Brain Imaging Databases.

The availability of neuroimaging-based databases is helping immensely to understand the brain function in healthy and diseased conditions. This viewpoint highlights the objectives, commonalities, and differences within these existing databases and pointers for researchers to choose a particular database. We introduce a multimodal multidisease database, SWADESH, and its comparison with the existing databases.

Factors determining intention to vaccinate against Covid-19: A developing nation perspective.

India is more challenged than developed nations in reducing the Covid-19 cases and lowering death rates due to the huge population and unprepared health care system. As intention to vaccinate is contextual and its availability does not translate into their de facto adoption., this paper examines the factors that determine intention to vaccinate against COVID-19 in India.

Survival analysis for the inverse Gaussian distribution with the Gibbs sampler.

This paper describes a comprehensive survival analysis for the inverse Gaussian distribution employing Bayesian and Fiducial approaches. It focuses on making inferences on the inverse Gaussian (IG) parameters and and the average remaining time of censored units. A flexible Gibbs sampling approach applicable in the presence of censoring is discussed and illustrations with Type II, progressive Type II, and random rightly censored observations are included.

Androgen receptor in salivary gland carcinoma: A review of an old marker as a possible new target.

The role of the androgen receptor (AR) as an immunomarker for diagnosis of salivary gland duct carcinoma (SDC) is well known. Other non-squamous cell head and neck cancers (NSCC-HN), including a small subset of salivary gland cancers (SGCs), can also express AR. With the increase in effective and powerful new generation of anti-androgen agents and drugs administered orally, more targetable AR-driven NSCC-HN, such as subsets of SGCs, should be investigated for possible expression of AR.

Protective mechanisms in hypobaric decompression.

Background: To reduce bubble formation and growth during hypobaric exposures, a denitrogenation or nitrogen "washout" procedure is performed. This procedure consists of prebreathing oxygen fractions as close to one as possible (oxygen prebreathe) prior to depressurization before ascending to the working altitude or low spacesuit pressures. During the NASA prebreathe reduction program (PRP), it was determined that the addition of a light arm exercise to short, individually designed, performance-based heavy exercise (dual cycle ergometry) during an abbreviated 2-h prebreathe (F1O2 - 1.