitt, Yiwen Liu, Melissa Harden, Claire Khouja, Gary Raine, Rachel Churchill, Sofia Dias

“…One study using an earlier version of the Galleri test reported results by age and sex for a subset of participants; cancer signal detection rate was similar in males and females and increased with age for both sexes; however, few details were given on the subset of participants analysed. …”
Get full text

An Interview with Dr. Daniel Callahan, Bioethics Pioneer by Voices in Bioethics

“…By and large, most of the feminists never mention it, but it’s still a fifty/fifty split among females for and against it too. Over the years that’s one of those little facts. …”
Get full text

Congenital heart diseases in neonatal unit at Al-Wahda Pediatric Teaching Hospital, Aden, Yemen (2012- 2013) by Mohammed Ali Hussein Badi, Bárbara Elena García Triana

“…</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US"> Clinical examination, echocardiography and radiography were used for diagnostic and a total of 69 newborns were diagnosed with congenital heart diseases </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-YE;" lang="EN-US">(41 males and 28 females)</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;" lang="EN-US"> during the period. …”
Get full text

Information Seeking on the Web: An Empirical Analysis by Waseem Afzal

“…Specifically, it was found that females used the Web for information surfing more than the male participants and also preferred more the availability of information in different media formats. …”
Get full text