Dini, Ali Esmaeili Nadimi, Ali Behmaram, Khosro
Published in
Iranian journal of pharmaceutical research : IJPR
Pistachio has high nutritional value and popularity. The susceptibility of pistachio to aflatoxin contamination caused establishing a monitoring system introduced and implemented by the Ministry of Health in Iran to ensure consumers' access to safe and hygienic pistachios. In this research, aflatoxin contamination level in all consignments (7298) e...
Rex, K. Ronnie Chakraborty, Paromita
Published in
Journal of Hazardous Materials
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Klunder, Tom (author)
Quantum computing presents a threat to the current cryptographic standards in place, supporting our digital scoiety. As our lives are increasingly dependent on electronic transactions, our society becomes increasingly vulnerable to distortions of digital trust. By taking a design science research approach, this thesis designs a risk assessment meth...
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Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a global issue setting challenges to all care providers. Elderly patients are frequent visitors of the ED and their risk stratification is demanding due to insufficient assessment methods. A prospective cohort study was conducted to determine the risk-predicting value of a prognostic biomarker, soluble urok...
Truslow, James G Goto, Shinichi Homilius, Max Mow, Christopher Higgins, John M MacRae, Calum A Deo, Rahul C
BackgroundResearchers routinely evaluate novel biomarkers for incorporation into clinical risk models, weighing tradeoffs between cost, availability, and ease of deployment. For risk assessment in population health initiatives, ideal inputs would be those already available for most patients. We hypothesized that common hematologic markers (eg, hema...
Menon, N Gayathri Mohapatra, Sanjeeb
Published in
Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health
The coronaviruses are the largest known RNA viruses of which SASR-CoV-2 has been spreading continuously due to its repeated mutation triggered by several environmental factors. Multiple human interventions and lessons learned from the SARS 2002 outbreak helped reduce its spread considerably, and thus, the virus was contained but the emerging mutati...
Fereidouni, Farshad Mohammadi, Seyed Taghi Faramarzi Shahraki, Vahed Jahantigh, Farhad
Published in
Journal of Biomedical Physics & Engineering
Background: The application of radar systems in telecommunications and aerospace science is important. However, engineering department’s staff various tissues are always under chronic radiation generated by the radar fields which may affect health. Objective: This study aims to evaluate the risk of radar wave exposure and to explore the effects and...
Mahler, Tom Shalom, Erez Makori, Arnon Elovici, Yuval Shahar, Yuval
Published in
Journal of digital imaging
Medical imaging devices (MIDs) are exposed to cyber-security threats. Currently, a comprehensive, efficient methodology dedicated to MID cyber-security risk assessment is lacking. We propose the Threat identification, ontology-based Likelihood, severity Decomposition, and Risk assessment (TLDR) methodology and demonstrate its feasibility and consis...
Al Sharbatti, Shatha Shaikh, Rizwana B. Sreedharan, Jayadevan Muttappallymyalil, Jayakumary Weizman, Michael
Published in
Sultan Qaboos University Medical Journal
Objectives Midwakh is a popular form of smoking in the Middle East. This study aimed to assess the predictors of nicotine dependence among cigarette or midwakh smokers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Methods This cross-sectional study was conducted from September to December 2015 in Ajman, UAE. A convenience sampling strategy was implemented to ...
Patra, Sandip Das, Anupam Rakshit, Rajiv Choudhury, Suborna Roy Roy, Shyamashree Mondal, Tilak Samanta, Arunava Ganguly, Pritam Alsuhaibani, Amnah Mohammed Gaber, Ahmed
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Frontiers in Nutrition
Indoxacarb, a promising new generation insecticide, is gaining popularity among vegetable growers in West Bengal, India, for controlling a large number of insects. However, it may simultaneously also increase the risk of contamination in the edible portions of the vegetables. This study was planned to analyze the persistence behavior of indoxacarb ...