The impact of coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on education: The role of virtual and remote laboratories in education.

To avoid the spread of the COVID-19 crisis, many countries worldwide have temporarily shut down their academic organizations. National and international closures affect over 91% of the education community of the world. E-learning is the only effective manner for educational institutions to coordinate the learning process during the global lockdown and quarantine period.

[THE COMPLIANCE AND ADHERENCE TO DIRECT ORAL ANTICOAGULANTS IN PATIENTS WITH A TRIAL FIBRILLATION AFTER HOSPITALIZATION].

Introduction: Guidelines recommend direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) for the treatment of non-valvular atrial fibrillation. The heads of the medicine wards in Beilinson Hospital were nominated for regulatory approval of these agents for Clalit Health Services (CHS) patients.

Objectives: To estimate the short and long term compliance and adherence to DOACs, and their association with the approval during hospitalization.

Transfer factor of Cs and Sr to various crops in semi-arid environment.

This study focuses on evaluating the transfer factor (F) of Cs and Sr from two basic soil types in the country, i.e. Aridisol and Inceptisol, to 18 common crops belong to six groups, i.

A predictive method for hepatitis disease diagnosis using ensembles of neuro-fuzzy technique.

Background: Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver, most commonly caused by a viral infection. Supervised data mining techniques have been successful in hepatitis disease diagnosis through a set of datasets. Many methods have been developed by the aids of data mining techniques for hepatitis disease diagnosis.

Prevalence of atrial fibrillation in the Malaysian communities.

Background And Aim: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia encountered in clinical practice. The REDISCOVER (sponing to ncreaing ardiascular disase pevalence) study is an observational longitudinal community-based study that tracks changing lifestyles, risk factors and chronic disease in urban and rural areas of Malaysia. In this study, we aim to study the prevalence of AF and its associated risk factors.

Accuracy Improvement for Predicting Parkinson's Disease Progression.

Parkinson's disease (PD) is a member of a larger group of neuromotor diseases marked by the progressive death of dopamineproducing cells in the brain. Providing computational tools for Parkinson disease using a set of data that contains medical information is very desirable for alleviating the symptoms that can help the amount of people who want to discover the risk of disease at an early stage. This paper proposes a new hybrid intelligent system for the prediction of PD progression using noise removal, clustering and prediction methods.

Role of OpenEHR as an open source solution for the regional modelling of patient data in obstetrics.

This work investigates, whether openEHR with its reference model, archetypes and templates is suitable for the digital representation of demographic as well as clinical data. Moreover, it elaborates openEHR as a tool for modelling Hospital Information Systems on a regional level based on a national logical infrastructure. OpenEHR is a dual model approach developed for the modelling of Hospital Information Systems enabling semantic interoperability.

Organizational decision to adopt hospital information system: an empirical investigation in the case of Malaysian public hospitals.

Objectives: This study mainly integrates the mature Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework and recently developed Human-Organization-Technology (HOT) fit model to identify factors that affect the hospital decision in adopting Hospital Information System (HIS).

Methods: Accordingly, a hybrid Multi-Criteria-Decision-Making (MCDM) model is used to address the dependence relationships of factors with the aid of Analytic Network Processes (ANP) and Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) approaches. The initial model of the study is designed by considering four main dimensions with 13 variables as organizational innovation adoption factors with respect to HIS.

Assessment of muscle fatigue associated with prolonged standing in the workplace.

Objectives: The objectives of this study were to determine the psychological fatigue and analyze muscle activity of production workers who are performing processes jobs while standing for prolonged time periods.

Methods: The psychological fatigue experienced by the workers was obtained through questionnaire surveys. Meanwhile, muscle activity has been analyzed using surface electromyography (sEMG) measurement.

Skin glue improves outcome after excision and primary closure of sacrococcygeal pilonidal disease.

Evaluating the effect of Histoacryl on the outcome and recurrence rate after excision and primary closure of sacrococcygeal pilonidal disease. Forty patients with sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus were randomly divided into 2 equal groups through computer randomization program. Group I was operated by complete excision of sinus with wound closure using Histoacryl.

Bilateral versus posterior injection of botulinum toxin in the internal anal sphincter for the treatment of acute anal fissure.

Aim: Comparison of bilateral versus posterior injection of botulinum toxin into the internal anal sphincter for treatment of acute anal fissure.

Methods: Forty patients with acute anal fissure were randomly divided into two equal groups. Group 1 was treated by injecting 20 units of botulinum toxin into each side of the internal anal sphincter, and group 2 by injecting 25 units of botulinum toxin into the midline posteriorly.

Microsurgical and nonmagnified subinguinal varicocelectomy for infertile men: a comparative study.

Objective: To compare semen parameters, pregnancy, recurrence, and complication rates after microsurgical and nonmagnified subinguinal varicocelectomy for infertile men.

Design: Prospective, randomized study.

Setting: Ghodran General Hospital, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Architectural analysis of oral cancer, dysplastic, and normal epithelia.

Background: We present a novel, automated, and quantitative approach to evaluate local epithelial tissue architecture based on mathematical graph theory.

Methods: Four hundred forty-one images of three diagnostic classes of oral epithelium (normal, dysplastic, and neoplastic) were analysed. The epithelial compartment was partitioned into exclusive areas associated with each nucleus to approach the theoretical cell extents.