Purpose: Alternative, noninvasive, cost-effective methods to complement or serve as substitutes to current standard-of-care (SOC) procedures in NMIBC follow-up are needed. Uromonitor is a urine biomarker test detecting bladder cancer recurrence through the screening of , , and hotspot mutations. The aim of this study was to assess Uromonitor performance by comparing it with the current SOC methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To understand the social representations of HIV and their repercussions for the healthcare among recently diagnosed youth.
Methods: This qualitative research was conducted within PrEP15-19, a study that analyzed the effectiveness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in adolescents aged 15 to 19 years. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine participants, of whom eight identified themselves as gay men and one as travesti.
Purpose: Pediatric trauma education remains expensive and available only to a few providers worldwide. Innovative educational technologies like virtual reality (VR) can be key to decentralizing trauma education. This preliminary validation study evaluates the face and content validity of a VR software designed to enhance pediatric trauma skills.
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September 2024
Recent advancements in vehicle technology have stimulated innovation across the automotive sector, from Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) to autonomous driving and motorsport applications. Modern vehicles, equipped with sensors for perception, localization, navigation, and actuators for autonomous driving, generate vast amounts of data used for training and evaluating autonomous systems. Real-world testing is essential for validation but is complex, expensive, and time-intensive, requiring multiple vehicles and reference systems.
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